Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition
by John C. Bogle, Founder of Vanguard Low Cost Mutual Fund Family

Bogle has written a terrific book that makes its points over and over. His statistics are irrefutable that high cost, front-end load funds can never, as a group, match mutual funds that use his proven strategies. Bogle shows you how simplicity and common sense invariably trump costly complexity, and how a low cost, broadly diversified portfolio is virtually assured of outperforming the vast majority of Wall Street professionals over the long-term. 

Teaches the reader straightforward method for earning exceptional returns and minimizing risk when investing. Explains how to manage a personal diversified account, how to assess how risk according to personal needs, and the fundamental relationship between risk and reward in financial markets. 

"Any reader who takes the time and effort to understand his approach to the crucial subject of asset allocation will surely be rewarded with enhanced long-term returns." - John C. Bogle

Synopsis:   Wall Street Words features nearly 4,000 terms including hundreds of new entries that accurately and clearly explain the language of the world of finance and investment. Contemporary case histories offer real-world applications of investment concepts, how to  manage money in today's market, and more.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge
Beat the Market by Going Against the Crowd 
by David N. Dreman: / Hardcover / Published 1998 / 464 pages 

Kirk's Review: One of my favorite investment books!  The Crash of 2007 revealed in dramatic fashion that there are glaring flaws in the theory that underlies all of the prevailing investment strategies—efficient market theory. This theory, and all of the most popular investing strategies, fail to account for major, systematic errors in human judgment that the powerful new research in psychology David Dreman introduces has revealed, such as emotional over-reactions and a host of mental shortcuts in judgment that lead to wild over and under-valuations of stocks, bonds, and commodities and to bubbles and crashes. It also leads to horribly flawed assessments of risk.
                    Original: Contrarian Investment Strategies - The Next Generation

• Buying individual bonds or bond funds
• The ins and outs of open-end funds, closed-end funds, and exchangetraded funds (ETFs)
• The new landscape for municipal bonds: the changed rating scales, the near demise of bond insurance, and Build America Bonds (BABs)
• The safest bond funds
• Junk bonds (and emerging market bonds)
• Buying Treasuries without paying a commission
• TIPS, Inflation-indexed Securities