Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: american, dream, pursuit, futile, switch, bait
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-07-25
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0805081240
ISBN-13: 9780805081244

The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book ReviewAmericans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations slash employees by the thousands, and the benefits and pensions once guaranteed by “middle-class” jobs are a thing of the past. In Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich goes back undercover to explore another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with the plausible resume of a

Authors:Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin Eller,
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: richest, corporation, wields, power, world’s, inside, bill, gates, microsoft, barbarians
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-06-30
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0805057552
ISBN-13: 9780805057553

Teamed with the daughter of one of Bill Gates’s closest associates, thirteen- year Microsoft veteran Marlin Eller illuminates every step along Gates’s route to world domination and to Microsoft’s current headline-making federal antitrust case, making all that’s been written before seem like a rough guess. Revealing the smoke-and- mirror deals, the launching of products that didn’t exist, and the boneyard of once-thriving competitors targeted by the Gates juggernaut, this book demonstrates with often hilariously damning detail the Microsoft muddle that passes for s

Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: america, getting, dimed, nickel
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2002-05-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0805063897
ISBN-13: 9780805063899

The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, hous

Author: Patrick F. McManus
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: strikes, samaritan
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1993-08-15
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0805029222
ISBN-13: 9780805029222

More witty cautionary tales of outdoor life, by everybody’s favorite expert on the subject, Patrick F. McManus.

Author: Sifu Marc Hauser
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: think, really, animals, minds, wild
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 080505670X
ISBN-13: 9780805056709

Do animals think? Can they count? Do they have emotions? Do they feel anger, frustration, hurt, or sorrow? At last, here is a book that provides authoritative answers to these long-standing questions. Most popular science books t to misrepresent animals, presenting them either as furry little humans or as creatures that cannot feel at all. Marc D. Hauser, an acclaimed scientist in the field of animal cognition, uses insights from evolutionary theory and cognitive science to examine animal thought without such biases or preconceptions. Hauser treats animals neither as machines devoid of feeling

Author: Robert W. Bly
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: repeat, business, referrals, phone, sales, leads, successful, telephone, selling, generate, secrets
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-06-15
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0805040986
ISBN-13: 9780805040982

Today the telephone can supplement-in some cases even replace-traditional means of marketing and selling. This guide shows how to generate more leads, sales, repeat business, and referrals by phone and will be welcomed by small- and medium-sized businesses as well as by professional telemarketers and sales representatives.

Author: R.W.B. Lewis
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: personal, sightings, vistas, historical, florence, city
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1996-04-15
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0805046305
ISBN-13: 9780805046304

A New York Times Notable BookIn this deeply personal and learned labor of love, R.W.B. Lewis provides a new look at the glories of Florence, the smallish Tuscan city which has been a prime source for modern Western culture and which has also been his second home for fifty years. With a scholar’s eye and a lover’s passion, he invites us to share his vision of a city and the way of life it has engendered and inspired.