Wall Street has become the wealth-building avenue of choice for Americans looking to build a secure future. To make the most of your investments, however, you must have a smart plan, solid advice, and a vision for the future that will allow you to let the stock market work for you, and do what it does ... more »

Industrial relations has traditionally been a national affair, characterised by distinct local laws, practices and cultures. The process of European integration, exemplified by the Single Market Programme, the Maastricht Treaty and the imminent prospect of Economic Monetary Union, has created a framework ... more »

If you're wondering what happened after a company without assets acquired a company without a clue, as Kara Swisher wryly writes, it's time to crack open this trenchant book about the doomed merger of America Online and Time Warner. On a quest to discover how the deal of the century became the messiest ... more »

Torie Clarke, renowned and respected in political and business circles as one of the nation's most gifted communicators, offers a complete guide to the new age of transparency. Clarke's message is refreshing and straightforward: No more spin. Always a dubious proposition, spin has become increasingly ... more »

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This indispensable investment guide asks the question: How can an individual invest successfully when the majority always fails? Charles Ellis, one of today's most brilliant investment writers, has updated his influential book to include: Ways to escape the ravages of taxes and inflation; How to successfully ... more »

... of the work and wisdom of one of the world's most important financial figures. Investors at all levels will profit from insights including: * Recommendations for ensuring 100% of market returns * Thoughts on indexing--from the Father of the Index Fund * Ways to keep today's turbulent markets in perspective ... more »

This book brings together cutting edge contributions in the fields of international economics, micro theory, welfare economics and econometrics, with contributions from Donald R. Davis, Avinash K. Dixit, Tadashi Inoue, Ronald W. Jones, Dale W. Jorgenson, K. Rao Kadiyala, Murray C. Kemp, Kenneth M. Kletzer ... more »

Office workers form a large and growing proportion of the workforce, especially with the growth of the service sector. Almost all of us work in computerised offices, and have become strongly attached to these machines. We wish to be productive and successful, satisfied with our work, get along with our ... more »

Lessons for Everyone in Business from an All-Star Team. Every six months Dennis C. Carey and Marie-Caroline von Weichs run the CEO Academy, an immersion course for newly appointed CEOs of the world's leading companies--what Business Week called a boot camp for the next class of top executives. Those ... more »

Negotiating is a face-to-face human drama that can be as genteel as croquet or as brutal as a prizefight, observes Victor Gotbaum. In Negotiating in the Real World, he draws on his experience to show how readers can also get results by sharpening their negotiating skills in every situation -- from getting ... more »

Like Robert Kiyosaki's RICH DAD'S PROPHECY, THE OIL FACTOR predicts catastrophic losses for those who rely solely on stocks and bonds-and shows how paying attention to oil prices can lead to financial security. For the last thirty years, the price of oil has been the single most important determinant ... more »