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Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business

Barbara Annis · Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover

Work With Me is the timely collaboration of two of the world's foremost authorities on gender relations. Barbara Annis, world-renowned expert on gender issues in the workplace, and John Gray, author of the number one relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus,...
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Arms and the Dudes: How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History

Guy Lawson · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 263
Format: Print book

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them.In January of 2007, three young...
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Broken But Unbowed

Greg Abbott · Threshold Editions
Pages: 275
Format: Print book

Texas governor and rising star in the Republican Party one of the first prominent politicians to govern from a wheelchair since Franklin D. Roosevelt Governor Greg Abbott pens his deeply personal and inspiring life story and proposes a plan to restore America to greatness in what Newt Gingrich...
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Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice: Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year

Wisdom and Practical Advice: Useful Tips and Fascinating Facts for Every Day of the Year Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit · Yankee Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

Ben Franklin's inventiveness made him the greatest American genius of them all. Now, the spirit of Ben meets the challenges of 21st-century living in Ben Franklin's Almanac of Wit, Wisdom, and Practical Advice. With the 1,538 tips in this amazing book, you'll be able to do everything...
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Land Your Dream Career: Eleven Steps to Take in College

Tori Randolph Terhune · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Contrary to what students, and society, are conditioned to think, obtaining a college degree does not automatically result in a job, let alone a dream career. In the last year, alone, half of college graduates are either jobless or underemployed in positions that dont fully use their skills...
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Intellectual Freedom Manual

Office for Intellectual Freedom · Amer Library Assn; 8 edition
Format: Print book

Updated for the first time since 2005, this indispensable volume includes revised interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights along with key intellectual freedom guidelines and policies, including Newly amended and updated policiesA new chapter, Interactivity and the Internet, and other...
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After bin Laden: Al Qaeda, the Next Generation

Abdel Bari Atwan · New Press, The; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

Osama bin Laden is dead, but Al Qaeda remains the CIA’s “number one threat.” Yet since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, the organization has evolved into a much more complex and far-flung entity, even as American military strikes have killed its most identifiable...
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges

James Martin Stone · Houghton Mifflin
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,...
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The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America

Arthur C. Brooks · Broadside Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The prominent economist and president of the American Enterprise Institute - the leading intellectual think tank on the right - offers a bold new vision for conservatism as a movement for social and economic justice.In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing...
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