A Girl's Guide to Managing the Money You Make While Living the Life You Want "Cash in the City is destined to become the urban girl's ultimate guide to a glamorous lifestyle . . . on a shoestring salary. It's overflowing with sage advice for living well, looking good, and having fun. I also found a very powerful and upbeat message for young women everywhere-You can create whatever life you desire . . . if you know how to do it right. Juliette Fairley shows the reader precisely, and with great flair, how to do just that." -Barbara Stanny, author of Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money Looking and feeling good is expensive-especially in America's big cities. From New York City to Los Angeles, single, young, working women in big cities are finding it increasingly difficult to live up to the standards set in TV and movies. No longer do you have to sacrifice a night on the town in order to afford those shoes you must have. By combining financial advice with real-life issues, Cash in the City shows you how to have it all and do it all without breaking the bank. In this first-of-its-kind book, you'll learn how to live the glamorous life, get weekly pedicures, and pay your bills on time! Cash in the City will help you overcome the obstacles that every hip young woman from San Francisco to Atlanta, Chicago to Boston faces. You'll quickly learn how to avoid money missteps and keep your finances in order while you decorate your apartment, keep yourself looking good, and negotiate for a raise. Dig in your high heels, crack open this book, and find out how to live life to the fullest, even on a budget. You can be an "It" girl and financially savvy all at the same time.

A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.

"A 14% credit card rate! What a deal!" "Where it says 'adjustable' here on my mortgage - that means 'fixed', right?" "Work until I retire, then collect Social Security. That's my wealth plan." If you've ever wondered how your money works, where it goes or how it grows, stop wondering. "Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense" deconstructs personal finance so that everyone but the hopelessly inept can understand it. Inside the book, you'll learn: [ how to get your bank accounts, credit cards and other financial instruments to work for you, and not the other way around [ the right way to buy a car (i.e. with the salesman cursing your name as you drive away) [ where and how to invest, and what all those symbols, charts and graphs mean [ how to turn expenses into income, and stop living paycheck-to-paycheck [ whom the tax system is stacked against (hint: it's most of us) and how to use that to your advantage [ the very key to wealth itself. In fact, the authors thought it was so important they put it on the cover so you can read it even if you're too cheap to buy the book: Buy assets, sell liabilities. Finally, a book that explains personal finance not only in layman's terms, but in detail. If you can read, and have any capacity for self-discipline, invest a few bucks in "Control Your Cash" now and reap big financial rewards for the rest of your life.

A West Virginia PI is out to avenge his son’s murder in this debut crime novel. For the past seven years, Nick Malick has been haunted by the violent death of his young son. In his gut, Malick knows who did it. But the psychopath is in prison for another crime, scheduled to be released in a year. To exact his revenge, all Malick has to do is wait . . . and survive. Having lost his marriage and career in the wake of the tragedy, Malick scrapes by as a private investigator in the blue-collar town of Cain City, West Virginia. His latest case tasks him with finding a young woman gone missing. Seems simple enough. But when his investigation exposes a link between a corrupt police force and a powerful drug cartel, Malick finds himself at the center of an explosive criminal conspiracy. Turns out, when there’s no one to trust and a whole lot of people want you dead, survival and revenge aren’t so easy. “Quick and nimble, peopled with unforgettable characters, Cash City provides everything I hope to find in a hard-boiled crime novel.” —A.F. Carter, author of The Hostage

This colorful history will appeal to borth the interested reader and transportation historian. Brian Cudahy's skillful narrative is combined with a wealth of period photographs. The first comprehensive history of public transportation in North America to be published in more than 60 years, the book traces the grwoth of urban mass transit from the horse-drawn street cars of the 1830's through the development of cable cars, electric street cars, subways, and buses, to the new light rail systems that are playing a key role in today's urban transit renaissance. The book is not bound to any geographical region and examines transit rail systems throughout the United States and Canada.

Vols. 19- include the Proceedings of the association's 12-27th annual conventions.