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Your Best Health Care Now: Get Doctor Discounts, Save With Better Health Insurance, Find Affordable Prescriptions

Frank Lalli - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care - and how you, too, can get the best care for your money.Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines,...
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Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses

Amy Whitaker - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book

An indispensable and inspiring guide to creativity in the workplace and beyond, drawing on art, psychology, science, sports, law, business, and technology to help you land big ideas in the practical world.Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow...
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Avid Reader: A Life

Robert Gottlieb - Farrar
Format: Print book

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his timeAfter editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred...
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Miss Manners Minds Your Business

Judith Martin - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A witty guide to managing a real life wisely in a work-centered world. What do your colleagues, overlords, underlings, clients, and customers have in common? Not knowing how much they annoy you. Not to mention how much you may be annoying them. The route from cubicle to corner office is strewn...
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Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact

Rosaly Byrd - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover

Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurn...
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Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy

Paul B. Brown - Amacom
Format: Hardcover

It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured of an extremely satisfying career. But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when it comes...
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The Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956

Norman L Macht - University of Nebraska Press,
Format: eBook

In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack's tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball's greatest teams, the 1929-31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped...
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Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company

Jeff Immelt - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch, at the helm of General Electric. Less than a week into his tenure, the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the nation, and the company, to its core. GE was connected to nearly every part of the tragedy - GE-financed...
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Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment

Maxine Bedat - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked,...
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The 30-Day Money Cleanse: Take control of your finances, manage your spending, and de-stress your money for good

Ashley Feinstein Gerstley - Sourcebooks
Format: Hardcover

Take control of your finances and de-stress your relationship with money! Like food, money is something all of us use but none of us talk about -- creating a stressful relationship that most of us suffer from, obsess over, and try to avoid altogether because it feels too impossible to manage....
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