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Get What's Yours for Medicare: Maximize Your Coverage, Minimize Your Costs

Philip Moeller - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides...
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Pick Three: You Can Have It All

RANDI ZUCKERBERG - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

In this motivational handbook - both a business how-to and self-help guide - the New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated takes on the fallacy of the "well-balanced" life, arguing that the key to success is learning to be well-lopsided.Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family....
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Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business: How to Launch and Grow a Business from Concept to Cash

Michael Parrish DuDell - Hyperion

From the ABC hit show Shark Tank, this book-filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves-will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship,...
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular

Derek Thompson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate...
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The Farmer's Office: Tools, Tips and Templates to Successfully Manage a Growing Farm Business

Julia Shanks - New Society Publishers
Format: Print book

You decided to become a farmer because you love being outside, working the land and making a difference in the way we eat and farm.And when you decided to become a farmer, you also became an entrepreneur and business person. In order to be ecologically and financially sustainable, you must...
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Rising Strong

Brené Brown - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. Don't miss the hourlong Netflix special Bren Brown: The Call to Courage! Social scientist Bren Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage,...
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Social Security For Dummies

Jonathan Peterson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

For the newest edition, laws, dates and resources will be updated, new policies will be discussed, in relation to social security. Since its inception in 1937, workers across the United States have set aside a portion of their wages to fund the Social Security Administration. For many,...
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Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time

Brigid Schulte - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Book

Schultes a detective in a murder mystery Who killed Americas leisure time, and how do we get it back?-Lev Grossman, TimeWhen award-winning journalist Brigid Schulte, a harried mother of two, realized she was living a life of all work and no play, she decided to find out why she felt so overwhelmed....
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Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans: 3 Volume Set: A Guide to Education-related Financial Aid Programs for Students and Professionals

Gale Cengage Learning - Gale Research Inc
Format: Paperback

Provides comprehensive information on sources of education-related financial aid sponsored and administered by private organizations and companies. Covers a variety of programs in all educational areas, including area and ethnic studies, business, computer science, education, liberal arts,...
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Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America

Danielle Dimartino Booth - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America's economy After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst...
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals

Rachel Hollis - Harpercollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover

"Hollis's writing is beautifully blunt, and she humbly thanks her fans for her success. Her actionable ideas and captivating voice will encourage women to believe in themselves." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "I believe we can change the world. But first, we've...
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Tax Deductions for Professionals: Pay Less to the IRS

Stephen Fishman - Nolo
Format: Print book

A tax deduction guide just for professionals. Winner of the Independent Book Publisher's Association's Benjamin Franklin Award. Keep your taxes under control! Architects, lawyers, dentists, chiropractors, doctors and other licensed professionals are subject to special tax rules....
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

Jay Conrad Levinson - Houghton Mifflin; 4 Upd Exp edition
Format: Paperback

When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levinson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based on hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has given birth to a new way of learning...
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The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz - Crown
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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Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times

Christine Comaford-Lynch - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

Is your team thriving in a world of relentless and rapid change?From the New York Times bestselling author of SmartTribes and Rules for Renegades comes a potent set of neuroscience-based tools to empower your team in uncertain times.Whether it's diminished sales, increased...
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Credit Repair: Improve and Protect Your Credit

Amy Loftsgordon - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Bad credit can prevent you from getting a mortgage, car loan, credit card, apartment, or even a job. It can also mean paying a bundle in rates and fees for any loans or credit you do get.Use this comprehensive how-to manual to rebuild bad credit and protect improved credit. Learn how to: reduce...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2015: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles - Ten Speed Press; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover

The world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2015 to tailor its long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. What Color Is Your Parachute? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide with more than...
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed - be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence...
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What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions, and Success

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A marvel of evolution is that humans are not solely motivated by their desire to experience positive emotions. They are also motivated, and even driven to achieve, by their attempt to avoid or seek relief from negative ones. What Motivates Getting Things Done: Procrastination, Emotions,...
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Txt Me: Your Phone Has Changed Your Life. Let's Talk about It.

B Bonin Bough - BenBella Books
Format: Print book

What's bigger than the internet? Putting it in every pocket, and in every purse. This changes everything, in ways we are only beginning to understand.Mobile devices have become staples of daily life, and our nonstop use of them has changed society . . . forever.In Txt Me, B. Bonin Bough,...
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Remote: Office Not Required

Jason Fried - Crown Business; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The “work from home” phenomenon is thoroughly explored in this illuminating new book from bestselling 37signals founders Fried and Hansson, who point to the surging trend of employees working from home (and anywhere else) and explain the challenges and unexpected benefits. ...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2018: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

RICHARD N BOLLES - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

With more than 10 million copies sold in 28 countries, the world's most popular job-search book is updated for 2018 and tailors Richard Bolles's long-trusted guidance with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers. In today's challenging...
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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts...
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Medicare For Dummies

PATRICIA BARRY - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Make the most of MedicareMore than 55.5 million people today are Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition, addresses the complexities of Medicare and helps those eligible for benefits maneuver the complicated claims process. With the easy-to-follow, comprehensive...
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5 Steps to Rapid Employment: The Job You Want at the Pay You Deserve

Jay A. Block - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Sporadically responding to job openings is not the way to find lucrative employment. In todays job market, you have to separate yourself from the competition with crystal claritywhich means approaching your job campaign strategically. In 5 Steps to Rapid Employment, veteran career expert...
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Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

Sarah Kessler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"With deep reporting and graceful storytelling, Sarah Kessler reveals the ground truth of a key part of the American workforce. Her analysis is both astute and nuanced, making GIGGED essential reading for anyone interested in the future of work." -- Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN...
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Great Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview, 2nd Edition

Jay A. Block - McGraw-Hill
Format: Paperback

The classic guide to acing any interview -- updated with critical skills for networking, video interviewing, and researching companies Great Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview prepares you to answer the trickiest questions and make yourself stand out from the competition....
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The Rule: How I Beat the Odds in the Markets and in Lifeand How You Can Too

Larry Hite - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

The empowering story of Larry Hite's unlikely rise to the top of the hedge fund world -- with critical insights and lessons you can take to the bank In The Rule, legendary trader and hedge fund pioneer Larry Hite recounts his working-class upbringing in Brooklyn as a dyslexic, partially...
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Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials Online & Off

Richard Stim Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

If you're using copyrighted material, don't get sued -- get permission! Online or off, before you use some or all of a song, photo, book, or any other work covered by copyright law, you need to get permission first. If you don't, you could end up facing legal action from the rights-holder....
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The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur's Memoir

Joe Ricketts - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, shares the epic inside story of how a working-class kid from the Nebraska prairie took on Wall Street's clubby brokerage business, busted it open, and walked away a billionaire. Joe Ricketts always had the gift of seeing what others missed. The son of a house...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The book the IRS doesn't want you to read The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed with practical information and advice, Stand Up to the IRS reveals the tactics of the IRS and how to deal...
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Divorce & Money: How to Make the Best Financial Decisions During Divorce

Violet Woodhouse - NOLO
Format: Print book

All the information you need to split assets, easily and fairly. Especially in uncertain economic times, divorce isn't simple. Turn to Divorce & Money, the acclaimed guide to evaluating and dividing assets during divorce, to avoid making financial mistakes that could affect you for the rest...
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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo - William Morrow
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating...
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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
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 company...
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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

"One of the most mesmerizing and important books I've read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity." - Adam Grant, New York Times...
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Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home

Ilona Bray - Nolo
Format: Print book

Everything a buyer needs to know to buy a first home, with insider tips and advice from the experts! Rental prices have gone through the roof, more homes are coming up for sale, and buying a home remains a sound investment. But how do you know whether you're ready? And what steps should...
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Elisabeth Rosenthal - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestsellerA Washington Post Notable Book of the Year At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps...
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The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors

Matthew O. Jackson - Pantheon
Format: Hardcover

Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structures - our human networks - shape how we think and behave, and inform our very outlook on life.Inequality, social immobility, and political polarization are only...
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Leaders: Myth and Reality

Stanley McChrystal - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories defy their legends.Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has studied leadership his whole adult life, from his first day at West Point to his most recent...
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Finance for Nonfinancial Managers, Second Edition

Gene Siciliano - McGraw-Hill; 2 edition
Format: Print book

AN INTRODUCTION TO FINANCIAL REPORTS--WITH NEW TACTICS FOR BUDGETING AND PINPOINTING KEY FINANCIAL AREAS Financial decisions impact virtually every area of your company. As a manager, its up to you to understand how and why. Finance for Nonfinancial Managers helps you understand the information...
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Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies

Jan Zimmerman - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

The bestselling social media marketing book Marketing your business through social media isn't an option these days - it's absolutely imperative. In this new edition of the bestselling Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies, you'll get comprehensive, expert guidance on how to use the latest...
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Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change

Anthony Flaccavento - University Press of Kentucky
Format: Print book

The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar...
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History

ALLIE ROWBOTTOM - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its faade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor...
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Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings

Marlene Wagman-Geller - Mango
Format: Paperback

Empowering stories of game-changing womenDorothy Parker observed, "It's a man's world;" the lady entrepreneurs and game-changers profiled in Women Who Launch would beg to differ. Unlike the matrons of the 1950s-the women who lunched-these kick-ass females left their DNA in the annals...
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Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers & Consultants

Stephen Fishman - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The all-in-one legal and tax resource every IC (and gig worker) needs Ready to be your own boss? Whether you're starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. This excellent,...
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Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage

Laura Huang - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, shows that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support. Some people seem to naturally have it. Now, Huang teaches the rest of us how to create our own from...
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Selling Your House: Nolos Essential Guide

Ilona Bray J.D. - NOLO
Format: Second Edition

Whether your local real estate market is super-heated or still making a comeback, there are steps you can take to reach the right buyers, pick the best offer, and ultimately get top dollar for your home. Selling Your House: Nolos Essential Guide will take you through the process from start...
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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do

Eve Rodsky - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

"A hands-on, real talk guide for navigating the hot-button issues that so many families struggle with."--Reese Witherspoon A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's...
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The Millionaire Dropout: Fire Your Boss. Do What You Love. Reclaim Your Life!

Vince Stanzione - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

If like millions of others you know deep down that you deserve to do better than where you are today, than this book is for you. Not a book based on old fashion theories or textbook scenarios, The Millionaire Dropout is instead based on tried and tested methods of increasing personal...
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