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Do you want to improve or enhance your trading? Unfortunately, investment books tend to be overly complicated, and lengthy. Unlike many of the investment books out there, this book is a quick and informal read filled with advanced trading concepts that you can apply right away. Plus, it was written by someone who actually works in the finance industry.Ignore the get-rich quick schemes and learn how the financial system really works. The information provided is designed to help beginners get comfortable with personal finance and help them navigate the complexities and learn the secrets to begin building wealth. This book is not like any other personal finance book, and will show you some proven finance techniques not available anywhere else. John Endris, a finance professional, lifelong investor, and MBA will show you how to become the "smart money." Here are a few things you will be able to use right away…. Professional risk management strategies that will guarantee that you don’t take big losses. How to use automatic protective stops and create hedges against lossesProven ways to verify company claims How bonds work and what to use them for-What types of stock orders to use and why A way to always buy the right position size And more...Buy this book and finally be the smart money (or at least download a FREE sample)The entire "Smart Money" series is available on Amazon BOOK 1: Smart Money: A Beginner's Guide to Investing and Personal Finance: Manage and Grow Your Personal WealthBOOK 2: Smart Money: Wealth Building Strategies for Anyone: Be Your Own BankBOOK 3: Smart Money: 10 Proven Strategies that Will Increase Your Returns: Trading Techniques For Active InvestorsBOOK 4: Smart Money: Your Simple Guide to Bonds: Find What Works for Your Financial ObjectivesBOOK 5: Your Simple Guide to Understanding Options: Find What Works for Your Financial Objectives

Have you always wanted to start your own business yet never had the perfect idea? Whether you are an idea machine or struggle to find new ideas, this book will help you start building a great list of potential business ideas for your future enterprise. In this short read, all of the key things you need to help you create a list of excellent business ideas for a great business plan are covered in a succinct way. It won’t take you long to learn how to use disruptive business strategy from the simple examples of the five most common business models included in this book. This is not a self help book, and only contains actionable content designed to help you actually build your business idea list.Here are a few things you will be able to use right away…. • How to define an industry• How to find a niche market • Tools and techniques for developing a competitive edge • Learn how legacy firms are disrupted• Ways to grow your business idea list This is book one of the "The 3 Step Business Plan for Aspiring Entrepreneurs" series.Book 1 : Concept Builder: Five Business Ideas that Work for Any Business Plan; Transform your Idea ListBook 2: From a Thousand Ideas to One: Pick the Right Idea for Your Startup; A Proven Technique for Writing a Quick Business PlanBook 3: Bulletproof Business Plan: Make your Proforma Financials Stand Out; How to Get Investors InterestedAuthor Profile: John Endris is a business strategy advisor who specializes in helping people to achieve their fullest potential. He has worked in finance for almost a decade, and has also built a small business from scratch. John earned a Bachelor of Science in Business and an MBA from St Mary’s University.

A thoughtful, multigenerational tale of Sunday fishing trips with Dad, as seen through the eyes of the author as a young boy. This lyrical story recaptures all the Sundays Michael J. Rosen spent fishing with his father at their favorite holes. He listens to his father’s advice on how to bait, cast, and be patient. Years down the road Rosen watches his father pass on the same lessons to his grandson. A story of wonder and discovery for young anglers, a gift of nostalgia and love for grown-up experts, Fishing with Dad is a story for everyone whose memories include unhurried time at the water’s edge, tossing a hook and a bit of hope into the current.

This is the back story of James Wilkes Jr. one of the most pivotal characters in "The Six Samurai of the West" series.Infamous killers, cheats, and raiders, the Wilkes gang was renowned for trouble. Lawmen trembled and savvy outlaws always avoided their territory. James Wilkes, the faux father to his orphaned outlaw brothers and leader of their famous gang, had lived a life of lechery. Feeling the pressure of time imposing an internal change upon him, he looked for something different.What happens when a bad man tries to change his ways? Will his nefarious outlaw brothers follow his instincts or resist?CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST SERIESBook 1: The Demise of the Wilkes Gang (prelude)Book 2: Renegade: The Legend of Keith Cody (prelude)Book 3: Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story (prelude) Book 4: The Six Samurai of the WestBook 5: Kawahara LivesBook 6: The Geisha Returns

This is the back story of Keith Cody, one of the most pivotal characters in "The Six Samurai of the West" series. On a dangerous mission to confront and kill the leader of a nefarious cartel, Keith Cody, the Texas Ranger prodigy, and feared frontier lawman, is forced to recon with his worst fear. After losing everything, and having no advantageous choices left, the worst option is the only way for him to survive the biggest challenge of his lifetime. Yet will he be able to cope with what he must become? CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST SERIESBook 1: The Demise of the Wilkes Gang (prelude)Book 2: Renegade: The Legend of Keith Cody (prelude)Book 3: Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story (prelude) Book 4: The Six Samurai of the WestBook 5: Kawahara LivesBook 6: The Geisha Returns

Here are the five hundred most beautiful, difficult, exotic, thrilling, and notorious golf holes in the world, complete with the fairways and greens, bunkers and hazards, that have thwarted Tiger Woods and David Duval, Jack Nicklaus and Lee Trevino, Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones-and those they have conquered. Now available for the first time in paperback, this definitive collection of golf holes, complete with more than 600 color photographs and 18 schematics, is the ultimate dream book for golf enthusiasts worldwide. This lavish book is filled with anecdotal "biographies" and vital statistics of the holes deemed the best in the world by the magazine's editors and their panel of international experts. Readers will find out if their favorite holes made the cut by first turning to The Eighteen, representing the most respected and challenging holes-holes like the thirteenth at Augusta National. Next, they discover the top one hundred (the eleventh at St. Andrews Old Course and the fifty at Pinehurst, for example). Finally, there is an all-inclusive gazetteer of all five hundred. A special section offers the Best of the Best-lists of holes by category, such as the most scenic, longest, best in Europe, hardest-to-putt greens, and so on.

Japan is in the later part of the feudal era and America is in the decline of the gold rush period. Unbeknownst to Daimyo Nakabiashi, his entire feudal estate was traded away by a high ranking samurai retainer for the deed to a gold mine in America. When hearing this news, the Shogun orders him to go to America to sell the mine. To add to the problem, he and his samurai retainers only speak Japanese. The scheming Shogun's solution to this problem is to send a multilingual geisha to accompany Nakabiashi and his five samurai retainers to America.Will their delicate geisha interpreter be a liability, or the hero?CHECK OUT THE ENTIRE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST SERIESBook 1: The Demise of the Wilkes Gang (prelude)Book 2: Renegade: The Legend of Keith Cody (prelude)Book 3: Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story (prelude) Book 4: The Six Samurai of the WestBook 5: Kawahara LivesBook 6: The Geisha Returns

NOW AVAILABLE:BOOK 1: (PREQUEL) “The Demise of the Wilkes Gang” captures the last days of James Wilkes Jr’s life as an infamous outlaw.BOOK 2: (PREQUEL) “The Legend of Keith Cody” shows how Sheriff Cody got to be so mean and nasty.BOOK 3: (PREQUEL) “Broken: A Ninja Versus Samurai Story” reveals the sordid deeds of the Asaka brothers who both want the same things, but are unwilling to share them. BOOK 4: "The Six Samurai of the West" This is the first full length story of the series. This the amazing tale of the legendary Hizen five.BOOK 5: “Kawahara Lives” This is the second full length story of the series. Discover what happens to Daimyo Kawahara when he arrives in America.BOOK 6: “The Geisha Returns” This is the third full length story of the series. Find out what amazing thing happens to Geisha Murasaki when she gets back to Japan. THE OMNIBUS EDITION:THE SIX SAMURAI OF THE WEST (Book 4)Japan is in the later part of the feudal era and America is in the decline of the gold rush period. Unbeknownst to Daimyo Nakabiashi, his entire feudal estate was traded away by a high ranking samurai retainer for the deed to a gold mine in America. When hearing this news, the Shogun orders Daimyo Nakabiashi to go to America to sell the mine. To add to the problem, Nakabiashi and his samurai only speak Japanese. The scheming Shogun's solution is to send a multilingual geisha to accompany Nakabiashi and his five samurai retainers to America. Will their delicate geisha interpreter be a liability or an asset? KAWAHARA LIVES (Book 5)Having worked his way up from a lower class son of a samurai to the level of daimyo, the Japanese civil war has ruined everything. Accused for crimes he did not commit, the disgraced Daimyo Kawahara has lost his province, family, wealth and status. Luckily he was able to escape Japan with his life. As an outlaw without a plan, who speaks no English, Kawahara accidentally ends up in Jasper City, a lawless upstart town on the west coast of America. Should he use his skills for monetary gain? Or should he use restraint, and adhere to the idealistic moral code of a samurai that he has always known? To survive in Jasper City, he might not have a choice.THE GEISHA RETURNS (Book 6)The feudal era has ended. New reforms and modernization have swept through Japan. The massive change has made the long established daimyo, the wealthy families, and yakuza gangs compete with one another for position and influence in the fledgling government. Unrevealed to the participants, subversive elements are at work to reverse the new reforms. Will the old ways overcome the new?

PRODUCT DETAILS: The "Monster Tales" series Book 1: Faustus Lupus Book 2: Just UsBook 3: The FanpireThe stories in this series are a twist on the usual zombies, werewolves, and vampires tales. Honoring the classic monster paradigm these characters are all antiheroes and outcasts. “Just Us” is an out of the ordinary zombie tale. In the not too distant future, the zombie apocalypse has come and gone. Since no more humans are left, take a tour of what remains through the perspective of four different zombies, each in a different phase of their afterlife. Would you read the recorded thoughts of a cognizant zombie? What about two zombies who just discovered that they are in love?“The Fanpire” is a completely different take on the typical vampire tale. What happens when an obese, clumsy, and bankrupt English lord in 1692 inadvertently becomes a vampire? When forced to feed on blood to survive, nothing goes right for Alpheus and he is accidentally entombed until the year 1996. Then without his knowledge, opposing vampire fan clubs develop around the city, which eventually elevate him to the status of a pop icon. When he finally gets the opportunity to end his curse, will he take it?“Faustus Lupus” is a blend of historical fiction and a classic monster tale. What happens when a wealthy, popular commander, and patriotic Roman citizen on a path to glory escapes a devastating ambush, but is attacked and bitten by a werewolf? Through his transformation, he discovers far more than he expected. Will Faustus be able to reverse the curse and return to his old life?