Buying Bargains at Property Auctions (Lawpack Property) - Howard Gooddie

Advantages: Practical advice, well laid out
Disadvantages: none

...parts. Part 1 deals with how to get onto the property ladder, covering areas such as: The practicalities of buying Buying to develop Buying to Let Managing property. Part 2 looks at developing your property covering: Design basics Selling your property. There is also a really useful resource section with some really useful address and websites covering all aspects of property pitfalls such as mortgages, land registery and surveys. The book is really easy to follow and you do not need to have any knowledge of property developing to be able to follow and understand Sarah's advice. It is a great tool for anyone both researching property developing or those already in the thick of it. Each Chapter is clearly broken down into bitesize sections, for example. The practicalities of buying is broken down into: Where to start Finding the right... Read review

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Advantages: Size
Disadvantages: drawings, not photographs

...This little book is excellent for people who like to name the rocks and minerals that they see in walks in the country side. This book covers every common mineral in the world. Minerls, rocks and elements are all covered in detail. Each different entry is given a page of text together with a colour drawing. This makes identifying what you have seen relatively easy. Plenty of properties of the minerals are included. The book is as comprehensive as it can be with only 192 pages covering the whole of the world of rocks and minerals. A good value buy for those interested in rocks and minerals.... Read review

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Advantages: Great way to find out about the best books about money
Disadvantages: Would liked to have seen more books talking about the mental blocks to getting rich

...Buffet and Peter Lynch as well as good additions from John C. Bogle and index trackers. The inclusion of books about debt is very welcome, since now its common for people to be overdrawn every month. And if you are in debt, no matter how small to pay them off. It doesn't matter if you have a savings account paying you 5% a year in interest when you have got a large credit card balance that's charging you 15%! And in the current time of writing this, with the sub-prime mortgage meltdown getting rid of debt has never been more pertinent or sensible. There are also two books on real estate or property, although everyone is jittery about the economy you can still bide your time, build up a nest egg and wait for the slump to buy a property cheaply. Even if you don't buy a new property a running theme with the books in this section is to have... Read review

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