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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
EMILY CHANG · Portfolio
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where... |
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond
Gideon Rachman · Other Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing... |
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Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Lauren-Brooke Eisen · Columbia University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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When the tough-on-crime politics of the 1980s overcrowded state prisons, private companies saw potential profit in building and operating correctional facilities. Today more than a hundred thousand of the 1.5 million incarcerated Americans are held in private prisons in twenty-nine states... |
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Plan Your Estate
Denis Clifford · Nolo
Pages: 528
Format: Print book
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Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance... |
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Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Christine Lynne Porath · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From the leading authority on workplace incivility, Christine Porath, shows why it pays to be civil, and reveals just how to enhance effectiveness in the workplace and beyond by mastering civility. Incivility is silently chipping away at people, organizations, and our economy. Slights,... |
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LLC or Corporation?: How to Choose the Right Form for Your Business
Anthony Mancuso · Nolo
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Choose the legal entity with the best legal and tax advantages Whether you are starting a new business or thinking about an existing one, the big question is "which legal structure is best?" The answer has important legal and tax consequences. LLC or Corporation? explains:... |
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Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions
Gerd Gigerenzer · Viking
Format: Hardcover
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An eye-opening look at the ways we misjudge risk every day and a guide to making better decisions with our money, health, and personal livesIn the age of Big Data we often believe that our predictions about the future are better than ever before. But as risk expert Gerd Gigerenzer shows,... |
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Estate Planning Basics
Denis Clifford Attorney · NOLO
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
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This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning €" without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include: choosing beneficiaries estate planning by parents with... |
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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
Zac Bissonnette · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made... |
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The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions
Per Molander · Melville House
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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From a country with one of the world's lowest rates of income and social inequality comes a clear-eyed and timeless account that recalls Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In The Anatomy of Inequality, Swedish analyst Per Molander examines the development of social... |
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Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It
Jennifer Mueller · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
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One of the nation's leading psychologists asks why today's corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions. All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive... |
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Incorporate Your Business: A Step-by-Step Guide to Forming a Corporation in Any State
ANTHONY MANCUSO · NOLO
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Form a corporation in any state, quickly and easily. Forming a corporation has many advantages, including limiting your personal liability. With the step-by-step instructions in this book, the process is straightforward and easy to accomplish. Incorporate Your Business clearly explains... |
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