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The Moment of Clarity: Using the Human Sciences to Solve Your Toughest Business Problems

Christian Madsbjerg - Harvard Business School Press
Format: Hardcover

Businesses need a new type of problem solving. Why? Because they are getting people wrong.Traditional problem-solving methods taught in business schools serve us well for some of the everyday challenges of business, but they tend to be ineffective with problems involving a high degree of uncertainty....
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Investment Banking For Dummies

Matthew Krantz - For Dummies
Format: Paperback(2nd ed.)


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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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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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The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power

Joseph Turow - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within twenty years half of Americans will have body implants that tell retailers how they feel about...
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living

ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover

The deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the city and embraced frugality to create a more meaningful, purpose-driven life, and retire to a homestead in the Vermont woods at age thirty-two with her husband...
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know

Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender...
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America

MICHAEL RUHLMAN - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book

In Grocery, bestselling author Michael Ruhlman offers incisive commentary on America's relationship with its food and investigates the overlooked source of so much of it - the grocery store. In a culture obsessed with food - how it looks, what it tastes like, where it comes from,...
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The Vanity Fair Diaries

OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.The Vanity Fair Diaries...
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Stand Up to the IRS

Frederick W. Daily Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

The book the IRS doesn't want you to read The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed with practical information and advice, Stand Up to the IRS reveals the tactics of the IRS and how to deal...
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