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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey · Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Pages: 528
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation of second...
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Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time
Pitch Perfect: How to Say It Right the First Time, Every Time

Bill McGowan · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Media guru and Emmy Award-winning correspondent Bill McGowan—coach to some of the biggest names in business and entertainment, including Eli Manning, Kelly Clarkson, Jack Welch, Thomas Keller and Kenneth Cole teaches you how to get your message across and get what you want with pitch...
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Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading---and Why the Markets Always Work Against the Little Guy
Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading---and Why the Markets Always Work Against the Little Guy

Charles Gasparino · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of The Sellout tells the explosive story of the governments crackdown on insider-trading networks—an investigation that has already racked up more than 60 convictions.In Circle of Friends, award-winning journalist Charles Gasparino—one of Wall Streets most knowledgeable...
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Knock 'em Dead 2015: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
Knock 'em Dead 2015: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin Yate · Adams Media; 30 Anv edition
Format: Book

Get a better job faster and change the trajectory of your life forever!Classic winner...one of the most valuable career books on the market. --LA TimesThe first, middle, and last word for job seekers on navigating a competitive, and often cutthroat, job market. --Science DailyNew York Times...
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Getting financial aid 2017.
Getting financial aid 2017.

College Board. · College Board
Pages: 1040
Format: Paperback

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Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It
Mind over Money: The Psychology of Money and How to Use It

Claudia Hammond · Harperperennial
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

The acclaimed author of Time Warped tackles the very latest research in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and biology to provide a fresh, fascinating, and thought-provoking look at our relationship with money - perfect for fans of Dan Ariely and Freakonomics.We know we need money...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations
Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman · Farrar
Pages: 496
Format: Print book

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersIn his most ambitious work to date, Thomas L. Friedman shows that we have entered an age of dizzying acceleration--and explains how to live in it. Due to an exponential increase in computing power,...
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Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever
Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation of Consumers Ever

Jeff Fromm · AMACOM
Format: Hardcover

The numbers cannot be ignored: eighty million Millennials wielding $200 billion in buying power are entering their peak earning and spending years. Companies that think winning their business is a simple matter of creating a Twitter account and applying outdated notions of "cool"...
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Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich
Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

Sam Wilkin · Little Brown and Company
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters,...
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A Truck Full of Money
A Truck Full of Money

Tracy Kidder · Random House
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Kayak.com founder Paul English, an American maverick and a man who had a mind for the age that was coming. Tracy Kidder, the "master of the nonfiction narrative"...
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis

Ben S. Bernanke · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover

In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this unusual event, Bernanke revealed...
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson · Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014: For Preparing Your 2013 Tax Return
J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2014: For Preparing Your 2013 Tax Return

J.K. Lasser Institute · Wiley; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Americas number one bestselling tax guide offers the best balance of thoroughness, organization, and usability For over half a century, more than 39 million Americans have turned to J.K. Lasser for easy-to-follow, expert advice and guidance on planning and filing their taxes. Written by a team...
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Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season
Above the Line: Lessons in Leadership and Life from a Championship Season

Urban Meyer · Penguin Press
Pages: 262
Format: Print book

Remarkable lessons in leadership and teambuilding from one of the greatest college football coaches of our timeIn only thirteen years as a head football coach, first at Bowling Green and then at Utah, Florida, and Ohio State, Urban Meyer has established himself as one of the elite coaches...
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 362
Format: Print book

How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways...
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