The 8 Biggest Mistakes People Make With Their Finances Before and After Retirement

There are eight mistakes that he has seen with painful regularity in his years of practice as a financial advisor. These are: #1 Not investing for the long term #2 Taking on financial risk #3 Failing to do dignity planning #4 Not having good long-term care coverage #5 Not properly planning for estate transfer #6 Paying too much in taxes #7 Using the wrong investment strategies #8 Having the wrong type of life insurance
To fix these eight mistakes, follow the proven, commonsense strategies outlined.

25 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make and How to Avoid Them

All teachers make mistakes, but when those missteps involve students, they can have negative effects for years to come. This second edition of the bestseller by Carolyn Orange offers reflective scenarios and insights to help teachers learn from examples of undesirable teaching techniques and find better ways to address challenging or stressful classroom situations.

The Fall of Northern Rock: An Insider's Story of Britain's Biggest Banking Disaster

Some of the most memorable images of 2007 - if not of the decade - are those of people queuing outside branches of Northern Rock to withdraw their money. They are images from another age, or from another country, surely this could not have happened in the UK in the twenty-first century!

My Other Wife Is a Car: Confessions of a Car Tragic

John’s driven more than 3,000 cars in his day and owned more than 130—his shortest ownership being less than 24 hours. He’s had disasters that included a mishap with an old Rolls Royce, sold cars for a crooked dealer, and raced at Bathurst and Targa Tasmania. Now, strap in and get ready to experience the best and worst cars, the biggest lies, the most glorious failures, the cars that got away, and what it feels like to go full throttle for the first time through the kink into Caltex Chase.

This two-volume set of book-length comics  tells the story of the narrator, Artie, and his father Vladek, a Holocaust survivor. "Maus" is thus an important example of both Holocaust literature and of the graphic novel. The two volumes of "Maus" are subtitled "My Father Bleeds History" and "And Here My Troubles Began"; they should be read together to get the biggest impact.Artie is a comic book artist who is trying to create art that is meaningful, not just commercial.