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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents

William Ury · Harper One
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

William Ury, coauthor of the international bestseller Getting to Yes, returns with another groundbreaking book, this time asking: how can we expect to get to yes with others if we haven't first gotten to yes with ourselves?

Renowned negotiation expert William Ury has taught tens...

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Making It in America: A 12-Point Plan for Growing Your Business and Keeping Jobs at Home

John Bassett · Center Street
Pages: 288
Format: Print book



Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing...
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The Farm to Market Handbook: How to create a profitable business from your small farm

Janet Hurst · Voyageur Press; First edition
Format: Book

Transform your pastime into your livelihood. If your sweet corn is tall, your brood of chickens is beautiful, and your half-dozen goats give delicious milk, then you know firsthand the rewards of running a small farm. But what if you could turn that Do-It-Yourself hobby into a long-term...
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2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World

Stacey Ferreira · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the future!2 Billion Under 20 is a book, online community, and movement inspired by the 2 billion people in the world currently at or under the age of twenty. We stand for Millennials, Gen Z'ers, and those who want to better understand them and their unique potential. This...
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Ace Your Teacher Resume

Anthony D Fredericks · Blue River Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

In this captivating and highly practical book, award-winning author and teacher, Anthony D. Fredericks offers real-world guidelines on how to build the perfect teacher resume (and cover letter) . Fredericks has compiled fresh advice and insightful tips from numerous principals and superintendents...
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End of The Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--and What We Can Do About It

Riva Froymovich · Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback

Financial journalist Riva Froymovich has good reason to be anxious about the financial turmoil facing Generation Y This is her generationIndeed Generation Y has suffered the brunt of the financial crisis and great recession For those in the US born after the American dream is a is becoming...
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How to Buy Bank-Owned Properties for Pennies on the Dollar: A Guide To REO Investing In Today's Market

Jeff Adams · Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Buy bank-owned properties at fire-sale prices! Banks and lending institutions today own more than one million foreclosed properties, more are in the foreclosure pipeline. Banks desperately want to get these properties off their balance sheets, but there arent enough buyers. The result...
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

Bob Harris · Walker & Company
Format: Print book

Hired to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: he would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like...
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The Real Book of Real Estate: Real Experts. Real Stories. Real Life.

Robert T. Kiyosaki · Plata Pub
Pages: 464
Format: Book

In a world where too many financial advisors do not follow their own advice, here is a book written by experts who practice what they teach and who will teach you to thrive, not merely survive, during turbulent economic times. This is the real deal... The Real Book of Real Estate.

The...
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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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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets MORE Job Interviews!

Martin Yate · Adams Media Corporation
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Expert advice on building a resume to get the job you want!

Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to write a dynamic,...
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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown

David Wiedemer · Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Pages: 356
Format: Hardcover

From the authors who accurately predicted the bursting of the global bubble economy comes the definitive look at what lies ahead in 2013 and beyond Written by the market oracles who predicted, with uncanny accuracy, the global financial meltdown and the economic chain reaction it set in motion,...
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The Perfect Resume: Resumes That Work in the New Economy

Dan Quillen · Cold Spring Press
Pages: 183
Format: Print book

HR Director and author of four job search books Dan Quillen shows readers how to craft an incredible resume that will get job-seekers in the door!

Dan Quillen calls on his expertise as an HR professional (and as one who lost and found a job in the toughest economic environment since...
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up

William Poundstone · Little
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age.

More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who René Descartes was. Most can't find Delaware on a map; don't know what Frank Lloyd Wright did for living; can't say how many calories are in a Big Mac or how many...
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