"The refreshing perspective of a player down on the muddy fileld, rather than the owner's luxury suite."-Steve & Lizzy Wright, authors of Aggressively Human and Saffron SpyStarting off in a toxic West Palm Beach penny stock boiler room, James Patrick Rooney joins Merrill Lynch's "thundering herd" at the opening of arguably the most disruptive four decades in Wall Street history (1983 through 2017). As the nascent Information Age rapidly transforms...

Bears on the Road to Damascus presents a mad hodgepodge of the real and the fantastic, a literary buffet designed to please several palates.In this collection of short stories and essays, often macabre and always touching, strange tales of terror, love, absurdity, violence, loss, and conviction await. Just when things may seem a bit bleak, charming folk tales emerge to inspire and delight. The title story tracks a convoluted murder mystery in the beach town of Santa Roma, ...

Patrick Rooneys debut novel is an explosive coming of age story for the Millennial generation, those who watched Saddam fall and New Orleans drown when they werent old enough to drive, but not too young to think. Sixteen-year old Joe King struggles to maintain his first sexual relationship, but is driven to question injustices in his personal life and the increasingly violent world outside.Trust Fall is both a heartfelt story of first love and a philosophical search for id...

Policymakers, civic leaders, and scholars have increasingly focused their attention over the last decade-and-a-half on the importance of voluntary participation in civil society. From George H. W. Bush's Thousand Points of Light to Bill Clinton's AmeriCorps to George W. Bush's faith-based initiatives, it is undeniable that communities are looking to increase their levels of charity and voluntarism in the provision of public goods and services.What mobilizes giving and volunteering?...

Nonprofits often struggle financially, overwhelmed by the need to muster a complex combination of income streams that range from grants and government funding to gifts-in-kind and volunteer labor. Financing Nonprofits draws upon a growing body of scholarship in economics and organizational theory to offer a conceptual framework for understanding this diverse mix of financing sources. By applying theory, readers can understand when a nonprofit organization should pursue particular sources o...

**The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller.Over 10 million copies sold around the world.The original book from Morgan Housel, the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money.As featured on the Dr Chatterjee podcast Feel Better, Live More and The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett.**Doing well with money isn't necessarily about w...

"So good, so fully realized. . . . A book about how easily our lives are wrecked, but also how powerfully we're able to survive and rebuild." —Nathan Hill, The New York Times Book ReviewA blistering dark comedy, Rafael Frumkin's The Comedown is a romp across America, from the Kent State shootings to protest marches in Chicago to the Florida Everglades, that explores delineating lines of race, class, religion, and time.Scrappy, street smart d...

A “boisterous and high-spirited debut” (Kirkus starred review)“that enthralls the reader through their every twist and turn” (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for Brittle Paper, The Millions, and The Rumpus, penned by a finalist for the AKO Caine PrizeIn her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti’s virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre....

An insightful and devastating account of how Wall Street lost its way from an insider who experienced the culture of Goldman Sachs first-hand.On March 14, 2012, more than three million people read Greg Smith's bombshell Op-Ed in the New York Times titled "Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs." The column immediately went viral, became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and drew passionate responses from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, legendary General Electric CEO...

**The New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearFrom the long-tenured head of Goldman Sachs, an institution legendary for its culture of success, comes a candid memoir of global leadership in an age of extreme turbulence."Funny, mainly blunt, unexpectedly vulnerable and rarely apologetic.” —Bloomberg“No one has gotten inside the secret walls of Goldman Sachs and told the story of everything abou...

A Short Story by Ann GallagherSteve hates Christmas, and he's pretty sure everyone else is just faking it. After all, his family can't be the only one who seasons their get-togethers with fighting, judgment, and guilt.Eric—his coworker and secret crush—has tried to convince him not to go for another round of family drama this year, but to no avail. It's Christmas. Steve can't just not go home.But when Eric tells a little white lie, Steve's Christmases may n...