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GOOD READS EXPAND YOUR SKILLS, GAIN INSIGHT, AND GET INSPIRED WITH THESE TOP PICKS The Just Right Home: Buying, Renting, Moving—or Just Dreaming—Find Your Perfect Match By Marianne Cusato with Dan DiClerico Choosing the right home can be a stressful and intimidating experience. Marianne Cusato's new book, The Just Right Home, explores features beyond a house's physical attributes that most buyers—and renters—overlook when trying to find the perfect home. Ranked the No. 4 most influential person in the homebuilding industry by Builder Magazine, architect Cusato is wellknown for her work on the Katrina Cottages in New Orleans. In The Just Right Home, Cusato, with the help of Consumer Reports' senior editor, Dan DiClerico, looks at how proximity—to work, to stores, to schools—trumps location; five things to look for when walking a property; why a property's live-in value is greater than its resale value; and a host of other checklist items. Cusato's book isn't just for homebuyers and renters; the author's intent is also to help housing professionals rethink the way they design, build, sell, and resell real estate. And it's a go-to resource to help their clients better articulate their wants, needs, and realities. 22 The Death of Corporate Reputation: How Integrity Has Been Destroyed on Wall Street By Jonathan R. Macey Yale Law School professor Jonathan Macey looks at the demise of reputation in capital markets and corporate finance in his book, The Death of Corporate Reputation. Companies historically invested heavily in cultivating and maintaining reputations of being trustworthy and ethical. That mindset prevailed for more than a century, but today, Macey says, the reputations of many of Wall Street's major players are in ruins. While the usual response to reputational downfall has been an outcry for more aggressive regulation, Macey explains how this only worsens the problem. What's more, Macey says financial firms—and regulators—no longer need strong reputations to succeed. "The SEC, certain banks, and … other Wall Street mainstays, continue to thrive despite reputations for incompetence or shady dealings or simply for putting their own interests ahead of their customers," Macey says. "This book explains this unfortunate phenomenon and suggests what the future holds for Wall Street after the crisis." Skip Tracing Basics & Beyond: A Complete Step-By-Step Guide for Locating Hidden Assets Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data By Susan Nash Naked Statistics breaks the mold of the conventional, mundane number-analyzing manuscript. In what Publishers Weekly describes as a "fun and illuminating read," Charles Wheelan, author of the best-seller Naked Economics, cites real-world examples grounded in pop culture to show how the right data can answer a number of burning questions in business, politics, sports, education, medicine, and many other fields. In a conversational, easy-tofollow style, Whelan peels back the technical particulars to explain key statistical concepts such as inference, correlation, and regression analysis and focuses on the underlying intuition that drives statistical analysis. He stresses that while biased and careless researchers can manipulate or misrepresent data, astute and empirical statisticians can leverage valuable data from natural experiments to gain constructive insights and stay ahead of the competition. From finding patterns in simple measurements in order to determine customer preferences to assessing systemic market and economic risks, Naked Statistics can help even the mathematically inept learn how to utilize and capitalize on this growing discipline. Skip Tracing Basics & Beyond reveals tried-and-true secrets and tips of skip tracing. Readers will discover the most effective tricks of the trade from a recognized expert in the field. Author Susan Nash is a forensic accountant, investigative consultant, and auditor, and is president and founder of Search-Net Management Corp., a company that specializes in asset location and services for the collection industry. Skip tracers with little or no investigation experience will find Nash's detailed guidebook easy to understand as they learn how to prepare and analyze information, and build the knowledge and skills needed to handle increasingly complex skip tracing issues. Nash explains what skip tracing is, how it works, how to prepare the stage, and how to execute with actual results. She explores various skip tracing techniques, like suggestion and autosuggestion, roping and deductive reasoning, the invisible Web, and operation trust-me using case studies, illustrations, tables, and website resources. By Charles Wheelan

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