New Releases by Peter Lynch

This generous journey through Ireland was part pilgrimage, part adventure travel, part educational tour, and part Zen experience, but above all it was enormous fun.

The climate is changing, the forests are vanishing, and the Yangtze river dolphin is no more. With increasing numbers of us eager to do something to save the planet, the conservation volunteering market is booming. But how does one choose between the thousands of volunteer projects of offer? Bradt''s Wildlife and Conservation Volunteering is the first book to properly dissect this exploding industry, and to assess which are the most environmentally and scientifically useful companies on the market. It features different types of ''sending agencies'' including charities, not-for-profit, brokers, clearing houses, eco-tour operators and travel agents, and asks, ''Where does the money go?'' With a focus on wildlife and environmental conservation volunteering, it includes chapters on conservation and environmental issues, planning and preparation, and fund-raising, and features detailed interviews with volunteers during and after their travels. There''s also a unique chapter about day-to-day life on a range of conservation volunteer projects. Whether you''re a wealthy professional searching for a meaningful holiday, a retiree wanting your travels to have a purpose, or a gap-year student looking for a wider life experience, this ground-breaking guide, written by an author with first-hand experience of conservation volunteering in Africa, Asia and South America, will help you to find a genuine eco-friendly, conservation-focused experience.

This book, first published in 2006, is a history of weather forecasting for researchers, graduate students and professionals in numerical weather forecasting.

The Scottish National Party arrived dramatically in British politics in the 1970s. Now, with devolution, it has emerged as the main opposition party in the Scottish Parliament. SNP: The Scottish National Party explores the party''s fortunes from its formation in the 1930s to its performance in the new Parliament. Peter Lynch traces the course of modern Scottish Nationalism, the personalities and the politics that have brought the SNP to this pivotal point in history. Through a range of documentary sources and interviews he provides the inside story of the party''s campaign for independence. The book also examines the SNP''s electoral prospects in the 2003 Scottish election as the party seeks sufficient support to launch an independence referendum. This book is a timely history of the party that has been the driving force behind constitutional change in Scotland.

The "Almanac of Scottish Politics" is a useful reference book which covers constituency information, election results, the workings of the Scottish Parliament and Executive and biographies of key personalities.

A major descriptive and analytical introduction to Scottish government and politics in the new era of devolution.

Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works. The reason, say Lynch and Rothchild, is that the basics of investing - the fundamentals of our economic system and what they have to do with the stock market - aren''t taught in school. At a time when individuals have to make important decisions about saving for college and 401(k) retirement funds, this failure to provide a basic education in investing can have tragic consequences. In Learn to Earn, Lynch and Rothchild explain in a style accessible to anyone who is high-school age or older how to read a stock table in the daily newspaper, how to understand a company annual report, and why everyone should pay attention to the stock market. They explain not only how to invest, but also how to think like an investor.

N''allez pas croire que pour Gagner en Bourse, il faut maîtriser des techniques incroyablement complexes ou avoir percé les mystères des martingales les plus astucieuses. Peter Lynch, qui manie l''humour avec un rare à-propos, est fermement convaincu que l''amateur a plus de chances de gagner qu''un expert des marchés. Il suffît de regarder autour de vous et d''appliquer à la Bourse les mêmes règles de bon sens que dans la vie de tous les jours pour choisir les actions qui vont décupler leurs cours. Ecrit "à l''américaine", dans un style simple et imagé, le livre de Peter Lynch va vous faire découvrir la Bourse comme vous ne l''avez jamais imaginée.