Posted: March 27th, 2008, 4:49am CET
The Dragon Millennium: Chinese Business in the Coming World Economy
龙的千年:未来世界经济中的中国
# Author: Frank-Jurgen Richter
# Publisher: Quorum Books
# Number Of Pages: 240
# Publication Date: 2000-04-30
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1567203531
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781567203530
Already the world's third largest economic power, China presents enormous potential for businesses worldwide. Opportunities abound, and despite current economic crises throughout Asia, Richter and the contributors to this unique volume are convinced that opportunities in China can only increase. They explore and analyze these opportunities and the management practices that implement them. In doing so they study the Chinese economy, forecast the future of Chinese business organization, and assess China's place in the coming global economy. Recent developments in the Chinese economy show how Chinese firms actively pursue new strategies to shape their organizations. The current Asian crisis will radically alter the patterns of doing business in China, and Richter and his contributors explain how Western firms can cope with these ongoing changes. Other books, usually from the Western viewpoint, tend to describe only the present structure of the Chinese economy. Richter's looks at it from China's viewpoint and advocates a dynamic approach to the study of Chinese organizations. The analytical scope of the book concentrates more thoroughly on transforming organizations' structures than is found in other mainstream studies. Their book is thus a true inside view of China's economic and business structures, by people who have studied and know it intimately--a book that will help corporate executives and their academic colleagues appreciate China's vitality and understand the reasons for her optimism. Although knowledge of China is growing it still remains relatively sparse, considering the rise to prominence of Chinese business enterprises. Richter and his Chinese experts ("visionaries" he calls them) seek to fill the gaps. They look at the complex questions associated with the concept of ownership and control in China and address economic policy and the development of the Chinese firm. They look at the development path of some selected industries, then itemize the challenges that multinational companies face in China, ending with a discussion of a hypothetical way of managing. All of the contributors are members of the worldwide Chinese business and academic communities. The research presented inspires further academic discourse and managerial policy in face of evolving Chinese reality. The book supplies expert knowledge and support for business practitioners, policy analysts, scholars and students in China and abroad.
Posted: March 27th, 2008, 1:24am CET
Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score
# Author: Andy Kessler
# Publisher: Collins
# Number Of Pages: 320
# Publication Date: 2005-09-01
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0060740655
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780060740658
A brilliant investor, a born raconteur and an overall smart-ass, Andy Kessler pulls back the curtain on the world of hedge funds and shows how the guys who run big money think, talk and act.
Following on the success of Wall Street Meat, his self-published book on the lives of Wall Street stock analysts, Andy Kessler recounts his years as an extraordinarily successful hedge fund manager. To run a successful hedge fund you must have an investing edge -- that special insight that allows you to reap greater returns for your clients and yourself.
Posted: March 21st, 2008, 4:50am CET
21 Candlesticks Every Trader Should Know
# Author: Melvin Pasternak
# Publisher: Marketplace Books
# Number Of Pages: 128
# Publication Date: 2006-02-28
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1592802982
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781592802982
Melvin Pasternak's 21 Candlesticks is a clear and straight forward discussion of the candlesticks that will affect the trader the most. These are the ones that every trader must know by name. Learn to increase your accuracy and make decisions with confidence.
Posted: March 19th, 2008, 9:58pm CET
Value Investing Today
当代价值投资
# Author: Charles Brandes
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Page Count: 208 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 3 edition (September 19, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071417389
# ISBN-13: 978-0071417389
Updated data and insights to help value investors address the realities of today's markets
On the heels of recent stock market tumbles and deceptions, value investing--the staple of investing greats from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett--has roared back into the spotlight. Value Investing Today returns with a new edition, filled with updated information and advice to give investors the skills and knowledge to become successful value investors.
Broader in scope than previous editions, this third edition offers fresh lessons investors can use to uncover stocks that are, for whatever reason, underpriced in relation to their value. Updates to this edition include:
* New chapters on the psychology of investing and corporate governance
* Expanded discussions on the importance of margin of safety
* Increased correlations among world markets, and how to capitalize on them
Posted: March 17th, 2008, 4:31am CET
Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar!
向利润冲击:如何在股票下跌和上涨时赚钱
# Author: Martin D. Weiss
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 368 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (January 24, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471429988
# ISBN-13: 978-0471429982
Smart investing strategies from bestselling author and America's consumer advocate for financial safety
Filled with against-the-grain attitude and seasoned market wisdom, Crash Profits explains not only how to survive, but how to make money before, during, and after a crash. Using real examples fresh from the financial pages, Weiss delineates the full range of risks facing the average American. He shows readers how to see through the lies that Wall Street tells and how to find safer alternatives to stock investing, as well as what to sell, how to sell, and when to sell (and when not to sell). Here's the unvarnished truth about investing today, coupled with the strategies every American can use to turn windfall profits while others are losing their shirts.
Martin D. Weiss, PhD (Palm Beach, FL), is Chairman of Weiss Research in Palm Beach, Florida. His previous book, The Ultimate Safe Money Guide (0-471-15202-1), was a Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and New York Times business bestseller
Posted: March 16th, 2008, 2:42am CET
Double Your Income Doing What You Love: Raymond Aaron's Guide to Power Mentoring
# Author:Raymond Aaron, Sue Lacher
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Page Count: 191 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (January 18, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047017370X
# ISBN-13: 978-0470173701
Double Your Income Doing What You Love breaks life down into six pathways, and then sets out a simple but highly effective system for you to set goals in all six categories every month. Using his MTO system, author Raymond Aaron teaches you how to set each goal at three levels—Minimum, Target, and Outrageous—so that you can begin to move ever closer to fully creating, and then living, the life of your dreams.
Everyone wants to make more money. But many feel that to do so, they must sacrifice their lifestyle and work at a job they don't particularly like. In fact, if you're like most people, your life is likely filled with activities, obligations, and commitments that have nothing to do with your goals or your dreams, your life's mission, or the things that you love. But it doesn't have to be that way—and in this book, renowned success and investment coach Raymond Aaron explains why. Over the last twenty-four years, he has developed, tested, and refined the amazing goal-setting and goal-attaining system outlined in Double Your Income Doing What You Love.
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 1:08am CET
106 Mortgage Secrets All Borrowers Must Learn - But Lenders Don't Tell
# Author:Gary W. Eldred
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Publisher: Wiley
# Number Of Pages: 288
# Publication Date: 2007-10-26
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470152869
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470152867
The only guidebook that shows you how to finance any property—with or without bank approval
Would you like to discover all of the many ways that you can finance real estate? Want to learn how to cut your financing costs, avoid pitfalls, and negotiate the best terms? Then let Gary Eldred's 106 Mortgage Secrets All Borrowers Must Learn—But Lenders Don't Tell, Second Edition guide you. Fully updated, this practical guide explains how today's changing mortgage market really works. Unlike other mortgage guides, this book goes beyond traditional bank-originated loans and shows you how to benefit with seller financing, assumables, subject-to, wraparounds, lease options, foreclosures, and other money-saving possibilities.
Posted: March 9th, 2008, 9:28pm CET
The Economics of Urban Transportation
城市交通经济学
# Author:By Kenneth Small, Erik Verhoef
# Format:PDF 2.1MB
# Publisher: Routledge
# Number Of Pages: 276
# Publication Date: 2007-11-16
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415285151
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415285155
This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Smalls seminal textbook Urban Transportation Economics, co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments of congestion modelling, environmental costs, and transit subsidies.
Rigorous in approach and making use of real-world data and econometric techniques, it contains case studies from a range of countries including congestion charging in Norway, Singapore and the UK, light rail in the Netherlands and freeway tolls in the US.
Posted: March 9th, 2008, 9:14am CET
Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence
让财富自动流进你的口袋
# Author:Michael Masterson
# Format:PDF 1.9MB
# Page Count: 288 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (February 24, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471757667
# ISBN-13: 978-0471757665
The advice and concepts outlined in Automatic Wealth are best suited for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence. Rather than encourage readers to quit their day jobs today and launch into a new scheme tomorrow, Masterson shows how to turn your skills and experience into significantly more money within seven to fifteen years. For those just getting by, he details how to get the biggest pay raises now and how to move into more lucrative ventures in the near future. For those with some savings, he offers specific advice on building equity and increasing net worth significantly and quickly. Since Masterson made his millions starting and developing small businesses, he encourages people to become entrepreneurs themselves and discusses which kinds of ventures to invest in and which ones to avoid. He also stresses the importance of developing multiple income streams, offering chapters on real estate, stocks and bonds, consulting, direct mail, and other opportunities.
Posted: March 9th, 2008, 12:53am CET
Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams
拿到你的第一个一百万
# Author:Martin Webb
# Format:PDF 1.3MB
# Publisher: Capstone
# Number Of Pages: 192
# Publication Date: 2007-08-15
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1841127612
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781841127613
Thinking of starting your own business? You've come to the right place. Thousands of people take the plunge every year for thousands of different reasons; the lifestyle, the opportunity to start over again, the chance to make serious money. No one ever got rich lining their boss's pockets. So you really want to go it alone? Here's how. Make Your First Million shows you how to set up your business the right way. It covers business plans, raising finance, financial planning, the opening days, working capital, growing your business, premises, staff, branching out, preparing for exit, and much, much more.
Posted: March 7th, 2008, 1:37am CET
The Price of Truth: How Money Affects the Norms of Science (Practical and Professional Ethics)
真理的价格:钱是如何影响科学的
# Author: David B. Resnick
# Format:PDF 1.1MB
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
# Number Of Pages: 240
# Publication Date: 2006-12-04
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0195309782
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780195309782
Modern science is big business. Governments, universities, and corporations have invested billions of dollars in scientific and technological research in the hope of obtaining power and profit. For the most part, this investment has benefited science and society, leading to new discoveries, inventions, disciplines, specialties, jobs, and career opportunities. However, there is a dark side to the influx of money into science. Unbridled pursuit of financial gain in science can undermine scientific norms, such as objectivity, honesty, openness, respect for research participants, and social responsibility. In The Price of Truth, David B. Resnik examines some of the important and difficult questions resulting from the financial and economic aspects of modern science. How does money affect scientific research? Have scientists become entrepreneurs bent on making money instead of investigators searching for the truth? How does the commercialization of research affect the public's perception of science? Can scientists prevent money from corrupting the research enterprise? What types of rules, polices, and guidelines should scientists adopt to prevent financial interests from adversely affecting research and the public's opinion of science?
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 4:57am CET
Guide to Analysing Companies (Economist)
经济学人系列:公司分析指南
# Author: Bob Vause
# Format:PDF 1.4MB
# Publisher: Profile Books
# Number Of Pages: 288
# Publication Date: 2005-10-01
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1861979851
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781861979858
In this completely revised fourth edition, noted academic and consultang, Bob Vause, helps managers, investors, analysts, and students understand and uncover a business's true worth and performance.
Rather than giving a bunch of formulas to use in Excel, this book actually tries to impart you some knowledge of real world.
While the knowledge maybe old hat for experienced stock analysts, it is NOT for new comers to the field.
And for the Excel script MBAs who try to reduce everything to an equation, sorry dudes.
This book attempts to make u first understand the purpose, goal, and results you would get in a analysis, and then goes about teaching you that analysis.
Posted: March 5th, 2008, 1:14am CET
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought
经济思想史大纲
# Author:Ernesto Screpanti, Stefano Zamagni
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
# Number Of Pages: 578
# Publication Date: 2005-07-15
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0199279144
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780199279142
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of economics from its beginnings, at the end of the Middle Ages, up to contemporary developments. It is strong on contemporary theory, providing extensive coverage of the twentieth century, particularly since the Second World War.
The second edition has been revised and updated to take account of new developments in economic thought.
Posted: March 4th, 2008, 5:22am CET
How to Write Blockbuster Sales Letters
如何撰写一鸣惊人的销售信函
# Author: Benjamin Hart
# Format:PDF 2.3MB
# Publisher: Outskirts Press
# Number Of Pages: 236
# Publication Date: 2006-01-12
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1598002627
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781598002621
"Amazing returns on my mailings" "Ben Hart has given me the secret to getting into the mind of my customer and generating amazing returns on my mailings. With just a few simple changes to my own writing, I am already seeing dramatic results. Thank you for this powerful, step-by-step formula for creating 'Blockbuster Sales Letters'." Valerie Hasara Editor, OyesUcan.com "Absolutely the best in the business" "Ben Hart is absolutely the best in the business. His direct mail campaigns have single handedly turned many floundering and start-up enterprises into multi-million-dollar powerhouses. Ben's books are packed full of strategies, methods, rules and tips that will profit direct mail experts and beginners alike. And Hart's books are enormously fun to read. His writing is clear and direct . . . Every direct mail veteran, as well as anyone planning to launch their very first direct mail marketing campaign, must read Ben's books immediately. I will read this book many times." Steve Loflin Executive Director, National Society of Collegiate Scholars (400,000 members) "One of the true masters" "The dirty little secret of direct mail is that you can count the true masters on two hands and still have several fingers left over. These are the giants who produce the huge results over and over again. Ben Hart is one of the true masters. He's the guy the others are always studying and trying to 'steal smart' from. When you read this book you are learning a lifetime of success secrets from the very best in the business." Richard Rossi Co-Founder, Envision EMI, Inc., Marketer of educational programs that enroll 50,000 students every year with annual revenue of more than $70,000,000 generated by direct mail "One of the creative giants in direct mail today" "Ben Hart is one of the creative giants in direct mail today. I have personally sent Ben to number of my largest clients to help them improve their direct mail programs. Each one has thanked me because Ben's packages have consistently beaten everything they've been doing." Glen Thomas Co-Owner, RST Market
Posted: March 3rd, 2008, 5:20am CET
Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis: New Thinking from the World's Top Minds
突破技术分析
# Author: David Keller
# Format:PDF 9.3MB
# Publisher: Bloomberg Press
# Number Of Pages: 256
# Publication Date: 2007-08-30
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1576602427
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781576602423
More than ever, traders, fund managers, analysts, and investors are using technical analysis to make trading decisions. Often these professionals struggle to identify the most effective technique to use and when and how to apply it. David Keller, Bloomberg L.P.'s liason to the top technical analysts around the world, invited ten top technicians to explain what really works and why. In "Breakthroughs in Technical Analysis", these widely respected practitioners describe their novel trading methods and how to use them for forecasting the future price direction of stocks, futures contacts, indexes, and many other financial instruments.
Posted: March 3rd, 2008, 12:55am CET
The Economics of Education and Training (Studies in Empirical Economics)
教育培训经济学
# Author: Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Stephen Machin
# Format:PDF 1.6MB
# Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
# Number Of Pages: 376
# Publication Date: 2008-03-01
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3790820210
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783790820218
Education and training are key to explain the current competitive strengths of national economies, and to secure future competitiveness. While in the past educational and training institutions were often seen as providers of necessary skills for national economies, this view has changed dramatically, with education and training now being seen as a key ingredient for international competitiveness. This collection of papers on various aspects of the economics of education and training reflects this new interest. Reflecting state-of the art research in a cross country comparison, the topics covered are financing of education, transition from school to work, organisation of education, school quality and issues that relate to it, like quality of peers and teacher quality. Some papers also address issues that relate to more vocational training activities, and how these are influenced by purpose-made programmes, or other institutions.
