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Let Me Out: Unlock Your Creative Mind and Bring Your Ideas to Life
Peter Himmelman · TarcherPerigee Pages: 240 Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning musician turned communications expert Peter Himmelman, science-based techniques and simple exercises to get unstuck and unlock your creative potential. Do you want to stop procrastinating? Would you love to be more creative? Is there an idea you've dreamt of making... |
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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Alice Echols · The New Press Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
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Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center... |
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Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today
Ilana Gershon · University Of Chicago Press Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy.... |
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
JOSHUA B FREEMAN · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since... |
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The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution
Daniel Raimi · Columbia University Press Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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Over roughly the past decade, oil and gas production in the United States has surged dramatically -- thanks largely to technological advances such as high-volume hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as "fracking." This rapid increase has generated widespread debate, with... |
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Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places
Scott Fearon · Palgrave Macmillan Trade Format: Hardcover
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Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes... |
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The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Elizabeth H. Bradley · PublicAffairs; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Harvey V. Fineberg, President of the Institute of MedicineFor decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including... |
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
MARCIA STEWART · NOLO Pages: 496 Format: Paperback
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords and property managers the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants,... |
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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
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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, capitalist economies... |
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success
Ivanka Trump · Portfolio Pages: 243 Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This... |
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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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Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
STEPHEN FISHMAN · NOLO Pages: 488 Format: Paperback
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Pay less to the IRS Completely updated for 2017 returns! For any home business, claiming all the tax deductions you are entitled to is essential to your business financial success. Don't miss out on the many valuable deductions you can claim.Here, you'll find out how to deduct:... |
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