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Business and Personal Finance April 2017
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| AgeProof: How to Live Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip by Jean Chatzky and Michael F. Roizen with Ted SpikerWritten by two well-known experts (one on finances, the other on health), this guide aims to improve both your health and your wealth, using principles that can be applied to both areas. Covering eight different categories from breaking bad habits to assessing your needs, AgeProof offers strategies to help you increase healthy habits (whether financial or physical) and maximize your quality of life as you age. |
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| Make Your Kid a Money Genius (Even If You're Not) by Beth KoblinerThe earlier you start teaching your kids about money management, the better off they'll be, argues bestselling personal finance author Beth Kobliner. But don't worry about teaching them stock-picking strategies (especially if you don't understand them yourself) -- instead, teach them concepts like living within their means and the importance of saving. With age-appropriate advice that covers everything from allowances to avoiding debt, this informative and often funny guide is a practical choice for parents. |
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| A Man For All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market by Edward O. ThorpIn the 1960s, math prodigy Edward Thorp used both card counting and a wearable computer to help win at Las Vegas casinos; later, in the stock market crash of the 1980s, he actually came out ahead. Daring, contrary, curious, and gifted with the ability to do complicated math in his head, Thorp sees challenges where others see warnings (like..."the house always wins" and "you can't time the market"). In this memoir, he shares the many ways he's tested the odds in search of success. "Fascinating," says Booklist. |
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| Valley of the Gods: A Silicon Valley Story by Alexandra WolfeCurious about an unusual experiment funded by PayPal entrepreneur Peter Thiel, Wall Street Journal columnist Alexandra Wolfe follows a few of the recipients of the $100,000 grants, which send gifted teens to Silicon Valley rather than to college. Housed in dorm-like spaces and encouraged to launch startups rather than attend English 101, these bright (and often quite odd) young people make for a fascinating anthropological survey of high-tech would-be entrepreneurs. Fans of the television show Silicon Valley will feel right at home. |
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An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back
by Elisabeth Rosenthal
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactlyhow to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship, explaining step by step the workings of a profession sorely lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate a byzantine system and also to demand far-reaching reform. Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries--the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers--that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal tells the story of the history of American medicine as never before. The situation is far worse than we think, and it has become like that much more recently than we realize. Hospitals, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Americans are dying from routine medical conditions when affordable and straightforward solutions exist. Dr. Rosenthal explains for the first time how various social and financial incentives have encouraged a disastrous and immoral system to spring uporganicallyin a shockingly short span of time. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. An American Sicknessis the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart"
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You Are a Badass at Making Money : Master the Mindset of Wealth
by Jen Sincero
A sequel to the best-selling You Are a Badass shares step-by-step guidelines for overcoming blocks, moving past fear and making real-world money, revealing how personal perceptions and bank accounts reflect obstructive beliefs that can be rendered lucrative through strategic concept changes
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Utopia for Realists : How We Can Build the Ideal World
by Rutger Bregman
A history of utopian thinking and a pragmatic manifesto for today, suffused with facts, success stories, and lively anecdotes, and advocating for a universal basic income, a 15-hour workweek, and open borders.
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Beyond the Label : Women, Leadership, and Success on Our Own Terms
by Maureen Chiquet
A former global CEO of Chanel traces her unlikely journey to a business leader, counseling readers on how to move beyond the confines of staid expectations while discovering personal goals, strengths and leadership values that can enable a career on one's own terms. 30,000 first printing.
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The fuzzy and the techie : why the liberal arts will rule the digital world
by Scott Hartley
A forefront venture capitalist offers surprising predictions about the future of innovation, posing a counterintuitive opinion that college graduates in the humanities and social sciences are more likely than tech students to be true drivers of innovation. 25,000 first printing. Tour.
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Double Bind : Women on Ambition
by Robin Romm
The author of The Mother Garden presents an urgent exploration of why today's feminists still dissociate themselves from healthy ambition, sharing the views of such contributors as Ayana Mathis, Molly Ringwald and Roxane Gay to illuminate why ambition remains a taboo in gender equality
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Finance for normal people : how investors and markets behave
by Meir Statman
" Finance for Normal People teaches behavioral finance to people like you and me - normal people, neither rational nor irrational. We are consumers, savers, investors, and managers - corporate managers, money managers, financial advisers, and all other financial professionals. The book guides us to know our wants-including hope for riches, protection from poverty, caring for family, sincere social responsibility and high social status. It teaches financial facts and human behavior, including making cognitive and emotional shortcuts and avoiding cognitive and emotional errors such as overconfidence, hindsight, exaggerated fear, and unrealistic hope. And it guides us to banish ignorance, gain knowledge, and increase the ratio of smart to foolish behavior on our way to what we want. These lessons of behavioral finance draw on what we know about us-normal people-including our wants, cognition, and emotions. And they draw on the roles of these factors in saving and spending, portfolio construction, returns we can expect from our investments, and whether we can hope to beat the market. Meir Statman, a founder of behavioral finance, draws on his extensive research and the research of many others to build a unified structure of behavioral finance. Its foundation blocks include normal behavior, behavioral portfolio theory, behavioral life-cycle theory, behavioral asset pricing theory, and behavioral market efficiency. "
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The Business of Entertainment
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| Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J. HarrisIn the early days of digital home entertainment, back in the 1990s, the explosion in popularity of video games was spurred in part by the rivalry between Nintendo and Sega. Their battle for supremacy -- and the differences between the two companies -- drives this enjoyable read. Drawing on interviews with former Sega and Nintendo employees, Console Wars frames Nintendo as Goliath and Sega as the unconventional underdog that revolutionized the industry...and that's before Sony came along. Whether you're interested in the business or just have fond memories of playing Sonic or Super Mario Bros, you'll want to give this "remarkably detailed and fast-paced" (Booklist) account a try. |
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Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces that Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace
In this engaging book, co-founder and president of Pixar Animation Studios Ed Catmull presents the ideas and management principles he has used to develop the company's successful creative culture, which in turn supports a successful business. Incorporating the story of Pixar's evolution, Catmull also shows how Pixar's daily commitment to specific values -- such as the importance of building the right team or the necessity of challenging accepted ideas -- has led to their continued success. Published to positive reviews from The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and the Financial Times (among others), this is a must-read for those who want to increase or support creativity in the workplace.
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| How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient... by Stephen WittBetween 1997 and 2005, author Stephen Witt downloaded (for free) nearly 15,000 albums, which prompted him to look into exactly how he was able to do this. The result is a fascinating exploration of digital technology and music piracy, beginning with the invention of the MP3 format in the 1980s. Also featured: the North Carolina man who smuggled thousands of new releases to a prolific file-sharing ring, the rise and fall of Napster, and the music industry's (mostly failed) attempts to stanch the bleeding. |
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Powerhouse : the untold story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
by James A. Miller
An oral history by the best-selling co-author of Those Guys Have All the Fun chronicles the revolutionary role of the forefront Hollywood talent agency through the stories of its influence on major film, television, sports, music and business ventures throughout the past half century. 250,000 first printing.
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