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A personal finance expert and featured columnist for Money magazine reveals her secrets to financial success, offering candid, practical advice and proven strategies designed to help readers plan for their future. Reprint.

Millions of Americans have turned to Jean Chatzky for financial advice, thanks to her weekly appearances on NBC's Today and her column in Money magazine. Now, in The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness (published in hardcover as You Don't Have to Be Rich), she analyzes the results of a unique survey in which she questioned 1,500 Americans about their financial attitudes and behaviors. She looks at how much money people actually do need to guarantee a happy, comfortable life. And gets down to the nitty-gritty, isolating behaviors that--if adopted--can significantly improve a...

This text delves into the personal finances of more than 25 celebrities. The spending, saving and investing habits of those in the public eye are almost as intriguing as their sex lives and much less available to the popular press. Read how much these elusive folks earn, how they invest their money, and most importantly the financial lessons they have learned from investing in stocks and mutual funds to real estate and start-up ventures. Through a celebrity interview format, this book shows how you can put the financial strategies of the rich and famous to use in your own life.

Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, and recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of historically relevant hazards and disasters as well as the many recent catastrophes.

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A charming and amusing view of Nin's early life, from age eleven to seventeen; the self-portrait of an innocent girl who is transformed, through her own insights, into an enlightened young woman. "An enchanting portrait of a girl's constant search for herself" (Library Journal). Preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell; Index; photographs and drawings. Translated by Jean L. Sherman.