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If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy?

Raj Raghunathan · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Widely admired psychological researcher Raj Raghunathan explains how the traits that usually lead to success can also lead to unhappiness--and how to be happy and successfulFifteen years after Raj Raghunathan completed his MBA, he checked in on his old classmates and noticed something strange:...
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Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide

Peri Pakroo · NOLO
Pages: 552
Format: Paperback

The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, written by the author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit, gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise--whether you're an artsy creative type, an independent consultant, or a Fortune...
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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs

Philip Moeller · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 291
Format: Print book

A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides the bulk of most...
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Start a Successful Business: Expert Advice to Take Your Startup from Idea to Empire

Colleen DeBaise · AMACOM
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback

Let Inc. help launch your dreams. Makers, doers, and dreamers--for decades they have turned to Inc. for help in getting their businesses off the ground. The publication's keen advice clarifies the process, while startup stories fuel aspirations and spark action. Warby Parker shook...
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

JOCKO WILLINK · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

An updated edition of the blockbuster bestselling leadership book that took America and the world by storm, two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield...
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Choose Your Retirement: Find the Right Path to Your New Adventure

Emily Guy Birken · Adams Media
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

Uncover the truth about planning for retirement!From financial advisors and pundits on television to colleagues and family members, everyone has something to say about retirement. But how much of it is true? Whether you're looking to move into a senior living community or travel the world,...
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Customer Service Training 101: Quick and Easy Techniques That Get Great Results

Renee Evenson · AMACOM
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Employees aren't just the front line of any business. To customers, they are the business. Nothing is more important than arming these essential employees with the knowledge they need to find the best solution for each and every customer. Whether you're a manager, owner, or employee,...
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How Money Works: The Facts Visually Explained

Dk. · Dk Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

A user-friendly guide to understanding key financial concepts, How Money Works takes a highly visual approach to this topic, using bold infographics with clear, jargon-free text to make finances and economics easy to understand.How Money Works looks at how governments control money, how companies...
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The Vanity Fair Diaries

OCTAVIA MANN · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story...
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Real Leadership: 9 Simple Practices for Leading and Living with Purpose

John A Addison · McGraw-Hill
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Leadership lessons for enduring business and personal success from renowned motivational speaker, current leadership editor of Success magazine and former co-CEO of Primerica, John AddisonIn Real Leadership, author John Addison shares his straightforward practices for successful leadership...
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The Curse of Cash

Kenneth S Rogoff · Princeton University Press
Pages: 248
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Is Different, "a fascinating and important book" (Ben Bernanke) about phasing out paper money to fight crime and tax evasion--and to battle financial crises by tapping the power of negative interest ratesThe world is drowning...
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Idiot's Guides: Personal Finance in Your 20s & 30s, 5E

Alpha. · Alpha Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Revised and updated, this new edition of Idiot's Guides: Personal Finance in Your 20s and 30s, Fifth Edition, explains all the basic information you need to get started in life and plan for your future. You'll learn how to manage all aspects of your personal finances, as well as enhance...
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Home Buying Kit For Dummies

Eric Tyson · For Dummies
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

America's #1 bestselling home buying guide Are you looking to buy a house, but don't quite know where to begin? Have no fear! This new edition of Home Buying Kit For Dummies arms you with Eric Tyson and Ray Brown's time-tested advice and strategies for buying a home in current...
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Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games

WALT WILLIAMS · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning videogame writer behind Spec Ops: The Line comes an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how today's blockbuster video games are made.When his satirical musings in a college newspaper got him discharged from the Air Force, it became clear to Walt Williams that his destiny...
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