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Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors
Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active InvestorsAuthor: Gerald AppelPublisher: Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-147902-4Technical Analysis: Power Tools for Active Investors is a 241 page, hardbound book, comprised of 10 chapters. It includes a foreword (by another financial expert/author, Alexander Elder) and acknowledgements sections, as well as an introduction and, at the end, an index. Gerald Appel, the author, is famous, among technicians and followers of...
(No rating) 2-8-2007 Views: 2811

The Blog Ahead: How Citizen-Generated Media is Radically Tilting the Communications Balance
Author: R. Scott HallISBN: 1-60037-045-4 (Paperback): ISBN: 1-933596-77-5 (Hardback)The Blog Ahead is a softbound, 8 chapter, 214 page book. Four appendices supplement this primer on the topic, and include axioms (appendix A), author-selected “best and worst” blogs (appendix B), a glossary (appendix C), and selected readings (appendix D). This last appendix includes an interview with Robert Scoble, an extremely well-written (reprinted) article by Richard A. Posner, and (reprinted) articles by...
(No rating) 2-6-2007 Views: 3928

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Economics
Author: Tom GormanPublisher: ALPHA (Penguin)ISBN: 0-02-864492-1This economics installment of the Idiot’s series is 338 pages in length. The 21 chapters are organized into 6 parts in this softbound book, followed by an appendix (resources for the economically inclined and index). Having taught micro and macro economics (introductory) courses at the university level, more than a dozen times, I was looking forward to seeing just how the Idiot’s series dealt with the variety of topics dealt...
(No rating) 2-19-2007 Views: 4704

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
Author: Satyajit DasPublisher: Pearson Education Limited (Prentice Hall/Financial Times)ISBN-10: 0-273-70474-5ISBN-13: 978-0-273-70474-4Traders, Guns & Money is 334 pages in length. The softbound book version was reviewed. This 9 chapter book includes a Preface, Prologue, a List of Figures and Tables, Notes (i.e., footnotes), and an Epilogue.This book is written for the fairly sophisticated investor/reader. The slant and writing style reminds me of a Tom Clancy novel. Phrases like...
(No rating) 5-2-2007 Views: 5064

How to Think about Information
Author: Dan SchillerPublisher: Urbana, IL: University of Illinois PressISBN-10: 0-252-03132-6ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03132-8 How to Think about Information is a softbound book with 9 chapters distributed within 3 sections. This is a quasi-academic work, as the university press publisher and extensive endnotes suggest. The academic or researcher, therefore, is likely to find this book of interest as a primer and/or vehicle for thought-provoking digestion. The non-academic or layperson is also...
(No rating) 2-7-2007 Views: 1849

Leading Six Sigma: A Step-by-Step Guide Based on Experience with GE and Other Six Sigma Companies
Authors: RONALD D. SNEE and ROGER W. HOERL ISBN: 0-13-008457-3 Leading Six Sigma is a hardbound book, comprised of 8 chapters, a question and answer section addressing planning deployment issues, and a supplemental appendix, providing a deployment plan example. It is two-hundred and seventy-nine pages in length. As the title suggests, this book is designed to initiate the reader, likely to be corporate executives, to the Six Sigma planning process, plan refinement, likely...
(No rating) 12-6-2006 Views: 5241

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Finance for Small Business Owners
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Finance for Small Business OwnersAuthor: Ken LittlePublisher: ALPHA (Penguin)ISBN: 1-59257-479-3This finance for small business owners installment of the Idiot’s series is 318 pages in length. The 25 chapters are organized into 5 parts in this softbound book, followed by an appendix (glossary, resources, different legal structures and index).Having taught introductory courses in corporate finance at the university level, a half-dozen times, I was looking...
(No rating) 2-19-2007 Views: 5251

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Statistics
Author: Robert A. Donnelly Jr., Ph.D.Publisher: ALPHA (Penguin);ISBN: 1-59257-199-9This statistics installment of the Idiot’s series is 377 pages in length. The 20 chapters are organized into 4 parts in this softbound book, followed by an appendix (solutions to “your turn,” statistical tables, glossary, and index).Having taught introductory courses in business statistics at the university level, more than a half-dozen times, I was looking forward to seeing just how the Idiot’s series dealt...
(No rating) 2-19-2007 Views: 4360

Retire Rich with Your Self-Directed IRA: What Your Broker & Banker Don’t Want You to Know About Managing Your Own Retirement Investments
Author: Nora PetersonISBN-10: 0-910627-72-XISBN-13: 978-0-910627-72-6 Retire Rich with Your Self-Directed IRA organizes 16 chapters into 4 sections. The introduction summarizes the assumptions made by the author, and used throughout the book, and provides a primer on some of the most basic terminology used in later chapters. Additional resources, two appendices (containing tax-related data, available from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)), a glossary and a bibliography are also...
(No rating) 2-3-2007 Views: 3814

Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts
Author: DAVID M. LEVINE: Publisher: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc ISBN: 0-13-229195-9 Statistics for Six Sigma Green Belts is a hardbound book, comprised of eleven chapters and 4 supplemental appendices. It is three-hundred and sixty-eight pages in length.The “learning objectives” are clearly stated at the beginning of each chapter. This feature is comparable to that employed in many textbooks designed for college classroom use. However, at a suggested retail price of...
(No rating) 12-3-2006 Views: 3598

Modeling Derivatives Applications: In Matlab, C++, and Excel
Author: Justin LondonPublisher: Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-196259-0Modeling Derivatives Applications is a 565 page, hardbound book, with a suggested retail price of less than $170 (US). The book consists of 9 chapters, two appendices (e.g., interest rate tree modeling in Matlab), a references section and an index. Supplemental, proprietary code files, used in the book, may be downloaded from the internet. As the author suggests in the preface, “(t)he best...
(No rating) 5-5-2007 Views: 5971

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Accounting (2nd Edition)
Authors: Lita Epstein, MBA & Shellie Moore, CPAPublisher: ALPHA (Penguin); ISBN: 1-59257-530-7This accounting installment of the Idiot’s series is 331 pages in length. The 26 chapters are organized into 6 parts in this softbound book, followed by an appendix (glossary, key business forms and small business tax and form calendar index). The first question, when reading the title and cover of the book, is what is meant by the title. Does “accounting” mean financial...
(No rating) 2-19-2007 Views: 5268

Business Research Methods (10th Edition)
Click Here To Purchase Business Research Methods Authors: Donald R. Cooper and Pamela S. SchindlerISBN: 0073401757Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
(No rating) 10-5-2008 Views: 6446

Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor: Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care, and the Rest of the Real Economy
Authors: RONALD D. SNEE and ROGER W. HOERL Publishers: Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc: ISBN: 0-13-143988-X. Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor is a hardbound book, comprised of 8 chapters and 326 pages in length. No management or quality control technique need be restricted to manufacturing and this is the theme of this book, as the title would suggest. Financial services and health are very large sectors of the economy, so it makes sense that the authors would...
(No rating) 12-8-2006 Views: 5689

1000 BEST eBay success secrets
Author: Greg HoldenPublisher: Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc.ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-0805-8ISBN-10: 1-4022-0805-71000 BEST eBay success secrets is a softbound book with 4 parts or sections comprised of twenty-two chapters, 2 appendices, an index and a very brief author biography. The parts/sections are titled: (1) before the sale, (2) during the sale, (3) after the sale, and (4) opening e-commerce stores. Appendix A contains a variety of resources likely to be of considerable value to the...
(No rating) 1-18-2007 Views: 4772

Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma Author: Dr. Bret E. Trusko, Carolyn Pexton, Dr. H. James Harrington and Praveen GuptaPublisher: Financial Times Press (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-174171-3Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma is, as the title suggests, an applications-based, hardbound book with a retail price of $59.99 (US). Thirteen chapters follow the foreword and introduction, and are organized into four parts. The...
(No rating) 10-31-2007 Views: 2979

Options Made Easy: Your Guide to Profitable Trading (2nd Edition)
Author: Guy CohenPublisher: Pearson Education/Financial Times Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-187135-8Options Made Easy is a 335 page, hardbound book, with a U.S. suggested retail price of less than $28. This is likely to less than the cost of a single round-trip option trade. It is comprised of twelve chapters, followed by 2 appendices (strategy table and glossary), and includes a references and recommended readings section. The target audience is clearly stated by the...
(No rating) 3-26-2007 Views: 6311

Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians
Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market TechniciansAuthors: Charles D. Kirkpatrick and Julie R. DahlquistPublisher: Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-153113-1Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians is a 672 page, hardbound book. It contains an acknowledgments section, a brief biography of the authors, a bibliography and an index. This 23 chapter book is organized into 8 parts or sections, and Part IX includes...
(No rating) 2-12-2007 Views: 3849

The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate AgendaAuthor: Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-WatsonPublisher: Harvard Business School Press (Boston, MA)ISBN: 1-4221-0101-0ISBN: 13: 978-1-4221-0101-8 The New Capitalists is a 288 page, hardbound book, retailing for $29.95 (US). Organized into 9 chapters (4 parts), preceded by acknowledgments and a preface, and concluded with notes, bibliography, index and author biographies,...
(No rating) 1-28-2008 Views: 2696

Corporate Finance (8th Edition)
Click Here To Purchase Corporate Finance 8th Edition Authors: Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield and Jeffrey JaffeISBN: 978-0-07-310590-1Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Corporate Finance is a 926 page textbook designed for an introductory course at the undergraduate level.
(No rating) 7-14-2008 Views: 7288

Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Foundations, DMAIC, Tools, Cases, and Certification
Author: HOWARD S. GITLOW and DAVID M. LEVINE: ISBN: 0-13-117262-X. Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions is structured into 5 sections that contain a total of nineteen chapters. Four appendices contain reviews for arithmetic and algebra, summation notation, statistical tables and data file documentation in this 705 page, hardbound book. As the title suggests, this book is designed for those already committed to Six Sigma. For those already at the Green Belt or Champion level,...
(No rating) 12-9-2006 Views: 4278

Productive Performance Appraisals (2nd Edition)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Productive Performance Appraisals (2nd Edition) Authors: Paul Falcone with Randi SachsISBN-10: 0-8144-7422-5 (Paperback)ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-7422-8 (Paperback)Publisher: American Management Association (New York, NY)
(No rating) 3-22-2008 Views: 2735

From Book to Bestseller: An Insider’s Guide to Publicizing and Marketing your Book!
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon From Book to Bestseller Author: Penny C. SansevieriISBN: 1-60037-085-3 (Paperback): ISBN: 1-60037-084-5 (Hardcover) From Book to Bestseller is a softbound book with 9 sections (or chapters). The book is also available in hardbound, eBook, and audio CD formats. The acknowledgments section is heartfelt and the disclaimer cautions the reader that additional marketing tools, beyond this single book, are recommended, and even offers a full refund for those...
(No rating) 2-3-2007 Views: 11120

Technical Analysis: Plain and Simple (2nd Edition)
Author: Michael N. KahnPublisher: Pearson Education (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-134597-4Technical Analysis: Plain and Simple is the second edition of this 309 page, hardbound book. It contains 37 chapters, organized into 6 parts or sections. It includes an acknowledgments section, a brief author biography, preface, and 2 sections about the book and how to benefit from it. The author has extensive financial expertise and background on the topic of Technical Analysis (TA). ...
(No rating) 2-8-2007 Views: 2542

Crafting & Executing Strategy (16th Edition)
Click Here To Purchase Crafting & Executing Strategy Authors: Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., Dr. A.J. (Lonnie) Strickland III, and John E. GambleISBN: 978-0-07-338124-4Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
(No rating) 9-27-2008 Views: 5018

Cocktail Economics: Discovering Investment Truths from Everyday Conversations
Author: Victor A. CantoPublisher: Financial Times (FT) Press/Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-243273-0ISBN-13: 978-0-13-243273-3Cocktail Economics is a 300 page, 17 chapter, hardbound book, with a suggested retail price of $24.99 (US). It is preceded by a Foreword (by John Rutledge of Rutledge Capital), Preface, and Introduction and followed by an Index.Victor Canto speaks of his early teaching experiences and the book, as the title suggests, represents a very...
(No rating) 9-24-2007 Views: 3733

Understanding Finance: Expert Solutions to Everyday Problems
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Understanding Finance: Expert Solutions to Everyday Problems Author: Chuck Kremer, Mentor and Karen Berman, MentorPublisher: Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation (Boston, MA)Year: 2007ISBN-978-1-4221-1883-2Understanding Finance is one of a dozen or so Harvard Business School Press paperbacks, from their Pocket Mentor series. Chuck Kremer and Karen Berman are the mentors (authors) of this 94 page installment, which retails for $9.95.This book and...
(No rating) 11-25-2007 Views: 5508

Supply Chain Management: From Vision to Implementation
Click Here To Purchase Supply Chain Management: From Vision to Implementation Authors: Stanley E. Fawcett, Lisa M. Ellram and Jeffrey A. OgdenISBN: 0-13-101504-4Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall Supply Chain Management is a 530 page textbook designed for an introductory course at the undergraduat
(No rating) 9-6-2008 Views: 5633

Mastering Financial Modelling in Microsoft® Excel (2nd Edition): A Practitioner’s Guide to Applied Corporate Finance
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Mastering-Financial-Modelling-Microsoft-Excel Author: Alastair L. DayPublisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall/Pearson Education (Harlow, England)ISBN-13: 978-0-273-70806-3Mastering Financial Modelling in Microsoft® Excel is a 497 page, softbound book. Part A (Developing financial models) contains the first 5 chapters and Part B (Applications) contains the remaining 20 chapters, for a total of 25 chapters. These chapters are preceded by an introduction,...
(No rating) 10-24-2007 Views: 5020

The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses: Creative, Innovative and Cost-Saving Ideas from Great Business Minds
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Best Secrets of Great Small BusinessesAuthor: Ray SilversteinPublisher: Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc.ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-1766-2ISBN-10: 1-4022-0766-2 The Best Secrets of Great Small Businesses is a softbound, 242 page book. Comprised of ten chapters, an epilogue, index, and a brief biography of the author, this book is the product of discussions among member of PRO (President’s Resource Organization), founded by the author, Ray Silverstein, in 1993.
(No rating) 12-14-2006 Views: 11262

Strategic Risk Taking: A Framework for Risk Management
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Strategic-Risk-Taking-Framework-Management Author: Aswath DamodaranPublisher: Wharton School Publishing/Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle, NJ)ISBN-10: 0-13-199048-9ISBN-13: 978-0-13-199048-7 Strategic Risk Taking has a suggested retail price of $49.99 (U.S.). This 388 page, hardbound book includes an Introduction, twelve chapters (organized into three sections), and an Index. Some chapters are followed by Appendix supplements.The first section is...
(No rating) 9-27-2007 Views: 2358

Supply Chain Cost Management: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Supply Chain Cost Management: The AIM & DRIVE® Process for Achieving Extraordinary Results Author: Jimmy AnklesariaISBN-10: 0-8144-7475-6ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-7475-4
(No rating) 3-22-2008 Views: 6304

Options for the Beginner and Beyond
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Options for the Beginner and Beyond Author: W. Edward OlmsteadPublisher: Pearson Education/Financial Times Prentice HallISBN: 0-13-172128-3Options for the Beginner and Beyond is a 230 page, hardbound book, with a U.S. suggested retail price of less than $30. This is likely to be less than the cost of a single round-trip option trade. It is comprised of thirty chapters. As the title suggests, t
(No rating) 3-24-2007 Views: 4096

Design for Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Applications for Service Operations – Foundations, Tools, DMADV, Cases, and Certification
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Design for Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions: Applications for Service Operations – Foundations, Tools, DMADV, Cases, and Certification Authors: HOWARD S. GITLOW, DAVID M. LEVINE and EDWARD A. POPOVICH ISBN: 0-13-185524-7.Design for Six Sigma for Green Belts and Champions is a hardbound book, comprised of eighteen chapters and 3 supplemental appendices. It is six-hundred and eighty-eight pages in length and includes a limited u
(No rating) 12-10-2006 Views: 6488

Risk Management & Insurance (2nd Edition)
Click Here To Purchase Risk Management and Insurance Author(s): Scott E. Harrington and Gregory R. NiehausISBN-10: 978-0-07-233970-3Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin Risk Management & Insurance is designed for a two-semester course in an undergraduate business degree program. It consists of 29 chapters, organized into an introductory section (chapters 1 through 3), the general theory of insurance markets (chapters 4 through 10), a chapter
(No rating) 7-10-2008 Views: 5324

More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon More Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers: 50 New Exercises That Get Results in Just 15 Minutes Authors: Brian Cole MillerISBN-10: 0-8144-7378-4 (Paperback)ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-7378-8 (Paperback)Publisher: American Management Association (New York, NY)
(No rating) 3-22-2008 Views: 6013

Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits Without Increasing Your Risk
Click Here To Purchase Options Trading for the Conservative Investor: Increasing Profits Without Increasing Your Risk Author: Michael C. ThomsettPublisher: Pearson Education/Financial Times Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-149785-5Options Trading for the Conservative Investor is a 255 page, hardbound book, with a suggested retail price of less than $35 (US). This is likely to be less than the cost of a single, round-trip option trade. It is comprised of 9 chapters, followed...
(No rating) 3-26-2007 Views: 4353

Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model (2nd Edition)
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model (2nd Edition) Authors: Peter Bolstorff and Robert RosenbaumISBN-10: 0-8144-0926-1ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-0926-8Publisher: A
(No rating) 3-22-2008 Views: 3814

A Concise Guide to Macro Economics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon A Concise Guide to Macro Economics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know Author: David A. MossPublisher: Harvard Business School Press (Boston, MA)ISBN: 13: 978-1-4221-0179-7 A Concise Guide to Macro Economics is a 189 page, hardbound book, retailing for $24.95 (US). Seven chapters, organized into 2 parts or sections, this book includes acknowledgments, introduction, glossary, notes, index and author biography sections. I found it...
(No rating) 1-28-2008 Views: 3151

Credit Derivatives: A Primer on Credit Risk, Modeling, and Instruments
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Credit Derivatives: A Primer on Credit Risk, Modeling, and Instruments Title: Credit Derivatives: A Primer on Credit Risk, Modeling, and InstrumentsAuthors: George Chacko, Anders Sjöman, Hideto Motohashi, and Vincent DessainPublisher: Pearson Education, Inc. (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0-13-146744-1
(No rating) 5-2-2007 Views: 5518

The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Bible of Options Strategies: The Definitive Guide for Practical Trading Strategies Author: Guy CohenPublisher: Pearson Education/Financial Times Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, NJ)ISBN: 0131710664The Bible of Options Strategies is a 356 page, hardbound book, with a suggested retail price of less than $53 (US). This cost is may exceed that associate with the round-trip
(No rating) 3-26-2007 Views: 7129

Mastering Derivatives Markets (3rd Edition): A Step-By-Step Guide to the Products, Applications and Risks
Click Here To Puchase From Amazon Mastering Derivatives Markets (3rd Edition): A Step-By-Step Guide to the Products, Applications and Risks Author: Francesca TaylorPublisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall/Pearson Education (Harlow, England)ISBN-0-273-70978-XMastering Derivatives Markets is a nineteen chapter, softbound 426 page book. Content is preceded by author and publisher acknowledgements, a foreword and contributor’s acknowledgements, and followed by a glossary and index.As a Certified...
(No rating) 10-23-2007 Views: 4681

Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing: A Simpler and More Powerful Path to Higher Profits Author: Robert S. Kaplan and Steven R. AndersonPublisher: Harvard Business School Press (Boston, MA)(2007)ISBN-13: 978-1-4221-0171-1Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing is a 266 page, hardbound book, retailing for $45 (US). Part one, “fundamentals of time-driven activity-based costing,” includes the first 7 chapters. Part two, “time-driven activity-based costing in action,”...
(No rating) 12-5-2007 Views: 3849

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