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Credit Repair Kit For Dummies

Steve Bucci · For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Manage and repair your credit Credit card debt is the third largest source of household indebtedness. Credit Repair Kit For Dummies gives you the tools you need to repair your credit. This new edition covers: major changes with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) inquiry...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.

Among Americans, diabetes...
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It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

Ed Stack · Scribner
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog and Howard Schultz's Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICK's Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principled - and highly controversial...
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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo · William Morrow
Pages: 297
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.

Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students...

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The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Timothy Snyder · Tim Duggan Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America.

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be final. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful,...
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The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History

Felder, Deborah G. · Visible Ink Press
Pages: 608
Format: Paperback

Celebrate the vital roles and vibrant experiences of women in America!

The most complete and affordable single-volume reference on women's history available today, The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Vitality, Triumph and Excellence is a unique and valuable resource devoted...

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The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

BRYAN MEALER · Flatiron Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy."
-- Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE

"Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams...

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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

Paul Krugman · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise,...

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The Ladies of The View: How Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, and Their Quarreling Co-Hosts Transformed Daytime TV

RAMIN SETOODEH · Thomas Dunne Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show.

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized morning TV and made household...

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WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

Abby Wambach · Celadon Books
Pages: 112
Format: Hardcover

Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for women to unleash their individual...

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Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life

Nathan Gebhard · Chronicle Books
Format: Print book

This welcome antidote to the conventional career guide answers the old question - "So, what are you going to do with your life?" - in a groundbreaking way. From the team behind the campus and online resource and the inspirational TV series in its eleventh season, ROADMAP helps...
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

Thomas Piketty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 212
Format: Print book

Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality. Without meaningful regulation,...
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

ALISSA QUART · Ecco
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Squeezed weaves together intimate reporting with sharp and lively critique to show how the high cost of parenthood and our increasingly unstable job market have imploded the middle-class American Dream for many families, and offers surprising solutions for how we might change things

Families...

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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Debt-Free Degree: The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Your Kid Through College Without Student Loans

Anthony ONeal · Ramsey Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Every parent wants the best for their child.

That's why they send them to college! But most parents struggle to pay for school and end up turning to student loans. That's why the majority of graduates walk away with $35,000 in student loan debt and no clue what that debt will...

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