#business #economics #hardcover #nonfiction 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America

From the Ground Up

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#nonfiction #business #economics #hardcover 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

an inspiring tale about making quality the key ingredient in everything you do

The ice cream maker

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#economics #business #nonfiction #hardcover #kendunn #leadership #self-directed 

Pennsylvania

A Business Parable

Laura Dunagan, was born in the gold prospecting days of rustic Alaska in the early 1900's. When Laura was 14 years old, her father was trapped under a mud slide while prospecting in a nearby river and died. Laura was forced to move to Chicago in the care of her rich Uncle Joe. Laura hated Uncle Joe because he forced her to leave the river, but also because he had left the family prospecting business to move to Chicago years before she was born. Laura discovers that Uncle Joe made his fortune selling insurance and was the owner of the largest insurance company in Illinois. While wondering through the mansion one day, she found Uncle's Joe personal den. In it, she discovered an entire new life that would lead her to heights that she would never had realized panning for gold in Alaska. Uncle Joe used the 6 gold prospecting rules for safety to prospect new clients for his insurance company and in doing so, discovered the secrets to wealth in selling.

The Greatest Prospector in the World

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New York

How Dollar Shave Club, Warby Parker, and Other Disruptors Are Remaking What We Buy

A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy. Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love’s lingerie designed specifically for each woman’s body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of glasses to choose from. You’ve seen their ads. You (or someone you know) use their products. Each may appear, in isolation, as a rare David with the bravado to confront a Goliath, but taken together they represent a seismic shift in a business model that has lasted more than a century. As Lawrence Ingrassia--former business and economics editor and deputy managing editor at the New York Times--shows in this timely and eye-opening book, a growing number of digital entrepreneurs have found new and creative ways to crack the code on the bonanza of physical goods that move through our lives every day. They have discovered that manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and customer service have all been flattened—where there were once walls that protected big brands like Gillette, Sealy, Victoria’s Secret, or Lenscrafters, savvy and hungry innovators now can compete on price, value, quality, speed, convenience, and service. Billion Dollar Brand Club reveals the world of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate behemoths battling over this terrain. And what fun it is. It’s a massive, high-stakes business saga animated by the personalities, flashes of insight, and stories behind the stuff we use every day.

Billion Dollar Brand Club

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#economics #hardcover #business #bodymindspirit #nonfiction #changemanagement #influencing 

Delaware

How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Switch

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Connecticut

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers---and why they often go wrong. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland---throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Talking to Strangers

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Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Female Persuasion

Confident Women

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#nonfiction #business #economics #hardcover #investing #stocks #buffett #business #management #warrenbuffett

Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom: Quotations and Interpretations to Help Guide You to Billionaire Wealth and Enlightened Business Management

The Tao Of Warren Buffett

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An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

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#hardcover #leadership #nonfiction #success #military #business #investing #economics

11 Key Principles from Battlefield to Boardroom

Many Americans view Wall Street as a bastion of greed and corruption; a place that attracts people who don't deserve the money they make but are willing to break the law to get more of it. Yet for all their mistrust, many of these same Americans believe that Wall Street is essential for our economy to function. How do we fix it? Send in the Marines.

Known for its exemplary discipline, the Marine Corps ensures victory by obeying key commands, such as: establish clear, tactical objectives; know the terrain before heading into battle; identify and capitalize on combat advantages; control timing; leverage complementary skills within the unit; negotiate from a morally defensible position; harness strength of leadership to craft a bulletproof plan. Ken Marlin served ten years' active duty as a Marine officer before taking on the financial sector. He's seen this program of pride, professionalism, and fidelity work - from the battlefield to the boardroom.

Marlin is no socialist: he's a capitalist and risk-taker who enjoys earning money for himself and his clients. InThe Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street, he teaches you the Marine Corps way to win on Wall Street and on Main Street: to sacrifice short-term gains for the long-term interests of your clients and your company. Deploying Marine-tested tactics, he engineers lasting, honorable success while lowering the ethical cost of doing business. That's the Marine Corps way.

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

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The Problem Defined

For more than 2500 years mankind has been on an insatiable quest, one that has only temporarily been realized in a few locations and for fleeting moments. That quest is for concord; that idyllic state of affairs in which neither tyranny reigns, nor chaos rules.

Why should peace and harmony among the citizens of the earth be so elusive?

And more importantly, how can the lessons from the answers to these questions be used to, once and for all, establish society on a firm foundation of freedom and justice for all?

The answers to these questions are tantalizingly presented in the pages of this book. Orrin Woodward combines staggering scholarship and boundless creativity to distill the lessons of two and a half millennia into a concise picture. This book will present the reader with a clear comprehension of the root of the trouble, and then lead to the historical underpinnings that, once understood, provide the final resolution of the quest.

And Justice for All - The Quest for Concord

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#nonfiction #economics #business #hardcover #money #selfhelp #law #suzeorman

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

keep what you have and create what you deserve

The laws of money, the lessons of life

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#finance #budget #stocks #economics #money

Michigan

Unusual Option Activity: #1 Way We Choose Our Trades

Follow the Smart Money

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Texas

Inscription: “To Cheryl, / may you and those you lead / achieve Visionary Goals / (signature)”

'Side by Side Leadership' unlocks the flow of talent and productivity. Dennis Romig uses solid data and current multifacted research to transform 'soft' leadership skills into no-nonsense formulas.' Bev Powell, Manager, Tech Transfer and Performance Solutions, Intel Corporation 'A very strong presentation of the skills needed to achieve better morale, higher performance, and more effective leadership. Highly recommended for any current and aspiring leader in any organization.' Bob Watt, President and CEO, Seattle Chamber of Commerce 'Side by Side Leadership was used constantly to have the newly completed Houston Astros' Enron Field be the one publicly funded sports stadium to be completed on time and on budget.' Jim Jard, Board Member, Houston Sports Authority

SIGNED - Side by Side Leadership

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Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny

Women and Money

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Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business (and in Life)

The flood of information and unprecedented transparency reshaping today’s business world has dramatically changed the rules of the game. It’s no longer what you do that sets you apart from others, but how you do what you do. Whats are commodities, easily duplicated or reverse-engineered. Sustainable advantage and enduring success—for both companies and the people who work for them—now lie in the realm of how, the new frontier of conduct. For more than a decade, Dov Seidman’s pioneering organization, LRN, has helped some of the world’s most respected companies build "do it right," winning cultures. Seidman’s distinct vision of the world, business, and human endeavor has enabled more than ten million people doing business in over 100 countries to outbehave the competition. In HOW: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything . . . in Business (and in Life), Dov Seidman shares his unique approach with you. Through entertaining anecdotes, surprising case studies, cutting-edge research in a wide range of fields, and revealing interviews with a diverse group of business leaders, experts, and everyday people on the front lines, this book explores how we think, how we behave, and how we govern ourselves to uncover the values-driven "hows" of 21st-century success. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this insightful guide: Exposes the forces and factors that have fundamentally changed the world in which business operates, placing a new focus on the hows with which we conduct ourselves Provides frameworks to help you understand these hows and implement them in powerful and productive ways Helps you channel your actions and decisions to thrive uniquely within today’s new business realities Sheds light on the systems of how—the dynamics between people that shape organizational culture—and introduces a bold new vision for winning through self-governance The qualities that many once thought of as "soft"—trust, integrity, values, and reputation—are now the hard currency of business success and the ultimate drivers of efficiency, productivity, and profitability. With in-depth insights and practical advice, HOW will help you bring excellence and significance to your business endeavors—and your life—and refocus your efforts in powerful new ways. If you want to stand out, to thrive in our fast changing, hyperconnected, and hypertransparent world, open this book and discover HOW. Dov Seidman’s professional career has focused on how companies and their people can operate in both a principled and profitable way. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of LRN. Leading companies such as Disney, Dow Chemical, eBay, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, and 3M turn to LRN to help management govern more effectively and workers do the right things the right way, even in the most challenging of situations. Dov is a Harvard Law School graduate who also earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in philosophy from UCLA, and a BA with honors in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University. For more on this book, visit www.HowsMatter.com.

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Kentucky

Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success

Workplace violence is a day-to-day reality that cannot be ignored. Every organization has to understand its fundamental dynamics, risks and costs to their business. This groundbreaking book features the unique expertise of Bill Whitmore, CEO of AlliedBarton Security Services, on what organizations of all sizes can do to prevent workplace violence from occurring, while at the same time enhancing overall morale, health and profitability.

Potential

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Florida

The Moral Limits of Markets

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?
InWhat Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets?
In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life--medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted fromhavinga market economy tobeinga market society. Is this where we want to be?
In hisNew York TimesbestsellerJustice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, inWhat Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society--and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

What Money Can't Buy

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In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores

The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.

This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades.

For Vultures' Picnic, investigative journalist Greg Palast has spent his career uncovering the connection between the world of energy (read: oil) and finance. He's built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller-a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans. Palast shows how the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, World Trade Organization, and Central Banks act as puppets for Big Oil.

With Palast at the center of an investigation that takes us from the Arctic to Africa to the Amazon, Vultures' Picnic shows how the big powers in the money and oil game slip the bonds of regulation over and over again, and simply destroy the rules that they themselves can't write-and take advantage of nations and everyday people in the process.

Vultures' Picnic

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#business #economics #hardcover #nonfiction #history #current #firstedition 

A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

The World Is Flat

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#hardcover #paradoxes #philosophy #psychology #science #mathematics #math #economics

Virginia

81 Key Ideas Explained

Eureka!

#paperback #nonfiction #business #economics #self-help

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive

Learn how small changes can make a big difference in your powers of persuasion with this New York Times bestselling introduction to fifty scientifically proven techniques for increasing your persuasive powers in business and life. Every day we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say yes to our requests? Persuasion is not only an art, it is also a science, and researchers who study it have uncovered a series of hidden rules for moving people in your direction. Based on more than sixty years of research into the psychology of persuasion, Yes! reveals fifty simple but remarkably effective strategies that will make you much more persuasive at work and in your personal life, too. Cowritten by the world’s most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! presents dozens of surprising discoveries from the science of persuasion in short, enjoyable, and insightful chapters that you can apply immediately to become a more effective persuader. Often counterintuitive, the findings presented in Yes! will steer you away from common pitfalls while empowering you with little known but proven wisdom. Whether you are in advertising, marketing, management, on sales, or just curious about how to be more influential in everyday life, Yes! shows how making small, scientifically proven changes to your approach can have a dramatic effect on your persuasive powers.

Howard Schultz

From the Ground Up

Subir Chowdhury

The ice cream maker

Ken Dunn

The Greatest Prospector in the World

Ingrassia Lawrence

Billion Dollar Brand Club

Chip Heath; Dan Heath

Switch

Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers

Tori Telfer

Confident Women

Mary Buffett, David Clark

The Tao Of Warren Buffett

Tom Rath

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

Ken Marlin

The Marine Corps Way to Win on Wall Street

Orrin Woodward; Chris Brady (Editor); Greg J. Brannon (Foreword by)

And Justice for All - The Quest for Concord

Ken Dunn

The Greatest Prospector in the World

Suze Orman

The laws of money, the lessons of life

Jon Najarian

Follow the Smart Money

Dennis A Romig

SIGNED - Side by Side Leadership

Suze Orman

Women and Money

Dov Seidman

How

Bill Whitmore

Potential

Michael J. Sandel

What Money Can't Buy

Greg Palast

Vultures' Picnic

Thomas L. Friedman

The World Is Flat

Michael Macrone

Eureka!

Lawrence Ingrassia

Billion Dollar Brand Club

Noah J. Goldstein; Steve J. Martin; Robert Cialdini

Yes!