January 2012 | sf business times

The Profitable Hobby Farm, How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods Business Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I think this is a great guide for all beginning farmers. Understand that it's not going to teach you how to farm but it will guide you though the process of actually creating the business.Click Here to see more reviews about: The Profitable Hobby Farm, How to Build a Sustainable Local Foods BusinessTurn...

Branding with Brains: The science of getting customers to choose your company (Financial Times Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is definitely one of the better books that I have read related to brands and neuroscience. While being easy to read from a practitioner's position, it remains academically well referenced and draws on many reputable sources from social neuroscience and neuroeconomics in support of its claims. Walvis...

100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask: With Answers from Top Brokers from Around the Country Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I happily endorse this book. The new second edition contains many new questions from the first edition, revised many other questions, and completely rewrites every answer. Things are changing fast in residential real estate, and this book will bring you up-to-date. Whether you are a first-time buyer,...

The Financial Times Guide to Corporate Valuation (2nd Edition) (Financial Times Guides) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Compared to many similar books I have read this book truly focuses on the most important and interesting parts of valuation. The reader benefits from being able to quickly understand the broader concepts without losing interest. Another thing I like is that the book can be used both by beginners/students...

Put Time Management to Work and Live the Life You Want Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Peggy Duncan teaches you the little things that make a big difference in your day to day work and home life. I would recommend this book to business professionals who want to take back lost time so they can put more dollars in their pocket. As a result of reading this book, I have increased my productivity...

A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results, and Stop Wasting Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was an avid fan of Harvard Business School Press (HBSP), and their brand of management summaries and knowledge. However, over the years, I've become disillusioned with the HBSP editoral style and model of publishing management/general business books.Funny how many of their titles are written by Harvard...

Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Chip Delany, the writer/critic with the eight-inch... beard, has done it again. Two books in one, and both will give you lots to think about.The first ("warm") half is an account of the now-vanished culture of random sexual encounters that once flourished in the Times Square area, especially in the porno...

Lower Your Taxes - Big Time : Wealth-Building, Tax Reduction Secrets from an IRS Insider Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I would have given it 4 and 1/2 stars but that wasn't an option. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars was that the book deals with small and home bases business issues and for real estate owners and investors. I am retired and thus, could only benefit from the real estate discussion.However,...

The Millionaire in You: Ten Things You Need to Do Now to Have Money and Time to Enjoy It Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)At a time when the public is constantly getting slammed by hyped-up claims of how to become one-minute millionaires, it's refreshing to read a wise book like this.I was a fan of Michael LeBoeuf's years ago when he wrote "The Greatest Management Principle in the World" which correctly stated that "what...

The business of Hedging Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read a fair amount on hedging but this is the best one to start with. It uses common sense and easy to understand analogies to get at the "whys" of hedging. It is written for the small to mid size business person, but that only makes it stronger because you get to see the big picture instead of...

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" back in college my senior year, all 1200+ pages of it. I've read parts of Communist Manifesto and Capital by Karl Marx and some Joseph Schumpeter. I loved it all (especially Smith and Schumpeter) but it was BRUTAL as the dialects in those days varied so much from...

One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I really like this book because it has opened up a whole new avenue for me, and showed me with simple descriptions all the areas where I was doing it wrong. I almost felt stupid that I did not know about provisional patents. I thought the only way to protect your ideas was the traditional patent route,...

Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises (Cornell Studies in Political Economy) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent book to have a compared vision on the three great crisis of capitalism before the 21th century. It gives us a wide view of economic and political tranformations occurred in countries like the USA, Germany, the UK, Swenden and France. All countries and periods were carefully chosen....

Next Generation Product Development : How to Increase Productivity, Cut Costs, and Reduce Cycle Times Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Review of:"Next Generation Product Development" by Michael E. McGrathThe last paragraph of Michael E. McGrath's newest book "Next Generation Product Development" boldly states that "product development has never been for the faint of heart." And I suspect that most everyone who has ever been involved...

Applied Econometric Times Series (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought Walter Enders book several years ago, when I was an undergraduate student. It's a nice manual. Perhaps you won't see the statistical demonstration of the unit-root (Dickey-Fuller) test, but you will understand why it doesn't follow a standard probability distribution and you'll know how to use...

What Works on Wall Street, Fourth Edition: The Classic Guide to the Best-Performing Investment Strategies of All Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What Works on Wall Street? According to a study of 45 years of stock market data in a book called "What works on Wall Street" by O'Shaughnesy he came to the conclusion that some strategies would have produced greater returns than the S&P 500 whilst others produced less. He tested a range of strategies,...

The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Having graduated from a top business school in Canada, I can safety say that I could have thrown out all my textbooks and used the money I spent on tuition to actually START a business, and used this book as a replacement to my business education. What makes this book warrant such a strong statement...