Business & economics

Australia - The Immigrant's Guide to Retail - Volume I

by Hymie Zawatzky

Retail is a real challenge in Australia. With migration to Australia, the opening of retail businesses by these new arrivals has been one of the driving factors in the growth of Australian retail sector This...

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

by Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and...

The Role of Listening in Asking the Right Questions

by Terry J. Fadem

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This Element is an excerpt from The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions,...

Freakonomics Rev Ed: (and Other Riddles of Modern Life)

by Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization...

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business

by Charles Duhigg

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY

The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has...

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell & Barry Fox

In his landmark bestseller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us. Now, in Blink, he revolutionizes the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about...

3 R's of Leadership, The: Risk, Responsibility, and Reliability

by Jon M. Huntsman

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How to make sure virtually all your conversations and meetings achieve...

Social Networking for Promoting YOU as a Brand

by Brian Solis & Deirdre Breakenridge

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You're the brand. Learn how to use social media to promote your brand...

Four Ways You Can Start Your Own Business

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

Choose the best way for you to go into business because you have...

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable.  The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

Eric Ries...

George Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon: A 52 brilliant ideas interpretation

by Karen McCreadie

George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon is an international best selling and now considered classic book on financial investment and fiscal success. Through a series of delightful short stories, straight...

PR 2.0 Is Here: Combine Traditional PR with Social Media for Heightened Results

by Deirdre Breakenridge

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.

Use advanced “PR 2.0” social media techniques in ways that build...

SuperFreakonomics

by Stephen J. Dubner & Steven D. Levitt

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Now, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen...

Getting the Money to Start Your Own Business

by Bruce Barringer

This Element is an excerpt from The Truth About Starting a Business (9780137144501) by Bruce R. Barringer. Available in print and digital formats.

Minimizing the cost of launching your business--and then finding...

The E-Myth Revisited

by Michael E. Gerber

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight...

The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

by Timothy Ferriss

More than 100 pages of new, cutting-edge content.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan–there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic...

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance that he has introduced...

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

by Carmine Gallo

Updated to include Steve Jobs's iPad and iPad2 launch presentations

“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide...

Personal Finance For Dummies

by Eric Tyson

Introduction.

About This Book.

Icons Used in This Book.

Where to Go from Here.

Chapter 1: Establishing and Achieving Your Financial Goals.

What Does "Wealth" Mean to You?

Prioritizing Your Savings Goals.

Building Emergency...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

by Nate Silver

"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of a New Machine for the 21st century."

—Rachel Maddow, author of Drift

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted...