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Stopping Identity Theft

This new book—available March 6, 2009—outlines 10 steps you can take to protect yourself or your family from ID theft and medical identity theft, the fastest growing crime in America.

By reading this book, you will learn what to do now to safeguard your bank accounts, online presence, credit record and more from the potential financial damage of identity theft.

An identity theft…  More About: Stopping Identity Theft

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

Since the Bernard Madoff “Ponzi scheme” scandal broke, shocking investors and the Wall Street community, this insider’s guide to investment rip-offs, scams and con artists has been in demand. The book, published in the late ‘90s, is designed to educate consumers and make them aware of how scams work.

It takes an investigative look at the reasons why Ponzi schemes and pyramid frauds are…  More About: You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man

Ponzi

Who was Ponzi, the man whose name is synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam where money from new investors goes to reward earlier ones? (It’s the kind of scheme that Bernard Madoff recently used to rake in $50 billion from gullible folks all over the world.) In December 1919, Charles Ponzi was an unknown 38-year-old, self-educated Italian immigrant with just $200 in his pocket. Six…  More About: Ponzi

The Privacy Advocates

Today, personal information is captured, processed, and disseminated in a bewildering variety of ways, and through increasingly sophisticated, miniaturized, and distributed technologies: identity cards, biometrics, video surveillance, the use of cookies and spyware by Web sites, data mining and profiling, and many others.

In The Privacy Advocates, Colin Bennett analyzes the people and groups around the world who have risen to challenge the most…  More About: The Privacy Advocates

Privacy Wars

Exploring the conflict between civil liberties and national security, this book sounds the alarm about the current state of surveillance in the United States. Addressing the ease with which the federal government can monitor the telephone calls, e-mail, credit card purchases, money transfers, and even medical prescriptions of ordinary citizens, the book contends that information has become a weapon in the war on privacy. Interviews…  More About: Privacy Wars

Understanding Privacy

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible.

Daniel J. Solove offers a comprehensive overview of the difficulties involved in discussions of privacy and ultimately provides a…  More About: Understanding Privacy

Buyology

How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Or do our buying decisions take place below the surface, so deep within our subconscious minds, we’re barely aware of them? In Buyology, Lindstrom presents findings from his three-year, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study. This experiment looked inside the brains…  More About: Buyology

The New Deal

2008 marks the 75th anniversary of the New Deal, the series of programs initiated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help Americans recover during the Great Depression (1933-43). Programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration gave hope, support, and encouragement to millions of Americans. Several New Deal programs, including Social Security and Federal Insurance Deposit Insurance…  More About: The New Deal

Hot, Flat and Crowded

Thomas L. Friedman’s The World Is Flat helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Friedman now looks at the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy. He proposes that an national strategy—which he calls “Geo-Greenism”—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative,…  More About: Hot, Flat and Crowded

Stop Debt Collectors

Record numbers of people are falling behind on their financial obligations and their debts are being sent to collections. If you’re one of them, you know that being contacted by debt collectors can be stressful, especially if they are harassing you, threatening you, and/or using abusive language.

The federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) gives you legal rights when it comes to debt collectors.…  More About: Stop Debt Collectors

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