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Mauldin asked 12 of today's most successful investors to share their most valuable investment secrets. The result is a dozen…
clearly written essays, distilling decades of financial experience into easy-to-grasp tips anyone can put into practice. 2006.Jazz anecdotes
By Bill Crow. 1990
It's not about the money (Your coach in a box)
By Bob Proctor. 2009
Is this live?: inside the wild early years of MuchMusic : the nation's music station
By Christopher Ward. 2016
On August 31, 1984, the Nation’s Music Station launched. The dream child of TV visionary Moses Znaimer and John Martin,…
Much was live and largely improvised, and an entire generation of Canadians grew up watching the VJs and embraced the new music that became the video soundtrack of our lives. Stories of the bands, the music, the videos, the specialty shows, the style and the improvisational approach to daily broadcast life at Much are told by the people who were there - the colourful cast of on-air VJs, the artists who found their way into our living rooms as never before, and the people behind the cameras. 2016.This music myth-debunking volume is organized by subjects such as song lyrics, deaths, and the origins of album and song…
titles. Some of the rumours and mysteries Edwards untangles are old favourites, such as Paul McCartney's alleged death, Robert Johnson's purported sale of his soul to the devil, and the subject of Carly Simon's "You're so Vain." Others are more recent and obscure, such as Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro's death, what's not tattooed on Tom Waits's chest, and the inspiration for the White Stripes's "Hotel Yorba." Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 2006.Invest like you give a damn: make money, change the world, sleep well at night
By Marc De Sousa-Shields. 2017
"Invest like you give a damn" is a different kind of investment book. It tells stories of people just like…
you who give a damn but who stomped the devil of inertia to align their money with their values. Complete step-by-step guidance from one-click investing to deep-dive portfolio building. It's time to give a damn about what your money does! 2017.In their lives: great writers on great Beatles songs
By Andrew Blauner. 2017
An anthology of essays from a chorus of twenty-nine luminaries singing the praises of their favorite Beatles songs. Arranged chronologically…
by the date of the song's release, these essays highlight both the Beatles' evolution as well as the span of generations their music affected. 2017.I will teach you to be rich
By Ramit Sethi. 2009
This six-week personal finance program by dynamic innovator Ramit Sethi helps 20- to 35-year-olds get a grip on their financial…
future. Sethi's nonjudgmental approach encourages listeners to follow practical guidelines that start with the four pillars of personal finance and lead to wealth-building entrepreneurship. 2009.Bad singer: the surprising science of tone deafness and how we hear music
By Tim Falconer. 2016
The author is part of only 2.5 percent of the population afflicted with amusia -- tone-deafness. The book chronicles his…
quest to understand human evolution and music, the brain science behind tone-deafness, his search for ways to retrain the adult brain, and his investigation into what we really hear when we listen to music. 2016.Debt-free forever: take control of your money and your life
By Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2009
Gail's rules are simple: you can't spend money you don't have, you must save something, and if you're in debt,…
you must get the albatross off your back. She provides a road map to getting out of the red in 36 months or less. By following Vaz-Oxlade's detailed plans, readers will reach the right destination: a debt-free life. 2009.Centsibility: The Planet Girl Guide To Money (Planet girl)
By Stacey Roderick, Ellen Warwick. 2008
Practical advice on a range of topics relating to money - tips on jobs, saving, debt, spending and budgeting, how…
to become a girl entrepreneur, what to scrimp on (and what not to), the hidden price of cheap, how to reconcile having less than some friends, and why fundraising can make girls feel priceless! Includes checklists, quizzes, a bank lingo glossary and much more. Grades 4-7. 2008. (Planet girl)Get money: live the life you want, not just the life you can afford
By Kristin Wong. 2018
Personal finance expert Kristin Wong shows you the exact steps to getting more money in your pocket without letting it…
rule your life. This book will teach you financial management through a series of challenges designed to boost your personal finance IQ and exercises tailored to help you achieve even your biggest goals. 2018.Crate digger: an obsession with punk records
By Bob Suren. 2018
A small-town Florida teenager discovers punk rock through a loaned mix tape, and punk music and culture slowly takes over…
all aspects of his life. His new passion causes him to form a band, track down out-of-print records he loves and reissue them, open a record store, start a record distribution operation as a public service, mentor a host of young musicians, and befriend all manner of punk luminaries along the way. Slowly his life's pursuit pushes him to the point of personal ruination and, ultimately, redemption. 2018.Dollars and sense: how we misthink money and how to spend smarter
By Dan Ariely, Jeff Kreisler. 2017
Exploring a wide range of everyday topics--from credit card debt and household budgeting to holiday sales--Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how…
our ideas about dollars and cents are often wrong and cost us more than we know. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with tangible advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits. 2017.Wolff braids three disparate strands--Calumet, Michigan; Woody Guthrie; and Bob Dylan--together to create a revisionist history of twentieth-century America. This…
book chronicles the struggles between the haves and have-nots, the impact changing labour relations had on industrial America, and the way two musicians used their fury to illuminate economic injustice and inspire change. 2017.How music works
By David Byrne. 2012
A celebration of music offers insight into the roles of time, place, and recording technology, discussing how evolutionary patterns and…
responses to cultural and physical contexts have influenced music expression throughout history. 2012.Learn how to make even the noisiest gear dead quiet, getting instruments to sound crisp and distinct in a mix,…
making drum programs and sequences sound like they were played live, getting the most out of a limited number of tracks or mixer channels, blending tracks together into a professional-sounding mix, and how to avoid the most common mistakes amateur recordists make. Some descriptions of sex. 2005.How to enjoy opera (Melvyn Bragg's arts series)
By Charles Osborne. 1987
Written concisely for the non-opera goer, the author covers the development of opera to the present century and lists 100…
popular operas with their stories, from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" in 1689 to "Sweeney Todd" by Stephen Sondheim in 1978. 1987.How Nashville became Music City, U.S.A: 50 years of Music Row
By Michael Kosser. 2006
How a single studio in a tiny house in Nashville became Music Row, a ten-block area populated by hundreds of…
talented people whose job is to simply make music. It's the place where Elvis ushered in rock 'n' roll with "Heartbreak Hotel," Patsy Cline, Jim Reeves, and Willie Nelson taught America to love soulful ballads, and Bob Dylan recorded three of his most important albums. Features stories from publishers, songwriters and others who describe the evolution of this fabled centre of music. 2006.