How can someone get the best seats to the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Kentucky Derby, and all the greatest concerts and sporting events in the world? By owning TicketCity, one of America’s fastest-growing ticket brokers.In this motivational and inspirational book, you will learn how author Randy Cohen started a business with just $1,200 and a few University of Texas basketball tickets and built it into a ticket-selling empire that today serves 250,000 clients in seventeen countri...

Drawn from twelve years of the New York Times Magazine's Ethicist column, a collection that "blends nuanced ethical discussions with gentle humor" ( Publishers Weekly).As he provides carefully considered answers to readers' questions about everything from inheritance issues to secrets between spouses to whether shrubbery robbery is ever acceptable, Randy Cohen helps you locate your own internal ethical compass. Organized thematically in an easy-to-...

People with confidence are cool. And cool people have all the fun!Confidence is sexy. Confidence is powerful. Call it what you want—chutzpah, charisma, or the cool factor. But whatever you call it, Randy Cohen, the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) of TicketCity, says it’s all about swagger—or confidence with an attitude! Cohen has been courtside, ringside, and inside at some of the greatest events on the planet—Olympics, Super Bowls, and sold-out megaconcerts. Se...

People with confidence are cool. And cool people have all the fun!Confidence is sexy. Confidence is powerful. Call it what you want—chutzpah, charisma, or the cool factor. But whatever you call it, Randy Cohen, the CEO (Chief Energizing Officer) of TicketCity, says it’s all about swagger—or confidence with an attitude! Cohen has been courtside, ringside, and inside at some of the greatest events on the planet—Olympics, Super Bowls, and sold-out megaconcerts. Secrets of Swagger share...

The man behind the New York Times Magazine’s immensely popular column “The Ethicist”–syndicated in newspapers across the United States and Canada as “Everyday Ethics”–casts an eye on today’s manners and mores with a provocative, thematic collection of advice on how to be good in the real world.Every week in his column on ethics, Randy Cohen takes on conundrums presented in letters from perplexed people who want to do the right thing (or hope to get away with doing the wron...

Discover the Life-Changing Strategy of This Worldwide Bestseller in 17 Languages!Lasting Change For Early Quitters, Burnouts, The Unmotivated, And Everyone Else TooWhen I decided to start exercising consistently 10 years ago, this is what actually happened:I tried "getting motivated." It worked sometimes.I tried setting audacious big goals. I almost always failed them.I tried to make changes last. They didn...

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside...

“Hilarious and big-hearted, The Nest is a stellar debut.” — PeopleA warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonab...

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power.The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.A mild-mannered professor from Chicago, Dodd brings along his wife, son, and flamboyant daughter, Martha. At first Martha is entranced...

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Experience the book that started the Quiet Movement and revolutionized how the world sees introverts—and how introverts see themselves—by offering validation, inclusion, and inspiration“Superbly researched, deeply insightful, and a fascinating read, Quiet is an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand the gifts of the introverted half of the population.”—Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project**

How to Develop Self-Discipline, Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Terms GoalsIf you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can’t think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined.Science has figured out a lot of interesting aspects of self-discipline and willpower, but most of this knowledge is buried deep inside long and boring scientific papers.If you’d li...

These Habits and Exercises Will Help You Build Iron-Like Resolve and Self-DisciplineDo you make goals, yet get discouraged when your plans don’t work? We all know that person who seemingly was born to succeed. Fitness, health, business, they achieve all their goals. You want that success, and know you can get it... but how?Everywhere you turn, there are obstacles that block your path. Being successful doesn’t mean avoiding them, it means meeting those obsta...