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- Nika C. Beamon, Many More Stories To Tell: Storytelling and Living the Ed Bradley Way (History / Biography / Narrative Non-Fiction)
Many More Stories to Cover provides a tribute to the famed CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley while concurrently showing how his life, achievements and choices have inspired and is duplicated in the careers of others and can encourage everyone to follow their passion, work hard and create their own luck. Through the moving real life accounts of journalists still toiling in the media industry, sometimes in anonymity, it also shows budding journalists the current challenges and triumphs they might face in the industry. Additionally, it gives them a history of journalists, particularly African American journalists, who have not often been the subject of such a project.
About the Author:
MTamanika (Nika) C. Beamon is an African-American female currently residing in Newark, New Jersey. In her seventeen years as a journalist, she has worked at various television stations including WABU-TV in Boston, ESPN Classic and WABC-TV in New York. Currently, she is a Writer/Producer for WABC-TV Eyewitness News in New York; the number one local station in the country. She has won several awards throughout her career including a Peabody Award for ABC News' coverage of the September 11th Attacks. She is also the recipient of the Cush Campus Schools Excellence in Communications Award. Her book, I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful, Single Black Women Speak Out, has been mentioned on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, in Uptown Magazine, Booklist Magazine, Port of Harlem Magazine, New Jersey Monthly.com, Reader's Digest.com, The Root.com, Grio.com, AOL Blackvoices.com, Harlem Community News Paper, The Amsterdam News, among other publications and websites.
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- Patty Briguglio and Gloria Lesher, I See You Everywhere: Insider Tips For Using Personal Branding and Social Media To Increase Your Business, Your Status and Your Earning Power (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
To succeed in these uncertain times, you have to stand out. And to stand out, you need to brand yourself through public relations and social media. Few business owners really understand the impact that powerful personal branding and the effective use of today's new forms of social media can have on their bottom line.
With a practical, step-by-step system, we teach entrepreneurs how to use traditional media and new social media tools to create a powerful personal brand, develop a personal public relations plan, network with strategic purpose both face-to-face and online, become known as an expert, win awards, give back to their community, gain prominence, serve on boards, handle media relationships with savvy, plan events that get publicity, and survive any personal public relations crisis with their self-confidence intact. In other words, we teach them how to be seen everywhere!
About the Authors:
• Patty Briguglio is president of MMI Public Relations, a Raleigh-based, full-service PR firm that helps its clients start big conversations and make powerful connections. Known as the businesswoman who wagged a finger at President Obama, Patty Briguglio appeared with Obama on the front page of the New York Times on July 30, 2009. Neil Cavuto, Fox Business Network host, interviewed Patty on television the next day. On the evening of July 31, Patty was interviewed by John Roberts on Campbell Brown's CNN news show. Today she is a regular on Fox Business, known colloquially among the Happy Hour staff as "Patty the PR Chick." A voice for small and medium-size business, Patty is a sought-after speaker, moderator, and panelist both locally and nationally. For more information, see author's Web site.
• Gloria Lesher is an award-winning writer and ghostwriter. Hundreds of Gloria's articles and ghostwritten articles for clients have been published online and in newspapers, magazines and trade publications such as: News & Observer; Women's Edge Magazine; Affluent: The Authority on Lifestyle; HR Magazine; CIO Canada; Showcase: The AS/400 Solutions Magazine; Mortgage Originator; APICS Magazine; Skin, Inc.; Cary Magazine; New You Magazine; North Carolina Magazine; Builder & Broker Journal; Broker Agent Magazine; Professional Insurance Agents; Ocean Home Owners Magazine; Business Leader Magazine; Triangle Real Estate; International Cemetery and Funeral Association Journal; Revitalization Magazine; Boom!; NC Journal for Women; The Greeley Tribune; Colorado Libraries; CIRCA Magazine; North American Design; Enterprising Women Magazine; Professional Woman's Magazine and Wake Living. Gloria contributed to The Woman's Advantage, a book by women's business expert Mary Cantando. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Jacqueline Cornaby, Inspiring the Goddess Within: How to Become a 21st Century Goddess and Empower Your Life and Enterprise (Careers / Self-Help / Psychology / Relationships)
Women are looking for who they are in all the wrong places, one more shopping spree away from finding ourselves, one more handbag, pair of Prada shoes, one more elective surgery away from discovering who we are and finally feeling self-worth. Do we really give more importance to the latte we order than to ourselves, do we define ourselves based on what the world wants to see or what we think the world wants from us? Inspiring the Goddess Within answers this call with a timeless message in a modern world; it is the buzz needed to awaken readers' potential. Inspiring the Goddess Within is beyond a book; it is a Lifestyle allowing readers to take what they have read and implement it into their lives. The book is an invitation extended to a reader's potential to come out and play. Inspiring the Goddess Within offers a blend of conceptual and practical application for knowingly accessing one's potential and how to integrate it into her lifestyle
About the Author:
Jacqueline Cornaby is a sought-after expert on women's empowerment. She is a successful speaker and lifestyle coach with clients ranging from entrepreneurs, executives, non-profit organizations, corporations to full time Mothers. For five years Jacqueline worked with Anthony Robbins as an international speaker, lead coach and corporate trainer. Jacqueline has been featured in newsstand publications to name a few: Cosmopolitan, Women's Daily, Parents Magazine, and Bee. She is also a contributing writer to professional magazines and non-profit publications (Women in Business, The Eleusis, Personal Excellence, Momference) with high volume circulations. Jacqueline is a Spokesperson for an International Cosmetic Company endorsing the message "True Beauty Begins on the Inside." For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Ritch K. Eich, Ph.D., M.A. with Susan J. Marks, Shut Up and Get Out of the Way: And Other Lessons I Learned Working with the World's Greatest Leaders (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
Based on his work with a who's who of leaders in the not-for-profit, military, academic and private sectors—from Howard Holmes (think Jiffy Mix) to Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza) to Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. (credited with modernizing the U.S. Navy), Dr. Ritch Eich shares the 7 principles of effective leadership he has learned working with these and other distinguished leaders.
About the Author:
A management consultant who has taught at Stanford and the University of Michigan, Dr. Eich has been recognized by the United States Congress for his leadership contributions to the Navy. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Rich Herschlag and Billy Staples, Before the Glory: More Inspiring Stories of Growing Up and Going For the Long Ball — Vol. II (History / Biography / Narrative Non-Fiction)
Like the first volume, Before the Glory—Volume II will inspire readers and baseball fans of all ages with personal stories of players overcoming long odds and serious hardship, as well as entertain with tales of adventure and camaraderie. Padres star reliever Heath Bell describes the challenges and joys of raising a child with Downs Syndrome. Dodgers All-Star catcher Russell Martin talks about his parents divorce and his father making a living playing saxophone in the Montreal subways. Braves pinch hitting specialist Greg Norton recounts the murder of his mother and finding out that his father was responsible. Former Philadelphia A's and New York Yankees great Bobby Shantz explains the odds against a high school pitcher who graduates high school at a height of four-foot-eleven. But there are some new twists in Volume II, with an emphasis on problems and situations all families may face at one time or another.
About the Authors:
• Billy Staples graduated Phi Beta Kappa from East Stroudsburg University and went on to develop a unique style of teaching English that has helped him win several awards including nominations for Disney's National Teacher of the Year. In 2004, under the guidance of his mentor, Jack Canfield, Staples helped create a foundation called C.A.P.E.R.S. to pay for his most deserving students to attend college and ultimately return to their communities to serve as police officers, firefighters, nurses, and teachers themselves. Staples was featured by CNN in a five-part series for helping to take broken young lives and put them back together again. Billy Staples has been an invited speaker and honored guest of Depak Chopra at two separate think tanks assembled by the best-selling author.
• Rich Herschlag is the author of several books including Before the Glory (2007) co-authored with Bill Staples, and Lay Low and Don't Make the Big Mistake, which resulted in over 175 radio and TV interviews across the country, was the subject of a feature article in USA Today, highlighted in Reader's Digest, and quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. Along with Bill Staples, Herschlag writes a weekly sports column for The Trentonian and other daily newspapers. He also writes a humor column which is circulated widely on the internet and published semi-regularly in alternative weeklies.
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- Melodie Homer, From Where I Stand: United Flight #93 Pilot's Widow
Sets the Record Straight (History / Biography / Narrative Non-Fiction)
Flight #93 continues to be a story people are captivated with, however most took the stories told in the beginning as fact, despite information which has come to light over the years. The books which were written, which I have read were successful, despite their lack of accurate information or readability. Most, if not all, were written by ghost writers and seemed to be written for reasons of notoriety. My primary goal in From Where I Stand is to create an accurate and realistic account of the events on board United #93 as we now know them, as well as to shed a light on what else has gone on throughout the years, as a result, which few people are aware of.
About the Author:
Melodie Homer is the wife of LeRoy Homer, First Officer of United Airlines #93, which crashed in Shanksville, PA on September 11th, 2001. Melodie has been a registered nurse for over twenty years, with a Masters degree as a Clinical Nurse Educator. She has worked in various nursing positions both in the hospital setting, primarily in Pediatric Oncology as well as the pharmaceutical industry. She currently works as an adjunct professor and clinical nursing instructor at a local community college. Melodie has co-authored a chapter in a manual for nurses and self-published two patient education booklets for children.
In 2002 Melodie Homer founded the LeRoy W. Homer Jr. Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, as a legacy to LeRoy's memory. The mission of The Foundation is to encourage and support young adults who wish to become professional pilots. Scholarships are awarded on an annual basis and provide funding for private pilot certification — the first step in the process of becoming a professional pilot. Melodie has appeared nationally at various events promoting The Foundation and its mission.
Melodie is featured in the documentary "Out of the Ashes", a film questioning whether the Victims Compensation Fund created after September 11th provided justice. This non-profit educational film produced by Films for Justice Institute at Seattle University in Washington is scheduled to be completed in the Fall of 2009.
Melodie has received numerous awards for her work with The Foundation including being selected as one of the "57 Most Intriguing Blacks" in the November 2002 issue of Ebony Magazine. In 2007, Melodie was awarded with the Mrs. New Jersey Woman of Achievement award. Melodie Homer resides in Marlton, NJ with her two children, Laurel who was ten months old on September 11th, 2001 and is now eight years old and her son Alden, adopted at two days old in 2004, and is five years old.
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- Robert Malone, Serial Innovators: Turning Adversity into Opportunity (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship / Special Topics / Reference / Gift Books)
Serial Innovators is about the experience of turning what could be a problem into a solution or going from adversity to opportunity and sticking at it. It is the many 'aha' moments that lead to this accomplishment. The book is about why these moments occur. It is about the peculiarities of the context of innovation and invention, the often resistant lead up, the event of discovery, and it consequences to either the creator or the public or both. Serial Innovators looks at discovery, innovation and invention with fresh thinking and not as a process easily broken down. It looks at these inclinations as a mind set, and an intention, that in actual application is always different, and to a degree gradual like the evolutionary process making use of natural selection, and yes always.
About the Author:
Robert Malone is a well known writer and international speaker on automation, logistics, supply chains, manufacturing, and robotics. He built on a career as an industrial designer to become an educational leader. He was the chairman of industrial design department at the Parsons School of Design and a professor and dean of the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute. In both institutions he helped rebuild their curriculums.
He has been the editor-in-chief of Industrial Design magazine (now called ID), the editor-in-chief of Dot Zero magazine, the editor-in-chief of Managing Automation (MA), and the logistics editor for Forbes.com. He is at present a moderator for IEEE Spectrum, the executive editor for M2M Premier, and an award winning (ASBPE) columnist for MA and Inbound Logistics. He has written recently the books Ultimate Robot for children and Chain Reaction for adults.
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- Robert Malone, Revitalizing American Manufacturing: What Companies Need to Know to Survive in the 21st Century (Current Events / Global Issues)
The basic theme of Revitalizing American Manufacturing is that a return to a reemphasis of manufacturing is the only way towards economic stability in America's future. The United States of America has reached a point of no return in its industrial production base. If it shrinks any more its may be beyond recall. We are no longer the leading manufacturer of the world (tied with China as of this year). We import more and more of our food, and of course we import our oil to a large measure. We have an antique infrastructure that is failing to give good support to energy distribution and commercial distribution. In order to face the urgent need to turn around our economy we have to face the fact that we have more needs than resources. We have to go for what can be really saved and not what is worst hit.
About the Author:
Robert A. Malone is a program developer in leading edge technology for IEEE Spectrum Webinars series. He has been a spokesman for U.S. manufacturing for decades. He was formerly the editor in chief of Managing Automation and remains as a popular columnist. He was the highly read logistics and transportation editor for Forbes.com. He has been the chairman of the Automation Hall of Fame. He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio, TV and for the press involving technology, its impact on our lives and our society. They include Good Morning America, 60 Minutes, the History Channel (extensive interviews), all major channel news programs, and the New York Times (repeatedly), the New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Chicago Tribune.
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- Susan J. Marks, The Wildcatters: America's Original Entrepreneurs (History / Biography / Narrative Non-Fiction)
Oil company CEOs today are investment gurus and number crunchers with Harvard MBAs. A few perhaps remember when what mattered was simply the smell and feel of oil, and the thrill of finding it. That was long before Wall Street earnings calls dictated decisions and environmental compliance took precedence over drilling for oil. The Wildcatters is the story of some of these still-living legends who risked it all in their quest for oil. It is a snapshot of their lives, ideas, experiences, and exploits. It's also about small businessmen taking huge risks and reaping unfathomable rewards, about entrepreneurial successes and devastating failures, and of lessons learned through it all.
About the Author:
As an award-winning journalist, successful ghostwriter and author /collaborator on more than a dozen books on entrepreneurship, self-help, and success, Susan J. Marks is well-qualified to write this book. In her nearly 30 years of newspaper, magazine and book writing and editing, she has helped all kinds of people tell their stories. Her background includes more than a dozen years at The Denver Post, primarily as Sunday Business Editor and Special Projects Editor/Business. She's also written published articles on topics ranging from small business and technology to e-commerce, personal finance, workplace, careers, and health care. Publications/publishers she has written for include Business Week, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes publications, Micro Times, Network World, Woman's World, ColoradoBiz, United Communications Group, and Health & You.
Her work has received awards and recognition from local, regional, and national organizations, including Gannett, the Colorado Press Association, and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
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- Robert Mazerov, Why Do People Eat Pizza? The Incredible—and Surprising—Things Our Customers Tell Us
A behind the scenes tour of the good, the bad, and the ugly of the world's best-known brands and the people who power them. The story of corporations, advertising agencies and their inspired and insipid decisions that affect your life, told by somebody who was there and helped make those decisions. Why Do People Eat Pizza? helps readers understand how to make better decisions by listening to the marketplace in new ways. This is a book for every person who has to make decisions about how best to reach their audience, whether they are small business owners seeking to get more customers, giant consumer packaged goods companies seeking market share hegemony, non-profits looking to grow, or advertising agencies looking to develop successful and memorable advertising campaigns.
About the Author:
Robert Mazerov is the founder of The Mazerov Group, a Denver-based marketing research and strategy firm. The Mazerov Group helps its clients toward greater profitability through marketing research, strategic planning, more effective branding, and advertising. The Mazerov Group has helped clients such as AVIS, Discover Card, Applebee's, Coca Cola, Arby's, Johns Manville, Quiznos and other national brands develop over $100 billion in new products, services and advertising campaigns. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Peter McCarthy, The Stress Factory: The Skyrocketing Cost of Stress on American Productivity and Health Care and What Companies and Individuals Can Do About it...Now! (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship / Current Events / Global Issues)
According to the annual "Attitudes in the American Workplace" Gallup Poll, 80% of American workers say they need help managing stress. Corporate America is at a loss about how to solve this problem. The Stress Factory is the first book to examine the full impact of chronic stress on our nation's workforce and the resulting uncontrollable rise of health care costs. The book challenges the accepted paradigms of our modern society by revealing uncomfortable truths that are typically buried from our public consciousness, but when brought to light become frighteningly obvious and not without consequence if ignored. The Stress Factory offers the tools Corporate America needs to take responsibility and meaningful action to address the issue of chronic stress in our workplaces.
About the Author:
Peter M. McCarthy, C.T.N., chairs the nation's largest state level natural health advocacy network, the Texas Health Freedom Coalition reaching over half a million Texans. As a recognized national figure and expert on health care policy issues, he meets with political leaders of both major parties at state and national levels. He is also leading the planning committee for the upcoming first-ever United States Health Freedom Assembly in Washington, DC. McCarthy is the CEO of Life Energy Holistic Partners, an integrative stress management and wellness consulting practice, and of AHI Productions, a health-focused media company in Austin, TX. Formerly, McCarthy served in the Air Force, where he flew B-52 bombers, was a flight instructor, and served as a staff officer at Air Force headquarters at the Pentagon and the Air Force Personnel Center in Texas. He retired from the Air Force after twenty years of service as a Lieutenant Colonel. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Shira Miller, When The Diet Is Over: How Real Women Lose Weight and Keep It Off! (Health & Wellness / Nutrition / Aging / Parenting)
From The Biggest Loser to Oprah's on-going weight struggles; from countless news stories
about diet successes to dozens of fad diets — our society is fascinated with losing weight. But
for the seventy million people who start a diet and lose weight each year, experts estimate that
ninety-five percent will regain the weight, plus more. When The Diet Is Over, the first book
unaffiliated with a specific diet plan that focuses on life after weight loss, aims to change those
odds. Featuring interviews and photos with fifty women who lost at least fifty pounds and kept
it off for over five years, it offers practical advice on maintaining a healthy weight while dealing
with the pressures and reality of everyday life. Plus, recognized experts in visualization,
psychology, spirituality, exercise and nutrition offer their unique insights for making weight loss
and healthy living a permanent change. Join Shira Miller in When The Diet Is Over for humor,
girlfriend tips, compelling personal stories and expert advice — and enjoy the lighter life you
were meant to live!
About the Author:
Unlike books written by experts who have never experienced this
phenomenon, author Shira Miller has maintained a fifty pound weight
loss in a healthy manner for seventeen years. Her success story has
been recognized in Shape, Health, First for Women, Quick & Simple and the Atlanta Journal & Constitution. As a national publicity expert,
Shira's award-winning boutique PR firm has
created successful campaigns for clients like Carvel Ice Cream,
California Pizza Kitchen, Cox Communications, Farm Rich, Spanx and
the Synthetic Turf Council. Her work has been recognized with more
than thirty-five industry honors, including the prestigious National
Bronze Anvil Award for Consumer Media Relations from the Public
Relations Society of America. She has worked with thousands of
television, radio, magazine, newspaper and Internet media outlets throughout her career. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Clayton J. Moore, Mastering Your Money Puzzle: Piecing Together Your
Financial Security and Future Lifestyle (Personal Finance / Investing / Trading / Real Estate)
Mastering Your Money Puzzle emerges at a time when individuals are desperately in need of strategies that will enable them to plan for their own financial futures. It provides an in-depth examination of the current trends that threaten to erode our financial security and future lifestyle, and offers practical, hands-on solutions for overcoming these threats. More than just a book, Mastering Your Money Puzzle is an operating manual to help people take control of their financial destiny — even in the midst of an economic crisis. It is jam-packed with innovative strategies for helping people to create a financially secure lifestyle. The strategies are innovative because the majority of people do not adopt them in their day to day lives and this has a major impact on their financial future. Because the strategies are simple to understand and easily adoptable, this will help more people gain the confidence and capability to make the necessary changes that are required to create the future lifestyle they desire.
About the Author:
• Financial Advisor for 13 years
• Co-Owner of Credence Finance, a successful mortgage brokerage that has built a client list of over 3,000
• Owner of Dreamscape Homes, a property development company with a turnover of 600k in 2008 and that is about to begin a multi-million project in 2009
• Co-owner of Key Investing, a financial education company set up in 2008
• An avid student of personal development books, programs and seminars that help to expand and improve the education that I provide my clients
For more information, see author's Web site.
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- William Nobrega, The Next Wave for Global Investing: Maximizing Value (Personal Finance / Investing / Trading / Real Estate)
We are in an economic maelstrom the likes of which have not been seen in seventy years. But while the current economic crisis is severe, it will ultimately be eclipsed by a fundamental reordering of our global social and economic fabric. We are in fact witnessing an unprecedented point in human history during which four elements have begun to converge. During the next twenty years millions of new consumers will be created — a sum greater than what was created in the past 500 years. Enabling this new consumer is technology fostering an accelerated pace of innovation and knowledge across the planet. During the same period trillions of dollars will be invested in infrastructure — a sum greater than what was invested to rebuild post-WWII Europe. Woven within this tapestry will be the environment which will fundamentally influence economic and social development going forward. These four elements: The New Consumer, Infrastructure, Technology and Environment are converging, and as they do, they will create an unprecedented wave of global economic growth and opportunity for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, academics and scientists.
About the Author:
William Nobrega is the Managing Partner of The Conrad Group — an emerging market investment advisory and M&A facilitation firm based in Miami. He has more than 12 years of experience in this field and is widely credited for initiating global business models in emerging geographies including Brazil, India and China. The firm's clients include hedge funds, pension funds, investment trusts and numerous Fortune 1000 companies in a wide range of industry verticals. With 115 professionals based in New Delhi, Sao Paulo and Miami it is one of the leading boutique firms in this arena. Prior to founding The Conrad Group, Mr. Nobrega worked with Deloitte & Touche Consulting in Europe and the United States Mr. Nobrega is a veteran of Army Special Forces having served in Kurdistan and other operational areas during the Gulf conflict. Mr. Nobrega is the author of numerous articles and White Papers that focus on various aspects of emerging market strategic planning and he is a frequent contributor to CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg and other national and international media outlets. Mr. Nobrega is the author of the book Riding the Indian Tiger: understanding the world's fastest growing market (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Mr. Nobrega has a bachelor's degree from Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio and a master's degree from the University of Leuven, in Brussels, Belgium. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Todd Outcalt, American Déjà vu:
What Presidential History Tells Us About Our Future (History / Biography)
American Déjà vu: What Presidential History Tells Us About Our Future explores how our current struggles as a nation have been reflected in every administration since Washington.
Moving through presidential history—from Washington to Obama—American Déjà vu explores the political, economic, social, sexual, legal and international themes that currently absorb us, but have been part of the American experience from the beginning. The book will address many of our contemporary fears and struggles—including terrorism, taxes, deficits, immigration, war, health care and education—and examine them from the vantage point of presidential histories.
About the Author:
Todd Outcalt is the author of twenty books and has been a student of presidential history his entire life. For more than a decade he has been researching content for American Déjà vu and over the years has visited presidential libraries and historical sites tied to the presidencies as part of his ongoing interest and research into the topic.
Educated at Indiana State and Duke University, Todd is also the author several practical books including Your Beautiful Wedding on Any Budget (Sourcebooks), Before You Say "I Do" (Perigee), Candles in the Dark (John Wiley & Sons), The Best Things in Life Are Free (Health Communications, Inc.) and The Healing Touch (HCI). His books have been translated into five languages, and he has written for many large-circulation magazines, including American Fitness, Cure, The Christian Century, BRIDE'S, and For the Bride—where, for two years, he wrote a monthly column for grooms. Todd has also won awards for his articles on breast cancer and research. Todd's latest book, The Ultimate Christian Living (HCI) features essays by or about such national church leaders as Billy Graham, Max Lucado and Rick Warren.
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- Todd Outcalt, Their Final Terms: The Curious and Fascinating Stories of the Presidents' Last Days (History / Biography)
Their Final Terms will explore the final days of every American President—from Washington to Ford—in a compelling and forthright style that will both enlighten and entertain. Each account will summarize their background while blending in the strange and sometimes poignant circumstances surrounding their deaths—including new information never before published in this vein. The book will not only celebrate the Presidency, but will also uncover some of the most incredible human dramas in American history. Drawing from a multitude of resources, Their Final Terms brings together the sometimes quirky, odd, and always fascinating details behind the final hours of each deceased American president and the unique legacies they left behind.
About the Author:
Todd Outcalt is a pastor, writer and speaker and an avid reader of presidential biographies. His thirty years of pastoral experience and sense of humor also give him a practical and personal background in matters of grief and death, and provide a unique perspective from which to write Their Final Terms. Educated at Indiana State and Duke University, Todd is the author of twenty books and has also written for many large-circulation magazines. He has been the recipient of several writing awards, including the Simon Scanlon Prize offered by the Franciscans and an award by Bell South—both for articles on breast cancer. Todd also offers monthly workshops for couples, promotes his books through radio and television talk shows, and has produced CDs on breast cancer awareness that are used by cancer support networks.
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- Flori Roberts, Make It Up as You Go: Secrets of Business Success and Survival
From Cosmetics Entrepreneur Flori Roberts (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
Entrepreneur and cosmetics industry legend Flori Roberts shows how to turn an idea into a business in this practical and engaging book. Flori delivers real-world advice to women launching new ventures, showing them how to turn unexpected events — market downturns, loss of employment, and other life changes — into entrepreneurial opportunity. In periods of economic uncertainty as well as economic boom, this book is a realistic look at launching a business when the totally unexpected has happened.Whether you're a woman who is thinking about launching your own business or someone who is facing a daunting challenge or transformation and seeks a new way to make a living, Make It Up As You Go is the insider advice you need to succeed in the face of any circumstances, expected or otherwise.
About the Author:
Born in New York City, Flori Roberts majored in drama at Carnegie-Mellon Institute, and appeared in several Broadway productions before venturing into the world of fashion and beauty. Along with her husband, noted ophthalmologist Dr. Craig Roberts, Flori founded Flori Roberts, Inc. in 1965, specializing in products for black and dark-skinned women. In 1985, Roberts went back to the drawing board to develop Dermablend Corrective Cosmetics. After her company was acquired by the IVAX Corporation, she remained in the industry as a marketing consultant and frequently appeared on QVC and HSN as a product spokesperson. In 2000 she co-founded Smart Cover Cosmetics with Nancy Roberts, her daughter-in-law.
She was the first woman to be inducted into the Sales and Marketing Executive International Academy of Achievement. Roberts has been appointed to the Office Depot National Advisory Board, and serves as chair of the Advisory Council for the Center for Women's Business Research in Washington, D.C. She speaks at universities and to women's groups on the power of owning your own business, and has been influential in designing mentoring programs for women executives and future leaders. She was featured on "The Today Show" as the new quintessential "Grandmompreneur." For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Barbara M. Rubin and Robyn Spizman, Doing Business in the New Hollywood: An Insider's Guide to Marketing Your Products, Service and Expertise (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
How do you get your product, talent or company noticed by the movers, shakers and decision makers in Hollywood? And why does it really matter? Doing Business in the New Hollywood provides a roadmap for entrepreneurs showing them how to leverage themselves in Hollywood to capture the attention and exposure that catapults success. It is a savvy book written by two knowledgeable industry experts who are dedicated to helping you get noticed by the insiders in Hollywood.
Doing Business in the New Hollywood is not a book for wide-eyed, star-struck hopefuls. It is for entrepreneurs, and anyone else for that matter, who has something to gain from being selected and plugged into Hollywood by the leading connectors and power brokers. From product designers to fashion designers, inventors to spokespeople, authors to experts, creators and more, readers from all walks of life will learn how to increase the odds of raising their visibility factor. They'll find tips for catapulting their access to Hollywood, undeniably one of the most important landscapes in the promotional business world.
About the Authors:
• Barbara M. Rubin is a founding partner and the managing partner of the entertainment law firm of Peter Rubin & Simon. The former Head of Business and Legal Affairs for Spelling Television (reporting directly to Aaron Spelling), A&E Television Networks (West Coast) and Rysher Entertainment, Ms. Rubin came up through the business and legal affairs departments of CBS Television and Theatrical Films as well as Disney Television. Ms. Rubin teaches "Negotiating the Writer's Deal" at UCLA and is a guest lecturer or panel moderator at USC, UCLA, ATAS, Association of Talent Agents, CSUN, Woman In Film, California Bar Association, NAPTE, eWomenNetwork , CLE International and Writers Guild of America. Ms. Rubin is the author of two cover articles for Los Angeles Lawyer. Emmy Magazine called Ms. Rubin "a top industry negotiator."
• Robyn Spizman, a nationally recognized consumer advocate, seasoned media personality and New York Times Best Selling author, has written and co-authored dozens of books including Do Your Giving While You Are Living and Where's Your Wow? 16 Ways To Make Your Competitors Wish They Were You! Appearing often on the Today Show, she is well known as one of the country's leading gift and how-to experts. A popular keynote speaker, she has entertained audiences across the country on a variety of topics including product branding, working from home and other timely ideas. Audiences have included such prestigious audiences as UPS, AT&T, Dare To Lead Conference for The Executive Women's Golf Association, The Atlanta Business Chronicle's Expo, The California Business Women's Network, Possible Women's Conference, eWomen Network, Bain & Company, Hinman Convention, L.A. Book Festival, and many other organizations and companies across the country. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Justin Spizman, The Insider's Guide to Your First Year of the Real World (Careers / Self-Help / Psychology / Relationships)
The Insiders Guide to Your First Year of the Real World is dedicated to effectively preparing recent grads for their first year in the real world. Even the most gifted and brilliant graduates face challenges and obstacles they have never imagined, and the only way to overcome these obstacles is through planning, preparation, and learning about the real world before it begins.
This book is a must-read before the journey starts. It is a road map students can use to help navigate through the challenges they will face. Furthermore, once the real world commences, this book can be used as a compass to help scholars navigate when they lose their way (and trust me, they will lose their way). The Insiders Guide to Your First Year of the Real World is a reader-friendly guide to discovering how to achieve the biggest goal in life: Success.
About the Author:
Justin Spizman is currently a prosecuting attorney for the Fulton Country Solicitor's Office in Atlanta, Georgia. While in law school, Spizman authored The Insider's Guide to Your First Year of Law School: A Student-to-Student Handbook From a First Year Survivor. Justin Spizman is a graduate of the prestigious Communications School at The University of Texas at Austin. He received a bachelor of science in communication studies with a minor in business foundations. He was a Dean's List student and served as Vice President of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternal organization, and served on the Distinguished Speakers Community.
After college, Spizman attended Georgia State University School of Law and graduated this past year. During law school, Spizman was Vice President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society at Georgia State University School of Law, a member of Phi Delta Alpha Fraternal Organization and authored an independent study on drug testing in professional sports. Along with his scholastic endeavors, Spizman clerked for numerous criminal defense and entertainment attorneys and even served as a judicial clerk for a superior court judge.
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- Eric Tyson, The Straight Scoop: Separating Financial Fact from Fiction (Personal Finance / Investing / Trading / Real Estate)
During the height of the 2008-09 financial crisis and stock market panic, many Americans were glued to the news, watching the financial markets minute by minute. Political, economic and financial market news and advice is reported and published 24/7, 365 days of the year.
Unfortunately, the mushrooming of sources and more importantly opinions, is wreaking havoc with many folks' finances. In The Straight Scoop, veteran personal finance expert Eric Tyson helps readers separate financial fact from fiction. Drawing upon current and recent events, he provides an entertaining and education packed treatise that reveals the unsavory side of financial forecasting and reporting, and what consumers need to know to be discriminating and intelligent consumers of financial news, information and advice.
About the Author:
Tired of working as a management consultant to Fortune 500 financial service firms which were more interested in maximizing short-term profits than in providing sound financial products and services, in 1990 Eric Tyson founded the nation's first financial counseling firm which worked exclusively on an hourly basis. Eric Tyson has penned five national best sellers, and is the only author to have four of his books simultaneously on Business Week's business book bestseller list.
Eric's work has been featured and quoted in hundreds of local and national publications and media outlets. He's been a featured speaker at a White House conference on retirement planning. In addition to his writing and counseling, Eric also taught a popular personal financial management course at the University of California, Berkeley. He has spoken at many corporations and non-profits.
Eric has a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Peter Viteritti, The Eleventh Mission: The True Tale of a WWII POW (History / Biography / Narrative Non-Fiction)
More than 65 years after it occurred, an incredible World War II story surfaces—one of survival against all odds. Through a chance encounter, author Peter Viteritti met and befriended Tony Butera, a former WWII prisoner of war. Based on the journal Tony kept as a POW, The Eleventh Mission is the incredible story of Tony's journey—a journey that began on Christmas Eve of 1944 when his plane crashed deep inside of Nazi Germany and ended up with his liberation when the Allied Forces liberated his POW. What happened in between will amaze and surprise you.
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- Karol Wasylyshyn, Behind the Executive Door: From Remarkable to Downright Dysfunctional Leaders and What We Can Learn From Them (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
Behind the Executive Door bridges business and psychology to provide a piercing, uncommon look at the behaviors of top business leaders. Based on over 25 years of clinical psychology and consulting experiences, the author has identified three specific types of business leaders — Remarkable, Perilous, and Downright Dysfunctional. In this book, she describes these leader types and illustrates them with gripping, real life examples. These examples provide actionable lessons for readers who want to increase their effectiveness at work and accelerate career progress, as well as make sense of the seeming "craziness" that can pervade the workplace.
About the Author:
After nearly 10 years in trade journalism with McGraw-Hill publications that included Medical World News where she was News Editor and ran the research project that took the company into video publishing, Karol left for graduate study in clinical psychology. Since 1990 she has run her private consulting practice, Leadership Development Forum, serving blue chip global companies that have included or currently include Bristol Myers Squibb, Johnson and Johnson, and Colgate. Karol also conveys her methodologies and expertise to human resource and psychology practitioners, as well as to business leaders through professional writing and speaking engagements. For more information, see author's Web site.
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