LibGuides: Money Talks: Managing Your Financial Life: Financial Life Library Books

AUM Library Book Collection - Basic Information

All of the books listed here are available for AUM students, staff, and faculty to check out. AUM undergraduate students can check out 50 books at a time and have them for 28 days; AUM graduate students can check out 100 books at a time and have them for 90 days; AUM faculty/staff can check out 100 books at a time and have them for 90 days.

To find AUM Library books in our collection, do the following:

Examine the first part of the book's call number (example: HG 179 .D 624 2008)
In the AUM Library, call numbers start with one or two letters - our example starts with HG
Using our Key to Locations, identify which floor this call number is located.** (Key To Location Guides can be found on every floor of the library)

The important thing to remember when looking for books is that all the books on 3rd Floor - 5th Floor are available to be checked out. You can find these call numbers on the following floors:

A-HA - 3rd Floor
HB - PN 4887 - 4th Floor
PN 4888 - Z - 5th Floor

If you need ANY help, please call the AUM Library at 334-244-3647 or text 334-384-1851

Library Books

Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin; Joe Dominguez; Monique Tilford
Call Number: HG 179 .D 624 2008
ISBN: 9780143115762
Publication Date: 2008-12-10
In an age of great economic uncertainty when everyone is concerned about money and how they spend what they have, this new edition of the bestselling Your Money or Your Life is an essential read. With updated resources, an easy-to-use index, and anecdotes and examples particularly relevant today-it tells you how to:
• Get out of debt and develop savings
• Reorder material priorities and live well for less
• Resolve inner conflicts between values and lifestyle
• Save the planet while saving money
• And much more!
In Your Money or Your Life, Vicki Robin shows readers how to gain control of their money and finally begin to make a life, rather than just make a living.
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore; Mel Lindauer; Michael LeBoeuf; John C. Bogle (Foreword by)
Call Number: HG 4521 .L 3194 2014
ISBN: 9781118921289
Publication Date: 2014-08-18
The Boglehead's Guide to Investing is a DIY handbook that espouses the sage investment wisdom of John C. Bogle. This witty and wonderful book offers contrarian advice that provides the first step on the road to investment success, illustrating how relying on typical "common sense" promoted by Wall Street is destined to leave you poorer. This updated edition includes new information on backdoor Roth IRAs and ETFs as mainstream buy and hold investments, estate taxes and gifting, plus changes to the laws regarding Traditional and Roth IRAs, and 401k and 403b retirement plans. With warnings and principles both precisely accurate and grandly counterintuitive, the Boglehead authors show how beating the market is a zero-sum game.
What Color Is Your Parachute? 2014 by Richard N. Bolles
Call Number: HF 5382.7 .B64
ISBN: 9781607743620
Publication Date: 2013-08-13
In today's challenging job-market, the long-trusted guidance of What Color Is Your Parachute? is needed more than ever. Published in 22 languages and 26 countries, and with over 10 million copies sold, What Color is Your Parachute? has helped millions discover their unique gifts, skills, and interests and land a job--even in hard times.
Jim Cramer's Real Money by James J. Cramer (Introduction by)
Call Number: HG 4529 .C727 2009
ISBN: 9780743224901
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
Even after repeated boom and bust cycles on Wall Street, it’s still possible to make real money in the stock market—provided investors take a disciplined approach to investing. Financial guru Jim Cramer shows how ordinary investors can prosper, no matter the climate on Wall Street.
The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley; William D. Danko; Sarah Stanley Fallaw (Foreword by)
Call Number: HC 110 .W4 S73 2016
ISBN: 9781630762506
Publication Date: 2016-10-01
The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.
America's Cheapest Family Gets You Right on the Money by Steve Economides; Annette Economides
Call Number: HG 179 .E27 2007
ISBN: 9780307339454
Publication Date: 2007-01-16
Do you have too much month at the end of your money? Is your credit card screaming for relief? Are you tired of robbing Peter to pay Paul . . . whoever they are? Meet Steve and Annette Economides. They’ve been called cheapskates, thriftaholics, and tightwads, but in these tough economic times, Steve and Annette have managed to feed their family of seven on just $350 per month, pay off their first house in nine years and purchase a second, larger home, buy cars with cash, take wonderful vacations, and put money in savings. Without degrees in finance or six-figure salaries, Steve and Annette have created a comfortable, debt-free life for themselves and their children. In America’s Cheapest Family Gets You Right on the Money, they show you how they did it- and how you can do it too.
A Random Walk down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel
Call Number: HG 4521 .M284 2003
ISBN: 0393057828
Publication Date: 2003-04-17
In today’s daunting investment landscape, the need for Burton G. Malkiel’s reassuring, authoritative, and perennially best-selling guide to investing is stronger than ever. A Random Walk Down Wall Street has long been established as the first book to purchase when starting a portfolio. This new edition features fresh material on exchange-traded funds and investment opportunities in emerging markets; a brand-new chapter on “smart beta” funds, the newest marketing gimmick of the investment management industry; and a new supplement that tackles the increasingly complex world of derivatives.
The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous and Broke by Suze Orman
Call Number: HG 179 .O7576 2007
ISBN: 9781594482243
Publication Date: 2007-03-27
The world's most trusted expert on money matters answers a generation's cry for help-and gives advice on:
- Credit card debt
- Student loans
- Credit scores
- The first real job
- Buying a first home
- Insurance facts: auto, home, renters, health
- Financial issues of the self-employed
And much more advice that fits the realities of "Generation Broke."
The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton
Call Number: HG 179 .C55 2011
ISBN: 9780761513117
Publication Date: 1997-11-25
In this third edition of one of the biggest-selling financial-planning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a large dose of humor, Chilton shows you how to take control of your financial future--slowly, steadily, and with sure success. Chilton's plan (detailed in an entertaining story) is no get-rich-quick scheme, but it does make financial independence possible on nothing more than an average salary.
Man vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch
Call Number: HG 179 .H5425 2012
ISBN: 9780062196651
Publication Date: 2012-08-28
Man Vs. Markets by Paddy Hirsch of the public radio program "Marketplace" is economics explained, pure and simple. It's a book written for the layperson who wouldn't know a "bond" from an "option," and who believes that a "future" is when we'll all have flying cars. Here is an illuminating, insightful, and wonderfully witty journey of discovery through the often confusing financial markets, offering clear, relatable explanations and definitions of the system's various instruments, yet less simplistically than the popular ...for Dummies series. Man Vs. Markets is a must-read handbook for everyday investors, for serious students of finance and economics, and for anyone trying to understand the day's business and economics news.