New Books

The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties
by Steve Berges

More and more people are flipping properties every year, but in today's tougher, tighter real estate market, it's not as easy to turn a profit. The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties, Second Edition presents proven, straightforward guidance for making money on every single deal. 

Green Guide: The Complete Reference for Consuming Wisely

Paper or plastic? Organic or conventional? In a world that is rapidly going "green," how does the average person make decisions that are smart for the family—and good for the planet? The Green Guide is here to help, with the concepts and choices for Earth-conscious living.

The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm 
by Kenneth W. Gronbach

This groundbreaking book lets you in on the best ways to position your business to roll with changing populations of ripe consumers—including how to succeed despite the looming challenges posed by the relatively small Generation X, and leverage the explosive opportunities afforded by massive young Generation Y.

Don't Die Broke
by Margaret A. Malaspina

Personal finance writer and financial education expert Margaret Malaspina takes you through all the options and decisions that you'll face when you are ready to retire. This guide can help you get the most out of what you've earned, lower your tax bills, and create a stream of income that will last for the rest of your life.

You're So Money 
by Farnoosh Torabi

Finally a savvy, realistic finance book for those of us who love our Starbucks mocha lattes and Razr cell phones but don’t want our Jimmy Choo shoes or Bose headphones buried under a pile of burgeoning debt. Twenty-something financial reporter Farnoosh Torabi tells you that you can satisfy your sophisticated tastes and achieve financial bliss.

The Now Habit
by Neil Fiore

The first comprehensive strategic system for overcoming the causes and eliminating the effects of procrastination. Techniques to help any busy person get more things done more quickly, without the anxiety and stress brought on by delay and pressing deadlines. If you are a professional, manager, student, entrepreneur, writer, or homemaker, this audio book will help you achieve your goals more rapidly—whether they be large, complex challenges or the small, essential tasks of everyday life and work. If you now work effectively even though you have too much to do and too little time, The Now Habit will show you how to prioritize your goals to allow more time for guilt-free play.

Dolf De Roos' Real Estate Investor's College (Audio CD)
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by Dolf De Roos
Renton, WA : Topics Entertainment, 2005.

“Let property investment guru Dolf de Roos demonstrate insider techniques and field-tested strategies designed to maximize property value for all levels of real estate investors. The Property Investor's School on 10 CD's provides a dynamic audio record of Dolf's mentoring sessions previously available only in-person. Real Estate Riches on 3 CD's abridges the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller to create a portable audio compendium of how-to tips for creating property income. Finally, sit in on Discussions with Dolf, a DVD bonus comprising of an international question-and-answer session featuring specific real estate queries from program participants. Covering everything from lenders to leases; trades people to tenants; Dolf de Roos' Real Estate Investor's College is your graduate course in financial security!” (Topics Entertainment)

The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It
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by Jonathan Zittrain
New Haven, CT, WA : Yale University Press, 2008.

“This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation—and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control.

IPods, iPhones, Xboxes, and TiVos represent the first wave of Internet-centered products that can’t be easily modified by anyone except their vendors or selected partners. These “tethered appliances” have already been used in remarkable but little-known ways: car GPS systems have been reconfigured at the demand of law enforcement to eavesdrop on the occupants at all times, and digital video recorders have been ordered to self-destruct thanks to a lawsuit against the manufacturer thousands of miles away. New Web 2.0 platforms like Google mash-ups and Facebook are rightly touted—but their applications can be similarly monitored and eliminated from a central source. As tethered appliances and applications eclipse the PC, the very nature of the Internet—its “generativity,” or innovative character—is at risk.

The Internet’s current trajectory is one of lost opportunity. Its salvation, Zittrain argues, lies in the hands of its millions of users. Drawing on generative technologies like Wikipedia that have so far survived their own successes, this book shows how to develop new technologies and social structures that allow users to work creatively and collaboratively, participate in solutions, and become true “netizens.” (Yale University Press)

Investing in Real Estate in Brazil: Major Legal Issues
by Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados
FIABCI/BRASIL, 2006.

“The Brazilian real estate market is moving ahead toward a new, more promising era. This excellent work on how to invest in real estate in Brazil could not have come at a better time. It is intended to all keen to learn more about the peculiarities of the Brazilian legislation, environmental rules, regulations and issues, for the most appropriate design of their investment. The topics addresses show the main framework and rules of the real estate segment and are a useful tool for anyone interested in Brazil, and provide an overview of those issues that are worth being reviewed by investors.” (FIABCI/BRASIL)

Real You Incorporated: 8 Essentials for Women Entrepreneurs
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by Kaira Sturdivant Rouda
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008.

“Real You Incorporated is about empowering women entrepreneurs. The book provides insights for women on how to discover and love her personal brand, and how to bring it into the market as a real business one that is unique and different than a man's. It all starts with you. In the first section of the book, Find It Within You, readers will learn how to express their personality, passions and essence to define their internal brand. In Section Two, The Competitive Advantage, readers learn how to extend their internal message into the world to their partners, employees, and ultimately, their customers. Part branding the author is a nationally known marketing expert and part business inspiration, Real You Incorporated includes case studies of real women entrepreneurs from a variety of industries manufacturing, retail, restaurants, real estate, publishing and many more. Their stories bring the book to life, adding inspiration from role models. The book also includes a visualization tool in the form of a chart that women entrepreneurs complete and keep to remind them of their Real You, no matter what phase their business is in from startup to second or third phase entrepreneurs.” (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

The Almanac of American Politics
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by Michael Barone with Richard E. Cohen
Washington, DC : National Journal Group, 2007.

“The unequivocal 2006 election results suggest we have entered a new period in American politics. When America’s votes were tallied this past November, Democrats had won Election Day majorities in both the Senate and the House for the first time since 1992. The House Democrats’ margin of victory, furthermore, was very similar to the House Republicans’ popular vote margin in 1994—a harbinger, perhaps, of a new political era.

In the wake of such an eventful election, it’s no surprise that pundits on both sides of the fence are clamoring for the 2008 edition of The Almanac of American Politics—the gold standard for anyone who wants to understand the American political landscape. Once again, renowned journalists Michael Barone and Richard E. Cohen present the ultimate reference guide for everyone involved, invested, or interested in American politics. As in previous editions, the 2008 Almanac includes colorful, fascinating profiles of every member of Congress and every governor. It also includes in-depth and up-to-date political profiles of all fifty states and 435 House districts—covering everything from economics to history to, of course, politics.

Complete with maps, census data, and indispensable information on topics ranging from campaign expenditures to voting records to interest group ratings, this latest edition of the Almanac of American Politics presents everything you need to know about current American politics, related in snappy prose and framed by cogent analysis.” (National Journal Group)

It Starts with One
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by J. Stewart Black and Hal B. Gregersen
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Education, Inc., 2008.

“Today, virtually every organization faces massive change. Unfortunately, change is extraordinarily difficult, and most attempts to initiate and sustain it fail. In It Starts with One, J. Stewart Black and Hal B Gregersen identify the core problem: changing individuals and the “mental maps” inside their heads must happen before you can change the organization.

Just as actual maps guide people’s footsteps, mental maps guide daily behavior. Successful strategic change for the organization is all about changing individual mental maps and behaviors first, because they are the organization.

To change organizations, you must break through your own brain barrier–and help those around you do the same. One step at a time, It Starts with One shows how to do that: how to create new destinations, and new, more inspiring effective paths to sustainable change. Black and Gregersen systematically identify the brain barriers that stand in your way: failure to see, failure to move, and failure to finish. Drawing on their extensive experience consulting with world-class organizations, they offer integrated tools, strategies, and solutions for overcoming each of these obstacles.” (Pearson Education, Inc.)

Go Green, Live Rich
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by David Bach with Hillary Rosner
New York, NY : Random House, 2008.

“Internationally renowned financial expert and bestselling author David Bach has always urged readers to put their financial lives in line with their values. But what if your values are a cleaner and greener earth? Most people think that “going green” is an expensive choice they can’t afford. Bach is here to say that you can have both: a life in line with your green values and a million dollars in the bank.

Go Green, Live Rich outlines fifty ways to make your life, your home, your shopping, and your finances greener—and get rich trying. From driving the right car to making your home energy smart, Bach offers ways to improve the environment while you spend less, save more, earn more, and pay fewer taxes. Best of all, he shows you exactly how to take advantage of the "green wave" in personal finance without the difficult work of evaluating individual stocks. What's more, he will get you thinking about a green business of your own so you can help the world along as it is changing for the better.

David Bach is on a mission to teach the world that you can live a great life by living a green life. With Go Green, Live Rich, you can live in line with your eco-values on the road to financial freedom.” (Random House)