New Business & Economics Books

Tough, smart business advice on what it takes to run a successful business - from the star of the hit TLC show "American Chopper You" could hardly blame someone for being intimidated if they ran into big Paul Teutul in a dark alley. Massive and mustachioed, frequently scowling, and decked ...

Regarded as the undisputed Bible of the movie industry, Ephraim Katz's "The Film Encyclopedia" is the most comprehensive one-volume encyclopedia on film available. This all new seventh edition includes up-to-date additions, and features more than 8,000 A-Z entries on the artistic, technical, and com...

In speech after speech, Barack Obama has fired up millions of enthusiastic supporters with his inspiring vision, rousing rhetoric, and charismatic presence His outstanding communication skills gave rise to an unprecedented political movement and fueled Obamas success in becoming the first African Am...

The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most notorious and controversial video games company - Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever -- Grand Theft Auto. Powerful politicians tried to stop it, parents and activists vigorously camp...

Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop it When the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape....

Seat belts cause accidents because well-protected drivers take more risks. This widely documented fact comes as a surprise to most people, but not to economists, who have learned, perhaps better than most, to take seriously the proposition that people respond to incentives in complicated ways. In Th...

To make money in this troubled economy you need to understand where the markets are headed, not where they've been. Clinging to outdated strategies and played out market trends are sure ways to miss out on new investments, and in The Little Book of Bull's Eye Investing, acclaimed investment expert J...

This title offers a fresh and accessible approach to demystifying innovation. Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today - in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets. It's the key to solving vexing social problems. And it makes or brea...

The bestselling author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either. This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the ...

In "The $100 Startup, "Chris Guillebeau shows you how to lead of life of adventure, meaning and purpose - "and "earn a good living. Still in his early thirties, Chris is on the verge of completing a tour of every country on earth - he's already visited more than 175 nations - and yet he's never hel...

Be flexible and faster with Agile project management As mobile and web technologies continue to evolve rapidly, there is added pressure to develop and implement software projects in weeks instead of months. Agile Project Management For Dummies can make that happen. This is the first book to provide ...

"Globalization success strategies, full-length sample business plan, easy 'flow-through financials' for fast forecasting, dozens of worksheets cover every phase of your plan"--Cover.

This book continues the series' successful user-friendly, sidebar-rich format, which is designed to be easily read and digested for managers at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. The book features short, informally written chapters, bulleted lists, self-examinations, seven types of sidebars...

Every group can benefit from team-building exercises. But sometimes it's not practical to embark on a full-scale training initiative. Now, supervisors, managers, and team leaders have 50 team-building activities to choose from, all of which can be implemented with no special facilities, big expense,...

Pocket guides to quality improvement have been a bestselling genre in the quality field ever since the Memory Jogger was first published in the late '80s and sold over 1 million copies. Since 2000 the bestselling quality-related pocket guide has been Rath & Strong's Six Sigma Pocket Guide, with appr...

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In this new textbook, Andrea Colli gives a historical and comparative perspective on family business, examining through time the different relationships within family businesses and among family enterprises, inside different political and institutional contexts. He compares the performance of family...

Using a company could easily save you over 10,000 in tax every year...possibly over 50,000. Why? Firstly, UK corporation tax rates are much lower than income tax rates. Secondly, company owners can pay themselves dividends, which are taxed much less heavily than other forms of income. Finally, setti...

"A visionary and immensely practical approach to reforming today's bubble finance and taming its global casino. Verhagen [...] illuminates the win-win solutions possible when we combine monetary transformation with low-carbon, renewable resource strategies and equitable approaches to sustainable dev...

Today, more than half a century later Kent's wisdom is still a recipe for making millionaires. Other than a few personal preferences, I can find nothing to improve on! Jay P. DeCima

The standard economics textbook for more than a generation, John Stuart Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" was really as much a synthesis of his predecessors' ideas as it was an original economic treatise. Heavily influenced by the work of David Ricardo, and also taking ideas from Adam Smith a...

This authoritative volume on human resource management is highly recommended reading for the HR professional. Written by an acknowledged expert in all areas of business management, The Golden Rules of Human Resource Management is a well-organized guide to understanding this vitally important area of...

"The American National Transportation System Solving the unemployment Problem in America" If you are concerned about the unemployment problem in America, or about the national debt, or the dwindling value of your money and want to do something about it, then read on. This book is about a project tha...

These are the 9 rules that govern how to get people to love you, your company, your products, your ideas, your cause, or your dog.

The purpose of the book is to present, as near as possible, a complete and comprehensive detailed history of Iraq's oil and gas industry during the twentieth century which has been dealt with in a fragmented and inaccurate manner at times in various books, papers and articles. Though the oil revenue...

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Vers une croissance verte: Suivre les progr?'s: Les indicateurs de l'OCDE La Strat gie de l'OCDE pour une croissance verte vise formuler des recommandations concr tes et fournir des instruments de mesure, notamment des indicateurs, qui aideront les pays engendrer la croissance conomique et le d velo...

Les tudes conomiques de l'OCDE: Zone Euro 2012 examine les d veloppements conomiques r cents, les politiques et les perspectives conomiques, d s quilibres et gouvernance de la Zone euro et r formes structurelles et leur impact court terme

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Les tudes conomiques de l'OCDE: Union europ enne 2012 examine les d veloppements conomiques r cents, les politiques et les perspectives conomiques, le march unique et mobilit de la main-d' uvre.

Il s'agit de la premi re valuation des politiques du Burkina Faso pour attirer des investissements dans l'agriculture plus importants et de meilleure qualit . Cette valuation s'inscrit parfaitement dans le d bat sur la confiscation des terres en Afrique et pr sente un examen complet des politiques d...

Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted? Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new bo...

If your business is not where you want it to be, or you've been implementing tactics that aren't working, this book is a 'must read.' Julie's passion and expertise shine through in this refreshing business book which turns traditional business building and business development on its head using a un...