ERIC BARKER · HarperOne Pages: 320 Format: Hardcover
Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest ... and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most importantly, how anyone can achieve it. You'll learn:* Why valedictorians...
A persuasive, practical, and much needed manifesto that makes the case for reclaiming our weekends to increase joy, creativity, productivity, and success in our lives.Award-winning journalist Katrina Onstad's The Weekend Effect asks us to reconsider the role of the weekend in our lives...
David Kwong · HarperBusiness Pages: 272 Format: Hardcover
A professional magician and illusionist - the head magic consultant for the hit film Now You See Me - reveals how to bridge the gap between perception and reality to increase your powers of persuasion and influence.David Kwong has astounded corporate CEOs, TED talk audiences, and thousands...
What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a familiar question we're all asked as kids. While seemingly harmless, the question has unintended consequences. It can make you feel like you need to choose one job, one passion, one thing to be about. Guess what? You don't. Having...
RICHARD E OCEJO · Princeton University Press Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at the renaissance...
Steven Clifford · Blue Rider Press Pages: 288 Format: Hardcover
The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever...
James Ledbetter · Liveright Publishing Corporation Pages: 384 Format: Print book
"Everyone is familiar with gold but few know of its complex history -- until now, thanks to James Ledbetter's skillful storytelling." -- Joseph E. Stiglitz Worshipped by Tea Party politicians but loathed by sane economists, gold has influenced American monetary policy and has exerted...
KYLE CEASE · North Star Way Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
If Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey had a baby, that baby would be Kyle Cease. Transformational comedian Kyle Cease brings his irreverently touching, insightful, and one-of-a-kind self-help wisdom to sold-out audiences in his Evolving Out Loud live stage show.In I Hope I Screw This Up he disarms...