Negotiate your way through any deal!In today's fast-paced business environment, where a single e-mail exchange can make or break your career, it's important that you know how to clearly and effectively discuss an agreement's terms in person as well as online. The Only Negotiation Book You'll Ever Need guides you through every stage of the process--from identifying opportunities to closing the deal--with useful negotiation techniques and tips for adapting c...

A quick-and-easy guide to core business and career concepts—no MBA required!The ability to negotiate a deal. Confidence to oversee staff. Complete, accurate monitoring of expenses.In today’s business world, these are must-have skills. But all too often, comprehensive business books turn the important details of best practices into tedious reading that would put even a CEO to sleep.From hiring and firing to strategizing and calculating revenues, ...

Economics, demystified!From the collapse of housing prices to the thousand-point drops in the stock market, the past has been full of economic crises. These changes not only affect the overall market—they can also drastically influence your personal finances and day-to-day life. In this easy-to-understand guide, Peter Sander explains how the financial system works, as well as the most important concepts, terms, and programs in economics. Using simple language, he d...

"Frank, a Certified Financial Planner in California, offers a concise, precise guide to “prudent thinking” about personal finances, along with simple tools to estimate how much is required for a comfortable retirement.""A sound guide designed to help people make sensible plans for a successful retirement."— Kirkus book review"First let me tell you Larry Frank knows his stuff. He has a procedure that many will find worth taking the time to imple...

Money management is more complicated than ever - you have to deal with yo-yo'ing stock markets, rising health care and home prices, taxes, and employment. Everywhere you look, there's more to worry about. Where do you start? The 250 Personal Finance Questions Everyone Should Ask gives you the simple, straightforward answers you need to protect your finances. Written in a quick, easy, accessible style, this comprehensive handbook book takes you through twenty-five key financial cat...

As green awareness spreads over middle America, more and more people want to have a fun, environmentally responsible holiday. Green Christmas shows how to enjoy the Christmas season while leaving a smaller carbon footprint.Readers will learn how to do the following:choose between a real tree and an artificial onefind alternatives to holiday cardsavoid the holiday catalog crunchfind or make gifts that are green or teach green...

MONEY-SAVING SECRETS TO LIVING THE FREE LIFEFrom AAA and AARP, to Wal-Mart and beyond, The Free Stuff for Everyone Book is your go-to guide for how to find the best deals, discounts, and free offers so you can keep more of your hard-earned cash in your pocket. Whether you’re a bargain hunter, retiree, proud cheapskate, student or anyone on a limited budget, consumer finance expert and best-selling author Peter Sander shows you how to find free products, services, g...

You've probably thought about where you will live in retirement and how you plan to spend your time. But do you know how much income you will need to pay for the type of retirement you want?With Social Security's uncertain future, as well as the increasing cost of healthcare, you need to formulate a retirement strategy with an income stream—available from annuities—that you can't outlive.In The Income Revolution, you will learn what questions to as...

YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE HUGE RISKS TO INVEST SUCCESSFULLYLow volatility investing has been proven to outperform higher risk, volatile growth stock trading and investing over time. In today’s markets, this is exactly what you need to consistently draw returns beyond the risk-free rate--and sleep well at night because you're not worried about your investments!Written in a clear, entertaining style, All About Low Volatility Investing provides a firm foundation on vol...

Learn the necessary habits that will help you become a successful investor!Especially after the wild ride that began in the fall of 2008, individual stock investing has become far more challenging. Think of a golf swing—hit it right and it goes far and straight, hit it wrong and you'll end up far off in the weeds. But—like much else in life—golf swings become habits when done right. Investing should be no different. What works should become habit, and each and ever...

Bringing together distinguished experts in the field of race relations this book addresses questions which are increasingly relevant in the current socio-political context of Great Britain. The kind of visions of multicultural Britain which are currently being canvassed and the problems which ethnic minorities continue to face are addressed, together with an examination of the new policy initiatives which are needed to tackle these problems. Race Relations in Britain falls into th...

Algorithm Engineering is a methodology for algorithmic research that combines theory with implementation and experimentation in order to obtain better algorithms with high practical impact. Traditionally, the study of algorithms was dominated by mathematical (worst-case) analysis. In Algorithm Engineering, algorithms are also implemented and experiments conducted in a systematic way, sometimes resembling the experimentation processes known from fields such as biology, chemistry, or physics...