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Take the Stairs: 7 Steps to Achieving True Success

Rory Vaden · Perigee Trade
Format: Hardcover

Do you ride the escalator-or take the stairs? No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world"-one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions...
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Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street

Neil Barofsky · Free Press
Format: Hardcover

“Bailout is a jaw-dropping play-by-play of how the Treasury Department bungled the financial bailouts…With a prosecutor’s logic and copious footnotes, Barofsky makes it clear that things are rarely what they seem in Washington.”—USA TODAYAt the height of the financial...
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Finding Home: Everything You Need to Know - and Do - For Home Buying Success

Michael W Trickey · Next Century Publishing
Pages: 319
Format: Paperback

You're dreaming of owning your first home. You envision rooms fully furnished and the yard work complete. But before you can start the "fun stuff" a reality check sets in -- you have to purchase your home first! Where do you start? What can you afford? What about taxes, real...
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A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs

Trenholme J Griffin · Columbia University Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

From profiles and interviews with the world's leading venture capitalists and high-profile coaches of business founders, A Dozen Lessons distills a set of bedrock methods for approaching business questions and creating value. The veteran business writer Tren Griffin takes the reader...
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The Sugar Barons: Family, Corruption, Empire, and War in the West Indies

Matthew Parker · Walker & Company
Format: Hardcover

To those who travel there today the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history For some years after the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans...
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Green Jobs: A Guide to Eco-Friendly Employment

A. Bronwyn Llewellyn · Adams Media
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

Today's job seekers are going green and the employment opportunities for environmentally-skilled workers are skyrocketing."Green Jobs" helps job seekers find a job they like - and that'll make the world a better place. This one-of-a-kind handbook shows readers how to: identify...
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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich

Robert Frank · Crown Business; First Edition edition
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover

The rich have always been different from you and me, but this revealing and funny journey through “Richistan” entertainingly shows that they are more different than ever. Richistanis have 400-foot-yachts, 30,000-square-foot homes, house staffs of more than 100, and their own “arborists.”...
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First Things First

Stephen R Covey · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

In the spirit of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the #1 nationwide bestseller, First Things First is a revolutionary guide to managing your time by learning how to balance your life. Traditional time management suggests that working harder, smarter, and faster will help you gain...
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

ELLEN PAO · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

The bold and fearless account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times) In 2015, Ellen K. Pao sued a powerhouse Silicon Valley venture capital firm, calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation...
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10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget

The Writers of Wise Bread · Skyhorse Publishing; Original edition
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Filled with savvy tips on how to live, eat, shop, and have fun on a small budget, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget is a compilation of the juiciest tips from the #1 personal finance blog WiseBread.com, including: 9 Ways to See the World For Free 12 Ways to Live...
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Top 100 Careers Without a Four Year Degree: Your Complete Guidebook to Major Jobs in Many Fields

Michael Farr · Jist Works; 9 edition
Pages: 394
Format: Paperback

Many jobs without a four-year degree are growing. Explore 100 careers that don't require a bachelor's degree, assess which ones match your skills, and get the job you want quickly with this authoritative resource. In one time-saving volume, job seekers and students find everything...
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Perfect Phrases for the Perfect Interview / Edition 1

Carole Martin · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Hundreds of interview-acing words and phrases to land you the job In a job interview, every word counts. That's why you need to make sure you'll be prepared with exactly the right answers to any question an interviewer might throw at you. With Perfect Phrases for the Perfect Interview,...
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