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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets MORE Job Interviews!

Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book

Expert advice on building a resume to get the job you want! Your resume is the most important financial document you'll ever create. When it works, so do you. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience, bestselling author Martin Yate shows you how to write a dynamic, effective resume...
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New York Taxes, Guidebook to

MARK S KLEIN - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

CCH's Guidebook to New York Taxes is the perfect resource for accurate and concise explanations of New York tax law for practitioners working with state taxation in New York. Designed as a quick reference work, this handbook presents succinct discussions of state and local tax law and regulations...
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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, 10th-Anniversary Edition

Bo Burlingham - Portfolio
Format: Print book

How maverick companies have passed up the growth treadmill - and focused on greatness instead.It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless...
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post * The McKinsey Business Book of the Year The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time...
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Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Mike Isaac - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic rise and fall of Uber, set against the rapid upheaval in Silicon Valley during the mobile era.In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal year for the transportation...
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Trust First: A True Story About the Power of Giving People Second Chances

Bruce Deel - Optimism Press
Format: Hardcover

Over the past 20 years, Bruce Deel has helped over 20,000 people in the most dangerous zip code of Atlanta escape the cycle of homelessness, joblessness, and drug abuse. In these powerful true stories about the men and women who fell through the cracks in our social services system, he shows...
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Investing 101: From Stocks and Bonds to ETFs and IPOs, an Essential Primer on Building a Profitable Portfolio

Michele Cagan - Adams Media Corporation, 2016.
Format: Print book

A crash course in managing personal wealth!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of investing into tedious discourse that would put even Warren Buffett to sleep. Investing 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you learn...
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

George Gilder - Gateway Editions
Format: Hardcover

"Google's algorithms assume the world's future is nothing more than the next moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes, what motivates people to make it, and why it's wrong: the future depends on human action." - Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal...
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Juliet's School of Possibilities: A Little Story About the Power of Priorities

Laura Vanderkam - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

A charming, life-changing fable that will help you rethink your whole approach to time, priorities, and possibilities.Riley Jenkins is in trouble. An ambitious, hardworking consultant in her late twenties, she's used to a lifetime of nearly perfect evaluations - until she gets a terrible...
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The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?

Christopher P White - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Skipjack & The Melting World comes a mystery: the curious boom in America's beloved lobster industry and its probable crashMaine lobstermen have happened upon a bonanza along their rugged, picturesque coast. For the past five years, the lobster population...
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YouTube Marketing For Dummies

Will Eagle - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Advice from a YouTube insider on how to creative effective campaignsYouTube is the top destination for online video. With over a billion viewers around the globe, its also valuable real estate for marketers looking to get their message out. YouTube Marketing For Dummies shares insight from...
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation

Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover

Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Warsa mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on the juggernaut Nintendo and revolutionized...
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Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale - The Jungle for pharmaceuticalsMany have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health...
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Football for a Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

Jeff Pearlman - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

The USFL - United States Football League - was the last football league to not merely challenge the mighty NFL, but cause it to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then...
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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Richard N. Bolles - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

The world's most popular job-search book, with over 10 million copies sold across all annual editions! New for 2017 with up-to-the-minute information and advice for today's job-hunters and career-changers.WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the world's most popular job-hunting guide....
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J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2020: Your Complete Guide to Everything Deductible

Barbara Weltman - Wiley
Format: Paperback

A complete list of individual tax relief opportunities J.K. Lasser's 1001 Deductions and Tax Breaks 2020 is the complete and thorough guide to reducing your tax burden. By listing every possible deduction and credit available to individual taxpayers, this book can help you achieve substantial...
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The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

Ron Lieber - Harper
Format: Hardcover

In the spirit of Wendy Mogel's The Blessing of a Skinned Knee and Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman's Nurture Shock, New York Times "Your Money" columnist Ron Lieber delivers a taboo-shattering manifesto that explains how talking openly to children about money can help parents...
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The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies Attract Capital

Fred M Haney - SelectBooks
Format: Hardcover

If you are the founder of a high-tech startup company, you know it's a daunting task, and the odds of success are slim. All founders dream of achieving a rewarding outcome like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but few reach such a pinnacle. In The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies...
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Five Stars: The Communication Secrets to Get from Good to Great

Carmine Gallo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"As technology threatens to displace countless jobs and skills, the ability to communicate is becoming more important than ever. This book is full of examples to help you get better at transporting your thoughts and emotions into the minds of other people." -- Adam Grant, New...
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The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good

Elizabeth L. Cline - Plume
Format: Paperback

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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Fully Human: 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life

Susan Packard - TarcherPerigee
Format: Hardcover

HGTV cofounder Susan Packard launches the next chapter in emotional intelligence (EQ) , and shows you how to increase your personal satisfaction and productivity - in work and life - via her three-step path toward EQ Fitness. Emotions can sink us, or they can power us like fuel to succeed....
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Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond

Gideon Rachman - Other Press
Format: Print book

From the winner of the 2016 Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize for Commentator of the Year, a provocative analysis of how a new era of global instability has begun, as the flow of wealth and power turns from West to East. Easternization is the defining trend of our age - the growing...
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Investing in International Real Estate For Dummies

Wallwork - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Aspiring international real estate investors - expand your portfolio today! The real estate world can be a particularly difficult place to do business, and this book helps aspiring international investors of all skill levels avoid some of the pitfalls first-timers often make. Expert author...
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Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

NOT AVAILABLE. - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

"A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro's sinking." - Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook"The one account I've read that solves the riddle...
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Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work

Jennifer Petriglieri - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible.The majority of couples today are two-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges. Yet most advice for two-career couples fails because it treats the challenges as a zero-sum...
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The Smartest Portfolio You'll Ever Own: A Do-It-Yourself Breakthrough Strategy

Daniel R. Solin - Perigee Trade
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and financial blogger, Dan Solin, provides real do-it-yourself investors the means to create a dynamic-and safe- portfolio that mimics those constructed for some of the major institutional and trust investors in the country. Readers can maintain complete control over...
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The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs

Jill Schlesinger - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

Why do even the smartest among us make dumb mistakes with our money? Pinpoint your biggest money blind spots and take control of your finances with these tools from CBS News Business Analyst and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Jill on Money, Jill Schlesinger.Do you have...
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The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country

Laton McCartney - Random House
Format: Book

Mix hundreds of millions of dollars in petroleum reserves; rapacious oil barons and crooked politicians; under-the-table payoffs; murder, suicide, and blackmail; White House cronyism; and the excesses of the Jazz Age. The result: the granddaddy of all American political scandals, Teapot...
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Taking Back Our Food Supply: How to Lead the Local Food Revolution to Reclaim a Healthy Future

Michael Brownlee - Morgan James Publishing
Format: Paperback

Taking Back Our Food Supply is a rousing call to reverse the devastating juggernaut of the industrial food system by igniting a grassroots local food revolution! Our food supply has been hijacked by an unholy alliance of multinational corporations in big agriculture, big food, and big pharma....
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New York Taxes, Guidebook to

Mark S. Klein - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

CCH's Guidebook to New York Taxes is the perfect resource for accurate and concise explanations of New York tax law for practitioners working with state taxation in New York. Designed as a quick reference work, this handbook presents succinct discussions of state and local tax law and regulations...
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Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization

Ron Williams - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Hardcover

This master class on leadership, written by one of America's most prominent and successful executives, will help you develop the professional leadership qualities that deliver personal, interpersonal, and organizational success. In Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself,...
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Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell

Mara Einstein - Or Books Llc
Format: Print book

From Facebook to Talking Points Memo to the New York Times, often what looks like fact-based journalism is not. It's advertising. Not only are ads indistinguishable from reporting, the Internet we rely on for news, opinions and even impartial sales content is now the ultimate corporate...
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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Timothy Ferriss - Harmony; 1st, First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:“I race motorcycles in Europe.”“I ski in the Andes.”“I scuba dive in Panama.” “I dance...
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Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 11th edition

Henry M. III Robert - Da Capo Press; 11th Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Robert’s Rules of Order is the book on parliamentary procedure for parliamentarians and anyone involved in an organization, association, club, or group and the authoritative guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings and assemblies. This newly revised edition is the only...
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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

Jonathan Tepper - Wiley
Format: Hardcover

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital...
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life

Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

For the millions of people in their fifties and sixties who find themselves out of work, unable to find a job, and financially incapable of retiring, here's a practical plan for getting past any blame or shame, overcoming denial, and finding a path to a new normal.Elizabeth White has an impressive...
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Chief Joy Officer: How Great Leaders Elevate Human Energy and Eliminate Fear

Richard Sheridan - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

The founder of Menlo Innovations and author of the business culture cult classic Joy, Inc offers an inspirational guide to leaders seeking joy in the challenge of leading others.Rich Sheridan's Joy, Inc. told the story of how his tiny software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan achieved...
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The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848

Niall Ferguson - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover

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Currency Trading For Dummies

Brian Dolan - For Dummies; 2 edition
Format: Paperback

Your plain-English guide to currency trading Forex markets can be one of the fastest and most volatile financial markets to trade. Money can be lost or made in a matter of seconds, and forex markets are always moving. So how do you keep up? This hands-on, friendly guide shows you how the forex...
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Every Tools a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

Adam Savage - Atria
Format: Audio CD

In this New York Times bestselling "imperative how-to for creativity" (Nick Offerman) , Adam Savage - star of Discovery Channels Mythbusters - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully making your idea a reality.. Every...
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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

Julie Satow - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px...
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INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: Income, Estate, Gift, Employment and Excise Taxes

CCH Tax Law Editors - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive and authoritative resource provides full, unabridged text of the complete Internal Revenue Code in two volumes. CCH offers this tax information in a timely and reliable manner that business and tax professionals have come to expect and appreciate. This Winter Edition...
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

JOHN CARREYROU - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from their charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers.In 2014,...
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New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World

JEREMY HEIMANS - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From two visionary thinkers and practitioners comes a big idea about how power works differently in our hyperconnected age.Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in today's chaotic, connected world? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories...
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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See

SETH GODIN - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Real marketing isn't about racking up clicks and tweets; it's about connection, empathy, and making a difference.Over the past quarter century, Seth Godin has taught and inspired millions of entrepreneurs, marketers, leaders, and fans from all walks of life, via his blog, online courses,...
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Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich

Sam Wilkin - Little Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

Discover how the superwealthy made it to the top (and you can too!) From the richest Romans to the robber barons to today's bankers and tech billionaires, Sam Wilkin offers Freakonomics-esque insights into what it really takes to make a fortune. These stories of larger-than-life characters,...
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The Power of Passive Income: Make Your Money Work for You

Nightingale-Conant
Format: Paperback


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Taking Charge with Value Investing: How to Choose the Best Investments According to Price, Performance, Valuation to Build a Winning Portfolio

Brian Nichols - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Hardcover

THE ALHPA SEEKER'S GUIDE TO VALUE STOCKS When to buy them. How long to hold them. When to sell them. "This book will be welcomed by anyone looking to break free from their financial advisor and manage their own savings." -- DAVID JACKSON, founder and CEO, Seeking Alpha "The...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

Benn Steil - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today.In the wake of World War II, with Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's on the rise, US officials under new secretary...
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Best Business Schools 2020

U.S. News and World Report - U.S. News & World Report
Format: Paperback

From U.S. News,which invented data-driven college rankings and publishes the popular "Best Colleges" guidebooks, comes the most comprehensive guide to U.S. business education ever published. Expert advice, exclusive rankings, career guidance, personal profiles, and directories...
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American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment

Shane Bauer - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A ground-breaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America: in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana....
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Trade Like A Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Superperformance in Stocks in Any Market

Mark Minervini - Mcgraw-Hill; 1 edition
Format: Book

"Minervini has run circles around most PhDs trying to design systems to beat the market." -- JACK SCHWAGER, bestselling author of Stock Market Wizards "Mark's book has to be on every investor's bookshelf. It is about the most comprehensive work I have ever read on investing...
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Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government

Paul Volcker - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary life story of the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, whose absolute integrity provides the inspiration we need as our constitutional system and political tradition are being tested to the breaking point.Paul Volcker has devoted his life's work to public service...
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Schaum's Outline of Principles of Economics, 2nd Edition

Dominick Salvatore - Schaum
Format: Paperback

The ideal review for your principles of economics course More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's Outlines for their expert knowledge and helpful solved problems. Written by renowned experts in their respective fields, Schaum's Outlines cover everything from math to science,...
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Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job

Jeffrey Bussgang - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover

Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible....
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Communication IQ: A Proven Way to Influence, Lead, and Motivate People

Fred Kendall - Whitaker House
Format: Hardcover

"By languages, in all their facets, we can live in peace or go to war. We sing songs in harmony, or shout insults in anger. We experience connection or disconnection. We work together in peace or in pain. The choice is ours." - Anna Kendall Every so often, we meet people with...
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Thor Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart...
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All About Asset Allocation, Second Edition

Richard A Ferri - McGraw-Hill Professional
Format: Paperback

WHEN IT COMES TO INVESTING FOR YOUR FUTURE, THERE'S ONLY ONE SURE BET -- ASSET ALLOCATION THE EASY WAY TO GET STARTED Everything You Need to Know About How To: Implement a smart asset allocation strategy Diversify your investments with stocks, bonds, real estate, and other classes...
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Getting Financial Aid 2018 (College Board Guide to Getting Financial Aid)

College Entrance Examination Board - College Board
Format: Paperback

Getting Financial Aid 2018 is a must-have book for parents and students struggling to meet the cost of college. The all-important FAFSA form is explained with step-by-step instructions, and the College Boards CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE® form is explained by the people who administer it.This...
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The Transpacific Experiment: How China and California Collaborate and Compete for Our Future

Matt Sheehan - Counterpoint
Format: Hardcover

"Sheehan cuts right to the heart of the relationship between Silicon Valley and China: the tangled history, the current tensions, and the uncertain future. The Transpacific Experiment is a must-read." -- Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China and founder of Sinovation Ventures...
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JELL-O Girls: A Family History

ALLIE ROWBOTTOM - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America's most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its faade - told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom's great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor...
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Hustle and Float: Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

Rahaf Harfoush
Format: Paperback

OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING. As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.There's just one problem:...
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The Post-Truth Business: How to Rebuild Brand Authenticity in a Distrusting World

Sean Pillot de Chenecey - Kogan Page
Format: Paperback

Brands are built on trust but, in a post-truth world, they're faced with a serious challenge when so much of modern life is defined by mistrust. A shattering of the vital connection between brands and consumers, combined with the evaporation of authenticity as a core brand pillar, is causing...
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Knock em Dead Social Networking: For Job Search and Professional Success

Martin Yate CPC - Adams Media
Format: Paperback

Network your way to success!. New York Times bestselling author Martin Yate has helped millions of job seekers land the job they want. Now, he shows you how to use his proven social networking strategies to build your brand and market your skills across an ever-growing network. Today, most...
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Shortfall: Family Secrets, Financial Collapse, and a Hidden History of American Banking

Alice Echols - The New Press
Format: Hardcover

Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic - boxes filled with letters and documents hidden for more than seventy years - and launches into a fast-paced story that uncovers the dark secrets in Echols's family - an upside-down version of the building and loan story at the center...
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IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans: Strategies for Taking Your Money Out

Twila Slesnick - NOLO
Format: Other Sellers from

Take cash out of your retirement plan while avoiding taxes and penalties If you have a retirement plan, IRAs, 401(k) s & Other Retirement Plans is your comprehensive guide on taking money out of it. Make sense of the complex tax rules governing when you can take money out of your plan and how much...
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Bloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition

Chris McNickle - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won. Bloomberg's stunning victory...
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The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

John Seabrook - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

There's a reason hit songs offer guilty pleasure -- they're designed that way.Over the last two decades a new type of hit song has emerged, one that is almost inescapably catchy. Pop songs have always had a "hook," but today's songs bristle with them: a hook every...
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Barons of the Sea: And their Race to Build the World's Fastest Clipper Ship

Steven Ujifusa - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

In the grand tradition of David McCullough and Ron Chernow, the sweeping story of the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades.There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into...
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

EMILY CHANG - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover

Silicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman. For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of unicorns, virtual reality rainbows, and 3D-printed lollipops, where millions of dollars grow on trees. It's a "Brotopia," where...
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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America

Heidi Waleson - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover

From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt -- and what it means for the future of the artsIn October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera -- "the people's...
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The Youth Unemployment Crisis: A Reference Handbook

Christina G. Villegas - ABC-CLIO
Format: Hardcover

Surveys the history of youth unemployment and identifies key issues underlying the current crisis.* Explains the nature, scope, and consequences of the youth unemployment crisis in a way that is accessible for general readers* Includes a perspectives chapter that allows for the voices...
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The Finance Curse

Nicholas Shaxson - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the "resource curse," seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and societal effects of the discovery of oil in Angola. He then gained prominence as an expert on tax havens, revealing the dark corners of that...
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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

Cover letters that get noticed, get read, and get the interview! In the newest edition of his classic cover letter guide, job search expert Martin Yate shows you how to dramatically increase your chance of landing an interview. The key, as Yate explains, is to use language drawn from the job posting...
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Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2018 Edition: The Strategies, Practice, and Review You Need for the Score You Want

PRINCETON REVIEW. - Princeton Review
Format: Paperback

IF IT'S ON THE TEST, IT'S IN THIS BOOK. Get all the prep you need to ace the GMAT - including 2 full-length computer-adaptive practice tests for realistic exam preparation, up-to-date content reviews for every test section, and extra practice online.Techniques That Actually Work.*...
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What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

Stephen A. Schwarzman - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

From Blackstone chairman, CEO, and co-founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, a long-awaited book that uses impactful episodes from Schwarzman's life to show readers how to build, transform, and lead thriving organizations. Whether you are a student, entrepreneur, philanthropist, executive, or simply...
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover

Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper...
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Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

Safi Bahcall - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

"This book has everything: new ideas, bold insights, entertaining history and convincing analysis. Not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand how ideas change the world." -- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow What do James...
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less

Tiffany Dufu - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go.Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child,...
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INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: Income, Estate, Gift, Employment and Excise Taxes,

CCH INCORPORATED. - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive and authoritative resource provides full, unabridged text of the complete Internal Revenue Code in two volumes. CCH offers this tax information in a timely and reliable manner that business and tax professionals have come to expect and appreciate. This Summer Edition...
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

We the Corporations chronicles the revelatory story of one of the most successful, yet least known, "civil rights movements" in American history. In this groundbreaking portrait of corporate seizure of political power, We the Corporations reveals how American businesses won equal...
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Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism

Jeff Blumenfeld - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback

Imagine yourself in a schoolroom in one of the most remote regions of one of the most hard-to-reach countries on earth. Nepal. The Lower Mustang region to be exact. To reach it takes a 14-hour flight from New York to Doha, Qatar. Then four hours by air to Kathmandu. Transfer at one of the world's...
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Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us

Rana Foroohar - Currency
Format: Hardcover

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 Ladies of The View: How Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, and Their Quarreling Co-Hosts Transformed Daytime TV

RAMIN SETOODEH - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized morning TV and made household names...
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INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: Income, Estate, Gift, Employment and Excise Taxes,

Cch Tax Law - CCH Inc.
Format: Paperback

This comprehensive and authoritative resource provides full, unabridged text of the complete Internal Revenue Code in two volumes. CCH offers this tax information in a timely and reliable manner that business and tax professionals have come to expect and appreciate. This Summer Edition...
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U.S. Master Tax Guide--Hardbound Edition

CCH Tax Law Editors - CCH Inc.
Format: Hardcover

CCH's U.S. Master Tax Guide - Hardbound Edition provides helpful and practical guidance on today's federal tax law. This 102nd Edition reflects all pertinent federal taxation changes that affect 2018 returns and provides fast and reliable answers to tax questions affecting individuals...
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Energy: A Human History

RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time - wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond.People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power...
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Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

Charles Wheelan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "Brilliant, funny ... the best math teacher you never had." -- San Francisco ChronicleOnce considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy."...
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Merchants of Truth: The Business of Facts and The Future of News

Jill Abramson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

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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Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion--and the Future of Clothes

Dana Thomas - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something...
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Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad

Gordon H. Chang - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek...
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New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers

JOHN BUTMAN - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

*Named a Best History Book of the Month by Barnes and Noble* Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed,...
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How to Get Money for College 2018

PETERSON'S. - Peterson's

How to Get Money for College 2018 is a great resource for students looking to supplement their federal financial aid package with aid from colleges and universities. This comprehensive directory points students and their families to complete and accurate information on need-based and non-need...
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Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent

Christopher Petkanas - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of caf society will want to miss the exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent, by Christopher Petkanas.Dauntless,"in the bone"...
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

MICHAEL LEWIS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments,...
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Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: The Sad History of American Business Schools

Steven Conn
Format: Hardcover


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The Best 294 Business Schools, 2017 Edition

Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book

GET THE INSIDE WORD ON BUSINESS SCHOOLS.The Princeton Review surveyed over 25,000 students to collect the information in the 2017 edition of The Best 294 Business Schools. This book gives you survey-driven profiles of the nation's top business schools as well as detailed statistical...
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Create Your Own Online Store in a Weekend

Alannah Moore - Princeton Architectural Press
Format: Paperback

The advantages of selling your products online are many - low overhead, global markets, twenty-four-hour shopping - but perhaps most important is the level playing field offered by the internet. With a distinctive product and professional-looking website, you stand as much of a chance at success...
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Reading Financial Reports For Dummies

Lita Epstein - For Dummies
Format: Paperback

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 3rd Edition (9781119543954) was previously published as Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 3rd Edition (9781118761939) . While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered...
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