Crown imprint: 1774 books
You're Fifty-Now What?
Investing for the Second Half of Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Every eight seconds someone in this country turns 50, an age at which even baby boomers can no longer put off becoming fiscally responsible and planning for the future. For everyone who finds that thought daunting (and that's an awful lot of us), Charles R. Schwab, America's most trusted figure in...
It Pays to Talk
How to Have the Essential Conversations with Your Family About Money and Investing
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2002
Does your family talk about money?
Do your kids understand your money values?
Do you and your mate agree on how you spend and invest your money?
Do you know if your parents are financially secure?
These are the questions that Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz and her father, Charles...
Monopoly Rules
How to Get the Next Big Thing to Market Ahead of Your Competition
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
“Competition is the bane of the free enterprise system.” —Anonymous business mogul
What people on the front lines—making, marketing, and selling products and services—really want is to be alone in the marketplace, to have a space that they own for a long enough period of time so they...
Friend & Foe
When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate...
China's Silent Army
The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The first book to examine the unprecedented growth of China's economic investment in the developing world, its impact at the local level, and a rare hands-on picture of the role of ordinary Chinese in the juggernaut that is China, Inc.
Beijing-based journalists Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto...
The Unfair Trade
How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now, more than ever, beholden to the workings of its imbalances...
The World Is Your Oyster
The Guide to Finding Great Investments Around the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
How Jeff D. Opdyke became a successful international investor is an Everyman tale that began thirteen years ago when he discarded conventional wisdom. At the time, Wall Street’s pros insisted that average investors buy domestic mutual funds that invest overseas. But Jeff ignored their tepid advice....
How To Be Right
The Art of Being Persuasively Correct
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
It's not enough to be right, these days—especially when you're not left.
To survive, the right must learn how to express nonliberal principles as effectively as possible, and persuade others of their point of view. It is an art that demands patience, research, humor, understanding, creative...
Shaping Our Nation
How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
It is often said that America has become culturally diverse only in the past quarter century. But from the country’s beginning, cultural variety and conflict have been a centrifugal force in American politics and a crucial reason for our rise to power.
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The peopling of the United States is...
amBITCHous
(def.) A Woman Who: 1. Makes more money 2. has more power 3. gets the recognition she deserves 4. has the determination to go after her dreams and
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Wouldn’t it be great if you could be audaciously ambitious and happy at the same time?
You can, and you will.
“I’m here to tell you that all of your priorities—personal and ambitious career goals alike—can fit together harmoniously. I’ll show you how, like thousands of women I’ve...
Asphalt Nation
How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back.
The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal...
The Heart of Business
Integrating Prosperity and Values for Real Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2005
In The Heart of Business Liz Mohn describes her experiences as a woman and an entrepreneur at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media corporation, in a powerful call to action for organizations of every size and purpose to adapt to the evolving criteria of success in the twenty-first century. With the...
by Gary Toward, Andy Cope, Amy Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Everything a NQT always wanted to know about starting their teaching career but never dared to ask! This book will take the NQT through a journey which starts with interviews, leads them through the first visit before taking up the job and then into the first hectic weeks and months. Light in touch...
The First Family Detail
Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLER • **“Ron Kessler appears to get everything first.”—Slate
As in a play, presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media. What the nation’s leaders are really like and what goes on behind the scenes...