Free Book - Critical Thinking Strategies for Success (K/N)

Update: 1/30/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Critical Thinking Strategies for Success (US/UK), a collection of titles by Dr. Richard Paul, Dr. Linda Elder, Robert E. Gunther, Judy Chartrand, Stewart Emery, Russ Hall, Heather Ishikawa, and John Maketa, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. This should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
3 great books help you think more clearly about any problem—and transform better thinking into better results—in business, and in life!

Three remarkable books help you think more clearly, flexibly, effectively—and transform better thinking into better personal and business performance! Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life offers practical tools for becoming a better thinker in every aspect of your life: in your career, and as a consumer, citizen, friend, parent, and lover. Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder reveal the core skills of effective thinking, helping you analyze your own thought processes, identify weaknesses, and overcome them. The Truth About Making Smart Decisions brings together 50 powerful "truths" about making better decisions: real solutions for the tough challenges faced by every decision-maker, in business and in life. You'll discover how to systematically prepare to make better decisions...how to get the right information, without getting buried in useless data...how to minimize your risks, and then act decisively...how to make better group decisions...profit from mistakes...and a whole lot more. Finally, Now You're Thinking!: Change Your Thinking...Revolutionize Your Career...Transform Your Life draws on an incredible story of survival in wartime to introduce a model of critical thinking that will help you recognize how your emotions are shaping your actions, evaluate arguments more effectively, and draw conclusions that lead you directly to better life decisions.

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Free Book - The Rules of Money (K/N)

Update: 1/30/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

The Rules of Money: How to Make It and How to Hold on to It, Expanded Edition (US/UK), by Richard Templar, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. This should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Money: some people just seem to know how to get it -- and keep it! What's their secret? What do they know that the rest of us don’t? They know the "rules of money": the "golden behaviors" that create wealth and make it grow. Anyone can learn the rules of money. You could learn them by spending years watching rich people up close... or you can learn them all right now, with Richard Templar’s The Rules of Money, Expanded Edition. Templar -- author of The Rules of Life and many other best-sellers -- has brought together 107 easy wealth-generation techniques you can start using instantly! Now updated and expanded with 9 brand new rules, Templar's rules address everything you need to know about money: how to think wealthy, get wealthy, get even wealthier, stay wealthy, and share your wealth. You'll find great up-to-the-minute advice on saving, spending, and investing, and enjoying your money, too. You'll discover why your money beliefs might be holding you back; how to see wealth as a friend, not the enemy; how to make money without compromising your ethics; avoid envy; make a plan; get your current finances under control; master deal-making and negotiation; discover opportunities nobody else sees, and much more. Templar's bite-size advice isn't just fun to read -- it's easy to use, too!

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Free Book - Options for the Beginner and Beyond (K/N)

Update: 1/30/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Options for the Beginner and Beyond: Unlock the Opportunities and Minimize the Risks (US/UK), by W. Edward Olmstead, is a repeat freebie for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. This should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Brief, carefully paced lessons on options and trading strategies using verbal definitions and many trading examples for clarification. Each lesson builds on the one preceding it and explains options in plain English, from start to finish. Step-by-step coverage of controlling risk, protecting your investments -- even advanced strategies other introductory books ignore! Authored by Dr. W. Edward Olmstead, contributing editor to The Spear Report and editor of The Options Professor newsletter.

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Free Book - Making Sense of People (K/N)

Update: 1/30/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Making Sense of People: Decoding the Mysteries of Personality (US/UK), by Samuel Barondes, is a repeat freebie for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. This should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Every day, we all size up each other: It's one of the most important things we ever do. Making Sense of People provides the scientific frameworks and tools we need to improve our intuition, and assess people more consciously, systematically, and effectively.

Leading neuroscientist Samuel H. Barondes explains the research behind each standard personality category: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness. He shows readers how to use these traits and assessments to do a better job of deciding who they'll enjoy spending time with, whom to trust, and whom to keep at a distance.

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Free Book - Presenting to Win (K/N)

Update: 1/30/12 Now free in the US Kindle store.

Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, Updated and Expanded Edition (US/UK), by Jerry Weissman, is a repeat freebie for UK customers in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble. This should be free for US Kindle customers by morning.

Book Description
Thirty million presentations will be given today. Millions will fail. Millions more will be received with yawns. A rare few will establish the most profound connection, in which presenter and audience understand each other perfectly…discover common ground… and, together, decide to act.

In this fully updated edition, Jerry Weissman, the world’s #1 presentation consultant, shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences...and move them to action! He teaches presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all and tell compelling stories that focus on what’s in it for the audience.

Weissman’s techniques have proven themselves with billions of dollars on the line. Thousands of his elite clients have already mastered them. Now it’s your turn!

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