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Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700
Peter H Lindert · Princeton University Press
Pages: 398
Format: Print book
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"Unequal Gains" offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert... |
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Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future
Steven Krupp · PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Are you winning the battle but losing the war?Every leader has to deliver the goods—make budget, meet deadlines, and deftly manage people—to provide the inspirational fuel that keeps their business running day-in and day-out. But therein lies the danger of winning today’s... |
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Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It
Larry Olmsted · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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"Impressive . . . Readers will be inspired by Olmsted's intensity and clarity, and floored by how far some counterfeiters go to fool consumers and some historic food institutions go to protect their products and their names. Olmsted's sharp language will hopefully put fires under counterfeiters... |
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Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide
Ilona M Bray · Nolo
Pages: 246
Format: Print book
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What's the best way to get the highest return if you want to sell your home now? With pent-up demand for homes, you hope yours will inspire multiple offers; but want to make sure to choose a solid one that will proceed successfully to closing. Selling Your House: Nolo's Essential Guide... |
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius
Beth Kobliner · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk" when... |
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Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato
Mike Tyson · Blue Rider Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times-bestselling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring,... |
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma · W W Norton
Pages: 480
Format: Print book
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This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks... |
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Absolute Value: What Really Influences Customers in the Age of
Itamar Simonson · HarperCollins
Pages: 232
Format: Print book
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Going against conventional marketing wisdom, Absolute Value reveals what really influences customers today and offers a new framework - the Influence Mix, a totally new way of thinking about consumer decision making and marketing, and about developing more effective business strategies.How... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman · William Morrow
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home
Ilona Bray · Nolo
Pages: 448
Format: Print book
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Everything a buyer needs to know to buy a first home, with insider tips and advice from the experts! Rental prices have gone through the roof, more homes are coming up for sale, and buying a home remains a sound investment. But how do you know whether you're ready? And what steps should... |
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak · Pantheon Books
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college economics,... |
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