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If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth
Leonard Sherman - Columbia Univ Press
Format: Print book
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When Yellow Tail wines launched in 2001, they battled 6,500 other wineries for a share of the American market. By 2007, Yellow Tail sales in the United States exceeded the sales of all French wineries combined. How did this new business enter such a crowded market and succeed?If You're... |
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Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
MALCOLM HARRIS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.Millennials have been called lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature, but when you push... |
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Downhill from Here: Retirement Insecurity in the Age of Inequality
Katherine S. Newman - Metropolitan Books
Format: Hardcover
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A sharp examination of the looming financial catastrophe of retirement in America.As millions of Baby Boomers reach their golden years, the state of retirement in America is little short of a disaster. Nearly half the households with people aged 55 and older have no retirement savings at all.... |
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Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
Carmine Gallo - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Ideas are the true currency of the twenty-first century. So, in order to succeed you need to be able to sell yourself and your ideas persuasively. The ability to sell yourself and your ideas is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. TED Talks have redefined... |
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The Signals Are Talking
Amy Webb - Hachette Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Amy Webb is a noted futurist who combines curiosity, skepticism, colorful storytelling, and deeply reported, real-world analysis in this essential book for understanding the future. The Signals Are Talking reveals a systemic way of evaluating new ideas bubbling up on the horizon - distinguishing... |
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Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
Blake J. Harris - It Books
Format: Hardcover
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Following the success of The Accidental Billionaires and Moneyball comes Console Wars—a 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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Pick Three: You Can Have It All
RANDI ZUCKERBERG - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover
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In this motivational handbook - both a business how-to and self-help guide - the New York Times bestselling author of Dot Complicated takes on the fallacy of the "well-balanced" life, arguing that the key to success is learning to be well-lopsided.Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family.... |
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I Will Teach You To Be Rich
Ramit Sethi - Workman Publishing Company; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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At last, for a generation thats materially ambitious yet financially clueless comes I Will Teach You To Be Rich, Ramit Sethis 6-week personal finance program for 20-to-35-year-olds. A completely practical approach delivered with a nonjudgmental style that makes readers want to do what Sethi... |
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Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
John Brooks - Open Road Media
Format: Paperback
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"Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." - Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric... |
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Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers
Jay Baer - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Based on proprietary research and more than 70 exclusive interviews, New York Times bestselling author Jay Baer offers a new playbook for handling unhappy customers. The book even includes a foldout poster with step-by-step instructions.Hug Your Haters is the first customer service and customer... |
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Growth IQ: Get Smarter About the Choices that Will Make or Break Your Business
TIFFANI D BOVA - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Do you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your Growth IQ.Trying to find the one right move that will improve your business's performance can feel overwhelming. But, as you'll discover in Growth IQ, there are just ten simple--but... |
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#AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness
Gary Vaynerchuk - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling author draws from his popular show #AskGaryVee to offer surprising, often outrageous, and imminently useful and honest answers to everything you've ever wanted to know - and more - about navigating the new world.Gary Vaynerchuk - the inspiring and unconventional... |
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Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies
KATE SHOUP - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Etsy.com continues to be one of the most popular markets for artists, crafters, and curators. Launched in 2005, Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, guides readers through the process of setting up a successful shop and effectively marketing their products. New content... |
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Flipping Houses For Dummies
CONSUMER DUMMIES. - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Buy it, fix it, flip it! Are you a wanna-be flipper looking to get the property, get the job done, and get out - all while maximizing your profit? Not just another house-flipping book, this hands-on guide shows you how to roll up your sleeves and find the perfect property, secure a mortgage,... |
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Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World
Rand Fishkin - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Rand Fishkin, the founder and former CEO of Moz, reveals how traditional Silicon Valley "wisdom" leads far too many startups astray, with the transparency and humor that his hundreds of thousands of blog readers have come to love.Everyone knows how a startup story is supposed... |
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2,000 review questions for the cpa exam
Denise M Stefano - Mcgraw-Hill Education
Format: Print book
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Sharpen your skills and prepare for the CPA Exam with a wealth of essential facts in a fast-and-easy Q&A format Get the question-and-answer practice you need with 2, 000 Review Questions for the CPA Exam. Organized for easy reference and intensive practice, the questions cover all essential... |
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Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less
Tiffany Dufu - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Trump's War: His Battle for America
MICHAEL SAVAGE - CENTER ST
Format: Print book
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; -webkit-text-stroke: #000000} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The wall, taxes, tariffs, deportations, Obamacare, guns, military strength, schools, abortion, religion - what will the new president do? The "Godfather of Trumpmania,"... |
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Startups and Entrepreneurship
Harvard Business Review - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback
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The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.If you read nothing else on entrepreneurship, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review... |
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Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen
Donald Miller - HarperCollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Donald Miller uses the seven universal elements of powerful stories to teach readers how to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses.Donald Miller's StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders... |
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For-Profit Democracy: Why the Government Is Losing the Trust of Rural America
LOKA ASHWOOD - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover
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A fascinating sociological assessment of the damaging effects of the forprofit partnership between government and corporation on rural Americans Why is government distrust rampant, especially in the rural United States This book offers a simple explanation: corporations and the government... |
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Entreleadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches
Dave Ramsey - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Hardcover
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If youre at all responsible for your companys success, you cant just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both! If youre at all responsible for your companys success, you cant just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging... |
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Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold
Patti Fletcher - Entrepreneur Press
Format: Paperback
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Only 4% of women are CEOs and women make up only 18% of board seats around the globe. But if all the research shows that the odds are stacked against women, what can we learn from the women who managed to reach the pinnacle of success despite the obstacles of systemic bias in corporate... |
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Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You
Heidi Grant- Halvorson - Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Imagine walking up to a stranger on the subway and asking them for their seat. What about asking a random person on the street if you could borrow their phone? If the idea makes you squeamish, you're not alone--social psychologists have found that doing these very things makes most... |
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
Reid Hoffman - Currency
Format: Hardcover
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Foreword by Bill GatesLinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast reveals the secret to starting and scaling massively valuable companies.What entrepreneur or founder doesn't aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb?... |
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Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide
Sherelyn Ogden - Minnesota Historical Society Press; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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American Indian cultural objects, like most objects, deteriorate over time. Precious and irreplaceable pieces of a people's heritage can turn to dust, either slowly or rapidly, depending upon their composition and the ways in which they are stored and handled. Caring for American... |
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Stragility: Excelling at Strategic Changes
Ellen R. Auster - Rotman-UTP Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Success in business demands an organization that is agile, innovative, and alert, capable of reinventing itself to handle whatever comes its way. Yet most attempts at transformational change fail, hamstrung by poor strategy, office politics, stakeholder resistance, and the pressures of constant... |
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Sustainability Made Simple: Small Changes for Big Impact
Rosaly Byrd - Rowman & Littlefield
Format: Hardcover
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Sustainability Made Simple is an introduction to sustainability and sustainable living that explores the relationship between everyday life and the intricate global environmental issues of today, including air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. Rosaly Byrd and Laurn... |
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
Jesse Eisinger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, a blistering account of corporate greed and impunity, and the reckless, often anemic response from the Department of Justice.Why were no bankers put in prison after the financial crisis of 2008? Why do CEOs seem to commit wrongdoing... |
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Women & Money
Suze Orman - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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The million-copy #1 New York Times bestseller, revised and updated with a whole new financial plan for 2018, for women who want short-term clarity and long-term security.The message of Suze Orman's phenomenal bestseller Women & Money resonates as deeply today as it did when... |
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The Power Formula for Linkedin Success
Wayne Breitbarth - Greenleaf Book Group Press
Format: Print book
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3rd Edition of the world's most popular LinkedIn book. Completely revised and updated.Many LinkedIn books focus solely on creating a killer LinkedIn profile. But LinkedIn is not a passive sport. You can't just sit around waiting for people to find your awesome profile.This book... |
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Surviving the Tech Storm: Strategies in Times of Technological Uncertainty
Nicklas Bergman - Lid Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Are we living in a time that is more exciting, more dangerous and more encouraging than any previous era in world history? We really do not know, but what we do know is that each new era and technological paradigm shift present particular challenges and opportunities. Knowing which path... |
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The Art of Optimism: Your Competitive Edge
Jim Stovall - Sound Wisdom
Format: Hardcover
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Optimism is your secret weapon in business and in life. It is custom-designed specifically for you, and it is capable of bringing you everything you want. Optimism can overcome financial problems, physical disabilities, and personal challenges.In Jim Stovall's latest book, The Art of Optimism,... |
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American Mojo: Lost and Found: Restoring our Middle Class Before the World Blows By
Peter D. Kiernan - Turner
Format: Hardcover
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In American Mojo: Lost and Found, Peter D. Kiernan, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author, focuses on America's greatest challenge -- and opportunity -- restoring the middle class to its full promise and potential. Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone... |
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The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store
Cait Flanders - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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The Year of Less In her late twenties, Cait Flanders found herself stuck in the consumerism cycle that grips so many of us: earn more, buy more, want more, rinse, repeat. Even after she worked her way out of nearly $30,000 of consumer debt, her old habits took hold again. When she realized... |
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Selling Vision: The X-XY-Y Formula for Driving Results by Selling Change
Lou Schachter - McGraw-Hill
Format: Print book
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A groundbreaking approach to selling in a world demanding change Leaders, sales managers and professionals have found themselves stuck at a crossroads between the past and the future of selling, and they need a roadmap to help them embrace the challenges they face at such a critical juncture.... |
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise
Zack O'Malley Greenburg - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-ZBeing successful musicians was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. Diddy, Dr. Dre,... |
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I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words
George Beahm - Agate B2
Format: Paperback
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Drawn from more than three decades of media coverageprint, electronic, and onlinethis tribute serves up the best, most thought-provoking insights ever spoken by Steve Jobs more than 200 quotations that are essential reading for everyone who seeks innovative solutions and inspirations applicable... |
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Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals
Beverly Browning - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every Time These days, it's not enough to work for a good cause or worthy organization. If you want to receive funding from a corporation, community, foundation, or government institution, it all comes down to one thing: your proposal. With... |
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The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening exposé 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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Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do
Carl J. Schramm - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"The evangelist of entrepreneurship" (The Economist) reveals the true stories about how a range of entrepreneurs created their successful start-ups: hint, many of them never began with a business plan.Business schools teach that the most important prerequisite for starting... |
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The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness
Dave Ramsey - Thomas Nelson
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestseller! More than Five million copies sold!You CAN take control of your money. Build up your money muscles with America's favorite finance coach.Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget Do you want to transform your sad and skinny... |
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This Is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn to See
SETH GODIN - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Automatic Millionaire : A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
David Bach - Broadway; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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What’s the secret to becoming a millionaire?For years people have asked David Bach, the national bestselling author of Smart Women Finish Rich, Smart Couples Finish Rich, and The Finish Rich Workbook, what’s the real secret to getting rich? What’s the one thing I need... |
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The Wall Street MBA, Second Edition
Reuben Advani - McGraw-Hill Education
Format: Paperback
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You don't need an MBA to master corporate finance "Finally, the book which may put Harvard Business School out of business. A must-read for all professionals who seek strong financial expertise." -- Rick Rickertsen, Managing Partner, Pine Creek Partners; author of Buyout "Terrific... |
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Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less
Michael Hyatt - Baker Books
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone gets 168 hours a week, but it never feels like enough, does it? Work gobbles up the lion's share--many professionals are working as much as 70 hours a week--leaving less and less for rest, exercise, family, and friends. You know, all those things that make life great.Most people... |
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Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growthand How to Fix It
DAMBISA MOYO - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracyAround the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political... |
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Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
Thor Hanson - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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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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Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
JENNIFER PALMIERI - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director... |
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Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal
JACK EWING - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A shocking expos of Volkswagen's fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.In mid-2015, Volkswagen proudly reached its goal of surpassing Toyota as the world's largest automaker. A few months later, the EPA disclosed that Volkswagen had installed software in 11 million... |
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55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life
Elizabeth White - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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 One Minute Sales Person
Spencer Johnson - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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Everyone is a salesperson! Over four million people have reaped the lifetime benefits of The One Minute Manager, Spencer Johnson's phenomenal bestseller. Now Dr. Johnson reveals the unique secrets of salesmanship that can make you a success in all aspects of your life and work. Sell... |
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Million Dollar Maverick: Forge Your Own Path to Think Differently, Act Decisively, and Succeed Quickly
Alan Weiss - Bibliomotion
Format: Print book
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When it comes to how to succeed as an entrepreneur, we are besotted with advice. According to bestselling author Alan Weiss, success is a combination of opportunism, very disciplined work, luck, timing, and ignoring most advice. In other words, it means striking out on your own, original... |
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Modernize Your Resume
Wendy Enelow - Emerald Career Pub, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Based on today's real-world job search trends, Modernize Your Resume shows you how to craft a winning resume to meet the complexities of today's highly competitive and technologically driven employment market. The entire job search process is evolving at a remarkably rapid pace,... |
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Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular
Derek Thompson - Penguin Books
Format: Print book
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Nothing "goes viral." If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today's crowded media environment, you're missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history - of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate... |
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Our Damaged Democracy: We the People Must Act
Joseph A Califano, Jr. - Touchstone
Format: Hardcover
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This authoritative and passionate primer on the three branches of government reveals the changes - political, cultural, constitutional, technological, institutional - that render our government completely dysfunctional, and the urgent need to fix our democracy before it's too late.If you've... |
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18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Peter Bregman - Hachette Audio
Format: Hardcover
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Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review column (one of the most popular columns on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month) , 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those... |
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eng: Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in "The Best Location in the Nation"
Jonathan Mark Souther - Temple University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric... |
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Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99%
Boyd Cohen - Productivity Press
Format: Hardcover
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Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99% details the implications of the post-capitalist society on entrepreneurship around the globe, and it challenges many of our underlying assumptions about how entrepreneurs form startups and the objectives and roles, or lack thereof,... |
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The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream
Tyler Cowen - St Martin'S Press
Format: Print book
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Since Alexis de Tocqueville, restlessness has been accepted as a signature American trait. Our willingness to move, take risks, and adapt to change have produced a dynamic economy and a tradition of innovation from Ben Franklin to Steve Jobs.The problem, according to legendary blogger,... |
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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Sheryl Sandberg - Knopf; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Thirty years after women became percent of the college graduates in the United States men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry This means that womenrsquos voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives In Lean In Sheryl... |
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R Covey - Free Press
Format: Paperback
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In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness,... |
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As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation
Rana B Khoury - Kent State University Press
Format: Print book
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For some, the Great Recession that began in 2007 was a traumatic setback; for others, it was just another dip in a long descent from comfort and security. America is changing in profound ways, but we rarely hear the voices of regular people living the transformation.As Ohio Goes is a journey... |
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Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide
Peri Pakroo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Start your business with confidence using the best step-by-step guide available! Many people dream of running a business of their own -- but often don't know how or where to start. Sound familiar? This is the book you need. User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up... |
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Out of the Maze: An A-mazing Way to Get Unstuck
P SPENCER JOHNSON - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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The posthumous sequel to Who Moved My Cheese?, the classic parable that became a worldwide sensation.Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers... |
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Double Bind: Women on Ambition
Robin Romm - Liveright
Format: Paperback
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"Bold, absorbing, insightful, and wise. . . . Read it: the truth is inside." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things "A work of courage and ferocious honesty" (Diana Abu-Jaber) , Double Bind could not come at a more urgent time. Even as major figures... |
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WorkParty: How to Create & Cultivate the Career of Your Dreams
JACLYN JOHNSON - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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First, we leaned in. Now we stand up. Jaclyn Johnson - the founder and CEO behind Create & Cultivate, the fastest growing online platform and conference for millennial women in business - offers a rallying cry for a new generation of women who are redefining the meaning of work on their... |
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The Rightand WrongStuff: How Brilliant Careers Are Made and Unmade
Carter Cast - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Nearly a quarter century ago Carter Cast seemed to have it all together: he had a first-class education, an all-American athletic career, and was a very bright and energetic rising star on the fast track at a Fortune 100 company, PepsiCo. But blissfully unaware of how negative perceptions... |
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How to Make It: 25 Makers Share the Secrets to Building a Creative Business
Erin Austen Abbott - Chronicle Books
Format: Print book
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This is the ultimate tell-all, show-all guide to making a living by making things. Featuring 25 profiles of illustrators, jewelry designers, ceramicists, painters, clothing designers, and printmakers, How to Make It provides a behind-the-scenes look at the daily rituals and best practices... |
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The 5 Second Rule: Transform your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
Mel Robbins - Savio Republic
Format: Hardcover
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How to enrich your life and destroy doubt in 5 seconds. Throughout your life, you've had parents, coaches, teachers, friends and mentors who have pushed you to be better than your excuses and bigger than your fears. What if the secret to having the confidence and courage to enrich your... |
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Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn
CHRIS HUGHES - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover
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Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes makes the case that one percenters like him should pay their fortune forward in a radically simple way: a guaranteed income for working people.The first half of Chris Hughes' life played like a movie reel right out of the "American Dream." He grew... |
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Drug Wars: How Big Pharma Raises Prices and Keeps Generics off the Market
Robin Feldman - Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover
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While the shockingly high prices of prescription drugs continue to dominate the news, the strategies used by pharmaceutical companies to prevent generic competition are poorly understood, even by the lawmakers responsible for regulating them. In this groundbreaking work, Robin Feldman and Evan... |
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
DAN ARIELY - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions, and gives them the knowledge they need to make better... |
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Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
STEPHEN D KING - YALE University Press
Format: Print book
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A controversial look at the end of globalisation and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalisation, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital... |
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The Four: Or, How to Build a Trillion-Dollar Company
SCOTT GALLOWAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook are four of the most influential entities on the planet. Just about everyone knows how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that's been written about The Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering... |
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Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals
Rachel Hollis - Harpercollins Leadership
Format: Hardcover
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"Hollis's writing is beautifully blunt, and she humbly thanks her fans for her success. Her actionable ideas and captivating voice will encourage women to believe in themselves." - Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "I believe we can change the world. But first, we've... |
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Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries
Claudia J Taller - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Ohio's Lake Erie wineries and vineyards are rooted in tradition. European immigrants settled on the Lake Erie islands and nearby shoreline in the mid-1800s, and the grape industry flourished in Ohio into the early 20th century. Industrialization from Cleveland to Toledo swallowed up prime... |
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ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper's Guide to Smart Fashion
Allison Engel - Imagine
Format: Paperback
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"A must-have guide for bargain-hunting fashionistas looking to make a statement without sabotaging their budgets. In this photo-filled, easy-to-use resource, shoppers will learn to navigate the racks of their local consignment shop, spot name brands like Versace, Dior, and Burberry,... |
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Rich Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan for Getting Your Financial Life Together...Finally
Nicole Lapin - William Morrow & Company
Format: Paperback
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In this New York Times bestseller, journalist and financial expert Nicole Lapin shows women how to take charge of their lives by taking charge of their money.Do your eyes glaze over just thinking about the mumbo-jumbo language of finance? Do you break out into hives when faced with getting... |
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know
Joanne Lipman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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First things first: There will be no man shaming in That's What She Said. A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse - in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told closing the gender... |
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You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education
GEORGE ANDERS - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable... |
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Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within
Lois Kelly - O'Reilly Media
Format: Paperback
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Struggling to make changes at work or convince management to take action? Ready to challenge conventional thinking or introduce a new idea, but worried about being viewed as a troublemaker or getting in way over your head? Rebels At Work provides concrete ideas, techniques and advice on how to refine... |
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Practice Perfect: 42 Rules for Getting Better at Getting Better
Doug Lemov - Jossey-Bass; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Rules for developing talent with disciplined, deliberate, intelligent practice We live in a competition loving culture. We love the performance, the big win, the ticking seconds of the clock as the game comes down to the wire. We watch games and cheer, sometimes to the point of obsession,... |
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High Performance Habits
Brendon Burchard - Hay House, Inc.
Format: Book
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THESE HABITS WILL MAKE YOU EXTRAORDINARY. Twenty years ago, author Brendon Burchard became obsessed with answering three questions:
1. Why do some individuals and teams succeed more quickly than others and sustain that success over the long term?
2. Of those who pull... |
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert D Putnam - Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the opportunity for upward mobility.Central to the very idea of America is the principle... |
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Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-first Century
Katherine S. Newman - Metropolitan Books
Format: Print book
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From Katherine Newman, award-winning author of No Shame in My Game, and sociologist Hella Winston, a sharp and irrefutable call to reenergize this nation's long-neglected system of vocational trainingAfter decades of off-shoring and downsizing that have left blue collar workers obsolete... |
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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
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"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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Born For This: How to Find the Work You Were Meant to Do
Chris Guillebeau - Crown Business
Format: Print book
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Have you ever met someone with the perfect job? To the outside observer, it seems like they've won the career lottery -- that by some stroke of luck or circumstance they've found the one thing they love so much that it doesn't even feel like work - and they're getting paid well to do it. To the outside... |
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Janesville: An American Story
AMY GOLDSTEIN - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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"Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis." - The New York Times A Washington... |
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Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley
EMILY CHANG - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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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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The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life
Hal Elrod - Hal Elrod
Format: Paperback
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"Hal Elrod is a genius and his book The Miracle Morning has been magical in my life. What Hal has done is taken the 'best practices' - developed over centuries of human consciousness development - and condensed the 'best of the best; into a daily morning ritual. A ritual that is now part... |
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Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
RYAN HOLIDAY - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals to creatives of all stripes - authors, entrepreneurs, musicians, filmmakers, fine artists - how a classic work is made and marketed.In Hollywood, a movie is given a single weekend to succeed before being written off. In Silicon... |
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Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small
Nick Westergaard - Amacom
Format: Hardcover
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It's an exciting time to be in marketing: The Internet, social media, and content marketing are powerful equalizers, resetting the playing field for businesses large and small. Yet, it's also a challenging time, with much work to do and an ever-changing array of platforms, features,... |
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The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
William D. Ph.D Danko - Taylor Trade Publishing; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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"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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The Art of People: 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want
Dave Kerpen - Crwon Business
Format: Print book
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What does it take to win success and influence? Some people think that in today's hyper-competitive world, it's the tough, take-no-prisoners type who comes out on top. But in reality, argues New York Times bestselling author Dave Kerpen, it's actually those with the best people... |
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Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
ELIZABETH WILLARD THAMES - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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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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Unshakable: How to Thrive
TONY ROBBINS - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book
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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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The Code Economy: A Forty-Thousand Year History
Philip E Auerswald - Oxford University Press
Format: Print book
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Code is the "how" of human productive activity. The creation, implementation, and refinement of code have been the infrastructure of human progress from Neolithic simplicity to modern complexity. In a sweeping narrative that takes readers from the production of Stone Age axes,... |
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Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
JOSHUA B FREEMAN - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, global history of the rise of the factory and its effects on society.We live in a factory-made world: modern life is built on three centuries of advances in factory production, efficiency, and technology. But giant factories have also fueled our fears about the future since... |
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