"The Gone Fishin' Portfolio" reveals a specific investment system that offers an understanding of the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in the financial markets as well as an insider's view of how the investment industry really works.

In this spellbinding fantasy novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end. In a society based on trade, where everything can be bought and sold, the future rests on the secrets of a single document-and...

One of the foundational works of military history and political philosophy, and an inspiration for Alexander the Great, The Anabasis of Cyrus recounts the epic story of the Ten Thousand, a band of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to overthrow his brother, Artaxerxes, king of Persia and the most powerful man on earth. It shows how Cyrus' army was assembled covertly and led from the coast of Asia Minor all the way to Babylon; how the Greeks...

José Pedro Rivera es un joven ejecutivo que, tras una brillante carrera en una empresa española, ha conseguido su objetivo: está a punto de firmar un importante contrato con una multinacional tecnológica. Pero lo que parece ser la culminación de sus aspiraciones se transforma en una progresiva decepción al conocer las grandes mentiras del mundo empresarial. Escrito con una prosa ágil y certera, Diario de un ejecutivo desengañado retrata...

"A comprehensive guide to dividend investing that shows how to obtain double-digit returns with easeDividends are responsible for 44 percent of the S & P 500's returns over the last 80 years. Today they present an excellent opportunity, especially with investors who have been burned in the dot com and housing meltdowns, desperate for sensible and less risky ways to make their money grow. Designed to show investors how they can achieve double-digit...

"A fascinating exploration of which countries offer promising investment opportunities for Americans now and in the years to comeMost emerging markets investment guides focus on financial metrics, but fail to provide the reader with new and relevant insights into the history of the countries, the views of the people on the street, and the financial shenanigans that go on behind the scenes, that make for truly informed investing. As a result, despite...

Xenophon's masterpiece The Education of Cyrus-a work admired by Machiavelli for its lessons on leadership-is at last available in a new English translation for a new century. Also known as the Cyropaedia, this philosophical novel is loosely based on the accomplishments of Cyrus the Great, founder of the vast Persian Empire that later became the archrival of the Greeks in the classical age. It offers an extraordinary portrait of political ambition,...

Este libro aborda tres problemas centrales, profundamente concatenados, en la crítica bíblica de nuestros días y con hondas repercusiones teológicas y culturales. El primer capítulo examina la situación de la exégesis actual: lo que se entiende por métodos críticos, la tensión entre la exégesis científica y la lectura creyente, los subterfugios para eludir el reto que supone la crítica bíblica, la importancia decisiva del lugar social...

"There it was again. A moment, a flash, something indescribable and so quickly discarded that one would feel obliged to disbelieve one's own eyes had it not become inescapable by multiple repetition in my presence." Murder and intrigue abound. At the center of it all appears a mysterious sheik and his cursed ruby. - In the style of Arthur Conan Doyle, Clay Boutwell brings back the Agora Society and its premiere scholar, Carl Brooke.

Reeling from the horrific pain of the loss of Anne, his wife, Carl Brooke must face his ultimate nemesis, Thomas Drake. Did Drake play a hand in Anne's death? Can Carl stop Drake before he harms his daughter, Mary? Join Carl Brooke and Captain Barnwell on their final adventure together.