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I'm Not Really a Waitress: How One Woman Took Over the Beauty Industry One Color at a Time

Suzi Weiss-Fischmann · Seal Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a #1 beauty brand around the world Today, OPI is known as a global beauty brand, famous for its trend-setting colors,...
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Predicting the Markets: A Professional Autobiography

Edward Ehud Yardeni · YRI Press
Pages: 595
Format: Hardcover

In Predicting the Markets, Edward Yardeni, Wall Street's legendary economist and investment strategist, shares his insights and lessons learned forecasting the economy and financial markets over the past 40 years. Ed Yardeni takes readers on a fascinating journey retracing the economic...
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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Robert Iger
Format: Hardcover

A grand vision defined: The CEO of Disney, one of Time's most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company...
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Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

JONATHAN TAPLIN · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Business & Leadership Book of 2017 Longlisted for Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2017 A strategy+business Best Business Book of 2017A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet...
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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow · Yale University Press
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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How to Start a Home-based Mail Order Business, 4th

Georganne Fiumara · Globe Pequot; Fourth edition
Format: Paperback

Launch and grow your home-based mail order business with this step-by-step guide. Learn about equipment, pricing, online marketing, and much more while using worksheets and checklists to get organized and achieve your goals.
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 318
Format: Print book

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation....
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip E Tetlock · Crown Publishers
Format: Hardcover

"From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions. Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply...
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How to Make Sh*t Happen: Make more money, get in better shape, create epic relationships and control your life!

Sean Whalen · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback

Is your daily life chaotic and out of control? Do you struggle with work/life balance? Does it feel like there are never enough hours in the day to accomplish all your goals? Does it feel like no matter how hard you try it's never good enough? Are you looking for a simple yet executable...
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Selling Local: Why Local Food Movements Matter

Jennifer Meta Robinson · Indiana University Press
Pages: 226
Format: Paperback

In an era bustling with international trade and people on the move, why has local food become increasingly important? How does a community benefit from growing and buying its own produce, rather than eating food sown and harvested by outsiders? Selling Local is an indispensable guide to community-based...
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 372
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering a book...
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