Anyone considering starting their own home-based business should immediately purchase Launching Your Home-Based Business. Launching Your Home-Based Business will help you establish realistic goals and locate the resources you need to succeed. A quick read coupled with dozens of worksheets that help you determine whether or not you have the personal qualifications you need to be your own boss as well as help you establish realistic budgets, target your market, manage your time and delegate responsibility- -as well as verify that your home is the right location for your business. The hundreds of tips and resources listed throughout the book and the Appendix, alone, are worth the price. Roger C. Parker

This book is a must have, PERIOD! I was in the process of making my first business plan, and most business plan guides I used didn't help me with a marketing strategy (and they aren't designed to).

The worksheets in this book won me over, because it allowed me to interact with the book, it ask questions I never considered and organized my marketing plan. This Book is a fine supplement for "The Successfil Business Plan" written by Rhonda Abrams.

The money you save making a precise plan, and the money you earn with a focused plan is worth way more than the cost of this book.

Now in its sixth edition, The Market Planning Guide by entrepreneur David H. Bangs, Jr. (founder of the Upstart Publishing Company) is a straightforward, "user friendly", and highly recommended guide to creating a plan to promote, publicize, and market any business, product, or service. From price setting guidelines, to analyzing the competition, to responding quickly to inevitable market changes, The Market Planning Guide is an excellent basic "how to" resource, filled from cover to cover with a wealth of recommendations, charts, tips, tricks, techniques and much more.

Friedman was one of the first to capture the essence of the Japanese business model that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Vividly written and wisely analyzed, this is a must read for historical context on the whole of Japanese business.

The enchanting tale of Miss McGillicuddy and the unusual tree that grew in her yard. It has a such a strange shape,and grew so fast. One day she realizes that the leaves are dollar bills, how strange! Miss McGillicuddy seems strangely unaffected by the money in the tree, she goes about her normal life. She is relieved that strangers come to pick the dollars off the branches, saving them from breaking from under the weight of the bills. As the seasons change, people are still trying to find money from the tree, which bemused the woman. As winter comes, she has the tree chopped down for firewood. Miss McGillicuddy is jusy as happy and content as she was before the magical tree grew. This book will spark any child's imagination. A wonderful story by Sarah Stewart, matched with delightful illustrations by David Small.

An impressive and "reader friendly" compendium of information and instruction Nolo's Patents For Beginners is the ideal introduction to the patenting process for novice inventors and entrepreneurs. Written in plain English, the reader is provided with up-to-date principles of patent law; shown how to properly "read" a patent application; shown the nuts and bolts of patent ownership; informed what the inventor's social or economic status is irrelevant; learn how to analyze and resolve patent disputes; what patents don't inherently provide "defensive" protection; and what the fundamentals of international patent law are. Nolo's Patents For Beginners is a highly recommended addition to personal, professional, academic, corporate, and community library reference patent law collections.

Paper John is everyones dream of problem solving with a positive and creative nature. The autor opens the reader to a heavenly existence but one that becomes threatened with danger. Without crating a "Good Guy Bad Guy" situation the reader experiences problem solving with grace and imagination. As a storyteller this book can include paper folding as it's being told.

If Riane Eisler's CHALICE AND THE BLADE (C&B) excited you (or if you're dying to read it), and you'd like to share it with others, this book is for you. Begin to break down the dominator paradigm by sitting in a circle with a bunch of friends or fellow travellers and working the exercises in this book.

THE PARTNERSHIP WAY provides nine "lessons" which guide a group through C&B. This path is structured so that the group follows it together, without relying on the "authority" of a "leader." The experience of covering this material in a "partnership way" is what they didn't teach you in school. Learning to work together without ranking ourselves is a skill that we lost thousands of years ago. This book presents an opportunity for those who would like to reclaim that skill.

The Pushcart Prize is the most wonderful and rewarding annual anthology out there because, for one thing, it's the most fair--as Bill Henderson says in his introduction, there's no money here. You don't have to have written a bestseller or be in with the "New Yorker" crowd in order to be published here. All you have to do is be a good writer. Here is fiction and poetry at its rawest and purest form, from writers who write for the sake of writing, for the sheer love of it. This is a noble thing.

Now I've read this book, I realise that recording isn't as complicated as it seems - but it needs practise and skill just like playing a musical instrument. I don't know why the title says 'small studios' though - it seems like the info would be useful at any level.