Finance/Investing Titles, November 2005 – May 2006

Compiled by Hilary Kayle -- Publishers Weekly, 12/19/2005

ADAMS BUSINESS

Nanotechnology pro Jack Uldrich unveils the tricks behind successful nanotech investing along with information on the leading companies in the field in Investing in Nanotechnology: Think Small, Win Big. (Mar., $16.95 paper). Learn management tips from top names in sports, business and politics in 10 Clowns Don’t Make a Circus: and 249 Other Critical Management Success Strategies (May, $14.95 paper) by Steve Schragis and Rick Frishman. The team of Milo T. Sindell and Thuy Sindell offers tools to survive the first year in a new job with Sink or Swim!: New Job, New Boss, 12 Weeks to Get It Right (May, $14.95 paper).

AMACOM

Real estate and investment expert Steve Berges provides a comprehensive approach for buying and selling foreclosed properties in The Complete Guide to Investing in Foreclosures (Nov., $17.95 paper). The Real Estate Investor’s Pocket Calculator: Simple Ways to Compute Cashflow, Value, Return and Other Key Financial Measurements (Nov., $17.95 paper) by financial writer Michael C. Thomsett offers formulas and guidelines to analyze investment properties. JP Morgan Chase financial planner Susan Feitelbert gives tips on pumping up your financial profile in The Net Worth Workout: A Powerful Program for a Lifetime of Financial Fitness (Jan., $21.95).

ANDREWS MCMEEL

Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen (Nov., $16.95 paper) by Thomas J. Stanley reveals the success secrets of self-made millionaire women entrepreneurs and business owners.

BLOOMBERG PRESS

Dilemmas of Family Wealth (Feb., $39.95) by Judy Martel offers expert advice and solutions that integrate all three forms of capital every family possesses—financial, human and intellectual. Investing in REITs, Third Edition (Jan., $27.95) by Ralph L. Block discusses real estate investment trusts, which are preferred by many investors as an easier way to invest in real estate.

BROADWAY BOOKS

Financial strategist David Bach explores tips for homeowners on playing and winning the residential real estate game in The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: A Powerful Plan to Finish Rich in Real Estate (Mar., $19.95). Bach’s companion book, The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich (Dec., 12.95 paper) reveals the secrets to getting and staying rich with a “no-budget, no-discipline, no-nonsense system.”

CAREER PRESS

The Forewarned Investor: Beat the Market by Fraud-Proofing Your Portfolio (Jun., $14.99 paper) by Brett Messing and Steven Sugarman shows how to identify warning signs in one’s investments about potential risks and how to manage them.

COLLINS

House Poor: Pumped-Up Prices, Rising Rates and Mortgages on Steroids—How to Survive the Coming Housing Crisis (Nov., $21.95) by Wall Street Journal real estate reporter June Fletcher offers survival guidelines for homeowners dealing with rising interest rates in the housing market. Motivational speaker Barbara Stanny shows you how to increase your earning potential in Overcoming Underearning: A Five-Step Plan to a Richer Life (Dec., $24.95). Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market (Feb., $25.95) by Daniel and Jennifer Reingold reveals the behind-the-scenes of how insiders manipulate the stock market. Entrepreneur David W. Latko presents a street-smart approach to managing your finances in Everybody Wants Your Money: The Straight-Talking Guide to Protecting (and Growing) the Wealth You Worked So Hard to Earn (Mar., $22.95).

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Investment strategist Michael Mauboussin looks to the fields of biology, physics and psychology for alternative investing approaches in this publisher’s first business/finance title: More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Jun., $24.95)

CROWN BUSINESS

Get Out of Your Own Way: The 5 Keys to Surpassing Everyone’s Expectations (Mar., $25) by Robert Cooper offers both inspiration and a method to exceed your potential in the business world. Former Green Beret turned multi-millionaire Phil Town challenges typical business strategies with his own four-step investment plan in Rule #1: The Simple Strategy for Getting Rich—in Only 15 Minutes a Week! (Mar., $25). Marketing entrepreneur Mark Stevens debunks common administrative methods and offers his own roadmap to organizational success in Your Management Sucks: Why You Have to Declare War on Yourself…and Your Business (Apr., $25). The Secret Language of Competitive Intelligence: How to See Through and Stay Ahead of Business Disruptions, Distortions, Rumors and Smoke Screens (May, $24.95) by intelligence guru Leonard M. Fuld provides pointers on dealing with competition in the marketplace, achieving better market share and keeping ahead of industrial changes.

DOUBLEDAY/CURRENCY

Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom? (Feb., $12.95 paper) by David Lereah, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, explores the underlying reasons for the continuing boom in real estate over the next decade and beyond.

FINANCIAL TIMES PRENTICE HALL

Trend Following, New Expanded Edition: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets (Dec., $29.99) offers Michael W. Covel’s foolproof investment strategies, no matter how the market behaves, and profiles 10 successful traders. The Options Professor editor W. Edward Olmstead offers a primer on options trading for every investor in Trading and Investing with Options: Seize the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks (Mar., $29.99). On the Silk Road to Riches: Discovering Wealth in a Changing World (Apr., $26.99) by Yiannis G. Mostrous, Elliott H. Gue and Ivan D. Martchev advises investors on how to profit from Asia’s growth and impact on the world economy.

FREE PRESS

Former Esquire editor-in-chief and Lands End exec Lee Eisenberg offers a new approach to financial planning for retirement in The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think About the Rest of Your Life (Jan., $26).

HYPERION

Who’s Afraid to Be a Millionaire? Understanding the Steps to Achieve Financial Success (Mar., $22.95) by PBS Moneywise host Kelvin Boston expands that program’s concepts and empowers readers to decrease household debt and increase their net worth.

KAPLAN PUBLISHING

Stop Wasting Your Wealth in Mutual Funds: Separately Managed Accounts—The Smart Alternative (Dec., $19.95 paper) by financial services pro Don F. Wilkinson champions investing in separately managed accounts (SAMs)—a collection of stocks or bonds—over investing in mutual funds. Financial planner Sheryl Garrett has edited a series of eight books under the umbrella title: On the Road: Your Roadmap to Life’s Financial Crossroads (Jan., $15.95 each paper). The “cradle to grave” advice books include: Starting Out; Getting Married; Buying a Home; Saying/Paying for College; Planning an Estate; Caring for an Aging Parent; Surviving the Loss of a Spouse; and Surviving Divorce. Van Kampen Investment VPs David Saylor and Greg Heffington offer options on how to handle life after retirement in Get Inspired to Retire: Over 150 Ideas to Help Find Your Retirement (Mar., $14.95 paper). Flipping Properties: Generate Instant Cash Profits in Real Estate, 2nd Edition (Apr., $18.95 paper) by William Bronchick and Robert Dahlstrom outlines a step-by-step method for successful real estate investing, no matter your credit record, assets, or experience, with updated success stories, tax information and HUD regulations. Another type of real estate investment is explored in real estate pro Michael Zaransky’s Profit by Investing in Student Housing: Cash in on the Campus Housing Shortage (Apr., 18.95 paper) with tips on identifying prime college markets, choosing profitable properties, obtaining debt financing and closing deals. Investment opportunities in the small residential market are explored in real estate guru Larry Loftis’s Investing in Duplexes, Triplexes and Quads: The Fastest and Safest Way to Real Estate Wealth (May, $19.95)

LESSONS PROFESSIONAL PUBLISHING (dist by Stylus Publishing)

Business Lending, 3rd Edition (Jan., $39.95 paper) by corporate consultant Peter Baker is a comprehensive manual of the best practices in lending money to businesses with the least amount of risk. Insights into the best methods for building and protecting a company’s status and character are offered in Reputational Risk: Responsibility Without Control (Jan., $45 paper) by Derek Atkins, Ian Bates and Lynn Drennan. The Value of Nothing: Mastering Business Valuations (Jan., $35) by international business consultant Julian Roche teaches managers, consultants and students the benefits, limits and uses of different techniques for assessing and appraising varying businesses. A primer on the skills and knowledge required for optimum use of client facts and data is offered in Customer Information Management (Jan., $75 paper) by Phil Fawcett and Graham Flower. Using more than 4,000 terms selected for their global business relevance, dictionary editor John Clark has compiled the Dictionary of International Economics and Finance Terms (Jan., $29.95 paper). A comprehensive text on the day-to-day risks affecting any organization, as well as how to manage the occasional catastrophic problem are provided in Risk Analysis and Evaluation (Jan., $75 paper) by Alastair Day and Neil Russell-Jones. Structure of Accounts: Third Edition (Jan., $45 paper) by Karl Harper, a senior lecturer in banking and finance at Liverpool Business School, offers an introductory level explanation of the fundamentals of accounting.

McGRAW-HILL

Practicing what she preaches, financial strategist (and multimillionaire) Loral Langemeier takes the mystery out of wealth building with a proven 12-step approach in The Millionaire Maker (Jan., $24.95).The team of James and J.W. Dicks offers tactical advice on personal wealth-building in Operational Financial Freedom: The Ultimate Plan to Build Wealth and Live the Life You Want (Nov., $24.95). By the same authors, How to Buy and Sell Real Estate for Financial Freedom (Apr., $21.95 paper) is a primer for financial success using property investments. Several books tackle the ins and outs of making money on the Internet. Secrets of the eBay Millionaires (Nov., $24.95 paper) by Greg Holden reveals behind-the-scenes pointers from some of eBay’s most successful sellers on how to achieve high-volume, high-profit sales. Strategies for reaching millions of online customers and boosting traffic, sales and profits are offered in How to Make Money Online with eBay, Yahoo! and Google (Nov., $29.95 paper) by Peter Kent and Jill Finlayson. Tax Loopholes for eBay Sellers: How to Make More Money and Pay Less Tax (Nov., $24.95 paper) by Dianne Kennedy and Janelle Elms features previously undocumented deductions and tax secrets unique to eBay.

Skip McGrath provides a hand-on guide for beginner Internet entrepreneurs with How to Sell Anything on Yahoo! and Make a Fortune (Feb., $24.95 paper). Where to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It (Feb., $27.95 paper) by Chris Malta and Lisa Suttora specifies the best items to sell online, sources for inventory and how to maximize profits. Turning to more traditional investing, specialized analysis and exclusive data necessary to evaluate the best stock deals are available in Michael Kay’s The Standard & Poor’s Guide to Selecting Stocks (Nov., $24.95). Recommendations for improving investment returns are also provided in The Standard & Poor’s Guide to Building Wealth with Dividend Stocks (Apr., $24.95) by Joseph R. Tigue. A second edtion, updated primer on investment pointers comes from renowned timing expert Colin Alexander: The Streetsmart Guide to Timing the Stock Market (Nov., $34.95). John Carter shares his five-point method for successful “swing trading” in Mastering the Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups (Dec., $55). Tax expert Jeff A. Schnepper offers hundreds of practical steps on lowering your tax bill in How to Pay Zero Taxes, 2006 (Dec., $16.95 paper). A soup-to-nuts evaluation tool for helping investors at every level guarantee profitability in real estate is revealed in Robert Irwin’s The Real Estate Investor’s Checklist: Everything You Need to Know to Find and Finance the Most Profitable Investment Properties (Jan., $18.95 paper). Explore career opportunities in another aspect of the real estate business with Dan Nahorney’s step-by-step guide—How to Get Started in the Real Estate Appraisal Business (Mar., $21.95 paper). Mastering the Art of Asset Allocation (Feb., $49.95) by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter chief investment officer David M. Darst supplies insights into why asset allocations work, along with advanced investing strategies. Technical Analysis for the Rest of Us: What Every Investor Needs to Know to Increase Income, Minimize Risk and Achieve Capital Gains (Mar., $21.95 paper) by Clifford Pistolese reveals the technical tools needed to improve performance in the investment game.

Successful traders give pointers on how to thrive in the stock market in John Boik’s How Legendary Traders Made Millions: Profiting from the Investing Strategies of the Top Ten Traders of All Time (Apr., $19.95 paper). Make Your Life Tax Deductible (Jan., $16.95 paper) by David Meier features more than 150 deductions small businesses can use to pay less to Uncle Sam. Mike Summey and Roger Dawson address the most frequently asked questions about real estate investing in Weekend Millionaire Real Estate FAQ (Feb., $18.95 paper). An alternative look at real estate investing is provided in The Real Estate Millionaire: How to Invest in Rental Markets and Make a Fortune (Feb., $21.95 paper) by Boaz and Suzanne Gilad. Richard Smitten update’s stock market legend Jesse Livermore’s 1940 trading wisdom-filled publication How to Trade in Stocks (Mar,. $19.95 paper). Darrin Seppini demonstrates how to build a lucrative career in mortgage lending in The Mortgage Originator Success Kit: The Quick Way to a Six Figure Income (Feb., $39.95). All About Investing: The Easy Way to Get Started (Feb., $18.95) by Esme Faerber, a professor of business and accounting at Rosemont College, is a primer for beginners on how to successfully invest in stocks, bonds and other investments.

NORTON

Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century. (Jan., $29.95) by international monetary and politics professor Jeffrey A. Frieden reveals the history of the economic and political events that have shaped the world economy. Best-selling business satirist Stanley Bing offers an historic, alternative approach to the retelling of the story of the Roman Empire in Rome, Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the First Multinational Corporation (May, $22.95).

PENGUIN

Futureshop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize How We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want (Jan., $24.95) explains Web entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff’s theories about the impact of online auction Web sites on consumers, businesses and the new economy.

PERIGEE

The impact of aging baby boomers on the economy and future investment strategies is explored in Christopher D. Brooke’s Wealth Shift: Profit Strategies for Investors as the Baby Boomers Approach Retirement (Jan., $19.95).

PLATINUM PRESS

Executive coach Judith E. Glaser provides optimum strategies to improve a company’s corporate culture in The DNA of Leadership: Leverage Your Instincts to: Communicate—Differentiate—Innovate (Mar., $24.95). The advantages of utilizing labor or parts from outside sources are explored in Smartsourcing: Driving Innovation and Growth Through Outsourcing (Apr., $24.95) by business consultant Thomas M. Koulopoulos.

PORTFOLIO

In Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow: A Contrarian Investment Strategy for the Next Twenty Years (Mar., $24.95), James P. O’Shaughnessy, portfolio manager and bestselling author of What Works on Wall Street and How to Retire Rich, teaches readers how to heed the lessons of the past in order to build the right mix of investments.

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Veteran investor and mutual fund manager Fred Kobrick explains how any investor can achieve long-term success in the stock market in The Big Money: Seven Steps to Picking Great Stocks and Finding Financial Security (Apr., $27).

ST. MARTIN’S

Larry E. Swedoe and Joseph H. Hempen, principals at Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis, offer a comprehensive look at fixed income investing in The Only Guide to a Winning Bond Strategy You’ll Ever Need: The Way Smart Money Preserves Wealth Today (Mar., $25.95).

THREE RIVERS PRESS

Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism Is Transforming American Business (Nov., $14 paper) by business journalist Marc Gunther, demonstrates a trend in corporate America to serve customers, employees, shareholders and the common good, while maintaining success in the marketplace. Wall Street Journal “Money and Investing” editor Dave Kansas provides everything you need to know about stocks, bonds and mutual funds in The Wall Street Journal Complete Money and Investing Guidebook (Dec., $14.95 paper). Wall Street Journal personal finance writer Jeff Opdyke has two offerings in March: The Wall Street Journal. Complete Personal Finance Guidebook ($14.95) is a primer on personal finance, while The Wall Street Journal. Personal Finance Workbook ($13.95) provides a hands-on tool to help put your financial life in order.

WARNER BOOKS

Jordan E. Goodman outlines how six different financial personality types can achieve success in Master Your Money Type: Use Your Financial Personality to Create a Life of Wealth and Freedom (Jan., $24.95). Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money—A How-to Guide (Jan., $12.95 paper) by former Money magazine special projects editor Carmen Wong Ulrich offers strategies and tips geared to Gen-X and Gen-Y members to combat financial debt. Oil investment expert Stephen Leeb sounds an alarm about the coming energy crisis and how to avoid financial ruin in The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (Feb., $21.95). Green with Envy: A Whole New Way to Look at Financial (Un)Happiness—Why Keeping Up with the Joneses Is Keeping Us in Debt (May, $24.95) by Shira Boss exposes the gap between personal finance and public image, and shows readers how to improve their financial well being without touching their bank accounts.

WHARTON SCHOOL PUBLISHING

Stuart E. Lucas, Carnation Company heir, NPR Foundation vice chairman and an investment advisor, offers eight principles of integrated wealth management in Wealth: Grow It, Protect It, Spend It, and Share It (Feb., $24.99).

WILEY

Empire of Debt: The Rise Of An Epic financial Crisis (Nov., $27.95) by Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin chronicles their view of America’s abandonment of economic freedom, personal liberty and fiscal restraint and its impact on the world economy. Investors can profit no matter what the market conditions are according to Investing in Real Estate 5th Edition (Nov., $19.95 paper) by Andrew James McLean and Gary W. Eldred. Using simple language, sixth grade math skills and humor, The Little Book That Beats the Market (Dec., $19.95), with a forward by Joel Greenblatt, provides a “magic formula” for successful stock market investing.The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing (Dec., $24.95) by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer and Michael LeBoeuf parses the long-term investment strategy devised by Jack Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group.

Investment pro Barton Biggs offers an in-depth view of the investment business and the people who make it tick in HedgeHogging (Jan., $26.95). Financial expert and lifelong poker player Aaron Brown shows how the worlds of risk-takers and high rollers meet in The Poker Face of Wall Street (Mar., $27.95) Two books from J.K. Lasser offer timely tax advice: J.K. Lasser’s Your Income Tax 2006: Preparing Your 2005 Tax Return (Nov., $16.95) from the J.K. Lasser Institute provides tools for maximizing tax refunds and improving your tax position. Gary Carter, a tax expert on home-based businesses, offers advice on reporting your income, be it from online auction sites or from self-employment in J.K. Lasser’s from eBay to Mary Kay (Nov. $16.95). Just One Thing: Twelve of the World’s Best Investors Reveal the One Strategy You Can’t Overlook (Nov., $24.95) by John Mauldin compiles financial wisdom from some of the top performers in the investment business.

Stock Trader’s Almanac 2006 (Nov., $34.95), edited by Yale and Jeffrey A. Hirsch, of the Hirsch Orgnaization is a comprehensive, time-tested guide to stock trading published yearly since 1968. Analyze and evaluate stocks like controlling owners with The Aggressive Conservative Investor (Nov., $19.95 paper) by Martin J. Whitman and Martin Shubik. David Thompson and Marshall Goldsmith offer an analytical dissection of what it takes to achieve one billion dollars in revenue in Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth (Dec., $27.95). The behind-the-scenes of various types of trading systems are revealed in J. Christoph Amberger’s Hot Trading Systems: How to Get In and Out of the Market with Huge Gains in Any Climate (Dec., $24.95) by J. Christoph Amberger. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Dec., $19.95 paper) by Edwin Lefèvre features the ups and downs of early 20th-century stock speculator Jesse Livermore. Frank McKinney’s Maverick Approach to Real Estate Success: How You Can Go from a $50,000 Fixer Upper to a $100 Million Mansion (Dec., $19.95 paper) by Frank E. McKinney with Victoria St. George, features entrepreneur McKinney’s unconventional approach and real-world insight into becoming a success in the real estate business. Prepare for the next potential real estate crash with pointers from Cash in on the Coming Real Estate Crash: How to Protect Yourself from Losses Now, and Make Money After the Bubble Bursts (Dec., $16.95 paper) by David Decker and George Sheldon. Financial wizard Henry Clews provides a first hand account of Wall Street in an era of little regulation, political corruption and financial fluctuations in Fifty Years in Wall Street (Feb., $19.95 paper). Automatic Wealth for Grads…and Anyone Else Just Starting Out (Mar, $22.95) offers a program for achieving financial independence for college graduates from self-made millionaire Michael Masterson,Agora. Confessions of a Municipal Bond Salesman (Mar., $24.95) by Jim Lebenthal and Bernice Kanner chronicles Lebenthal’s life journey—chock full of successes and setbacks—from Hollywood reporter to building one of the best-known municipal bond firms in America. Gene Epstein offers a nuts and bolts approach to evalutating economic news in Econospinning: How the Media Wash the Numbers You Need (Mar.,$24.95).