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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking
Alice Echols · The New Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center... |
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Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals
Brian Tracy · Simple Truths
Pages: 100
Format: Print book
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What makes some people successful in life? In Just Shut Up and Do It, bestselling author and success expert Brian Tracy shares a simple, practical, proven seven-part method that will help you accomplish more in the next few months and years than most people accomplish in a lifetime. In its simplest... |
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A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof · Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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An essential, galvanizing narrative about making a difference here and abroad—a road map to becoming the most effective global citizens we can be.In their number one New York Times best seller Half the Sky, husband-and-wife team Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn brought to light struggles... |
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
KIRK WALLACE JOHNSON · Viking
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music,... |
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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
Joseph E. Stiglitz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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How has America become the most unequal advanced country in the world, and what can we do about it?In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his best-selling book The Price of Inequality and suggests ways to counter America's growing problem. With... |
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The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come
Andrew Essex · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
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A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward... |
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Get Money: Live the Life You Want, Not Just the Life You Can Afford
Kristin Wong · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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Learn how to live the life you want, not just the life you can afford! Managing your money is like going to the dentist or standing in line at the DMV. Nobody wants to do it, but at some point, it's inevitable: you need to clean your teeth, renew your license, and manage your personal... |
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Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
Grant Sabatier · Avery
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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Money is unlimited. Time is not. Become financially independent as fast as possible.In 2010, 24-year old Grant Sabatier woke up to find he had $2.26 in his bank account. Five years later, he had a net worth of over $1.25 million, and CNBC began calling him "the Millennial Millionaire."... |
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Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
Marcus Buckingham · Harvard Business Review Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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How do you get to what's real?Your organization's culture is the key to its success. Strategic planning is essential. People's competencies should be measured and their weaknesses shored up. People crave feedback.These may sound like basic truths of our work lives today. But actually,... |
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Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
KEN AULETTA · Penguin Press
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and profound reckoning with the changes buffeting the $2 trillion global advertising and marketing business from the perspective of its most powerful players, by the bestselling author of GoogledAdvertising and marketing touches on every corner of our lives, and is the invisible... |
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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink
Dane Huckelbridge · William Morrow & Company
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee) , comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern... |
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
ADAM TOOZE · Viking
Pages: 720
Format: Hardcover
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From a prizewinning economic historian, an eye-opening reinterpretation of the 2008 economic crisis (and its ten-year aftermath) as a global event that directly led to the shockwaves being felt around the world today.In September 2008 President George Bush could still describe the financial... |
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