magazine finance editor Jill Andresky Fraser (Jan.). In addition, Bloomberg Press fills an unusual back-to-basics niche for small business owners with The Business Owner's Guide to Personal Finance by Inc. Once investors have the vocabulary down pat, what's next? Two annual Adams Media titles, due next month, offer advice on making the most dollars and cents out of every investment: The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy 2002 by John Slatter and The 100 Best Mutual Funds You Can Buy 2002 by Gordon K. Siegel (Nov.), while the Times Books imprint of Holt contains 3,500 investing terms in its paperback original The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing: The Essential A-to-Z Guide to the Language of the New Market by Gretchen Morgenson and Campbell R. From Barron's comes the paperback Dictionary of International Investment Terms by Joe K. Several new reference books are geared to helping would-be stock mavens understand business lingo.
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Amacom's The Informed Investor: A Hype-Free Guide to Constructing a Sound Financial Portfolio by Frank Armstrong (Mar.) offers straightforward advice on stock market basics, as does Toni Turner's A Beginner's Guide to Short Term Trading: How to Maximize Your Profits in 3 Days to 3 Weeks (Adams Media, Jan.). Larry Crumbley's Keys to Personal Financial Planning, which continues to be a planning staple. Also due that month, from Barron's, is the third edition of L. That's the message of Ten Speed's The Small Investor: A Beginner's Guide to Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds by Jim Gard (Apr.). In these less exuberant days, first-time investors should proceed with caution. Hungry Minds has just one new finance release in the works, Stock Investing for Dummies by Paul Mladjenovic (May). "Right now is not a great time to be publishing those topics." But cutting back is relative: six Complete Idiot's guides have come out since July, including titles on money managing, 401(k)s and surviving bankruptcy. "Some of our top-selling Idiot's guides of all times are from this category," notes Dawn Werk, marketing manager of Alpha.
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Two series that have fallen on hard times of late are the ubiquitous yellow Dummies books, which are now published by Wiley's Hungry Minds imprint, and the bright orange Complete Idiot's guides. In fact, so many titles are part of this trend that, if investors read every one back to back, they'd keep busy until well past the likely end of the recession in February, if NBER's prediction is right. For investors seeking more specific recommendations on their portfolios, there are lots of comprehensive, easy-to-read books. Gallea in Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered: Investment Wisdom That Stands the Test of Time (Prentice Hall, Jan.), a collection of adages from Wall Street, which takes its name from the saw. "If you want a friend, get a dog don't fall in love with a stock," warns Anthony M. Going forward, those books are going to be very popular." Business Basics There are people who have lost half their portfolios. As Ross puts it, "Certainly, as the economy has retreated, we're seeing a back-to-basics approach, time-tested theories of what works and what doesn't work." Jill Alexander, business editor at Adams Media, has her own term for what people are looking for-"the 're' phase: a time to repair, reassess, reevaluate. What most people want in these volatile days are easy-to-follow primers to help them through hard investing times. Obviously the get-rich-quick, retire young and day trading titles are no longer on anyone's A list. Now that the going is tough, he and other business-book publishers are banking on the fact that people will need books more than ever before. People who had previously resisted temptation to invest started to go hog wild." "What we saw was that every single high-falutin' theory seemed to work. During the bull market, "The stock market, especially the Nasdaq, was like a broken slot machine," says Steve Ross, editorial director of Crown and Crown Business.
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