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Rich Dad’s Advisors®: The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing: The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss

May 21st, 2010 admin

  • ISBN13: 9780446691840
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
Want to get rich through real estate? Then you need The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing. It’s the definitive guide that will teach you how to find property, evaluate its worth, negotiate the deal and make money in the process. There are no ‘get rich quick’ tricks on these pages, just proven methods that deliver bottom-line profits and increased property values. -Ken McElroy, Real Estate Investor, Property Management Expert, Business Owner, and Author The ABC’s of Real Estate Investing will: * Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate * Overcome the myths that are holding you back * Find property with real profit potential * Evaluate a property and set your own purchase price * Negotiate the deal based on the numbers * Discover hidden profits in the properties you buy or own * Increase your income through proven property management techniques.

Price : $6.91
Rating : 4.5

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The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work

May 21st, 2010 admin

  • ISBN13: 9781596981140
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description

Albert Schweitzer said, “Happiness is the key to success.” In The Business of Happiness, Ted Leonsis—business, sports, and media mogul—proves Schweitzer’s point, explaining that success may or may not make you happy, but happiness will almost always make you more successful. Through research studies, personal stories, and anecdotal evidence from celebrities, famous athletes, and influential businessmen, Ted reveals the six secrets to achieving true happiness—and how they make success almost inevitable. Showing people exactly how they can apply the six secrets to their work, at home, and in their personal lives, Leonsis also reveals how some of the most successful and happy people today—Bono, Michael Jordan, Steve Case—have put these secrets into practice for themselves. Dynamic, inspiring, and unique, The Business of Happiness proves that anyone can be more successful and happier, including you.

Price : $17.25
Rating : 4.5

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Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment

May 20th, 2010 admin

  • ISBN13: 9780470683590
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
“As with his weekly column, James Montier’s Value Investing is a must read for all students of the financial markets. In short order, Montier shreds the ‘efficient market hypothesis’, elucidates the pertinence of behavioral finance, and explains the crucial difference between investment process and investment outcomes. Montier makes his arguments with clear insight and spirited good humor, and then backs them up with cold hard facts. Buy this book for yourself, and for anyone you know who cares about their capital!”
—Seth Klarman, President, The Baupost Group LLC

The seductive elegance of classical finance theory is powerful, yet value investing requires that we reject both the precepts of modern portfolio theory (MPT) and pretty much all of its tools and techniques.

In this important new book, the highly respected and controversial value investor and behavioural analyst, James Montier explains how value investing is the only tried and tested method of delivering sustainable long-term returns.

James shows you why everything you learnt at business school is wrong; how to think properly about valuation and risk; how to avoid the dangers of growth investing; how to be a contrarian; how to short stocks; how to avoid value traps; how to hedge ignorance using cheap insurance. Crucially he also gives real time examples of the principles outlined in the context of the 2008/09 financial crisis.

In this book James shares his tried and tested techniques and provides the latest and most cutting edge tools you will need to deploy the value approach successfully.

It provides you with the tools to start thinking in a different fashion about the way in which you invest, introducing the ways of over-riding the emotional distractions that will bedevil the pursuit of a value approach and ultimately think and act differently from the herd.

Price : $24.34
Rating : 4.0

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All You Need to Know About the Music Business: Seventh Edition

May 20th, 2010 admin

  • ISBN13: 9781439153017
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
Since the advent of file-sharing technology in the late 1990s, the music industry has been challenged to reinvent itself. What has it done? How have the record labels repositioned themselves to cope with these massive changes? How does all this affect creative artists?

No one understands the music industry — from the technology, to the legalities, to the new industry practices — better than veteran music lawyer Donald Passman. In this completely revised and updated seventh edition of All You Need to Know About the Music Business, which the Los Angeles Times called “the industry bible” and which has sold hundreds of thousands of copies over the last eighteen years, Passman offers executives and artists, experts and novices alike the essential information they need not only to survive in these volatile and exciting times, but also to thrive.

Drawing on his unique, up-to-the-minute experience as one of the most trusted advisors in the industry, Passman offers new information on:

- The new 360 model of record deals, wherein record companies share in nonrecord revenue

- The Copyright Royalty Board’s latest decisions regarding online transmissions

- The developing customs on new technologies such as streaming on demand, ringtones, and digital downloads

- Updates on recording and publishing deals, as well as film music

He also gives guidance on fundamental issues, such as how to:

- Select and hire a winning team of advisors — personal and business managers, agents, and attorneys — and structure their commissions, percentages, and fees in a way that will protect you and maximize these relationships

- Master the big picture and the finer points of record deals

- Navigate the ins and outs of songwriting, music publishing, and copyrights

- Maximize concert, touring, and merchandising deals

Everyone in the business — musicians, songwriters, entertainment lawyers, agents, promoters, publishers, managers, record company executives — is scrambling to figure out what’s going to happen in the future, and Passman is in the thick of these changes. Anyone interested in a music career will need this comprehensive and crucial guide to making it in one of the world’s most dynamic industries.

Price : $19.63
Rating : 5.0

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The Little Book of Value Investing (Little Books. Big Profits)

May 19th, 2010 admin

Product Description
There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Now, with The Little Book of Value Investing, Christopher Browne shows you how to use this wealth-building strategy to successfully buy bargain stocks around the world.

Price : $8.74
Rating : 4.0

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The Small Business Start-Up Kit: A Step-by-Step Legal Guide

May 19th, 2010 admin

  • ISBN13: 9781413310993
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
The best step-by-step guide to starting a business available!

Many people dream of running a business of their own — but often don’t know how to start. Sound familiar? This book can help.

User-friendly and loaded with tips, The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to launch a business quickly, easily and with confidence. It explains in plain English how to:

  • choose the best business structure
  • write an effective business plan
  • file the right forms in the right place
  • price, bid and bill your projects
  • draft and use contracts, online and off
  • manage your finances
  • be prepared for, and file, required taxes
  • reach customers online

    The Small Business Start-Up Kit also includes all the forms and instructions you need both as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

    The 6th edition has been thoroughly updated to include the latest legal information affecting small business. Additionally, it includes 1) an updated chapter on financial management, which includes information on how to use technology to manage bookkeeping and other business aspects, 2) an updated e-business chapter which covers how to use social media to promote the business and, 3) updated material on the latest search engine optimization strategies to drive traffic to the business website.

    Price : $19.31
    Rating : 4.5

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    The Little Book of Behavioral Investing: How not to be your own worst enemy (Little Book, Big Profits)

    May 18th, 2010 admin

    • ISBN13: 9780470686027
    • Condition: NEW
    • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

    Product Description
    A detailed guide to overcoming the most frequently encountered psychological pitfalls of investing

    Bias, emotion, and overconfidence are just three of the many behavioral traits that can lead investors to lose money or achieve lower returns. Behavioral finance, which recognizes that there is a psychological element to all investor decision-making, can help you overcome this obstacle.

    In The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, expert James Montier takes you through some of the most important behavioral challenges faced by investors. Montier reveals the most common psychological barriers, clearly showing how emotion, overconfidence, and a multitude of other behavioral traits, can affect investment decision-making.

    • Offers time-tested ways to identify and avoid the pitfalls of investor bias
    • Author James Montier is one of the world’s foremost behavioral analysts
    • Discusses how to learn from our investment mistakes instead of repeating them
    • Explores the behavioral principles that will allow you to maintain a successful investment portfolio

    Written in a straightforward and accessible style, The Little Book of Behavioral Investing will enable you to identify and eliminate behavioral traits that can hinder your investment endeavors and show you how to go about achieving superior returns in the process.

    Praise for The Little Book Of Behavioral Investing

    “The Little Book of Behavioral Investing is an important book for anyone who is interested in understanding the ways that human nature and financial markets interact.” —Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics,Duke University, and author of Predictably Irrational

    “In investing, success means¿being on the right side of most trades. No book provides a better starting point toward that goal than this one.” —Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School

    “‘Know thyself.’ Overcoming human instinct is key to becoming a better investor.¿ You would be irrational if you did not read this book.” —Edward Bonham-Carter, Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer, Jupiter Asset Management

    “There is not an investor anywhere who wouldn’t profit from reading this book.”
    —Jeff Hochman, Director of Technical Strategy, Fidelity Investment Services Limited

    “James Montier gives us a very accessible version of why we as investors are so predictably irrational, and a guide to help us channel our ‘Inner Spock’ to make better investment decisions. Bravo!” —John Mauldin, President, Millennium Wave Investments

    Price : $10.31
    Rating : 4.0

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    International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition w/ CESIM access card

    May 18th, 2010 admin

    Product Description
    International Business: The Challenge of Global Competition, 12th Edition, by Ball, Geringer, Minor and McNett continues to be the most current, objective and thorough treatment of International Business available for students. Enriched with maps, photos, and the most up-to-date world data, this text boasts the collective expertise of four authors with firsthand international business experience, specializing in international management, finance, law, global strategy, and marketing – a claim no other text can make. In addition, each new copy of International Business, 12e includes access to CESIM – an interactive IB simulation developed for industry professionals. Ball, et. al. is the only textbook on the market which features access to CESIM. Only Ball, Geringer, Minor and McNett can offer a complete view of International Business as diverse as the backgrounds of business students.

    Price : $114.98
    Rating : 4.5

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    The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

    May 17th, 2010 admin

    • ISBN13: 9780060555665
    • Condition: NEW
    • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

    Product Description

    More than one million hardcovers sold
    Now available for the first time in paperback!

    The Classic Text Annotated to Update Graham’s Timeless Wisdom for Today’s Market Conditions

    The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham’s philosophy of “value investing” — which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies — has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.

    Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham’s original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today’s market, draws parallels between Graham’s examples and today’s financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham’s principles.

    Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.

    Amazon.com Review
    Among the library of investment books promising no-fail strategies for riches, Benjamin Graham’s classic, The Intelligent Investor, offers no guarantees or gimmicks but overflows with the wisdom at the core of all good portfolio management.

    The hallmark of Graham’s philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect, The Intelligent Investor is a book for true investors, not speculators or day traders. He provides, “in a form suitable for the laymen, guidance in adoption and execution of an investment policy” (1). This policy is inherently for the longer term and requires a commitment of effort. Where the speculator follows market trends, the investor uses discipline, research, and his analytical ability to make unpopular but sound investments in bargains relative to current asset value. Graham coaches the investor to develop a rational plan for buying stocks and bonds, and he argues that this plan must be a bulwark against emotional behavior that will always be tempting during abrupt bull and bear markets.

    Since it was first published in 1949, Graham’s investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as “the best book on investing ever written.” These accolades are well deserved. In its new form–with commentary on each chapter and extensive footnotes prepared by senior Money editor, Jason Zweig–the classic is now updated in light of changes in investment vehicles and market activities since 1972. What remains is a better book. Graham’s sage advice, analytical guides, and cautionary tales are still valid for the contemporary investor, and Zweig’s commentaries demonstrate the relevance of Graham’s principles in light of 1990s and early twenty-first century market trends. –Patrick O’Kelley

    Price : $10.57
    Rating : 4.5

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    A Dirty Business

    May 17th, 2010 admin

    Product Description
    When Kevin Bailey, a black, jobless twenty-something returns to New York City from a recent hermitage in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, he finds himself both broke and homeless. Armed with a degree in criminal justice, he immediately leans on an associate and former employer for a needed job referral. This leads to a position with the Frank Givens detective agency in Midtown. Bailey is hired for various reasons, three of which are the fact that he comes cheap, he’s green enough to be taught, and his boss is swamped with cases. Frank Givens tosses Bailey a case that should have been fairly routine: a New York City socialite requires dirt on her son’s fiancée based on her suspicions of gold digging. After the client, Selena Eldritch, supplies Bailey with a photo of her son Edward Eldritch and his blonde fiancée, Donna Greenwood, the investigation is underway, and Bailey eventually tails Edward Eldritch to a quaint historical village hours outside of Manhattan. There, Edward meets with a brunette, and Bailey soon follows the pair into a local tavern where he then discovers that the brunette’s name is in fact Donna Greenwood. Who, then, is the blonde in the photo? And why does Selena Eldritch believe her to be Donna Greenwood? Bailey sets out to uncover the truth behind this mystery, but as he begins to dig deeper, he soon learns a few intriguing facts. The blonde in the photo, Norma Vidon, has actually been missing for quite some time, and the police have even given up their investigation into her disappearance. Baily continues to dig even further, uncovering weird obsessions, betrayals, and not a little deceit and, of course, dead bodies begin turning up. What started out as an average, relatively simple assignment soon develops into a complex case full of pretzel twists; one difficult enough for Kevin Baily to truly prove himself. But he is up to the task?

    Price : $9.85
    Rating : 4.5

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