The bestselling author shows you how to protect your money and put thousands back in your pocket every year by taking on the "corporate machines" who are taking you to the cleaners.

In Fight For Your Money, David Bach, our favourite financial guru and consumer advocate, has written the ultimate guide to making smarter financial decisions and protecting yourself from companies who want to separate you from your hard-earned paycheque. Corporations earn billions annually from our financial ignorance. The time has come to fight back!

Starting with an A to Z list of items where you are paying too much - your cell phone, cable bill, cars, credit cards, insurance, airfare, hotels and many more - Bach shows how you are being taken. Then the "Fight for Your Money Toolkit" shows you how to fight back, with sample letters, call scripts, and real-life stories of ordinary people who have fought back and won.

As David Bach says, "When you are being taken financially, you work harder than you have to, for longer than you need to. When you fight for your money, you keep more of your hard earned paycheque and you spend your life doing what you really want to do."

EARN SPEND SAVE

A savvy guide to money for Canadian women

Say goodbye to debt, boost your income, plan for retirement, and manage your money like a pro. From recession-proof investment strategies to taming that paper pile, Earn, Spend, Save is bursting with smart advice and real-life tips to help you save money and time.

Use Chatelaine''s six-month, step-by-step plan to take control of your finances and come out on top. Buying a home? Staring at a pre-nup? Looking for better returns? Putting off your taxes? Here is the perfect comprehensive road map to help you calm your money worries and reach your financial goals.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese?, a brilliant new parable that shows readers how to stay calm and successful, even in the most challenging of environments.

A young man

<p >Millions have read Sun Tzu's Art of War, the classic text on leadership and strategy, but how many understand its profound teachings or know how to apply them in modern life? The Rules of Victory presents the core insights of The Art of War, making them relevant and valuable to anyone who seeks more successful and creative approaches to dealing with chaos and conflict, whether at home, in the workplace, or in the midst of any challenging campaign or project. <p >According to Gimian and Boyce-who collaborated on a best-selling translation of Sun Tzu's classic-one of the essential teachings of The Art of War is that when we seek to effect change, conflict is inevitable. However, we can learn to perceive the underlying dynamics of situations and we can learn how to work with them to transform potential conflict into victory. What's more, when we master the skills of The Art of War, we attain our goals without engendering further conflict and destruction.


The Rules of Victory features:


   • In-depth explanations of the essential principles, strategies, and skills of The Art of War
   • First-person success stories illustrating how these teachings can be applied to a wide variety of professional and personal challenges
   • Guidance on how to recognize, and even create, a critical turning point in any campaign or project you undertake
   • A complete translation of The Art of War

The acclaimed bestseller that''s teaching the world about the power of mass collaboration.

Translated into more than twenty languages and named one of the best business books of the year by reviewers around the world, Wikinomics has become essential reading for business people everywhere. It explains how mass collaboration is happening not just at Web sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, but at traditional companies that have embraced technology to breathe new life into their enterprises.

This national bestseller reveals the nuances that drive wikinomics, and share fascinating stories of how masses of people (both paid and volunteer) are now creating TV news stories, sequencing the human gnome, remixing their favorite music, designing software, finding cures for diseases, editing school texts, inventing new cosmetics, and even building motorcycles.

Investing for the first time is an exciting and sometimes intimidating prospect. It can also be a fun and fascinating way to make your money work for you. With knowledge and good judgment, you can take your hard-earned cash and make it grow. With planning, almost everyone can get into investing. All you need is a clear set of goals and some guidance to reach them. That''s where Investing for the First Time comes in.

Read inside and learn

• how to invest successfully, right from the start
• how to set your investing goals
• how much risk is right for you
• how to diversify your portfolio
• how to work with an investment broker

Canadian Dollars & Sense guides help you to navigate the sometimes confusing issues of personal finance. Read these other books in the series:

Getting Out of Debt
Building a Budget
Buying Your First Home
Managing Your Money

Building a budget is an important first step towards managing your personal finances. When you take control of your spending, you can plan to save for the things you really want. Everyone has to deal with money, but most of us aren''t born with the necessary skills. Building a Budget gives you all of the information you need to create a realistic budget and make your money go further.

Read inside and learn

• how you''re really spending your money
• how to cut costs creatively
• how to manage your credit cards
• how much your assets are worth
• how to stop impulse spending

Canadian Dollars & Sense guides help you to navigate the sometimes confusing issues of personal finance. Read these other books in the series:

Getting Out of Debt
Investing for the First Time
Buying Your First Home
Managing Your Money

The road to financial security and economic success starts with learning how to manage your money. The first step is figuring out your financial goals and then creating a plan to achieve them. Do you want to invest and build wealth? To save towards a down payment? To secure your retirement? In Managing Your Money you''ll find everything you need to be in control of your financial life, including advice on how to make your bank work for you.

Read inside and learn

• how to establish financial priorities
• how to assess your income and your spending
• how to manage credit and debt
• how to develop a savings plan
• how to pay less tax 

Canadian Dollars & Sense guides help you to navigate the sometimes confusing issues of personal finance. Read these other books in the series:

Getting Out of Debt
Building a Budget
Buying Your First Home
Investing for the First Time

Buying a home can be one of the most exciting - and daunting - experiences of your life. Because it can be complicated, and because it may be the most expensive purchase you will ever make, taking this big step requires some research and planning. Buying Your First Home gives you all the information you need in one complete guide to help you find the right home in the right location for the right amount of money.

Read inside and learn

• how to gather a down payment
• how to calculate a manageable mortgage
• how to find your dream home
• how agents'' fees work
• how current tax laws can benefit homeowners

Canadian Dollars & Sense guides help you to navigate the sometimes confusing issues of personal finance. Read these other books in the series:

Getting Out of Debt
Building a Budget
Investing for the First Time
Managing Your Money

A stunning narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture," from open-source software and Creative Commons licenses to remixes and Web 2.0-in the tradition of Lawrence Lessig''s Free Culture.

A world organized around centralized control, strict intellectual property rights, and hierarchies of credentialed experts is under siege. A radically different order of society based on open access, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence, and cheap and easy sharing is ascendant. -from Viral Spiral

From free and open-source software, Creative Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix music and video mashups, peer production, open science, open education, and open business, the world of digital media has spawned a new "sharing economy" that increasingly competes with entrenched media giants.

Reporting from the heart of this "free culture" movement, journalist and activist David Bollier provides the first comprehensive history of the attempt by a global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, musicians, scientists, businesspeople, innovators, and geeks of all stripes to create a digital republic committed to freedom and innovation. Viral Spiral-the term Bollier coins to describe the almost-magical process by which Internet users can come together to build online commons and tools-brilliantly interweaves the disparate strands of this eclectic movement. The story describes major technological developments and pivotal legal struggles, as well as fascinating profiles of hacker Richard Stallman, copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig, and other colorful figures.

A milestone in reporting on the Internet by one of our leading media critics, Viral Spiral is for anyone seeking to takethe full measure of the new digital era.