|
|
|
 |
|
The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come
Andrew Essex · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
|
|
A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward... |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches
Courtney Reum · Gallery/Jeter Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
|
|
From the Reum brothers - former Goldman Sachs investment bankers, successful operators, and investors - comes Shortcut Your Startup, a practical playbook for both aspiring and seasoned entrepreneurs, filled with unconventional yet accessible advice for maximizing your business venture.Courtney... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Alice Echols · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Labor in America: A History
Melvyn Dubofsky · Wiley-Blackwell
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
|
|
This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today's teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 256
Format: Print book
|
|
"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Quantitative Finance For Dummies
Lenny Jordan · For Dummies
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
|
|
An accessible, thorough introduction to quantitative finance Does the complex world of quantitative finance make you quiver? You're not alone! It's a tough subject for even high-level financial gurus to grasp, but Quantitative Finance For Dummies offers plain-English guidance on making... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career
Nicole Lapin · Crown Business
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
|
|
New York Times bestselling author Nicole Lapin is back with a sassy and actionable guide empowering women to be the boss of their own lives and careers. You don't need dozens or hundreds of employees to be a boss, says financial expert and serial entrepreneur Nicole Lapin. Hell, you don't... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Best Jobs for Ex-Offenders: 101 Opportunities to Jump-Start Your New Life
Ronald L Krannich · Impact Publications, Blue Ridge Summit, PA
Pages: 139
Format: Print book
|
|
The first book to examine jobs suitable for ex-offenders. Profiling 101 opportunities that are relatively open to people with not-so-hot backgrounds, this upbeat book gives renewed hope and direction to ex-offenders who are uncertain what they want to do, can do, and will do in life on the outside.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Dead Companies Walking: How A Hedge Fund Manager Finds Opportunity in Unexpected Places
Scott Fearon · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Unlike most investors, who live in fear of failure, Scott Fearon actively seeks it out. He has earned millions of dollars for his hedge fund over the last thirty years shorting the stocks of businesses he believed were on their way to bankruptcy. In Dead Companies Walking, Fearon describes... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Waterville
PHYLLIS WITZLER · Arcadia Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
|
|
Following the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794 and the end of the War of 1812, the Maumee Valley became open to settlement. John Pray arrived in 1817, built a dam to run a mill, and the site became known as Pray's Falls. By 1831, Pray had platted the first 50 lots and called it Waterville.... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN · Henry Holt and Co.
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover
|
|
Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground
Ian Purkayastha · Hachette Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
|
|
"[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's... |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
