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The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement

If you’re one of the 25 million single women over the age of 45 living in the United States today, AARP’s The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement addresses many pertinent issues about feathering your nest. In fact, you don't have to be "mature" or single to find this book useful.

Walking you through the challenges of retired or pre-retired life, from managing your…  More About: The Single Woman’s Guide to Retirement

The End of Privacy

Now in paperback, Reg Whitaker's book provides a sobering look at the threats to privacy posed by the new information technologies. The End of Privacy shows how a vast amount of personal information—much of it information people don't even recognize as being personally vulnerable—is moving into corporate hands. Once there, this data can be combined and used to develop electronic profiles of individuals and…  More About: The End of Privacy

How Wall Street Rips You Off

This book makes important points, albeit in scary fashion via horror stories that have happened to ordinary investors who trust the institutions and industry-run regulators who are "Wall Street". It walks readers through obstacles faced by the average investor in dealing with Wall Street and explores the ways in which Wall Street rips off investors. Importantly, it attempts to debunk the myth that the…  More About: How Wall Street Rips You Off

Shopping for Good

Consumers are urged by activists to buy local, green, fair trade and sustainable products. Is the ethical consumption movement effective in changing consumer's behavior in the market ? Can consumers create fair and sustainable supply chains by shopping selectively?

Dara O'Rourke, who first broke the news about Nike's sweatshops in the 1990s, has written this book about the promise of ethical consumption --…  More About: Shopping for Good

The Ultimate Consignment & Thrift Store Guide

The Ultimate Consignment & Thrift Store Guide is a great source of information for the bargain shopper. The book has practical and specific advice on where to shop to save thousands of dollars on nearly new designer clothing and accessories, furniture, household items, sporting goods, books and much more. It also provides advice on how to locate the best stores to bring your gently used…  More About: The Ultimate Consignment & Thrift Store Guide

No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

The financial crisis lay bare how the financial system failed the nation but left hidden the many ways in which that system still fails the most vulnerable Americans. In this volume, Michael S. Barr, Michael S. Barr, a former assistant Treasury secretary for financial institutions and professor at the University of Michigan Law School, explores how low- and moderate-income households cope with financial stress,…  More About: No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans

The Daily You

The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. That is the scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted in the 1990s, with his hypothetical online newspaper The Daily Me—and it is one we experience now in daily ways.

But, as media expert Joseph Turow writes in…  More About: The Daily You

Greedy Bastards

"Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry" is a rant with policy undertones by a mad-as-hell Dylan Ratigan. Ratigan, host of MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show, is infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by "banksters" shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and…  More About: Greedy Bastards

Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works

From the moment President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in 2010, a steady and mounting avalanche of misinformation about the law has left a growing majority of Americans confused about what it is, why it’s necessary, and how it works. With cartoon illustrations by Nathan Schreiber, Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works presents solid information…  More About: Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It’s Necessary, How It Works

Living Large in Lean Times

"Living Large in Lean Times" is consumer advocate Clark Howard's comprehensive guide to saving money, covering cell phones to student loans, coupon websites to mortgages, investing to electric bills and more. Howard, Atlanta-based host of a talk radio and TV show and founder of the website clarkhoward.com, has lots of consumer advice to share, His advice includes how to locate missing and unclaimed money…  More About: Living Large in Lean Times

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