Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth (Bloomberg)

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In "Bonds: The Unbeaten Path to Secure Investment Growth", two veteran investors expose the myth of stocks' superior investment returns and propose an all-bond portfolio as a sure-footed strategy that can ensure results. The book, an expanded and updated version of "The Money-Making Guide to Bonds", is designed to educate novice and sophisticated investors alike and serve as a tool for financial advisers as well. It explains why bonds can be the right choice and how to use them to achieve financial goals. It presents a broad spectrum of bond-investment options, describes how to purchase bonds at the best price, and, most important, shows how to make money with bonds.

The wealthiest investors and financial advisers use the bond strategies outlined in this book to maximize the the return on their portfolios while providing security of principal. The strategies can help you determine how to use bonds in your portfolio and take control of your financial destiny. You'll be playing it smart while playing it safe.

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The Card Rebel's Black Book: First Edition

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The Card Rebel's Black Book picks up where The Card Wizard's Black Book: Second Edition left off. The Card Collector's Black Book series is the definitive reference on the business and collecting aspects of the trading card game industry. The Card Rebel's Black Book is the first in the series to feature a heavy emphasis on games other than Magic: the Gathering(tm), such as the Star Wars(tm) CCG(tm), the Star Trek(tm) CCG(tm), the Lord of the Rings(tm) TCG(tm), and others. The book includes some bonus Magic: the Gathering(tm) content as well.

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Bob Woolmer s Art and Science of Cricket

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Windward Leadership

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WIndward Leadership is a field manual for leading durable change in today s political, neurotic, time-starved, and resource-poor, organizations.

With clear and sometimes provocative language, Windward Leadership weaves together helpful analogies, metaphors, and good sense. Moving quickly from theory to pragmatic issues, Ruprecht shares key lessons, and provides concrete tools and methods for turning principle-centered leadership and team-oriented management into operational action.

Ruprecht's pragmatic approach remains unconstrained by today s conventional thought. A manifesto for change from the middle out, Ruprecht s message is designed to open leaders minds and steer them away from the dysfunctional habits, assumptions, and tendencies that are prevalent in today s typical organizations.

Whatever the prevailing winds and political seas in which you sail, whatever kind of organization yours may be, no matter where your organization may be in the hierarchy, no matter how big the organization you lead may be, Windward Leadership will help you make that corner of the planet, which you have the good fortune to lead, a better place.

"Jim has written a crisp and entertaining book on leadership and leading organizational change. Told through the lens of Jim s own experience, the book is a collection of time tested theories and practical methods explained with terrific quotes, entertaining stories, and theoretical frameworks generated from the world s best leaders, business thinkers, and historical figures." Dave Marver, President & Chief Executive Officer, Cardiac Science Corporation

"Here is a leader who has been in the trenches and shares what works and what doesn t. As evidenced by his history of successful leadership roles in an impressive variety of companies, spanning the full range of economic conditions, Ruprecht s approach to getting things done is honest and straightforward. He knows that a leader is not there to replicate the status quo even when they may be the very person who gave the quo its status. Windward Leadership is food for the thoughtful leader, written with great style about making things better for the organization and all stakeholders by how one leads and serves." Dr. Bowen White, M.D. Physician, teacher, consultant, speaker, clown, and author of Why Normal Isn t Healthy: How to Find Heart, Meaning, Passion & Humor on the Road Most Traveled

"What other books on leadership promise, Ruprecht actually delivers an insightful, strategic yet pragmatic approach for changing your organization to create competitive advantage. A truly compelling read!" Michael A. Boylan Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Accelerant International, LLC, author of: The Power to Get in; TEETH, Does Your Value Proposition Have Any; and Accelerants.

"Drawn from his years of hands-on experience, Windward Leadership brings Ruprecht s pragmatic approach to leadership of business and technologies. He is experienced with a broad range of businesses from new ventures and startups through Fortune 100s. He is an inspiring leader, has assisted in business turn-arounds, and has successfully nurtured organiza

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The Card Wizard's Black Book: First Edition

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*** NOTE: The Second Edition is available now! If you are new to The Card Wizard's Black Book, the Second Edition is strongly recommended. The First Edition is available for archival purposes, but its content is only current to 2008. *** The Card Wizard's Black Book puts the Trading Card Game market under the microscope like never before, with a heavy focus on Wizards of the Coast's original game "Magic: the Gathering." Tricks of the dealer trade are exposed for the first time for collectors and players to learn! This is one book no dealer, player, or collector can afford to ignore.

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Lead With Cash: Cash Flow for Corporate Renewal

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This book takes an entirely new look at how companies ought to be managed. It argues that managers need to focus on how corporate decisions affect the firm's cash. The authors, who are well-known in the fields of management and crisis management, suggest that companies that follow their paradigm are more likely to survive tumultuous times, provide higher returns to their investors, and have a conducive work environment.

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Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America

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"To paraphrase Molière, for more than a century we have been engaged in information-seeking behavior without knowing it. From the moment we tumble out of bed our day is a perpetual cycle of information acquisition and evaluation. This compendious book brings middle-class America's quotidian information activities to life, vividly and intimately." Blaise Cronin , Dean and Rudy Professor of Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington

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Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity Review

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How was Nike able to take a gamble on an unknown Michael Jordan and transform itself from a $900 million company to a $9.19 billion company in less than fifteen years? Why did the artist Jeff Koons’s Balloon Flower (Magenta) sell for a record $25.7 million in 2008? What does the high school football star have in common with the Hollywood headliner? And why should an actor never, ever go to Las Vegas?

Celebrity—our collective fascination with particular people—is everywhere and takes many forms, from the sports star, notorious Wall Street tycoon, or film icon, to the hometown quarterback, YouTube sensation, or friend who compulsively documents his life on the Internet. We follow with rapt attention all the minute details of stars’ lives: their romances, their spending habits, even how they drink their coffee. For those anointed, celebrity can translate into big business and top social status, but why do some attain stardom while millions of others do not? Why are we simply more interested in certain people?

In Starstruck, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett presents the first rigorous exploration of celebrity, arguing that our desire to “celebrate” some people and not others has profound implications, elevating social statuses, making or breaking careers and companies, and generating astronomical dividends. Tracing the phenomenon from the art world to tabletop gaming conventions to the film industry, Currid-Halkett looks at celebrity as an expression of economics, geography (both real and virtual), and networking strategies.

Starstruck brings together extensive statistical research and analysis, along with interviews with top agents and publicists, YouTube executives, major art dealers and gallery directors, Bollywood players, and sports experts. Laying out the enormous impact of the celebrity industry and identifying the patterns by which individuals become stars, Currid-Halkett successfully makes the argument that celebrity is an important social phenomenon and a driving force in the worldwide economy.   

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Growing the Game: The Globalization of Major League Baseball

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Baseball fans are well aware that the game has become increasingly international. Major league rosters include players from no fewer than fourteen countries, and more than one-fourth of all players are foreign born. Here, Alan Klein offers the first full-length study of a sport in the process of globalizing. Looking at the international activities of big-market and small-market baseball teams, as well as the Commissioner’s Office, he examines the ways in which Major League Baseball operates on a world stage that reaches from the Dominican Republic to South Africa to Japan.
The origins of baseball’s efforts to globalize are complex, stemming as much from decreasing opportunities at home as from promise abroad. The book chronicles attempts to develop the game outside the United States, the strategies that teams such as the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Kansas City Royals have devised to recruit international talent, and the ways baseball has been growing in other countries. The author concludes with an assessment of the obstacles that may inhibit or promote baseball’s progress toward globalization, offering thoughtful proposals to ensure the health and growth of the game in the United States and abroad.

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Now Batting, Number...: The Mystique, Superstition, and Lore of Baseball's Uniform Numbers

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Unlike other baseball statistics books that reveal only information about the numbers players put on the board, this unique take on America's favorite pastime reveals the little-known facts and nuances behind the numbers players wear on their backs.

In Now Batting, Number...baseball historian Jack Looney delves into every aspect of baseball uniform numbers. Here are topics including "Boyhood Idols" (players who chose numbers to honor heroes, fathers, grandfathers, and friends), "Birthday Babes" (players who have worn the same number as their day, month, or year of birth), "Caretakers" (inside stories on how numbers are distributed and the bartering of numbers among players), and "Early Innings" (the history of numbering in Major League baseball).

At the center of Now Batting, Number...is a substantial section listing the complete rosters of all thirty Major League teams including each player's number and position. Other lists include every retired number listed by league and team, every retired number listed by position, and famous players' numbers and every other player who ever honored them by wearing that number (listed by number).

In a controversial chapter called "Dream Teams," player from various eras, who wore the same number durin their careers, are selected to play together on the same Dream Team. Statistics for fifty teams are included. Also included are dozens of some of the toughest, number-related trivia questions that will have even the most knowledgeable fan scratching his or her head.

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