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Inc. Yourself, 11th Edition: How to Profit by Setting Up Your Own Corporation

Judith McQuown · Career Press; 11 edition
Format: Paperback

"This book is a solidly researched and written classic…. Previous editions have sold more than 500,000 copies, and there's a good reason for this book's success: It's reliable."--Inc. magazine"Inc. Yourself [is] a particularly timely book."--Wall Street...
 
 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

Brian Alexander · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating read...For anyone wondering why swing-state...
 
 
Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

Steven Ujifusa · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into...
 
 
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

"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...
 
 
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
 
 
Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey · Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second...
 
 
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Christopher Voss · HarperBusiness
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator...
 
 
Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth

Mika Brzezinski · Hachette Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Mika Brzezinski's bestselling motivational guide--"a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve." (TheAtlantic.com) --now updated and expanded.Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women...
 
 
Corporate Conspiracies: How Wall Street Took Over Washington

Richard Belzer · Skyhorse Publishing
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling authors Richard Belzer and David Wayne comes a hard look at the wrongs done to us all by big business in America. Here is an explosive account of wrongful acts perpetrated, and the ensuing cover-ups inflicted upon us, by American corporations. The bestselling...
 
 
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

DAN ARIELY · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better...
 
 
Together Is Better: A Little Book of Inspiration

Simon Sinek · Portfolio
Pages: 208
Format: Print book

In this beautifully illustrated little book, New York Times bestselling author Simon Sinek inspires readers to seek out a brighter future - and build it together. The journey to great leadership and career fulfillment is never easy or quick. Those of us lucky enough to have found meaningful...
 
 
Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People

Joseph A Michelli · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 286
Format: Hardcover

Lead Your Business the Starbucks Way Foreword by Herve Humler, President and COO, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C. One of the best-recognized and admired brands in the world, Starbucks singlehandedly transformed the ordinary delivery of coffee into a cultural phenomenon--a result...
 
 
You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want

JESSE MECHAM · HarperBusiness
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

Discover four simple rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money faster! The You Need A Budget (YNAB) Method has helped tens of thousands of people to turn their financial lives around. It can certainly help you! Whether you're looking to right...
 
 
Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together

Gaby Dunn · Atria Books
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

The beloved writer-comedian expands on her popular podcast with an engaging and empowering financial literacy book for Millennials and Gen Z. In the first episode of her "Bad With Money" podcast, Gaby Dunn asked patrons at a coffee shop two questions: First, what's your favorite...
 
 
Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You

Heidi Grant- Halvorson · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone--social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most...