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No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need to Do to Have a Great Career

Larry Smith · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 255
Format: Print book

A provocative new approach to discovering your true calling in life and achieving not just a good career, but a great one Over the past three decades, professor Larry Smith has become something of a "career whisperer" for his students at the University of Waterloo. Each year,...
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How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide

Jane Bryant Quinn · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 366
Format: Print book

"Jane Bryant Quinn is America's dean of personal finance ... .The book is a true treasure chest of financial secrets." - Forbes With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life.Today, people worry...
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

Robert J Gordon · Princeton University Press
Pages: 768
Format: Print book

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With...
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Resumes For Dummies

Laura DeCarlo · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 345
Format: Print book

Master the art of resume writing and boost your chances of getting hired With unemployment rates still running high, getting an edge up on the competition in your field--whatever it may be--can be an intimidating and exhausting undertaking. Luckily, "Resumes For Dummies" is here...
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Knock 'Em Dead 2016: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin John Yate · Adams Media
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Take control of your job search, career, and life!New York Times bestseller Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers improve their job search and career management tactics, changing their lives forever. Featuring his unique, time-tested methods for achieving professional success,...
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How to Retire with Enough Money: And How to Know What Enough Is

Teresa Ghilarducci · Workman Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Print book

Here is a single-sit read than can change the course of your retirement. Written by Dr. Teresa Ghilarducci, an economics professor, a retirement and savings specialist, and a trustee to two retiree health-care trusts worth over $54 billion, How to Retire with Enough Money cuts through the confusion,...
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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

Roger Lowenstein · Penguin Press
Pages: 355
Format: Print book

A tour de force of historical reportage, America's Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America's modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted...
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The Marketing Plan Handbook: Develop Big-Picture Marketing Plans for Pennies on the Dollar

Robert W. Bly · Entrepreneur Press; Second Edition edition

Dishing bite-sized lessons supported by in-chapter exercises and end-of-chapter actions long-time marketing expert Robert W Bly mentors small-business owners and entrepreneurs in making the crossover from business owner to marketplace competitor and in time majority market-share holderWith...
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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America

Kathryn Edin · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Pages: 210
Format: Print book

A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jessica Compton's family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna...
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The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2016

Peter Sander · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Now is the time to make money!Although the market has seen growth in 2015, it continues to swing on concerns over energy prices, the possibility of a "Grexit," and currency headwinds. With The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2016, you'll protect your money from sharp declines with...
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