The Millionaire Next Door or Style

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

Author: Thomas J Stanley

The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth!

CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR?

Who are the rich in this country?
What do they do?
Where do they shop?
What do they drive?
How do they invest?
Where did their ancestors come from?
How did they get rich?
Can I ever become one of them?

Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....

Forbes

The implication of The Millionaire Next Door is that nearly anybody with a steady job can amass a tidy fortune.

Library Journal

In The Millionaire Next Door, read by Cotter Smith, Stanley (Marketing to the Affluent) and Danko (marketing, SUNY at Albany) summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy." Focusing on those with a net worth of at least $1 million, their surprising results reveal fundamental qualities of this group that are diametrically opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture, including living below their means, allocating funds efficiently in ways that build wealth, ignoring conspicuous consumption, being proficient in targeting marketing opportunities, and choosing the "right" occupation. It's evident that anyone can accumulate wealth, if they are disciplined enough, determined to persevere, and have the merest of luck. In The Millionaire Mind, an excellent follow-up to the highly successful first analysis of how ordinary folks can accumulate wealth, Stanley interviews many more participants in a much more comprehensive study of the characteristics of those in this economic situation. The author structures these deeper details into categories that include the key success factors that define this group, the relationship of education to their success, their approach to balancing risk, how they located themselves in their work, their choice of spouse, how they live their daily lives, and the significant differences in the truth about this group vs. the misplaced image of high spenders. Narrator Smith's solid, dead-on reading never fails to heighten the importance of these principles that most twentysomethings should be forced to listen to in toto. Highly recommended for all public libraries. Dale Farris, Groves, TX Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

New York Post

A lively account of who the richest people in the U.S. really are.

Interesting book: Curious George in the Snow or 20000 Leagues Under the Sea

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace

Author: Joseph Williams

Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Ninth Edition
Joseph M. Williams

Why have thousands of college writers loved–and learned from–this book? Listen to what Joseph Williams has to say:

“The ninth edition of Style aims at answering the same questions I asked in the earlier ones:

• What is it in a sentence that makes readers judge it as they do?
• How do we diagnose our own prose to anticipate their judgments?
• How do we revise a sentence so that readers will think better of it?

The standard advice about writing ignores those questions. It is mostly truisms like Make a plan, Don’t use the passive, Think of your audience–advice that most of us ignore as we wrestle ideas out onto the page. When I drafted this paragraph, I wasn’t thinking about you; I was struggling to get my own ideas straight. I did know that I would come back to these sentences again and again, and that it would be only then–as I revised–that I could think about you and discover the plan that fit my draft. I also knew that as I did so, there were some principles I could rely on. This book explains them.”

Now even better, Style, Ninth Edition, includes more on:

• How gifted writers manipulate the language of argument and thereby our responses to its logic and substance, and the ethical implications of that manipulation
• How to work quotations into the flow of a sentence gracefully
• Plagiarism–why readers suspect it, and how writers can avoid the mistaken perception of it.

Also new to this edition are “Quick Tips,” short bits ofpractical advice about how to deal with some common problems.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Style as Choice	1
Lesson 1	Understanding Style	3
Lesson 2	Correctness	13
Pt. 2	Clarity	39
Lesson 3	Clarity 1: Actions	41
Lesson 4	Clarity 2: Characters	71
Lesson 5	Cohesion and Coherence	100
Lesson 6	Point of View	122
Lesson 7	Emphasis	139
Pt. 3	Grace	157
Lesson 8	Concision	159
Lesson 9	Shape	185
Lesson 10	Elegance	210
Appendix	Punctuating for Clarity and Grace	233
	Glossary	255
	Answers to Exercises	268
	Acknowledgments	268
	Index	269