Suze Orman

From the nuts and bolts of managing money to the deep psychological and even spiritual meaning it has in our lives, this personal-finance audiobook shows everyone, even complete novices, how to take control of their money.

Suze Orman is a certified financial planner, a retirement specialist, and a registered investment advisor.

Orman begins with the insight that managing money is far more than a matter of picking the right investments or getting out of credit card debt. To get control of our finances, we must first get control of the feelings about money that arise from our earliest experiences with it.

Next comes Orman's clear, easy-to-follow advice about the practical importance of understanding and using investments, retirement plans, insurance, and credit.

Finally, Orman reveals why true financial freedom lies not in amassing wealth, but in realizing that we are worth far more than our money. #nonfiction #business #economics #hardcover #educational #financial #money #bestseller 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

practical & spiritual steps so you can stop worrying

The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom

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Eliyahu Goldratt

Jeff Cox

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Process of Ongoing Improvement

The Goal

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#hardcover #collegetextbook #law #business #economics second edition, 1989, pencil name inside, some shelf wear

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Michigan

Business & Economics

Principles, cases, and policy

Business law second edition

Some page corners were dogeared. #manufacturing #qualityconteol #environmental #economics #industrial #management #business #productivity #classic #hardcover 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

Key Strategies for Plant Improvement

Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shingo describes his approach to manufacturing improvements, developed and refined over the course of a brilliant career. He called it the Scientific Thinking Mechanism (STM).

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo leads you through the five stages of STM, with appropriate examples taken from notes Dr. Shingo collected during his consulting trips to American and Japanese plants. It shows how, in many cases, the most brilliant ideas are often so simple they're overlooked. Or they're dismissed because they seem ridiculous:

 * A Japanese plant, after first rejecting the idea as "too silly," finds that unhulled rice is ideal for smoothing the rough surfaces on pressure-formed ebonite switches
 * Granville-Phillips, in Boulder, Colorado, reduced defects to zero in one process after Dr. Shingo suggested illuminating circuit boards from below to reduce errors involved in the insertion of diodes and resistors

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo is must reading for plant managers and engineers. It formalizes the powerful and creative way of thinking that Shingo himself used time and again to overcome problems that seemed virtually insurmountable.

The Sayings of Shigeo Shingo

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The Shingo System for Continuous Improvement

Shingo, whose work at Toyota provided the foundation for JIT, teaches how to implement non-stock production in your JIT manufacturing operations. The culmination of his extensive writings on efficient production management and continuous improvement, this book is an essential companion volume to his other landmark books on key elements of JIT, including SMED and poka-yoke.

It includes:

 * Fundamental flaws in European and American production philosophies.
 * Basic concepts for improving production systems.
 * The "scientific thinking mechanism" -- a new approach to improvement.
 * Implementing a production method in an age of authorized stock production.
 * Development of production functions in the age of non-stock production.
 * Significance of the different production systems.

Non-Stock Production

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Eric Ries

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Outlines a revisionist approach to management while arguing against common perceptions about the inevitability of startup failures, explaining the importance of providing genuinely needed products and services as well as organizing a business that can adapt to continuous customer feedback.

The Lean Startup

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#paperback #nonfiction #business #simonsinek #buisness #leadership #economics #inspire 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Massachusetts

How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.

Start with Why

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Minnesota

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with Bonus Article How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen)

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Ayn Rand

UK edition book in brand new condition. Store in smoke, pet free home. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

Atlas Shrugged Is The Astounding Story Of A Man Who Said That He Would Stop The Motor Of The World--And Did. Tremendous In Scope, Breathtaking In Its Suspense, Atlas Shrugged Stretches The Boundaries Further Than Any Book You Have Ever Read. It Is A Mystery, Not About The Murder Of A Man'S Body, But About The Murder--And Rebirth--Of Man'S Spirit.

Atlas Shrugged

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Robert G. Ehrenberg

Robert S. Smith

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Theory and Public Policy

Providing a survey of labour economics, this study develops the modern theory of labour market behaviour, summarizes empirical evidence that supports or contradicts each hypothesis, and illustrates the usefulness of various theories for public policy analy

Modern Labor Economics

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N. Gregory Mankiw

New Mexico

Principles of Economics

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Samuel Bowles

Herbert M. Gintis

Ex-library copy with the usual stamps/markings. Binding a bit loose.

Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Schooling in Capitalist America

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Michael E. Porter

Indiana

Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors

Now nearing its sixtieth printing in English and translated into nineteen languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.

Electrifying in its simplicity--like all great breakthroughs--Porter's analysis of industries captures the complexity of industry competition in five underlying forces. Porter introduces one of the most powerful competitive tools yet developed: his three generic strategies--lowest cost, differentiation, and focus--which bring structure to the task of strategic positioning. He shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided. In the almost two decades since publication, Porter's framework for predicting competitor behavior has transformed the way in which companies look at their rivals and has given rise to the new discipline of competitor assessment.

More than a million managers in both large and small companies, investment analysts, consultants, students, and scholars throughout the world have internalized Porter's ideas and applied them to assess industries, understand competitors, and choose competitive positions. The ideas in the book address the underlying fundamentals of competition in a way that is independent of the specifics of the ways companies go about competing.

Competitive Strategy has filled a void in management thinking. It provides an enduring foundation and grounding point on which all subsequent work can be built. By bringing a disciplined structure to the question of how firms achieve superior profitability, Porter's rich frameworks and deep insights comprise a sophisticated view of competition unsurpassed in the last quarter-century.

Competitive Strategy

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#paperback #psychology #economics #brain #educational #selfhelp #selfimprovement #nonfiction 

Thinking, Fast and Slow

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#hardcover #selfhelp #nonfiction #Economics #bigdata #datascience #socialscience #data

California

Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

"Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don't Trust Your Gut is a tour de force--an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity." -- Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human

Big decisions are hard. We consult friends and family, make sense of confusing "expert" advice online, maybe we read a self-help book to guide us. In the end, we usually just do what feels right, pursuing high stakes self-improvement--such as who we marry, how to date, where to live, what makes us happy--based solely on what our gut instinct tells us. But what if our gut is wrong? Biased, unpredictable, and misinformed, our gut, it turns out, is not all that reliable. And data can prove this.

In Don't Trust Your Gut, economist, former Google data scientist, and New York Times bestselling author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our own lives. In the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life's biggest self-help puzzles. Data from hundreds of thousands of dating profiles have revealed surprising successful strategies to get a date; data from hundreds of millions of tax records have uncovered the best places to raise children; data from millions of career trajectories have found previously unknown reasons why some rise to the top.

Telling fascinating, unexpected stories with these numbers and the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz exposes that, while we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers disagree. Hard facts and figures consistently contradict our instincts and demonstrate self-help that actually works--whether it involves the best time in life to start a business or how happy it actually makes us to skip a friend's birthday party for a night of Netflix on the couch. From the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to the old-school, data-backed relationship advice so well-worn it's become a literal joke, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better.

Lively, engrossing, and provocative, the end result opens up a new world of self-improvement made possible with massive troves of data. Packed with fresh, entertaining insights, Don't Trust Your Gut redefines how to tackle our most consequential choices, one that hacks the market inefficiencies of life and leads us to make smarter decisions about how to improve our lives. Because in the end, the numbers don't lie.

Don't Trust Your Gut

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An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies

Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization.



The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology. Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades--among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the ''theory of fields,'' which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle. State-building and market-building go hand in hand.


Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.

The Architecture of Markets

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Illinois

Cutting-Edge Guidance form the World's Leading Experts (Black Book Series)

Larstan's The Black Book on Corporate Security

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Advanced Givernment Security Strategies From the Industry’s Premiere Thought Leaders

Larstan's The Black Book on Government Security

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#paperback #prison #justice #sociology #injustice #economics #forprofit
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Arkansas

Issues in American Corrections

The provocative title suggests that in the future everyone will go to jail for 15 minutes, but the contents do not reflect that bias. The 12 contributions provide students of criminal justice with perspectives from sociology, corrections, and criminology on such aspects as varying ideologies of puni

Turnstile Justice

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Harry Gordon Selfridge

#nonfiction #economics #hardcover #business 

An Abridged Version of the Classic Text on Business and Life

A captivating look inside the heart and mind of Harry Selfridge! Founder of one of the greatest department stores in the world, Harry Gordon Selfridge reopens his doors--and extravagant life--in this updated edition of his classic work. From his striking window displays during the holidays to his glittering love affairs with the most beautiful women in Europe, this book reveals the secrets behind his success as a tycoon. Filled with revolutionary thoughts about business, leadership, and society, Selfridge will inspire you with powerful aphorisms like: People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice. The boss drives his men; the leader coaches them. The customer is always right. With Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce, you will uncover the innovative ideas that helped launch London's most iconic department store and that changed the lives of women and businessmen everywhere.

Mr. Selfridge's Romance of Commerce

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Sebastian Mallaby

Very good clean tight copy. Very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing.

A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations

Mallaby pens this penetrating portrait of James Wolfensohn, the smooth global deal maker and power broker who has furiously worked his many connections to become the World Bank's president.

1st ed. 1st * The World's Banker

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Robin Edmonds

Virginia

The Paradox of Super Power

Soviet Foreign Policy, Nineteen Sixty-Two to Nineteen Seventy-Three

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Excellent condition beyond some dark spots on cover. Copyright 1882. Great for history or business of days gone by enthusiasts. 

Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms 37th edition

Benjamin Graham

The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. JGraham's philosophy of "value investing"-which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles.
Vital and indispensable, this Collins Business Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.

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Non-Stock Production

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Ayn Rand

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Schooling in Capitalist America

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Competitive Strategy

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Don't Trust Your Gut

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