April 2012 | sf business times

The Part-Time Real Estate Investor: How to Generate Huge Profits While Keeping Your Day Job Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read and reviewed a number of "how to make millions investing in real estate" type of books, and I didn't think I'd ever need to read another one, since they are mostly the same (in varying degrees of quality). However, I was attracted to the Part-Time Real Estate Investor precisely because of the...

Strategic Error-Proofing: Achieving Success Every Time with Smarter FMEAs Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Though I don't recommend this book as dinner table chatter, (unless you are an engineering wonk) I do recommend the book as a means to clearly understand the importance of smarter FMEA's. (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) Clearly a visionary in his industry, John J. Casey has fun with his material, using...

The Expert's Edge: Become the Go-To Authority People Turn to Every Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There is an old expression that says that knowledge is power. Yet, if no one knows you have the knowledge, does it matter? Ken Lizotte, with his concept of being a thought leader, helps experts create market visibility that they could never achieve on their own. He also helps experts come out of the...

A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is one of the best books on economic history that I have read. This book is an excellent start for a person interested in economic history: it is well written, it is well structured, and overall fun to read. This book is an excellent overview and a very good guide. One thing for sure: it's an excellent...

Working With Americans: How to Build Profitable Business Relationships Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Having read about Working with Americans (which until then I hadn't realised was a subject!) I wanted to get it to help me understand the owrking relationdhip I had witn an American colleague. I was then fortunate enough to find that Allyson Stewart-Allen was our course leader for a course on Strategic...

Now Is Your Time to Win Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a book that will help you accept your situation exactly the way it is, and give you 7 practical steps that help you control those things in your life that you have control over, and not worry about areas that you can't control. It gives you great advice from achievers that inspire and give you...

You Can't Manage Time: But You Can Manage Many Priorities Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Susan de la Vergne has been teaching and giving lectures on time management and Emotional Intelligence (EI) for twenty-five years. Her publication, You Can't Manage Time - But You Can Manage Many Priorities, is an engaging read that strays from typical time management books. YCMT delivers a personal,...

Frank Wood's Business Accounting: Accounting (ISE) (v. 1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Textbook is ideal for anyone who wants to obtain a excellent grounding in Financial Accounts. This is excellent and suitable book for Financial Accounts Students, particularly MBA (finance).Click Here to see more reviews about: Frank Wood's Business Accounting: Accounting (ISE) (v. 1)Business Accounting...

The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'm glad that I finally got the book after seeing Teri on the Oprah show and the Metro Channel. Her reporting genius and years of experience show as she single-handedly unveils this industry which too often tends to believe its own hype. It was especially interesting to read her accounts of the ways...

Marketing in the Age of Google: Your Online Strategy IS Your Business Strategy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Although overall a book with a lot of tips, the author does not explain things as well as she could. For instant, she starts talking about Google Trends and doesn't tell us where to find it online (I guess there's Google for that ;). That said, there are a lot of good gems she shares. Here are some:-Searchers...

Trading Option Greeks: How Time, Volatility, and Other Pricing Factors Drive Profit (Bloomberg Financial) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When I bought this book, I was expecting really in-depth analysis of various Greeks and their effects on basic option positions as well as complex spreads. However, I was bit disappointed.If you have read any decent preliminary option trading books (Natenberg, McMillan et al) or if you have been trading...

A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A reader may be a bit disconcerted on first reading this book. There is much talk about "discourses" and "symbolism" and "ideology" and one might conclude that we are about to read a book of cultural studies on Francoist Spain. It is not so much that cultural studies are bad as that before we talk about...

Building a Winning Business: 70 Takeaways for Creating a Strong Company during Good and Bad Economic Times Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)No, this well-designed, focused book is not about Caarles Darwin's theory - or is it? Tom Salonek, a successful entrepreneur of the first order (he founded Intertech Foundation to respond to the multiple needs of families with critically ill children while he maintains his status as an award winning...

The Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time to Market Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Project management professional Ronald Mascitelli presents The Lean Product Development Guidebook: Everything Your Design Team Needs to Improve Efficiency and Slash Time-to-Market, a handbook written especially for design team managers in all business fields. The focus lies upon making the product development...

The Market Maker's Edge: A Wall Street Insider Reveals How to: Time Entry and Exit Points for Minimum Risk, Maximum Profit; Combine Fundamental and ... Trading Environment Every Day, Every Trade Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)When you buy a used book, you can tell a lot about the previous owner by what they decided to highlight. In the case of the copy I purchased, the person who originally purchased this title was intrigued by the discussion of trend following and support/resistance. Unfortunately for them, the advice this...

Time Management: For People with No Time Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)What a delight! The reader is treated to specific steps toward efficiency and time management by the second page. Dr. Corcoran doesn't "waste any time" at all getting to the meat of the matter. I read this book through, but I'm willing to bet that reading just one page a day would improve the average...

Day Trading Options: Profiting from Price Distortions in Very Brief Time Frames Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Undeniably, this is the most densest book in a series of books by Augen that includes Trading Options at Expiration: Strategies and Models for Winning the Endgameand The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets and a workbook. This book is also perhaps...