Jim Mellon and Al Chalabi demystify the process of investment and let you in on a few of their "BigIdeas" - whilst you work out a few of your own:

"Real Estate" - can the hot housing markets really continue to generate 20% annual increases?

"Stocks & Mutual Funds" - the hardest of all investment classes to operate in, so where are the opportunities?

"Bonds & Cash" - not as boring as you may think, and with the capacity to make you a lot of money

"The 'BRIC' Economies" - how do the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China stack up against the four key determinates of growth?

"Commodities & Collectables" - learn the five reasons why commodities are an investment vehicle set to grow and grow.

"'Green' Investments" - how can we turn the challenges of green and eco-needs into monetary returns on investment?

Given a bit of strategic thinking and proper planning these "BigIdeas" can turn into "MoneyFountains," meaning your financial worries for the future are over before they've begun.

"The DIY manual for building lasting wealth" Ross O'Brien, The Economist Group

"Many powerful City pundits would give an arm and a leg for thirty minutes with Jim Mellon. Simply divide your portfolio into 10 equal amounts and invest them in his 10 "BigIdeas" - the advice in this book will beat most professional fund managers by leaps and bounds." Sven Lorenz, market commentator, author & investor, and columnist for "Money Week"

"Packed with wise, practical advice, this book puts in plain English what every investor needs to know." Alexandra Harney, former South China Correspondent, "The Financial Times"

"If fund managers are so smart why do they sit opposite me? As an investor who backs his own judgement with cash, Jim Mellon sits on the same side, I only wish I had met him many many, years ago " Peter Simon, owner and founder, "Monsoon & Accessorize"

The origin of this significant and timely book was a lecture on the structural changes in the international oll industry prepared by Dr. AI-Chalabi for the OAPEC annual course on the Fundamentals o[ Oil and Gas. It was given in Arabic in February 1978 when the author was Assistant Secretary General of OAPEC. The author has succeeded in ex panding and updating the basic aspects of the subject. He has managed, in this relatively short book, to survey and analyse the main structural changes in the inter national oll industry during the last 35 years, with special emphasis on the revolutionary changes of the 1970s. The book clearly demonstrates the significance of these changes in terms of their impact on the power of control and decisions concerning the ownership of oil resources, their marketing outlets and price policy. It explains how the concession system and the various consortia arrangements among the transnational oil companies gave them max imum freedom and flexibility in the control and manage ment of emde oil production and pricing. Their vertical and horizontal integration enabled them to control and manage upstream and downstream operations on a global basis and with the effectiveness of a powerful international Cartel.

It has been remarked that if the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. Commencing with a brief history of neuroscience, from the ancient practice of drilling holes in the head to relieve headaches to the latest results from MRI and CT scans, this accessible guide sets out to explore exactly what we do know about the brain. Including the most up-to-date research on the cerebral processes behind a wide array of human activity - from our capacity for language to how we remember - this lively and entertaining introduction assumes no previous scientific knowledge and offers a tantalizing glimpse into man's most complex organ.

This book sheds light on the most important milestones, some of them revealed here for the first time, during the ten years' progress, from 1981-1991, of the Iraqi National Nuclear Program, a covert and thorough Iraqi nuclear program that focused initially on several processes for uranium enrichment and then later turned to military objectives before its demise and destruction in 1991, including Saddam Hussain's role in the program.

Many human diseases--including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, cancer, and cardiovascular disease--show complex inheritance that requires sophisticated analysis. Genetics of Complex Human Diseases: A Laboratory Manual brings together the tools that geneticists use to find disease genes with the genetic concepts and statistical theories that underpin these research approaches. Topics covered include basic genetics and Mendelian inheritance, statistical methods, genetic epidemiology, linkage studies, transmission disequilibrium test analysis, variance components analysis, genome-wide association studies, copy-number variation, methods for high-throughput genotyping, the complexity of RNA editing, and genetic computer programs. The book's chapters, written by leading investigators in the field, blend practical information and reviews of each topic, providing both the how and the why of complex disease analysis. Genetics of Complex Human Diseases is an important guide for anyone with an interest in human genetics or who uses genetic techniques in the study of diseases with complex inheritance.