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Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-11-18)

Alice Schroeder
THE SNOWBALL: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Bloomsbury UK (Hardcover)

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a feat never equalled in the annals of business. Despite an estimated net worth of around US$62 billion, Buffett leads an intriguingly frugal life taking ...

David Gardner, Tom Gardner
The Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio: How to Build and Grow a Panic-Proof Investment Portfolio
by Collins Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-12-30)

In this long-anticipated, groundbreaking guide to building a portfolio, acclaimed stock pickers and Internet pioneers David and Tom Gardner lay bare the simple philosophy that they have used to help millions of grateful individual investors outfox the professionals on Wall Street. The research, the stories, and the results that underpin this book stem from the revolutionary and wildly successful "Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio""—a one-of-a-kind Web experiment in which individual investors follow along as Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner invests and manages $1 million of The Motley Fool's own money. In page after page of sound, sensible investment advice, readers are offered a rare glimpse into the inner workings of The Motley Fool machine—and offered a first-class education in building, growing, and defending an individual portfolio, one investment strategy at a time. From learning to think like an investor to finding a first stock, from dividend investing to ...

Niall Ferguson
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Tantor Media (CD)

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance.

Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Little, Brown and Company (Hardcover)

Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Thorndike Press (Hardcover)

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret (Unabridged, 4-CD Set)
by Simon & Schuster Audio (CD)

YOU HOLD IN YOUR HANDS A GREAT SECRET.It has been passed down through the ages, highly coveted, hidden, lost, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. Fragments of this Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. It has been understood by some of the most prominent people in history: Plato, Galileo, Beethoven, Edison, Carnegie, and Einstein, along with other renowned inventors, theologians, scientists, and great thinkers. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life transforming for all who experience it.In this audiobook you will discover The Secret . . . and you will learn how to have, do, or be anything you want. You will learn how to use The Secret in every single area of your life. You will hear from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used The Secret to achieve health, prosperity, relationships and happiness. They share ...

David Allen
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by Viking Adult (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2001-01-04)

Geoff Colvin
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
by Tantor Media (CD)

Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance.

Paul Krugman
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by W. W. Norton (Hardcover)

In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to America: when the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s burst, the U.S. financial system proved as vulnerable as those of developing countries caught up in earlier crises and a replay of the 1930s seems all too possible. In this new, greatly updated edition of The Return of Depression Economics, Krugman shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up ...

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