Build an investment portfolio & watch your returns multiply Investing can be one of the quickest ways to make money but if you think investing is only for the super-rich think again. Whether you want to invest in shares property bonds or other assets this friendly guide enables you to make sound & sensible investment choices whatever your budget. So if youre looking to get a first foot on the ladder or want to add to a brimming portfolio this updated edition provides you with the expert advice you need to make successful investments. * Get started take your first steps on the money trail with some investment basics * Build your portfolio follow expert advice on investment options * Invest wisely find out how to minimise the risk of investment gambles * Look ahead examine the markets to decide which investment will net you a fortune in the year ahead * Broaden your horizons start looking further afield & get the lowdown on more exotic investments Open the book & find: * How to square off risks with returns * A step-by-step breakdown on how the stock market works * Techniques for examining investment-linked insurance plans * Advice on choosing an independent financial advisor * Why investing in your pension is so important * A guide to banking on bonds * Guidance on coping with the fall-out of the financial crisis * Ways to analyse stock-market-quoted companies ...

Master the markets & make wise investments. Investing in Shares For Dummies gives you the sound advice & proven tactics you need to play the markets & watch your profits grow. The experienced authors introduce you to all categories of shares show you how to analyse the key markets & offer invaluable resources for developing a portfolio. Whether the markets are up or down you'll discover practical investing strategies & expert insights so you have the knowledge to invest with complete confidence. The book is divided into five parts: Part I: The Essentials of Investing in Shares (including common approaches to investing in shares assessing risks & getting to know the stock markets) Part II: Before You Start Buying (including gathering the right info finding a stockbroker investing for growth & investing for income) Part III: Picking Winners (including decoding company documents analysing industries & seeking emerging sector opportunities) Part IV: Investment Strategies & Tactics (including choosing a strategy trading techniques using your broker & a glimpse at what the insiders do!) Part V: The Part of Tens ...

When teenager Nick Gautier was saved from almost-certain death by a mysterious warrior he had a feeling his life was set to change. Fighting the undead has taken the place of fighting with his teachers (well.. .almost) & Nick is learning to rely on his powers to protect the world from evil he could never before have imagined. Then just when he thought things couldn't get any worse he wakes up to find himself enslaved in a world of shapeshifters & demons out to claim his soul. He's being groomed by the darkest of powers & if he doesn't learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week he will become one of them.. . ...

Mark Grayson is just like most everyone else his age except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. & now hes begun to inherit his fathers powers. In this second volume the Invicible Family" finally starts to get a handle on this whole superhero thing while Mark plans for college & the oft-mentioned Guardians of the Globe are finally introduced!" ...

This work is back in print! Mark Grayson is just like most everyone else his age. The only major difference being that his dad is the most powerful superhero on the planet! & Mark seems to be inheriting his fathers powers! See Mark thwart super-villains alien invasions & all sorts of craziness as he gets the hang of all this super-heroing stuff. ...

Ming & Beata share neither the same language nor cultural background yet their stories are remarkably similar. Both are single mothers in their thirties & both came to Britain in search of a new life: Ming from China & Beata from Pol&. Neither imagined that their journey would end in a British brothel. In this chilling expose investigative journalist Hsiao-Hung Pai works undercover as a housekeeper in a brothel & unveils the terrible reality of the British sex trade. Workers are trapped & controlled
- the lack of freedoms this invisible strait of society suffers is both shocking & scandalous & at odds with the idea of a modern Britain in the twenty-first century.
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When his parents are lost in space Sam is left heartbroken in the care of the horrible Hilda Hardbottom. Then he finds a tiny spaceship in the cabbage patch & meets a little alien called Splodge. How Splodge makes him invisible & how Sam uses his new talent in his darkest hour makes a touching & extremely funny story with lovely memorable characters. ...

This title has been longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. It's Paris 1937. Andras Levi an architecture student has arrived from Budapest with a scholarship a single suitcase & a mysterious letter he has promised to deliver to Clara Morgenstern a young widow living in the city. When Andras meets Clara he is drawn deeply into her extraordinary & secret life just as Europe's unfolding tragedy sends them both into a state of terrifying uncertainty. From a remote Hungarian village to the grand opera houses of Budapest & Paris from the despair of Carpathian winter to an unimaginable life in forced labour camps & beyond The Invisible Bridge" tells the story of a marriage tested by disaster & of a family threatened with annihilation bound by love & history." ...

Molly loves animals & wants to be a vet when she grows up just like her dad
- as everyone says; she's got the magic touch! Snowdrop
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In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote Of all tasks describing the contents of a book is the most difficult & in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities perfectly irrelevant. ...