Books of Knowledge

Archive for the ‘Business and Investing’ Category

Back and better than ever, If You’re Clueless about the Stock Market and Want to Know More is the ultimate stock-market primer. It’s packed with user-friendly tips, charts, sidebars, pop quizzes, and resources throughout.Amazon.com Review
If You’re Clueless About the Stock Market and Want to Know More is the perfect title for this snappy info-guide from Seth Godin, a prolific “book packager” who has developed a number of bestselling personal finance tomes. Aimed at the beginning long-term investor–rather than the day trader wannabe often targeted by today’s investment tutorials–this book covers virtually all the essential techniques and procedures involved in the process, and it does so in a … More >>
If You’re Clueless About the Stock Market and Want to Know More

Take the most current look at human resource management and its impact on the success of organizations today with the latest edition of HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT from Mathis/Jackson. Whether you are currently a practicing human resource management professional or plan to use HR knowledge in your career this comprehensive market-leading text has the information you need for ongoing professional success. This authoritative text offers a leading resource for preparation for professional HR certification by providing coverage of all major topics for the PHR and SPHR professional examinations given by the Human Resource Certification Institute (SHRM). This edition effectively blends theory and practice as it highli… More >>
Human Resource Management

The Real Estate Game is a comprehensive guide to successful real estate investment from one of the masters in the field. Drawing upon four decades of experience developing, owning, and managing properties and on almost thirty years of teaching at the Harvard Business School, William J. Poorvu offers an insider’s perspective on how to make smart decisions about real estate. The real estate “game” is played by people, and it’s the stories of real people that make Poorvu’s introduction to the industry colorful and interesting. The reader meets players ranging from real estate moguls to small-scale developers to individual investors in exotic investment instruments. Their stories evolve throughout the book… More >>
The Real Estate Game: The Intelligent Guide To Decisionmaking And Investment

Every stock market investor needs to be able to calculate value, profits, and cash flow in order to make basic decisions like whether to buy, hold, or sell. But it’s easy to get intimidated by all the ratios and formulas, especially when incorrect calculations can lead to costly investment mistakes. The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator simplifies the math behind successful equity investing. Containing over 100 ratios and formulas, the book translates them into plain English, breaks them down into simple steps, and places them side-by-side with practical examples. Readers will learn how to: * judge portfolio value * assess corporate strength or weakness (both cash flow and profitability) * follow… More >>
The Stock Investor’s Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to All the Formulas and Ratios You Need to Invest Like a Pro

Creating value through Operations Management.  COMPETING WITH OPERATIONS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; PROCESS STRATEGY; PROCESS ANALYSIS; QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE; CAPACITY PLANNING; CONSTRAINT MANAGEMENT; LEAN SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN; SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION; LOCATION; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; FORECASTING; OPERATIONS PLANNING AND SCHEDULING; RESOURCE PLANNING
MARKET: Operations Management provides readers with a comprehensive framework for addressing operational process and supply chain issues. This text uses a systemized approach while focusing on issues of current interest. … More >>
Operations Management

Bateman and Snell’s Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World is a text with a fully modernized functional approach. This text is maintaining the four traditional functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, while modernizing and re-visioning the concepts as delivering strategic value, building a dynamic organization, mobilizing people, and learning and changing.

Bateman/Snell’ results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this textbook. In this ever more competitive environment there are five essential types of performance, on which the organization beats, equals, or loses to the competition which are cost, quality, speed, innovation and new to … More >>
Management: Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World

One of the best-selling real estate career books of all time is back and better than ever! Your Successful Real Estate Career has long been the bible for countless aspiring real estate professionals. The book takes readers through the many opportunities and challenges they’re likely to face, so they know what to expect and how best to succeed. Now updated and expanded, the fifth edition of this indispensable resource offers all-new research and up-to-the-minute information and guidance on the constantly shifting marketplace. Along with practical tools and enlightening real-world examples, readers will find detailed, down-to-earth advice on topics including: * getting a real estate lice… More >>
Your Successful Real Estate Career

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand the basics of stock market investing. Material covered includes the difference between stocks and businesses, what constitutes a good business, when to buy and sell stocks, and how to value individual stocks. The book also includes a chapter covering four case studies as well as a supplemental chapter on the pros and cons of real estate versus stock market investing…. More >>
Why Are We So Clueless about the Stock Market? Learn how to invest your money, how to pick stocks, and how to make money in the stock market

In today’s time-based and cost-conscious global business environment, tight project deadlines and stringent expectations are the norm. With sales of more than 115,000 copies, Fundamentals of Project Management has helped a lot of business people meet or exceed those standards. The updated and revised third edition provides an unparalleled introduction to project management, along with new tools and techniques for planning and executing projects on time, on budget, and with maximum efficiency and productivity. This new edition includes: * an overview of recent changes to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)®
* expanded coverage of project risk management
* how to … More >>
Fundamentals of Project Management

As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Alliance estimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that commonly results in dissatisfied customers and frequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation. The industry must change—for its own good and that of its customers. But while the industry has tried to reform itself, it ca… More >>
The Commercial Real Estate Revolution: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry