Comical book on the derivation and use of words

Remarkabilia

Train, John

Literature & Fiction

Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited

Foreword by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. A classic study on different ways not to succeed. Everything from Mr. Ponzi, Tulipomania, the Kuwait Stock Exchange Explosion, Bernie Cornfeld, Ivan Krueger, and others. Shows the confusion of purpose, overgenerous investments, mistakes in timing and many other ways where investors have gone wrong. As Parkinson says, "It is better to learn from a book than to learn in a bankruptcy court.

Famous Financial Fiascos

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Potter

Survival is a competition. What you have, including your savings, others want, and will struggle to get. The push to take it back from you is as relentless as that of the sea to overcome the dikes that contain it or the jungle to enfold a patch of cleared ground. The whole order of nature pushes to reclaim its own. Governments bow to that kind of pressure. Pieces of paper are a weak defense.Only through deep understanding and superior tactics can the investor hope to preserve even part of what he has earned, and it gets harder every year...

Dance of the Money Bees Hardcover 1974 (A Professional Speaks Frankly on Investing)

Business & Money

Real Estate

Harper&Row

This national bestseller is "highly readable and valuable. . . . The best book in the investment field I've read in years."-- "New York Times Book Review" "Highly readable and valuable ....best one in the investment field I have read in years."--Paul Erdman, "New York Times"

The money masters

Economics

In The Midas Touch, the author of The Money Masters, analyzes the investment principles of America's most successful investor- Warren Buffett. This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man know as "the Wizard of Omaha" (Forbes) and the investor with the Midas Touch. The book focuses on his investing principles and also includes his ideas on common investment fallacies. The Midas Touch follows Buffett's career through his recent participation in Capital Cities' acquisition of ABC, and includes John Train's analysis of Buffett's views on the market outlook. A great addition to the investment reader.

The Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett America's Pre-Eminent Investor

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Profiles the most successful investors of the past decade, discusses their strategies and predictions for future investment opportunities, and offers advice on putting their examples to use

The New Money Masters: Winning Investment Strategies of Soros, Lynch, Steinhardt, Rogers, Neff, Wanger, Michaelis, Carret

A collection of etymological trivia and unusual or specialized terminology

Valsalva's Maneuver: Mots Justes and Indispensable Terms

1990 Edward Burlingame Books - HarperCollins Publishers. Hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN: 0060164719.

John Train's Most Remarkable Occurrences

Collects a variety of clever remarks from different countries and occupations on such subjects as love, law, politics, religion, and history

Pierre, Le-Tan

Harper

From the author of The Money Masters and "America's pre-eminent investor" (Business Week), this book ". . . imparts a wealth of lessons for any investor to emulate, no matter how skilled."The Market Chronicle

The Midas Touch : The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett 'America's Preeminent Investor'

Investing

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