Joel Greenblatt’s You Can Be a Stock Market Genius provides tips on investment for the foreign individual investor. Concentrating in seemingly ignored areas such as spin-offs, mergers and distressed securities, Greenblatt has the ability to explain rather complicated fiscal ideas. The friendly tone with which he offers readers advice to help them find rich sources of profit and avoid pitfalls that Wall Street analysts would consider obvious is useful for people who do not have specialized training. It should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in becoming an investor.