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Down By the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family
by Charles BowdenLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money.Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family.
Just How Good Could You Be?: Grow Your Personal Capital
by Hilarie OwenMomentum is a completely new publishing philosophy that revolves around one thing: you.In print and online, it's the force behind your personal development, your talent, your skills, your career, your effectiveness, your work and your life.
Innervation: Redesign Yourself For A Smarter Future
by Guy BrowningIn the new economy you are in charge of your own career. You have more opportunities than ever before, but in order to take full advantage of them you mustlearn a vital new skill--personal innovation. Innervation shows you how to master this essential skill and thrive in a world of continuous change.
Interviewing And Salary Negotiation
by Kate WendletonINTERVIEWING AND SALARY NEGOTIATION will help you: Meet with the right people...Beat the competition...and Negotiate the best salary-whether you're looking for $20,000 or $500,000. You got the interview; now what do you do? How do you turn that great networking meeting into a job lead? Would you like to get the most by mastering the "Four-Step Salary Negotiation Method"? What's the best way to make sure the job you're offered is the job you really want? INTERVIEWING AND SALARY NEGOTIATION is for every job hunter who wants to ace the interview...to turn that interview into a job offer...and to maximize the salary offer. INTERVIEWING AND SALARY NEGOTIATION teaches you how to: Gain more power in the job interview. Find out who your competitors are and how you stack up. Use the follow-up checklist to turn interviews into offers. Start out on the right foot in your new job. INTERVIEWING AND SALARY NEGOTIATION is based on the highly successful methods used at The Five O'clock Club, America's Premier Career Counseling Network, where the average participant finds a new job in less than 10 weeks. Kate Wendleton, a nationally syndicated careers columnist, is an authority on job search and career development. Kate has been a career coach since 1978 when she founded The Five O'Clock Club to help job hunters, career changers, and consultants at all levels. She is also the founder of Workforce America, a not-for-profit organization serving adult job hunters in Harlem who are not yet in the professional or managerial ranks. A former CEO of two small companies, Kate has twenty years of business experience as well as an MBA.
Snap, Crackle, or Stop: Change Your Career and Create Your Own Destiny
by Barbara QuinnWhether you've snapped or are crackling with discontent, this book will help you evaluate your current career state and guide you to make the necessary career change. Filled with examples of real people who have transformed their lives, <i>Snap, Crackle, or Stop</i> will inspire you to do the same. Momentum books are for people who want to make things happen in their career and their life, who want to work at something they enjoy and that's worthy of their talent and their time. Momentum people have values and principles. They question who they are and what they do. Wherever they work, they want to feel that what they do has meaning.
The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide for Achieving Success and Satisfaction (Crown Business Briefings)
by James M. Citrin Richard A. Smith<p>What is different about the careers of people like Lou Gerstner, the acclaimed, recently retired chairman and CEO of IBM? Or Senator Elizabeth Dole, Yahoo! COO Dan Rosensweig, and Tom Freston, chairman and CEO of MTV Networks? <p>Why did they ascend to the top and prosper—why did they have extraordinary careers—while others equally talented never reached their potential or aspirations? <p>Jim Citrin and Rick Smith of Spencer Stuart, the world’s most influential executive search firm, set out to explore this question. The result—based on in-depth, original research—is sure to be the most important and useful book for anyone seeking to crack the code of how to build a rewarding, personally satisfying career. <p>Like weather systems and financial markets, careers contain patterns. What Citrin and Smith found from their research and extensive experience is that people with extraordinary careers are guided by five straightforward patterns that can be harnessed and used by everyone. These individuals: <p> <li>Understand the value of you by translating their knowledge and experience into action, building their personal value over each phase of their career <li>Practice benevolent leadership by not clawing their way to the top but by being carried there <li>Solve the permission paradox, the dilemma of not being able to get a job without experience and not getting the experience without the job <li>Differentiate using the 20/80 principle of performance by storming past their defined jobs to create breakthrough ideas and deliver unexpected impact <li>Do not micromanage their careers, but macromanage them by gravitating toward the things they are best at and have a passion for, and working with people they like and respect</li> <p> <p>No one manages your career for you. But with Citrin and Smith as your guide, you’ll be able to understand—and act on—the root causes of success. And what better source for strategic career advice than Spencer Stuart, the firm that over the past ten years has conducted more than 60 percent of the searches for <i>Fortune 1000</i> CEOs?</p>
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip
by Jim RogersBehind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancee, began their Adventure They drove through 116 countries, through war zones, deserts, jungles, and blizzards.
Scotland: The Story of a Nation
by Magnus MagnussonScotland from antiquity through the end of the Stuart monarchy in Britain (1714) with just a little of Scotland's history during the reign of the Hanoverians, Victoria and during the twentieth century. Well written, scholarly while remaining a easily read enjoyable history.
The New Economy: What It Is, How It Happened, and Why It Is Likely to Last
by Roger AlcalyDefense of capitalism.
Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and Its Time to Take It Back
by Jim HightowerIn Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower takes on the Kleptocrats, Wobblycrats, and Bushites with hilarious results. Digging up behind-the-scenes dirt on stories the corporate news media overlooks (and don’t get him started on them!), Hightower reveals the real stories behind BushCo’s "Friday Night Massacres," what’s happened to our food, and the Bush plan for empire. With grassroots solutions, drawing on Hightower’s national Rolling Thunder Down- Home Democracy Tour—a traveling festival of rebellion against every tentacle of the corporate-politico power grab—Hightower is tapping into the activist network that is thriving at kitchen tables all over America. This is the real America the rest of the world doesn’t get to see, delivered with Hightower’s own hilarious brand of wit and outrage.
Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats, and the Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity
by Kevin PhillipsThe author of The Politics of Rich and Poor documents the economic frustration of the middle class, arguing that the middle class has been systematically undermined and fragmented by the Reagan-Bush economic policies.
Complete Guide to Consulting Contracts
by Herman HoltzIn this new edition with the forms on disk, The Complete Guide to Consulting offers legal, binding, and enforceable agreements at the click of a button. Readers can use the built-in software or pull the forms up into popular word-processing packages. Either way, consultants can use more than 40 model agreements and clauses to customize forms.
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
by Kevin PhillipsThe Bushes are the family nobody really knows, says Kevin Phillips. This popular lack of acquaintance—nurtured by gauzy imagery of Maine summer cottages, gray-haired national grandmothers, July Fourth sparklers, and cowboy boots—has let national politics create a dynasticized presidency that would have horrified America’s founding fathers. They, after all, had led a revolution against a succession of royal Georges. In this devastating book, onetime Republican strategist Phillips reveals how four generations of Bushes have ascended the ladder of national power since World War One, becoming entrenched within the American establishment—Yale, Wall Street, the Senate, the CIA, the vice presidency, and the presidency—through a recurrent flair for old-boy networking, national security involvement, and political deception. By uncovering relationships and connecting facts with new clarity, Phillips comes to a stunning conclusion: The Bush family has systematically used its financial and social empire—its "aristocracy"—to gain the White House, thereby subverting the very core of American democracy. In their ambition, the Bushes ultimately reinvented themselves with brilliant timing, twisting and turning from silver spoon Yankees to born-again evangelical Texans. As America—and the world—holds its breath for the 2004 presidential election, American Dynasty explains how it happened and what it all means.
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich -- and Cheat Everyone Else
by David Cay JohnstonOne of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest people within the top 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for nine years, work for which one business school professor calls him ìthe de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United Statesî. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country. And he has sound advice on what to do. Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in who benefits from the American economy and bears the burden of taxes. CEOs, big investors and business owners can delay paying their taxes for years and sometimes escape them almost entirely, while wage earners have their taken from each paycheck. Discreet lobbying by the political donor class has made tax policies and enforcement a disaster. Because of obligations to these donors Washington has been unable, or unwilling, to fix these problems. The news media have largely ignored official favors to those who are supposed to pay the corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax. Millions of families expecting tax cuts are losing some or all of them to a stealth tax that was originally enacted only to apply to the tax-avoiding rich, but that now stings single mothers making as little as $28,000. But the cumulative results are remarkable: the 400 richest Americans pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than someone making $100,000. The 400 richest pay less and less of their income in taxes while the middle class pays more and more. And while the incomes of the very rich skyrocketed over three decades, the average income for the bottom 90 percent fell. Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening income gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind: * "middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit * how workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with hundreds of millions * how some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax * how CEOs fly on vacation in corporate jets for less than you pay for a middle seat in coach ñ and stick you with most of the cost * why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else * how the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them
America's Top Jobs For People Without A Four-Year Degree: Sixth Edition
by Michael FarrAmerica's Top Jobs for People Without a Four-Year Degree describes 190 major occupations that do not require a four-year degree. Knowing more about these jobs can help you plan your training and education, make a career choice or change, or find work with higher pay and more advancement potential. Each description includes details about the following: Significant Points Nature of the Work Working Conditions Employment Training, Other Qualifications, and Advancement Job Outlook Earnings Related Occupations Sources of Additional Information
Building a Great Resume: For Job Hunters, Career Changers, Consultants, and Freelancers (2nd edition)
by Kate WendletonThe average resume is only looked at for ten seconds. Would you like yours to stand out? Would you like to learn how to highlight your strengths and hide your weaknesses? Would you like a marketing piece that dynamically presents you just the way you want prospective employers to see you? BUILDING A GREAT RESUME starts with an overview of The Five O'clock approach to job search. You'll learn to develop the accomplishment statements that form the backbone of your resume. You'll learn the most effective ways to present your experience. You'll learn how to write a summary that increases your chances of getting just the job you want. Your resume will be more exciting to the reader. BUILDING A GREAT RESUME helps you see the theory in practice by showing you scores of sample resumes. And this is the only resume book on the market to bring you case studies that teach you the nuances of how to think about resume preparation. The book is fully indexed by industry and profession so you can easily find the resumes that pertain to you. BUILDING A GREAT RESUME is based on the highly successful methods used at The Five O'clock Club, America's Premier Career Counseling Network, where the average participant finds a new job in less than 10 weeks. Kate Wendleton, a nationally syndicated careers columnist, is an authority on job search and career development. Kate has been a career coach since 1978 when she rounded The Five O'clock Club to help job hunters, career changers, and consultants at all levels. She is also the founder of-Workforce America, a not-for-profit organization serving adult job hunters in Harlem who are not yet in the professional or managerial ranks. A former CEO of two small companies. Kate has twenty years of business experience as well as an MBA.
Getting Interviews for Job Hunters, Career Changers, Consultants and Freelancers
by Kate WendletonGetting Interviews explains to the reader how to find out whom they should be talking to, and how to get those people to agree to meet with them. They will learn about informational meetings and networking interviews. This book also explains to the reader how to market themself- to plan a whole campaign that runs the gamut from personal contacts to phone, e-mail, and targeted direct mail efforts.
The Promotable Woman: 10 Essential Skills For The New Millennium, Third Edition
by Norma Carr-RuffinoThe Promotable Woman: 10 Essential Skills For The New Millennium, by Norma Carr-Ruffino, presents to you, the businesswoman, a detailed plan for developing solid leadership skills in order to overcome career obstacles and stereotypes and get ahead in business. By concentrating on your own image and your perceived role in business, The Promotable Woman guides you to find the appropriate level of firmness, friendliness, and assertiveness in order to maintain a successful and fulfilling business and personal life. Through case studies and simulation exercises, The Promotable woman teaches you to work effectively within the business environment, conquer age-old barriers, and most important, prevail as a business leader. Specific areas of development The Promotable Woman explores include: Improving your leadership ability by altering your self concept. Mastering technology and the changing business world to gain a competitive advantage. Making constructive behavioral changes that help you function more effectively as a person. Enhancing specific skills that establish your competence. Learning to manage stress to avoid burnout and to channel emotions into creativity. Communicating assertively and managing difficult people. Confronting stereotypes. Norma Carr-Ruffino, Ph.D., Professor of Management at San I Francisco State University, is a well-known lecturer and author who has conducted seminars and made presentations throughout the United States. Active in the business world for more than 15 years, she worked her way up from secretary to manager to corporate officer.
The Portable Coach: A Do-It-Yourself Approach To Personal Coaching
by Lorraine C. EnosEach year thousands of Americans pay personal coaches up to $200.00 an hour for advice on how to make career and personal changes in their lives. Coaches guided their clients through transformation steps including individual assessment and goal setting. Millions more could benefit from the services of a personal coach but cannot afford their hefty fees. The Portable Coach: A Do-It-Yourself Approach to Personal Coaching fills this void and contains realistic advice on how readers can bring lasting changes to their lives. Instead of providing easy answers, The Portable Coach encourages readers to ask tough questions and look within themselves for answers. This book is a must read for anyone who desires to transform their life.
The Book Of Me: Life coach yourself to success
by Barrie Pearson Neil ThomasMe-commerce is the mechanism by which you can develop and exploit your assets, skills and character to achieve personal and financial success and balance in your life. We make plans for other people. We make profits for them. We think strategically at work but not at home. This book will put a stop to all this. Imagine you were a business - Me plc - you would be constantly assessing your skills, assets and objectives as well as the way you were managed. The chances are that you are not doing this sufficiently for yourself. If you are not wholly satisfied about where your life is going, financially or personally, and the balance and fulfilment in your life, this book will help you considerably. It has been written by two entrepreneurs, each of whom started his own business, built it and subsequently sold it very successfully to a major company. It is a manual to help you realize your full potential, by putting yourself first for a change. You are the business you have inherited. You can be the best business you will ever get to manage.
Careers In Focus: Therapists
by Ferguson PublishingExamines careers related to various kinds of therapy covering the basics of each job personal and professional requirements work environment salary statistics future outlook for the career and more.
Careers In Focus: Business Managers
by Ferguson PublishingEach article in this book discusses a particular business manager occupation in detail. Many of the articles in Careers in Focus: Business Managers appear in Ferguson's Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance but have been updated and revised with the latest information from the U.S. Department of Labor and other sources.
Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community
by Elijah AndersonEthnography contrasting two adjacent communities: one is a ghetto and the other is being rapidly gentrified.
@ The Entry Level: On Survival, Success, & Your Calling As A Young Professional
by Michael BallCash, Coercion, Cons, Whatever it takes to get unsuspecting grads to sign that offer letter, Corporate America is game. Because once it's finally plain that the entry level, in fact, is a hellish and demeaning place of grunt-work, brown-nosing, and mental drool, the ink's already dry and the newbies in bed. Way in, what with the pressure to keep post-college resumes stocked with "respectable" Fortune 500 firms. Instead, most early-stage workers end burying their dreams underneath their paycheck, suffering quietly through the frustration, depression, and thoughts of beating their manager with a stick. No more. @ The Entry Level is designed to lead you through the psychologies, philosophies, and strategies for succeeding in business' basement, but with the single-minded purpose of finding the work you were made to do. It's the first book ever to dispel the myths, whisper the tricks, and supply the tools to help you as a young professional: *Manage the transition from college to work *Negotiate the Entry Level Rite of Passage Navigate office politics and build your personal brand *Earn the promotion or transfer with the right fit *Locate a sturdy work - life balance *Uncover your values to make intelligent, healthy career decisions *Gain the courage to follow your passion and find your calling Further taking a hard look at the seduction of money, the silliness of company loyalty, and the side-effects of waiting until midlife to figure out what your job should mean, this is the indispensable guide for career freshmen seeking a deeper, richer working life. And for those who just need to keep breathing. Michael Ball is the founder and CEO of Career Freshman Company, an organization dedicated to helping young professionals discover success, passion, and fulfillment in their work. A disillusioned Big Five (now Four) consulting veteran and Silicon Valley startup survivor, he's found his own calling as an author, speaker, and career coach to college students and corporate grunts. He lives in Los Angeles.
How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business (Third Edition)
by Lucy V. ParkerStep by step information and suggestions on all aspects of setting up a home-based writing business. The author assumes you know how to write. Very thorough. The book includes worksheets. You will have a complete business plan after completing them.