Business & economics

Shift: Inside Nissan's Historic Revival

by Carlos Ghosn

In Shift, Carlos Ghosn, the brilliant, audacious, and widely admired CEO of Nissan, recounts how he took the reins of the nearly bankrupt Japanese automotive company and achieved one of the most remarkable turnarounds...

Why the Real Estate Boom Will Not Bust - And How You Can Profit from It: How to Build Wealth in Today's Expanding Real Estate Market

by David Lereah

We are experiencing a historic wealth-building opportunity, says David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors. As Lereah has predicted, the double-digit appreciation boom–far from...

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

by Jim Powell

The Great Depression and the New Deal. For generations, the collective American consciousness has believed that the former ruined the country and the latter saved it. Endless praise has been heaped upon President...

The Millionaire Real Estate Mindset: Mastering the Mental Skills to Build Your Fortune in Real Estate

by Russ Whitney

The Millionaire Real Estate Mindset:

Mastering the Mental Skills to Build Your Fortune in Real Estate

There are scores of books on real estate investing on the market today, and most give sound information and...

Dark Age Ahead

by Jane Jacobs

In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based...

Startup Nation: America's Leading Entrepreneurial Experts Reveal the Secrets to Building a Block buster Business

by Jeff Sloan & Rich Sloan

Want to take control of your life? Want to trade in that listless job and create the company you’ve always dreamed of? Millions of new businesses are started each year, from online diamond dealers to part-time...

If You're Thinking of Living In . . .: All About 115 Great Neighborhoods In & Around New York

by Michael Leahy

A Practical guidebook for house hunters, migrating apartment dwellers, and anyone curious abut life in 115 of New York's most livable neighborhoods and suburbs

For many people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,...

Bang!: Getting Your Message Heard in a Noisy World

by Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval

The founders of one of today's hottest, most innovative advertising agencies explain how to ignite the kind of marketing explosions that will capture customers' attention.

Linda Kaplan Thaler, the CEO and Chief...

How to Retire Rich in a Totally Changed World: Why You're Not in Kansas Anymore

by Walter Updegrave

Whether you are thirty years from retirement or it’s just around the corner, here is the only book you’ll need about how to get it together and plan a safe, secure, and prosperous retirement. Money magazine...

The Greatest Stock Picks of All Time: Lessons on Buying the Right Stock at the Right Time

by W. Randall Jones

Worth magazine founder Randy Jones shows how to pick the best stocks of the future by learning the lessons of the greatest stocks of all time.

In a turbulent investing environment, luck must be the only way to...

Charles Schwab's New Guide to Financial Independence Completely Revised and Upda ted: Practical Solutions for Busy People

by Charles Schwab

“There are dozens of primers on investing, but Schwab’s is straightforward and carefully organized. . . . The glimmers of his personal life are gems. . . . By now, Schwab is a financial brand name, and the...

Serpent on the Rock

by Kurt Eichenwald

A real-life thriller—the story of kickbacks and payoffs, of shady deals struck in secret with known felons; a story in which half a million people lose enormous sums—some their life’s savings—in the...

What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World

by Derrick Niederman & David Boyum

A decade ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined the term innumeracy, which aptly described the widespread ailment of poor quantitative thinking in American society. So, in What the Numbers Say, Derrick...

Pushing the Envelope: All The Way To The Top

by Harvey Mackay

Harvey Mackay is the author of two New York Times #1 bestsellers, Swim with the Sharks without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both these books were recently listed by the...

Fired Up!: How the Best of the Best Survived and Thrived After Getting the Boot

by Harvey Mackay

Harvey Mackay, one of the world’s best-selling motivational and business authors tells you why it isn’t so. He reveals anecdotes and secrets from some of the best and brightest headliners in our world today....

The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything

by Fred Crawford & Ryan Mathews

The Undiscovered Consumer . . .and the Mistake of Universal Excellence

What do customers really want? And how can companies best serve them? Fred Crawford and Ryan Mathews set off on what they describe as an...

Jesus, Entrepreneur: Using Ancient Wisdom to Launch and Live Your Dreams

by Laurie Beth Jones

He didn’t work for money. He was willing to walk away. He invested his emotions wisely. He did sweat the small stuff.

Beyond work, beyond entrepreneurism, there is “spiritreneurism”—work that allows you...

The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization

by Thomas A. Stewart

In Thomas A. Stewart’s bestselling first book, Intellectual Capital, he redefined the priorities of businesses around the world, demonstrating that the most important assets companies own today are often not...

Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity

by Marilyn Halter

In America today, you can connect to your ethnic heritage in dozens of ways, or adopt an identity just for an evening. Our society is not a melting pot but a salad bar--a bazaar in which the purveyors of goods...

The Six Sigma Fieldbook: How DuPont Successfully Implemented the Six Sigma Breakthrough Management Strate gy

by Don R. Linsenmann & Mikel Phd Harry

The authoritative hands-on guide to putting the Six Sigma strategy into practice, written by Mikel Harry, co-founder of the Six Sigma Academy, and Don Linsenmann, the Six Sigma champion who helped to implement...