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Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned over a Beer or Two
Jim Koch - Macmillan Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Founder of The Boston Beer Company, brewer of Samuel Adams Boston Lager, and a key catalyst of the American craft beer revolution, Jim Koch offers his unique perspective when it comes to business, beer, and turning your passion into a successful company or career. In 1984, it looked like... |
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Starting Your Career as a Consultant
Leticia Gallares-Japzon - Allworth Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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An insightful guide to breaking out of the mold and starting a successful career in consulting in any field. You’ve got ample skills and expertise in your profession to become a consultant, but how exactly do you start the process? What are the first steps, where will you work, and how do you generate... |
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Mortgage Management For Dummies
WILEY. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Choose, manage, and pay off your mortgage Match your mortgage to your financial goals Qualify for a mortgage even when money is tight Quickly make sense of mortgages Taking out a mortgage to purchase real estate is a huge decision, one that could affect your family's finances for years... |
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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Ben Mezrich - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.... |
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The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of the World's Richest People
Alex Becker - Brown Books Pub Group
Format: Print book
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Think like a multimillionaire: leave the 9 to 5 behind. The world has led you to believe that financial freedom is not something you can willfully create in your life. You have been taught to view wealth as something that happens only to a lucky few who win a random business lottery or are blessed... |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Home
Peter Richmond - ALPHA
Format: Paperback
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In real estate, it's a buyer's market-and here is the buyer's bible... Buying a home is the single most important financial move in most people's lives. This book covers a variety of topics including inspecting, evaluating, negotiating, financing, contracts, and legal... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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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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Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
Marc R Benioff - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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New York Times best sellerThe founder and co-CEO of Salesforce delivers an inspiring vision for successful companies of the future - in which changing the world is everyones business."The gold standard on how to use business as a platform for change at this urgent time." (Ray... |
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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York... |
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Crowdfund Investing For Dummies
Sherwood Neiss - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The easy way to get started in crowdfund investingCrowdfund investing (CFI) is going to be the next big thing on Wall Street. U.S. investment banks, brokerage houses, and law firms are gearing up for the creation and regulation of new financial products that will be available to the general... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power... |
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Grant Writing For Dummies
Beverly A. Browning - For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback
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An all-in-one guide to locating and securing available grantsAs the amount of established granting foundations increases, more money becomes available—but the application process can be long, tedious, and is always highly competitive. Grant Writing For Dummies guides you through the entire... |
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Christopher Voss - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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A former international hostage negotiator for the FBI offers a new, field-tested approach to high-stakes negotiations - whether in the boardroom or at home.After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a hostage negotiator... |
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Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide
Peri Pakroo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Start a nonprofit and keep it running with this practical guide During hard economic times, nonprofits are more important than ever. Here, learn how to create and nurture a nonprofit that will serve your vital mission, whether supporting the arts, rescuing a school library, protecting the environment,... |
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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
TIM WU - Columbia Global Reports
Format: Paperback
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From the man who coined the term 'net neutrality' and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness.We live in an "oligopoly age" in which... |
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Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2016-2017
United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics. - Bernan
Format: Print book
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The Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is the premier, nationally recognized source for career information. Especially designed to provide valuable up-to-date information, the Handbook is great for all individuals making decisions about their futures including students about to graduate... |
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
MICHAEL LEWIS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,... |
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The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World
Ruchir Sharma - W W Norton
Format: Print book
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This pioneering work demystifies the drivers behind political, economic, and social change. Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks... |
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Ego Is the Enemy
Ryan Holiday - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive visionary geniuses who remade the world in their image with sheer, almost irrational force, I've found that history is also made by individuals who fought their egos at every turn, who eschewed the spotlight, and who put their... |
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Medicare For Dummies
PATRICIA BARRY - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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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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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Janette Sadik-Khan - Viking, 2016.
Format: Print book
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An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer in the movement for safer, more livable streetsAs New York City's transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world's... |
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Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything
Tim Irwin - BenBella Books
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestsellerFor more than 25 years, organizational psychologist and management consultant Dr. Tim Irwin has worked with thousands of leaders in well-known global companies. He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility.... |
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Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English
Gyles Brandreth - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, a lively, effective, and witty guide to all the ins and outs of the English language, reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary levels are declining, and our grasp... |
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Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
Ben Mezrich - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires--the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off.Ben... |
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Creating Great Choices: A Leader's Guide to Integrative Thinking
Jennifer Riel - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Move Beyond Trade-Off ThinkingWhen it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable. But what about those crucial times when accepting the obvious trade-off just isn't good enough What do we do when the choices in front of us don't get us what we need... |
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Creating Things That Matter: The Art and Science of Innovations That Last
David A Edwards - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Most things we create will not matter. This book is about creating things that do, from a master innovator who brings science and art together in his cutting edge labs.Art and science are famous opposites. Contemporary innovation mostly keeps them far apart. But in this book, David Edwards... |
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Small Business Start-Up Kit for California, The
Peri Pakroo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Start a business in California with the best step-by-step guide available! If you dream of starting a business, but fear that without an MBA you'll get lost in the maze of government red tape, this is the handbook you need. The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California outlines how to set up your... |
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela Haag - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so were told. In The Gunning... |
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Balance: The Economics of Great Powers from Ancient Rome to Modern America
Glenn Hubbard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In this groundbreaking book, two economists explain why economic imbalances cause civil collapse— and why the United States could be next. From the Ming Dynasty to Ottoman Turkey to imperial Spain, the Great Powers of the world emerged as the greatest economic, political, and military... |
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No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need to Do to Have a Great Career
Larry Smith - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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A provocative new approach to discovering your true calling in life and achieving not just a good career, but a great one Over the past three decades, professor Larry Smith has become something of a "career whisperer" for his students at the University of Waterloo. Each year,... |
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I.M.: A Memoir
Isaac Mizrahi - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis. Designer. Cabaret singer. Talk show host. He's a pop culture icon unlike any fashion designer of recent memory, just as likely to be recognized walking down Main Street USA as Madison Avenue NYC. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the 1980s, the private Isaac... |
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The Side Hustle Path: 10 Proven Ways to Make Money Outside of Your Day Job
Nick Loper - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Earn Extra Cash The Side Hustle Path is for people who want or need to earn some extra money outside of their day jobs. Maybe you need a few extra dollars to make ends meet. Maybe you want to pay off debt. Maybe you want to save for a rainy day, or for your children's education.... |
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50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage Stress at Work
Prof. Cary Cooper - Summersdale
Format: Paperback
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Learning how to manage stress in the workplaceIn this easy-to-follow book, the authors guide readers through the steps to manage and control stress at work. Readers will understand what stress is and identify how and why it occurs at work, and receive practical... |
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing
Format: Paperback
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It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why... |
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Investing All-in-One For Dummies
ERIC TYSON - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Invest in your financial future Featuring guidance from renowned finance expert Eric Tyson and content from other top selling For Dummies investment titles, Investing All-in-One For Dummies offers the foolproof, time-tested guidance you need to turn those hard-earned dollars into a successful... |
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Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day
Todd Henry - Portfolio Hardcover; 10.1.2013 edition
Format: Book
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"Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions...The cost of inaction is vast. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty." Most of us live... |
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
Joseph E. Stiglitz - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel prize winner challenges us to throw off the free market fundamentalists and reclaim our economy.We all have the sense that the American economy -- and its government -- tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation... |
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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
MALCOLM HARRIS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push... |
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Financially Fearless: The LearnVest Program for Taking Control of Your Money
Alexa von Tobel - Crown Business; F First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Finally, a financial plan that lets you be YOU, only richer. It’s time to throw away all your old notions of what financial advice should look like. Because if you’re looking for a book to put you on an austerity savings plan that has you giving up vacations and lattes,... |
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Idiot's Guides: Starting and Running a Restaurant
Jody Pennette - Alpha Books
Format: Paperback
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Around 90% of all new restaurants fail in the first year of operation. Many owners think they have the perfect idea, but they have terrible business plans, location, or other issues. Idiot's Guides: Starting and Running a Restaurant shows budding restauranteurs the basics of honing... |
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Knock em Dead Secrets & Strategies for First-Time Job Seekers
Martin John Yate - Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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Live life on your terms!Its tough landing your first job out of school and starting that climb up the ladder of success in such an uncertain world. In Knock em Dead: Secrets & Strategies, you will learn how to get what you want out of life:Make sense of the world of work.Develop a life... |
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Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way
Nely Galán - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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For readers of #GIRLBOSS and viewers of Shark Tank - a global revolution in entrepreneurship is under way, inspiring women to blaze a trail of financial self-reliance and become self-made. Featuring a foreword by Suze Orman. What does it mean to be self-made It's not just... |
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Investing in Your 20s and 30s For Dummies
Eric Tyson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Start investing in your future now! Millennials have witnessed a miserable market during most, if not all, of their adult lives. But going forward, the opposite is more likely to be true. In order to build a retirement portfolio that is capable of covering expenses in your golden years,... |
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Better World Shopping Guide #6: Every Dollar Makes a Difference
Ellis Jones - New Society Publishers
Format: Paperback
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While we strive to make our vote count every four years, few of us realize that our most immediate power to shape the world is squandered on a daily basis. Every dollar we spend has the potential to create social and environmental change. In fact, it already has. The world that exists today... |
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Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies
Kate Gatski - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback
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The easy way to build an online craft business from scratch Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies offers expert advice for artists and entrepreneurs looking to build an online craft business from scratch. You'll get invaluable information on how to set up an Etsy shop, write compelling... |
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Fundraising For Dummies
John Mutz - Wiley Publishing; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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The fun and easy way to raise money for your causeFundraising For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to take advantage of the latest strategies and resources available for raising money through everything from special events to online donations, in both good and bad economic times. The authors... |
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Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
Pico Iyer - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From one of our most astute observers of human nature, a far-reaching exploration of Japanese history and culture and a moving meditation on impermanence, mortality, and grief.For years, Pico Iyer has split his time between California and Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko,... |
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Small Business Taxes For Dummies
Eric Tyson - For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Are you a small business owner taxed by taxes?Not being up-to-speed on tax rules and strategies can lead to mistakes that cost business owners thousands of dollars in fines and penalties every year. Small Business Taxes For Dummies assists both current and aspiring small business owners... |
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The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
Duff McDonald - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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It ranks among the unquestioned laws of American big business over the last half century: If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. FOUNDED IN 1926, McKINSEY CAN LAY CLAIM to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural,... |
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Unti on creative artists agency.
James Andrew Miller - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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An astonishing - and astonishingly entertaining - behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.In 1975, five... |
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Investing: The Last Liberal Art
Robert G. Hagstrom - Columbia University Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Robert G. Hagstrom is one of the best-known authors of investment books for general audiences. Turning his extensive experience as a portfolio manager at Legg Mason Capital Management into valuable guidance for professionals and nonprofessionals alike, he is the author of six successful... |
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The Next Millionaire Next Door: Enduring Strategies for Building Wealth
Thomas J Stanley - Lyons Press
Format: Hardcover
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What does it take to become wealthy today? The simple and yet challenging answer is: the consistent exercise of certain behaviors that have been shown to relate to financial success. Millionaires continue to demonstrate a disciplined approach to their finances, allowing them, over time,... |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries... |
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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
PAUL COLLIER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies:... |
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It's Garry Shandling's Book
Judd Apatow - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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From Judd Apatow comes an intimate portrait of his mentor, the legendary stand-up comic and star of The Larry Sanders Show, with never-before-seen journal entries and photos, as well as new contributions by fellow comedians and writers.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NEW... |
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Becoming a U.S. Citizen: A Guide to the Law, Exam & Interview
Ilona Bray JD - NOLO
Format: Print book
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Everything you need to become a naturalized U.S. citizenFor a green card holder, taking the next step to U.S. citizenship offers a host of benefits. But the application process itself can be long and confusing. With Becoming a U.S. Citizen, you can save months, or even years. Best of all,... |
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Marketing For Dummies
CONSUMER DUMMIES. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The classic, bestselling marketing guide, updated for the digital era Marketing For Dummies, 5th Edition is the ultimate handbook for boosting your business. Whether you're a small mom-and-pop shop, a local nonprofit, or a mid-size business looking to grow, the right marketing approach... |
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A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
T R REID - PENGUIN Books
Format: Print book
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Bestselling author T. R. Reid voyages around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unraveling a complex topic in plain English and telling a rollicking story along the way.The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Overstuffed with loopholes and special interest... |
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The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu - Knopf
Format: Print book
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From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale... |
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Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters
Charles Wheelan - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The best-selling Naked series tackles the weird world of money.Consider the $20 bill.It has no more value, as a simple slip of paper, than Monopoly money. Yet even children recognize that tearing one into small pieces is an act of inconceivable stupidity. What makes a $20 bill actually... |
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The Digital Transformation Playbook: Rethink Your Business for the Digital Age
David L Rogers - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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Rethink your business for the digital age.Every business begun before the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy?Globally recognized digital expert David L. Rogers argues that digital transformation is not about updating your technology but about... |
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The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need
Anthony Iannarino - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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"Contrary to what most underperformers claim, sales success is not situational. It's not about the market, the product, the company, or the competition. No, it's all about the seller - the individual." - from the Foreword Anthony Iannarino never set out to become a salesman,... |
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Green Careers in Building and Landscaping
Peterson's - Peterson's; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), millions of dollars have been allocated to improve energy efficiency in building construction. ARRA's substantial federal investments in building and retrofitting are likely to become a major source of revenue for suppliers of "green"... |
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For the Love of Money: A Memoir
Sam Polk - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In 2014, a former hedge fund trader's New York Times Sunday Review front page article about wealth addicition instantly went viral. This is his unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past - and the radical new way he now defines... |
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Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work
Andrea S Kramer - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status,... |
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Franchise Management For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyle))
Michael H. Seid - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Learn what it takes to find, buy, and run a franchise -- and enjoy the rewards of being your own bossIf youve ever visited a chain restaurant and thought, "Id like to run one of these," youre among countless would-be entrepreneurs eager to be their own boss. Franchise Management... |
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Non-Negotiable: The Story of Happy State Bank & The Power of Accountability
Sam Silverstein - Sound Wisdom
Format: Hardcover
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Do you ever find yourself questioning what you believe around issues that impact your life and business? Do you ever feel lost in your decisions? Are you ever frustrated in your lack of ability to take your life or business exactly where you know you want to go? Non-Negotiable is all about... |
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2018
PETERSON'S. - Peterson's
Format: Paperback
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Scholarships, Grants & Prizes 2018 provides up-to-date information on millions of privately funded awards available to college students. It contains detailed profiles of awards based on academic fields and career goals, ethnic heritage, talent, employment experience, military service,... |
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Coined : the rich life of money and how its history has shaped us
Kabir Sehgal - Grand Central Publishing
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"The importance of money in our lives is readily apparent to everyone--rich, poor, and in between. However grudgingly, most of us accept the expression "Money makes the world go round" as a universal truth. We are all aware of the power of money--how it influences our moods,... |
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,... |
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Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart
Shane Snow - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through.The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream... |
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To My Assistant: Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will
Lydia Whitlock - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
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From the Hollywood assistant trenches, a hilarious guide to surviving life at the bottom of the totem pole.I will not make you sort my M&Ms by color. I will not take off four hours in the middle of the day to go shopping and then announce upon my return that “it’s going... |
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Idiot's Guides: Making Money with Rental Properties
Kimberly Smith - ALPHA
Format: Paperback
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It takes an incredible amount of know-how to be a successful landlord. Idiots Guides Making Money with Rental Properties is written by experts who have made the mistakes and learned the lessons. They have become successful at spotting high-rent properties, buying them at the right price... |
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Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL
Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The USFL - United States Football League - was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL, but cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then... |
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When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
DANIEL H PINK - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Instant New York Times Bestseller#1 Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerInstant Washington Post Bestseller"Brims with a surprising amount of insight and practical advice." --The Wall Street JournalDaniel H. Pink, the #1 bestselling author of Drive... |
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Among the Bankers: A Journey into the Heart of Finance
Joris Luyendijk - Melville House
Format: Print book
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Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed... |
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More Important Than Money: an Entrepreneur's Team
Robert Kiyosaki - RDA Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
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Many people have million-dollar ideas. They're confident that their new product or service or innovation will make them rich and that all their dreams will come true. The problem is: Most people don't know how to turn their million-dollar idea into millions of dollars.According to many... |
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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas
Jeremy Gutsche - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover
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What great ideas are you missing that are so close within your grasp? In our world of chaos and change, what are you overlooking? If you knew the answer, you'd be a better innovator, better manager, and better investor.This book will make you BETTER by teaching you how to overcome 3 neurological... |
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Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work
Sarah Kessler - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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"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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Dont Keep Your Day Job: How to Turn Your Passion into Your Career
Cathy Heller - St. Martins Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the creator of the #1 podcast "Dont Keep Your Day Job," an inspiring book about turning your passion into profit . "Heller pivots effortlessly from encouraging readers to accept "miraculous changes," find their bliss, and examine their authentic selves to practical... |
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Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All
Tom Kelley - Crown Business
Format: Book
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IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley and his brother Tom Kelley, IDEO partner and the author of the bestselling The Art of Innovation, have written a powerful and compelling book on unleashing the creativity that lies within each and every one of us.Too often, companies... |
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Unsafe Thinking: How to be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most
Jonah Sachs - Da Capo Lifelong Books
Format: Hardcover
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Learn how to take the bold yet intelligent risks that will help you thrive in business--and in life.How can you challenge and change yourself when you need it most? We're creatures of habit, programmed by evolution to favor the safe and familiar, especially when the stakes are high.... |
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Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws
Lisa Guerin - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Quick answers to questions about 20 Key Employment Laws This book explains, in plain English, the 20 most important federal employment laws that come up in the workplace. You can look up what each law allows and prohibits, which businesses must comply, and how to fulfill record-keeping,... |
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CRM For Dummies
Lars Helgeson - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Save time, save money, and grow your business with more effective CRM CRM For Dummies is the small business leader's guide to managing customer interactions. Customer relationship management is a critical part of any business, and it encompasses everything from business strategy and HR to sales,... |
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LinkedIn For Dummies
Joel Elad - John Wiley, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Build your network, find a job, and be seen as a thought leader - all on LinkedIn! LinkedIn For Dummies, 4th Edition, is fully updated for the latest features and tools to help you do all of this, and more. With a rich feature set, the LinkedIn profile is a professional's number one branding... |
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Start Your Own Information Marketing Business
Robert Skrob - Entrepreneur Press; Second Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Breaking down the information marketing world from A to Z, the undisputed info marketing expert offers professional strategies to set up a successful information marketing business. These businesses are easy to start, can be run from home, don’t require any employees, need little... |
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The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America
Burton W. Folsom - Young America's Foundation
Format: Paperback
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The Myth of the Robber Barons describes the role of key entrepreneurs in the economic growth of the United States from 1850 to 1910. The entrepreneurs studied are Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, James J. Hill, Andrew Mellon, Charles Schwab, and the Scranton family. Most historians... |
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For the Kingdom and the Power: The Big Money Swindle That Spread Hate Across America
Dale W. Laackman - S. Woodhouse Books; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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A force of nature and her flim-flam man meet their mark. A true believer. The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke--together, the Southern Publicity Association met the fervent William Joseph Simmons, saw an opportunity, and played on his many weaknesses.... |
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Everything Is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This book will change lives."--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveFrom the host of the award-winning MarieTV and The Marie Forleo Podcast, an indispensable handbook for becoming the creative force of your own life.While... |
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I.M.: A Memoir
Isaac Mizrahi - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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This program is read by Isaac Mizrahi."Isaac Mizrahi is a true Renaissance man. He can do it all! He's managed to live several lives in one lifetime." -- RuPaulIsaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame... |
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Daniel J Levitin - Dutton
Format: Print book
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From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process - especially in election season.... |
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Rescuing Retirement
TERESA GHILARDUCCI - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment... |
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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems
Christian Madsbjerg - Harvard Business School Press
Format: Hardcover
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Businesses need a new type of problem solving. Why? Because they are getting people wrong.Traditional problem-solving methods taught in business schools serve us well for some of the everyday challenges of business, but they tend to be ineffective with problems involving a high degree of uncertainty.... |
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze - Viking
Format: Book
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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... |
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48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal
Dan Miller - B&H Books; Revised edition
Format: Paperback
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In 2009, the U.S. unemployment rate approached ten percent. Today, when new work is found, it may not be traditional. Studies estimate half of the American workforce will soon consist of freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, entreprenuers, "electronic immigrants,"... |
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The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to be Rich to Live Rich
David Bach - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Discover #1 New York Times bestselling author David Bach's three secrets to financial freedom in an engaging story that will show you that you are richer than you think. Drawing on the author's experiences teaching millions of people around the world to live a rich life, this... |
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Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies
KATE SHOUP - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Etsy.com continues to be one of the most popular markets for artists, crafters, and curators. Launched in 2005, Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, guides readers through the process of setting up a successful shop and effectively marketing their products. New content... |
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The Unlikely Reformer: Carter Glass and Financial Regulation
Matthew P. Fink - University of Virginia Press
Format: Paperback
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Recently described as "the single most important lawmaker in the history of American finance," Carter Glass nonetheless remains a much misunderstood and overlooked figure in that history. Glass is most widely remembered as the sponsor (with Henry Steagall) of the Glass-Steagall... |
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Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need
Grant Sabatier - Avery
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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Comeback Careers: Rethink, Refresh, Reinvent Your Success--At 40, 50, and Beyond
Mika Brzezinski - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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STRONG, WISER, BETTER An Essential Guide for Reentering, Reinventing, or Rebooting Your Career at Any Age So many women hit midlife and realize: it's time for a career change. Maybe you're yearning to try something new, or you're sensing that layoffs are coming and you need a backup plan.... |
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How to Write and Give a Speech: A Practical Guide for Anyone Who Has to Make Every Word Count
Joan Detz - St. Martin's Griffin; Third Edition, Revised Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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With more than 65,000 copies sold in two editions and recommended by Forbes and U.S. News World Report, this newly updated how to guide offers sound advice on every aspect of researching, writing, and delivering an effective speech. Filled with anecdotes, tips, examples, and practical... |
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Keep Calm . . . It's Just Real Estate: Your No-Stress Guide to Buying a Home
Egypt Sherrod - Running Press Book Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Egypt Sherrod knows how to take nervous prospective home-buyers by the hand and lead them through the process. She does it every week as host of HGTV's highly-rated show, Property Virgins. Now she translates her reassuring personality onto the page, with this "No-Stress" guide... |
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Be CentsAble: How to Cut Your Household Budget in Half
Chrissy Pate - Plume; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Read Chrissy Pate and Kristin McKee's posts on the Penguin Blog.As seen on Good Morning America and successfully adopted by thousands of subscribers, this easy-to-use system helps slash every household budget Now more than ever, people are desperate to save money without scrimping... |
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Plan Your Estate
Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Turn to Plan Your Estate for straightforward, plain-English explanations of each of your estate-planning options, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. Attorney Denis Clifford shows you how to: avoid probate leave property through a will or trust use life insurance... |
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Downsizing The Family Home: What to Save, What to Let Go
Marni Jameson - Sterling
Format: Print book
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It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Here, nationally syndicated home columnist Marni Jameson sensitively guides readers through the process, from opening that first closet, to sorting through... |
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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
JENNIFER PALMIERI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director... |
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Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood
J E Smyth - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over... |
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1,001 GMAT Practice Questions For Dummies
CONSUMER DUMMIES. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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An indispensible practice tool for the GMAT The GMAT exam is the preferred graduate test of universities across the globe. It measures analytical writing and problem solving abilities and addresses data sufficiency, logic, and critical reasoning - all essential skills in business and management.... |
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How to Make Money Homesteading: So You Can Enjoy a Secure, Self-Sufficient Life
Tim Young - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format: Paperback
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Check out startacheesebusiness.com for a great course on self-sufficient income!Wouldn't you like to escape the hectic pace of modern life and enjoy a worry-free, self-reliant lifestyle? A lifestyle where your family shares lasting memories of living self-sufficiently instead of being... |
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The Career Manifesto: Discover Your Calling and Create an Extraordinary Life
Mike Steib - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover
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An action-oriented guide to help anyone find their calling and achieve their goals, inspired by the author's popular blog post with the same titleThe Career Manifesto presents an inspiring and refreshingly simple approach to finding your passion and purpose and then jumpstarting... |
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The Ultimate Scholarship Book 2020: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
Gen Tanabe - SuperCollege
Format: Paperback
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Information on 1.5 million scholarships, grants, and prizes is easily accessible in this revised directory with more than 300 new listings that feature awards indexed by career goal, major, academics, public service, talent, athletics, religion, ethnicity, and more. Each entry contains... |
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