Empire of Debt or Start and Run Your Own Record Label

Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis

Author: William Bonner

In Empire of Debt, maverick financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin provide you with the first in-depth look at how the American character has shifted to accommodate its new imperial role; how we have abandoned the private virtues of personal liberty, economic freedom, and fiscal restraint; and how the government has gained control of public life and the economy.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Slouching toward Empire.

I. Imperia Absurdum.

1. Dead Men Talking.

2. Empires of Dirt.

3. How Empires Work.

4. As We Go Marching.

II. Woodrow Crosses the Rubicon.

5. The Road to Hell.

6. The Revolution of 1913 and the Great Depression.

7. MacNamara’s War.

8. Nixon’s the One.

III. Evening in America.

9. Reagan’s Legacy.

10. America’s Glorious Empire of Debt.

11. Modern Imperial Finance.

12. Something Wicked This Way Comes.

IV. The Essential Investor.

13. Welcome to Squanderville.

14. Still Turning Japanese.

15. The Wall Street Fandango.

16. Subversive Investing.

Appendix: The Essentialist Glossary.

Notes.

Index.

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Start and Run Your Own Record Label

Author: Daylle Deanna Schwartz

For anyone interested in starting their own record label -- because they want to make a career from scouting signing, and marketing new talent, or because they want to produce and promote their own music -- now is the time! As veteran author Daylle Deanna Schwartz reveals in this new, updated and expanded edition of Start & Run Your Own Record Label, today's market offers more opportunity than ever before to make money as an independent record label.

Start & Run Your Own Record Label is the perfect guidebook to building your own record business from the ground up. Written from the perspective of an industry insider who started and ran her own record label, and packed full of A-Z advice, tips, and solid how-to information from industry pros, this indispensable reference offers useful strategies for novices and professionals alike. Now, the successful first edition of this book has been rewritten to reflect recent changes in the music industry, and it's even more comprehensive, authoritative, and practical. Start & Run Your Own Record Label reflects interviews with over 100 industry pros. including Danny Goldberg (chairman and CEO of Artemis Records), recording artist EL-P (Definitive Jux Records). Dave Roberge (president of Everfine Records), recording artist Jonatha Brooke (Bad Dog Records), Damon Dash (founder of Roc-a-Fella records); the five top indie distributors (ADA, Navarre, Caroline, Red, Koch); as well as the editors of top music magazines, radio MDs, and industry publicists.

Secrets of Question Based Selling or Dark Tide

Secrets of Question-Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results

Author: Thomas Frees

Question Based Selling ( QBS®) is a commonsense approach to sales, based on the theory that “what” salespeople ask-and “how” they ask-is more important than anything they will ever say. This technique makes sense because in order to present solutions, you first must learn your customer’s needs.

How do you uncover a prospect’s needs? By asking questions. But not just any questions. You must ask the right questions at the right time. And this book provides a step-by-step, easy-to-follow program that does just that.

With this proven, hands-on guide, you will learn to:

--Penetrate more accounts
--Establish greater credibility

--Generate more return calls

--Prevent and handle objections

--Motivate different types of buyers
--Develop more internal champions
--Close more sales…faster
--And much, much more

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

Preface The Best Sales Experience...I Hope You Never Have

Introduction

PART 1--A Short Course on QBS Strategy
Chapter 1Increasing Your Probability of Success
Chapter 2Mismatching The Avoidable Risk
Chapter 3The Herd Theory
Chapter 4Gold Medals & German Shepherds
Chapter 5Fueling the Sales Process

PART II--Leveraging the Most Powerful Tool in Sales
Chapter 6Conversational Layering
Chapter 7What Makes People Curious
Chapter 8Establishing Credibility in the Sale
Chapter 9Escalate the Value of Your Questions
Chapter 10How to Solicit More Accurate Feedback

PART III--Implementation: Putting Methods into Practice
Chapter 11 Navigating the QBS Sales Process
Chapter 12Turn Your Cold Calls into Lukewarm Calls
Chapter 13Getting to the "Right Person"
Chapter 14Building Value in the QBS Presentation
Chapter 15Closing More Sales...Faster

EpilogueFor Sales Managers Only
Index

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Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Author: Stephen Puleo

"Dark Tide is the definitive account of America's most fascinating and surreal disaster." —John Marr, San Francisco Bay Guardian

Shortly after noon on January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot-tall steel tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses collapsed on Boston's waterfront, disgorging its contents as a fifteen-foot-high wave of molasses that briefly traveled at thirty-five miles an hour. Dark Tide tells the compelling story of this man-made disaster that claimed the lives of twenty-one people and scores of animals and caused widespread destruction.

Dark Tide has been selected as a "town-wide reading book" for five Massachusetts communities including Holliston, Mass.

"Narrated with gusto . . . [Puleo's] enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious." —The New Yorker

"Compelling . . . Puleo has done justice to a gripping historical story." —Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globe

"Thoroughly researched, the volume weaves together the stories of the people and families affected by the disaster . . . The cleanup lasted months, the lawsuits years, the fearful memories a lifetime." —Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press

"Giving a human face to tragedy is part of the brilliance of Stephen Puleo's Dark Tide . . . Until they were given voice in this book, the characters who drove the story were forgotten." —Caroline Leavitt, Boston Sunday Globe

The New Yorker

In January, 1919, a fifty-foot tank filled with molasses exploded, sending waves of viscous goo through waterfront Boston and killing twenty-one people. Were Italian anarchists to blame or was it negligence by the tank’s owner, the United States Industrial Alcohol company? Such matters form the crux of Puleo’s account, which is narrated with gusto (and sometimes too much gusto: one victim has molasses “clinging to his private parts, like an army of insects that just keep coming”). Molasses was a vital commodity at the time, used in rum manufacture (the tank was full to the brim to cash in on pre-Prohibition demand), and it had been important in the production of First World War munitions. Puleo overreaches in claiming the story of the flood as a “microcosm of America”—an almost obligatory conclusion in this sort of history—but his enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious.

Publishers Weekly

In this volume, Puleo, a contributor to American History magazine, sets out to determine whether the collapse of a molasses tank that sent a tidal wave of 2.3 million gallons of the sticky liquid through Boston's North End and killed 21 people was the work of Italian anarchists or due to negligence by the tank's owner, United States Industrial Alcohol. Getting into the minds of the major players in the disaster-USIA suits, victims, witnesses, North End residents, politicians-he re-creates not only the scene but also the social, political and economic environments of the time that made the disaster more than just an industrial accident. While the collapse's aftermath is tragic, the story itself is not exactly gripping. More interesting are the tidbits of Boston's and America's history, such as the importance of molasses to all U.S. war efforts up to and including WWI, which Puleo uses to put the tank collapse in the context of a very complex time in U.S. history. The most striking aspect of this tale is the timeliness of the topics it touches on. Describing Americans being persecuted because of their ethnicity, a sagging economy boosted by war, and terrorism on U.S. soil that results in anti-immigration laws and deportations, Puleo could just as easily be writing about current events as about events in 1919. Overall, this is another piece in the jigsaw puzzle that is Boston's long and rich history. Photos. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Boston native and journalist Puleo takes an incident that seems to belong in a Marx Brothers movie and resituates it in the city's social history. The 15-foot-high wall of molasses that inundated the streets of Boston's North End in winter of 1919, the debut author explains, flows into such issues of the day as "immigration, anarchists, World War I, Prohibition, the relationship between labor and Big Business, and between the people and their government." With a good sense of timing and an easy voice, Puleo sets the scene for the disaster to come: the rush to complete a giant tank holding more than two million gallons of molasses, the failure to have it properly tested, the blind eye that parent company US Industrial Alcohol turned to the tank's copious leaks, and the threats it levied at workers who complained. The author also paints the period's social picture. Discrimination against the North End's Italian-born residents and their lack of political participation, whether barred from it or of their own volition, were important factors in the tank's placement near their neighborhood. The rise of the anarchist movement and its strong antiwar sentiments made the tank a tempting target, since alcohol produced from the molasses went into the making of wartime munitions. The sheer destructive force of the molasses flood is jarringly presented in a number of vignettes about those trapped; 21 people died. In the ensuing court battle, Big Business was put on notice that it would not be trusted to police construction safety standards itself, it was not above the law, and it would be liable for damages. Properly and compellingly recasts quaint folklore as a tragedy with important ramifications.(Photographs) Agent: Joy Tutela/David Black Literary Agency

Macroeconomics or Understanding Wall Street

Macroeconomics (SparkCharts)

Author: SparkNotes Editors

SparkChartsTM—created by Harvard students for students everywhere—serve as study companions and reference tools that cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, including Business, Computer Programming, Medicine, Law, Foreign Language, Humanities, and Science. Titles like How to Study, Microsoft Word for Windows, Microsoft Powerpoint for Windows, and HTML give you what it takes to find success in school and beyond. Outlines and summaries cover key points, while diagrams and tables make difficult concepts easier to digest. 

This four-page chart covers:

• Definition of economics

• Production possibility curve

• Economic organization of society

• Supply, demand, and market equilibrium

• Economic growth, business cycles, unemployment, and inflation

• National income accounting and GDP

• Aggregate demand and aggregate supply

• The multiplier model

• Fiscal policy

• Government budgets

• Money and banking

• Monetary policy

• Exchange rates and international macroeconomics

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Understanding Wall Street

Author: Jeffrey B Littl

One of history's top-selling investment guides--800,000 copies sold!--is now updated for a new generation of investors

Praise for previous editions of Understanding Wall Street:

"One of those rare publications that delivers exactly what it promises . . .consistently good."

--Barron's

"Among the best for the novice investor."

--Los Angeles Times

"A good practical education on the stock market."

--Business Opportunities Digest

Over the past quarter century, Understanding Wall Street has helped investors at every level understand exactly how the stock market works, and how they can build strong portfolios while limiting their exposure to risk. Now completely updated to help investors prosper in the new, no-limits market environment, the "little green book" includes:

• Two all-new chapters, updated charts and graphs, and nearly 40 percent updated, revised, or new material
• Strategies for uncovering valuable investment information on the Internet
• Analysis and explanation of the recent market crash, and how to avoid similar disasters

Jeffrey B. Little has been a stock market professional for four decades, and currently writes and publishes Wall Street books and software. Formerly a senior analyst with Morgan Stanley and vice president with T. Rowe Price Associates, he also wrote The Great Index Mania.

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Updated edition of a compact guide first published in 1978. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

How to Say It for Women or Writing Nonfiction

How to Say It for Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success

Author: Phyllis Mindell

Phyllis Mindell, an acclaimed expert on professional communications, shows women how to transform themselves by transforming their language; shed weak words, phrases, and gestures; empower themselves to win attention and respect; and get their ideas across with confidence and power.

Perhaps the best teacher of how the power of language can transform is an unexpected one: Charlotte the spider of E.B. White's, Charlotte's Web. Mindell demonstrates how Charlotte communicated messages that gained national attention and saved a friend's life. As a model, she combines female strengths of wisdom and compassion with the determination and power to make a difference.

As part of Prentice Hall Press's highly successful How to Say It tm series, How to Say It tm for Women is packed with practical tips, techniques, and examples that arm women to grapple with every communication issue, from choosing the right word or sentence to speaking, reading, writing, leading, dressing, and interviewing effectively. Readers will learn how to: shun words that weaken messages and make women invisible; sail through interviews; assess and develop leadership skills; say NO, kindly but firmly; respond appropriately to slurs, insults, and harassment; say the one winning word that gets people to follow directions.

True stories about women in every field, along with quotes from Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Carla Hills, Amelia Earhart, Elizabeth Dole and others, enable women to tap the power of words to persuade, motivate, establish authority, and make a difference-- without sacrificing their integrity, their compassion, or their femininity.

Today's Black Woman

For those who have trouble saying "no" or taking credit for accomplishments, How to Say It for Women, takes you from the "pushover" to "political professional" by transforming your verbal and body language with tips, techniques, examples and scripts that teach you how to assert yourself without becoming aggressive, overcome the fear of public speaking, give constructive criticism, develop leadership skills, avoid weak gestures and choose words wisely.

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Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts into Books

Author: Dan Poynter

Writing Nonfiction provides a roadmap. The reader will learn how to break a topic down into easy-to-attack projects; how and where to do research; a process that makes writing easy; how to improve material; how to evaluate publishing options and how to develop an individualized and workable plan.

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In Writing Nonfiction: Turning Thoughts Into Books, veteran writer and publisher Dan Poynter surveys the modern technology that enables anyone to write, produce, sell and promote books faster, easier, cheaper, and in more formats than at any time in the recorded history of writing and publishing. Poynter shows aspiring authors how to "build" their books, rather than just write them. He explains how to "publish" a book in a downloadable, CD, and ebook version; how to obtain maximum value from a book through audiotape, videotape, magazine excerpts, foreign-language editions, and more. Writing Nonfiction is an ideal, very highly recommended "how to" instruction guide and an invaluable reference for the self-published author, small press publisher, and completely accessible for the non-specialist general reader who aspires to become a commercially successful author of nonfiction books.

The Law of Success or Results That Last

The Law of Success: In Sixteen Lessons (Volume 1 & 2)

Author: Napoleon Hill

If your life has been enriched by Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich, you'll love The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons. It teaches the life-changing philosophy upon which Think and Grow Rich and most modern motivational books are based.

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Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top

Author: Quint Studer

Praise For Results That Last

"Quint Studer is a superb communicator with a deep belief in the power of relationships. His informal tone, sense of humor, and real-world stories bring his business principles to life. Results That Last has a vital, optimistic quality that will keep readers re-reading long after other leadership books have been relegated to a dark corner of the shelf."

—Nido Qubein, author of How to Get Anything You Want; President, High Point University; Chairman, Great Harvest Bread Company; and founder, National Speakers Association Foundation

"Results That Last is long overdue and fills a big gap in effective business management. There are legions of books that show us the way to achieve successful results in business, but very few that teach us how to institutionalize success. In reality, achieving success is the easy part. The real challenge is to achieve results that last. Quint Studer not only proves it is possible to hardwire a culture for lasting results, but lays out a simple, logical, and effective way to do so. Anyone who wants to make success a habit needs to read this book."

—Bob MacDonald, former CEO, Allianz Life of North America and author of Beat the System: 11 Secrets to Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Bureaucratic World

"I have always been fascinated by how the various parts of an organization work together to achieve strategic objectives. In Results That Last, Quint Studer explores the complex subject of performance improvement in a fresh, readable, and easy-to-grasp way. By standardizing certain business practices and leader behaviors, any company in any field can create anenvironment that allows it to achieve and sustain long-term results."

—David F. Giannetto, coauthor of The Performance Power Grid: The Proven Method to Create and Sustain Superior Organizational Performance

ADD Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life or Organizational Behavior

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Author: Judith Kolberg

Organizing books fall short of addressing the unique needs of adults with ADD. They fail to understand the clinical picture of ADD and how it impacts the organizing process often making their advice irrelevant or frustrating when put into application. Books about ADD may address organization/disorganization but do so in a cursory fashion and on a very small scale in what are usually long books on the subject. This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADDer in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the reader to decide where they are at personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.

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Organizational Behavior

Author: Stephen P Robbins

Robbins/Judge provide the research you want in the language your students understand; accompanied with the best selling self-assessment software, SAL.

Some topics include management functions; the social sciences; helping employees balance work and other responsibilities; improving people skills; improving customer service; motivational concepts; communication; power and politics; conflict and negotiation; culture; and stress management.

Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills.

Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION
    1. What Is Organizational Behavior?

 
II. THE INDIVIDUAL
    2. Foundations of Individual Behavior
    3. Attitudes and Job Satisfaction
    4. Personality and Values
    5. Perception and Individual Decision Making
    6. Motivation Concepts
    7. Motivation: From Concepts to Applications
    8. Emotions and Moods
 

III. THE GROUP
    9. Foundations of Group Behavior
    10. Understanding Work Teams
    11. Communication
    12. Basic Approaches to Leadership
    13. Contemporary Issues in Leadership
    14. Power and Politics
    15. Conflict and Negotiation

 
IV. THE ORGANIZATION SYSTEM
    16. Foundations of Organization Structure
    17. Organizational Culture
    18. Human Resource Policies and Practices
 

V. ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS
    19. Organizational Change and Stress Management

 
Appendix A: Research in Organizational Behavior
Appendix B: Careers and Career Management

 

The Little Book That Saves Your Assets or Kaplan GMAT 800 2008 2009 Edition

The Little Book That Saves Your Assets: What the Rich Do to Stay Wealthy in Up and Down Markets

Author: David M Darst

"Insightful, tidy, essential, provocative, and witty . . ."
—Jerry Goodman, a.k.a Adam Smith,author of The Money Game and Supermone

The markets seem so crazy these days that an investor—and we're all investors now with our 401(k)s, retirements, and college educations to finance—hardly knows where to turn. While we struggle, the affluent seem to do just fine. How do they do it? Two words: asset allocation. No one knows this better than David Darst, one of the world's foremost and visionary experts on what it takes to make the most with your money.

In The Little Book That Saves Your Assets, Darst distills his immense knowledge into a gem of a guide that anyone can use. Based on a lifetime of clear thinking and innovative research borne out of decades of real-world experience, this book presents the art and science of asset allocation in a crisp, down-to-earth fashion. It's like having your own chief investment strategist on call, just as the wealthy have, to guide you through the turbulent waters of the global financial markets.

Page by page, Darst describes the practical principles behind the process of managing your money in today's challenging investment climate and stresses the substantial investment returns that the right mix of stocks, bonds, cash, gold, real estate, commodities, and other assets can bring to your portfolio. He also explains the critical concept of correlation and how to spread your investments among uncorrelated asset classes to enhance returns and reduce the risks of long-term investing.

With the burden of investment responsibility shifted squarely onto the shoulders of individuals, positioning your portfolio for optimallong-term performance has taken on even greater meaning. Bottom line: if you don't manage your investments in a professional fashion, you'll suffer for it. With The Little Book That Saves Your Assets as your guide, Darst will put you on a path that will help you maximize your returns and achieve your life goals. Whether you decide to do it on your own or with the help of a trusted advisor, you need to understand the ins and outs of asset allocation, and this book will help you learn what the wealthy have long known—that 80% of investment returns are found to come from correct asset allocation.

Wealthy individuals and financial institutions have successfully used the asset allocation strategies outlined by David Darst to protect and grow their assets. Let The Little Book That Saves Your Assets show you how to do this too.

Table of Contents:

Foreword.

Introduction.

Chapter One. We All Do It (Even If We Don't Realize It).

Chapter Two. Everyone Needs an Uncle Frank.

Chapter Three. Building Your House.

Chapter Four. Parts of the Whole – Combining Dreams into a Plan.

Chapter Five. Two Strategies to Win the Battle for Investment Survival.

Chapter Six. Do You Know Where You Are Going?

Chapter Seven. Mix, Don't Match.

Chapter Eight. Our Minds, Our Selves.

Chapter Nine. The Jockey Matters as Much as the Horse.

Chapter Ten. Riding Out Storms.

Chapter Eleven. Build your House on these Rocks.

Chapter Twelve. Count to Zen.

Chapter Thirteen. Seven Quick Ways to Ruin.

Who Are You?

Determining Your Investment Profile.

What Do You Think?

Determining Your Investment Outlook.

What Works For You?

Determining Your Investment Selection.

How You Can Apply Objective-Based Asset Allocation.

Don't Take My Word for It.

Acknowledgments.

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Kaplan GMAT 800, 2008-2009 Edition

Author: Kaplan

GMAT 800 offers high-achieving students the toughest practice questions, hardest concepts, and strongest strategies to help them prepare for the GMAT. The guide includes:

• NEW! Online companion with intensive math concepts review and practice drills!

• Hundreds of the toughest practice questions with strategic explantions

• Tips for getting the questions right on test day

• Focused guidelines for tackling each question type

• Proven strategies for getting a perfect score

• Special step-by-step methods for special question types