New Non-Fiction - February 2008
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy.
American Medical Association Guide to Preventing and Treating Heart Disease: Essential Information You and Your Family Need to Know about Having a Healthy Heart
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Heart disease is the leading cause of death and a major cause of disability in both men and women in the United States today. The good news is that with knowledge and practical lifestyle changes, heart disease is both treatable and preventable. In the American Medical Association Guide to Preventing and Treating Heart Disease, you'll learn everything you need to know to lessen your risk of cardiovascular disease, take control of it if you have it, or help a loved one.
Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)
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Cramer, the bestselling commentator on investing, advises on how to invest wisely at any age, whether a recent college graduate or retiree. (Consumer Finance)
The New Retirement: How it will Change your Future
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Economist Sherry Cooper provides sage financial advice to baby boomers contemplating their retirement. But surprise: she also draws from the latest literature in psychology and gerontology to offer wise counsel on how boomers can live the second half of their adult lives productively and in good health. Turns out we don't have to be millionaires for the best years of our lives to be the ones ahead of us.
101 Tax Secrets for Canadians
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Nothing can better protect hard-earned income and help to accumulate wealth than savvy tax strategies. In this comprehensive guide, Canada’s foremost tax expert, Tim Cestnick, offers 101 tips for year-round tax planning that can save Canadians from all walks of life thousands of dollars on their tax bill. It shows readers how they can best build a successful game plan that will reduce their taxes and maximize after-tax investment returns. Cestnick’s simple and proven advice makes 101 Tax Secrets for Canadians an essential tool for all Canadians seeking to accumulate wealth and protect their income.
The Lazy Investor: Start with $50 and no Investment Knowledge
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The no-thinking strategy from Canada's youngest retiree.
Sleep-easy Investing
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What is your number one investment priority? Finding the next "hot" stock? Making huge profits? Making 10 percent a year on your money? If you found yourself nodding at any of these suggestions, you need to rethink your whole approach to money management. The number one goal of every investor should actually be to sleep comfortably at night. Simplistic? Sure! Personal finance expert Gordon Pape explains that if you adopt the sleep-easy philosophy as your basic credo, both your health and wealth will benefit. In this must-read book, Pape explains this investing philosophy and how it can be used by everyone to avoid the greed and fear traps.
Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
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Former Secretary of State Albright offers a persuasive, wide-ranging set of recommendations to the next president by drawing on her extensive experience as adviser to two presidents and a key figure in four presidential transitions.
What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World
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In this new collection of conversations, "What We Say Goes" explores the most immediate and urgent concerns confronting America. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.
Hell & High Water: Canada and the Italian Campaign
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Although it has been overshadowed by other events of the Second World War, Canada''s role in the Italian Campaign, from 1943 to 1945, was significant. Canadian forces played a major role in this campaign, whose goal was to open a second front in order to ease the pressure on Russian forces in the east. Canada fought under British command alongside British and American units, but our soldiers saw some of the fiercest fighting and achieved glory many times, including at the Battle of Ortona, one of Canada''s greatest military accomplishments.