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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Jake Knapp - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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"A charming manifesto - as well as an intrepid do-it-yourself guide to building smart habits that stick. If you want to achieve more (without going nuts) , read this book." - Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better From... |
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Jobs to Be Done: A Roadmap for Customer-Centered Innovation
Stephen Wunker - Amacom
Format: Hardcover
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In a challenging economy filled with nimble competitors, no one can afford to stagnate. Yet, innovation is notoriously difficult. Only 1 in 100 new products are successful enough to cover development costs, and even fewer impact a company's growth trajectory. So how do you pinpoint the winning... |
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Reset: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape
James R Rubin - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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As consumers, our access to -- and appetite for -- information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting... |
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I Dont Want to Die Poor: Essays
Michael Arceneaux - Atria Books
Format: Paperback
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One of NPRs Best Books of 2020 One of Times 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 From the New York Times bestselling author of I Cant Date Jesus, which Vogue called "a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating," comes a wry and insightful essay collection... |
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The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Elizabeth L. Cline - Plume
Format: Paperback
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From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, "the Michael Pollan of fashion,"* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe youll love.. Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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Bhutan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Karma Choden - Kuperard
Format: Paperback
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The tiny Kingdom of Bhutan, at the eastern end of the Himalayas, nestles between the giant nation states of China and India. Often called the "Land of the Thunder Dragon," it remained secluded until recent times - the first ever "tourist" set foot in Bhutan in 1974 and was followed... |
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
Lisa Servon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An urgent, absorbing expos - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a highnetworth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have... |
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No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Hardcover
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Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade. Since its creation in 2010, Instagram's fun and simple interface has captured our collective... |
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Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide
Peri Pakroo - Nolo, 2016.
Format: Print book
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The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, written by the author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit, gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise -- whether you're an arty creative type, an independent consultant, or a Fortune... |
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Marketing on a shoestring budget : a guide for small museums and historic sites
Deborah Pitel - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Print book
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Here s a one-stop marketing guide just for small museums and historic sites. In an age when many local historical associations and museums take money from their marketing budget because resources are tight, which can start a vicious cycle of reduced marketing reach, lower visitation, and then... |
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Design to Grow: How Coca-Cola Learned to Combine Scale and Agility
Linda Tischler - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Expert advice from Coca-Cola's vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Learn how Coca-Cola uses design to grow its business by combining the advantages of scale with the agility to respond to fast-changing market conditions.In today's world, every company is at risk of having... |
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In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer
Steven Davis - Temple University Press
Format: Paperback
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Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized - or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates... |
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Zillow Talk: The New Rules of Real Estate
Spencer Rascoff - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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How do you spot an area poised for gentrification? Is spring or winter the best time to put your house on the market? Will a house on Swamp Road sell for less than one on Gingerbread Lane? The fact is that the rules of real estate have changed drastically over the past five years. To understand... |
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Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
Jo Boaler - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover
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In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.From the moment... |
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The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future
Skip Prichard - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks and win over and over again? What do the super successful know? What is standing between you and your wildest dreams?The Book of Mistakes will take you on an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful... |
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Whole Farm Management: From Start-Up to Sustainability
Garry Stephenson - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Hardcover
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Farming is a business, as well as a way of life. Whole Farm Management is a comprehensive guide developed by the Small Farms Program at Oregon State University to help aspiring and beginner farmers make smart, strategic business decisions to ensure lasting success. In clear, accessible... |
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All You Have to Do Is Ask: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success
Wayne Baker - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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A set of tools for mastering the one skill standing between us and success: the ability to ask for the things we need to succeed. Imagine you're on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overwhelmed. Or you're looking for a job, but can't seem to get your foot in the door.... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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Getting Back to Work: Everything You Need to Bounce Back and Get a Job After a Layoff
Linda Rolie - McGraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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A truly masterful book on career transition and job seeking, especially in light of the current state of our economy. It addresses a wide array of topics that are important for almost every job seeker. " -Carmen Croonquist, Director of Career Services, University of Wisconsin HOW DO YOU MOVE... |
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Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball's Home Run Revolution
Jared Diamond - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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From the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the next major work of baseball narrative nonfiction: the story of the home run boom, following a group of players - including J.D. Martinez, Aaron Judge, and Justin Turner - who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing... |
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The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America
Oren Cass - Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover
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"[Cass's] core principle -- a culture of respect for work of all kinds -- can help close the gap dividing the two Americas ... ." - William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare... |
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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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Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News
Jill Abramson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (The New York Times and The Washington Post) and two upstart... |
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Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want
Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book
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Great strategies for writing killer cover letters!At a time when every job seeker needs an edge, Martin Yate, CPC, shows you how to dramatically increase your chances of landing an interview with a dynamic cover letter. Using his 25+ years of experience, he has built a practical, easy-to-follow... |
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Neither Snow nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
Devin Leonard - Grove Press
Format: Print book
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The United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, forty percent of the world's volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service - more than twice as efficient as the Japanese... |
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Break Through the Noise: The Nine Rules to Capture Global Attention
Tim Staples - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The odds of getting a video onto YouTube's front page are 1-in-2,000,0000, but Tim Staples, founder and CEO of Shareability, knows how to make the algorithms of Youtube, Google, Facebook and Instagram work for you - and he has the results to prove it, with a thriving business that has gotten... |
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Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change
Leonard Mlodinow - Pantheon Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Subliminal and The Drunkard's Walk, a groundbreaking new look at the neuroscience of change--and how elastic thinking can help us thrive in a world changing faster than ever before. With rapid technological innovation leading the charge, today's world is transforming... |
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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
Binyamin Appelbaum - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world. Before the 1960s, American politicians had never paid much... |
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Lessons for Non-Profit and Start-Up Leaders: Tales from a Reluctant CEO
MAXINE PH D HARRIS - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Lessons for Non-Profit and Start-Up Leaders: Tales from a Reluctant CEOuses the experiences of a real company, Community Connections, to bring to life the practical dilemmas that an organization founded on a mission and guided by a set of ideals must confront and solve if it is to thrive.... |
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Beautiful Money: The 4-Week Total Wealth Makeover
Leanne Jacobs - TarcherPerigee
Format: Print book
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This revolutionary four-week financial/wealth plan shows you how to transform your relationship with money from the inside out by exploring your financial behaviors and beliefs. Most of us know what it feels like to chase success. We sacrifice time with our loved ones, our weekends, our vacation,... |
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019: For Preparing Your 2018 Tax Return
J K LASSER - Wiley
Format: Paperback
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The nation's most trusted tax guide, updated for your 2018 returns J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2019 is the nation's most trusted tax guide, updated to help you prepare your 2018 return. Step-by-step expert guidance walks you through the forms, calculations, and deadlines... |
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Entreprenumbers: The Surprisingly Simple Path to Financial Clarity
Spencer Sheinin
Format: Paperback
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If you're like most entrepreneurs, you probably hate accounting. It's a source of constant frustration. The information your bookkeepers and accountants bring isn't at all understandable or helpful. And you know you're not getting the information you need to run your business.... |
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Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose
Lauren McGoodwin - Harper Business
Format: Hardcover
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From the founder of the influential website Career Contessa, an invaluable career resource for women feeling stuck or unfulfilled that combines actionable advice, learning tools to make impactful life changes, and an in-depth discussion of how to build a meaningful career on your terms.With... |
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Labor in America: A History
Melvyn Dubofsky - Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Hardcover
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This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns of today's teachers and students. As issues of growing inequality, stagnating incomes, declining unionization, and exacerbated job insecurity... |
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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Ellen Pao - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The "necessary and incisive" (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED... |
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Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
Gianno Caldwell - Crown Forum
Format: Hardcover
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A Fox News political analyst tackles some of our communities' toughest challenges with timely insight from his own life: the story of how conservative values helped a kid from the South Side of Chicago find a life of opportunity.Born to a mother consumed by drugs and raised by his grandmother... |
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The Little Book of Commodity Investing
John Stephenson - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Book
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The world has changed and so too has investing. The market is shell shocked and yesterday's momentum stocks are today's slow-motion stocks. But in the new reality of low-growth investing, commodities are hot and getting hotter. A rapidly industrializing and urbanizing Asia will... |
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
Rana Foroohar - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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A penetrating indictment of how today's largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds - from an acclaimed Financial Times columnist and CNN analyst "Don't be evil" was enshrined as Google's corporate mantra back in its early... |
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The Best Things in Life are Free
Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet Pbns
Format: Print book
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Lonely Planet's The Best Things in Life are Free is packed full of money-saving tips, tricks and recommendations for the best-value sights and experiences around the world. From parks, museums and exercise classes that are free, to insider ideas on food and experiences offered at great... |
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Jessica Bennett - Harperwave
Format: Print book
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Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work - a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.It was a fight club - but without... |
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Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
Carl J. Schramm - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"The evangelist of entrepreneurship" (The Economist) reveals the true stories about how a range of entrepreneurs created their successful start-ups: hint, many of them never began with a business plan.Business schools teach that the most important prerequisite for starting... |
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Business Buyout Agreements: Plan Now for All Types of Business Transitions
Anthony Mancuso - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Head off disagreements with departing co-owners It happens to any business that's owned by more than one person: Sooner or later, one or more owners will want or need to leave the business. What will happen to your company if one co-owner wants to retire, files for bankruptcy, or goes... |
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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
James W. Cortada - The MIT Press
Format: Hardcover
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A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe.... |
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Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American Icon
Julie MacIntosh - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The amazing true story behind the siege of America's favorite beer company How did InBev, a Belgian company controlled by Brazilians, take over one of America's most beloved brands after barely a whimper of a fight? Timing, and some unexpected help from powerful members of the Busch... |
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On fire : the 7 choices to ignite a radically inspired life
John O'Leary - North Star Way
Format: Print book
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In the bestselling tradition of Brene Brown's Daring Greatly and Nick Vujicic's Life Without Limits comes a rousing 7-step plan for living a life on fire, filled with hope and possibility - from an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine and now runs... |
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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
Doug Lemov - Jossey-Bass
Format: Paperback
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Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession,... |
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The B Corp Handbook, Second Edition: How You Can Use Business as a Force for Good
Ryan Honeyman - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback
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"The B Corp Handbook shows that an economic agenda that serves people's needs while respecting planetary boundaries is compatible with, and ultimately even necessary for, financial success." -Paul Polman, CEO, UnileverB Corps are a global movement of more than 2,700 companies... |
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The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg: Innovation, Money, and Politics
Eleanor Randolph - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook
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With unprecedented access, the veteran New York Times reporter and editorial writer who covered New York City and state politics offers a revealing portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public figures in the country. Business genius, inventor, innovator, publisher, philanthropist,... |
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Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy
Stephen Moore - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks... |
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Guide to Joining the Military
Scott A. Ostrow - Peterson's; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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Guide to Joining the Military includes topics like women in the military, details on opportunities available within all branches of the military, what to expect from a military career, information on joining the national guard and reserve, coverage of the ASVAB examination, details on the physical... |
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Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier
Ali Almossawi - Viking
Format: Print book
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The wildly popular author of Bad Arguments returns with a funny, smart introduction to algorithms - those perennially misunderstood, increasingly important problem-solving rules that can save you time and lead to better choices, every day. Why is Facebook so good at predicting... |
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Samuel I. Schwartz - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous... |
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NOT GETTING PAID TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE : gender, social media, and aspirational work
BROOKE ERIN DUFFY - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms - from blogs to YouTube... |
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Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes... |
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year * An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people... |
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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
Benjamin Graham - Harper Business
Format: Paperback
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This classic text is annotated to update Grahams timeless wisdom for todays market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Grahams philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors... |
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Miracle Brew: Hops, Barley, Water, Yeast and the Nature of Beer
Pete Brown - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Most people know that wine is created by fermenting pressed grape juice and cider by pressing apples. But although it's the most popular alcoholic drink on the planet, few people know what beer is made of. In lively and witty fashion, Miracle Brew dives into traditional beer's four... |
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Leases & Rental Agreements
Marcia Stewart - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Create a solid, binding lease that complies with your state laws If you rent out residential real estate, you need documents that are legally valid where your rental property is located -- and every state's rules are different when it comes to landlord-tenant law. Typical form leases simply... |
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Currency Trading For Dummies
Kathleen Brooks - For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Print book
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Your plain-English guide to currency trading Currency Trading For Dummies is a hands-on, user-friendly guide that explains how the foreign exchange (ForEx) market works and how you can become a part of it. Currency trading has many benefits, but it also has fast-changing financial-trading... |
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Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success
Angie Morgan - Harper Business
Format: Paperback
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From the team behind the corporate leadership consulting firm Lead Star - three leadership experts with military backgrounds - comes the New York Times bestseller Spark, "a myth-destroying book that will make you rethink both the theory and practice of leadership" (Daniel H. Pink)... |
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Hard Times: Economic Depressions in America
Richard Striner - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the "great recession" that began in 2008. Written in crisp prose for a general audience, the book synthesizes a narrative account - presenting the known facts about how particular... |
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways... |
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Dear Founder: Letters of Advice for Anyone Who Leads, Manages, or Wants to Start a Business
Maynard Webb - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Wise, practical, and profitable letters to entrepreneurs, leaders, managers, and business owners in every field -- from a leading executive, investor, and business founderMore than 600,000 new businesses are launched each year. How can a start-up find the funding it needs to survive? When,... |
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Save Big: Cut Your Top 5 Costs and Save Thousands
Elisabeth Leamy - Wiley
Format: Hardcover
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Good Morning America correspondent and ABC News columnist reveals tips for achieving unbelievable savings In this battered economy, saving money matters more to consumers than ever before. But most people are tired of hearing about all the small stuff, like skipping their morning latte.... |
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Rescue your money : your personal investment recovery plan
Ric Edelman - Simon and Schuster Paperbacks
Format: Print book
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In this updated edition of Rescue Your Money, New York Times bestselling author and investment guru Ric Edelman offers no-nonsense, practical advice for how to keep your investments safe in any economic climate.Everyone knows that the ideal investment strategy is to buy low and sell... |
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The Referral Engine: Teaching Your Business to Market Itself
John Jantsch - Portfolio Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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The power of glitzy advertising and elaborate marketing campaigns is on the wane; word- of-mouth referrals are what drive business today. People trust the recommendation of a friend, family member, colleague, or even stranger with similar tastes over anything thrust at them by a faceless... |
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Facebook: The Inside Story
Steven Levy - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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From renowned tech writer Steven Levy, the definitive history of one of America's most powerful and controversial companies: Facebook In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. The site caught on like wildfire, and soon... |
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Modernize Your Resume: Get Noticed Get Hired
Wendy Enelow - Emerald Career Pub
Format: Paperback
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Based on todays real-world job search trends, MODERNIZE YOUR RESUME shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of todays highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The 2nd edition has been updated with new resume samples, new designs, and new ATS and e-resume... |
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business
Erin Austen Abbott - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices... |
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Choice or Chance: Understanding Your Locus of Control and Why It Matters
Stephen Nowicki - Prometheus Books
Format: Print book
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How Much Do You Believe That What Happens to You Is the Result of Your Own Actions - or Do Circumstances Beyond Your Control Largely Determine Your Fate?Locus of Control (LOC) is a phrase used by psychologists to describe a widely effective way of assessing an individual's potential... |
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Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids
Matthias Doepke - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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An international and historical look at how parenting choices change in the face of economic inequalityParents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, American and Chinese parents are increasingly... |
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Hiding in the Bathroom: An Introvert's Roadmap to Getting Out There
MORRA AARONS-MELE - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the marketing guru and host of the popular Forbes.com podcast Hiding in the Bathroom, a breakthrough introverts' guide that broadens the conversation sparked by Quiet and moves away from the "Lean In" approach, offering wisdom and practical tips to help readers build strong... |
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Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life
Bill Perkins - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
The only thing you wasted along the way wasyour life.
Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy... |
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,... |
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Credit Repair: Improve and Protect Your Credit
Amy Loftsgordon - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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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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A Cash-Free Society: Whether We Like It or Not
Kai A Olsen - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Information technology is changing the world through automation, by bypassing middlemen and by digitization. We see dramatic effects today in the music industry, going from CDs to streaming, in newspapers, from paper to online, and in the banking industry, from branch offices to the Internet.... |
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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
Sarah Robb O'Hagan - Harperbusiness
Format: Print book
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"Every once in a while, you need someone standing by your shoulder, inspiring you, cheering you on, pushing you to go further. Sarah might be just the coach you're looking for." - Seth Godin, author of LinchpinAs a child, Sarah Robb O'Hagan dreamed she could be a champion. Her early... |
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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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Janesville: An American Story
AMY GOLDSTEIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington... |
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Economics for the Common Good
Jean Tirole - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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From Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter... |
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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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Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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In How Children Succeed, Paul Tough introduced us to research showing that personal qualities like perseverance, self-control, and conscientiousness play a critical role in children's success. Now, in Helping Children Succeed, Tough takes on a new set of pressing questions:... |
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The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback
Nigel Travis - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity.... |
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Statistics: An Introduction
Alan Graham - Teach Yourself
Format: Paperback
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Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of statistics? Nearly all aspects of our lives can be subject to statistical analysis. Statistics: An Introduction shows you how to interpret, analyze... |
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Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave, The
Lisa Guerin - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The purpose of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance the demands of work and family. But the law can be hard for employers to apply in the real world. Questions about eligibility, coverage, notice and certification requirements, administering leave,... |
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