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Crash-proof
The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor the value of the dollar is sinking domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook.What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing. Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.
Author:
Peter D. Schiff & John Downes
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780470043608
Format: Hardback Book
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Against the Gods
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism. -The New York Times An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book. -The Wall Street Journal A lively panoramic book ...Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it. -Business Week Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read. -The Economist [A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world. -Worth No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement. -Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it.
-John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. An extremely readable history of risk. -Barron's Fascinating ...this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face. -Money A singular achievement. -Times Literary Supplement There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would ming
Author:
Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471295631
Format: Paperback Book
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Staying Small Successfully
Many architects, landscape architects, and interior designers are self-employed or are partners in small firms. The revision of this text addresses the changes that affect the successful management and growth of small firms. It covers topics of critical importance to small firms, including planning and strategy, client services, growth management, financial planning, technology, and the hiring, management, and compensation of personnel. There are new chapters on technology covering project delivery via the Internet, technology-driven project scheduling, and the importance of electronic communication. Updated case studies offer insights into the success of over 50 small design firms and the book is filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, easy-to-read charts, and more.
Author:
Frank Stasiowski
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471407737
Format: Hardback Book
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Currency Trading for Dummies
Features forex market guidelines and sample trading plans. The fun and easy way to get started in currency trading. Want to capitalize on the growing forex market? This nuts-and-bolts guide gives you a step-by-step action plan for understanding and trading the forex market. It offers practical guidance and savvy tips in everything from comprehending currency quotes to using leverage, trading with fundamentals, and navigating technical analysis. It helps the reader to: identify trading opportunities understand what drives the market choose a trading broker execute a successful trade minimize risk and maximize profit and analyze currency charts.
Author:
Mark Galant & Brian Dolan
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780470127636
Format: Paperback Book
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Traders, Guns and Money
I had been in derivatives for over 25 years. Many traders hadn't been born when I stumbled accidentally into the arcane world of derivatives trading. The Indonesians were at the fag end of that career. How did I get there? I had followed the money. I had ridden the tide and currents of financial markets. I had not known very much then. Even now I only knew the many unknowns. How did I get here? It was a very long story. Send Traders, Guns and Money is that story .. Warren Buffet once labelled derivatives financial weapons of mass destruction . Unlike the military kind, financial WMD are not hard to find. Many great companies use them. These businesses use derivatives to make money or protect them from risk. It's a simple case of greed or fear. Or is it? In derivatives, whoever you are, there are things that you don't know that you don't know. These are the real risks of derivatives. They're generally left to the client to discover. So, if you're entering the dazzling world of derivatives, ask yourself this: What do I know? What do I need to know? What don't I know? What am I doing?You can find the answers in Traders, Guns & Money, a sensational and controversial first-person account of the business of derivatives trading and the financial products industry in the spirit of Liar's Poker.
It is a true insider's view of the business of trading and marketing derivatives for a living. It details the nature of the business, the players, how money is made and lost, and the deceptions that underlie the entire process. Funny and poignant, and written in a wry and wickedly comic style, the book provides the ordinary reader with an insight into the seeming madness that underlies financial markets and the out-of-control process that is trading in complex financial products that few understand. Traders, Guns & Money throws light on the culture, games, and pure deceptions played out every day in trading rooms around the world, and played out with other people's money. ...
Author:
Satyajit Das
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 9780273704744
Format: Paperback Book
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Put it in Writing
Teaches managers how to communicate directly through the written word. This book shows you how to: write clearly, effectively, and quickly; improve letters and reports, technical and non-technical; develop a pleasing style; project a positive image of yourself and your company; avoid common errors in grammar, spelling, and word usage; and more.
Author:
Albert M. Joseph
Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers
ISBN: 9780070393080
Format: Paperback Book
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Australian Residential Property Development
Australians have long had a love affair with residential property. We have one of the highest rates of homeownership in the world and investing in residential real estate is a popular route to financial security. In this fascinating, practical book, successful property developer, architect and writer Ron Forlee shows how, through careful planning and development, returns on property investment can be considerably enhanced. Readers are taken ?step by step ?from site selection, sourcing development finance, getting advice, working with contractors, councils, consultants and solicitors, costing, monitoring and managing risk, and marketing, to finally selling the improved property. Including tables, checklists and drawings, Australian Residential Property Development offers a huge amount of information evolving from the author? own education and experience.
Author:
Ron Forlee
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780731403073
Format: Paperback Book
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Earth Users Guide to Permaculture
This classic manual of practical permaculture brings us up-to-date with our needs to measure, monitor, and reduce our ecological footprint. It contains extra chapters on seedsaving, pest management, and water usage.
Author:
Rosemary Morrow
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
ISBN: 9780731812714
Format: Paperback Book
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The PayPal Wars
When Peter Thiel and Max Levchin launched an online payment website in 1999, they hoped their service could improve the lives of millions around the globe. But when their start-up, PayPal, survived the dot.com crash only to find itself besieged by unimaginable challenges, that dream threatened to become a nightmare. PayPal's history as told by former insider Eric Jackson is an engrossing study of human struggle and perseverance against overwhelming odds. The entrepreneurs that Thiel and Levchin recruited to overhaul world currency markets first had to face some of the greatest trials ever thrown at a Silicon Valley company before they could make internet history. Business guru Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, called the hardcover edition of The PayPal Wars a real page turner that featured what he called the best description of business strategy unfolding in a world changing at warp speed. The new paperback edition will feature updated material and even more insights on the state of internet commerce.
Author:
Eric M Jackson
Publisher: World Ahead Publishing
ISBN: 9780977898435
Format: Paperback Book
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Self-esteem
Since its first publication in 1987, Self-Esteem has become the first choice of therapists and savvy readers looking for a comprehensive, self-care approach to improving self-image, increasing personal power, and defining core values. More than 600,000 copies of this book have helped literally millions of readers feel better about themselves, achieve greater success, and enjoy their lives to the fullest. You can do it, too! By using these books as a set, you'll be able to customize your self-esteem work with exercises and writing projects that reinforce and support the ideas in the original book.
Author:
Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications,U.S.
ISBN: 9781572241985
Format: Paperback Book
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Death Sentence
'in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game.' - Don Watson Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay of language and why this threatened democratic society. But compared to what we now endure, the public language of Orwell's day brimmed with life and truth. Today's corporations, government departments, news media, and, perhaps most dangerously, politicians speak to each other and to us in clichd, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. Don Watson can bear it no longer. In DEATH SENTENCE, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words and their users who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, DEATH SENTENCE is a small book of profound weight and timeliness.
Author:
Don Watson
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9781740512787
Format: Paperback Book
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How the Mighty Fall
Decline can be avoided. Decline can be detected. Decline can be reversed. Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward doom becomes inevitable and unshakable? How can companies reverse course? In How the Mighty Fall, Collins confronts these questions, offering leaders the well-founded hope that they can learn how to stave off decline and, if they find themselves falling, reverse their course. Collins' research project - more than four years in duration - uncovered five step-wise stages of decline: Stage 1: Hubris Born of Success Stage 2: Undisciplined Pursuit of More Stage 3: Denial of Risk and Peril Stage 4: Grasping for Salvation and, Stage 5: Capitulation to Irrelevance or Death. By understanding these stages of decline, leaders can substantially reduce their chances of falling all the way to the bottom. Great companies can stumble, badly, and recover. Every institution, no matter how great, is vulnerable to decline. There is no law of nature that the most powerful will inevitably remain at the top. Anyone can fall and most eventually do. But, as Collins' research emphasizes, some companies do indeed recover - in some cases, coming back even stronger - even after having crashed into the depths of Stage 4. Decline, it turns out, is largely self-inflicted, and the path to recovery lies largely within our own hands. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our history, or even our staggering defeats along the way. As long as we never get entirely knocked out of the game, hope always remains. The mighty can fall, but they can often rise again.
Author:
Jim Collins
Publisher: Arrow Books
ISBN: 9781847940421
Format: Hardback Book
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Failure to Learn
Discusses the causes of a major explosion at the BP Texas City Oil refinery on 23 March 2005. Also analyses the similarities between this event and the Longford Gas Plant explosion in Victoria in 1998.
Author:
Andrew Hopkins
Publisher: CCH Australia Limited
ISBN: 9781921322440
Format: Paperback Book
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Thriving, Not Just Surviving, in Difficult Times
This book is a timely, powerful plan to finish rich in the new financial era. Fortunes will be made in these turbulent economic times and the divide between the rich and the average Australian is only going to widen. Author Michael Yardney will help you achieve your financial goals faster as he shares a road map of proven principles and updated strategies. The core of Yardney's method is a step-by-step process that will help readers identify, master and implement the key wealth strategies they need to build real wealth.
Author:
Michael Yardney
Publisher: WILKINSON PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781921332593
Format: Paperback Book
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You Can't Always Get What You Want
Sam Cutler was tour manager for the Rolling Stones at some of their major gigs in the late sixties, including the free Altamont, California concert at which a man was murdered by a Hell's Angel in front of the stage while the Stones played on. After the show, Sam was left behind to make peace with the Hell's Angels, the various mobsters and organisations who had taken an overt interest in the event, and the people of America. Cutler has decided that it is time to put to rest the myths and legends that have grown up around this infamous event in rock history and for the first time reveal the truth. Sam survived Altamont and went on to live the ultimate rock and roll dream. This is his own account of the high ol' times he had managing tours for San Francisco band the Grateful Dead - who went on to become the world's most successful live act. Along the way Sam draws intimate portraits of other stars of the psychedelic circus that was the music industry in the sixties and seventies, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Band, the Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd and Eric Clapton. This is an exhilarating rock memoir from someone who has seen - and done - it all.
Author:
Sam Cutler
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9781741666090
Format: Paperback Book
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The Snowball
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER and the only book on Warren Buffett that has his full cooperation and unprecedented access to his life
Author:
Alice Schroeder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780747591917
Format: Hardback Book
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Sport Governance
Sport Governance provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles to amateur and professional sport organisations operating at the community, state/provincial, national, and international levels. It presents a balanced view between accepted practice and what contemporary research evidence tells us about a range of governance principles and practices. Organised in three parts, the text provides the reader with: an explanation of the concept of governance, key terms and definitions as well as the economic, political and social factors that impact on how the governance function is enacted within sport organisations an understanding of the 'mechanics' of governance - the elements of structure, process and performance that ensure the governance function is carried out within sport organisations and, a discussion of a number of contextual issues in sport governance, including dual leadership, ethics, governance change and future governance challenges.
Sport Governance is essential reading for practitioners working and volunteering in the sport industry and upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in sport and leisure management programs. It provides a comprehensive guide to the practical application of governance principles in sport organisations. It presents a balanced view between accepted practice and contemporary research evidence. It is organised in three parts: the concept of governance, the mechanics of governance, and contextual issues in sport governance.
Author:
Russell Hoye & Graham Cuskelly
Publisher: Elsevier Publishers
ISBN: 9780750669993
Format: Paperback Book
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Gold
This is a fresh look at the most important investment trend of the early 21st century. Many view the current bull market in gold as a flash in the pan, doomed to fizzle. Au contraire, say bestselling author Addison Wiggin and award winning analyst Justice Litle. In this explosive new book, Wiggin and Litle tackle the assertion that gold is but a barbarous relic head on. In so doing, they offer one of the most intelligent arguments currently available on why the bull market could take gold well beyond $2,000 an ounce four times today's price. Sweeping changes in technology, globalization, and the forces of creative destruction are tearing apart old business models, like GM and Ford. But, the authors assert, these vast changes won't stop with corporate America. Next in the crosshairs? - Western governments and the money you currently use to buy products you need to live. Gold is uniquely poised to restore confidence in the financial markets. Investors, consumers, retirees, politicians, and families would be wise to take heed.
Gold is not rooted in a desire to turn back the clock to the glory days of the fabled goldbug rather, it presents a fresh and aggressive perspective on the evolving relationship between man and money. Unlike other books that rely heavily on abstractions and theory, this invaluable resource provides readers with an entertaining, easy to read strategy for building a fortress of impervious wealth.
Author:
Nathan Lewis,
Addison Wiggin
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780470047668
Format: Hardback Book
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Jesse Livermore
An excellent read.-Ace Greenberg, Chairman. Bear Stearns Richard Smitten's Jesse Livermore is the first full biography of the legendary trader profiled in the bestselling Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley: 0--471--05970--6). Although he died more than half a century ago, Livermore is considered by today's top traders as the greatest trader who ever lived. An enigmatic loner, misanthrope, and notorious miser, Livermore revolutionized the profession with his innovative timing techniques, money management strategies, and high momentum approach to trading stocks. Smitten provides a vivid portrait of Livermore and the times in which he lived and operated. He deftly combines eyewitness accounts of those who knew Livermore with fascinating stories of sensational love affairs, shootings, and suicides, and a detailed exploration of the trading strategies that made Livermore several fortunes in his lifetime. Richard Smitten (Key West, FL) is the author of several books, including The Godmother, the critically acclaimed story of a famous woman criminal.
Author:
Richard Smitten
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471023265
Format: Paperback Book
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Bloomberg by Bloomberg
This is the remarkable story of how Michael Bloomberg created a media empire. Lots of entrepreneurs make money. Lots of entrepreneurs who make money write books. Few of those books make you glad they did. This one does. - The New York Times Book Review. A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurial David outsmarting bureaucratic, ossified, corporate Goliaths. - Business Week. Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg by Bloomberg is packed with great advice about how to start a lean, hungry company - and how to keep it that way. - Bryan Burrough, coauthor, Barbarians at the Gate Brash, aggressive, and supremely self-confident, Michael Bloomberg, the visionary leader of the world's fastest-growing media empire, has been hailed as the new standard for what it takes to win in the Information Age. Dismissed from Salomon Brothers in 1981, Bloomberg immediately took his money and acerbic personality and started Bloomberg L.P. Bolstered by a $30 million investment from Merrill Lynch, the company and the man have been sprinting ahead of the pack ever since. Only twenty years after founding, he's at the top of his industry.
And on June 5, 2001, he added mayoral candidate for New York City to his list of accomplishments and aspirations. If elected, powerhouse Michael Bloomberg will bring his own brand of leadership - and personal style - to the city that never sleeps.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg & Matthew Winkler
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471208884
Format: Paperback Book
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