Economics and Business

A keenly observed and irresistibly funny memoir about literary New York in the late nineties, a pre-digital world on the cusp of vanishing.  Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley After leaving graduate school to pursue her dream of becoming a poet, Joanna Rakoff takes a job as assistant to the storied literary agent for J. D. Salinger. Prec

Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island.

Ask most women whether they have right to equality at work and answer will be a resounding yes, but ask same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion and some reticence creeps in. This title looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make small changes in their life that can effect change on a universal scale.

A short, sharp guide to tackling life s biggest challenges: understanding ourselves and making the right choices.

From the team that created the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller The Daily Stoic, an elegant journal to help readers apply the stoic principles of wisdom and virtue in today's tumultuous world.Ryan Holiday has led the popular revival of stoicism since 2014, with his acclaimed bestsellers The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and -- in partnership with Stephen Hanselman -- The Daily

From policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, to becoming the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator to teaching negotiation at leading universities, Chris Voss has tested the techniques in Never Split the Difference across the full spectrum of human endeavor and proved their effectiveness. Those who have benefited from these techniques include business clients generating mil

Greene's first two guides, "The 48 Laws of Power" and "The Art of Seduction," espouse profound, timeless lessons from events in history to help readers vanquish an enemy or ensnare an unsuspecting victim. Now, he crafts a brilliant distillation of the strategies of battle that can help readers in the modern world.

Humanity’s hunt for calculating devices probably started with the use of small pebbles to keep track of numbers. The counting inventions progressed through the abacus, early mechanical calculators, and other ingenious devices culminating in today’s computers. In this new book, Thomas Russo chronicles 600 years of caculating devices, providing valuable information for historians and collectors alik

“Keyu Jin is a brilliant thinker.” —Tony Blair, former prime minster of the United Kingdom A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy. China's economy has been booming for decades now. A formidable and emerging power on the world stage, the China that most Americans picture is only a rough sketch, based on American news coverage, policy, and wa

Master the science of funnel building to grow your company online with sales funnels in this updated edition from the $100M entrepreneur and co-founder of the software company ClickFunnels. DotCom Secrets is not just another "how-to" book on internet marketing. This book is not about getting more traffic to your website--yet the secrets you'll learn will help you to get exponentially more traf

The first-ever science-backed planner for developing the habits that foster long-term success—from “the world´s leading high-performance coach” and the New York Times–bestselling author of High Performance Habits (Forbes). This 2-in-1 planner and journal features writing prompts, self-assessments, and a variety of calendars to help you stay focused, achieve your goals—and be

Dan Sullivan shares his simple yet profound teaching that, until now, has only been known to his Strategic Coach clients: unsuccessful people focus on 'The Gap', but successful people focus on 'The Gain'. Most people, especially highly ambitious people, are unhappy because of how they measure their progress. We all have an 'ideal', a moving target that is always out of reach. When we measure ou

Expanding upon one of his high-level foundational teachings: Strategic Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan explains why achieving 10X growth is easier than going for 2X growth. Dan Sullivan, the world's leading coach for highly successful entrepreneurs, wants you to know that achieving 10X growth is exponentially easier than striving for 2X growth. Most find this idea confusing at first because simpl

This is the ultimate business how-to book, by the icon of American business and one of the world's most revered and respected leaders, Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric. "Winning" explores the changes of recent times and the new economic realities, and more than that, it identifies the central, immutable principals of doing business right and doing it well. ""Winning" is a book for the pe

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind is two books in one. Part I explains how your money blueprint works. In Part II you will be introduced to seventeen "Wealth Files.

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan--there is no need to wait, especially in unpredictable economic times. Ferriss offers more than 50 practical tips, real-world templates, and tools for living like a millionaire.

In the book that People magazine proclaimed "beguiling" and "fascinating," Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need

The instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller! Ryan Holiday´s bestselling trilogy—The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key—captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Stoicism to millions of readers. Now, in the first book of an exciting new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient p

“Steve Chandler's coaching has had a tremendous impact in my life. He was vital to my personal transformation from a man of ideas and dreams to a person of action and reality.”—Radames Soto, former managing director, The Wall Street JournalThe world of leadership has changed dramatically since 100 WAYS TO MOTIVATE OTHERS was written and now Chandler and Richardson have revised and refreshed their