Want to know the secrets of successful and money-savvy home renovation? Best-selling real estate author Robert Irwin tells all. Millions of readers have relied on his Tips & Traps guides for solid advice on all aspects of real estate. Now this best-selling author guides you through the perilous world ... more »

How Starbucks became Starbucks and other secrets of branding success. Aimed at managers, not just marketers, a famed consultant presents a powerful prescription for understanding, building, and sustaining brand equity. Duane Knapp demonstrates, from a management perspective, why a company's brand is ... more »

This is a Gloom and Boom book.First the bad news: Between the years of 2007 and 2012-just a few years from now-the vast majority of Baby Boomers will be on the verge of retirement-and they'll be looking to cash in on their hefty retirement plans. Quite frankly, the country is not prepared to handle this ... more »

In August of 2002, Dan Ahrens and his colleagues at MUTUALS.com launched the Vice Fund, a mutual fund that invests solely in sin stocks-- tobacco, alcohol, adult entertainment, gambling, and aerospace/defense, believing that even during an abysmal economy, people will indulge in such goods and services ... more »

Are you ready for the leadership moment? Merck's Roy Vagelos commits millions of dollars to develop a drug needed only by people who can't afford it · Eugene Kranz struggles to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home after an explosion rips through their spacecraft · Arlene Blum organizes the first women ... more »

Stephen Leeb has devised a simple, yet enormously profitable, stock-picking formula. - DAILY NEWS Stephen Leeb is a top performing money manager. - THE NEW YORK POST. For almost two decades technology has been the greatest wealthbuilder in history, with high-tech stocks like Microsoft creating millionaires ... more »

Soes (Small Order Execution System) has been a catalyst for change in the financial markets. SOES, increasingly called direct access electronic trading, allows individuals to bypass their broker and profit from intraday price movements on NASDAQ. As Time noted, Savvy little guys use Wall Street's own ... more »

If management is an art, then surely Jack Welch has proved himself a master painter. - BusinessWeek Boardroom legend Jack Welch is widely regarded as one of the most effective CEOs in business history. Welch's groundbreaking programs--including Six Sigma and Work-Out--along with his numerous strategies ... more »

Today's workplace is facing a talent crisis. The economy is booming but companies are finding it harder to fill positions and keep good people. The Talent Solution holds the key to leveraging a company's most vital competitive advantage--its people. In this research-driven, ground-breaking book, Gubman ... more »

1000 ganz legale Steuertricks Mit dem Konz sparen Sie Geld, Zeit und Nerven - und das bereits seit Jahrzehnten! Sie erfahren alle Tricks und Kniffe für Einkommensteuer, Abschreibungsmöglichkeiten und den reibungslosen Umgang mit dem Finanzamt. Die eBook-Ausgabe bietet einen praktischen Index zum schnellen ... more »

Harvey Mackay is author of four New York Times bestsellers. His first two books-Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt-were #1 New York Times bestsellers and are listed by the New York Times among the top fifteen inspirational business books of ... more »

What Would Machiavelli Do? and Throwing the Elephant. Fortune's Stanley Bing has written two very different but complementary survival guides for today's business world. Inspired by the Florentine master, Bing offers (in Machiavelli) a way of seeing colleagues and rivals from 50,000 feet -- as teeny ... more »