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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return

J. K. Lasser Institute. · John Wiley & Sons
Pages: 816
Format: Print book

America's number-one all-time best-selling tax guide, with 2,500 money-saving tips

J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017 puts America's most trusted tax advice to work to help you with your 2016 tax return. Reader-friendly and easy to use, this book answers your most pressing...

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Miss Manners Minds Your Business

Judith Martin · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn...
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The Alternative Answer: The Nontraditional Investments That Drive the World's Best-Performing Portfolios

Bob Rice · HarperBusiness; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The Alternative Answer by Bob Rice is the first book to explain the new world of alternative investing strategies, showing how to use these new products for inflation-protected income, risk-adjusted growth, and long-term wealth transfer.The Yale Endowment keeps only 6% of its investments...
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The Confident House Hunter: A Home Inspector's Tips for Finding Your Perfect House

Dylan Chalk · Plain Sight Publishing
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

With a zillion houses out there, find your perfect home in the midst of imperfection. In The Confident House Hunter, home inspector Dylan Chalk weaves over a decade of home inspection experience into stories and tips with easy-to-understand language, teaching homebuyers and real estate...
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

Ned Hallowell · Harvard Bus Review Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly...
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Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop Drifting and Get the Life You Want

Michael S Hyatt · Baker Books
Pages: 203
Format: Print book

Each of us has but one life to live on this earth. What we do with it is our choice. Are we drifting through it as spectators, reacting to our circumstances when necessary and wondering just how we got to this point anyway? Or are we directing it, maximizing the joy and potential of every...
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.

If you're like most people, you think...
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The Everything Budgeting Book: Practical Advice for Saving and Managing Your Money - from Daily Budgets to Long-term Goals

Tere Stouffer · Adams Media; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback

A step-by-step plan for creating a budget that makes every dollar count!Are you looking for practical ways to stretch your paycheck? Between working and maintaining a home, saving money can be difficult, but with The Everything Budgeting Book, 3rd Edition, you'll learn to use your money...
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The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class

Edward Conard · Portfolio Penguin
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

The scourge of America's economy isn't the success of the 1 percent - quite the opposite. The bigger problem is the government's well-meaning but misguided attempt to reduce the payoffs for success.

Four years ago, Edward Conard wrote a controversial bestseller, Unintended...

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The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz · Crown
Pages: 414
Format: Print book

Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older.The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you're like most people moving into the phase of life...
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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

David B. Yoffie · HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs...
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Idiot's Guides: Making Money with Rental Properties

Kimberly Smith · ALPHA
Format: Paperback

It takes an incredible amount of know-how to be a successful landlord. Idiots Guides Making Money with Rental Properties is written by experts who have made the mistakes and learned the lessons. They have become successful at spotting high-rent properties, buying them at the right price...
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry

David Robertson · Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

Brick by Brick takes you inside the LEGO youve never seen. By following the teams that are inventing some of the worlds best-loved toys, it spotlights the companys disciplined approach to harnessing creativity and recounts one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent memory....
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Fail Better: Design Smart Mistakes and Succeed Sooner

Anjali Sastry · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

If you're aiming to innovate, failure along the way is a given. But can you fail better?Whether you're rolling out a new product from a city-view office or rolling up your sleeves to deliver a social service in the field, learning why and how to embrace failure can help you do better,...
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What You're Really Meant to Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential

Robert Steven Kaplan · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

How do you create your own definition of successand reach your unique potential?Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to success as defined by those around usand ultimately, are left feeling...
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