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All About Value Investing

Esme Faerber · McGraw-Hill; 1 edition

MASTER THE STRATEGY THAT MADE WARREN BUFFETT THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL INVESTOR One way to make a killing in the market is by identifying underappreciated stocks, purchasing them at less than their intrinsic value, and selling them for profit. It's called value investing, and it's...
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Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies

Kathleen Taylor · For Dummies; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Craving a career in web dev? Chart your path with this helpfulguide Getting a Web Development Job For Dummies provides aroadmap to one of the "hot jobs" in the booming world of tech. Theweb development field is large, and it encompasses many actualfunctions. This book helps you understand...
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The Art of War Visualized: The Sun Tzu Classic in Charts and Graphs

Jessica Hagy · Workman Publishing Company
Format: Print book

It's the perfect meeting of minds. One, a general whose epigrammatic lessons on strategy offer timeless insight and wisdom. And the other, a visual thinker whose succinct diagrams and charts give readers a fresh way of looking at life's challenges and opportunities. A Bronze Age/Information...
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Long-term care : how to plan and pay for it

J L Matthews · Nolo
Pages: 371
Format: Print book

Get the best care, in the right place, at the right price To find the right kind of long-term care, you may need to make difficult personal, medical, and financial decisions during emotionally tough times. Long-Term Care helps you and your family understand the range of available choices....
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Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football

Gilbert M. Gaul · Viking
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

"A penetrating examination of how the elite college football programs have become 'giant entertainment businesses that happened to do a little education on the side.'" - Mark Kram, The New York TimesTwo-time Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Gilbert M. Gaul offers a riveting...
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Start Your Own Retail Business and More: Brick-and-Mortar Stores • Online • Mail Order • Kiosks

The Staff of Entrepreneur Media · Entrepreneur Press; Fourth Edition edition
Format: Print book

OPEN THE STORE OF YOUR DREAMS: START YOUR OWN RETAIL BUSINESSAt more than a trillion dollars, retail is one of the fastest-growing - and fastest-changing - segments of the economy. Apps, pop-up shops, and online shopping have made it easier to reach, interact with, sell to, and gain loyal...
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

Lisa Servon · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

An urgent and incisive exposé of our broken banking system - why Americans are fleeing traditional banks in growing numbers What do an undocumented immigrant in the South Bronx, a high-net-worth entrepreneur, and a twenty-something graduate student have in common? All three are victims...
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Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

Frank Trentmann · Harpercollins, 2016.
Pages: 880
Format: Print book

What we consume has become a central - perhaps the central - feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much...
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Creating Business Plans

Harvard Business Review · Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Book

A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success—whether you’re proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You’ll learn...
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Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name

Stephen Fishman · Nolo
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

With the advent of the Internet, even small businesses now operate at a national level. While that's great for commerce, it can also open up a hornet's nest of trademark issues. Business owners and startups need to be careful not to infringe on other trademarks when selecting the name...
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The Science of Selling: Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal

David Hoffeld · TarcherPerigee
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

The Revolutionary Sales Approach Scientifically Proven to Dramatically Improve Your Sales and Business Success Did you know that nearly half of salespeople fail to meet their quotas every year? Or that many of the most common sales behaviors drive down sales performance? In today's...
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The Dog Merchants: Inside the Big Business of Breeders, Pet Stores, and Rescuers

Kim Kavin · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

We love them with all our hearts, but do we really know where our dogs came from? Kim Kavin, author of Little Boy Blue, reveals the complex network behind the $11 billion-a-year business of selling dogs. A must-read for the benefit of all dogs, everywhere. In what promises to become an "Omnivore's...
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Rich Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan for Getting Your Financial Life Together...Finally

Nicole Lapin · Harlequin
Format: Hardcover

Talking about money sucks; but so does being broke. Do your eyes glaze over just thinking about the mumbo-jumbo of finance? Do you break out into hives at the thought of money? Well, sister, you are not alone. In RICH BITCH, money expert and financial journalist Nicole Lapin lays out a 12-Step...
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Self-Made: How to Become Self-Reliant, Self-Realized, and Rich in Every Way

Nely Galán · Spiegel & Grau
Pages: 214
Format: Print book

For readers of #GIRLBOSS and viewers of Shark Tank - a global revolution in entrepreneurship is under way, inspiring women to blaze a trail of financial self-reliance and become self-made. Featuring a foreword by Suze Orman. What does it mean to be self-made? It's not just about having...
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Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

Teri Agins · Gotham
Format: Hardcover

A fascinating chronicle of how celebrity has inundated the world of fashion, realigning the forces that drive both the styles we covet and the bottom lines of the biggest names in luxury apparel. From Coco Chanel's iconic tweed suits to the miniskirt's surprising comeback in the late...
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