The Science of Getting Rich or Essentials of Investments

The Science of Getting Rich: Financial Success Through Creative Thought (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

Author: Wallace D Wattles

"If you have not consciously made the decision to be rich, excellent, and healthy then you have unconsciously made the decision to be poor, mediocre and unhealthy." – Wallace D. Wattles

Attaining wealth is as certain as math once you learn the practical steps outlined in Wallace D. Wattle’s The Science of Getting Rich. This life-changing book reveals the secrets to getting rich through strategy and inspirational case studies.  Get on the path to a healthy mind, body, and spirit by achieving the financial success you deserve.

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Essentials of Investments

Author: Zvi Bodi

The market leading Essentials of Investments, 7e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).

Booknews

A text that treats markets, portfolio theory, securities, options and futures, and investment management within a framework holding that most securities are usually priced appropriately. It is consistent with the Chartered Financial Analyst curriculum, and overviews of the investment process and strategies are modeled after the ICFA outline. This second edition eliminates the formal analysis of utility functions. Appendices offer mathematical tables and sample pages from sources of financial and economic information. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Investments : background and issues	2
2	Financial securities	26
3	Securities markets	58
4	Mutual funds and other investment companies	97
5	Risk and return : past and prologue	126
6	Efficient diversification	161
7	Capital asset pricing and arbitrage pricing theory	203
8	Efficient markets and the behavioral critique	242
9	Bond prices and yields	276
10	Managing bond portfolios	319
11	Macroeconomic and industry analysis	356
12	Equity valuation	387
13	Financial statement analysis	428
14	Options markets	466
15	Option valuation	503
16	Futures markets	537
17	Performance evaluation and active portfolio management	574
18	Globalization and international investing	607
19	Behavioral finance and technical analysis	643
20	Taxes, inflation, and investment strategy	675
21	Investors and the investment process	699

1001 Ways to Reward Employees or Jeffrey Gitomers Little Black Book of Connections

1001 Ways to Reward Employees

Author: Bob Nelson

The vice president of a leading management-training and consulting company has delved extensively into the issue of employee rewards and put together an idea-filled reference to making the person/achievement/reward equation work.

Whether you manage a department, oversee a division, lead a company -- or run a family business with just one employee -- there's an essential principle to follow that's too often overlooked: What most motivates the people who work for you is recognition.

A chock-full guide to rewards of every conceivable type for every conceivable situation, 1001 Ways to Reward Employees polls the whole of the American business community, finding innovative ideas in every corner. From the spontaneous gesture of praise to formal company-wide programs, it presents hundreds of ways to say thank you to the people who truly deserve it.

The New York Times

[Helps managers] take certain rewards and mold them into new management styles at their companies.

The Wall Street Journal

Better than money: Praise and personal gestures motivate workers. Things that don't cost money are ironically the most effective.

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Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships

Author: Jeffrey Gitomer

People in all kinds of jobs, in big and small companies - career builders, sales people, and aspiring executives - will love this edgy, practical, and fun book

In the spirit, style, and format of the bestselling Little Red Book of Selling, the country's #1 sales trainer, Jeffrey Gitomer, offers a fresh take on networking and connecting your way to success.

The Little Black Book of Connections is based on the power of "give value first". It's about how you can climb the ladder without stepping on people's backs. It's about how to earn the respect of a powerful mentor without begging. It's about how to build stronger relationships with customers, bosses, co-workers, vendors, friends, and family. It's about being in the same room with powerful people. It's about how to connect - and how to not connect. It's about how to say the right things to the right people in the right circumstances to make the right impression.

The book is small. The cover is classic black cloth. The four-color text graphics makes it attractive and easy to read - the compelling content is easy to understand and implement.

Jeffrey Gitomer, the leading, world-class authority on selling, is the most-read syndicated "sales" columnist- in 95 business newspapers worldwide with 4 million weekly readers. His books, including The Little Red Book of Selling (Bard Press), The Little Red Book of Sales Answers (Prentice Hall), The Sales Bible (Wiley), and Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless (Bard Press) have sold more than 1 million copies. Annually, he presents more than 100 seminars to Fortune 500 companies and public audiences. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Following Gitomer's successful Little Red Book of Selling comes this take on how to rise in business through networking. His Little Black Book of Connections: 6.5 Assets for Networking Your Way to Rich Relationships shows readers how to evaluate, cultivate and profit from personal and business relationships. Based on the premise that people want to do business with their friends, the book includes Gitomer's views on network-based selling, personal growth and other issues. Copyright © 2007 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Natural Cures They Dont Want You to Know About or Fleeced

Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About

Author: Kevin Trudeau

Kevin Trudeau blows the lid off a nest of deception and double standards concerning general and individual health in this new book, Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About. Kevin has risked government prosecution to bring you the full story of an intricate conspiracy.

From the retail supermarket outlets of huge, publicly traded corporations comes processed, manipulated, engineered "food products" produced by other wings of the same corporation. These artificial, toxic treats are then sold with the blessings of the Federal Trade Commission and Food and Drug Administration government organizations charged with safeguarding the public good laying the foundations for future disease and chronic ill-health for the consumer, and a guaranteed source of revenue for the medical and pharmaceutical sectors.

Kevin reveals the shocking truth of how drugs which are being advertised directly to the consumer, pushing their use to an all-time high are actually the cause of illness and disease climbing to near epidemic levels.

And, though it sounds dire, Kevin offers a light in the darkness and directs the reader to scores and scores of alternative therapies, medical practices, philosophies and most importantly potential cures that help your body regain its natural state of health and vibrancy.

So follow Kevin on an amazing journey through the behind-the-scenes world of corporate sponsored "nutrition" and "health," and learn about Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About.

Table of Contents:

	Disclaimer	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Read This First	xi
	Introduction	xiii
1	I Should Be Dead By Now	1
2	What's Wrong with Health Care in America?	9
3	It's All About the Money	13
4	Who Are "They"?	21
5	Why Are We Sick?	67
6	How to Never Get Sick Again	115
7	Why People Are Fat	179
8	How to Lose Weight Effortlessly and Keep It Off Forever	189
9	How to Read Food Labels	199
10	Not Convinced?	219
11	Frequently Asked Questions	293
12	Still Not Convinced?	319
13	"Natural" Cures for Specific Diseases	341
14	Naturalcures.com	359
15	The Solution	369
Appendix A	Free Bonus Materials: Newsletter Articles	379
Appendix B	No-Hunger Bread: A True FDA Horror Story	463
Appendix C	How to Find a Health-care Practitioner	565
	About the Author	571

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Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want To Kill Talk Radio, The Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, And Washington Lobbyists For Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us...And What To Do About It

Author: Dick Morris

Here are the facts:

The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantбnamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years--and dressed them up as tax cuts!

Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic terrorists" or "Muslim terrorists." And they are obeying! Whenever our brave agents disrupt a terror plot, The media dismisses the culprits as a gang of idiots—lulling us into a false sense of security.

If the liberals win the 2008 election, they will cripple talk radio--forcing stations to give equal time to left-wing programs, and insisting that liberals play a key role in station management.

Up to a quarter of all state pension funds in the United States are invested in companies that are helping Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Sudan--for a total of nearly $200 billion.

The Do-Nothing Congress is still doing nothing--and the worst offenders are the presidential candidates Clinton, Obama, and McCain, who never show up for their day jobs as senators . . . except to pick up their $165,000 paycheck!

Is it any wonder that Americans feel fleeced at every turn?

As more and more critical problems develop that need national attention, the White House and Congress appear to be AWOL.

Who's calling the shots instead?

Big business, big government, big labor, and big lobbyists. And their self-serving agendas are doing nothing to help the ever-increasing number of American people who are losing their homes, paying credit card interest rates higher than 25 percent, and finding their jobs increasingly outsourced to foreign countries.

In this hard-hitting call to arms, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal the hundreds of ways American tax-payers are routinely fleeced--by our own government; by foreign countries like Dubai that are gobbling up American interests and spending millions to influence government decisions and American public opinion; by Washington lobbying firms that are pushing the agendas of corrupt foreign dictators on Capitol Hill; and by hedge-fund billionaires collecting huge tax breaks courtesy of the IRS.

With their characteristic blend of sharp analysis and insider insight, Morris and McGann call offenders of all kinds on the carpet--and offer practical agendas we all can follow to help turn the tide.

Lean Thinking or Influence

Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation

Author: James P Womack

Expanded, updated, and more relevant than ever, the bestselling business classic by two internationally renowned management theorists shows how companies of any size in any industry can seize opportunities in the post-bubble economy.

Lean Thinking begins by helping listeners to identify value, asking, "What does the customer really want?" instead of "What can we try to convince the customer to accept?" Lean thinkers then identify the value stream -- every step required to move a specific good or service from initial concept into the hands of the customer -- for each product and ask if each step really creates value. Those that don't -- the great majority -- are then removed, and the remaining steps are conducted in continuous flow at the pull of the customer, as the firm manages toward perfection. As a consequence, lead times, costs of all sorts, and defects shrink, while responsiveness to customer needs and selling prices increase.

In an economic downturn, many companies are searching desperately for a sustainable formula for renewed growth and success. Lean Thinking is that formula -- a proven blueprint and specific action plan that will help any company stabilize its position and grow steadily while better serving its customers, employees, suppliers, and investors.

Publishers Weekly

There's a missionary zeal to this book for corporate managers: it wants to convert companies the world over to the streamlined production process pioneered by Toyota after WWII.

Womack and Jones chronicled Toyota's concept of lean production in The Machine That Changed the World, and embarked in 1990 on a tour of North America, Europe and Japan to persuade organizations, managers, employers and investors that mass production was out of date and should be chucked for something better. They formed a network of companies and individuals dedicated to lean production. Network members, whose stories form the basis of the book, gather annually to update procedures and refine theory. Showa Manufacturing, a Japanese maker of radiators and boilers, for instance, pulled itself out of an earnings slump by changing from mass-producing batches of standardized equipment to producing customized small lots.

Heavily laden with details, this is for specialists who want to streamline. It makes few references to the larger, global economy.

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Author: Robert B Cialdini

Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.

You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.

Strengths Finder 20 or Now Discover Your Strengths

Strengths Finder 2.0: A New and Updated Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

Author: Tom Rath

Do You Do What You Do Best Every Day?

Chances are, you don't. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.

To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.

In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself—and the world—forever.

Available exclusively in StrengthsFinder 2.0 (using the access code included with each book):

• The StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, fine-tuned to be faster and more accurate
• A Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide featuring: A customized version of your top five theme report; 50 Ideas for Action for building on your top five themes; A strengths-based action plan for setting goals
• And much more on the StrengthsFinder 2.0 website: A strengths community area; Resources, activities, and discussion guides; A strengths screensaver and program for creating display cards of your top five themes

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Now, Discover Your Strengths

Author: Marcus Buckingham

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.

Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.

So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: foryour own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.

With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written.

What People Are Saying

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Now, Discover Your Strengths, based on years of research by The Gallup Organization, is a refreshingly sensible and user-friendly way to assess your psychological assets and build on them a successful and satisfying life.

Mike Morrison
The code for managing has been broken and the secrets for success are here in this book! We know this from first-hand experience — with over 2,000 Gallup 'strengths' program graduates (and growing) — we will never look at our jobs, or our lives for that matter, the same way again. To achieve our greatest potential, this is by far the most important investment an individual or organization can make!

Ed Diener
A brilliant book that will help readers to discover and capitalize on their specific strengths, as well as assist managers in supervising people with varying strengths.

Frank Schmidt
Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of Iowa This book is built around a unique vision of the high-performing individual and the high-performing organization — and that vision is built on a recognition of individual differences and the unique strengths of each person. A truly important book.

Martin E.P. Seligman
The keystone of high achievement and happiness is exercising your strengths, not correcting your weaknesses. The first step is knowing which strengths you own, and this superb book gives you a powerful and accurate way to find out.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work
	The Revolution	5
	Two Million Interviews	11
I.	The Anatomy of a Strength
Chapter 1.	Strong Lives
	The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor	19
	Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter	25
	Three Revolutionary Tools	28
Chapter 2.	Strength Building
	Is He Always This Good?	39
	Knowledge and Skills	41
	Talent	48
II.	Discover the Source of Your Strengths
Chapter 3.	StrengthsFinder
	The Traces of Talent	67
	The StrengthsFinder Profile	76
Chapter 4.	The Thirty-four Themes of StrengthsFinder
	Achiever	83
	Activator	84
	Adaptability	85
	Analytical	86
	Arranger	87
	Belief	88
	Command	89
	Communication	90
	Competition	91
	Connectedness	92
	Context	93
	Deliberative	94
	Developer	95
	Discipline	96
	Empathy	97
	Fairness	98
	Focus	99
	Futuristic	100
	Harmony	101
	Ideation	102
	Inclusiveness	103
	Individualization	104
	Input	105
	Intellection	106
	Learner	107
	Maximizer	108
	Positivity	109
	Relator	110
	Responsibility	111
	Restorative	112
	Self-assurance	113
	Significance	114
	Strategic	115
	Woo	116
III.	Put Strengths to Work
Chapter 5.	The Questions You're Asking
	Are there any obstacles to building my strengths?	121
	Why should I focus on my signature themes?	131
	Is there any significance to the order of my signature themes?	134
	Not all of the phrases in the theme description apply to me. Why?	136
	Why am I different from other people with whom I share some of the same themes?	137
	Are any of the themes "opposites"?	139
	Can I develop new themes if I don't like the ones I have?	141
	Will I become too narrow if I focus on my signature themes?	144
	How can I manage around my weaknesses?	148
	Can my themes reveal whether I am in the right career?	160
Chapter 6.	Managing Strengths
	"Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson	171
	One By One	176
Chapter 7.	Building a Strengths-based Organization
	The Full Story	213
	The Practical Guide	218
	Appendix
	A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder	247