The 10 Minute Guide to Smart Borrowing is your guide to turning loans into savvy investment strategies. Each lesson offers practical tips that will help you make more informed decisions when you borrow money. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to choose a lender that offers the lowest interest rates and the most favorable features, improve your chances of qualifying for a mortgage, decide whether you should risk borrowing against your stock holdings, finance a small business, and borrow from your retirement funds.

10 Minute Guide to Smart Borrowing (10 Minute Guides)

Business & Money

Hetzer, Barbara

Wagner, Barbara

Finance

Macmillan General* Reference

Offers advice on selecting and working with a financial advisor, including tips on services, credentials, references, and fees

10 Minute Guide to Working With Financial Advisors (10 Minute Guides)

Economics

Alpha Books

Bringing up baby--without going broke No one ever said raising children would be easy--or cheap. In fact, parenting is one of the most expensive ventures you'll undertake. This invaluable new resource shows you how to plan for--and meet--the financial challenges of parenting. Included are helpful tips and advice, as well as useful worksheets and practical strategies. "How Can I Ever Afford Children? is a must read for every parent. This is the most comprehensive guide to financial planning for raising children I have seen. Barbara Hetzer has created an invaluable, practical guide to planning for children from conception through college graduation." --Ellen Rogin, CPA, CFP President, Strategic Financial Designs Inc. "Barbara has put together an excellent summary of the financial costs a parent needs to know (and are probably too afraid to ask about). I hope to make it required reading for all of my clients with children." --Douglas Mollin, CFP President, ProPlan Financial Services. "This book is a great guide for the perplexed parent who wants to know the bottom line on everything from pre-conception to graduate school. Here are the ABCs of what it actually costs to have a child. At last, the financial facts are spelled out in detail to help parents every step of the way." --Linda Barbanel, CSW author, Piggy Bank to Credit Card: Teach Your Child the Financial Facts of Life. "A wonderful guidebook to help parents anticipate the strategies they need to make the child-rearing years more joyful and less stressful financially. Beyond the financial strategies, How Can I Ever Afford Children? provides sound recommendations for the issues which need to be addressed by parents to protect their family's security." -- Lydia Sheckels Chief Investment Officer, Vice President Financial Planning Services, Wescott Financial Planning Group, Inc.

How Can I Ever Afford Children?: Money Skills for New and Experienced Parents

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

An all-you-need-to-know introduction to the employer-sponsoredretirement plan that has revolutionized the way we save * Smart Ways to save with automatic payroll deductions and pretaxcontributions that let you earn more money and pay less taxes NOWand when you retire * Smart Advice on how much to contribute and what you need to knowabout your investment options, including advice on stocks, mutualfunds, and bonds * Smart Insights into retirement alternatives with the traditionalIRA and the new Roth IRA * Smart Tips on borrowing and withdrawing money from your 401(k)and IRA to buy a home or pay for college * Quick reading and easy referencing with a comprehensive index andloads of sidebars and tables Smart Guides take readers seriously. They satisfy even the mostcurious person's desire to know the essentials about any of a widerange of topics--from vitamins to mutual funds to stress relief.It's all about good reading and expert information. The choice isyours.

Smart Guide to Maximizing Your 401(k) Plan

John Wiley&Sons

Chicago Girl in Tanzania is one woman’s travel experience. Taking a safari in Africa is “the trip of a lifetime.” Seeing lions, elephants, giraffe and leopards live and in the wild are dreams made real. Are those same dreams of spiders and snakes entering an open knothole in the floor of your tent perhaps a little terrifying? Slap on that sunscreen and insect repellant and off you go on an adventure where the faint of heart learn to roar.

Chicago Girl in Tanzania

Travel

Africa

Hetzer Books