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Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships at Work
TODD DAVIS - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships - from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.In Get Better: 15 Proven Practices to Build Effective Relationships, FranklinCovey's... |
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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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How to Get Money for College 2019
PETERSON'S. - Peterson Nelnet Co
Format: Print book
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Peterson's How to Get Money for College 2019 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... |
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers
Kim Kavin - Pegasus Books
Format: Print book
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We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's... |
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Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
Alvin E. Roth - Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities - both mundane and life-changing - in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten,... |
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Solve Your Money Troubles: Strategies to Get Out of Debt and Stay That Way
CARA O'NEILL - NOLO
Format: Print book
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Are you overwhelmed by debt? Facing collection calls, a wage garnishment, car repossession, or lawsuit? Solve Your Money Troubles is a comprehensive guide that provides the practical information you need to take financial control of your life. Learn how to: prioritize debts & create... |
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The Truth About Your Future: The Money Guide You Need Now, Later, and Much Later
RIC EDELMAN - SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: Print book
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New York Times bestselling author and legendary investment guru Ric Edelman reveals his forward-thinking guide on how technology and science will reshape the way we save, invest, and plan for the future.Technology and science are evolving at a blistering, almost incomprehensible... |
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Capitalism in America: A History
Alan Greenspan - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.From even the start of his fabled... |
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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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You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
Jen Sincero - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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"A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams." - New York MagazineFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you've only ever dreamed ofYou... |
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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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Cracking the GMAT with 2 Computer-Adaptive Practice Tests, 2017 Edition
Princeton Review - Princeton Review
Format: Print book
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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... |
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China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America's Dependence on China for Medicine
Rosemary Gibson - Prometheus Books
Format: Hardcover
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Millions of Americans are taking prescription drugs made in China and don't know it--and pharmaceutical companies are not eager to tell them. This is a disturbing, well-researched wake-up call for improving the current system of drug supply and manufacturing.Several decades ago, penicillin,... |
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Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis
Thomas Piketty - Mariner Books
Format: Hardcover
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Reflections on politics, the economy, and the modern world by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Thomas Pikettys work has proved that unfettered markets lead to increasing inequality, and that without meaningful regulation, capitalist economies... |
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
Pamela Haag - Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Format: Hardcover
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Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation. Or so were told. In The Gunning... |
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Every Tenant's Legal Guide
Janet Portman - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The only book of its kind, Every Tenant's Legal Guide find a great home and landlord know your rights when it comes to pets fight improper rent increases and late fees get a landlord to make repairs pronto withhold rent without getting into legal trouble protect your privacy fight illegal... |
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Essential Guide to Family & Medical Leave, The
Lisa Guerin - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The purpose of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is to help employees balance the demands of work and family. But the law can be hard for employers to apply in the real world. Questions about eligibility, coverage, notice and certification requirements, administering leave,... |
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Presto!: How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette - Novel Audio
Format: Audiobook
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An unconventional weight loss tale from an unconventional personality. Penn Jillette tells how he lost 100 pounds with his trademark outrageous sense of humor and biting social commentary that makes this success story anything but ordinary. Legendary magician Penn Jillette was approaching... |
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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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Every Landlord's Legal Guide
MARCIA STEWART - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords and property managers the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants,... |
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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Antonio Garcia Martinez - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year * A Business Insider Top 20 Business Book of the Year * An Inc. Best Book of the Year for Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners"Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people... |
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The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
Lierre Keith - PM Press
Format: Paperback
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Part memoir, nutritional primer, and political manifesto, this controversial examination exposes the destructive history of agriculture - causing the devastation of prairies and forests, driving countless species extinct, altering the climate, and destroying the topsoil - and asserts that,... |
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The CEO Pay Machine: How it Trashes America and How to Stop it
Steven Clifford - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover
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The former top CEO examines the scandalous and corrupt reasons behind obscene pay packages for corporate executives - and explains how this hurts all of us--and how we can stop it. Today, the pay gap between chief executive officers of major U.S. firms and their workers is higher than ever... |
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The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact
CHIP HEATH - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us - and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable... |
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Malone Scott - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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"I raced through RADICAL CANDOR--It's thrilling to learn a framework that shows how to be both a better boss and a better colleague. RADICAL CANDOR is packed with illuminating truths, insightful advice, and practical suggestions, all illustrated with engaging (and often funny) stories... |
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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
PAUL COLLIER - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies:... |
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Steam Titans: Cunard, Collins, and the Epic Battle for Commerce on the North Atlantic
William M. Fowler. - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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The story of the epic contest between shipping magnates Samuel Cunard and Edward Collins for mid-19th century control of the Atlantic. Between 1815 and the American Civil War, the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution delivered a sea change in oceanic transportation. Steam travel... |
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San Diego County Parks: Over 100 Years
Ellen L. Sweet; Jennifer A. Grahlman. - Arcadia Publishing
Format: Paperback
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From its earliest park in 1913, the County of San Diego has more than 100 years of serving the public with unique park and recreational experiences while preserving significant natural and cultural resources. Officially, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors established the Department... |
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
Robert T. Kiyosaki - Plata Publishing
Format: Paperback
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It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation for many of his messages in the international best-seller Rich Dad Poor Dad - the #1 Personal Finance book of all time - and in Why... |
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Screwnomics: How Our Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change
Rickey Gard Diamond - She Writes Press
Format: Paperback
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The personal is not only political, it's also economic and sexual: as a society, we're encouraged to view economics as objective science far removed from us -- when in reality it has concrete and far-reaching effects on our everyday lives. In Screwnomics, Rickey Gard Diamond shares... |
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
TIMOTHY KASSER - The New Press
Format: Paperback
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PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalismBestselling "overeducated cartoonist" Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything... |
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Discrimination and Disparities
Thomas Sowell - Basic Books
Format: Hardcover
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An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities ariseEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortunate outcomes are victims of genetics.... |
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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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Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
Liz Wiseman - Harperbusiness
Format: Hardcover
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Wall Street Journal BestsellerIs it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges With... |
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California Tenants' Rights
Janet Portman - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Many tenants have to deal with roommates who don't pull their weight, neighbors who routinely engage in illegal activities, landlords who don't know -- or won't follow -- national or state laws and local rent ordinances. Use this book to give you the information and tips you need... |
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Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success
Ivanka Trump - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!Ivanka is donating the unpaid portion of her advance and all future royalties received from Women Who Work to the Ivanka M. Trump Charitable Fund, a donor advised fund that will make grants to organizations that empower and educate women and girls.* "This... |
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The Vanity Fair Diaries
OCTAVIA MANN - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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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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Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity
Condoleezza Rice - Twelve
Format: Hardcover
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Political risk -- the chance that political action could impact a company's business -- is changing fast. Here are the essential lessons, corrective measures, and counterintuitive insights for executives, entrepreneurs and investors to navigate an uncertain, volatile world.From New York... |
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Why Wall Street Matters
William D Cohan - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A timely, counterintuitive defense of Wall Street and the big banks as the invisible - albeit flawed - engines that power our ideas, and should be made to work better for all of us Maybe you think the banks should be broken up and the bankers should be held accountable for the financial... |
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A Truck Full of Money
Tracy Kidder - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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"A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture." - Charles Duhigg Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul... |
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The 10% Entrepreneur: Live Your Startup Dream Without Quitting Your Day Job
Patrick J McGinnis - Portfolio
Format: Print book
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Choosing between the stability of a traditional career and the upside of entrepreneurship? Why not have both?Becoming a full-time entrepreneur can look glamorous from the outside. Who doesn't want to chase their dreams, be their own boss, and do what they love? But the truth is that entrepreneurship... |
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Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, The: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide
Peri Pakroo - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, written by the author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit, gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise--whether you're an artsy creative type, an independent consultant, or a Fortune... |
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Let Them See You: The Guide for Leveraging Your Diversity at Work
Porter Braswell - Lorena Jones Books
Format: Hardcover
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The guide to getting hired, being promoted, and thriving professionally for the 40 million people of color in the workplace - from the CEO and cofounder of Jopwell, the leading career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals. Let Them See You... |
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The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
Edward Tenner - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A bold challenge to our obsession with efficiency--and a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipityAlgorithms, multitasking, sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data... |
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The Challenge Culture: Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback
Nigel Travis - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The charismatic, accessible, and down-to-earth CEO of Dunkin' Brands (Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins) shows how positive pushback--the discipline of "questioning everything without trashing anyone"--provides a unique results-oriented way to lead an organization to prosperity.... |
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Five Easy Theses: Commonsense Solutions to America's Greatest Economic Challenges
James Stone - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: eBook
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A business leader and esteemed economic thinker outlines simple solutions to America's five most pressing public policy issues, from healthcare to education to inequality. America today confronts a host of urgent problems, many of them seemingly intractable,... |
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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 Art and Science of Training
Elaine Biech - Association for Talent Development
Format: Paperback
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There are more similarities than differences between how artists and scientists work. Both ask countless questions. Both search in earnest for answers. Both are dedicated to reaching the best results. Not so different from today's trainers, are they? Elaine Biech, one of the most... |
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Knock 'em Dead Resumes: A Killer Resume Gets MORE Job Interviews!
Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book
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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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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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Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation
Edward Humes - Harpercollins
Format: Print book
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Garbology explores the hidden and costly wonders of our buy-it-now, get-it-today world of transportation, revealing the surprising truths, mounting challenges, and logistical magic behind every trip we take and every click we make.Transportation... |
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
Lisa Servon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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An urgent, absorbing expos - why Americans are fleeing our broken banking system in growing numbers, and how alternatives are rushing in to do what banks once did What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a highnetworth entrepreneur, and a twentysomething graduate student have... |
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Stock Charts For Dummies
Greg Schnell - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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The easy way to get started in stock charts Many trading and technical analysis books focus on how to use charts to make stock trading decisions, but what about how to actually build a chart? Stock Charts For Dummies reveals the important stories charts tell, and how different... |
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Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
Noam Chomsky - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback
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NOAM CHOMSKY is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic, income inequality: "During the Great Depression, things were much worse than they are today, but there was an expectation that things were going to get better.... |
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
MICHAEL LEWIS - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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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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Knock 'em Dead Cover Letters: Cover Letters and Strategies to Get the Job You Want
Martin Yate - Adams Media Corporation
Format: Print book
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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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LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies
Serdula - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Optimize your LinkedIn profile - and get results Your LinkedIn profile is essentially a platform to shape how others see you, highlight your abilities, products, or services, and explain how your work impacts lives. Yet many people simply copy and paste their resume and expect job offers... |
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The Future Is Asian
Parag Khanna - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In the 19th century, the world was Europeanized. In the 20th century, it was Americanized. Now, in the 21st century, the world is being Asianized.The "Asian Century" is even bigger than you think. Far greater than just China, the new Asian system taking shape is a multi-civilizational... |
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The New Rules of Retirement: Strategies for a Secure Future
Robert C Carlson - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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Create the retirement you desire with proven financial strategies The New Rules of Retirement throws away the rules of thumb, clichs, and obsolete ideas. It provides a proven, updated approach to retiring successfully in today's world. In this new second edition based on independent,... |
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Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing
Joel Tillinghast - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Investors are tempted daily with misinformation. They make lucky bets that breed false confidence, and their high-stakes gambles can take an emotional toll. How can anyone stay focused in such a volatile profession?In Big Money Thinks Small, veteran fund manager Joel Tillinghast urges investors... |
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VentureGirls: Raising Girls to Be Tomorrow's Leaders
Cristal Glangchai - Harper Paperbacks
Format: Paperback
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From an engineer and entrepreneur, a conversation-changing parenting book about how to engage young women in science, technology, engineering, and math, filled with practical advice for both parents and educators. As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered... |
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101 Job Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again
James Reed - Plume
Format: Paperback
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"An insider's guide to the perfect interview." - Daily Express What are job interviewers actually looking for in a candidate What questions will they ask What does each question really mean What are the answers that will secure you the job James Reed, chairman... |
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Communicate to Influence: How to Inspire Your Audience to Action
Ben Decker - McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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"The gold standard for communication training programs." -- USA Today Business communication sucks. At each meeting and presentation, we are inundated with information, leaving us thirsting for inspiration. Sure, we will check off an action item because we have to . . . but what... |
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Executor's Guide, The: Settling a Loved One's Estate or Trust
MARY RANDOLPH - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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The Executor's Guide shows someone who's wrapping up a loved one's estate how to proceed, step by step. It explains what must be done right away and what can wait, and guides readers through a land of unfamiliar legal procedures and terminology. It covers: preparing for the job of executor... |
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Rip the Resume: Job Search & Interview Power Prep
Torin Ellis - Peterson's
Format: Paperback
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Infused with real-life examples, self-analysis exercises, and advice from an industry professional, Rip the Resume is more than a "how to write a better resume" book; it's a proven system designed to challenge job seekers to take complete control and responsibility during a job search.... |
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How to Buy a House in California
Ira Serkes - Nolo
Format: Print book
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Strategies that work in California's unique market. Looking for a house in the Golden State? How to Buy a House in California will show you how to get a house you can afford and will enjoy living in for many years. With this bestseller in hand, you'll learn how to: choose a house... |
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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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Small Business Start-Up Kit for California, The
PERI PAKROO - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Start a business in California with the best step-by-step guide available! If you dream of starting a business, but fear that without an MBA you'll get lost in the maze of government red tape, this is the handbook you need. The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California outlines how to set up your... |
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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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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
MICHAEL RUHLMAN - HARRY N ABRAMS
Format: Print book
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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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Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
Manu Saadia - Piper Text
Format: Print book
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"Manu Saadia has managed to show us one more reason, perhaps the most compelling one of all, why we all need the world of Star Trek to one day become the world we live in." -- Chris Black, Writer and Co-Executive Producer, Star Trek: Enterprise What would the world look like... |
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101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, 4th Edition
Ron Fry - Career Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Don't become tongue-tied during the most crucial phase of the interview process.101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview is for every job candidate who thinks the question "Do you have any questions for me?" marks the end of an interview. In Fry's view, it marks the beginning... |
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75 Ways for Managers to Hire, Develop, and Keep Great Employees
Paul Falcone - Amacom
Format: Paperback
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People power your business--and success can hinge on your hiring, inspiring, and keeping the right ones. As a manager, are you cultivating this vital resource? Is there more you could be doing? Are you just winging it? Every HR executive has a laundry list of things they wish managers knew:... |
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Climate--A New Story
Charles Eisenstein - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback
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Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction With research and insight, Charles Eisenstein details how the quantification of the natural world... |
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Every landlord's legal guide
Marcia Stewart; Ralph E Warner; Janet Portman - Nolo
Format: Print book : English : Thirteenth editionView all editions and formats
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Every Landlord's Legal Guide gives landlords the legal and practical solutions they need to rent residential property right. From move-in to move-out, this book covers a wide range of issues, including fair housing, repairs, sublets, screening for good tenants, and environmental hazards... |
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Energy: A Human History
RICHARD RHODES - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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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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Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle
Mark Braude - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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A rollicking narrative history of Monte Carlo, capturing its nineteenth-century rise as the world's first modern casino-resort and its Jazz Age heyday as infamous playground of the rich.Monte Carlo has long been known as a dazzling playground for the rich and famous. Less well known are the shrewd... |
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The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future
Skip Prichard - Center Street
Format: Hardcover
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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks and win over and over again? What do the super successful know? What is standing between you and your wildest dreams?The Book of Mistakes will take you on an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful... |
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Medicare For Dummies
PATRICIA BARRY - For Dummies
Format: Paperback
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Make the most of MedicareMore than 55.5 million people today are Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare for Dummies, 3rd Edition, addresses the complexities of Medicare and helps those eligible for benefits maneuver the complicated claims process. With the easy-to-follow, comprehensive... |
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
Samuel I. Schwartz - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous... |
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Deduct It!: Lower Your Small Business Taxes
Stephen Fishman - NOLO
Format: Paperback
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Now, more than ever, understanding taxes is essential for all small business owners. This book covers all you need to know about the new tax laws to make sure you that you are taking advantage of all the tax deductions to which you are entitled. Practical and organized by chapter into the most... |
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Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy
Stephen Moore - Regnery Publishing
Format: Print book
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Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks... |
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The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
Joseph E Stiglitz - W.W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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Can Europe prosper without the euro?In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the "eurocrisis." It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency -- the eurozone -- have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have... |
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On Grand Strategy
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill... |
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