Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

Sane Investing in an Insane World

Jim Cramer’s Real Money

The Lives of John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the twentieth century's most influential economist. His ideas inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt to launch the New Deal and instructed Western nations on how to ward off revolutionary unrest, economic instability, high unemployment, and social dissolution. Keynes was nothing less than the Adam Smith of his time: his The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Moneybecame as important in the twentieth century as Smith's The Wealth of Nations was in the eighteenth. Now, in the long wake of the 2008 global economic collapse, Keynesian economics is once again shaping our world.

In Universal Man, acclaimed historian Richard Davenport-Hines offers the first biography of Keynes that reveals the man in full. Like many Englishmen of his class and era, Keynes compartmentalized his life. Accordingly, Davenport-Hines treats Keynes in turn as a youthful prodigy, a powerful government official, an influential public man, a bisexual living in the shadow of Oscar Wilde's persecution, a devotee of the arts, and an international statesman of worldwide renown. Delving into Keynes's experiences and thought, Davenport-Hines shows us a man who was equally at ease socializing with the Bloomsbury Group as he was persuading heads of state to adopt his policies. Through Davenport-Hines' nuanced portrait, we come to understand not just the most enduringly influential economist of the modern era, but one of the most gifted and vital men of our times: a disciplined logician with a capacity for glee who persuaded people, seduced them, subverted old ideas, and installed new ones.

Engaging, learned, and sparkling with wit and insight, Universal Man is the perfect match for its brilliant subject.

Universal Man

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Martin Mayer

Clean, minor jacket wear, corner of jacket displaying price is snipped because it was a gift. 

Maryland

Who Plays, Who Risks, Who Gains, Who Loses

Markets

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Michael Lewis

Unread copy, excellent condition, first edition

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Argues that post-crisis Wall Street continues to be controlled by large banks and explains how a small, diverse group of Wall Street men have banded together to reform the financial markets.

Flash Boys [First Edition]

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Robert Bryce

Ex-library copy with interior markings, stamps, etc.

The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence

For more than three decades, politicians have been promising to make America energy independent. According to Byrce, this rhetoric is neither doable nor desirable. This work shows why America must drop this idea of energy independence and, instead, embrace interdependence.

A Gusher of Lies

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Chip Heath

Dan Heath

Massachusetts

How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Switch

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Tom Peters

Robert H. Waterman

Oregon

Provides an incisive look at the successful management techniques of IBM, Texas Instruments, 3M, and other profitable American businesses.

In Search of Excellence

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#nonfiction #business #economics #paperback 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

what's it worth?

What is it Worth? AVENUES E LEVELED BOOKS

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Steven D. Levitt

Stephen J. Dubner

Pennsylvania

Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

SuperFreakonomics

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Jim Collins

Colorado

Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?

Good to Great

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Kentucky

The prize winning author of "Beyond Our Means" explicates the complex world of the modern economy, discussing business cycles, links between the economy and the stock market, recessions, the problems with economic forecasts, and other topics

Understanding the New Economy

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#hardcover #economics #business #nonfiction 

California

How to Sleep Well and Stay Sane on the Road to Wealth

Easy-to-follow personal finance guidelines--from #1 Rated Financial Advisor with American Express Financial Advisors Charles Zhang became one of todays most nationally known and trusted financial advisers by stressing sanity and sensible investing over dubious, get-rich-quick tricks and schemes. In Make Yourself a Millionaire, Zhang transfers his program to the printed page. Far from a confusing, all-or-nothing approach, this book outlines a clear and rational approach to organizing and planning all aspects of a financial life. How do different investments work? How much insurance is too much? Zhang answers these questions and more as he discusses: Recommended investments for virtually any portfolio Asset allocation techniques that work Actual examples of success and disaster The role of insurance as a key element in a portfolio All major financial instruments: stocks, bonds, funds, REITs, cash

Make Yourself a Millionaire

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Marcus Buckingham

Curt Coffman

What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Explains how good managers can select, focus, motivate, and develop their employees in order to transform talent into performance

First, Break All the Rules

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Gallup

Michigan

An updated version of the StrengthsFinder program developed by Gallup experts to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.

StrengthsFinder 2. 0

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Arianna Huffington

Some minor marks on the cover, minor wear. Inside is still in good condition.

How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers? Provocative political commentator Arianna Huffington yanks back the curtain on the unholy alliance of CEOs, politicians, lobbyists, and Wall Street bankers who have shown a brutal disregard for those in the office cubicles and on the factory floors. As she puts it: “The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.” Yet it has been, allowing corporate crooks to bilk the public out of trillions of dollars, magically making our pensions and 401(k)s disappear and walking away with astronomical payouts and absurdly lavish perks-for-life. The media have put their fingers on pieces of the sordid puzzle, but Pigs at the Trough presents the whole ugly picture of what’s really going on for the first time—a blistering, wickedly witty portrait of exactly how and why the worst and the greediest are running American business and government into the ground. Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski, Adelphia’s John Rigas, and the Three Horsemen of the Enron Apocalypse—Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andrew Fastow—are not just a few bad apples. They are manifestations of a megatrend in corporate leadership—the rise of a callous and avaricious mind-set that is wildly out of whack with the core values of the average American. WorldCom, Enron, Adelphia, Tyco, AOL, Xerox, Merrill Lynch, and the other scandals are only the tip of the tip of the corruption iceberg. Making the case that our public watchdogs have become little more than obedient lapdogs, unwilling to bite the corporate hand that feeds them, Arianna Huffington turns the spotlight on the tough reforms we must demand from Washington. We need, she argues, to go way beyond the lame Corporate Responsibility Act if we are to stop the voracious corporate predators from eating away at the very foundations of our democracy. Devastatingly funny and powerfully indicting, Pigs at the Trough is a rousing call to arms and a must-read for all those who are outraged by the scandalous state of corporate America. From the Hardcover edition.

Pigs at the Trough

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#hardcover #economics #business #michaellewis 

Alabama

Flash Boys

Ohio

Making the Most of Our Relationships Where We Spend Most of Our Time





It is virtually impossible to feel connected and supported in life when you don't feel that way where you spend most of our time--at work.

In The Business of Friendship, friendship expert Shasta Nelson unpacks the distinct ways we can make work relationships the healthiest they can be, both for the sake of the employee and the mission of the company. She inspires readers to see why friendship is crucial to our health and our careers, and teaches us exactly how to develop the supportive and meaningful connections we need.

Our organizations benefit as friendships at work result in higher levels of workplace productivity, employee retention, safety, innovation, collaboration, and profitability. In having a best friend at work, we are seven times more engaged in our job, which translates to better customer service, less absenteeism, fewer workplace accidents, and more loyalty to our organizations.

Through Shasta's stories, research, and practical guidance, she: 

 * Breaks down what creates healthy bonds and reveals the 3 requirements necessary in all healthy relationships and teams.
 * Helps managers and employees assess the health of their relationships and learn ways to repair and improve them.
 * Provides advice for addressing some of the biggest fears around workplace friendships, such as increased drama, favoritism, confidentiality, gossip, toxic coworkers, relationship with bosses, and potential romantic attractions.

The Business of Friendship is for those who are ready to maximize the two most significant factors of our wellbeing--career and relationships. Whether you are a leader or an employee, when you feel more connected and supported at work, everyone wins.

The Business of Friendship

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Georgia

#hardcover #nonfiction #business #howfullisyourbucket #fullbucket #economics

Kansas

In this inspirational handbook, the discoveries of Donald O. Clifton, the grandfather of positive psychology, show how the briefest interactions affect people's relationships, productivity, health, and longevity. 100,000 first printing.

How Full Is Your Bucket? Expanded Anniversary Edition

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The Managerial Grid

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10 Ways Women Succeed at Work on Their Own Terms

The rule-smashing guide for motivated working women who want to stop trying to follow someone else’s rules and start taking charge of their own success You leaned in like a palm tree in a hurricane. You cracked the confidence code. You’re determined not to be a nice girl, but a #GirlBoss. You’ve learned you can’t have it all, but you still try anyway. You know all of this. You’ve read the books, downloaded the apps, vision boarded and journaled your way to oblivion and back. So why are you stuck in your career? Unlike other books, which seem to focus on fixing you, Kick Some Glass is based on the premise that you are the expert on you—so who better to uncover what you really want, what your definition of success is, what your values are, and what your goals are than YOU? This invaluable guide will help you do the deep inner work you need to create lasting, meaningful, personal, and professional change. You’ll get beneath the surface to understand the mental models that manifest in self-sabotaging behaviors, missed opportunities, and fear. You’ll reveal the values that will help you truly understand the tough choices and trade-offs you make daily. You’ll learn how to tap into the powerful networks you need to provide support and hold you accountable to help you reach your goals. You’ll learn realistic, doable, long-range solutions that will give you the power to take charge and move ahead. This book will help you uncover who you truly are to approach your professional life in ways that are authentic and most meaningful to you—and no one else. After all, only you hold the answers. It’s time to Kick Some Glass.

Kick Some Glass:10 Ways Women Succeed at Work on Their Own Terms

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Eric Schlosser

In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and illegal immigrants. The underground economy is vast; it comprises perhaps 10 percent -- perhaps more -- of America's overall economy, and it's on the rise. Eric Schlosser charts this growth, and finds its roots in the nexus of ingenuity, greed, idealism, and hypocrisy that is American culture. He reveals the fascinating workings of the shadow economy by focusing on marijuana, one of the nation's largest cash crops; pornography, whose greatest beneficiaries include Fortune 100 companies; and illegal migrant workers, whose lot often resembles that of medieval serfs.
All three industries show how the black market has burgeoned over the past three decades, as America's reckless faith in the free market has combined with a deep-seated puritanism to create situations both preposterous and tragic. Through pot, porn, and migrants, Schlosser traces compelling parallels between underground and overground: how tycoons and gangsters rise and fall, how new technology shapes a market, how government intervention can reinvigorate black markets as well as mainstream ones, how big business learns -- and profits -- from the underground.
With intrepid reportage, rich history, and incisive argument, Schlosser illuminates the shadow economy and the culture that casts that shadow.

Texas

Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market

Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.

Reefer Madness

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Illinois

The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security

Helps those nearing retirement make the best decisions about their Social Security benefits by detailing techniques and options like “file and suspend” and “start stop start” to maximize their benefit income for a variety of different life situations.

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