Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets
Jim Rogers
Crown Business, $31.00

Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets. In Street Smarts, he takes us through the highlights of his life in the financial markets. Regarded as one of the most astute investors Wall Street has ever known, rogers once again is at his acerbic and storytelling best.

The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes
Kenneth l. Fisher
Wiley, $27.95

Everybody knows that a strong dollar equals a strong economy, bonds are safer than stocks, gold is a safe investment, and that high pes signal high risk… right? Such “common-sense” rules of thumb may work for a time as investment strategies, but as New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Ken Fisher, vividly demonstrates in his new book, they’ll let you down in the long run. Ken exposes some of the most common—and deadly—myths investors swear by, and he demonstrates why the rules-of-thumb approach to investing may be robbing you of the returns you hope for.

The Elements of Investing: Easy Lessons for Every Investor, Second Edition
Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis
Wiley, $27.95

In the updated edition of The Elements of Investing, authors Charles Ellis and Burton Malkiel have again combined their talents to produce a straight-talking book about investing and saving. Malkiel and Ellis focus their message to address the essentials and offer a set of simple but powerful thoughts on how to avoid Mr. Market and his “loser’s game,” and instead enjoy the “winner’s” approach to investing. All the investment rules and principles you need to succeed are here—with clear advice on how to follow them.

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence
Stephen D. King
Yale University press, $30.00 (publication date: June 18 2013)

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous economic growth has come to seem normal. But such an era of continuously rising living standards is a historical anomaly, economist Stephen D. King warns, and the current stagnation of Western economies threatens to reach crisis proportions in the not-so- distant future.

Operations Forensics: Business Performance Analysis Using Operations Measures and Tools
Richard Lai
The MIT Press, $65.00 (publication date: March 2013)

Investors and analysts often need to look into a firm’s operations more deeply than traditional financial statements and models allow. This book describes newly developed tools for using operations metrics to discern and influence the valuation of a firm. It is the first to present these techniques from a unified perspective: that of operations forensics, which looks at operations management not from the traditional point of view of a manager but from that of an investor or shareholder.

Bank 3.0: Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go But Something You Do
Brett King
Wiley, $47.95

The first edition, Bank 2.0, took the financial services world by storm and became synonymous with disruptive customer behaviour, technology shift, and new banking models. In Bank 3.0, Brett king looks at the latest trends that are redefining financial services and payments, from the global scramble for dominance of the mobile wallet, the expectations created by tablet computing, the operationalizing of the cloud, and the explosion of social media.

Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies Fifth Edition
Jeremy J. Siegel
Mcgraw-Hill, $44.95

Now in its fifth edition, Stocks for the Long Run includes Siegel’s highly anticipated analysis of the sub-prime crash, the financial crisis, and the resulting worldwide recession. This new edition also includes a deeper focus on international investing and emerging markets.