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Champions Way: Football, Florida, and the Lost Soul of College Sports

MIKE MCINTIRE · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A searing exposé of how the multibillion-dollar college sports empire fails universities, students, and athletes. College sports have never been bigger. Once a roughneck intercollegiate pastime, football now commands millions of fans and generates massive revenues. New York Times investigative...
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Selling Art without Galleries: Toward Making a Living from Your Art

DANIEL GRANT · Allworth Press
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback

"Not simply a how-to book, Selling Art without Galleries is a hands-on guidebook to daily life in the complex and sometimes murky world of the art market." -- Sculpture Magazine The days in which artists must get their work into galleries in order to gain success and recognition...
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life

Lea Berman · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,...
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Eyes Wide Open: Overcoming Obstacles and Recognizing Opportunities in a World That Can't See Clearly

Isaac Lidsky · Tarcherperigee
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

In Eyes Wide Open, Isaac Lidsky draws on his experience of achieving immense success, joy, and fulfillment while losing his sight to a blinding disease to show us that it isn't external circumstances, but how we perceive and respond to them, that governs our reality.Fear has a tendency...
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Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge , and Build Confidence

Andy Molinsky · Avery Pub Group
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? If you answered no to any of these questions, this book can help! What often sets successful...
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Jobseeker's Guide: Ten Steps to a Federal Job for Military Personnel and Spouses

KATHRYN TROUTMAN · JIST Publishing
Pages: 172
Format: Print book

The Jobseekers Guide is used at more than 150 military bases worldwide to teach Kathryn Troutmans highly acclaimed Ten Steps to a Federal Job to military personnel and family members. This title is recognized as the leading guide on the topic for 100,000 military spouses worldwide. The new edition...
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High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard · Hay House, Inc.
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY.Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?2. Of those who pull it off, why are some...
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The Stars Are Lined Up for Military Spouses: Federal Jobs for Military Spouses Through Usajobs, Program S, Naf, and Excepted Service Ten Steps to a Federal Job for Military Personnel and Spouses

Kathryn Troutman · Resume Place
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Military spouses also deserve a career! The challenge for military spouses is being relocated every two to four years. Finding permanent, career positions with frequent relocations is difficult. But the one employer with positions and careers at every military base is the US Government....
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Type R: Transformative Resilience for Thriving in a Turbulent World

Ama Marston · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Forget Type As and Bs. The future lies with Type Rs-- the individuals, leaders, businesses, families and communities that turn challenges into opportunity in times of upheaval, crisis and change. In this thought provoking book Ama Marston, an internationally recognized strategist and thought...
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Working Virtually: Transforming the Mobile Workplace

Trina Hoefling · Stylus Publishing
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Unleashing Personal Success and Organizational Performance in Today's Virtual WorkplaceRemote working is the new reality, and transactional work - provided by freelancers, contract employees or consultants - has increased exponentially. It is forecast that as much as half the labor...
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The 100 Best Stocks to Buy in 2018

Peter Sander · Adams Media
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback

Updated for today's market, the 2018 edition of the 100 Best Stocks series picks the top stocks you should invest in based on the authors' investing philosophy - which has consistently beaten the S&P average for seven straight years!While the economic climate is constantly changing,...
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Putting Wealth to Work: Philanthropy for Today or Investing for Tomorrow?

Joel L Fleishman · PublicAffairs
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

During the next twenty years, as part of the largest transfer of wealth in history, more than $500 billion is expected to pour into the philanthropic sector. Some of it will come from retiring baby boomers, but even more will come from newly rich Silicon Valley billionaires. Since 2006,...
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Principles: Life and Work

Ray Dalio · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Ray Dalio, one of the world's most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business - and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve...
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2,000 review questions for the cpa exam

Denise M Stefano · Mcgraw-Hill Education
Pages: 512
Format: Print book

Sharpen your skills and prepare for the CPA Exam with a wealth of essential facts in a fast-and-easy Q&A format Get the question-and-answer practice you need with 2, 000 Review Questions for the CPA Exam. Organized for easy reference and intensive practice, the questions cover all essential...
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Where the Wild Coffee Grows: The Untold Story of Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Ethiopia to Your Cup

JEFF KOEHLER · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

Coffee is one of the largest and most valuable commodities in the world. This is the story of its origins, its history, and the threat to its future, by the IACP Award-winning author of Darjeeling.Located between the Great Rift Valley and the Nile, the cloud forests in southwestern Ethiopia...
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