Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Cheaper
Insiders' Tips for Saving on Everything
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
In today’s uncertain economy, if using a little buying savvy can get you small- or even big-ticket items at a cheaper price, can you afford not to do it? Now, with this handy, accessible guide, Rick Doble–a veritable king of haggling–and consumer expert Tom Philbin share the secrets to paying...
Take Charge of Your Money Now!
Essential Strategies for Winning in Any Financial Climate
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
The book behind the empowering public television special–indispensable advice from the money experts who invest a lot inyou!
As the storms of confusion and market madness swirl around us and we’re bombarded by incorrect and perhaps financially lethal information, we need the calm, steady,...
Feminine Ingenuity
Women and Invention in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
"Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and entrepreneurial women helped to shatter...
Essays That Worked for Business Schools (Revised)
40 Essays from Successful Applications to the Nation's Top Business Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Applicants looking for the competitive edge in getting accepted at the business school of their choice may want to peruse this book.” –Security Traders Handbook
Every year, thousands apply for a finite number of places in business schools. With similar grades, backgrounds, and goals,...
Getting into Money: A Career Guide
A Career Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Everything you need to know to break into today's most challenging and rewarding careers. Featuring interviews with the most successful executives in finance.
by Tom Sturges
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
How do you raise amazing children? How do you teach them to be kind and honest, insightful and inquisitive, athletic and curious, loving and thoughtful? How do you give your child the courage to be a good sport, a good sibling, a good friend, a good person?
When Tom Sturges became a father,...
Seducing the Boys Club
Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Fact #1: Forty years after the feminist revolution, fewer than 2 percent of Fortune 1000 CEOs are women.
Fact #2: The playing field is not level.
Fact #3: You need to get over this.
From the woman who became chairman of the flagship office of the largest advertising agency network in the world...
by Paul Lowrie, Bret Nicholaus
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
What one Christmas tradition would you never want to give up?
If you could spend Christmas anywhere in the world, where would you most want to be?
If you could have visited the Christ child just as the Three Kings did, what would you have brought as a gift?
You've been chosen...
Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week
52 Classic Films for One Full Year
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
A FRONT-ROW SEAT TO A YEAR'S WORTH OF MUST-SEE FILMS
Director, producer, screenwriter, author, actor, and film critic, Peter Bogdanovich knows movies. Now, in this unique new book, he shares his passion with a connoisseur's insight and delight by inviting the reader to join him for a year at...
Killer, Come Hither
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
From the master observer of upper-crust New York life comes a taut thriller that takes readers from the office suites of Manhattan to the tidy elegance of Sag Harbor and the rough-and-tumble western plains of Brazil.
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Passion of the Western Mind
Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time."
SAN...
Jet Set
The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation's Glory Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international...
Flip! for Decorating
A Page-by-Page, Piece-by-Piece, Room-by-Room Guide to Transforming Your Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In this fresh, fun, and unique book, design consultant and Today show lifestyle expert Elizabeth Mayhew shares essential insider tips for making any space stylish and timeless in a snap. Forget expensive fixes or labor-intensive endeavors, Flip! for Decorating can show you how to redecorate with what...
The Fashionista Files
Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A fashionista is a girl who always looks current and cutting edge, even when her clothes are vintage 1975. A fashionista can tell her Pucci from her Gucci and her Blahniks from her Choos, but she’s as comfortable in Kmart as she is in Chanel. She wears what she likes and always looks fantastic....