Jonathan: 5623 books
Boys Among Men
How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefined the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
The definitive, never-before-told story of the prep-to-pro generation, those basketball prodigies who from 1995 to 2005 made the jump directly from high school to the NBA.
When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college—as young basketball prodigies...
A Cuban Boxer's Journey
Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro’s Traitor to American Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
"What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
This was the question posed by legendary boxer...
Kick and Run
Memoir with Soccer Ball
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Growing up Jewish in London with a difficult home life, Jonathan Wilson had plenty of reasons to feel he didn't belong, and one reason to feel certain he did: football. Wilson discovered his love for the game as a young boy; through his adolescence and adulthood and well into his later years it remained...
Beyond $15
Immigrant Workers, Faith Activists, and the Revival of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
The inside story of the first successful $15 minimum wage campaign that renewed a national labor movement
With captivating narrative and insightful commentary, labor organizer Jonathan Rosenblum reveals the inside story of the first successful fight for a $15 minimum wage, which renewed a national...
Uncertainty
Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Jonathan Fields knows the risks-and potential power-of uncertainty. He gave up a six-figure income as a lawyer to make $12 an hour as a personal trainer. Then, married with a 3-month old baby, he signed a lease to launch a yoga center in the heart of New York City. . . the day before 9/11. But he...
by Jonathan Reed
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Today's workers are free agents who sink or swim on their own. So what are you going to do about it? Get Free from Corporate America! Jon wrote this book for people like himself - those who want to succeed, but on their own terms.The best way to take control of your future is to adopt...
ART/WORK
Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
The definitive, must-have guide to pursuing an art career—the fully revised and updated edition of Art/Work, now in its fourteenth printing, shares the tools artists of all levels need to make it in this highly competitive field.
Originally published in 2009, Art/Work was the first practical...
Fire Your Boss
Serve No Master, #0
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Are you sick of working a job you hate for a boss who despises you? Do you want to get paid what your worth...instead of what your company thinks they can get away with?
Are you struggling to get up in the morning and praying for a snow day? Or just ready to start enjoying some of that freedom...
Career Renegade
How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
There’s a revolution brewing across the nation--a movement that’s changing lives and revealing little known paths to passion and prosperity.
It’s about building a great living around what you love to do most. Once you’ve been touched by it, you’ll never be the same. This book is your...
24/7
Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity and eroding forms of community and political...
The Fix
How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World's Worst Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
We all know the bad news. Our economies are stagnant. Wages are flat and income inequality keeps rising. The Middle East is burning and extremism is spreading. Frightened voters are embracing populist outsiders and angry nationalists. And no wonder: we are living in an age of unprecedented, irreversible...
How to Argue
Powerfully, Persuasively, Positively
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
The ability to persuade, influence and convince is a vital skill for success in work and life. However, most of us have little idea how to argue well. Indeed, arguing is still seen by many as something to be avoided at all costs, and mostly it's done poorly, or not at all. Yet it's possibly the most...
Confronting Inequality
How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected outcome or as the tradeoff we must accept to achieve economic growth. In this book, three International...
Start Up and Run Your Own Business
The Essential Guide to Planning Funding and Growing Your New Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Starting your own business is one thing, but running and keeping it going is another. Annually, there are around 400,000 start-ups in the UK, but in a single year 300,000 businesses also fail. You owe it to yourself, your family, and your own ambition to make your business one of the success stories....