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How to Invest $50-$5,000 8e: The Small Investor’s Step-By-Step Plan for Low-Risk, High-Value Investing

September 6, 2009 By investing 10 Comments

Review”Few books around can teach people more about the investments universe . . .” — Inc. magazine
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The bestselling small investment advisor for more than 15 years! Revised and updated to cover the full range of personal investing — from selecting a bank to choosing specific investments to making sense of financial pages-the eighth edition of How to Invest $50 — $5,000 shares Nancy Dunnan’s years of fina…
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Mutual Funds For Dummies, 5th edition

September 6, 2009 By investing 12 Comments

Expanded coverage of ETFs, fund alternatives, and Internet research Cash in on the latest wealth-building techniques with America’s #1 best-selling mutual fund book Want to make the most of mutual funds? Personal finance expert Eric Tyson shares his time-tested investing advice, as well as updates to his fund recommendations and revised coverage of tax law changes, in this user-friendly resource. Sample fund portfolios and updated forms show you exactly how to accomplish…
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Ethics, CSR, & Sustainability:: An Aristotelian Vision, Mission, And Strategy For The Global Economy And A Sustainable Planet

September 5, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, & Sustainability is a practical guide to business ethics, offering universal guidelines on strategies, choosing a professional board, establishing sound oversight practices, and being a good environmental neighbor. The book illustrates how Classical philosophies and the spirit of Eudaimonia can be incorporated into corporate principles.

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Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

September 4, 2009 By investing 13 Comments

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“No one can doubt there’s an urgent need to think clearly about investing, since many investors in Silicon Valley companies have suffered a stock market decline comparable to the Crash of ’29. The burned investor could find no better starting place than this superb book by four New York City value investors, all descended from the master of value investing, Benjamin Graham….They have written one of the most intelligent overviews of investing I’ve ever read, combining analyt…
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Positively Responsible: How Business Can Save the Planet

September 3, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

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At last a book about ‘business and sustainability’ that treats business as an integral part of society (not some disconnected alien force) and business people as real people with real feelings, doubts and contradictions. That makes Positively Responsible a much more satisfying and illuminating read.Jonathan Porritt,Forum for the Future “Whether business can be part of the solution to our ecological crisis is perhaps the great question of our age. This book will be indispensab…
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Investing in Nature: Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business

September 3, 2009 By investing 3 Comments

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“With increasing pressure from development, land trusts will need to make new friends and find new approaches to protect natural areas before it is too late. Investing in Nature is a tool box loaded with powerful ways to engage business capital in the work of land conservation. If you are looking for creative, new ways to save land, read this book!” –Rand Wentworth

In 2004, U.S. consumers spent $5.2 billion purchasing bottled water while the government only invested 5 per…
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The Investing Revolutionaries: How the World’s Greatest Investors Take on Wall Street and Win in Any Market

September 2, 2009 By investing 2 Comments

Over the past five years, James Whiddon has interviewed some of the world’s brightest, best, and most influential men and women in finance on his popular radio show, The Investing Revolution. While the topics under discussion have ranged widely, the show’s mission has remained constant: Reveal the truth about how Wall Street has rigged the game so that it always wins—at everyone else’s expense—and offer investors an alternative to Wall Street to he…
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Getting Started in Real Estate Investing

September 2, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

A Must-read guide to real estate investing during turbulent times Given the current state of the economy, you might be asking yourself if right now is the right time to be investing in real estate. With the third edition of Getting Started in Real Estate Investing as your guide, you’ll quickly discover how a combination of commitment and caution can help you make it in today’s market. Designed for investors who want to get started in real estate, but don’t know whe…
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Forbes Guide to the Markets: Becoming a Savvy Investor

September 1, 2009 By investing Leave a Comment

From the leader in financial information, a fully updated guide to investing in today’s markets This accessible book is a practical guide to the financial markets. Designed to help both the new and experienced investor gain sufficient understanding and knowledge to invest wisely and confidently in today’s turbulent markets, it covers all the elements necessary to become financially street smart-from products, players, and procedures to rules, regulators, and risk/reward trade-offs.…
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Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered

September 1, 2009 By investing 9 Comments

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?Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seems to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global.?–Eliot Coleman, farmer and author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest?An essential read for anyone who is concerned about the human condition and our planet.?–Mark Finser, Chair of the Board, RSF Social …
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