Author: Dan Ariely
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: shape, decisions, forces, hidden, irrational, predictably
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2008-02-19
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 006135323X
ISBN-13: 9780061353239

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn’t possibly be caught? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal but cut coupons to save twenty-five cents on a can of soup? Why do we go back for second helpings at the unlimited buffet, even when our stomachs are already full? And how did we ever start spending $4.15 on a cup of coffee when, just a few years ago, we used to pay less than a dollar? When it comes to making decisions in our

Author: Carol Weston
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: advice, words, wise, girls
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-07-01
List price: $8.99
ISBN-10: 0060583185
ISBN-13: 9780060583187

Looking for some words of wisdom? for girls only is here to help with tips, advice, and tons of fun, clever quotes about friends, family, school, life, and love. Carol Weston, advice columnist, novelist, and best-selling author of girltalk, adds her own spin to over five hundred carefully chosen quotations. You’ll find insight and inspiration in the words of Socrates and Seinfeld, Queen Elizabeth and Queen Latifah, Mark Twain and Halle Berry -- and in proverbs and quotations from around the world and throughout history that are still perfect for here and now.

Author: John Cassidy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: story, greatest, con, dot
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-02-04
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0060008806
ISBN-13: 9780060008802

When Vannevar Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s chief scientific adviser, sat down in 1945 to write a magazine article about the future, he had no idea what he was beginning. Bush’s vision of a desktop computer that would contain all of human knowledge inspired the scientists who built the Internet. In the early 1990s, when a British computer programmer devised the World Wide Web and an Illinois student invented an easy-to-use Web browser, the Internet was transformed from a scientific curiosity into the biggest gold rush since the Klondike.In Dot.con, John Cassidy, one of the country&

Author: Steve Fraser
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: american, life, street, wall, speculator, history, man
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0066620481
ISBN-13: 9780066620480

Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the story of this remarkable transformation in a brilliant, masterfully written narrative filled with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers. Penetrating and engrossing, this is an extraordinary work of history that illuminates the values and the char

Author: Jason Christopher Hartley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: iraq, ground, year, soldier
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-10-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0060843667
ISBN-13: 9780060843663

The Iraqi war is distinguished by something new in the annals of armed conflict: soldier bloggers. Jason Christopher Hartley was one of the first to write a blog and his blog, Just Another Soldier, was one of the first to be written about (mentions in Time, the Wall Street Journal and an AP story). Now in book form, this is one soldier’s view of the war... from the ground up. Jason Christopher Hartley, born in Salt Lake City, raised Mormon, joined the National Guard at age 17 and had been a career weekend soldier for 13 years. Then in 2003 his unit was deployed to Iraq, where he spent 1

Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: wonder, books, book, jungle
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1995-09-27
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0688099793
ISBN-13: 9780688099794

For the past one hundred years, Rudyard Kipling’s classic tales of Mowgli, the lost boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India, have captivated children and adults alike.Mowgli’s days are filled with danger, wonder, and excitement. He learns the ways of the jungle from the wise old bear, Baloo, and the great black panther, Bagheera. He is befriended by the faithful wolf, Gray Brother, and is carried off by the crafty Monkey-People -- only to be rescued by the mighty python, Kaa. And through it all, Mowgli knows that he must someday face his sworn enemy: the ferocious man-hating t

Author: Sonya Hamlin
Publisher: Harpercollins
Keywords: job, success, key, real, listen, people
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1988-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0060156694
ISBN-13: 9780060156695

Whether making a presentation or dealing one on one, interacting at a meeting or just answering questions, do others listen when you talk? This book explains how to communicate successfully so people listen, understand, and are persuaded. It is a comprehensive guide to every aspect of communicating in the workplace and beyond.