| 121.
| - Organized Retail Crime Goes Global
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By
Hitha Prabhakar
- Dec 8, 2011
- Hitha Prabhakar discusses the connection between organized retail crime and terrorism.
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| 122.
| - Why Your Credit Score Matters
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By
Liz Weston
- Dec 1, 2011
- Credit scores can have enormous repercussions for your wallet, your future, and your peace of mind. Liz Weston explains the cost of having a bad credit score, how credit scoring has changed over the years, and consumers' battles to have access to credit scores.
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| 123.
| - Introduction to Your Credit Score: How to Improve the 3-Digit Number That Shapes Your Financial Future
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By
Liz Weston
- Nov 30, 2011
- The days of easy lending aren’t likely to come back any time soon. So now more than ever, knowing how to fix, improve, and protect your credit score is essential for successfully navigating your financial life.
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| 124.
| - The Addicted Brain: What's in This Book, and Why Should I Read It?
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By
Michael Kuhar
- Nov 7, 2011
- Michael Kuhar introduces his book, which is about alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs—how they work, what they do to the brain, and what can be done to stop using them. The book is especially about what happens inside the brain and why the brain just happens to be set up for drugs.
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| 125.
| - Beware the Keynesian Mirage
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By
Tony Crescenzi
- Oct 31, 2011
- Tony Crescenzi explains why it is a fallacy to believe that the ability of nations to issue ever-increasing amounts of new debt at the Keynesian Endpoint will be the same as it was in the past, and it is lunacy to believe that in the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis that bond investors will turn a blind eye to a continuation of fiscal profligacy.
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| 126.
| - Preface to The Option Trader's Workbook: A Problem-Solving Approach, 2nd Edition
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By
Jeff Augen
- Oct 27, 2011
- Jeff Augen introduces his book, which is designed to let investors explore a vast array of rules and trade structures by solving real-life problems.
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| 127.
| - Introduction to Buy and Hedge: The 5 Iron Rules for Investing Over the Long Term
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By
Jay Pestrichelli, Wayne Ferbert
- Oct 26, 2011
- The authors explain that if you think the market has the potential for significant turmoil and volatility and you worry that it is possible that this is the new normal, this book will work for you.
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| 128.
| - Introduction to the Inner Voice of Trading: Eliminate the Noise, and Profit from the Strategies That Are Right for You
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By
Michael Martin
- Oct 3, 2011
- In this introduction to his book, Michael Martin attempts to shed light on how successful traders combine intellect and self-awareness and what they do to obtain it.
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| 129.
| - George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis: The Other History
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By
Ed Carlson
- Sep 12, 2011
- Ed Carlson discusses George Lindsay's book, The Other History, where Lindsay challenges the accepted views of "cause and effect" in the stock market and replaces them with his own observations of time intervals.
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| 130.
| - Introduction to George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis: Trading Systems of a Market Master
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By
Ed Carlson
- Sep 12, 2011
- Who was George Lindsay and why did I undertake to write this book? Ed Carlson answers these questions in this introduction to George Lindsay and the Art of Technical Analysis: Trading Systems of a Market Master.
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| 131.
| - Introduction to Using Technical Analysis to Interpret Economic Data
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By
Charles D. Kirkpatrick
- Sep 6, 2011
- Charles D. Kirkpatrick introduces his book, which offers guidance in timing the stock market specifically and provides advice to those are nervous about looking at markets strictly from a technical point of view without some understanding of the relationship between fundamental information and the markets.
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| 132.
| - Neuronal Circuitry: The Key to Unlocking the Brain
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By
Masao Ito
- Sep 1, 2011
- This chapter addresses the methodologies and fundamental concepts that are currently being used in the study of generic complex neuronal circuits before focusing in succeeding chapters on the cerebellum.
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| 133.
| - Getting Back to Focus and Discipline: Campbell's Soup Is M'M M'M Smart
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By
Jim Champy
- Aug 24, 2011
- Jim Champy shows how to leverage the rich treasure of potential competitive advantage that's hiding in plain view: your operations. In this chapter, he explains how Campbell's Soup awakened from what looked to some like a terminal snooze.
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| 134.
| - Introduction to The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance
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By
James Heskett
- Aug 23, 2011
- The contribution of culture to organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. In this introduction to his book, renowned thought leader James L. Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can account for 20-30% of the differential in performance compared with "culturally unremarkable" competitors.
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| 135.
| - Preface to The Encyclopedia of Operations Management
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By
Arthur V. Hill
- Aug 22, 2011
- Arthur V. Hill discusses the purpose, coverage, format, and history of his book, The Encyclopedia of Operations Management: A Field Manual and Glossary of Operations Management Terms and Concepts.
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| 136.
| - Extreme Money: Mirror of the Times
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By
Satyajit Das
- Aug 17, 2011
- Best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth--while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance.
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| 137.
| - Power Shifts in Global R&D and Innovation: What They Mean for Firms in Life Science Businesses
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By
Tomasz Mroczkowski
- Jul 26, 2011
- Just as the global center of gravity in manufacturing has shifted east in the past two decades, a power shift is underway in science, technology, and innovation. This chapter discusses the emerging new order of global innovation in the life science business.
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| 138.
| - Introduction to Understanding China's Economic Indicators
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By
Thomas Orlik
- Jul 20, 2011
- In this introduction to his book, Thomas Orlik explains what China's statistics say about the state of the economy and how to use them to make more profitable investment decisions.
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| 139.
| - The Esoteric Investor: Building the Demographic Framework
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By
Vishaal B. Bhuyan
- Jul 18, 2011
- Learn about huge new investment opportunities hidden in the coming age wave, pension crisis, and today's massive demographic, economic, and regulatory shifts.
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| 140.
| - Introduction to Mastering Market Timing
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By
Richard A. Dickson, Tracy L. Knudsen
- Jul 12, 2011
- Market timing is not easy. But it's not impossible, and when properly applied, market timing can generate big rewards for the time and effort expended.
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