Best Selling Books by Jim Slater

Jim Slater''s classic text made available once more Jim Slater makes available to the investor - whether the owner of only a few shares or an experienced investment manager with a large portfolio - the secrets of his success. Central to his strategy is The Zulu Principle, the benefits of homing in on a relatively narrow area. Deftly blending anecdote and analysis, Jim Slater gives valuable selective criteria for buying dynamic growth shares, turnarounds, cyclicals, shells and leading shares. He also covers many other vitally relevant aspects of investment such as creative accounting, portfolio management, overseas markets and the investor''s relationship with his or her broker. From The Zulu Principle you will learn exactly when to buy shares and, even more important, when to sell - in essence, how to to make ''extraordinary profits from ordinary shares''.

Storytelling from Boyhood and Beyond By: Jim Slater Storytelling from Boyhood and Beyond is a collection of stories relating to multiple generations of family: “a first trip from home,” “high school graduation,” “a letter from home when in Korea,” “engagement, marriage, and a lethal pancreatic cancer departure after fifty years.” Readers find themselves woven into a time they themselves lived through – or a time they were told about. Some stories invoke a chuckle or laughter – and yes, even tears.

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A brand new edition of the classic bestseller The goal of all investors is to make the maximum possible profit from their investments. ''Beyond The Zulu Principle'' shows you how to do this by focusing on growth shares. Jim Slater believes he has discovered a major market anomaly that should enable both private and institutional investors to enjoy exceptional returns in the stockmarket. A number of important factors are crucial to successful investment. Jim Slater explains how to choose a company operating in the right sector with an advantage over its competitors. He also highlights the importance of directors'' dealings, CEO changes, relative strength, cash flow accelerating earnings, and the capacity of some companies to clone their activities. Simple but enormously effective, the guidance offered here should help readers to make stockmarket profits well beyond the market averages.

Technical presentation of current television systems. The author offers suggestions for the future, describes the current colour television standards, discusses the impact of satellite transmission and its implications for HDTV and considers digital transmission systems.

Privacy issues in the communications sector are increasingly prevalent as new technology and new applications enter the market, such as social networking and the use of location based information. These new technology privacy issues add to the existing privacy issues in the sector, such as spam, telemarketing and the misuse of silent telephone numbers. Complaints are a vital element in privacy protection ¿ indeed, the entire system of privacy protection in the communications sector is built on the receipt and management of complaints.This consumer research report, published in Septmber 2010, is authored by the University of New South Wales Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and is funded through ACCAN¿s Grant Scheme.The aim of the study is to analyse and compare common communications privacy complaint paths in order to obtain optimum outcomes for consumers through the development of a more straightforward, fairer system for managing privacy complaints in the sector. The Report examines complaints to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC); to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); and the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO). Download a full copy of the report at www.accan.org.au

How to Become a Millionaire shows you in an easy-to-read way how to take a few simple steps to financial freedom. The authors explain the eighth wonder of the world, the power of compounding, showing how with relatively small regular savings you can produce a very significant capital sum. Did you know, for example, that with growth at the same rate as the UK stock market over the last 20 years, £5,000 a year would produce £2 million in 25 years?But that is only half the story. By using an ISA mortgage to finance the purchase of your house or flat you can harness two of the world’s best-performing financial assets, property and shares. How to Become a Millionaire shows you how to set them to work for you at the same time. And believe it or not, the capital profits you make on both will be tax free!Endowment mortgages should be avoided like the plague. If you are already saddled with one, the authors show you how to calculate whether or not to run it to maturity and how to get the best price if you decide to surrender the policy.There is no need to worry about the complexities of the stock market. You will be shown how to invest in tracker funds or a simple high-yield system that will take you less than an hour a year to use. If you want to become a more active investor, the authors give you a taste of the two most popular methods and point you in the right direction to progress further.There is no need to fantasise about winning the lottery. Written by Jim Slater, one of the country’s leading investment experts, and Tom Stevenson, the former City Editor of Independent, this book is a clear blueprint for making your first million. It really could be you.

Magic candy which causes him to shrink and the help of new animal friends make it possible for a boy called Grasshopper to save his mother''s cottage from an unscrupulous landlord.

The telepathic powers and super intelligence of a fourteen-year-old boy from a friendly alien planet are instrumental in saving earth from invasion by evil aliens.

A small brown monster who drinks oil saves Britain''s beaches from an oil spill, becomes a hero, and has tea with the Queen.