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The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline

Jonathan Tepperman - Tim Duggan Books
Format: Print book

A provocative look at the world's most difficult, seemingly ineradicable problems - and the surprising stories of the countries that solved them. We all know the bad news. The heady promise of the Arab Spring has given way to repression, civil war, and an epic refugee crisis. Economic growth...
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There is life after college.

Jeffrey Selingo - William Morrow
Format: Print book

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents' anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation.Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today's college students are graduating...
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Keeping the Books: Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for Small Business

Linda Pinson - Out Of Your Mind . . . And Into The Mark; Eighth edition edition
Format: Book

Now in its 27th year, this is one of the most successful and effective guides to preparing and analyzing financial statements, setting up bookkeeping systems, and planning for taxes. Featuring chapters on income and expenses, cash accounting vs. accrual accounting, numerous small business...
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The United States of Beer: A Regional History of the All-American Drink

Dane Huckelbridge - William Morrow & Company
Format: Print book

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee) , comes the rollicking and revealing story of beer in America, in the spirit of Salt or Cod.In The United States of Beer, Dane Huckelbridge, the author of Bourbon: A History of the American Spirit - a Southern...
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Better and Faster: The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas

Jeremy Gutsche - Crown Business
Format: Hardcover

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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The Spender's Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get from Broke to Badass in Record Time

Anna Newell Jones - William Morrow
Format: Print book

Popular blogger Anna Newell Jones of AndThenWeSaved.com delivers this self-help manifesto that reveals how a "spending fast" will help you get on the road to living debt-free.In 2009, young photographer Anna Newell Jones was rapidly suffocating under the weight of too much debt....
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Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

Christopher Voss - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

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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Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One

Jenny Blake - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"Looking to make a career change Pivot is a book you will turn to again and again." - Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive If you've got the perfect job or business, congratulations. But if you are even a little bit uncertain that your current...
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A square meal : a culinary history of the Great Depression

Jane Ziegelman - Harper
Format: Print book

From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced - the Great Depression - and how it transformed America's culinary culture.The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts...
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Women in Tech: Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories

Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack - Sasquatch Books
Format: Print book

Geared toward women who are considering getting into tech, or those already in a tech job who want to take their career to the next level, this book combines practical career advice and inspiring personal stories from successful female tech professionals Brianna Wu (founder, Giant Spacekat)...
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Print book

Today, not only is everything digital getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, we also have the Internet. When these two revolutions-one in technology and the other in communications-joined, an explosive force was unleaded that changed the very nature of innovation....
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The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

Christopher Leonard - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The biggest takeover in American business that you've n ever heard of The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon...
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The Demographic Cliff: How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019

Harry S. Dent Jr. - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why were facing a great deflation after five years of desperate stimulus and what to do about it nowThroughout his long career as an economic forecaster Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon demographics Studying the predictable...
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A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness

Joseph A. Maciariello - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

A year-long leadership development course, divided into short, weekly lessons, based on Peter Drucker's personal coaching program, previously unpublished material, and selected readings from the management guru's classic works, compiled by his longtime collaborator Joseph A. Maciariello.A...
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J.K. Lasser's Guide to Self-Employment: Taxes, Tips, and Money-Saving Strategies for Schedule C Filers

Barbara Weltman - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

Tax facts and strategies every self-employed person needs to know. If you're thinking about starting a business, or have already begun one, you are not alone. There are more than 23 million workers who are already self-employed and file Schedule C to report their income and expenses....
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How to Get a Meeting with Anyone: The Untapped Selling Power of Contact Marketing

Stu Heinecke - BenBella Books
Format: Print book

The hard part just got easy.You know how to sell - that's your job, after all - but getting CEOs and VIPs to call you back is the tricky part. You're in luck: That impossible-to-reach person isn't so impossible to reach after all.Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer and Wall Street...
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The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

Brad Stone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A look deep inside the new Silicon Valley, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Everything Store Ten years ago, the idea of getting into a stranger's car, or a walking into a stranger's home, would have seemed bizarre and dangerous, but today it's as common as ordering...
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Use Social Media to Find Your Dream Job!: How to Use LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Media in Your Job Search

Dan Quillen - Cold Spring Press
Format: Paperback

Shows readers how to navigate the most important development in job hunting: social media!In today's economy job hunters need to use every tool available to them, and that includes social networking. Building on the author's "Get a Job!" and "The Perfect Resume," and his 20+ years...
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The Innovator's Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization

Nathan Furr - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Have you ever come up with an idea for a new product or service but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Or at work, have you had what you thought could be a big idea for your company—perhaps changing the way you develop or distribute a product, provide...
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The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

Sebastian Mallaby - Penguin Press
Format: Print book

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings...
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Moonshot!: Game-Changing Strategies to Build Billion-Dollar Businesses

John Sculley - RosettaBooks
Format: Hardcover

"The future belongs to those who see the possibilities before they become obvious ... This is the most exciting time ever to be part of the business world."Throughout history, there are some events that stand out as so groundbreaking that they completely change life as we know...
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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work

Liz Wiseman - Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover

Wall Street Journal BestsellerIs it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges With...
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Knock 'Em Dead 2016: The Ultimate Job Search Guide

Martin John Yate - Adams Media
Format: Print book

Take control of your job search, career, and life!New York Times bestseller Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers improve their job search and career management tactics, changing their lives forever. Featuring his unique, time-tested methods for achieving professional success,...
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

Mckay Jenkins - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook

Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding...
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Plan and Finance Your Family's College Dreams: A Parent's Step-By-Step Guide from Pre-K to Senior Year

John Hupalo - Peterson'S, 2016.
Format: Print book

Planning and paying for a college education is a daunting task for most parents. It is a stressful and costly process that needs a well-thought-out academic and financial strategy. This guide offers just that! Two of the nation's leading college planning and financing experts provide...
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The Sale of a Lifetime: How the Great Bubble Burst of 2017-2019 Can Make You Rich

HARRY S JR DENT - PORTFOLIO PENGUIN
Format: Print book

After the Roaring '20s came the Great Depression. After the Roaring 2000s came the Great Recession.We're now entering the winter season of the 80-Year Four Season Economic Cycle. It's during this season that we'll clear the decks with a devastating crash and debilitating...
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Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

Jessica Bennett - Harperwave
Format: Print book

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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Reading Financial Reports For Dummies

Lita Epstein - For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

Discover how to decipher financial reports Especially relevant in today's world of corporate scandals and new accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report contain vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. Packed with new and updated...
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Idiot's Guides: Making Money with Rental Properties

Kimberly Smith - ALPHA
Format: Paperback

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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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior

Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that...
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Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness

Kerry Hannon - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Step-by-step tips for revitalizing your career Yes, it is possible to have a job you love, and it doesn't require starting from scratch. Love Your Job is a guide to making work fulfilling and fun again, or even for the first time. Why count down the hours of the day or the days to retirement...
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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

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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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up

William Poundstone - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The real-world value of knowledge in the mobile-device age. More people know who Khloe Kardashian is than who Rene Descartes was. Most cant find Delaware on a map, correctly spell the word occurrence, or name the largest ocean on the planet. But how important is it to fill our heads with...
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Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution

Dana Caspersen - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The seventeen key principles for transforming conflict - in a beautiful package from the creator of The 48 Laws of PowerFrom Joost Elffers, the packaging genius behind the huge New York Times bestsellers The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War, and The Art of Seduction, comes this...
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The Everything Guide To Flipping Houses: An All-Inclusive Guide to Buying, Renovating, Selling

Melanie Williamson - Adams Media
Format: Print book

Expert advice to find, fix, and flip any residential property!Are you ready to capitalize on the rising real estate market and get in on the red-hot house flipping scene? You need a step-by-step guide to evaluate property, avoid rookie mistakes, and build a profitable, successful business....
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Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

David B. Yoffie - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a Business Week top 10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs...
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The Case Against Sugar

Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent...
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The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See

Max Bazerman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A "must-read" (BOOKLIST ) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills.Imagine...
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Getting to Yes with Yourself: And Other Worthy Opponents

William Ury - Harper One
Format: Print book

William Ury, coauthor of the international bestseller Getting to Yes, returns with another groundbreaking book, this time asking: how can we expect to get to yes with others if we haven't first gotten to yes with ourselves?Renowned negotiation expert William Ury has taught tens of thousands...
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

Brian Alexander - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land**A New York Post Must-Read Book, a Newsweek Best New Book, one of The Week's 20 Books to Read in 2017, one of Bustle's 16 Best Nonfiction Books Coming in February 2017**"A devastating...
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Launch!: The Critical 90 Days from Idea to Market

Scott Duffy - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

WANT TO GET YOUR BIG IDEA TO MARKET? In 90 days, you can successfully launch a new business, product, or service by following the steps in this playbook. Ninety-seven percent of a rocket's fuel is used in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true when launching a new business....
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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

Paul Vigna - St Martin'S Press
Format: Book

Bitcoin became a buzzword overnight. A cyber-enigma with an enthusiastic following, it pops up in headlines and fuels endless media debate. You can apparently use it to buy anything from coffee to cars, yet few people seem to truly understand what it is. This raises the question: Why should...
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Selling For Dummies

Hopkins - For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Print book

Your guide to the most up-to-date selling strategies and techniques No matter your skill level, this new edition of Selling For Dummies helps you lay the foundation for sales success with the latest information on how to research your prospects, break down the steps of the sales process,...
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A Crowdfunder's Strategy Guide: Build a Better Business by Building Community

Jamey Stegmaier - Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Format: Paperback

More Than MoneyJamey Stegmaier knows crowdfunding. He's a veteran of seven successful Kickstarter campaigns (and counting) that have raised over $1.4 million, and he's the proprietor of the widely read Kickstarter Lessons blog. In this book he offers a comprehensive guide to crowdfunding,...
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Life of the Party: The Remarkable Story of How Brownie Wise Built, and Lost, a Tupperware Party Empire

Bob Kealing - Crown Archetype
Format: Print book

The incredible story of Brownie Wise, the Southern single mother - and postwar #Girlboss - who built, and lost, a Tupperware home-party empireBefore Mary Kay, Martha Stewart, and Joy Mangano, there was Brownie Wise, the charismatic Tupperware executive who converted postwar optimism into...
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Louder than Words: Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice

Todd Henry - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

"...one of the best guides to living a meaningful life I have ever read."
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Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown

Gerri Hirshey - Sarah Crichton Books ; Farrar
Format: Print book

A bold and deeply researched biography of a complicated cultural iconWhen Helen Gurley Brown published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962, it sold more than two million copies in just three weeks, presaging the self-help boom and helping to usher in the unapologetic self-affirmation...
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Day Trading For Dummies

Ann C. Logue - For Dummies; 3 edition
Format: Paperback

"Learn to: get started with an action plan; avoid day-trading pitfalls; position yourself for trading success"--Cover.
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Mindful Money: Simple Practices for Reaching Your Financial Goals and Increasing Your Happiness Dividend

Jonathan K Deyoe - New World Library
Format: Print book

Is it possible to be a conscientious citizen of the world and grow wealth? The author, a Buddhist and a financial planner says "yes" and shows exactly how. DeYoe shows how money drives so many of our decisions. But while we worry about earning it, spending it, and saving it, few of us face...
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Second Shift: The Inside Story of the Keep GM Movement

David Hollister - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book

The dynamic, collaborative management model that saved a U.S. manufacturing cityWhen car-making giant General Motors decided to close its plant in Lansing, Michigan, in 1996, one person -- the city's newly elected mayor -- stood up and said "no." Initially, it was the cry of a man in the wilderness....
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Chapter 13 Bankruptcy: Keep Your Property & Repay Debts Over Time

Stephen Elias - Nolo
Format: Print book

When you file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy, you can wipe out some of your debt and pay off the rest over time with a repayment plan approved by the bankruptcy court. You may be able to: avoid foreclosure stop car repossession reduce car loan debt stop most debt collectors, and remove junior...
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Making Conflict Work: Harnessing the Power of Disagreement

Peter T. Coleman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A practical guide to navigating workplace conflicts by better understanding the power dynamics at play in every interaction Conflicts at work are as inevitable as they are frustrating. In Making Conflict Work, Peter Coleman and Robert Ferguson's leading experts in the field of conflict...
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501+ Great Interview Questions for Employers and the Best Answers for Prospective Employees Revised 2nd Edition

Dianna Podmoroff - Atlantic Publishing Group Inc.; 2 Revised edition
Format: Print book

For anyone who hires employees, this is a must-have book. It is also essential for anyone searching for a new job or going on a job interview. This book contains questions that can help you determine a candidate's personality type, type of work he or she is best suited for, and if the person...
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Just Shut Up and Do It: 7 Steps to Conquer Your Goals

Brian Tracy - Simple Truths
Format: Print book

What makes some people successful in life? In Just Shut Up and Do It, bestselling author and success expert Brian Tracy shares a simple, practical, proven seven-part method that will help you accomplish more in the next few months and years than most people accomplish in a lifetime....
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The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership

Richard Branson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

While building the Virgin Group over forty years, Richard Branson has never shied away from seemingly outlandish challenges that others (including his own colleagues on several occasions) considered sheer lunacy. He has taken on giants like British Airways and won, and monsters like Coca-Cola...
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Never Be Closing: How to Sell Better Without Screwing Your Clients, Your Colleagues, or Yourself

Tim Hurson - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Speaker and consultant Tim Hurson presents 12 techniques that benefit both the seller and the client Never Be Closing expands on the principles of Tim Hurson's first book, Think Better, to teach salespeople how to improve their strategy and sell anything to anyone using a simple, repeatable...
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Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need

Nicholas Wyman - Crown
Format: Book

Get ready to relearn everything you thought you knew about what a successful career path can look like. Today, unemployment hovers at a near-record high, yet 3.5 million American jobs remain unfilled. Why? Because companies simply cannot find people with the skills they actually...
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2 Billion Under 20: How Millennials Are Breaking Down Age Barriers and Changing the World

Stacey Ferreira - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Welcome to the future!2 Billion Under 20 is a book, online community, and movement inspired by the 2 billion people in the world currently at or under the age of twenty. We stand for Millennials, Gen Z'ers, and those who want to better understand them and their unique potential. This...
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Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company

Jeffrey Rothfeder - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

For decades there have been two iconic Japanese auto companies. One has been endlessly studied and written about. The other has been generally underappreciated and misunderstood. Until now.Since its birth as a motorcycle company in 1949, Honda has steadily grown into the world’s fifth...
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Personal Finance For Dummies

Eric Tyson - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Understand personal finance and put your money to work! Is your money working to increase your wealth? If not, it's time to take stock of your financial situation. Personal Finance For Dummies, 8th Edition offers time-tested financial tips and advice on how to continue to grow your...
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What Your Financial Advisor Isn't Telling You: The 10 Essential Truths You Need to Know About Your Money

Liz Davidson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

A highly readable personal finance book that translates financial jargon and enables readers to ask the tough questions to protect their money and their financial well-being In today's unsettled financial markets, where most pension plans died out with the twentieth century and where no one's...
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Thank You for Being Late: Finding a Job, Running a Country, and Keeping Your Head in an Age of Accelerations

Thomas L Friedman - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Audiobook

A New York Times Bestseller A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it -- something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk to your kids. You can't miss it when you read the newspapers...
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How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay: 30 Essays That Won Over $3 Million in Scholarships

Gen S Tanabe - SuperCollege
Format: Print book

Examining the two basic components of scholarship competition - essays and interviews - this vital guidebook offers practical advice and real-life examples to guide students through the entire application process. A roundtable panel of judges and applicants supply inside information regarding...
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Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

Tamara Draut - Doubleday
Format: Print book

There was a time when America's working class was seen as the backbone of the American economy, having considerable political, economic, and moral authority. But the working class we have now - far more female and racially diverse and employed by the fast food, retail, health care, and other...
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

Steve Case - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER One of America's most accomplished entrepreneurs - a pioneer who made the Internet part of everyday life and orchestrated the largest merger in the history of business - shares a roadmap for how anyone can succeed in a world...
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The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide

Peri Pakroo - NOLO; Third Edition edition
Format: Paperback

GOLD winner of the IBPA 2015 Benjamin Franklin Award - Business & Career 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...
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Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonalds Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli - Dutton
Format: Hardcover

The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonalds. But what about his wife Joan, the woman who became famous for giving away his fortune? Lisa Napoli tells the fascinating story behind the historic...
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The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks

Joshua Cooper Ramo - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The Digital Age we live in is as transformative as the Industrial Revolution and Joshua Cooper Ramo explains how to survive. If you find yourself longing for a disconnected world where information is not always at your fingertips, you may eventually be as useful as the carriage maker post-Henry...
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Thomas J Stanley - Taylor Trade Publishing
Format: Print book

"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling...
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Economics: The User's Guide

Ha-Joon Chang - Bloomsbury
Format: Hardcover

In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works--in real-world...
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Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America

Bob Benmosche - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard...
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All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Ninth Edition

Donald S Passman - Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Format: Print book

"The industry bible" (Los Angeles Times) , now updated, essential for anyone in the music business - musicians, songwriters, lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, executives, and managers - trying to navigate the rapid transformation of the industry.For more than twenty...
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Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

Cass R. Sunstein - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Why are group decisions so hard? Since the beginning of human history, people have made decisions in groupsfirst in families and villages, and now as part of companies, governments, school boards, religious organizations, or any one of countless other groups. And having more than one person...
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The Power of the Other: The Startling Effect Other People Have on You

Henry Cloud - HarperBusiness
Format: Print book

Wall Street Journal bestsellerAn expert on the psychology of leadership and the bestselling author of Integrity, Necessary Endings, and Boundaries For Leaders identifies the critical ingredient for personal and professional wellbeing. Most leadership coaching focuses on helping leaders...
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8 Lessons in Military Leadership for Entrepreneurs

Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing; 1st edition

Robert Kiyosakis new book 8 Lessons in Leadership draws from his years at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point and his service in the United Sates Marine Corps. With compelling stories and examples and a engaging way of comparing and contrasting two very different cultures and value...
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The Ultimate Competitive Advantage: Why Your People Make All the Difference and the 6 Practices You Need to Engage Them

Shawn D Moon - BenBella Books
Format: Hardcover

"People are our most important asset." Every company pays lip service to this platitude, but how many companies really embrace it? People are what sustain - or ruin - your brand. If your people are not excited about the company, indifferent, or even alienated from it, your competitive...
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders

Lindsey Pollak - HarperBusiness; Original edition
Format: Book

The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader.We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from...
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

Ned Hallowell - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly...
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Million Dollar Women: The Essential Guide for Female Entrepreneurs Who Want to Go Big

Julia Pimsleur - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The essential guide for female entrepreneurs who want to "go big," which shows you how to turn that creative idea into a million-dollar-plus business.American women are starting businesses at nearly twice the rate that men are, but only three percent of female business owners...
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Love Your Life, Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want

Rachel Cruze - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover

In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others. Then she unpacks seven essential money habits for living the life we really want--a life in line with our values, where we can afford the things...
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Ted Genoways - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A powerful and important work of investigative journalism that explores the runaway growth of the American meatpacking industry and its dangerous consequences.On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule the chain never slows. Every year, the chain conveyors...
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The Confidence Myth: Why Women Undervalue Their Skills, and How to Get Over It

Helene Lerner - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Not only do we need more female leaders at the top, but we need more women at all levels of business, government, and nonprofits to step up - there's no time to waste. The problem, says Helene Lerner, isn't so much that women lack confidence but that they misunderstand what confidence...
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The Golden Rules: 10 Steps to World-Class Excellence in Your Life and Work

Bob Bowman - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book

Bob Bowman, best known as the coach for the record-breaking run of Michael Phelps, is one of the most successful coaches in Olympic history. He is lauded for his intense personality, incredible dedication to his athletes, and his ability to nurture talent in athletes who have the heart...
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The Cheat Code: Going Off Script to Get More, Go Faster, and Shortcut Your Way to Success

Brian Wong - Crown
Format: Print book

Have you ever noticed that there are certain people who seem to get ahead just a bit faster than everyone else? You know, the types who always seem to be a bit ahead of the curve, to get noticed a bit more, and to achieve their goals a bit more quickly than the rest of the pack? And have...
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Unshakable: How to Thrive

TONY ROBBINS - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book

After interviewing fifty of the world's greatest financial minds and penning the #1 New York Times bestseller Money: Master the Game, Tony Robbins returns with a step-by-step playbook, taking you on a journey to transform your financial life and accelerate your path to financial...
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How to get a good Job after 50: A step-by-step guide to job search success

Rupert French - Exisle Publishing
Format: Print book

Many baby boomers are seeking to stay in the workforce longer and are looking for satisfying, fulfilling jobs. This book is a step- by-step guide to finding and winning the sort of job most likely to give job satisfaction and success. It sets out how older workers are often valued in the workplace...
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Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top

Bo Burlingham - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

“No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exits do differently...
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again

James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback

"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman...
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Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic Situations

David McAdams - W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

A radically new, and easily learned, way to outstrategize your rivals. “The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win.” So wrote Zhuge Liang, the great Chinese military strategist. He was referring to battlefield tactics, but the same can be said about any strategic...
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Works Well with Others: An Outsider's Guide to Shaking Hands, Shutting Up, Handling Jerks, and Other Crucial Skills in Business That No One Ever Teaches You

Ross McCammon - Dutton Books
Format: Hardcover

Esquire editor and Entrepreneur etiquette columnist Ross McCammon delivers a funny and authoritative guide that provides the advice you really need to be confident and authentic at work, even when you have no idea what's going on. Ten years ago, before he got a job at Esquire magazine...
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How to Start a Home-based Etsy Business

Gina Luker - Globe Pequot Press; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback

Money.msn.com has named being an Etsy-based Business Operator one of the top ten ideas for retirees.Etsy receives more than 10 million unique views per month: http://www.etsy.com/This market both young and old is ideal to target with a specialized How to Start business book that goes beyond...
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Making work work : the positivity solution for any work environment

Shola Richards - Sterling Ethos
Format: Print book

Is your office a place of soul-destroying negativity? Shola Richards keynote speaker, award winner, and creator of The Positivity Solution blog is about to change that . . . forever. " My mission was clear: I needed to fix the problems facing the workplace. As quickly as I came up with...
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Business Plans Kit For Dummies

Barbara Findlay Schenck - For Dummies; 4 edition
Format: Paperback

Discover the ins and outs of constructing a winning business plan When youre establishing, expanding, or re-energizing a business, the best place to start is with your business plan. Whether you want startup money from investors or are looking to expand or re-energize your business, a business...
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Glow Kids: How Screen Addiction Is Hijacking Our Kids--and How to Break the Trance

Nicholas Kardaras - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

We've all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses -- and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces -- the Glow Kids -- are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence...
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Win at Losing: How Our Biggest Setbacks Can Lead to Our Greatest Gains

Sam Weinman - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

An engaging, inspiring exploration of the surprising value of setbacks - and how we can use them to succeed As an award-winning sports journalist, Sam Weinman has long studied the ripple effects of losing. But as a father of two competitive boys, he struggled to convince them that failing...
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Own It: The Power of Women at Work

Sallie Krawcheck - Crown Business
Format: Print book

A new kind of career playbook for a new era of feminism, offering women a new set of rules for professional success: one that plays to their strengths and builds on the power they already have. Weren't women supposed to have "arrived"? Perhaps with the nation's first female President,...
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Pressure Makes Diamonds: Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be

Valerie Graves - Open Lens/Akashic Books
Format: Print book

"Valerie Graves has written a no-holds-barred account of what it was like to grow up on the wrong side of town in the 1960s, become a teenage mother, and end up being one of the most celebrated copywriters in advertising history. Her book is raw and riveting."--Nancy Hill, CEO,...
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Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose

Melanne Verveer - Houghton Mifflin
Format: Hardcover

"Learn how some of the world's most powerful women are using their growing economic power to create success and meaning in their lives while building a better world. Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In ignited a conversation about women and their careers, and resonated with millions...
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Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies

Dirk Zeller - John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
Format: Paperback

Make your fortune in the real estate business? Easy. Whether you are looking to rev up your real estate business, deciding whether to specialize in commercial or residential real estate, or just interested in refining specific skills, Success as a Real Estate Agent For Dummies has it covered....
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Pensionless: The 10-Step Solution for a Stress-Free Retirement

Emily Brandon - Adams Media Corporation, 2016.
Format: Print book

Get the most out of your retirement! If you're one of the millions of Americans without a pension plan, your retirement years might seem like a huge financial question mark. Pensionless, by U.S. News Senior Editor for Retirement Emily Brandon, addresses the retirement benefits that...
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Rich Dad Poor Dad, Drive Daniel H. Pink, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, So Good They Can't Ignore You 4 Books Collection Set

Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing/Canongate Books/Piatkus
Format: Paperback

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively: Rich Dad Poor Dad, Drive Daniel H. Pink, Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, So Good They Can't Ignore You 4 Books Collection Set: Rich Dad Poor Dad: Rich...
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The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz - Crown
Format: Print book

Here at last are the hard-to-find answers to the dizzying array of financial questions plaguing those who are age fifty and older.The financial world is more complex than ever, and people are struggling to make sense of it all. If you're like most people moving into the phase of life...
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Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now

Charles D Ellis - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book

The evidence-based approach to a more worthwhile portfolio The Index Revolution argues that active investing is a loser's game, and that a passive approach is more profitable in today's market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently...
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Secrets of a Financial Aid Pro: Master the College Funding Process and Give Your Child Lifelong Financial Skills Without Losing Your Cool

Jodi Okun - 15th Street Publishing
Format: Print book

With insight and humor, Jodi Okun takes you inside the often murky world of paying for college. First as a financial aid consultant at Occidental and Pitzer colleges, and then in her own successful consulting business, College Financial Aid Advisors (CFAA) , Jodi learned firsthand the struggles...
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Solar Energy: A Reference Handbook

David E Newton - ABC-CLIO, LLC
Format: Print book

This book provides an outstanding single-volume resource on the topic of solar energy for young adults and general audiences.* Provides an accessible and useful technical introduction to the various ways in which solar energy can be used for heat production and the generation of electricity*...
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eBay For Dummies

Marsha Collier - For Dummies
Format: Print book

Your must-have guide to buying and selling on eBay Over 160 million buyers can't be wrong! That's how many people are buying on eBay, and that number only continues to grow. If you're an eBay beginner looking to find bargains or make money by selling, look no further than eBay For Dummies....
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