Books by Peter Lynch

In his timeless classic, America's number one money manager and bestselling author, reveals the philosophy behind his spectacular record 'think like an amateur'.

Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.Develop a Winning Investment Strategywith Expert Advice from The Nations #1 Money Manager. Peter Lynchs invest in what you know strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. Theres a company behind every stock and a reason companiesand their stocksperform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. Theres no reason the individual investor cant match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.

This collection of mathematical articles covers a broad range ofdelightful topics in pure and applied mathematics. It is written inan expository style, making it accessible to everyone with a generalinterest in mathematics.There are articles about renowned mathematicians and about the history ofsome key ideas in maths. The importance of mathematics in the modern worldis illustrated by applications in engineering, technology, astronomy,music and the visual arts.Reading mathematics is best done in small steps. The articles areall short, and they can be read in arbitrary order. Some articlesare purely descriptive. Others go deeper and are at a more advancedmathematical level.Approximately half the articles have appeared in the author's regularcolumn "That's Maths" in The Irish Times. Others have been posted tohis mathematical blog, thatsmaths.com. All articles have been fullyrevised for this book. This is the second collection under the rubric"That's Maths". The first collection, published in 2016, was veryfavourably reviewed.The author has succeeded in bringing out the amazing beauty of mathematicsand its utility in so many areas of our lives. The book should beappreciated by anyone with an interest in mathematics and science. Inparticular, teachers of these subjects, at both school and universitylevel, should find a wealth of material to supplement and invigoratetheir classes.

The independence referendum of 2014 was the most colourful, dynamic and longest political campaign Scotland has ever seen and which, in IndyRef to ScotRef , is lovingly recounted through the experiences of a university lecturer turned Yes for Scotland activist who was inspired to roll up his sleeves and get involved in his native city of Edinburgh.

"Public companies are everywhere, and they surround you from morning to night... Nearly everything you eat, wear, read, listen to, ride in, lie on, or gargle with is made by one. Perfume to penknives, hot tubs to hot dogs, nuts to nail polish are made by businesses that you can own. " --from the Introduction.