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Go Green, Live Rich: 50 Simple Ways to Save the Earth and Get Rich Trying

David Bach, Hillary Rosner

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Let David Bach show you a whole new way to prosper—by going green

Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.

Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make your life, your home, your shopping, and your finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while you spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. Best of all, he shows you exactly how to take advantage of the "green wave" in personal finance without the difficult work of evaluating individual stocks. What's more, he will get you thinking about a green business of your own so you can help the world along as it is changing for the better.

David Bach is on a mission to teach the world that you can live a great life by living a green life. With Go Green, Live Rich, you can live in line with your eco-values on the road to financial freedom.

The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry

Paul Zane Pilzer

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Total reviews: 25 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great Info! 4 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I've been very impressed so far, especially with the insurance chapters. Great help in allowing me to explain to people how they can afford to be healthy! That was great to learn! I would recommend it to anyone wanting to take part in helping turn our country around, away from sickness care!

Very Disappointed!! 2 out of 5 stars.
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What A Disappointment!

I picked up this book looking for the opportunities ahead in the wellness industry, and frankly didn't find any, except for what the author is selling- Wellness Insurance. He promotes it in every chapter and then refers the reader to his website. It gets old. Is it a MLM? It sure feels like a high pressure pitch. Just when you think you're about to get a good tip on a new business opportunity, it's his insurance again.

I'm already sold on the wellness aspect of living and already am a client of alternative practitioners. So other than an economic lesson about how we got to this point, there's not much else except how other people have made it big in the beginning of this trend. He promotes the story of Silk soy milk, which I have since been told not to drink because of soy's dubious qualities, Boca Burger as well as other vegetarian food producers, and mostly other doctors that have since turned to the wellness side of the health care business, like Dr. Mercola and his website, which I value as a source for up to the date wellness information.

Like another reviewer, I find Pilzer's knowledge to be dated in the area of holistic health.

So where are the NEW opportunities? He seems to outline only the old ones, except his wellness insurance of course. This book might have been enlightening when it first came out in 2002, but I think it's old news now in 2008. Even then, I don't see a great deal of opportunities being proposed. The only "revised and expanded" areas of the book are him taking the opportunity to sell his own products to the reader.

I give it 2 stars for explaining the history of where we are today. If you are looking for the future opportunities in the wellness industry- it's not here.

Editorial Review:

Read the Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 1 at thewellnessrevolution.paulzanepilzer.com.

Five years ago, Paul Zane Pilzer outlined the future of an industry he called “wellness” and showed readers how they could get in on the profitable bottom floor. The New Wellness Revolution, Second Edition includes more guidance and business advice for entrepreneurs, product distributors, physicians, and other wellness professionals. It’s an industry that will only grow, so get in while you can.

Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes, and Quads: The Fastest and Safest Way to Real Estate Wealth

Larry B. Loftis

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Amass more than $900,000 in properties in one year, without using any of your own money, or that of your investors. Real estate investing can be an excellent way to build wealth. With its advantages of cash flow, appreciation, tax benefits, equity buildup and leveraging, real estate may be the only vehicle that can carry the average person to retirement wealth. Real estate investor, attorney, and author Larry Loftis has developed a safe, easy, and lucrative way for new investors to get into the game, and for experienced ones to enhance their portfolios. In Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads: The Fastest and Safest Way to Real Estate Wealth, he draws on both his real estate investing experience and legal acumen to explore advantages you may not have considered about residential multifamily properties of two to four units. Learn how to: •Buy duplexes, triplexes and quads with no money down, AND get cash back at closing. •Eliminate risk, and guarantee that your mortgage payments are always covered. •Use "cash-out" from refinancing to purchase more properties. •Decide whether to buy and hold or "pyramid" to a large apartment complex. •Use inflation, tax laws, and rehab to build a massive retirement nest-egg.

The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today's Investor

Morningstar Inc., Josh Peters

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great dividend book 5 out of 5 stars.
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Nicely lays out the plays to find a money generating stock for the long haul. Very helpful in todays environment.

Recommended 5 out of 5 stars.
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Solid, detailed analysis, which will help you to understand why you should have some degree of emphasis on dividend stocks in your portfolio. Written in an easy-to-read style and highly recommended.

HOLY GRAIL 5 out of 5 stars.
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I DO BELIEVE THAT JOSH PETERS HAS DISCOVERED THE HOLY GRAIL OF "HANDS ON" STOCK MARKET INVESTING ! I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO GET RICH SLOWLY THAN COMPOUNDING INCREASING DIVIDENDS OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS. WORKS LIKE MAGIC, ESPECIALLY IN RETIREMENT PLANS. LOTS OF FUN AND LESS STRESS.

TRY IT, YOU'LL LIKE IT !

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Many people believe that the key to success in the stock market is buying low and selling high. But how many investors have the time, talent, and luck to earn consistent returns this way? In The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight, and Independence for Today’s Investor, Josh Peters, editor of the monthly Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter, shows you why you don’t have to try to beat the market and how you can use dividends to capture the income and growth you seek.

Quicken 2009 The Official Guide (Quicken Press)

Maria Langer

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The Only Official Guide to the #1 Personal Finance Software

Now you can manage your finances and assets with ease! Quicken 2009: The Official Guide is filled with insider tips and expert techniques for tracking your income, expenses, savings, transactions, investments, and much more.

Fully endorsed by Intuit, makers of Quicken, this official guide helps you save time and money by showing you how to maximize all of the software's powerful capabilities-including new features and little-known tools. You'll also get valuable guidance along with information about online resources to assist you in making smart financial decisions and planning for a secure future.�

• Customize Quicken for your preferences
• Track your cash flow
• Set up Online Account Services
• Automate transactions and tasks
• Reconcile checking, savings, and credit card accounts
• Track investments and optimize your portfolio
• Monitor assets and loans
• Manage household records
• Reduce debt, save money, and plan for retirement
• Simplify tax preparation and maximize deductions
• Get help and guidance from the new Sidebar feature

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The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers

Keith R. Mcfarland

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The vast majority of small businesses stay small—and not by choice. Only the most savvy and persistent—a tiny one tenth of one percent—break through to annual sales above $250 million. In The Breakthrough Company, Keith McFarland pinpoints how everyday companies become extraordinary, showing that luck is a negligible factor. Rather, breakthrough success turns out to be associated with a clearly identifiable set of strategies and skills that anyone in any business can emulate—from small startup to industry leader.

Encouraged by experts such as business legend Peter Drucker and Good to Great author Jim Collins to identify the drivers that enable a company to push past the entrepreneurial phase, McFarland spent five years building and analyzing the world’s largest growth-company performance database and interviewing more than 1,500 growth-company executives on four continents. His goal was simple: to identify the secrets of breakthrough.

The Breakthrough Company is the result. Winnowing a study pool of more than 7,000 companies down to nine that have made the transition to major-player status, McFarland highlights real-world tools and myth-busting insights that can be used by anyone wanting his or her business to join this exclusive circle. Among the book’s takeaways:

• Common wisdom holds that the founders and core entrepreneurial leaders of a company must step aside for the business to reach the next level. Not true—as long as founders “crown the company” instead of themselves.
• It’s not reckless to make ever-escalating bets on your company’s future, even going nose to nose with competitors many times your size. In fact, it turns out that the only safety comes in constantly upping the ante in exactly this way.
• A Business Bermuda Triangle does exist, gobbling up companies on the verge of breakthrough. Presented here are three ways to navigate this potentially deadly hazard successfully.
• However good you are—or think you are—you can’t do it alone. Learn how to surround your company with networks of outside resources, aka “scaffolding,” and how to enlist the aid of “insultants”—people who are willing to question a firm’s existing assumptions and ways of doing business.

With powerful and specific action steps concluding each chapter—and invaluable advice on virtually every page from business leaders who’ve taken their companies to extraordinary levels of growth and profitability—The Breakthrough Company is one of the most provocative, inspiring, and instructive business books you’ll ever read.


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High Probability Trading Strategies: Entry to Exit Tactics for the Forex, Futures, and Stock Markets (Wiley Trading)

Robert C. Miner

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Great Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Finally, a trading book with a lot of practical, real-world education. Miner makes good on the sub-title of his book "Entry to Exit Strategies For The Forex, Futures and Stock Markets" by giving a complete trading plan. So many trading books focus on broad entry and exit strategies without an actual plan how to specifically use them in a real world trading plan. I don't think Miner left anything out. He includes the specific technical conditions for a trade, objective entry strategies and how to manage the trade regardless of the market conditions. The video CD included with the book is a major bonus. I think every trader will find a lot of valuable information in High Probability Trading Strategies regardless if he/she is a day, swing or position trader.

Editorial Review:

A market master details his proven and profitable approach to trading

High Probability Trading Strategies teaches traders step by step a unique and practical approach to analyzing market behavior, identifying profitable trade setups, and executing and managing trades from entry to exit in a way that both preserves and grows one's capital. In it, well-known trading educator Robert Miner draws on the theories of legendary trading gurus W.D. Gann and R.N. Elliott to teach his own practical and easy-to-learn high probability trade strategies developed over the past 20 years. A companion CD includes many examples and illustrates bar-by-bar setups from the book.

A Beginner's Guide to Short Term Trading: Maximize Your Profits in 3 Days to 3 Weeks

Toni Turner

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Possibly the Best Book for Beginning Traders !!!!!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Look no further than this book if you are just getting started trading. This book condenses a wealth of knowledge from the super pros into a very understandable read. Better than the Dummies Series books.

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The financial markets have changed considerably since "A Beginner's Guide to Short-Term Trading" was first published in January 2002. The dot.com implosion, a two-year bear market, wars in the Middle East, a burgeoning demand for commodities, and a softening real estate market have all contributed to a tumultuous stock market.The face and operating procedures of the markets have also changed. In 2001, decimalisation altered the time-honoured pricing of stocks in fractions, and gave way to quotations now delivered in one-cent increments. In addition, exciting new trading products have entered the markets. These include the E-minis (mini-versions of stock index futures contracts), and a host of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that offer baskets of stocks (industry groups or country-specific) traded as a single instrument."A Beginner's Guide to Short-Term Trading, 2nd Edition" will include updates on all the current issues affecting the market.

The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk

William Bernstein

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“Bernstein has become a guru to a peculiarly ’90s group: well-educated, Internet-powered people intent on investing well—and with minimal ‘help’ from professional Wall Street.”
--Robert Barker, BusinessWeek

William Bernstein is one of today’s most unlikely financial heroes. A practicing neurologist, he used his self-taught investment knowledge and research to build a popular investor’s website. Now, in the plain-spoken The Intelligent Asset Allocator, he shows independent investors how to build a diversified portfolio—without the help of a financial advisor. A breath of fresh air for investors tired of overly technical investment tomes, this book will help investors:

• Learn the risk/reward characteristics of various investment types
• Understand and apply portfolio theory for an improved risk/reward ratio
• Sharpen their focus, and take control of their investment programs

William Bernstein runs a website—www.efficientfrontier.com—known for its quarterly journal of asset allocation and portfolio theory, Efficient Frontier.

The Handbook of Alternative Assets

Mark J. P. Anson, Mark Anson

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Good content, but horribly edited 3 out of 5 stars.
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I had to buy this for the CAIA exam. In reading it, I find on average one typo a page. I have found at least one chart misreferenced in the text. It is very distracting. Given that Mr. Anson is on the Curriculum Committee for the exam, it is not surprising that his text is on the list of required readings. Perhaps it is all that is out there. But Shame on Wiley for publishing it in the rough draft that it seems to be.

Good Book but do not upgrade to online version from amazon! 4 out of 5 stars.
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The content of the book is good and useful. However please do not upgrade to amazon online accesss. I upgraded and every other day you cannot acccess the entire book online.You can only browse first 8 pages and then when you call amazon customer service they would temporarily resolve the issue only to have the same issue reoccur again.

Editorial Review:

This book discusses and describes four types of alternative assets: hedge funds, private equity, credit derivatives, and commodity futures. Hedge funds and private equity are the best known of the alternative assets, but certainly not the only alternative assets available. The author explores each one of these alternative asset classes in detail, providing practicaal advice along with useful research.