• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

    The #1 New York Times bestseller that has all America talking: as seen/heard on Morning Joe, CBS This Morning, The Bill Simmons Podcast, Rich Roll, and more. Shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award    “The most important business—and parenting—book of the year.” —Forbes “Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance.” —Daniel H. Pink   “So much crucial and revelatory information about performance, success, and education.” —Susan Cain, bestselling aut... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0735214484
    • ASIN: 0735214484
    • ISBN: 0735214484
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

  • You Can Do Anything: The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

    In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable choice for finding a successful post-grad career. Our destinies have been reduced to a caricature: learn to write computer code or end up behind a counter, pouring coffee. Quietly, though, a different path to success has been taking shape. In YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, George Anders explains the remarkable powe... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 031654888X
    • ASIN: 031654888X
    • ISBN: 031654888X
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • You Majored in What?: Designing Your Path from College to Career

    Fully revised and updated in 2017, the revolutionary career guide for a new generation of job-seekers, from one of the U.S.’s top career counselors “So what are you going to do with your major?”   It’s an innocent question that can haunt students from high school to graduate school and beyond.   Relax. Your major is just the starting point for designing a meaningful future. In this indispensable guide, Dr. Katharine Brooks shows you a creative, fun, and intelligent way to figure out what you want to do and how to get it—no matter what you studied in college. You will learn to map ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0452296005
    • ASIN: 0452296005
    • ISBN: 9780452296008
    • Manufacturer: Plume

  • The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

    Financial Times Business Book of the Month Finalist for the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Bracken Bower Prize A leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who is going to be driving innovation in the years to comeScott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored in the computer sciences, you were a techie. This informal division has quietly found its way into a default assumption that has misled the business world for decades: that i... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0544944771
    • ASIN: 0544944771
    • ISBN: 0544944771
    • Brand: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom


    • ASIN: 1416590315
    • ASIN: 1416590315
    • ISBN: 1416590315
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • Almanac of American Politics 2018

    The 2018 Almanac of American Politics remains the gold standard of accessible political information, relied on by everyone involved, invested or interested in politics in America. Highly regarded for its in-depth analysis and comprehensive profiles of every congressional district, state, governor and member of Congress, The Almanac is the tool you need to better understand the context of the people and perspectives shaping the issues that matter to you.The Almanac of American Politics is the must have resource for understanding the American political landscape. The 2018 edition includes:In-dep... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1938939565
    • ASIN: 1938939565
    • ISBN: 1938939565
    • Manufacturer: Columbia Books. Inc.

  • 101 Best Ways to Land a Job in Troubled Times

    THE PROVEN FIVE-STEP STRATEGY FOR FINDING THE JOB OF YOUR DREAMS! “If you are serious about landing a quality job quickly in today’s job market, this book will practically guarantee your success.” –Bob Burg, bestselling author of Endless Referrals and The Go-Giver “Jay Block has taken his place as one of the career coaching industry’s most innovative thinkers and contributors.” —Frank X. Fox, Executive Director, Professional Association of Résumé Writers & Career Coaches “A must-read for all job seekers in today’s highly competitive job market.” —Sherry Zylka, Associa... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B002YCXFSG
    • ASIN: B002YCXFSG
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

  • The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe

    A foremost thinker on science and religion argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration Over the past two centuries scientific advances have made it clear that the universe is a story still unfolding. In this thought-provoking book, John F. Haught considers the deeper implications of this discovery. He contends that many others who have written books on life and the universe—including Stephen Hawking, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins—have overlooked a crucial aspect of cosmic history: the dr... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 030021703X
    • ASIN: 030021703X
    • ISBN: 9780300217032
    • Brand: YALE
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

  • Job Moron: Idiot-Proof Strategies for Getting Jobs That Don't Suck

    Competition for great jobs at great companies is fierce. What’s needed is advice from people who have gone before you who have landed these jobs by doing things DIFFERENTLY and CREATIVELY. That’s what this book is about.In this book I’ve interviewed young professionals who have great jobs at great companies to hear how they broke through the clutter of competition to get interviews, to get job offers, and to move up the ladder. Companies including; Geffen Records, The X-Games, MTV, The Whitney Museum, Chiat/Day Advertising, top Finance companies in NYC and leading Software companies in A... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07VS4SRMY
    • ASIN: B07VS4SRMY

  • Hollywood Collection: Burt Lancaster Daring to Reach


    • ASIN: B003M8VNDU
    • ASIN: B003M8VNDU

  • Smart Moves for Liberal Arts Grads : Finding a Path to Your Perfect Career

    Two career counselors offer smart moves for turning a liberal arts degree into a meaningful career, presenting both straightforward job-searching advice and innovative, real-life stories from graduates who have achieved fulfilling

    • UPC: 25939876
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Introduction to the Fundamental Liberal Arts : Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric

    Introduction to the Fundamental Liberal Arts: Grammar, Logic, and

    • UPC: 53412570

  • Quadrivium : The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology

    A unique presentation of ancient knowledge; a glorious gift book in the Wooden Books

    • UPC: 14095787

  • The Fuzzy and the Techie : Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

    A leading venture capitalist offers surprising revelations on who will be driving innovation in the years to

    • UPC: 771879840
    • Rating: 4.0

  • You Can Do Anything : The Surprising Power of a "Useless" Liberal Arts Education

    In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more

    • UPC: 526893469

  • Liberal Arts (DVD)

    When Jesse, a 35-year-old New York college admissions adviser, is invited to his Midwestern alma mater to attend his favorite professors retirement dinner, he quickly falls back in love with the university life. But when

    • UPC: 47084006
    • Color: NOther

  • The Poor Old Liberal Arts

    In this engaging memoir that covers fifty years of a lifetime spent in education as student, teacher, dean, and college president, the author presents a theme of profound importance for society in general, and for

    • UPC: 311542103

  • The Liberal Arts - eBook

    An excellent liberal arts education holds purpose-giving and society-shaping power. But how do we tap into that power and make the most of liberal learning for the glory of God?Professor Gene Fant teaches how to

    • UPC: 425278632
    • Rating: 5.0

  • The Fuzzy and the Techie : Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World

    A contrarian perspective from a leading venture capitalist who contends that the future of advanced technological breakthroughs will come from college graduates who majored in the social sciences and humanities (the Fuzzies) as opposed to the

    • UPC: 55108868
    • Rating: 4.0

  • A Practical Education : Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees

    Stross investigates the real-world experiences of graduates with humanities majors, the majors that would seem the least employable in Silicon Valley's engineering-centric workplaces and provides heartening demonstrations of how multi-capable liberal arts graduates are. 6

    • UPC: 55862639

  • Mark Cuban Sees Greater Demand for Liberal Arts Majors

    Who Hires Liberal Arts Majors?

    So You Have a Liberal Arts Degree and Expect a Job?