$700 Billion Bailout
Many people are both alarmed and confused by what they've heard about the '$700 billion bailout. They're worried about their savings, their jobs and their homes. This audio provides an understandable analysis on how the bailout bill impacts you, and offers 'to do' or 'not to do' steps for you to follow. It is a must have for all investors. Best selling author Paul Muolo has been reporting and writing on the mortgage crisis for some two decades and brings his seasoned and skeptical approach to his work. He has access to the key players in the banking, mortgage and Washington world, often breaking 'scoops' before other journalists.
Here, Muolo offers an unbiased view on how Wall Street got mixed up in the world of mortgages, and unravels what was going on behindthe scenes in the housing and mortgage industry for much of the past decade.
In his analysis of the controversial Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Muolo explains in easy to understand language what the bailout bill means for individuals and answers such questions as:
What does the bill say, exactly?
Who is making decisions about how the $700 billion will be spent, and what does it mean now that the government is investing directly in our banks?
Who's footing the bill?
What is the impact on homeowners, businesses, retirement, and taxes?
Where do I put my money in the meantime?
Muolo shows both the challenges and opportunities of the credit crisis and proposed bailout, including its impact on:
Mortgages: While rates may be lower, there will be more fees. Lenders will be more cautious in lending, and people who cannot meet their mortgages are likely to lose these homes. This may create 'contrarian' plays in foreclosures and vacation homes.
Stocks and Other Investments: Is now the time to get into the stock market or is it safer to stick with CDs, bonds, and gold?
Författare: Paul Muolo
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold
One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity—which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author—you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days.
With the proliferation of financial instruments, new areas of instability, and innovative capital market strategies, many economists and investors have lost sight of the fundamentals of the financial system—its strengths as well as its weaknesses. A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold takes you back to the beginning and sorts out all the pieces.
Peter Bernstein skillfully addresses how and why commercial banks lend and invest, where money comes from, how it moves from hand to hand, and the critical role of interest rates. He explores the Federal Reserve System and the consequences of the Fed's actions on the overall economy. But this book is not just about the past. Bernstein's novel perspective on gold and the dollar is critical for today's decision makers, as he provides extensive views on the future of money, banking, and gold in the world economy.
This illuminating story about the heart of our economic system is essential reading at a time when developments in finance are more important than ever.
Författare: Peter Bernstein
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Bank On Yourself
Would You Like to Substantially Increase the Wealth You Have Available to Use and Enjoy Throughout Your Lifetime—Without Gambling Your Hard Earned Money in Stocks, Real Estate, or Other Risky Investments?
As the prospect of a secure financial future and a comfortable retirement becomes increasingly remote for many, and experts are concluding that conventional investing and financial planning strategies aren't working, Pamela Yellen reveals an extraordinary, little known but time tested method for growing wealth safely and predictably, even when the stock and real estate markets and other investments tumble.
In this audio book, Yellen reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don't want you to know. You'll discover how to:
• Have a rock solid financial plan and a predictable retirement income that can last as long as you do—with no luck, skill or guesswork required
• Turn your back on the stomach churning twists and turns of the stock and real estate markets
• Get back every penny you pay for your cars, vacations, home repairs, business equipment, a college education, and other major purchases, so you can enjoy more of life's luxuries today without robbing your nest egg! (The average family could increase their lifetime wealth by $500,000 to $1,000,000 or more using this method, without the risk or volatility of stocks and real estate)
• Become your own source of financing and recapture the interest you pay to banks and finance companies—reduce or eliminate the control those institutions have over you.
Författare: Pamela Yellen
Uppläsare: Pamela Yellen,Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
CAPITAL IDEAS EVOLVING
In all of history and in all fields of intellectual endeavor, a tension has existed between theory and practice. Those who earn a living in the real world seldom want to appear as slaves to some set of abstract ideas. It was no surprise, therefore, that the word “baloney” was Wall Street's greeting to the pioneering theories of finance developed by a small group of academics from 1954 1972. Yet those breakthrough theories would in time earn five Nobel Prizes in Economic Science. Baloney they were not.
Bernstein, today's foremost financial historian expands here upon his groundbreaking book of 1992, Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, to recount how these financial theories finally migrated from towers of ivory to towers of glass on Wall Street and other financial centers around the world. The result has been a global revolution in the nature of financial markets, the menu of investment strategies, the development of exotic financial instruments, and the role of an uncertain future in all investment decisions. Even the academics who originally developed these theories are active today in the markets and in the creation of new financial structures and strategies.
Based on personal interviews with leading practitioners and theorists, this audio describes how today's key practical applications developed from the core ideas of finance theory into the new and exciting formats of the investment process found in today's environment. This engaging and insightful audio book brings to life the individuals, ideas and issues that are transforming the financial landscape.
Författare: Peter Bernstein
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Crash Proof 2.0
The economic and monetary disaster, which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff warned of in the best selling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical it is here today. And while most people believe that the economic collapse is over, the reality is that it has only just begun. That's why he's returned with Crash Proof 2.0.
For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing a growing economic storm brought on by bursting bubbles and growing federal, personal, and corporate debt that will only continue to intensify as the U.S. government refuses to allow market forces to repair the damage.
Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition which clearly foresaw the bursting of the real estate bubble, credit crunch, and the insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac left off and includes much more up to the minute analysis and advice. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with valuable insights that will allow you to protect yourself, as well as prosper, during the difficult times that lie ahead.
Throughout, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability from the bubble in bond prices and collapse of the dollar to surging long term interest rates and run away inflation and offers a specific three step plan to battle today's economic downturn and tomorrow's market mayhem.
Författare: Peter D. Schiff
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Crashes, Crises, and Calamities
Why do certain civilizations, societies, and ecosystems collapse? How does the domino effect relate to the credit crunch? When can mathematics help explain marriage? And how on earth do toads predict earthquakes? The future is uncertain. But science can help foretell what lies ahead.
Drawing on ecology and biology, math and physics, Crashes, Crises, and Calamities offers four fundamental tools that scientists and engineers use to forecast the likelihood of sudden change: stability, catastrophe, complexity, and game theories. In accessible prose, Len Fisher demonstrates how we can foresee and manage events that might otherwise catch us by surprise.
At the cutting edge of science, Fisher helps us find ways to act before a full fledged catastrophe is upon us. Crashes, Crises, and Calamities is a witty and informative exploration of the chaos, complexity, and patterns of our daily lives.
Författare: Len Fisher
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Debt-Free U
This Audio Book Can Save You More Than $100,000
These days, most people assume you need to pay a boatload of money for a quality college education. As a result, students and their parents are willing to go into years of debt and potentially sabotage their financial futures just to get a fancy name on a diploma.
But Zac Bissonnette is walking proof that the assumption is not only false, but dangerous. From his unique double perspective—he's a personal finance expert (at AOL Money & Finance) AND a current senior at the University of Massachusetts—Zac figured out how too get an outstanding education at a public college, without bankrupting his parents or taking on loans.
Armed with his personal knowledge, the latest data, and smart analysis, Zac takes on the sacred cows and conventional wisdom about choosing and financing college. You'll discover, for instance, that:
• Student loans are NOT a necessary evil. Ordinary middle class families can—and must—find ways to avoid them, even without scholarships.
• College “rankings” are useless—designed to sell magazines and generate hype, if you trust one of the major guides when picking a college, you face a potential financial disaster.
• The elite graduate programs accept lots of people with nonelite bachelor's degrees. So do America's most selective employers.
Zac can prove every one of hose bold assertions—and more. He has a simple message for parents: “RELAX! Your kid will be able to get a champagne education on a beer budget!”
Författare: Zac Bissonnette
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Economist on Wall Street
One of the foremost financial writers of his generation, Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management. Now, with classic titles such as Economist on Wall Street, A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold, and The Price of Prosperity, which have forewords by financial luminaries and new introductions by the author, you can enjoy some of the best of Bernstein in his earlier Wall Street days.
Peter Bernstein's Economist on Wall Street is a collection of writings from 1955 to 1970. The audio book is especially interesting because so many of Bernstein's observations reflect the most important issues of the present—the outlook for inflation and its control, the intricacies of monetary policy, the future of the dollar, and the dilemmas of household finances. Bernstein was also concerned with developments in portfolio management, including the new influence of institutional investors and rules for optimal asset mixes. He provides light touches, too, as he indulges in fantasies and philosophical musings over a wide variety of topics.
With so many years of hindsight, we should not be surprised to find some of Bernstein's predictions running awry. But why? In each instance, these forecasts were biased by memories of the past. There is a big lesson to be learned there.
Economist on Wall Street is a remarkable audio book, with lasting relevance and keen insights into the art of investment management, the capital markets, gold and the dollar, and the fun of being alive.
Författare: Peter Bernstein
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Eight Pillars of Prosperity
It is popularly supposed that a greater prosperity for individuals or nations can only come through a political and social reconstruction. This cannot be true apart from the practice of the moral virtues in the individuals that comprise a nation. Better laws and social conditions will always follow a higher realization of morality among the individuals of a community, but no legal enactment can give prosperity to, nay it cannot prevent the ruin of, a man or a nation that has become lax and decadent in the pursuit and practice of virtue.
The moral virtues are the foundation and support of prosperity as they are the soul of greatness. They endure forever, and all the works of man which endure are built upon them. Without them there is neither strength, stability, nor substantial reality, but only ephemeral dreams. To find moral principles is to have found prosperity, greatness, truth, and is therefore to be strong, valiant, joyful and free.
James Allen Bryngoleu, Ilfracombe, England
Författare: James Allen
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Empire State of Mind
'I'm not a businessman I'm a business, man.'
Jay Z
Some people think Jay Z is just another rapper. Others see him as just another celebrity/mega star. The reality is, no matter what you think Jay Z is, he first and foremost a business. And as much as Martha Stewart or Oprah, he has turned himself into a lifestyle.
You can wake up to the local radio station playing Jay Z's latest hit, spritz yourself with his 9IX cologne, slip on a pair of his Rocawear jeans, lace up your Reebok S. Carter sneakers, catch a Nets basketball game in the afternoon, and grab dinner at The Spotted Pig before heading to an evening performance of the Jay Z backed Broadway musical Fela! and a nightcap at his 40/40 Club. He'll profit at every turn of your day.
But despite Jay Z's success, there are still many Americans whose impressions of him are foggy, outdated, or downright incorrect. Surprisingly to many, he honed his business philosophy not at a fancy B school, but on the streets of Brooklyn, New York and beyond as a drug dealer in the 1980s.
Empire State of Mind tells the story behind Jay Z's rise to the top as told by the people who lived it with him from classmates at Brooklyn's George Westinghouse High School; to the childhood friend who got him into the drug trade; to the DJ who convinced him to stop dealing and focus on music. This audio book explains just how Jay Z propelled himself from the bleak streets of Brooklyn to the heights of the business world.
Zack O'Malley Greenburg draws on his one on one interviews with hip hop luminaries such as DJ Clark Kent, Questlove of The Roots, Damon Dash, Fred 'Fab 5 Freddy' Brathwaite, MC Serch; NBA stars Jamal Crawford and Sebastian Telfair; and recording industry executives including Craig Kallman, CEO of Atlantic Records.
He also includes new information on Jay Z's various business dealings, such as:
* The feature movie about Jay Z and his first basketball team that was filmed by Fab 5 Freddy in 2003 but never released.
* The Jay Z branded Jeep that was scrapped just before going into production.
* The real story behind his association with Armand de Brignac champagne.
* The financial ramifications of his marriage to Beyonce.
Jay Z's tale is compelling not just because of his celebrity, but because it embodies the rags to riches American dream and is a model for any entrepreneur looking to build a commercial empire.
Författare: Zack Greenburg
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not
Do You Have to Worry About Your Co worker, Nanny, Neighbor, or Date?
If you're concerned about a new relationship, or even an old one, you will no longer need to rely on instincts, hunches, or horoscopes.
Even when interaction is limited to mere observation or a brief exchange whether you're at a bar, restaurant, park, or even in an elevator you can discover how to assess the general emotional stability of a person in just minutes.
The legendary leader in human behavior, Dr. David J. Lieberman, shows you how to protect yourself and your loved ones, emotionally, financially, and physically from unstable individuals who will inevitably pass through your life.
He has personally trained the military, FBI, and mental health professionals around the world on how to eliminate the guess work and learn in person, online, or even over the phone virtually fool proof tactics to find out if a person is normal, neurotic, or something far more dangerous.
If you've ever wondered . . .
How close is she to snapping?
Is she troubled or just plain moody?
How will he come through for me in a crisis?
Is she a danger to herself or to others? Is he going to turn violent?
Can I trust her with my kids?
Is he unstable or just a bit eccentric?
Is my date a genuine and honest person?
Is he just difficult or is he really disturbed?
FIND OUT WHO'S NORMAL AND WHO'S NOT
Författare: David Lieberman
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Get Seen
Use online video to Get Seen and drive your business to new heights
The new rules of social media are constantly changing. The world of online video is exploding. Hollywood is getting into the game, professional actors and writers are joining in, and independent producers are finding their niche. Now, companies are wide awake to the new opportunity that video presents for product and brand promotion, as well as long term customer engagement.
Are you paying attention? Are you getting your business seen?
In Get Seen, online video maven Steve Garfield offers a quick and complete toolkit that shows you how to get the massive exposure that online video can give your business. Want proof? Listen to:
• Real case studies of businesses using video to boost exposure and grow sales.
• Tools and strategies for expanding your business into the social Web
• Simple step by step guidelines and clever ideas for recording, editing, and exporting video
• Tips on building a community around your content, increasing your views and your exposure, and getting your content to go viral
Video is the ideal way to tell your story, which leads to more business. If you're ready to take full advantage of the newest resource in the social media arsenal, Get Seen is the audio guidebook you need.
Författare: Steve Garfield
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Google Speaks
In many ways, Google is the prototype of a successful 21st century company. It uses technology in new ways to make information universally accessible; promotes a corporate culture that encourages creativity among its employees; and takes its role as a corporate citizen very seriously, investing in green initiatives and developing the largest corporate foundation in the U.S.
Following in the footsteps of her best selling Warren Buffett Speaks written in a conversational style that successfully captures the essence of these business leaders Janet Lowe reveals the amazing story behind one of the most important new companies of our time by exploring the people and philosophies that have made Google a global phenomenon in less than 15 years.
She offers an engaging look at how its founders transformed their vision of a better Internet search engine into a business colossus with about $16 billion in annual revenue. Lowe discusses the values that drive Brin and Page both living fairly modest lives despite each having a net worth of over $15.9 billion and details how they have created a culture that fosters fun, yet keeps Google at the forefront of technology through relentless R&D investments and imaginative partnerships with organizations such as NASA.
Examining Google's breakthrough business strategies, which transformed online advertising and changed the way we look at corporate responsibility and employee relations, we see why Google may be a harbinger of where corporate America is headed. Also addressed are controversies surrounding Google, such as copyright infringement, antitrust concerns, and personal privacy.
Författare: Janet Lowe
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
How to Sell When Nobody is Buying
You are listening to this this book because you need to make more sales fast in an uncertain time. The pressure to sell has never been higher. But as the economy, your industry, and the markets change, does that really mean that people aren't buying anymore? Of course not.
First, you have to understand, it's not your fault. You're struggling because the current model for reaching and converting customers is seriously outdated and no longer works. You must develop new skills in a rapidly changing world if you intend to sell. We're in a new economy full of rapidly changing industries and new sales rules apply. Customers have up to the minute information access, a global reach, a social networking mindset, a desire for instant gratification, and expectations of more powerful, high tech experiences. That means you must understand what consumers demand of you before putting products and services in front of them.
You need to pick up the tools that connect you to your market, expand your networks, and create a persuasive message that reaches customers where they live. The rules have changed, and only those most adaptable to change will survive.
This approach is necessary for everyone in the sales industry. Whether you're a salesperson, a sales manager, are self employed, or are part of a sales team, How to Sell When Nobody's Buying is the one stop resource you need to stand out in the marketplace starting now.
Författare: Dave Lakhani
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Identity Economics
In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize–winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people—facing the same economic circumstances—would make different choices. This was the beginning of a fourteen year collaboration—and of Identity Economics.
Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions—at work, at school, and at home. With it, we can better appreciate why incentives like stock options work or don't; why some schools succeed and others don't; why some cities and towns don't invest in their futures—and much, much more.
Identity Economics bridges a critical gap in the social sciences. It brings identity and norms to economics. People's notions of what is proper, and what is forbidden, and for whom, are fundamental to how hard they work, and how they learn, spend, and save. Thus people's identity—their conception of who they are, and of who they choose to be—may be the most important factor affecting their economic lives. And the limits placed by society on people's identity can also be crucial determinants of their economic well being.
Författare: George Akerlof,Rachel Kranton
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
If God Were Your Therapist
How to Stay Sane In An Insane World
Given the high level of both opportunity and comfort, we would expect people to be happier than ever, and even more satisfied with their lives. The reality, though, is startlingly different. Instead of thriving and feeling empowered as a result of greater choices, we are deteriorating.
Drawing on timeless wisdom and fundamental principles in psychology, Dr. David Leiberman, offers insights into the human condition, and reveals how regardless of the opportunities available to us today, a lack of self control results in poor choices, and ultimately leads to negative emotions and destructive habits.
If God Were Your Therapist offers neither exercises or affirmations, nor meditations or motivating mantras. There is no homework to do or journals to fill out. Rather, readers learn how to regain self control and move their thoughts, choices, and lives in a purposeful, powerful, direction, free from the shackles of anxiety and stress.
Experience a new kind of freedom and power when you discover how to permanently rise above your nature, and move confidently through life on ordinary days, and in extraordinary times.
Författare: David Lieberman Ph.D.
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
In Search of the Obvious
This audiobook could upset a lot of people. It is the first to state the obvious: Marketing is a mess. Jack Trout intends to make the people who made the mess very uncomfortable. Only then will they begin to look for the obvious solutions that will separate their products from their competitors in a way that is equally obvious to customers. All this comes with no jargon, no numbers, no complexity, and a great deal of common sense. The search for any marketing strategy is the search for the obvious.
We are in an era of killer competition. Category after category is perceived as a commodity. This fact is the central reason the critically important function of marketing is such a mess. It's also why the average chief marketing officer barely lasts beyond two years in the job.
In this audiobook, marketing guru Jack Trout clears up the confusion that surrounds the marketing profession. Instead of focusing on segmentation or customer retention or search engine optimization or data mining, marketers should be searching for that simple, obvious differentiating idea. This search should begin with what Trout considers the best book ever written on marketing even though it was published in 1916 and isn't about marketing. Entitled Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successful Business Man, it lays out the five tests of an obvious idea that will lead you to the right marketing strategy for any product. Trout goes beyond the obvious by laying out what gets in the way of this search, like the Internet, advertising people, marketing people, Wall Street, research, even the future. These are all huge distractions that keep marketers from their most important task: differentiating their products.
To bring these principles for finding the obvious to life, Trout finds obvious solutions to today's troubles for the likes of GM, Coke, Wal Mart, newspapers, and the bewildering beer business.
Författare: Jack Trout
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Inside Drucker's Brain
A guide to Peter Drucker's best management principles…
Inspired by the author's interview with the “father of modern management” himself
In late 2003, Peter Drucker invited Jeffrey Krames to his home in Claremont, California, for a rare interview. The 94 year old Drucker who had amassed an unprecedented body of published work, comprised of many hundreds of thousands of pages, spent a full day sharing his insights from a lifetime of management consulting and writing. This resulting audio book is a simple guide that distills the essential wisdom from Drucker's considerable body of work. It includes:
• The key to Drucker's ideas
• His seminal management and leadership insights and strategies
• The evolution of Drucker's thinking
• His thoughts on leadership, partnering with professionals, and the changing role of information and technology
Gain a fresh perspective on this extraordinary thinker.
By including many contemporary examples, this audio book brings a part of Drucker's incredible body of knowledge to life, and shows how so many of his seminal ideas are as relevant now as when they were written.
A step by step blueprint to implementing Drucker's best ideas into your own organization.
Författare: Jeffrey Krames
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
It's Not as Bad as You Think
Even with the economy feeling a little bit better, there is a real fear that markets will stay down and things won't ever get back to normal. But a few brave voices say that this attitude is just too pessimistic.
Capitalism has not failed. And it's not time to just give up—on free markets or a better tomorrow. History shows that every time the economy was thought to be done, worn out, finished, it bounced back. The economy is not as fragile as the pessimists think. In fact, things are already improving. Even housing is showing signs of life.
With It's Not as Bad as You Think, Brian Wesbury, ranked as one of the top economic forecasters by the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, shows you that the future is much brighter than you think. A great confluence of negativity and government mistakes dragged attitudes and the economy down, but this won't last. With this easy to follow analysis of tomorrow and guide through yesterday, Wesbury debunks the pouting pundits of pessimism to show you how to prosper now and in the future.
Chapter by chapter, It's Not as Bad as You Think:
• Reveals the real reasons behind the 'Panic of 2008' and why it seems so much more severe than past crises
• Uncovers a history of entrepreneurship that you should trust
• Explains how a V shaped recovery can take place and how wealth you had thought you lost can be found again
• Calls out the press for being overly negative about capitalism and shows how government policy compounded economic problems in 2008
And much more
A breath of fresh air, Wesbury's objectivity and optimism provide welcome relief to the daily bad news stories. So if you need an antidote to conventional wisdom and are willing to look beyond the events that have already occurred, pick up It's Not as Bad as You Think and discover how you can capitalize on the profitable possibilities of tomorrow.
Författare: Brian Wesbury
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Lose Weight without Discipline or Willpower
The New York Times Bestselling author, Dr. David J. Lieberman, introduces a wonderful right to the point mini audio book that tells listeners how to end food cravings once and for all!
Human beings have a complicated relationship with food, both psychologically and physiologically. Need gets tangled with want, and reason is ensnared by the senses. If you ask someone to explain why they just gobbled a half gallon of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in one sitting, they usually can't. One part of the brain is stumbling all over itself to satisfy a ferocious craving, while another is simultaneously working through all the reasons why we should ignore the craving. But cravings are hard to simply ignore, aren't they?
Understanding how cravings seduce you into surrendering can help you to conquer them, maintain a healthy weight and improve your overall health. Most significantly, you can tip the scales in your favor, and harness the power of psychology and physiology to reprogram your brain, and to permanently counter your cravings.
Författare: David Lieberman
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Louis D. Brandeis
The first full scale biography in twenty five years of one of the most important and distinguished justices to sit on the Supreme Court–an audio book that reveals Louis D. Brandeis the reformer, lawyer, and jurist, and Brandeis the man, in all of his complexity, passion, and wit.
As a lawyer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he pioneered how modern law is practiced. The author of the right to privacy he led the way in creating the role of the lawyer as counselor and pioneered the idea of pro bono publico work by attorneys.
Named to the Supreme Court, Brandeis, ranked as one of the nation's leading progressive reformers. He invented savings bank life insurance in Massachusetts and was a driving force in the development of the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the law establishing the Federal Trade Commission.
As an economist and moralist, Brandeis warned in 1914 that banking and stock brokering must be separate, and twenty years later, during the New Deal, his recommendation was finally enacted into law only to be undone by Ronald Reagan, which led to the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and the world financial collapse of 2008.
And at age fifty eight Brandeis became the head of the American Zionist movement. During the next seven years, Brandeis transformed it from a marginal activity into a powerful force in American Jewish affairs.
A huge and galvanizing biography, a revelation of one man's effect on American society and jurisprudence, and the electrifying story of his time.
Författare: Melvin Urofsky
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Maimonides
This first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver.
Recalling such best sellers as David McCullough's John Adams and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Maimonides is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time.
As a physician, Maimonides is associated with Hippocrates as a founder of modern medicine; his influence in philosophy is equal to that of Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, and Kant; in religion, he is as significant as Moses, Martin Luther, and Saint Augustine; and as a lawgiver, he has been recognized by the United States Congress as one of the greatest alongside Hammurabi and Thomas Jefferson.
Now, in a dazzling work of scholarship, Joel Kraemer tells the complete story of Maimonides's rich life. Maimonides is at once a portrait of a great historical figure and an excursion into the Mediterranean world of the 12th century. Joel Kraemer draws on a wealth of original sources to re create a remarkable period in history when Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions clashed and mingled in a setting alive with intense intellectual exchange and religious conflict.
Born in Muslim ruled Spain in 1135, Moses Maimonides was deeply conversant with Arabic philosophy and literature. By the time he was thirty, he was known for his seminal works on the Jewish practices and law. In Egypt, his training as a physician earned him a place in the entourage of the great Sultan Saladin, and his books earned him respect and influenced generations of Christian, Muslim and Jewish thinkers.
Författare: Joel L. Kraemer
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service
Today's customers demand service that isn't just beyond the norm, but makes its mark in their minds and in their hearts. This updated edition of Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service provides listeners with up to the minute advice on how they can create world class service both in their operations and through their people, whether they work with customers face to face, on the phone, or in e space.
Revamped with new examples, stories, and research, this audiobook gives readers practical, proven ways to:
Find and retain service oriented people
Get to know customers intimately
Build a service vision
Train and coach
Create and maintain a service management process that aligns people, systems, and customers
Involve and empower employees
Recognize and reward good performance
Filled with examples from service standard setters, such as Fed Ex, QVC, and others, Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service shows how to create great service on a day to day, real time, every time basis.
Författare: David Zielinski,Ron Zemke,Chip R. Bell
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Maximize Your Potential Through Power Of Your Subconscious For Health Vitality
Dr. Joseph Murphy's classic book The Power of Your Subconscious Mind was first published in 1963 and became an immediate best seller; it was acclaimed as one of the best self help guides ever written. Following the success of this work, Dr. Murphy lectured to thousands of people around the world, and millions tuned in to his daily radio program. In his lectures, he pointed out how real people have radically improved their lives by applying specific aspects of his concepts. Now, these lectures have been combined, edited, and updated in six audio books that bring Dr. Murphy's teachings into the 21st century and provide listeners with his proven tools on how to program their subconscious minds so that they can radically improve their lives.
In this audio book, Dr. Murphy explains that Infinite Spirit is the presence of God within each human being. You're capable of deepening your spirituality and obtaining tranquility, beauty, love, joy, and all of God's blessings. He also describes how you can use prayer and meditation to program your subconscious mind and channel Divine power to bring peace and happiness into your life.
Författare: Dr. Joseph Murphy
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Money From Anywhere
This audio book will show you, step by step, how to quickly and easily set up and run your own profitable online business and 'make money from anywhere.'
Best selling author Pat O'Bryan (Your Portable Empire), along with multiple best seller Dr. Joe Vitale (Attract Money Now), Marlon Sanders (Internet Marketing Superstar), Connie Green (Huge Profits With a Tiny List), and several other Internet Marketing experts have created a road map for you. All you have to do is follow it. If you've been downsized, outsourced, or are just looking to increase your income, this is the audio book for you.
Författare: Pat O'Bryan
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Never Make the First Offer
Donald Dell is a legend in professional sports. As one of the first agents to represent athletes, he's been negotiating mega deals for almost forty years with a hugely successful record on behalf of stars like Arthur Ashe, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Connors, Patrick Ewing, Stan Smith, and Boomer Esiason.
Now Dell shares behind the scenes stories of his dealings with some of the most powerful sports owners and executives. He brings the inner workings of the negotiating room to life and offers lessons that listeners can apply to their own tough situations. A sample:
• Never make the first offer: You're not seeking an offer at all; you are seeking information.
• Business is emotional: If you are less than genuine. people will pick up on it, which is much worse than losing your temper every now and then.
• Know your audience: I finally figured out the key to Jimmy Connors play to his stubbornness. Don't force Jimmy to do something and he just might do it.
• Decide what's important: Something extremely important to the other side may be trivial to you, in which case you can gain leverage by giving it to them.
Författare: Donald Dell
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Nudge
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.
Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take—from neither the left nor the right—on many hot button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audio books to come along in many years.
Included in this recording are a Bonus Chapter and a Postscript added in the Paperback Edition.
Författare: Richard Thaler,Cass Sunstein
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Open Leadership
An essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be 'open' while maintaining control
'Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic' are the current leadership mantras but companies often push back. Business is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness leaders do not know how to be open and be in control. This must have resource will help the modern leader understand how to lead in the new open world where blogging, twittering, facebooking, and digging are becoming the norm. the author lays out the steps that leaders must take to transform their organizations and themselves into being 'open' and exactly what that will mean.
• Shows how to use social media to become an open organization
• Offers basic advice for leaders who are adapting to the new era of openness in the marketplace
• The author Charlene Li is one of the foremost experts on social media and technologies
In easy to understand language, this audio book will help leaders orient themselves to social networking and other technological advances.
Författare: Charlene Li
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Setting Boundaries with Difficult People
The New York Times Bestselling author, Dr. David J. Lieberman, introduces a wonderful right to the point mini audio book that tells listeners how to put an end to boundary issues once and for all!
A work colleague with whom you have only a casual relationship asks you to co sign a loan for him . . . your neighbor asks you to keep her antisocial, flea riddled cat for the weekend — again. We've all faced sticky situations like these — unreasonable demands on our time and inappropriate requests from family, friends, co workers or casual acquaintances. We want to say No. We have the right to say No — always. And yet we don't.
Some people will take No for an answer and that's the end of it. But some people don't. What do you do when the person on the other end of your No flat out refuses to accept your No?
You'll discover exactly what to say as well as learn the underlying psychology that motivates them to always ask, and you to always give in! Plus, you'll learn step by step what you can do about it.
Författare: David Lieberman
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Start-Up Nation
START UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources produces more start up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada and the UK?
With the savvy of foreign policy insiders, Senor and Singer examine the lessons of the country's adversity driven culture, which flattens hierarchy and elevates informality—all backed up by government policies focused on innovation. In a world where economies as diverse as Ireland, Singapore and Dubai have tried to re create the 'Israel effect', there are entrepreneurial lessons well worth noting. As America reboots its own economy and can do spirit, there's never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.
Författare: Dan Senor,Saul Singer
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The AdSense Code
Hidden on the Internet, scattered among billions of Web pages, are the clues to an incredible secret. For those who know the secret, the result is untold wealth. Each month, a small group of people put their knowledge of Google AdSense to use and receive four and five figure checks from Google. And untold numbers of additional site owners are regularly generating supplemental income via AdSense while they play, sleep and eat.
A New York Times Best Seller, The AdSense Code is now revised and updated in the definitive resource that reveals proven online strategies for creating passive income with Google AdSense. The AdSense Code reveals hands on solutions to many of the concerns and challenges faced by content publishers in their quest to attract targeted traffic, improve content relevance and increase responsiveness to AdSense ads using easy and legitimate techniques that have worked for those who know the secrets. Google AdSense expert, Joel Comm, provides you with the keys you need to 'crack' The AdSense Code and unlock the secrets to making money online.
Författare: Joel Comm
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Bed of Procrustes
By the author of the modern classis The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Nassim Nicholas Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.
Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self delusions you have been living with but never recognized.
With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.
Författare: Nassim Taleb
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Day After the Dollar Crashes
WE ARE AT A CROSSROADS of immense proportions. Nationally, internationally, and globally, we are
living in a manner that is absolutely, unconditionally, irrevocably unsustainable. Our global economic stability is in jeopardy, our planet's ecosystems are under attack, and our health is deteriorating. Huge changes are coming whether or not we want them, whether or not we are ready for them. How can we lead the charge to introduce innovations and solutions to meet the inevitable challenges of new kinds of economic forces? Damon Vickers believes that by anticipating social trends and detecting potentially profitable areas for investing, we might still be able to profit while supporting a sustainable future.
In The Day After the Dollar Crashes, Vickers presents a possible time line for the crash of the U.S. dollar and the subsequent collapse of global markets. He outlines the New World Order that may take shape over the next decade and the impact it could have on nations, businesses, and individuals. Perhaps more importantly, he tells how investors can weather the coming economic collapse and position themselves for the coming global transformation. By changing our expectations and taking action to get in alignment with reality, Vickers shows, we can steadily profit in our investments. He suggests both globally sustainable and socially responsible types of investments, including investing in currencies of countries that are backed by real assets like resources and technologies that expand our sustainable energy and food sources.
The time for denial and waiting for someone else to fix everything is over. It is up to us, each and every one of us, to wake up and start to make more responsible choices as we enter a New World Order. This audio book will show us how.
Författare: Damon Vickers
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The First Time Manager
Since its original publication, The First Time Manager has helped many thousands of rookie managers handle their new responsibilities...and now it can help you! Clear and concise, this audiobook covers all the fundamentals you need for success, with indispensable advice on topics including hiring and firing, leadership, motivation, and managing time and stress. In addition, the completely updated fifth edition shows you how to build trust and confidence, be an active listener, manage a diverse group of individuals, conduct performance appraisals, and address many other challenges that come with the manager's job.
Written and read in an inviting and accessible style, this classic skill building audiobook is an essential tool for becoming an effective, confident new manager.
Författare: Gary S. Topchik,Loren B. Belker
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Half-life of Facts
New insights from the science of science
Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that Pluto was a planet. For decades, we were convinced that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
But it turns out there’s an order to the state of knowledge, an explanation for how we know what we know. Samuel Arbesman is an expert in the field of scientometrics—literally the science of science. Knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can have a powerful impact on our lives.
Författare: Samuel Arbesman
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Idea Hunter
'Breakaway ideas come to those who are in the habit of looking for them.' —from the Introduction
Ideas are arguably the most valuable asset in an information based economy. But how do you find the best ideas—the kind that can boost careers, change organizations, and ramp up the value of projects? Why do some people seem to come up with these ideas whenever they need them?
In this myth busting audio book, the authors reveal that great business ideas do not spring from innate creativity, or necessarily from the minds of brilliant people. High value ideas come to those who are in the habit of looking for such ideas—all around them, all the time. These are the Idea Hunters…who do not buy into the notion that the only great idea is a pristinely original one. They understand that game changing ideas are already out there, waiting to be spotted and shaped into an innovation.
The authors present an eclectic band of Idea Hunters, including Thomas Edison, Mary Kay Ash, Walt Disney, Warren Buffett, Apple's Phil Schiller, and the leaders of Twitter, Pixar Animation Studios, and the Boston Beer Company, and unveil a strategy for unearthing new ideas in any industry or organization.
It is a must have resource for anyone who wants to tap into the successful business ideas that are just waiting to be rediscovered.
Författare: Andy Boynton,William Bole,Bill Fischer
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Knack
Two of Inc. Magazine's hugely popular columnists show how small business people can deal with all kinds of tricky situations
People starting out in business tend to seek step by step formulas or specific rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran entrepreneur Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street smart people solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. He calls it “the knack” and it has made all the difference to the eight successful start ups of his career.
Brodsky explores this mind set every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular column he co writes with journalist and author Bo Burlingham (best known for his acclaimed book Small Giants). In both their column and now their audio book, they tell stories about real companies facing real challenges, and tell listeners how to apply “the knack” to their own businesses.
Brodsky and Burlingham offer essential advice such as:
• Follow the numbers—that's the best way to spot problems before they become life threatening
• Keep focusing on your real goal it's amazingly easy to get sidetracked by secondary concerns
• Don't get so close to the problem that you lose all perspective
Brodsky and Burlingham prove that street smarts and business acumen can be within any entrepreneur's reach.
Författare: Bo Burlingham,Norm Brodsky
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Leadership Challenge
The 25th anniversary edition of the bestselling business classic, completely revised and updated
For more than 25 years, The Leadership Challenge has been the most trusted source on becoming a better leader, selling more than 2 million copies in over 20 languages since its first publication. Based on Kouzes and Posner’s extensive research, this all new edition casts their enduring work in context for today’s world, proving how leadership is a relationship that must be nurtured, and most importantly, that it can be learned.
Features over 100 all new case studies and examples, which show The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership in action around the world
Focuses on the toughest organizational challenges leaders face today. Addresses changes in how people work and what people want from their work
An indispensable resource for leaders at all levels, this anniversary edition is a landmark update and must hear.
Författare: James Kouzes,Barry Posner
Uppläsare: Barry Posner,Sean Pratt,James Kouzes Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Little Book of Behavioral Investing
Little book, big profits....
Here is 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, one of the world's foremost behavioral analysts, 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. This book:
Offers time tested ways to identify and avoid the pitfalls of investor bias
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.
Författare: James Montier
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Little Book of Big Dividends
Everyone needs to invest, but where do you invest during bear markets?
The massive stock declines over the past year have eroded savings, but this doesn't mean you should stuff your money into a mattress. It needs to be put to work, getting some return so that it will grow. Smart investors will turn to high dividend paying stocks to get a stable and growing stream of income. Dividend investing which provides an income beyond any gain in the share price may be the investor's best weapon. Dividends are safe, largely reliable, and maybe at the their cheapest levels in many years. While the best paying dividend stocks of recent years, such as financials, took a huge beating in 2008, opportunities will abound in 2010 and beyond if you know where to look.
In The Little Book of Big Dividends, dividend stock expert Chuck Carlson presents an action plan for dividend hungry investors. You'll learn about the pitfalls, how to find the opportunities, and how to construct a portfolio that generates big, safe dividends easily through the BSD (Big, Safe Dividends) formula. If you're a bit adventurous, Carlson has you covered and will teach you how to find big, safe dividends in foreign stocks, preferred stocks, ETFs, real estate investment trusts, and more. This book:
Contains the simple tools, strategies, and recommendations for finding big, safe dividends
Helps you put a complete portfolio together that pays dividends every month
Tells you the top dividend paying stocks with their dividend payment dates
It doesn't get any easier than this, and in these turbulent times, you can't afford to ignore the power of dividends. Read The Little Book of Big Dividends and gain a better perspective of how you can protect yourself for the future.
Författare: Terry Savage,Charles B. Carlson
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Little Book of Bull Moves
In the wake of declining stock prices, the bursting of the real estate bubble, and a weakening dollar, the American economy is poised for a prolonged contraction and U.S. stocks will suffer a protracted bear market, so predicted seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff in his 2008 bestseller, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets. Now updated for 2010, in The Little Book of Bull Moves, the CNBC dubbed “Doctor Doom” explains in the same straightforward and accessible style that was the signature of his first book:
• The causes of the current financial crisis, including how the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers triggered the market meltdown
• How healthcare legislation will likely prove to be the stake through the heart of our already fragile economy
• How the dollar's downward trend is likely to continue, especially under the Obama administration's economic policies, which only provide a temporary illusion of recovery
• How the real collapse—including a cataclysmic upheaval of the American way of life as we know it—is yet to come
Filled with the sort of insightful commentary, inventive metaphors, and prescriptive advice readers have come to expect from Schiff, The Little Book of Bull Moves shows you commonsense ways to successfully implement various bull moves so that you can preserve, and even grow your wealth in an economy experiencing high inflation, collapsed markets, and rising interest rates coupled with declining currencies.
For investors who understand that the worst is yet to come, but don't know what to do about it, and for those for whom a new economic and financial anxiety has taken hold, The Little Book of Bull Moves offers timely insights into using a conservative, nontraditional investment strategy to protect your portfolio and even profit during these uncertain economic times and those to come.
Författare: Peter Schiff
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Little Book of Economics
After the global financial panic and recession of 2007–2009, you don't have to be president or a hedge fund manager to know that “It's the economy, stupid.” Yet while the economy dominates the headlines, how it works and who influences it remain a mystery to most people. In The Little Book of Economics, Greg Ip, an award winning journalist renowned for making complex economics easy to understand, walks you through how the economy really works. You'll learn:
• How psychology and the Federal Reserve drive business cycles
• How a financial crisis can transform a recession into a depression
• The surprising effects of fertility rates, lawyers, and ideas on economic growth
• Whether the United States faces a lost decade like Japan did in the 1990s
• The causes of inflation, how it destabilizes society, and why deflation is even worse
• How government debt can sometimes help end a recession but, other times, bring on disaster—and how to tell the difference
• The symptoms of financial crises and why they often occur in election years
• What goes on inside the Federal Reserve, what it does when interest rates are zero, and why its power to print money has made it the world's financial fireman
You can't understand the American economy without recognizing the growing influence of the rest of the world. So The Little Book of Economics digs into globalization, how it made America's mortgage crisis possible, how it's exploited by China to spur growth, and how it makes the United States richer even as it widens the gap between winners and losers.
One side effect of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression is that it has ignited a fresh desire among citizens and investors to better understand the economy. The Little Book of Economics is an accessible, engaging, and entertaining guide to all of the wonderful and wicked ways in which the economy functions and what it all means to you.
Författare: Greg Ip
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Little Book of Safe Money
With the value of the dollar sinking, bond yields drying up, giant investment banks collapsing, and stock markets crumbling, how can you ensure that your money will stay safe? By becoming better acquainted with the markets, the “professionals” who populate the field of finance, and most importantly, yourself.
While this may sound like simple advice, author Jason Zweig—the investing and personal finance columnist for the Wall Street Journal—knows how difficult this endeavor can be. But as a trusted voice in the financial community, he has helped thousands of investors achieve this goal, and now, with The Little Book of Safe Money, he wants to help you do the same.
This is the perfect guide for those trying to make their way through today's tough markets. He covers everything from investing behavior and why our minds come with their own set of biases that often prove harmful to the use of financial advisors, and goes one step further than the rest by questioning an investor's true appetite for risk. Zweig also debunks many of the myths that whirl around Wall Street with chapters like “Hedge Fund Hooey.”
This timely audio book:
• Outlines strategies for satisfying our ever changing investment appetites while focusing on a long term financial plan
• Discusses both the external and internal forces that can hurt our investment performance—and how you can better deal with them
• Offers practical guidance, tools, and tips for surviving and thriving in a down market
• And much more
In a straightforward and accessible style, Zweig peels away layer after layer of buzz words, emotion, and myths to reveal what's really going on in today's financial markets and how you can thrive under even the most adverse conditions. If you're serious about succeeding in today's turbulent markets, then The Little Book of Safe Money is what you should be listening to.
Författare: Jason Zweig
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Longevity Project
For years we have been told to make lists and obsessively monitor when we're angry, what we eat, how much we worry, and how often we go to the gym. So why isn't everyone healthy? Now based on the most extensive study of long life ever conducted The Longevity Project reveals what really matters across the long run—the personality traits, relationships, experiences, and career paths that naturally keep you vital.
Gathering key new information and using modern research methods to study 1,500 Californians across eight decades, health scientists Dr. Howard S. Friedman and Dr. Leslie R. Martin bust many old dead end myths. For instance,
• People do not die from working long hours at a challenging job—many who worked hardest lived the longest
• Getting and staying married is not the magic ticket to long life, especially if you're a woman
• It's not the happy go lucky who thrive—it's the prudent and persistent who flourish through the years. See why.
With self tests that illuminate your own best paths to longer life, and a deeper scientific understanding than we have seen before of the true causes of long term health, this audio book will change the conversation about what it really takes to optimize your chances for a long, healthy life.
Författare: Leslie Martin,Howard Friedman
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Magic Ladder to Success
A primer in success building, The Magic Ladder to Success is Hill's compact distillation of his lifetime of learning.
The Magic Ladder to Success is the volume in which Napoleon Hill first distilled the seventeen factors that make up his Law of Success philosophy. These key principles capture the ethics and actions that empower all who harness them to become leaders in the field of their choice. Leaders are not born, Hill argues, they are molded by a remarkably similar, simple, and dynamic set of habits.
The Magic Ladder to Success is Napoleon Hill's lost classic long out of print, it is newly available as a stand alone audio edition, revised and updated for the twenty first century.
Författare: Napoleon Hill
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Man Who Lied to his Laptop
STARTLING INSIGHTS INTO PERSUASION, TRUST, EMPATHY, AND TEAMWORK BASED ON REVELATIONS ABOUT HOW WE TREAT OUR COMPUTERS
The driver was insistent: “A woman should not be giving directions.” Despite the customer service rep's reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn't actually a woman—just a computer with a female voice—the driver (and many others like him) refused to listen. There was only one person for BMW to call for help: Clifford Nass, one of the world's leading experts on how people interact with technology.
After two decades of studying problems like BMW's GPS system, Microsoft's Clippy (the most hated animated character of all time), and online evaluations that led people to lie to their laptops, Nass has developed a powerful theory: Our brains can't fundamentally distinguish between interacting with people and interacting with devices. We will “protect” a computer's feelings, feel flattered by a brown nosing piece of software, and even do favors for technology that has been “nice” to us. All without even realizing it.
Nass has found that the most powerful strategies for working with people can be learned from watching what succeeds and fails in technology interfaces. If a computer can make friends, build teams, and calm powerful emotions, so can any of us.
Nass's studies reveal:
• Mixing criticism with praise—a popular tactic for managers—is a destructive method of evaluation.
• Opposites don't attract—except when one gradually changes to become more like the other.
• Flattery works—even when the recipient knows it's flattery.
• Team building exercises don't build teams—but the right T shirt can.
• Misery loves company—but only if the company is miserable, too.
Nass's discoveries push the boundaries of both psychology and technology and provide nothing less than a new blueprint for successful human relationships.
Författare: Clifford Nass,Corina Yen
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Mastery of Destiny
There is, and always has been, a widespread belief in Fate, or Destiny, that is, in an eternal and inscrutable Power which apportions definite ends to both individuals and nations. This belief has arisen from long observation of the facts of life. Men are conscious that there are certain occurrences which they cannot control, and are powerless to avert. Birth and death, for instance, are inevitable, and many of the incidents of life appear equally inevitable. Men strain every nerve for the attainment of certain ends, and gradually they become conscious of a Power which seems to be not of themselves, which frustrates their puny efforts, and laughs, as it were, at their fruitless striving and struggle. As men advance in life, they learn to submit, more or less, to this overruling Power which they do not understand, perceiving only its effects in themselves and the world around them, and they call it by various names, such as God, Providence, Fate, Destiny, etc.
Författare: James Allen
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The New Rules of Marketing & PR 2.0
The Internet has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other. It has also changed the way businesses communicate with current and potential customers. In the old days, marketers could only communicate through the filter of expensive advertising or media ink placed by a PR firm. Today, the rules have changed entirely.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential that Web based communication offers large and small companies, nonprofits, entrepreneurs, political organizations, consultants, even rock bands and churches. Finally, you can speak directly to customers and buyers, establishing a personal link with those who make your business work. You can reach niche buyers with targeted messages that cost a fraction of your big budget advertising campaign. Rather than bombard them with advertising they'll likely ignore, you can focus on getting the right message to the right people at the right time.
When people visit your company's Web site, they aren't there to hear your slogan or see your logo again. They want information, interaction, and choice—and you'd be a fool not to give it to them. This one of a kind guide to the future of marketing includes a step by step action plan for harnessing the power of the Internet, showing you how to identify audiences, create compelling messages, get those messages to the right people, and lead consumers into the buying process. Including a wealth of compelling case studies and real world examples, this is a practical guide to the new reality of PR and marketing.
Smart marketers who want to communicate with buyers directly, raise online visibility, and increase sales will discover everything they need to put the new rules to work. This audio book will show you how to stay ahead of the curve—and your competitors—by using the Internet to its full PR, marketing, and customer communications potential. If you want your business to succeed, forget tradition and adopt The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
Författare: David Scott
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Power of Decision
The ability to make decisions is central to strong living—yet many frankly admit that they are chronically indecisive. Well, they think they are; they just haven't ade up their minds. Sound familiar?
In this audio book, Dr. Barker shows how indecisive people are failure prone, as he explores the decision making process in the individual, especially the role of the subconscious mind in either abetting or thwarting every conscious mind decision. He then provides specific steps to shift the balance of decision making power in your favor.
Listening to The Power of Decision may well prove to be one of the best decisions you ever made.
Författare: Raymond Barker
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Science of Being Well
Are you ready to start your journey to perfect health? From the author of The Science of Getting Rich comes his second book, The Science of Being Well. The original book was first published in 1910. Peter Wink has added a foreword and revised and modernized some of the text in this new and updated version.
This amazing audio will teach you how the power of positive thinking can improve your health. It's been said, 'When the student is ready, the teacher will appear!' Well, the teacher is Wallace D. Wattles, and he's here! Listen as his practical guide helps you explore the principles of health and leads you to a healthy, happier life.
Författare: Wallace D. Wattles
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Smart Swarm
In a world where speed and flexibility are valued more than ever, leaders from the corporate boardroom to the military are looking for answers from seemingly unlikely experts—the ones in the grass, in the air, in the lakes, and in the woods. In this innovative audio book, veteran National Geographic editor Peter Miller explains the basic principles of smart swarms— self organization, diversity of knowledge, indirect collaboration, and adaptive mimicking—to show how swarm species such as ants, bees, and fish can teach us to tackle some of the most complex conundrums in business, politics, and technology.
By studying ant colonies' simple governing rules, computer scientists have written programs to streamline factory processes, telephone networks, and truck routes. Termites have inspired climate control solutions, and the U.S. military is developing a team of robots that behaves like a school of fish. Groups in nature are the real specialists because they've evolved strategies over millions of years to cope with uncertainty, complexity, and change—the same challenges that make our lives and businesses difficult today.
Leading scientists in fields from biology to physics, social psychology, and business management are all studying smart swarms to unlock their secrets, and Peter Miller takes us on a lively tour to show us how we can, too.
A fascinating journey from the critter to the corporation, The Smart Swarm is an eye opening look at small scale phenomena with big implications for us all.
Författare: Peter Miller
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Third Reich at War
The final volume in Richard J. Evans's masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people's community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler's campaign of racial subjugation and genocide
Already hailed as “a masterpiece” (William Grimes in The New York Times) and “the most comprehensive history… of the Third Reich” (Ian Kershaw), this epic trilogy reaches its terrifying climax in this volume.
Evans interweaves a broad narrative of the war's progress with viscerally affecting personal testimony from a wide range of people—from generals to front line soldiers, from Hitler Youth activists to middle class housewives. The Third Reich at War lays bare the dynamics of a nation more deeply immersed in war than any society before or since. Fresh insights into the conflict's great events are here, from the invasion of Poland to the Battle of Stalingrad to Hitler's suicide in the bunker. But just as important is the re creation of the daily experience of ordinary Germans in wartime, staggering under pressure from Allied bombing and their own government's mounting demands upon them. At the center of the book is the Nazi extermination of Europe's Jews, set in the context of Hitler's genocidal plans for the racial restructuring of Europe.
Blending narrative, description and analysis, The Third Reich at War creates an engrossing picture—at once sweeping and precise—of a society rushing headlong to self destruction and taking much of Europe with it. It is the culmination of a historical masterwork that will remain the most authoritative work on Nazi Germany for years to come.
Författare: Richard Evans
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
The Triumph of Value Investing
Timely advice from value investing giants such as Warren Buffett, William O'Neil, Charles Brandes, and David Iben
After the financial chaos and panic of the last few years, investors are looking to rebuild confidence and learn from the mistakes that led to the crash. In The Triumph of Value Investing, Janet Lowe urges listeners to return to the basic principles of value investing as taught by the legendary Benjamin Graham, which remain just as relevant today. These lessons can help listeners maneuver sanely through any type of economic turmoil and even benefit from further disruptions.
Lowe also includes interviews with leading value investors such as Warren Buffett, William O'Neil, and Charles Brandes, and analyzes dozens of U.S. and foreign stocks. She walks investors through the steps necessary to apply the principles that define value investing, with special emphasis on investing in biotech, high technology, and foreign companies.
Whether listeners are familiar with value investing or are just discovering it, they will find plenty of fresh information in The Triumph of Value Investing, which covers the latest concepts and players in the market.
As Lowe writes, 'It is always healthy to check up on the validity of your own thinking. Considering the market breakdowns of the past decade and the confusion and discouragement many individual investors have suffered, this is an excellent time to restudy Benjamin Graham's concepts of value investing and learn how to apply them to a whole range of new challenges.'
Författare: Janet Lowe
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Third Reich In Power
The definitive account of Germany's malign transformation under Hitler's total rule and the implacable march to war. This magnificent second volume of Richard J. Evans's three volume history of Nazi Germany was hailed by Benjamin Schwartz of The Atlantic Monthly as 'the definitive English language account... gripping and precise.' It chronicles the incredible story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. As those who were deemed unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war that he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939.
The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss.
Författare: Richard J. Evans
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
This Time is Different
Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing and recovering their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, 'this time is different' claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong. Covering sixty six countries across five continents, This Time Is Different presents a comprehensive look at the varieties of financial crises, and guides us through eight astonishing centuries of government defaults, banking panics, and inflationary spikes from medieval currency debasements to today's subprime catastrophe. Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, leading economists whose work has been influential in the policy debate concerning the current financial crisis, provocatively argue that financial combustions are universal rites of passage for emerging and established market nations. The authors draw important lessons from history to show us how much or how little we have learned. Using clear, sharp analysis and comprehensive data, Reinhart and Rogoff document that financial fallouts occur in clusters and strike with surprisingly consistent frequency, duration, and ferocity. They examine the patterns of currency crashes, high and hyperinflation, and government defaults on international and domestic debts as well as the cycles in housing and equity prices, capital flows, unemployment, and government revenues around these crises. While countries do weather their financial storms, Reinhart and Rogoff prove that short memories make it all too easy for crises to recur. This Time Is Different exposes centuries of financial missteps.
Författare: Carmen Reinhart,Kenneth Rogoff
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Twitter Power 2.0
Revised and updated with the latest on successful Twitter marketing
In this revised and updated edition of Twitter Power, online marketing entrepreneur Joel Comm explores the latest trends, methods, and practices for making Twitter work for your business. You'll see how businesses and marketers are building a loyal following among Twitter members, expanding awareness of their product or service, and even handling negative publicity due to angry or disappointed customers. Updated with the latest business applications for Twitter, recent case studies, and other relevant social media info, Twitter Power gives you everything you need to tweet your way to success.
Författare: Joel Comm
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
Upside of the Downturn
Some businesses and some people will emerge from this downturn stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now.
Geoff Colvin, one of America's most respected business journalists, says even the scariest recession has an upside. The best managers know conventional thinking won't help them win in these tough times. They're taking smart, practical steps that will not only keep them strong, but will also distance them from the pack for years to come.
The dozens of top performing leaders Colvin interviewed reject the common view that slashing costs and firing employees are all that matter. They see the recession as a rich opportunity to reinvent their organizations and lay the groundwork for future growth.Colvin's 10 solidly grounded strategies will increase your company's competitiveness and build its long term value.
Författare: Geoff Colvin
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
What I Didn't Learn in Business School
Meet Justin Campbell. He's a newly minted MBA who's landed a coveted job in consulting. He's headed to Chicago to serve HGS, a large client with an intriguing new technology its executives haven't yet decided how to exploit. Constrained by a short timeline and limited information, Justin and his team use state of the art strategy tools to analyze various possibilities.
Justin is energized by this challenging assignment, but soon finds the application of his strategy toolkit isn't as straightforward as he'd expected. The political and organizational forces swirling within HGS complicate his analyses and test his fundamental understanding of important strategic concepts.
Justin and his cohorts aren't “real”—What I Didn't Learn in Business School is a business novel. But they're realistic: they're just like us. They are humans, not human resources, and they each have their own personality, motives, and skills. Their story reveals both the strengths and the limitations of common strategy tools. And it demonstrates tactics for navigating the messy organizational dynamics that can make or break a company's efforts to craft successful strategies.
This engaging audio book uses the power of story to present potent lessons for anyone seeking to excel at strategy management. The action moves quickly, and at the end of each chapter, you'll find provocative questions that help you tease out vital insights that you can apply in your own work.
What I Didn't Learn in Business School is a compelling listen—whether you're a recent business school grad struggling to apply your new knowledge or an experienced leader who already knows that no strategy is created in a vacuum.
Författare: Trish Clifford,Jay Barney
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
When Gadgets Betray Us
Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our BlackBerry devices, tablets, and digital capabilities become more and more complex we understand less and less about how they work. we no longer read the instruction manual before powering on, and we demand intuitive interfaces that get us up and running right away. But how many of us actually stop to think about potential threats to our privacy?
Our passports broadcast our personal information and could allow terrorists to target us by nationality. Keyless entry systems in many high tech car models make auto theft easier than ever. Commercial photocopiers are equipped with hard drives that can document everything we ever copied on it. And our digital photos, even after they're cropped, can expose the entire original image (hope you weren't doing anything naughty in that facebook profile picture).
In When Gadgets Betray Us, Robert Vamosi, a technology reporter and analyst who has been covering the internet age for over a decade, investigates the dark side of digital capability and convenience. He uncovers a secret world of privacy loss that most of us never consider— that is, until something goes terribly wrong. From iPads to BlackBerry devices, online banking to keyless entry systems, we're increasingly giving over the management of our crucial information to the latest and greatest electronic gadgets.
Vamosi helps us comprehend the technology in our everyday lives and develop a common sense about how to protect ourselves. An essential guide for understanding what we're really signing up for every time we log in, When Gadgets Betray Us reveals the secret lives of our electronic devices so that we can all better manage the real risks.
Författare: Robert Vamosi
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
World 3.0
The world looks far different today than it did before the global financial crisis struck. Reeling from the most brutal impacts of the recession, governments, economies, and societies everywhere are retrenching and pushing hard for increased protectionism. That's understandable, but it's also dangerous, maintains global economy expert Pankaj Ghemawat in World 3.0. Left unchecked, heightened protectionism could prevent peoples around the world from achieving the true gains afforded by cross border openness.
Ghemawat paints a disturbing picture of what could happen to household income, availability of goods and services, and other quality of life metrics should globalization continue to reverse direction. He then describes how a wide range of players' private businesses, policy makers, citizens, the press' could help open flows of ideas, people, and goods across borders, but in ways that maximize economic benefits for all.
World 3.0 reveals how we're not nearly as globalized as we think we are, and how people around the world can secure their collective prosperity through new approaches to cross border integration. Provocative and bold, this new audio book will surprise and move you, no matter where you stand on globalization.
Författare: Pankaj Ghemewat
Uppläsare: Sean Pratt Förlag: Gildan Media Corp
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