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Trade With Passion and
Purpose: Spiritual,
Psychological and
Philosophical Keys to
Becoming a Top Trader
Mark Whistler

Whistler draws from the fields of psychology, spirituality, and philosophy to illuminate the path to profitable trading. This engaging book acknowledges how difficult it is to consistently win in the markets, but at the same time, it demonstrates how adhering to a small number of core principles can vastly improve your chances of success.

Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist
Explores the Hidden Side
of Everything
Steven D. Levitt &
Stephen J. Dubner

Levitt and writing collaborator Dubner dub the material in this work "freakonomics" because Levitt uses analytical tools from economics to address a range of questions that, at first glance, might seem to be far removed from the discipline of the "dismal science." They consider… 

The Four Pillars of
Investing: Lessons for
Building a Winning
Portfolio
William Bernstein

The Four Pillars of Investing focuses on the four fundamental topics that every investor must understand - and presents an easy-to-follow, step-by-step program for achieving long-term investing success.

Stock Market Wizards:
Interviews with
America's Top
Stock Traders
Jack D. Schwager

This book features interviews with a variety of traders who achieved phenomenal financial success during the glory days of the Internet boom.

Good to Great:
Why Some Companies
Make the Leap… and
Others Don't
Jim Collins

The Intelligent Asset
Allocator: How to Build
Your Portfolio to Maximize
Returns and Minimize Risk
William Bernstein

The Intelligent Asset Allocator shows independent investors how to build a diversified portfolio -- without the help of a financial advisor.

How To Make Money
In Stocks: A Winning
System in Good Times
or Bad
William J. O'Neil

Learn O'Neil's powerful CAN SLIM investment modeling system -- a straightforward, 7-step process for minimizing risk, maximizing return, and finding stocks that are poised to perform.

The Language of Empire:
Abu Ghraib and the
American Media
Lila Rajiva

The Language of Empire is a study of how and why the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib was white-washed by the American media. Tracing the connections between such apparently unrelated incidents as the videotaped…

Security Analysis:
The Classic 1951 Edition
Benjamin Graham &
David L. Dodd

Security Analysis has come to be regarded as the most accessible and usable title in the history of investment publishing. It will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing and allow you to…

Building Wealth
One House at a Time:
Making it Big on
Little Deals
John W. Schaub

Building Wealth One House at a Time reveals how virtually anyone can accumulate one million dollars worth of houses debtfree and earn a steady cash flow for life.

What Works on
Wall Street:
A Guide to the Best-
Performing Investment
Strategies of All Time
James P. O'Shaughnessy

The consistently bestselling What Works on Wall Street explores the investment strategies that have provided the best returns over the past 50 years -- and which are the top performers today.

It's Earnings
That Count:
Finding Stocks with
Earnings Power for
Long-Term Profits
Hewitt Heiserman

This book gives you a blueprint for finding a great growth stock for the next decade without taking on a lot of risk in the process.

Chasing Daylight
Eugene O'Kelly

Chasing Daylight is Eugene O'Kelly's (Chairman and CEO of KPMG) honest, touching, and ultimately inspirational memoir completed in the three-and-a-half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005.

Trend Following:
How Great Traders Make
Millions in Up or
Down Markets
Michael W. Covel

This book details a contrarian, anti-Wall Street strategy that has made billions for some of the most successful traders of all-time. You'll discover exactly how to…

Colossus: The Rise
and Fall of the
American Empire
Niall Ferguson

Acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson ranges across the entire history of America's foreign entanglements and delves into all the dimensions of American power - military, economic, cultural, and political. The result is…

Free to Choose
Milton &
Rose D. Friedman

In this classic about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our prosperity undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies…

Capitalism and
Freedom
Milton &
Rose D. Friedman

"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threats it can pose to individual freedom?" In this classic book, Milton Friedman answers this question with the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy…

The Road to Serfdom
Friedrich A. Hayek

The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. For Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would inevitably lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

Options Made Easy:
Your Guide to
Profitable Trading
Guy Cohen

Cohen simplifies options by using charts and diagrams all the way through, guiding you on an interactive journey. This helps you to build your confidence because it's practical…

Blink: The Power
of Thinking without
Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Utilizing case studies as diverse as speed dating, pop music, and the shooting of Amadou Diallo, Gladwell reveals that what we think of as decisions made in the blink of an eye are much more complicated than assumed.

The World Is Flat
(Updated and Expanded):
A Brief History of the
Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman

This new edition is Friedman's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before -- creating an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging the rest of us to…

When Genius Failed:
The Rise and Fall of
Long-Term Capital
Management
Roger Lowenstein

When Genius Failed is the cautionary financial tale of our time, the saga of what happened when an elite group of investors believed they could actually deconstruct risk and use virtually limitless leverage to create limitless wealth.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad:
What the Rich Teach
Their Kids about Money --
That the Poor and
Middle Class Do Not!
Robert T. Kiyosaki

Kiyosaki explains how to make your money work hard for you instead of you working hard for money. He argues that a good education and secure job are not guarantees of financial success, and…

Liar's Poker:
Rising through the
Wreckage on Wall Street
Michael Lewis

Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. He generated tens of millions of dollars for Salomon Brothers, and earned for himself a ringside seat on the greatest financial spectacle of the decade: the leveraging of America.

Option Pricing:
Black-Scholes
Made Easy
Jerry Marlow

This book and CD-ROM tutorial provides readers with an intuitive, interactive approach to understanding and using the Black-Scholes model.

A Random Walk
Down Wall Street:
Revised and Updated
Eighth Edition
Burton G. Malkiel

Using the dot-com crash as an object lesson in how not to manage your portfolio, this is a vastly informative guide to navigating the turbulence of the market and managing investments with confidence.

Who Moved
My Cheese?:
An Amazing Way to
Deal with Change
in Your Work
and in Your Life
Spencer Johnson

From one of the world's acknowledged experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.

The Wisdom of
Crowds: Why the Many
Are Smarter Than the
Few and How Collective
Wisdom Shapes Business,
Economies, Societies
and Nations
James Surowiecki

Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few - better at solving problems, fostering innovation…

Devil Take the Hindmost:
A History of Financial
Speculation
Edward Chancellor

A lively and authoritative look at speculation from early modern times to the present. Chancellor shows that the impulses that have shaped speculative behavior are at odds with the orthodox theory of efficient markets.

Confessions of an
Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

This is the story of one man's experiences inside the intrigue, greed, corruption and little-known government and corporate activities that America has been involved in since World War II, and which have dire consequences for the future of democracy and the world.

The Book of Investing
Wisdom: Classic Writings
by Great Stock-Pickers and
Legends of Wall Street
Peter Krass (Editor)

This book is an anthology of 46 essays and speeches from the most successful, well-known investors and financiers of our time. In their own words, these legends of Wall Street share…

Trader Vic: Methods of a
Wall Street Master  
Victor Sperandeo

Based on 3 principles -- capital preservation, consistent profits and pursuit of superior returns -- "Trader Vic" highlights proven strategies usable by any investor.

The Tipping Point:
How Little Things Can
Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell probes the surface of everyday occurrences to reveal some surprising dynamics behind explosive social changes. He examines the power of word-of-mouth and…

Bull's Eye Investing:
Targeting Real Returns
in a Smoke and
Mirrors Market
John Mauldin

Financial expert John Mauldin makes a powerful case regarding the future direction of the markets and what you must do to be successful in them.

How to Make Money
Selling Stocks Short
William J. O'Neil

Loopholes of the Rich:
How the Rich Legally
Make More Money and
Pay Less Tax
Diane Kennedy

This guide for average Americans covers tax strategies and loopholes that can help reduce tax bills. Kennedy shows readers how to understand their particular financial story, construct a tax loophole strategy…

The Little Book
That Beats the Market
Joel Greenblatt

Learn how it's possible to more than double the annual returns of the stock market averages… with low risk. You can do it without making any predictions, and you can do it by following, step by step, a "magic formula" that…

China, Inc.: How the Rise
of the Next Superpower
Challenges America
and the World
Ted C. Fishman

This dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial super-power explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred - and why it already affects us all. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China that will forever change how readers think about America's future.

Reminiscences of a
Stock Operator
Edwin Lefevre

Adapted from a series of Saturday Evening Post articles written by Edwin Lefevre in the 1920s, this book narrates Livermore's ascent from a "boy plunger" to the most influential speculator on Wall Street. A large part of the book deals with trading wisdom and rules (which are still used today) that Livermore imparts through Lefevre.

How To Be Rich 
 J. Paul Getty

Billionaire businessman J. Paul Getty discloses the secrets of his success - and provides a blueprint for those who want to follow in his footsteps.

Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt

A simple, straightforward analysis of economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.

Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds
Charles MacKay

This book is a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. MacKay's nineteenth-century landmark study includes accounts of classic swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale.

The Importance
of Living
Lin Yutang

This wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that…

How to Make Money
in Coins Right Now
Scott A. Travers

Consumer advocate and ultimate insider Scott Travers shows you the tricks of the trade with clear examples of how you, too, can make huge profits from small coins.

The Automatic Millionaire:
A Powerful One-Step
Plan to Live and Finish Rich
David Bach

Despite its sensational title this is not a get-rich-quick guide. Rather, this book is a straightforward march through common-sense personal financial planning that suggests readers "automate" their contributions to retirement and investment vehicles.

Disney War
James B. Stewart

Disney War is an enthralling tale of one of America's most powerful media and entertainment companies, the people who control it, and those trying to overthrow them. Find out the dramatic inside story of…

Market Wizards:
Interviews with Top Traders
Jack D. Schwager

Market Wizards explains the very elements of today's top professional traders success… different approaches used in different markets… trading rules that each of them adhere to… and personal advice for other traders.

You Can Be a Stock
Market Genius: Uncover the
Secret Hiding Places of
Stock Market Profits
Joel Greenblatt

Discover investment opportunities that portfolio managers, business-school professors, and top investment experts regularly miss -- uncharted areas where the individual investor has a huge advantage over the Wall Street wizards.

Execution:
The Discipline of Getting
Things Done
Larry Bossidy &
Ram Charan

This book shows how to get the job done and deliver results… whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job.

Jim Cramer's Real Money:
Sane Investing in an
Insane World
James Cramer

Former hedge-fund manager and longtime Wall Street commentator Jim Cramer explains how to invest wisely in chaotic times, and he does so in a style that is as much fun as investing is -- or should be, when it's done right.

The Millionaire Mind
Thomas J. Stanley

Dr. Thomas J. Stanley shows how self-made millionaires have surmounted shortcomings such as average intelligence by carefully choosing their careers, taking calculated risks, living balanced lifestyles - and maintaining their integrity.

Investing in Real Estate,
5th Edition
Andrew McLean &
Gary W. Eldred

This straightforward guide will help you start growing your fortune by investing in houses and small apartment buildings. Successful real estate investors McLean and Eldred show you how you can outperform the stock market by…

Waiting for Your
Cat to Bark?:
Persuading Customers
When They Ignore Marketing
Bryan & Jeffrey
Eisenberg

The Eisenbergs examine how emerging media have undermined the effectiveness of prevailing mass marketing models and created an opportunity for businesses to redefine how they communicate with customers, by leveraging the power of interconnected media channels.

The 21 Irrefutable
Laws of Leadership
Workbook: Follow
Them and People
Will Follow You
John C. Maxwell

Maxwell has combined insights learned from his thirty-plus years of leadership successes and mistakes with observations from the worlds of business, politics, sports, religion, and military conflict. The result is a revealing study of leadership delivered as only a communicator like Maxwell can.

Fooled by Randomness:
The Hidden Role of
Chance in Life and
in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The realities of randomness and probability almost guarantee that, out of a large pool of random investors, a Warren Buffett will emerge just by luck. Taleb retains that central message in his revised examination of randomness and the consistent inability of humans to recognize it. 

Buy Low, Rent Smart,
Sell High: Real Estate
Investing for the Long Run
Scott Frank & Andy Heller

Real estate experts Frank and Heller have developed a proven and diversified program that incorporates both major approaches to real estate investing and enables investors to take control of their financial futures and build wealth over time.

Eat the Rich:
A Treatise on Economics
P.J. O'Rourke

P.J. takes the reader on a scary, hilarious, and enlightening visit to the New York Stock Exchange, explaining along the way stocks, bonds, debentures, commodities, derivatives -- and why the floor of the exchange is America's last refuge for nonpsychotic litterers.

Smart Women Finish
Rich: 9 Steps to Achieving Financial Security and
Funding Your Dreams
David Bach

Whether you're working with a few dollars a week or a significant inheritance, Bach's nine-step program gives you tools for spending wisely, establishing security, and aligning money with your values. Plus, he includes…

The New Market
Wizards: Conversations
with America's Top Traders
Jack D. Schwager

In The New Market Wizards, successful traders relate the financial strategies that have rocketed them to success.

Vienna & Chicago,
Friends or Foes?: A Tale
of Two Schools of Free-
Market Economics
Mark Skousen

In Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes? Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, two schools in constant, heated disagreement in their theories of money, business cycle, government policy, and methodology.

The Compleated Autobiography by
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Skousen (Editor)

In honor of the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth, Mark Skousen has accomplished what the old philosopher was unable to complete: He has finished the autobiography completely in Franklin's own words.

Hot Commodities:
How Anyone Can Invest
Profitably in the
World's Best Market
Jim Rogers

In Hot Commodities, Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. Rogers explains why the world of commodity investing can be one of the simplest of all -- and how commodities are the bases by which…

Action!: Nothing Happens
Until Something Moves
Robert Ringer

Robert Ringer's books have created a revolution in the self-development genre and shown millions the way to personal and professional achievement. Filled with humorous and enriching anecdotes, Action! exhorts the reader when you close the book, get up out of your chair and take action now.

Blue Ocean Strategy:
How to Create Uncontested
Market Space and Make
Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim &
Renee Mauborgne

The Smartest Guys
in the Room:
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean &
Peter Elkind

Enron is the biggest business story of our time and this book is the one and only book that will give readers the full story, to help them understand this amazing business saga.

The Four Biggest Mistakes
in Option Trading
Jay Kaeppel

You can earn big profits in options trading by avoiding the four most common and most costly mistakes the majority of traders make. Jay Kaeppel shows you how to avoid…

No B.S. Time Management
for Entrepreneurs
Dan Kennedy

This hard-hitting guide boils it all down to 10 time management techniques worth using.

The Intelligent
Investor: Revised Edition
Benjamin Graham &
Jason Zweig

The late Benjamin Graham was one of the greatest investment advisers of this century, and this timeless classic covers all the fundamentals of value investing and includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market.

Way of the Turtle: The Secret Methods that Turned Ordinary People into Legendary Traders
Curtis Faith

Way of the Turtle reveals, for the first time, the reasons for the success of the secretive trading system used by the group known as the "Turtles." Top-earning Turtle Curtis Faith lays bare the entire experiment, explaining how it was possible for Dennis and Eckhardt to recruit 23 ordinary people from all walks of life and train them to be extraordinary traders in just two weeks.

Secrets of the Millionaire
Mind: Mastering the Inner
Game of Wealth
T. Harv Eker

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind reveals the missing link between wanting success and achieving it. We all have a personal money blueprint ingrained in our subconscious minds, and it is this blueprint that will…