Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today
Rob Carrick, 2009
This book is super-savvy, easy to use, and written in a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners style that's often outrageously outspoken. Rob Carrick is a highly respected Globe and Mail columnist and expert on personal finance and consumer banking, Rob Carrick's Guide to What's Good, Bad and Downright Awful in Canadian Investments Today is the only all-Canadian practical guide to protecting yourself and prospering in a challenging economy.
Systematically arranged with clear and logical headings and handy lists of information, this is a book that can be read cover to cover with enjoyment and to great personal benefit, and used also as a reference for answers to specific concerns.
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, 2008
From the stock market crash to unemployment rates, election results to the winner of the World Series, Hollywood stardom to college admissions, we like to believe our world is governed by order and logic. Yet acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow argues that most successes and failures are actually the result of “fortuitous circumstances,” and we’ll judge them incorrectly if we don’t accept the fact that randomness rules.
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Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, a born storyteller with an imaginative approach, will vividly demonstrate how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives, and how we frequently misinterpret the significance of everything from a casual conversation to a major financial setback. By applying the mathematical and psychological principles behind concepts like expectancy bias, standard deviation, and statistical reasoning to real world circumstances, Mlodinow shows us just how little we actually control.
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Dr. Mlodinow has written several books, including two which he co-authored with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time.