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1. |  By: Daniel Freeman; Jason Freeman Publisher: Pearson Life Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: You Can Be Happy
Do you feel that there’s room for a bit more happiness in your life? A lot more even? Then here’s the good news: you have much more control over your happiness than you probably think. And in this book, you’ll discover the often simple, but easily overlooked, steps you can take to reclaim more of those good feelings. What’s more, every single suggested action in this book has been scientifically proven to have a positive and lasting effect on happiness. There’s no hype here, just plenty of real hope. Better still, there’s no need for radical life change and no complicated programme...
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2. |  The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting By: Stuart Fieldhouse Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The FT Guide to Financial Spread Betting
 If you think spread betting is complex and high risk then think again. Stuart Fieldhouse demonstrates that with the right knowledge and approach it needn’t be. From opening an account and carrying out basic technical analysis through to assessing market opportunities and minimising risk, this book offers a comprehensive walk-through of everything you need to know to trade successfully. The Financial Times Guide to Spread Betting gives you the tools to spread bet with confidence. The book includes: Different ways to trade, the markets available and various approaches you can use...
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3. |  By: Dr Stephen Briers Publisher: Pearson International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Psychobabble
Exposing the self-help myths that make us all more miserable. This is what your psychologist would really tell you–if he thought you could handle it!  This is the kick up the backside the self-help genre needs: an intelligent, provocative and thought-provoking expose of the modern myths that we’re told make us happier, but in reality screw us up.  Clinical psychologist, Dr Stephen Briers shines a light into the dark corners of self-help and explodes the myths, false hopes, quack philosophies and unrealistic expectations it routinely advocates. It is a refreshing antidote to the...
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4. |  How to Solve Almost Any Problem By: Alan Barker Publisher: Pearson International Publication Date: 06-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Solve Almost Any Problem
Problems block and slow down your progress; here’s how to overcome them–simply, efficiently and effectively.  This book offers straightforward, empowering science-based solutions to problems, big and small, at work or in life. It takes a never before seen approach to problem solving, powerfully combining lessons from cognitive science, established problem-solving theory and vast practical experience. It includes a radical new approach to analysing problems: The Problem Matrix . This will transform your approach to problems, challenge your thinking and help you develop new,...
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5. |  By: Fergus O'Connell Publisher: Pearson Business Publication Date: 02-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Simply Brilliant, 4th Edition
Head banging against a brick wall? Nagging problem you just can’t solve? You’re not the only one. An astonishing number of intelligent people struggle to find solutions to some of the complex, varied and often frustrating problems we face in our day-to-day work. Whether it’s a major project, a minor quibble or something in between, a short, sharp dose of Fergus O’Connell’s simply brilliant advice gives you the tools to tackle problems head-on and join the few who manage to make common sense common practice. Through seven simple steps you’ll learn how to: Break down the complex and...
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6. |  What to Eat When You're Pregnant, 2nd Edition By: Dr Rana Conway Publisher: Pearson Life Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What to Eat When You're Pregnant, 2nd Edition
This is the definitive healthy eating guide for pregnancy, providing you with an instant checklist of what foods are safe and what foods you should steer clear of. In this fully revised new edition expert nutritionist and pregnancy specialist Dr Rana Conway provides all the facts and everything you need to know to give your baby the very best start in life.
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7. |  By: James Borg Publisher: Pearson Life Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 18-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Body Language, 2nd Edition
Change the way you communication – forever. This is the one language that everyone speaks but only few really understand. But in 7 easy lessons, you can discover and learn everything you need to use body language to your advantage and become adept at reading the hidden signals of others. The new edition of this bestselling book will show you how to: Apparently ‘read’ the minds of other people with a degree of accuracy you never thought possible, whilst you gain a deeper understanding of what they’re thinking, how they’re feeling and why they do what they do. Find out what...
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8. |  By: Michael Heppell Publisher: Pearson Life Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Flip It, 2nd Edition
There’s a simple way of thinking, acting and doing that, once learned, will make sure you get the very best out of everything. This book challenges you to get curious about how you interpret and handle every situation. It liberates you from the beliefs that have been holding you back and gives you powerfully simple ways to switch your thinking and change your actions so that you can get the very best from whatever life sends your way. With the new, revised edition of this bestselling book, you’ll discover how to make sure you never have a ‘bad day’ ever again.
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9. |  FT Essential Guide to Making Business Presentations By: Philip Khan-Panni Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall Publication Date: 06-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 17-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: FT Essential Guide to Making Business Presentations
The critical knowledge you need to plan, write and deliver your next presentation with maximum impact. Written by a co-founder of the Professional Speaking Association, this book focuses on getting you the results you need from your presentation, whether you are selling a product or service, a proposed change or even your own skills and abilities. It will show you how to persuade your audience by being relevant, clear, engaging and memorable. FINANCIAL TIMES ESSENTIAL GUIDES : THE KNOW-HOW YOU NEED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
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10. |  The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar: What You Can Do to Protect Your Money Now By: Addison Wiggin; Samantha Buker Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 08-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar: What You Can Do to Protect Your Money Now
With the weakening dollar a hot topic for retirees, savers, and investors, this Little Book delves into the economic turmoil in the U.S. and shows how to survive it
The United States dollar is losing value at an alarming rate. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) index, the U.S. currency is 37 percent below fair value against the Australian dollar and 20 percent versus the Canadian dollar. The decline of the U.S. dollar is one of the biggest threats facing American investors today, but with the Little Book of the Shrinking Dollar: What You Can do...
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11. |  Go Do!: For People Who Have Always Wanted to Start a Business By: Jeremy Harbour Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 15-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Go Do!: For People Who Have Always Wanted to Start a Business
A refreshingly simple, easy-to-read guide to getting started in business
If you've ever dreamed of starting your own business, this book will give you the information, inspiration, and reassurance you need to get started. It encourages budding entrepreneurs to take the leap into the dark, while shining a bright light on the first six months of a successful start-up. It breaks down what appears to be an Everest-size challenge into a series of small hills for you to conquer. Written by successful entrepreneur Jeremy Harbour, Go Do! argues that the skills and tactics of successful...
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12. |  By: Jeff Boen Publisher: No Starch Press Publication Date: 12-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The BrickGun Book The BrickGun Book offers step-by-step building instructions for five ultra-realistic LEGO® handgun models....
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13. |  By: Brant Cooper; Patrick Vlaskovits; Eric Ries Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 26-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
You are not a Visionary... yet.
The Lean Entrepreneur shows you how to become one.
Most of us believe entrepreneurial visionaries are born, not made. Our media glorify business outliers like Bezos, Branson, Gates, and Jobs as heroes with X-ray vision who can look to the future, see clearly what will be, imagine a fully formed product or experience and then, simply make the vision real.
Many in our entrepreneur community still believe that to be visionary, we must merely execute on a seemingly good idea and ignore all doubt. With this mindset, companies build doomed products in a...
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14. |  By: Kevin R. Mirabile 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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15. |  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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16. |  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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17. |  The Reluctant Entrepreneur: Turning Dreams into Profits By: Michael Masterson 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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18. |  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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19. |  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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20. |  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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