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Save Your Retirement: What to Do If You Haven't Saved Enough or If Your Investments Were Devastated by the Market Meltdown
By Armstrong, Frank, III Author Brown, Paul B. 2009-05 - FT Press 9780137029006 Check Our Catalog
Real Solutions for Saving Your Retirement... No Matter Where You Stand Right Now! Step-by-step plans you can use if you're planning to retire in... 5 years 10 years 15 years over 20 years or tomorrow! "The market meltdown has all of us worrying about whether we will ever be able to retire. Worrying doesn't help you. Planning does. "Save Your Retirement" by Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown can-and should-serve as your battle plan." -John A. Byrne, Executive Editor, "BusinessWeek" "Convinced the sinking economy has dragged your retirement plans down with it? "Save Your Retirement" shows there's still treasure inside that wreckage- and provides a map to help you find it." -Josh Hyatt, "Money Magazine" "Whether you're just beginning a career or you're five years from retiring, the authors show you how to take a realistic look at your current financial status and your retirement goals. With a refreshingly positive approach, they give all of us, no matter our life stage, a blueprint for successful retirement." -Professor Larry Meiller, Talk Show Host, Wisconsin Public Radio "Frank Armstrong, III and Paul B. Brown heal your retirement anxiety and show you exactly how to achieve financial security for the golden years. You'll actually be excited to save!" -Farnoosh Torabi, Author of "You're So Money: Live Rich Even When You're Not" " " Terrified about retirement? Stop losing sleep, and take action! This book gives you specific, step-by-step plans you can use to save your retirement. Forget "one-size-fits-all" solutions that don't fit your life. Here are personal plans focused on your unique situation-whether you're 5, 10, 15, or 20-plus years away from retirement or are scheduled to retire now. (There's even a detailed plan for people who've already retired and want to make sure their money lasts!) No matter what the market meltdown did to your portfolio or how little you've saved, you can save your retirement-if you start now. Get this book, and get started! All the help you need to save your retirement: |
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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs
By Belfiore, Michael 2009-11 - Smithsonian Books 9780061577932 Check Our Catalog
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The Male Brain
By Brizendine, Louann 2010-03 - Broadway Books 9780767927536 Check Our Catalog
From the author of the groundbreaking "New York Times" bestseller "The FemaleBrain" comes the eagerly awaited follow-up that demystifies the baffling malebrain and overturns the stereotypes about men and boys.
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Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History
By Bunker, Nick 2010-04 - Alfred A. Knopf 9780307266828 Check Our Catalog
Far from the storybook figures of American mythology, the Pilgrims were complex men and women, and Bunker tells their story in this meticulously researched, revelatory book.
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George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
By Carter, Miranda 2010-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781400043637 Check Our Catalog
In the years before World War I, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II. Carter uses the cousins' correspondence and a host of historical sources to tell their tragicomic stories.
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Life After Death: The Evidence
By D'Souza, Dinesh 2009-11 - Regnery Publishing 9781596980990 Check Our Catalog
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On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear
By Ellis, Richard 2009-11 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307270597 Check Our Catalog
As global warming threatens the ice caps' integrity, the polar bear has come to symbolize the peril that faces all life on Earth. Here, the acclaimed science writer Ellis offers an impassioned and moving statement on behalf of polar bears--and all they stand for.
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Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough
By Gottlieb, Lori 2010-02 - Dutton Books 9780525951513 Check Our Catalog
In an eye-opening, brutally honest, often funny, sometimes painful journey that culminates in a redefining of romance, Gottlieb expands on her 2008 article in "The Atlantic" that explores women's acceptance of Mr. Good-Enough rather than waiting for Prince Charming.
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The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War
By Hider, James 2009-06 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312565855 Check Our Catalog
In his fascinating, terrifying, and often very funny book, Hider takes his doubts about religion straight into the dark heart of the world's holy wars--from Israel to Iraq.
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The End of Wall Street
By Lowenstein, Roger 2010-04 - Penguin Press 9781594202391 Check Our Catalog
This revelatory work offers a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, Lowenstein tells, with grace, wit, and razor-sharp understanding, the full story of the end of Wall Street.
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Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation
By Maguire, Gregory 2009-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780061689161 Check Our Catalog
The bestselling author of the wildly imaginative "Wicked Years" presents a magical visual tribute to the art of the legendary Maurice Sendak.
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Chasing Medical Miracles: The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials
By O'Meara, Alex 2009-06 - Walker & Company 9780802716965 Check Our Catalog
Chasing Medical Miracles is the first book to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the complicated world of clinical trials, revealing how a multibillion-dollar industry of private companies conducting them with little oversight has taken root and quietly become a major part of the American medical establishment.
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The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told about Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong
By Shenk, David 2010-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385523653 Check Our Catalog
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic giftedness and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in the reach of every individual.
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
By de Waal, Frans Illustrator de Waal, Frans 2009-09 - Harmony Books 9780307407764 Check Our Catalog
From an internationally renowned authority on primatology and psychology comes a fascinating investigation of empathy in both humans and animals.
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Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
By Walker, David M. 2010-01 - Random House (NY) 9781400068609 Check Our Catalog
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
By Wrangham, Richard 2009-05 - Basic Books 9780465013623 Check Our Catalog
In this stunningly original book, a renowned primatologist argues that cooking created the human race. A groundbreaking new theory of evolution, "Catching Fire" offers a startlingly original argument about how we have come to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today.
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Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne
By Gavin, James, III 2009-06 - Atria Books 9780743271431 Check Our Catalog
From the Cotton Club's glory days to the glitzy but bigoted hotels of Las Vegas's heyday, this behind-the-scenes look at American icon Lena Horne is as much a story of the limits of the American dream as it is a masterful biography. b&w photos.
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Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
By Kelley, Robin D. G. 2009-10 - Free Press 9780684831909 Check Our Catalog
The first full biography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, written by a brilliant historian who enjoyed full access to the family's archives and provides the author with dozens of interviews.
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City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
By White, Edmund 2009-09 - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 9781596914025 Check Our Catalog
"City Boy" tells the story of White's years in 1970s New York, bouncing from intellectual encounters with Susan Sontag and Harold Brodkey to his erotic entanglements downtown to the city's burgeoning gay scene of artists and writers.
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