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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin - Penguin Group USA
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details.The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge of data. At the same time, we're expected to make more - and faster... |
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Tim Harford - Riverhead Books
Format: eBook
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"Utterly fascinating. Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world." - Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take"Engrossing." - New York TimesFrom the award-winning... |
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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 Start a Home-based Etsy Business
Gina Luker - Globe Pequot Press; First Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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Money.msn.com has named being an Etsy-based Business Operator one of the top ten ideas for retirees.Etsy receives more than 10 million unique views per month: http://www.etsy.com/This market both young and old is ideal to target with a specialized How to Start business book that goes beyond... |
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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How a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways... |
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Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World
Leif Wenar - Oxford University Press, 2015.
Format: Print book
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Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression; militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization and ammunition. Resource-fueled... |
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
Steven D. Levitt - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover
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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics comes this curated collection from the most readable economics blog in the universe. It’s the perfect solution for the millions of readers who love all things Freakonomics. Surprising and erudite, eloquent and witty, When... |
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Becoming the Boss: New Rules for the Next Generation of Leaders
Lindsey Pollak - HarperBusiness; Original edition
Format: Book
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The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows them how to make the next step: becoming a leader.We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from... |
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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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Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Bhu Srinivasan - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST. From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana... |
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Treating People Well: The Extraordinary Power of Civility at Work and in Life
Lea Berman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to personal and professional empowerment through civility and social skills, written by two White House Social Secretaries who offer an important fundamental message - everyone is important and everyone deserves to be treated well.Former White House social secretaries Lea Berman,... |
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Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
Matt Lee - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have... |
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Boards That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice for Directors
B. Joseph White - Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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With its vivid stories and conversational tone, Boards That Excel is like sitting down with an astute and experienced friend -- one who's passionate about what corporate and nonprofit boards can do when they set high aspirations, are clear on purpose, and do the right things in the right... |
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Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy
LAWRENCE KUDLOW - All Points Books
Format: Hardcover
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Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Obama. But he didn't adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas-tax cuts,... |
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Knock em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide
Martin John Yate - Adams Media
Format: Paperback
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Completely updated with new material, this bestselling job search guide can help you keep up with changes in the job market - from updating the language of your resume to using social media networking to make professional connections that are essential in finding new employment opportunities.For... |
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The Age of Sustainable Development
Jeffrey D. Sachs - Columbia University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems... |
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Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior
Mike Leach - Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover
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Playing cowboys and Indians as a boy legendary college football coach Mike Leach always chose to be the Indianthe underdog whose success turned on being a tough resourceful ingenious fighter And the greatest Indian military leader of all was Geronimo the Apache warrior whose name is so symbolic... |
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism
Bartow J. Elmore - W W Norton
Format: Hardcover
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An absorbing history of how Coke's insatiable thirst for natural resources shaped the company and reshaped the globe. How did Coca-Cola build a global empire by selling a low-price concoction of mostly sugar, water, and caffeine? The easy answer is advertising, but the real formula... |
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Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society
John Browne - Public Affairs
Format: Print book
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Drawing on the experiences of John Browne, former CEO of BP, and the insight of two McKinsey experts, Connect explores the recurring rift between business and society and proposes a way in which companies can prosper by connecting with the world around them. In an era of unremitting transparency,... |
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The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone
David M Smick - PublicAffairs
Format: Print book
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The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart. But David Smick - hedge fund strategist and author of the 2008 bestseller... |
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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 Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the best-selling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eye-opening expos that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick. Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent... |
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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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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT. - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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"When facing life's questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. To find his own...author Tim Ferriss tracked down more than 100 eclectic experts to help him, and you, navigate life. Through short, action-packed... |
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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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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive
Ned Hallowell - Harvard Bus Review Press
Format: Hardcover
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Are you driven to distraction at work?Bestselling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.You know the feeling: you can't focus; you feel increasingly... |
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The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
James Rickards - Portfolio Penguin
Format: Print book
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The bestselling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think. The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial.... |
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Food Fight: GMOs and the Future of the American Diet
Mckay Jenkins - Penguin Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Are GMOs really that bad? A prominent environmental journalist takes a fresh look at what they actually mean for our food system and for us. In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding... |
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Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way
Nely Galán - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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For readers of #GIRLBOSS and viewers of Shark Tank - a global revolution in entrepreneurship is under way, inspiring women to blaze a trail of financial self-reliance and become self-made. Featuring a foreword by Suze Orman. What does it mean to be self-made It's not just... |
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Succession: Mastering the Make-or-Break Process of Leadership Transition
Noel M. Tichy - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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Noel Tichy has been the trusted adviser on management succession to companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Nokia, Intel, Ford, and Mercedes Benz. Succession distills his decades of experience and provides a practical framework for building effective transition pipelines - for multi-billion... |
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Make Your Kid A Money Genius
Beth Kobliner - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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From Beth Kobliner, the author of the bestselling personal finance bible Get a Financial Life - a new, must-have guide showing parents how to teach their children (from toddlers to young adults) to manage money in a smart way.Many of us think we can have the "money talk"... |
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How Women Decide
Therese Huston - HarperOne
Format: Paperback
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"One could imagine it becoming required reading on Wall Street." - New York Times Book Review So, youve earned a seat at the table.What happens next? We all face hard decisions every day and the choices we make, and how others perceive them, can be life-changing. There are countless... |
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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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QuickBooks 2015: The Best Guide for Small Business
Bobbi Sandberg - McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book
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Manage Your Small Business Finances with QuickBooks 2015 Set up a complete small business financial management system quickly and easily. Written by Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors, QuickBooks 2015: The Best Guide for Small Business shows you how to maximize all of the software's... |
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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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The Optimistic Workplace: Creating an Environment That Energizes Everyone
Shawn Murphy - AMACOM, American Management Association, 2016. ©2016
Format: Print book
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When it comes to work these days, we're expected to do more with less--but is this nose-to-the-grindstone philosophy the best way to run a business? Alarmingly low employee engagement numbers indicate otherwise. So, if pushing everyone harder isn't the path to productivity, what is? Supported... |
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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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How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business
Owen E. Dell - Taylor Trade Publishing; Seventh Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Landscaping continues to be an in-demand business field for motivated entrepreneurs. This seventh edition includes updated information on business plans, managing both employees and paperwork, taxes, and in-depth discussions on the role social media can play in your successful landscaping... |
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Hack Attack: The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
Nick Davies - Faber & Faber
Format: Hardcover
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At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voicemail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for The Guardian, knew... |
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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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The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market
Gianaclis Caldwell - Chelsea Green Publishing
Format: Paperback
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The Small-Scale Dairy includes everything you need to know in order to successfully produce nourishing, healthy, farm-fresh milk. Whether for home use, direct sale to the consumer, or sale to an artisanal cheesemaker, high-quality raw milk is a delicate, desirable product. Successful and sustainable... |
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One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams
Chris Fussell - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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From the co-author ofthe New York Times bestseller Team of Teams, a practical guide for leaders looking to make their organizations more interconnected and unified in the midst of sudden change. Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics... |
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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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Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld
Jake Halpern - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber,... |
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Head ball coach : doing it differently. and winning
Steve Spurrier - Blue Rider Press
Format: Print book
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In this New York Times Bestseller, College football's most colorful, endearing, and successful pioneer, Steve Spurrier, shares his story of a life in football -- from growing up in Tennessee to winning the Heisman Trophy to playing and coaching in the pros to leading the Florida... |
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Anders Ericsson - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book
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From the world's reigning expert on expertise comes a powerful new approach to mastering almost any skill. Have you ever wanted to learn a language or pick up an instrument, only to become too daunted by the task at hand? Expert performance guru Anders Ericsson has made a career studying... |
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Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us about the Future of Popular Culture
Joel Waldfogel - Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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How digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries -- and why that might be a good thingThe digital revolution poses a mortal threat to the major creative industries -- music, publishing, television, and the movies. The ease with which digital files can be copied and distributed... |
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Quick & Legal Will Book
Denis Clifford - Nolo
Format: Print book
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If you want to create a will without the trouble, Quick & Legal Will Book is the simplest and fastest way to reach your goal. Get the forms and step-by-step instructions to make a basic will that meets your needs with this all-in-one guide. Find out how to: name beneficiaries choose... |
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Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality
James Kwak - Pantheon Books
Format: Print book
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Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and misleading half-truths.Economism: an ideology that distorts the valid principles and tools of introductory college... |
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The Asshole Survival Guide: How to Deal With People Who Treat You Like Dirt
ROBERT I SUTTON - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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How to avoid, outwit, and disarm assholes, from the author of the classic bestseller The No Asshole Rule "Help, I'm dealing with an asshole! What can I do" Since his book The No Asshole Rule became a national bestseller a decade ago, Robert Sutton... |
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The Fracking Truth:America's Energy Revolution: the Inside, Untold Story
Chris Faulkner - Platform Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The revolution has already begun. The fracking revolution, that is. The Fracking Truth is a primer on America’s ongoing energy revolution, but it’s also a call to action. The oil and gas industry has failed itself and failed the American public by doing a poor job of educating... |
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A Bigger Prize: How We Can Do Better than the Competition
Margaret Heffernan - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Co-winner of the 2015 Salon London Transmission Prize Get into the best schools. Land your next big promotion. Dress for success. Run faster. Play tougher. Work harder. Keep score. And whatever you domake sure you win. Competition runs through every aspect of our lives today. From the cubicle... |
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JumpStart Your Leadership: A 90-Day Improvement Plan
John C. Maxwell - Center Street; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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John C. Maxwell, 1 New York Times bestselling author, presents his 90-day guide to improving your leadership. Whether you want to increase your influence, prepare yourself for that big promotion, or get a handle on leadership for the first time, you can trust John Maxwell to help you in the journey.... |
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Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace
Nikil Saval - Doubleday
Format: Print book
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A New York Times Notable Book * Daily Beast Best Nonfiction of 2014 * Inc. Magazine's Most Thought-Provoking Books of the Year"Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles."How did we get from Scrooge's office to "Office Space"? From bookkeepers in dark... |
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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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Scholarship Handbook 2018
COLLEGE BOARD. - College Board
Format: Paperback
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The Scholarship Handbook 2018 is organized to quickly lead students to real college funding opportunities, including scholarship, internship and loan programs offered by foundations, charitable organizations, and state and federal government agencies. Every entry is verified by the College... |
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The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die, and the Creative Resurrection to Come
Andrew Essex - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Hardcover
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A recovering Mad Man throws down the ultimate challenge to his profession: Innovate or die.The ad apocalypse is upon us. Today millions are downloading ad-blocking software, and still more are paying subscription premiums to avoid ads. This $600 billion industry is now careening toward... |
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Streampunks: YouTube and the Rebels Remaking Media
ROBERT KYNCL - HarperBusiness
Format: Hardcover
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An entertainment and tech insider - YouTube's chief business officer - delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world.In the past ten years,... |
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Way of the Wolf: Master the Art of Persuasion and Build Massive Wealth
JORDAN BELFORT - North Star Way
Format: Hardcover
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Jordan Belfort - immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in the hit movie The Wolf of Wall Street - reveals the step-by-step sales and persuasion system proven to turn anyone into a sales-closing, money-earning rock star.For the first time ever, Jordan Belfort opens his playbook and gives... |
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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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Hell Week: Seven Days to Be Your Best Self
Erik Bertrand Larssen - Tantor Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan; a successful entrepreneur; and a critically acclaimed performance consultant. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft,... |
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Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top
Bo Burlingham - Portfolio
Format: Hardcover
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“No two exit experiences are exactly alike. Some people wind up happy with the process and satisfied with the way it turned out while others look back on it as a nightmare. The question I hope to answer in this book is why. What did the people with ‘good’ exits do differently... |
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The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Matt Taibbi - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWSA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime... |
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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Financial Statements
David Worrell - Praeger
Format: Hardcover
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Easy to read and full of engaging stories, this book teaches the basics of true financial management--re-made just for small businesses. It's perfect for entrepreneurs who want to get more from their accounting without getting stuck in the details. Besides clearly explaining each of the three... |
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The Ruler's Guide: China's Greatest Emperor and His Timeless Secrets of Success
Chinghua Tang - Scribner
Format: Print book
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In the classic tradition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War, here for the first time in English is the timeless wisdom of China's greatest emperor Tang Taizong (598-649 AD) which will show anyone who leads or manages how to achieve unparalleled results and an enduring legacy.Tang Taizong... |
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Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior
Jonah Berger - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author of Contagious explores the subtle, secret influences that affect the decisions we make - from what we buy, to the careers we choose, to what we eat - in this fascinating and groundbreaking work.If you're like most people, you think that... |
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The Leadership Contract: The Fine Print to Becoming a Great Leader
Vince Molinaro - Wiley; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Establish the terms and conditions of a "Leadership Contract" to ensure the success of your company Recent studies show that only 7 percent of employees have trust and confidence in their senior leaders. How can we ever get our organizations to succeed if so few employees believe... |
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Likeable Social Media, Revised and Expanded: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand, and Be Amazing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and More
Dave Kerpen - McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition
Format: Book
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The NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestsellerupdated with todays hottest sites! A friends recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Packed with... |
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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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Capital offenses : business crime and punishment in americas corporate age
Samuel Buell - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Print book
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From the lead prosecutor on the Enron investigation, an eye-opening examination of the explosion of American white-collar crime.If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail?A serious defect in a GM car causes accidents; Enron scams investors out of their money; banks... |
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Here are two well-known facts: Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the world as we know it. The United States has long been, and remains, the global leader in AI. That first fact is correct. But in his provocative new book, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee - one of the world's most respected experts... |
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Orange is the new black. Season 2, Disc #1
Jodie Foster - Lionsgate
Format: DVD video
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A fierce and funny series that follows Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) when a crime she committed in her past sends her to an all-womens prison with an unforgettable and irreverent group of fellow inmates. |
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The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Paul Roberts - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Hardcover
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It's something most of us have sensed for years--the rise of a world defined only by "mine" and "now." A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term... |
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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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The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently
Sunni Brown - Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
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There is NO SUCH THING as a mindless doodle What did Einstein, JFK, Edison, Marie Curie, and Henry Ford have in common? They were all inveterate doodlers. These powerhouse minds knew instinctively that doodling is deep thinking in disguise-a simple, accessible, and dynamite tool for innovating... |
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J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017: For Preparing Your 2016 Tax Return
J. K. Lasser Institute. - John Wiley & Sons
Format: Print book
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America's number-one all-time best-selling tax guide, with 2,500 money-saving tips J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2017 puts America's most trusted tax advice to work to help you with your 2016 tax return. Reader-friendly and easy to use, this book answers your most pressing questions... |
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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 Age of Sustainable Development
Jeffrey D. Sachs - Columbia University Press
Format: Print book
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Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the worlds most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent... |
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Debt-Proof Living: How to Get Out of Debt & Stay That Way
Mary Hunt - Revell
Format: Paperback
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Mortgages, credit card balances, student loans, car loans, and home improvement loans have become a way of life for the majority of us. And debt is putting not only our present at risk as we live paycheck to paycheck, but our futures in jeopardy as shockingly few of us have enough put away... |
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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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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
Ellen Pao - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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The "necessary and incisive" (Roxane Gay) account of the discrimination case that "has blown open a conversation about the status of women" in the workplace (The New York Times)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED... |
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty - Belknap Press
Format: Paperback
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A New York Times #1 Best Seller An Amazon #1 Best Seller A Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller A USA Today Best Seller A Sunday Times Best SellerWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle... |
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How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business
Jill S. Moran - Taylor Trade Publishing; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Event planning continues to be a thriving business area for the motivated entrepreneur. This fourth edition includes updated ideas about creating business plans, balancing home and work, building a client base, and a more in-depth discussion on the role of social media in your event planning... |
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Love Your Life, Not Theirs: 7 Money Habits for Living the Life You Want
Rachel Cruze - Ramsey Press
Format: Hardcover
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In Love Your Life, Not Theirs, Rachel Cruze shines a spotlight on the most damaging money habit we have: comparing ourselves to others. Then she unpacks seven essential money habits for living the life we really want--a life in line with our values, where we can afford the things... |
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A Nation Wholly Free: The Elimination of the National Debt in the Age of Jackson
Carl Lane - Westholme Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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The Last and Only Time America Was Free of Debt—and How It Led to the Two-Party Political System “An engaging treatment of a topic of perennial concern and frequent misunderstanding, this lucid tale of the brief moment when the United States was debt-free should be on every Congress... |
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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
ROBERT KUTTNER - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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One of our leading social critics recounts capitalism's finest hour, and shows us how we might achieve it once again.In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as productivity increased. Social supports have been cut, while corporations have achieved record... |
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Unti on creative artists agency.
James Andrew Miller - William Morrow
Format: Print book
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An astonishing - and astonishingly entertaining - behind-the-curtain history of Hollywood's transformation over the past five decades as seen through the agency at the heart of it all, from the #1 bestselling co-author of Live from New York and Those Guys Have All the Fun.In 1975, five... |
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Stephanie Land - Hachette Books
Format: Hardcover
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Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. "My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."While the gap between upper... |
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