Personal Economics

In a world of competing financial interests and information sources, it's important to know there is a guide you can truly trust. Suze Orman's The Road to Wealth is the definitive guide we've been waiting for.

Stop marketing at people! Turn your ideas into epidemics - ideaviruses - by helping your customers do the marketing for you. So says Info Age marketing guru Seth Godin.

In Your Next Move, leadership-transition guru Michael Watkins shows how you can survive and thrive in all the major transitions you will face during your career, including promotion, on-boarding into a new organization, and making an international move. With real-life examples and case studies, he illustrates the defining hurdles associated with each type of transition.

Ask a member of the middle class what it takes to become wealthy, and she'll tell you it takes a bold new idea. Tell that to a self-made millionaire, and he'll vehemently disagree. What explains the difference in mind-set between the self-made wealthy and the rest of us? It's not what you think, as journalist and entrepreneur Lewis Schiff convincingly illustrates through groundbreaking research and compelling storytelling.

From 401(k)s to stocks and bonds, this audiobook focuses exclusively on what you really need to know at this stage in your financial life. Whether you earn $15,000 or $150,000, whether you're single or married, financially inclined or financially challenged, Get a Financial Life will help you manage your money with the smallest possible investment of time and effort.

Be honest: Ever lay awake thinking how much more fun married life used to be? If you’re a member of the human race, then the answer is probably “yes” to all of the above. Marriage is a mysterious, often irrational business. Making it work till death do you part—or just till the end of the week—isn’t always easy. And no one ever handed you a user’s manual. Until now.

Thinking of getting your feet wet in the stock market, but don't know where to begin? Or maybe you've already taken the plunge but would like to know more about the stock investments you've made. Getting Started in Stocks explains everything you need to know.

In Busting the Real Estate Investment Lies, real estate expert Jimmy Vreeland has teamed up with life insurance guru Kim Butler to show you how to break the middle-class myth and find financial freedom through the time-tested method of combining real estate with whole life insurance. Tackling the eight most common misconceptions about real estate investment - from thinking debt is bad to believing property ownership will eat your time - they lay out their proven eight-step plan for strategically building wealth.

Americans are taught to believe that upward mobility is possible for anyone who is willing to work hard, regardless of their social status. Yet it is often those from affluent backgrounds who land the best jobs. Pedigree takes listeners behind the closed doors of top-tier investment banks, consulting firms, and law firms to reveal the truth about who really gets hired for the nation's highest-paying entry-level jobs, who doesn't, and why.

Meet Iris, a sales manager so overwhelmed by meetings she feels like a hamster on a wheel. Just in time, Iris finds a coach - a meeting efficiency and etiquette expert with a simple plan that helps her to meet less, make better use of meeting technology, and get more done.

With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, and with that recovery challenging our long-held ideas about what careers and the market can be, learning the basics of economics has never been more essential. Principles such as gains from trade, the role of profit and loss, and the secondary effects of government spending, taxes, and borrowing risk continue to be critically important to the way America's economy functions, and critically important to understand for those hoping to further their professional lives - even their personal lives.

Embark on a transformative journey to financial independence with "A Black Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom" by Prof. Jasmine Wright. Tailored specifically for Black women, this comprehensive guide addresses the unique financial challenges and opportunities they face, providing practical tools and insights for economic empowerment.

The economic crisis has placed the business cycle back in the spotlight, but as individual investors and financial professionals start the arduous task of portfolio building and rebuilding, the greatest danger they face is relying too much on the past for guidance when the future may look very different. No one can say for certain what our economic future will look like. What investors can do is prepare.

The first inside account of life within a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, eBoys is the fascinating true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups that are transforming the Internet and setting a new pace for the economy - an audible.com audio exclusive!

This audiobook unveils more than 20 secret methods used by banks, governments, and corporations to legally steal 90 percent of your income. Brilliantly authored and astoundingly easy to understand, this audiobook is an eye-popping exposure of the most sophisticated fraud in the history of mankind.

As a travel authority with decades of bed and breakfast visitation experience, I wanted to share my expertise and knowledge with potential bed and breakfast owners who do not have the benefit of a ready-made organizational structure, branding, and marketing that chain properties provide.

We've all encountered them: the bullies, the wet blankets, the yea-sayers that never come through. More often than not, we're left fumbling for words, stumbling toward the door...frustrated, enraged or just plain depressed.

Economics is essential for understanding the world around you. Billions of people across the planet wake up every morning and participate in a profoundly complex and interconnected global economy.

Teaching kids about money isn't easy. So let Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor, do it for you! Scott takes them on an epic, thrilling money ADVENTURE - with fun projects, inspiring stories from 45 kids, rewards and real-life stickers. It's easily the most unique finance book ever written. Kids will roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and learn the value of a buck the old-fashioned way.

Building sustainable relationships, both professionally and personally, is the biggest competitive advantage in a world where automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are eliminating the human experience, which is what creates emotional connections. In the newly revised third edition, renowned growth strategist, innovation consultant, and international speaker David Nour delivers an eye-opening discussion of how to prioritize and maximize your return on strategic relationships to fuel unprecedented professional and personal growth.