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21. |  Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 29-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The most up-to-date look at how to understand, and invest in, hedge funds
Hedge funds are an essential part of the alternative investing arena, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. It's important that those investing, or thinking about investing, with hedge funds know exactly what they are about. That's why Kevin Mirabile—a financial professional with over twenty years of business development, regulatory, financing, trading, and sales experience in the hedge fund sector—has created Understanding Hedge Fund Investing.
Page-by-page, this reliable resource offers...
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22. |  Make Difficult People Disappear: How to Deal with Stressful Behavior and Eliminate Conflict By: Monica Wofford Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Make Difficult People Disappear: How to Deal with Stressful Behavior and Eliminate Conflict
Save your organization by building the skills to deal with difficult people
We all have to work with people we can't stand to be around. Our challenge is to find creative ways to handle these difficult people. In the fable Make Difficult People Disappear, the skills and strategic plan needed to change your mindset are told through a clear, concise story. By first understanding the four main personality types in the workplace, Commander, Organizer, Relater, and Entertainer, readers can then devise effective strategies for diffusing unproductive and damaging behavior.
This book serves to...
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23. |  By: Alex Cowan Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The non-technical guide to building a booming tech-enabled business
Thinking of starting a technology-enabled business? Or maybe you just want to increase your technology mojo so you can do your job better? You do not need to learn programming to participate in the development of today's hottest technologies. But there are a few easy-to-grasp foundation concepts that will help you engage with a technical team. Starting a Tech Business explains in practical, actionable terms how to
formulate and reality test new ideas
package what you learn into frameworks that are highly...
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24. |  The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Turning Dreams into Profits Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Turning Dreams into Profits
Intelligent strategies for starting and growing a small business with minimal personal financial risk
A comprehensive guide for entrepreneurs from one of the most successful business creators in recent years, The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Turning Dreams into Profits addresses the fears and misconceptions that many people have about starting their own businesses, walking prospective owners through the necessary decisions they need to make before even putting a business plan in place.
Presenting solid, reliable strategies based on author Michael Masterson's own successful practices, and...
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25. |  By: Triet Nguyen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
A practical guide to profiting from the high yield municipal market
This unique guide to the high yield municipal bond market sheds some much-needed light on this esoteric but profitable corner of the fixed-income world. It fills the void between the general reference handbooks on municipal bonds and the superficial treatment of do-it-yourself bond guides, with an emphasis on practical trading applications.
Having witnessed the beginning of the modern high yield tax-exempt institutional market, author Triet Nguyen documents its historical evolution, outlines a conceptual framework for...
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26. |  Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website By: Steven Peterson Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website
A unique perspective on applied investment theory and risk management from the Senior Risk Officer of a major pension fund
Investment Theory and Risk Management is a practical guide to today's investment environment. The book's sophisticated quantitative methods are examined by an author who uses these methods at the Virginia Retirement System and teaches them at the Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to showing how investment performance can be evaluated, using Jensen's Alpha, Sharpe's Ratio, and DDM, he delves into four types of optimal portfolios (one that is fully...
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27. |  By: David Topus Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 24-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Connect to the world around you and realize the enormous potential in talking to strangers
Everyday, random encounters really can change lives, when you make them happen the right way and leverage the connection at the other end. Talk to Strangers explains how to stand out and tap the potential of others by taking notice of who is standing alongside you on the bank line, the latte pickup point, or the ticket counter at the airport. David Topus' life-changing message is that we should "always connect," which means going beyond online relationships and engaging in the random, real-life...
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28. |  The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition By: Kenneth L. Fisher; Jennifer Chou; Lara Hoffmans Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 10-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, 2nd Edition
Ken Fisher explains what the competition doesn't know
From investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher comes the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world?
In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate—by answering just three questions.
Packed with more than 100 visuals and...
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29. |  The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails By: Steven M. Sears Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Indomitable Investor: Why a Few Succeed in the Stock Market When Everyone Else Fails
A new approach to investing based on how Wall Street insiders approach the market
The Indomitable Investor deconstructs the stock market as the public has come to know it and reconstitutes it from the inside out from the perspective of the fortunate few who dominate Wall Street. By revealing how top investors and traders think and act Steven Sears shows the stock market to be an undulating ocean of money, with seasoned investors reading the waves others cannot.
Teaching readers to think about the market in radically different ways, The Indomitable Investor shows how to improve...
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30. |  By: Cheryl Rickman Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
How do I know if my idea will work?
How do I decide on the business model?
How do I find my audience?
Your digital business start-up journey begins here.
From the bestselling author of The Small Business Start-up Workbook, Cheryl Rickman brings you a thoroughly practical guide to starting up a digital business, covering the full journey from idea to exit, with easy-to-implement strategies to make your online venture an ongoing success. With a combination of tips, exercises, checklists, anecdotes, case studies and lessons learned by business leaders, this workbook will guide you...
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31. |  By: Paul McGee Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
How to defeat stress, worry, and anxiety to achieve more in business and life. From the international bestselling author of Self-Confidence.
Are You A Worrier?
Do you seem to worry more than most? Do you find that insignificant things stress you out? Do you sweat the small stuff and the big stuff too? Well, now's the time to stop worrying and start living.
Worry, stress, anxiety - whichever label you prefer to use - can have consequences that impact not only our lives, but the lives of others around us. When we worry it's like the engine of our mind is constantly being revved up. It...
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32. |  By: Antonio Castagna Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 19-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FX Options and Smile Risk
The FX options market represents one of the most liquid and strongly competitive markets in the world, and features many technical subtleties that can seriously harm the uninformed and unaware trader.
This book is a unique guide to running an FX options book from the market maker perspective. Striking a balance between mathematical rigour and market practice and written by experienced practitioner Antonio Castagna, the book shows readers how to correctly build an entire volatility surface from the market prices of the main structures.
Starting with the basic conventions related to the...
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33. |  By: Martin Dunford Publisher: Rough Guides Publication Date: 16-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 11-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
The Rough Guide Snapshot to Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the ultimate travel guide to this wildly varied part of Italy. It guides you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Trieste's spectacular Neoclassical squares to scenic walks in the Carso. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Italy,...
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34. |  The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation By: Michael Toma Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 17-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Risk of Trading: Mastering the Most Important Element in Financial Speculation
Develop the skills to manage risk in the high-stakes world of financial speculation
The Risk of Trading is a practical resource that takes an in-depth look at one of the most challenging factors of trading—risk management. The book puts a magnifying glass on the issue of risk, something that every trader needs to understand in order to be successful.
Most traders look at risk in terms of a "stop-loss" that enables them to exit a losing trade quickly. In The Risk of Trading, Michael Toma explains that risk is ever-present in every aspect of trading and advocates that traders adopt a...
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35. |  Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy By: Amy C. Edmondson; Edgar H. Schein Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 03-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
New breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. In most organizations, the work that produces value for customers is carried out by teams, and increasingly, by flexible team-like entities. The pace of change and the fluidity of most work structures means that it's not...
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36. |  The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One By: Satoshi Kanazawa Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 01-APR-2012 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence
Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day." That book answered such burning questions as why women tend to lust after males who already have mates and why newborns look more like Dad than Mom. Now Kanazawa tackles the nature of intelligence: what it is, what it does, what it is good for (if anything). Highly entertaining,...
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37. |  Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works By: Daniel Priestley Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 20-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
NOW IS THE AGE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR - DON'T GET LEFT BEHIND
The world is embarking on a new age. The age of the entrepreneur, the agile small business owner, the flexible innovator. The days of the industrial age are over. It's time to break free from the industrial revolution mind-set, quit working so hard, follow your dream and make a fortune along the way. The slow dinosaurs of the industrial age are being outpaced by fast-moving start-ups, ambitious small businesses and technological innovators. Entrepreneur Revolution is a master class in gaining an entrepreneurial mind-set, showing...
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38. |  By: Ray Wilson Publisher: Maker Media, Inc Publication Date: 21-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 10-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Make: Analog Synthesizers Dive hands-on into the tools, techniques, and information for making your own analog synthesizer. If you’re a musician or a hobbyist with experience in building electronic projects from kits or schematics, this do-it-yourself guide will walk you through the parts and schematics you need, and how to tailor them for your needs. Author Ray Wilson shares his decades of experience in synth-DIY....
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39. |  Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-MAR-1999 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: The Essentials of Leading a High-Performance Team
Team leadership has three essential functions: direction, design, and development.
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40. |  Leadership in Action: Assessing Emotional Intelligence - A Talk with Cary Cherniss By: John Alexander Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-DEC-2000 Insert Date: 08-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Assessing Emotional Intelligence - A Talk with Cary Cherniss
Cary Cherniss has long been interested in emotional intelligence—a set of personal and interpersonal competencies that determine how people manage their feelings, interact, and communicate—and how it works in leaders.
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