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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Janette Sadik-Khan · Viking, 2016.
Pages: 368
Format: Print book
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An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streetsAs New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's... |
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5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich with Purpose
Nik Halik · Bard Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Weekend. What a wonderful word! We look forward to its pleasures and the freedom to do what we want. All the while knowing that soon we will have to return to the obligations and demands of our workplace. What if there's a way to add three more days to your weekend? In 5 Day Weekend®... |
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The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse
CROWN. · CROWN
Pages: 272
Format: Print book
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With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their epic journey to become... |
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AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip
Jean Chatzky · Grand Central Life & Style
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Two of the world's leading experts explain the vital link between health and wealth that could add years to your life and dollars to your retirement savings.All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if we can't get out of bed. And the healthiest body in the world won't stay that way if we're... |
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How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
Billy Gallagher · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The improbable and exhilarating story of the rise of Snapchat from a frat boy fantasy to a multi-billion dollar internet unicorn that has dramatically changed the way we communicate.In 2013 Evan Spiegel, the brash CEO of the social network Snapchat, and his co-founder Bobby Murphy stunned... |
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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal
JACK EWING · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking exposé of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million... |
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success
Ivanka Trump · Portfolio
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This... |
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Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Own Terms
Emily Thompson · Running Press Adult
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
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From the creators of the hit podcast comes an interactive self-help guide for creative entrepreneurs, where they share their best tools and tactics on "being boss" in both business and life. Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts... |
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Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth?and How to Fix It
DAMBISA MOYO · Basic Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political... |
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Grow Wherever You Work: Straight Talk to Help with Your Toughest Challenges
Joanna Barsh · McGraw-Hill Education
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Powerful, unvarnished advice for growing through the work challenges all aspiring leaders faceThe business world is full of catchphrases: follow your passion; think positive; be authentic; suck it up; take risks; network. All well-intentioned, but let's be honest. This inch-deep advice... |
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
KEN AULETTA · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible... |
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Publishing
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
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It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why the Rich... |
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Needles and Haystacks: Smart Thinking in the Age of New Data
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · Dey Street Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An Economist Best Book of the YearA PBS NewsHour Book of the YearAn Entrepeneur Top Business Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year in Business and LeadershipNew York Times BestsellerForeword by Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of our Nature Blending the informed analysis of The Signal... |
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Great American Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil Frontier
Maya Rao · PublicAffairs
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The story of a twenty-first century American frontier--where the free market reigns supreme as profiteers rush to develop a massive new oilfield.The word was that you could earn $17,000 a month in the Bakken Oilfield of North Dakota. So they flooded in: the profiteers, deadbeats, ex-cons,... |
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