These Books Will Make You Rich
Chris Barth, 12.17.10, 6:00 AM ET

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With the economy still sluggish and unemployment rates pushing 10%, many Americans are searching for ways to stretch their dollars this holiday season. So why not give a simple present that could pay for itself many times over?

Whether you're looking for great gifts for the active investor in your life or simply searching for a guide to help a recent college graduate navigate the world of mutual funds, there are libraries full of books that will stuff a stocking with advice worth its weight in gold.

Sometimes, though, the tidal wave of financial advice books on the market is overwhelming. How can you separate the good, the bad and the just plain ugly? That's where we come in. We've gone through the top books on investing to develop a list of good reads for investors of all types. Whether you're a value investor looking to refine your tactics, a buy-and-hold Boglehead looking to beef up on the basics or a parent looking to start your kid down the right path, there's something on our list for you.

Fifteen Books That Will Make You Rich

Ten of the books on our list are classics that deserve a spot on the bookshelf of any financial whiz. Any investor would be well-served to read up on these tomes; the basic tenets of modern investing strategy and tactics are developed and discussed in their pages.

For novice investors, two introductory books on our list offer distinctly opposing viewpoints.

Joel Greenblatt's The Little Book That still Beats The Market tells investors to focus on earnings to outperform the market.

John Bogle, on the other hand, dismisses the notion that investors can outperform the market and argues in Common Sense On Mutual Funds that indexing is the only smart way to invest. Investors beginning with a blank slate will enjoy letting the books do battle.

Seasoned investors, on the other hand, may enjoy reading more advanced theories and advice in books like

The Essays of Warren Buffett

or Ben Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

Those books from investing titans offer plenty of information to mull over as you contemplate your next portfolio moves.

We realize that times are changing too. That's why our list includes five investing books that were published this year. These books integrate the knowledge of classic investment advice while simultaneously giving concrete advice for investing in the modern age.

Again, there are books that offer contrasting advice.

A. Gary Shilling's The Age Of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation, provides foresight on which industries and sectors will boom and bust in the next 10 years.

The Great Reflation: How Investors Can Profit From the New World of Money disagrees with Shilling, and instead lays out a case for reflation rather than deflation.

In another 2010 book, The Warren Buffetts Next Door: The World's Greatest Investors You've Never Heard Of and What You Can Learn From Them, Forbes editor Matt Schifrin shares the investing success stories of individuals with strategies that have paid off over the years.

Buffett himself says he's a better investor because he's also a businessman, and a better businessman because he's also an investor. Books like Harvard professor Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy help readers better understand a business and equip them to make a better judgment about its prospects.

"Get rich quick" strategies can often turn into "get poor quicker" realities. Stephen Weiss's The Billion Dollar Mistake: Learning the Art of Investing Through the Missteps of Legendary Investors tells the stories of investors who have messed up and survived to tell about it. The book provides an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others, while reminding the investors in your life that they should have a Plan B should their stock picks plummet.

With these books on your bookshelf, you and yours will be better prepared to boost your bank accounts while minimizing risk. The advice of some of the world's most successful investors, along with the stories of others who have followed in their footsteps, will get you on the right track to big returns in 2011.

Check out our full list in the slideshow

Fifteen Books That Will Make You Rich.

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南方朔 閱讀的初衷是因為對現狀不滿

作者：馬岳琳 　出處：天下雜誌 380期 2007/09

相關關鍵字：南方朔/名人讀書會

南方朔建議，也可以從第二手、第三手的介紹性書籍開始讀起。

與其說南方朔是個政論家、社會觀察家，不如說他是個專業讀書人。

凡是國內出版的中、外文書，有南方朔的推薦序，可算是十分光榮的事。

和他聊天，從來不會覺得無聊，因為他正在讀、剛讀完、或就要讀的書，總是令人聽來津津有味。最近剛讀完《The Power of a Positive NO》，「現代社會，有一半的Yes都是盲從，人不能沒有內心堅持的核心價值！」

南方朔點起煙，不疾不徐地說。 為大學生選書，南方朔的原則是探詢西方文明的階段性意義和代表性人物。書單似乎看來有些生硬，「但這些都算簡單的喔，沒有語言文字的遊戲，不會像後現代主義，扯都扯不清，」他認為，人類的缺陷與基本問題、進步的價值體系，西方的系統論述比東方完整。

而這其中，又以《奧古斯丁懺悔錄》影響南方朔最深。奧古斯丁乃神學之父，是第一個把神學、道德學與自我反省放在一起討論的人，也是人類第一個往心理層面去理解自身問題的神學家。「整個西方文明是站在自我反省的基礎上而發展開來，基督教文明也才因此有後來的演變，」對南方朔而言，奧古斯丁等於是西方文明的起點，更是大學生不能迴避的基本認識。

讀書讀了五十年的南方朔，曾把整個西方文明的變遷，用八本小說為聽眾導讀，總是能以最簡單的語言，講述那些聽來就不容易對付的題目。但他為自己選書的原則，卻幾乎都是以知識含量較高的書為主，所以他傾向看英美大學出版社出的書，既有學術基礎但又不艱澀難懂。

南方朔強調，人類閱讀的初衷其實是因為對現狀不滿，所以讀書的人一定是上升的階級，尋求知識或人生的道理，因此明天會比今天好。

讀書三部曲


如果一時三刻讀不了經典，南方朔建議，也可以從第二手、第三手的介紹性書籍開始讀起
。

此外，他還有一套「讀書三部曲」的竅門：讀完一本書後，首先，要問自己能不能把書中的重點講一遍，這叫「接受式閱讀」；接下來，要問自己是否同意作者的觀點，是謂「批判式閱讀」；最後，可以想想，如果同樣的主題由自己來寫，會想怎麼寫，也就達到了「創造性閱讀」的階段，長江後浪推前浪，文明的成長與累積也才能因此而來。

別看南方朔這樣正經八百地老談著大部頭的書，他其實很愛讀浪漫的詩，甚至也看漫畫，「用漫畫寫散文寫得最好的是《天才柳澤教授》，用漫畫寫論文寫得最好的是《新聞最前線》、《政治最前線》。」雖然也推薦日本漫畫，但南方朔還是不忘指出，文字仍是所有表達形式裡的正宗，這也是為什麼他的書單裡有《昭明文選》，因為那是中國文字之美的顛峰之作。

國學大師錢穆曾在中學時期就跟北大教授打筆仗，南方朔對於那樣一個專注讀書的年代似乎無限欽慕。閱讀讓人累積解構趨勢、創造結構的能力，因此，南方朔提醒關心虛擬世界議題遠多於關心實體世界的年輕人：「平面閱讀的功力要到一定程度，才可能自網路中零散且片斷的資訊裡獲益。」

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The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.

Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.

Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California. Along with thousands of other "Okies", they sought jobs, land, dignity and a future.

When preparing to write the novel, Steinbeck wrote: "I want to put a tag of shame on the greedy bastards who are responsible for this [the Great Depression and its effects]."

The book won Steinbeck a large following among the working class, perhaps due to the book's sympathy to the worker's movement and its accessible prose style.

The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes. A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was made in 1940.

In 1962, the Nobel Prize committee cited Grapes of Wrath as a "great work" and as one of the committee's main reasons for granting Steinbeck the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Time Magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Grapes of Wrath tenth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

Famous quotes from the book: 

Houses were shut tight, and cloth wedged around doors and windows, but the dust came in so thinly that it could not be seen in the air, and it settled like pollen on the chairs and tables, on the dishes.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 1

Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.' . . . . I says, 'What's this call, this sperit?' An' I says, 'It's love. I love people so much I'm fit to bust, sometimes.' . . . . I figgered, 'Why do we got to hang it on God or Jesus? Maybe,' I figgered, 'maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the Holy Sperit-the human sperit-the whole shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of.' Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all of a suddent-I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it.
The Grapes of Wrath
Jim Casy in Chapter 4

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 14

They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely anymore. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 18

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 25

Whenever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Whenever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there . . . . I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'-I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build-why, I'll be there.
The Grapes of Wrath
Jim Joad farewell speech in Chapter 28

The Movie: 

The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford.

 The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.

In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Awards

Academy Awards wins (1941)
Best Supporting Actress, Jane Darwell as Ma Joad.
Academy Award for Directing, John Ford.

Academy Awards nominations (1941)
Best Actor in a Leading Role, Henry Fonda as Tom Joad.
Best Film Editing, Robert L. Simpson.
Best Picture, Darryl F. Zanuck and Nunnally Johnson.
Best Sound Recording, Edmund H. Hansen.
Best Writing Adapted Screenplay, Nunnally Johnson.

Other wins
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: NBR Award; Best Picture- 1940.
New York Film Critics: NYFCC Award; Best Director, John Ford; Best Film- 1940.
Blue Ribbon Awards, Japan: Blue Ribbon Award Best Foreign Language Film, John Ford- 1963.
National Film Registry—1989.

American Film Institute recognition
100 Years...100 Movies #21
100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary) #23
100 Years...100 Cheers #7
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains: Tom Joad, #12 Hero

Henry Fonda as Tom Joad

Tom Joad — Protagonist of the story; the Joad family's second son, named after his father. Later on, Tom takes leadership of the family even though he is young.

Ma Joad — matriarch. Practical and warm-spirited, she tries to hold the family together. Her given name is never learned; it is suggested that her maiden name was Hazlett.

Pa Joad — patriarch, also named Tom, age 50. Hardworking sharecropper and family man. Pa loses his place as leader of the family to his wife.

Route 66 

U.S. Route 66 (also known as the Will Rogers Highway after the humorist, and colloquially known as the "Main Street of America" or the "Mother Road") was a highway in the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66 was established on November 11, 1926.

 The famous highway originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, before ending at Los Angeles, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km).

Route 66 was a major path of the migrants who went west, especially during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and supported the economies of the communities through which the road passed. People doing business along the route became prosperous due to the growing popularity of the highway, and those same people later fought to keep the highway alive even with the growing threat of being bypassed by the new Interstate Highway System.

The most touched speech by Tom Joad: " I'll be there":

The Grapes of Wrath is must read book and movie. 

Hope you like it. 

Have a nice pleasant year!

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The 30 Books MBA in Entrepreneurship

* Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

* Robert Coram: John Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

* Dale Dauten: The Gifted Boss: How to Find, Create and Keep Great Employees

* Roger Dawson: The Secrets Of Power Negotiating: How To Gain The Upper Hand In Any Negotiation

* Peter F. Drucker: The Effective Executive Revised

* Peter F. Drucker: The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management

* Charles H. Ferguson: High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars

* Milton Friedman: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

* Michael E. Gerber: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

* Malcolm Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

* Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

* Seth Godin: Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

* Seth Godin: Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

* Seth Godin: Unleashing the Ideavirus

* Paul Graham: Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

* Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson

* Guy Kawasaki: Selling the Dream

* Guy Kawasaki: The Art Of The Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything

* Randy Komisar: The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur

* Michael Lewis: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

* Aaron Lynch: Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

* Geoffrey A. Moore: Inside the Tornado: Marketing Strategies from Silicon Valley's Cutting Edge

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Bottom-Up Marketing

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Marketing Warfare

* Al Ries, Jack Trout: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

* Randall E. Stross: Eboys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work

* Linus Torvalds: Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary

* Richard Bach: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

* U. S. Marine Corps Staff: Warfighting: The United States Marine Corps

"Atlas," the largest sculptural work at Rockefeller Center in New York City, by Lee Lawrie and Rene Chambellan, in the Art Deco style. (1936)

Main article: Atlas Shrugged

Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, was published in 1957. Due to the success of The Fountainhead, the initial printing ran to 100,000 copies, and the book went on to become an international bestseller. Sales of Atlas Shrugged remained strong in subsequent decades, and it has been cited by many interviewees as the book that most influenced them. Since 2000, sales have climbed to new records, and it now sells almost 200,000 copies annually. (See Popular interest and influence, below.)

The theme of Atlas Shrugged is "the role of the mind in man's existence—and, as a corollary, the demonstration of a new moral philosophy: the morality of rational self-interest." It advocates the core tenets of her philosophy of Objectivism and expresses Rand 's admiration for human greatness. The plot involves a dystopian United States of America in which industrialists and other creative individuals go on strike and retreat to a mountainous hideaway where they build an independent free economy. The hero describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing those contributing the most to the nation's production, creativity, and thinking. By this strike, they aim to demonstrate that without "the men of the mind," the economy would collapse and society fall apart. The novel includes elements of mystery and science fiction, and deals with other diverse issues as wide-ranging as sex, music, medicine, politics, philosophy, industry, and human ability. Atlas Shrugged contains Rand 's most extensive statement of Objectivism of any in her works of fiction, including a lengthy monologue delivered by the novel's hero, John Galt.

To learn more information about this book and Ann Rand's work; please following the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=education_contests_index

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/ayn_rand.html

Hope you will like this book.

Merry Christmas,

Sabine

Dear all:

Just received this articles from New York Times.

FYI

Sabine

December 14, 2008

The 10 Best Books of 2008

The editors of the Book Review have selected these titles from the list of 100 Notable Books of 2008.

FICTION

DANGEROUS LAUGHTER
Thirteen Stories
By Steven Millhauser.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.

In his first collection in five years, a master fabulist in the tradition of Poe and Nabo­kov invents spookily plausible parallel universes in which the deepest human emotions and yearnings are transformed into their monstrous opposites. Millhauser is especially attuned to the purgatory of adolescence. In the title story, teenagers attend sinister “laugh parties”; in another, a mysteriously afflicted girl hides in the darkness of her attic bedroom. Time and again these parables revive the possibility that “under this world there is another, waiting to be born.” (Excerpt)

A MERCY
By Toni Morrison.
Alfred A. Knopf, $23.95.

The fate of a slave child abandoned by her mother animates this allusive novel — part Faulknerian puzzle, part dream-song — about orphaned women who form an eccentric household in late-17th-century America . Morrison’s farmers and rum traders, masters and slaves, indentured whites and captive Native Americans live side by side, often in violent conflict, in a lawless, ripe American Eden that is both a haven and a prison — an emerging nation whose identity is rooted equally in Old World superstitions and New World appetites and fears. (First Chapter)

NETHERLAND
By Joseph O’Neill.
Pantheon Books, $23.95.

O’Neill’s seductive ode to New York — a city that even in bad times stubbornly clings to its belief “in its salvific worth” — is narrated by a Dutch financier whose privileged Manhattan existence is upended by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. When his wife departs for London with their small son, he stays behind, finding camaraderie in the unexpectedly buoyant world of immigrant cricket players, most of them West Indians and South Asians, including an entrepreneur with Gatsby-size aspirations. (First Chapter)

2666
By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth and paper, $30.

Bolaño, the prodigious Chilean writer who died at age 50 in 2003, has posthumously risen, like a figure in one of his own splendid creations, to the summit of modern fiction. This latest work, first published in Spanish in 2004, is a mega- and meta-detective novel with strong hints of apocalyptic foreboding. It contains five separate narratives, each pursuing a different story with a cast of beguiling characters — European literary scholars, an African-American journalist and more — whose lives converge in a Mexican border town where hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered. (Excerpt)

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
By Jhumpa Lahiri.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.

There is much cultural news in these precisely observed studies of modern-day Bengali-Americans — many of them Ivy-league strivers ensconced in prosperous suburbs who can’t quite overcome the tug of traditions nurtured in Calcutta . With quiet artistry and tender sympathy, Lahiri creates an impressive range of vivid characters — young and old, male and female, self-knowing and self-deluding — in engrossing stories that replenish the classic themes of domestic realism: loneliness, estrangement and family discord. (Excerpt)

NONFICTION

THE DARK SIDE
The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer.
Doubleday, $27.50.

Mayer’s meticulously reported descent into the depths of President Bush’s anti­terrorist policies peels away the layers of legal and bureaucratic maneuvering that gave us Guantánamo Bay, “extraordinary rendition,” “enhanced” interrogation methods, “black sites,” warrantless domestic surveillance and all the rest. But Mayer also describes the efforts ofunsung heroes, tucked deep inside the administration, who risked their careers in the struggle to balance the rule of law against the need to meet a threat unlike any other in the nation’s history.

THE FOREVER WAR
By Dexter Filkins.
Alfred A. Knopf, $25.

The New York Times correspondent, whose tours of duty have taken him from Afghanistan in 1998 to Iraq during the American intervention, captures a decade of armed struggle in harrowingly detailed vignettes. Whether interviewing jihadists in Kabul , accompanying marines on risky patrols in Falluja or visiting grieving families in Baghdad , Filkins makes us see, with almost hallucinogenic immediacy, the true human meaning and consequences of the “war on terror.” (First Chapter)

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF
By Julian Barnes.
Alfred A. Knopf, $24.95.

This absorbing memoir traces Barnes’s progress from atheism (at age 20) to agnosticism (at 60) and examines the problem of religion not by rehashing the familiar quarrel between science and mystery, but rather by weighing the timeless questions of mortality and aging. Barnes distills his own experiences — and those of his parents and brother — in polished and wise sentences that recall the writing of Montaigne, Flaubert and the other French masters he includes in his discussion. (First Chapter)

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
Death and the American Civil War
By Drew Gilpin Faust.
Alfred A. Knopf, $27.95.

In this powerful book, Faust, the president of Harvard, explores the legacy, or legacies, of the “harvest of death” sown and reaped by the Civil War. In the space of four years, 620,000 Americans died in uniform, roughly the same number as those lost in all the nation’s combined wars from the Revolution through Korea . This doesn’t include the thousands of civilians killed in epidemics, guerrilla raids and draft riots. The collective trauma created “a newly centralized nation-state,” Faust writes, but it also established “sacrifice and its memorialization as the ground on which North and South would ultimately reunite.” (First Chapter)

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS
The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
By Patrick French.
Alfred A. Knopf, $30.

The most surprising word in this biography is “authorized.” Naipaul, the greatest of all postcolonial authors, cooperated fully with French, opening up a huge cache of private letters and diaries and supplementing the revelations they disclosed with remarkably candid interviews. It was a brave, and wise, decision. French, a first-rate biographer, has a novelist’s command of story and character, and he patiently connects his subject’s brilliant oeuvre with the disturbing facts of an unruly life. (First Chapter)