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The Best Time to do Everything
Expert Advice on How to Live Cooler, Smarter, Faster, Better
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The Best Time to Do Everything is really just that-a guide to the best time to do everything in life. From buying shoes to cleaning a murder scene, each entry is built around the well-informed advice of an expert in that particular field: Donald Trump on the best time to haggle, Johnny Ramone on the...
The Next American Economy
Blueprint for a Real Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
At a time when debate is raging about how to create jobs and revive
the American economy, veteran business writer William J. Holstein
argues that the best way for us to recover our economic footing is to do
what Americans do best-innovate and create new industries. Contrary to
the perception that...
by Miles Young
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
From Miles Young, worldwide non-executive chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, comes a sequel to David Ogilvy's bestselling advertising handbook featuring essential strategies for the digital age.
In this must-have sequel to the bestselling Ogilvy On Advertising, Ogilvy chairman Miles Young provides...
The New Frugality
How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
As the recession deepens, with a downturn in spending, rise in defaulting mortgages and throttling of credit, a Go-Go economy has transitioned to a Uh-Oh economy. How did we get here and what does it mean for individuals and families? The New Frugality lays out how Americans have overspent-and offers...
The Kevin Show
An Olympic Athlete’s Battle with Mental Illness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From the NYT bestselling author of The Monopolists, the "fascinating" (People) story of Olympian Kevin Hall and the syndrome that makes him believe he stars in a television show of his life.
Meet Kevin Hall: brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League...
The Shadow Scholar
How I Made a Living Helping College Kids Cheat
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
"[A] stunning tale of academic fraud . . . shocking and compelling.†?-The Washington Post
Dave Tomar wrote term papers for a living. Technically, the papers were "study guides,†? and the companies he wrote for-there are quite a few-are completely aboveboard and easily found with a quick...
by Jordan Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla†? Yancey crafted a set of tracks that would forever change the way beatmakers viewed their artform. The songs on Donuts are not hip hop music as "hip hop music†? is typically...
Other People's Property
A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This...
Nothin' but Blue Skies
The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy†?-the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots,...
by Rajiv Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Taking India by storm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been one of the most talked about figures all around the world. His enigmatic persona and his forceful leadership have created a polarized world where some idolize him, while others question his motives and methods. In an attempt to break the...
by Roy Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and was in office...
Philanthrocapitalism
How Giving Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style...
The Impulse Society
America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
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 fixes over broad, sustainable...
The First Step
How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The inspiring read-to-me eBook about four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.
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