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This book will show you how to reduce investment risk by diversifying and balancing your portfolio. Find out which funds to look for, and which funds to avoid. With Brennan's proven tools and techniques, you'll be on the road to profit in no time at all with a finely tuned mutual fund portfolio.

This examines investments and health care, proposing ways to protect and increase a financial portfolio through careful observations and decisions. Weiss offers five main lessons to better understand the stock market: watch for hidden risks, avoid costly advice, ignore "rules of thumb," remember that even well-known firms can be hazardous, and don't forget safeguards.

The New York Times credits him with the ability to turn everything he touches to gold. Train takes us close up, splicing financial analysis with straight scoop on Warren Buffett, "a cheerful vulture" who loves junk food and "winning the game." If you're a serious investor or just want to know why one of the world's wealthiest men won't lend a nickel to his kids, The Midas Touch will grab you.

Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, and Jeff Cox-author of The Goal-reveal how to achieve outstanding bottom-line results by integrating the three most powerful continuous improvement disciplines: Lean, Six Sigma, and Goldratt's Theory of Constraints. In a business novel that's both entertaining and edifying, corporate superiors order Amy Cieolara to appease a key customer by utilizing Lean Six Sigma. As pressure mounts, Amy discovers and implements the VELOCITY approach. But will her superiors and customer be pleased'

In The New Entrepreneurs, author and venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman introduces us to the innovative business leaders who are at the forefront of the green economy. From forestry, water, and energy to transportation and agriculture, Heintzman profiles the enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, clean-tech products and innovations for export to a vast and rapidly expanding global market. In a world that faces growing threats of climate change, peak oil, and resource scarcity, Heintzman shares his vision of a new and prosperous way forward.

A New York Times Notable Book What forms will capitalism take in the twenty-first century? To answer this question, noted economist and social philosopher Robert Heilbroner looks beyond economic theory to the social and political problems of modern economic society. In this sweeping examination of the past, present, and possible future, Heilbroner considers capitalism both as an economic system and a political order.

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, Clive Veroni’s Spin is a fascinating investigation of how the techniques of political strategists are being applied to the world of consumer marketing. In the early twentieth century political operatives did their work in the backroom, a shady place of secret deals and dark arts. By the middle of the century, the politicos were heading to Madison Avenue to learn the techniques of mass communication and persuasion.

Written in Marjorie Harris's trademark witty, engaging, and accessible style, Thrifty is chock-full of simple and savvy tips drawn from her own richly thrifty experience, and those of renowned experts such as bestselling author Margaret Atwood, actor R. H. Thomson, travel writer Sylvia Fraser, and the Globe and Mail Style columnists. With solid tips on how to haggle, how to become a frugal fashionista, maintaining home and hearth on a budget, and practical advice on thrifty gardening, travel, and entertainment, Harris provides essential guidelines to living a quality life on less.

Since 2006, award-winning investigative journalist Nick Davies has worked tirelessly — determined, driven, brilliant — to uncover the truth about the goings on behind the scenes at the News of the World and News International.

The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy.