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Your Credit Score "Excellent book! Insightful, well written, and surprisingly interesting! Liz Pulliam Weston has done an outstanding job demystifying an often intimidating and frustrating topic for the benefit of all consumers." --Eric Tyson, syndicated columnist and best-selling author of "Personal Finance for Dummies "In a country where consumers increasingly pay more when they have bad credit, Liz Pulliam Weston?s book provides excellent tips and advice on ways to improve your credit history and raise your credit score. If you just apply one or two of her insightful suggestions, you?ll save many times the cost of this book."--Ilyce R. Glink, financial reporter, talk show host, and best-selling author of "100 Questions Every First-Time Home Buyer Should Ask "Your credit score can save you money or cost you money--sometimes a lot of money. Yet, most people don?t even know their scores, much less know how to make them better. Liz Pulliam Weston can help you fix that. In this easy-to-understand guide you?ll learn how to make sure your score helps you get the best deal on loans and insurance. You can?t afford not to read it." --Gerri Detweiler, consumer advocate and founder of UltimateCredit.com A complete action plan for improving your credit score--starting today! Information that could save you thousands on credit and insurance... even help you get your next job! Explains the rules, explodes the myths! Up-to-the-minute information on today?s radically new credit scoring system from MSN/"L.A. Times personal finance journalist Liz Pulliam Weston.(c) Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Sony is a global household name. Look around your house you may have a Trinitron television, a VAIO computer, a PlayStation or a Walkman. Or maybe movie DVDs such as Men In Black and Stuart Little. Or music CDs by Billie Holiday, Michael Jackson or Macy Gray. Sony s role in the evolution of electronics over the half a century is undeniable, offering the world the first transistor radio, the first portable stereo, the first home video-game console using three-dimensional graphics, among others. This book tells the story of Sony s past and present, and the vision and drive of founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Beyond narrative history, the book serves as a case study for how entrepreneurs, with the right combination of tenacity, passion, creativity and an eye for the future, can build a company from the humblest of beginnings into a global giant, with operating revenues of more than US$50 billion and close to 170,000 employees. The rapid changes in technology and the advent of the Broadband Age have made it difficult for Sony to rest on the laurels it earned in the past. But even as Sony strives to develop beyond traditional realms of a consumer-electronics company to become a global giant of broadband entertainment, one constant will almost always remain within the company s culture, and that is Sony s drive to think outside conventional wisdom and capture consumers imagination, continuing to make them see products and exclaim, Ah, it s a Sony! Shu Shin Luh is a freelance journalist who writes regularly about technology, management and corporate governance issues around Asia. She contributes to publications suchas the South China Morning Post, the China Post, the American Lawyer Magazine and the Corporate Counsel Magazine, and has won awards for her reporting on consumer rights issues. She has worked for the Asian Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post.