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- Joseph R. Ferrari, Ph.D, After 20 Years, I'm Still Procrastinating!
Why We Keep Making Excuses—and What to Do About It (Careers / Self-Help / Relationships)
Authored by the world's foremost authority on procrastination, After 20 Years, I'm Still Procrastinating! explores the nature of procrastination and its effect on individuals, as well as their families, friends, and workplace relationships. The book is written for those of us who are serious about understanding the nature of procrastination—its roots and impact on the quality of life. Based on Dr. Ferrari's groundbreaking 20+ years of research into the origins, impact, and nature of procrastination with men and women from around the world, After 20 Years, I'm Still Procrastinating! will be especially useful for individuals for whom procrastination is a major nemesis preventing them from enjoying all that life has to offer. In addition, people who live with and whose lives are affected by procrastinators, where waiting and waiting takes a toll on personal and professional relationships, will also benefit from Dr. Ferrari's message.
About the Author:
Dr. Joe Ferrari is the source of almost all the research on the causes and consequences of procrastination since the last 1980s. He earned his Ph.D. and MA in Social-Personality Psychology from Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. He was twice awarded the prestigious Iverson Memorial Award from the Psychology Department for Outstanding Graduate Student Research. He received his MS in General Psychology from SUNY, Cortland, with an emphasis on applied behavior change. As a Professor of Psychology at DePaul University, he was elected as a life member and one of only 28 Vincent DePaul Distinguished Professors (out of 900 full-time faculty) for outstanding scholarship and excellence in teaching. He is the Founder/director of the DePaul University's Ph.D. Community Psychology Program from 2000 to 2004, and of DePaul University's MS in General Psychology Program from 2006 to present.
He has presented to university campuses, community settings, professional business organizations, as well as provide consulting to major corporations, non-profit and medical centers, and church and small group settings on this topic. Dr. Ferrari has been the keynote presenter and major coordinator for every biennial international meeting on the "Study of Procrastination," held in Toronto, The Netherlands, London, Columbus, Ohio, and Lima, Peru. Beginning in 1990, Dr. Ferrari has been interviewed or cited in major and minor newspapers and magazines, as well as local, national and international TV and radio.
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- Stephen Goldman and Meghan Magruder, Let's Settle It: Winning Pre-Trial and Negotiation Strategies (Special Topics)
Written by two lawyers with years of experience litigating complex matters, Let's Settle It examines the broad array of pre-trial activities that savvy lawyers need to employ to achieve the outcomes that will best serve their clients' needs.
From the standpoint of the litigator, effective pre-trial work is the way in which lawyers can achieve major successes — "wins" — for their clients by compelling opponents to settle. This book will help lawyers to develop strategic and thoughtful moves as in a chess match, where the other side would rather settle than gamble upon what a jury might decide. It will help experienced lawyers put pre-trial moves and counter moves in perspective, and it will enable lawyers to close critical gaps in their legal education and to understand not only what they are doing pre-trial, but how critical it is to accomplish pre-trial tactics with goals in mind beyond simply preparation for trial. Pre-trial activities aren't simply part of a rehearsal for the big show. They are part of a process that is exciting itself, the mastery of which is an essential component to "victory."
About the Authors:
• Stephen M. Goldman is Distinguished Lecturer in Law at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he teaches in the area of Civil Procedure and Corporate law. He is also Counsel in the McLean, Virginia office of Sands Anderson Marks & Miller. Mr. Goldman holds an A.B. degree from Duke University, his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, and his Doctorate in Political Theory and Ethics from Oxford University. A former partner at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart in Pittsburgh, Mr. Goldman has litigated complex cases for nearly twenty years, with an emphasis in cases involving Lloyd's of London. Prior to entering law practice, he served as law clerk to Judge, now Justice John Paul Stevens. He is the author of Temptations in the Office: Ethical Choices and Legal Obligations, and co-author of Restoring Trust in Corporate Directors: The "Disney" Standard and the New Good Faith, which appeared in the American University Law Review in 2006.
• Meghan Magruder is a Senior Litigation Partner in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding. She has more than twenty-five years of experience handling complex commercial litigation matters with particular emphasis in insurance coverage, environmental, mass tort and product liability litigation. Ms. Magruder is frequently invited to speak on litigation, insurance, tort and environmental law topics and has authored numerous articles and publications including Understanding Insurance Regulations and Coverage and Litigation Management By Corporations. Ms. Magruder has been involved in the leadership of the American Bar Association for many years.
She received her J.D. from Emory University School of Law and her B.A. from Emory College. Upon her graduation, she was awarded the university's highest award for service, the Marion Luther Brittain Award. She was also awarded the Outstanding Female Law Student Award by the Georgia Association for Women Lawyers. Following law school, Ms. Magruder was a law clerk for Judge Robert Hall in the Northern District of Georgia, and Judge Dorothy Beasley in the Georgia State Court. In 2001, ABC News awarded Ms. Magruder the Toyota Working Woman Award for outstanding contributions to her profession and community.
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- Allan Horowitz, Working Retirement: The New Way to Finance the Rest of Your Life (Personal Finance / Investing / Real Estate)
As the Baby Boomer generation ages and begins to retire, an unprecedented number of Americans will leave behind their careers. But many will not completely retire. For a variety of reasons, many retirees want to return to the workplace, full-time or part-time, and starting their own business is one way for them to do so. In fact, for many, as jobs disappear, it may be the only way to return to the workplace.
Working Retirement will be a series of profiles of those who have started their own businesses when near or in retirement. No theories, no hypotheticals: It will be filled with inspirational and informative stories of those who have actually done it — and how they did it. Not just anecdotes, these profiles give detailed information about how these retirees started and run their businesses. Working Retirement directly targets retirees and near-retirees who now need to generate income above and beyond what their savings, pensions and Social Security can provide.
About the Author:
Alan Horowitz has been a professional writer for more than thirty years, specializing in business and technology. He is the author of The Unofficial Guide to Hiring and Firing People (Macmillan, 1999) and ghostwrote several books including The One-Page Project Manager by Clark Campbell (Wiley, 2006), The One-Page Project Manager for IT by Clark Campbell (Wiley, 2008) and The Battle for Wall Street by Richard Goldberg (Wiley, 2009).
Alan Horowitz has had hundreds of articles placed in publications such as: The Miami Herald, Computerworld, Information Week, Entrepreneur, Windows Magazine, Business Week, Small Business Success, The Los Angeles Times, Self-Employed Professional, and Home Business Magazine. Horowitz has also written for such Web sites as PlanetIT.com, Onvia.com, AllBusiness.com, FreeAgent.com and Boomers.com. Horowitz is a New York City native currently residing in Pleasant Hill, California. He has M.A. degrees in Economics (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Theatre Management and Publicity (University of California, Riverside). For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Patrick Howie, The Evolution of Revolutions: How We Create, Shape and React to Change (Business / Management)
Creative destruction is the process by which new ideas, businesses, and industries emerge, leading to the downfall of traditional ideas, businesses, and industries. It is a revolutionary process. Opportunities to create or identify the emerging revolutions abound in every domain of human endeavor. For those who can create revolutions, the success can be great so long as one understands that the process is long and dynamic.
The Evolution of Revolutions explains the process of innovation and how a new idea, product, or service spreads throughout a social system to cause a revolution. Based on analysis of more than two dozen revolutions in business, sports, science, and politics, readers will gain a unique understanding of the revolutionary process. Innovation isn't easy. By understanding the process of innovation and how innovations throughout history have sparked lasting revolution, readers will learn how to create revolutions of their own.
About the Author:
Patrick Howie, Senior Vice President of TargetRx, Inc., is a leading researcher in the field of product development and marketing effectiveness. Previously, he served as director of LifeCycle Ventures, a start-up pharmaceutical marketing company, and as director of PNR and Associates (TNS Telecom). He also has held positions as an economist with Regional Financial Associates (now Moody's Economy.com) and the WEFA Group (now Global Insight). Patrick's work has been cited and published in numerous publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Fortune Magazine, as well as several trade publications. He holds a patent for a "Method and System for Analyzing the Effectiveness of Marketing Strategies." He holds a BS in Philosophy and a MS in Energy Management and Environmental Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Sarah Johnson, Jacques Marchais and the Beginnings of American Buddhism: The Founding of the Tibetan Museum of Art (History / Biography)
This book is the first ever biography of Jacques Marchais (1887-1948), an exceptional American woman who was ahead of her time in understanding the value of Tibet to world culture and prescient in her desire to build a center to foster cross-cultural understanding between Tibet and the West in the early 20th century. The book brings to life Marchais — a highly intelligent person, an ambitious businesswoman, a free-thinking individual, a generous and fun companion, and unusually strong in character. From her youth in the Midwest, her career as a child actress in the late Victorian era, to her search for life's meaning in New York City, to her passion for Tibet, she led a spirited journey and left a monumental legacy of enduring significance. This first-ever in depth study of Marchais describes how, on a mountainside location in Staten Island, with the support of her third husband, Brooklyn businessman, Harry Klauber, Marchais designed and built a completely unique institution as an all-encompassing experience, from extensive terraced gardens with a flowering fish pond, to a research library and a museum, all built to resemble a rustic Himalayan mountain monastery complex. Here, she intended to provide a space of refuge for intercultural dialogues, nonviolence and peacemaking, as a counterpoint to the traumas of two major world wars and the Great Depression.
This story is an important chapter in the founding of American Buddhism; it is a vital link in Buddhism's popularity in the US between the Transcendentalists and the Beat and Beatles generations.
About the Author:
Sarah Johnson, PhD is an art historian, scholar of American Buddhism, and Curator at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art with close, unlimited access to Marchais' archives. Her articles have appeared in Orientations and Asian Art Newspaper; she frequently lectures on Marchais' life and Buddhism in the US. Johnson lives in Staten Island, NY with her husband and daughter.
Johnson has previously worked in Curatorial departments of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She taught art history at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College in New York. Her dissertation for the Graduate Center of the City University of New York concerned the influence of Zen Buddhism on artists working in New York in the 1940s.
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- Scott Kenan, Uncommitted: My Days with Tennessee Williams (Narrative Non-Fiction)
In the fall of 1981, when Tennessee Williams found his household in an uproar after a visiting ex-lover ran his housekeeper off with a gun, he turned to me for help. Although I only promised to help for a few days, I soon agreed to move into Mr. Williams' house to manage it, run errands, and accompany him nearly everywhere, soon to include Washington and New York.
Uncommitted: My Days with Tennessee Williams takes the reader on a journey through the world of Tennessee Williams—a world where teetering on the razor's edge of our never-quite-defined relationship, I mollified the playwright's moods while through a revolving door, characters he might have created came and went, competing for his favor.
During this time, many iconic people, including Meryl Streep, Jackie Onassis, Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn, and Ronald Reagan, crossed our path—sometimes in shocking ways—as I accompanied Mr. Williams to The White House, the Kennedy Center Honors, and, finally, to the Goodman Theatre, for the staging of his last new play produced during his lifetime. My story climaxes with the roller coaster of the play's production, and ends when Tennessee and I, never lovers, part ways after he decided to travel with his newfound love, a poetry-spouting youth.
About the Author:
Scott Kenan has a BFA degree in Art with a minor in English literature from Denison University. After college, he was a founding partner in a retail business in Cape May, New Jersey, and then worked in restaurant management for several years. In the fall of 1981, during a seasonal layoff from a Key West restaurant, he met, and subsequently worked for, Tennessee Williams. During the next six months, he assisted Mr. Williams in all things, including the production of the playwright's last new play produced during his lifetime. He left Mr. Williams' employ after that, and moved to Pennsylvania, where he resumed his career in restaurant management.
Today, Scott lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia and works in sales. He is an active member of the Atlanta Writers Club and a founding member of the writer's group at the Spiritual Living Center of Atlanta.
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- Robert Malone, Serial Innovators: Turning Adversity into Opportunity (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.
Coming up with an idea, good or bad, is only a humble start to real discovery, invention, and to innovation. These activities are states of mind and are continuously evolving and normally over a long period of time. Real serial innovators take on the tough stuff and make it work regardless of many rough passages and dead ends. 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, Darwin, Deming and the Future of American Manufacturing: What Companies Need to Know to Survive in the 21st Century (Current Events / Global Issues)
The basic theme of Darwin, Deming and the Future of 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. One of our founding fathers Alexander Hamilton described the strength of the nation as resting on a three legged stool: commerce, agriculture, and industry.
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. So in essence the legs of commerce, agriculture and industry are in trouble and the last leg in very serious trouble. None of these can be bailed out with money or credit alone. The structure of leadership, technical and business expertise, and the moral courage to go forward must be attended to as well. 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, Wildcatter: Oil's Ultimate Entrepreneurs Share Their Lessons and Legends (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. Wildcatter 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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- William Nobrega, The Next Wave for Global Investing (Personal Finance / Investing / 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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- Michael O'Brien and Larry Shook, Quicksilver: The Little Book of Conscious Leadership | A new way to lead the many and the few, beginning with you (Business / Management)
Quicksilver: The Little Book of Conscious Leadership is about the seminal act of leadership: thinking. Not thinking, as in crunching data, but thinking as in checking and calibrating perception. In a sense, we've outsmarted ourselves with our technology by creating rapidly changing social and market conditions for which the brain does not have appropriate neuronal maps. The dislocation between the world we are creating and the world for which we have a frame of reference is increasingly serious.
Borrowing from Einstein's admonition that problems can't be solved with the same level of thinking that created them, Quicksilver uses timely reporting about current events to produce evidence that inadequate consciousness is the prime suspect in our present historic challenges. What's broken, the book argues, is not so much policy as the habits of mind that have been producing the policy. The solution is a set of explicit practices that integrate naturally into daily life—the daily life of the individual, the daily life of the leader. Two assumptions underlie these practices.
First, one cannot effectively lead others without first leading oneself.
Second, in today's quicksilver environment, one can do neither with mental habits of the pre-digital age. The techniques Quicksilver teaches will rewire the brain to help practitioners replace the synaptic ruts of habit with the flexibility and new insight capable of revolutionizing one's life.
About the Authors:
• Dr. Michael O'Brien is the founder of the O'Brien Group and has been a pioneering force in the evolution of the field known as Executive Coaching. He's a dedicated leader, teacher, author and sought-after speaker in the industry. Using his expertise in cognitive psychology and change leadership, Michael has worked with executives in such prestigious companies as: Bayer Consumer Care, Mayo Clinic, AT&T, Prudential, and Procter & Gamble. Michael is the author of the book Profit From Experience: A guide to knowing yourself and influencing others, and has written numerous articles on executive development and organizational change. He is also well-known for developing the Learning Organization Practices Profile, a widely-used survey which assesses an organization's learning and change ability. Michael holds a master's degree in education and a doctorate in corporate training and human resources development from the University of Cincinnati. For more information, see author's Web site.
• Larry Shook is a veteran journalist, editor, author, publisher, and communication consultant. He has written for Newsweek, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has been a weekly newspaper columnist and written syndicated newspaper features. He was an editor of San Diego magazine and Seattle Weekly, editor in chief of Washington magazine, publisher of Spokane magazine and the online Camas magazine. He has won several of the nation's top journalism awards. Additionally, he has served as vice president of communications and director of communications for three different management consulting firms. With Dr. O'Brien he co-authored the book "Profit from Experience."
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- Dr. Ronald Pollina, Selling Out a Superpower: Myths and Mismanagement Undermining the U.S. Economy (Current Events / Global Issues)
In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Geoeconomist Dr. Ron Pollina documents how inept government management of business and the economy by state and federal officials of both political parties—with the assistance of lobbyists representing special interest groups—have betrayed the American middle and lower class for the last twenty years by enacting laws and policies that have driven jobs and whole industries offshore, never to return.
Dr. Pollina, president and founder of a global corporate real estate company, deals with these issues daily, and he documents how America lost its way in this must-read book. He puts everything about our economic meltdown under a microscope: an education system designed for the 1950s that produces a workforce unable to compete for 21st century jobs; tax codes that drive companies offshore; deficit spending on all levels of government that drains our economic power; complacency and lack of economic development on all levels; why free trade doesn’t mean free trade; how America sold its soul to credit card companies and mortgage lenders for a better lifestyle; and why China and India are, at the moment, better equipped than America to win the Economic War of the 21st Century.
Nonetheless, the author believes that if America has the political courage to finally confront these problems, the U.S. can reassert itself as an economic superpower. This book provides a roadmap to achieve that goal.
About the Author:
Dr. Ronald R. Pollina is a Geoeconomist and President of Chicago-based Pollina Corporate Real Estate, an organization that provides companies with strategic and location analyses. Dr. Pollina has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies including Xerox, E.I. du Pont, 3Com, Time Magazine, Bosch, Caterpillar, State Farm Insurance, and Prudential Insurance. He has worked with and consulted with political and business leaders from virtually every state, from Steve Forbes to Barack Obama.
Dr. Pollina is the author of the nationally recognized Pollina Corporate Top 10 Pro-Business States Study that is published annually. This publication, which has been dubbed the Gold Standard for evaluating state governments efforts to keep and attract jobs, is regularly reported on by Forbes, Wall Street Journal, CBS, NBC, ABC, NPR and hundreds of newspapers nation wide. Dr. Pollina has served on the faculties of the University of Illinois and DePaul University and has conducted seminars for many Fortune 500 companies, including State Farm Insurance, Motorola, Hewlett Packard and IBM.
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- Ainissa Ramirez, The Dance of Atoms, Life Lessons from Nature's Building Blocks (Careers / Self-Help / Relationships)
Imagine Deepak Chopra meets Linus Pauling. Together they would write a book that
compares human relationships to atomic bonds and examines the universality of both.
They would powerfully demonstrate that relationships and connections have similarities
on both the mortal and molecular scale.
The Dance of Atoms takes a novel approach and targets those who want to learn about the inner
workings of both nature and humankind. It will intrigue those who are fascinated by the laws of nature and how
they apply to our world. Readers with self-help tendencies will see how the universal laws of
nature may parallel the human condition, and will enjoy learning a new connection. The Dance
of Atoms will empower readers to think about life and nature differently, and comfortably
examine the larger questions of life. The Dance of Atoms taps into
our desire for personal success and our desire to learn about our world. Using atoms as a model,
this book reveals insights into better ways of living. This book serves a dual role by showing a
path for self-improvement and by showcasing science in an approachable way.
About the Author:
Ainissa G. Ramirez, Ph.D. is a professor of engineering at Yale
University working on breakthrough research in chemistry and
materials. Technology Review, the magazine of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), named her as one of the world's 100
Top Young Innovators for her contributions in transforming the nature
of technology.
Dr. Ramirez wrote as a science correspondent for Time magazine and is a rising star in the area
of science communication and education.
She speaks nationwide about science at top universities (Harvard, Brown, MIT, etc.) and
science museums (The Smithsonian Institute).
She has been profiled in Technology Review, as well as
the New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Black Engineer, the Yale Scientific Magazine, The Brown Daily Herald, and
the Yale Bulletin. Her technical work has also been showcased in Chemical & Engineering News.
Dr. Ramirez sits on the boards of
many technical societies.
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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. With today's economic turmoil, more women are facing big decisions about how to stay viable in the marketplace. You'll finish the book feeling both informed and nourished, having laughed and learned at the same time.
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, an innovative product line of camouflage makeup designed to conceal skin flaws and discolorations for all skin tones. 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.
Because Flori strategically positioned cutting-edge products to satisfy "special needs"customers, she has been recognized by the cosmetics industry as one of the pioneers of niche marketing and non-traditional merchandising.
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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- Dr. Brian Schwartz, Your Career DNA: Breaking the Code for Career Success and Reinventing Your Future (Careers / Self-Help / Relationships)
You don't need me to tell you that the jobs market is brutal right now. Your CareerDNA is a next-generation career development book that is ideally suited for these tenuous times. Based on my more than thirty years of experience as a professional career counselor and built upon a proprietary series of diagnostics that I created, Your CareerDNA helps readers do so much more than find their next job. It helps them find what they truly need to find in order to navigate the uncertain waters in which we find ourselves. It helps them find what they were meant to do.
I will take readers through a series of diagnostics. Through exercises they can do in the book, on paper, or on their computers, readers will identify each of their CareerDNA strands. When completed, they will have a picture of themselves they may have never seen before. And when they match this picture against actual careers, they will discover options they might never have imagined. At a time when people feel blocked or locked out of what they consider to be their only career options, this information is invaluable. But this is not a book that only has meaning in fraught times. The underlying message of this book — that you will be happiest and most successful if you are doing what you were meant to be doing — is timeless and applies to all economic conditions.
About the Author:
In 1976, I founded The Career Planning Center at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City and directed that effort until 1981. In 1977, I founded Perspectives, a consortium of psychologists, in Greenwich, CT and I have been in private practice specializing in career management consulting since. In 1981, I expanded my practice to embrace Organization Development and completed engagements with American Express, Continental Can-USA, Texaco, IBM, Perkin-Elmer, Richardson-Vicks, Pitney-Bowes, The Kaempfer Company, BAA-McArthurGlen Europe and its successor, McArthurGlen Europe PLC, Interscope and the Connecticut and New Jersey Education Associations. Since 1999, I have done all the executive assessments for DrakeBeamMorin's Stamford, CT office and many in their International Center for Executive Options.
In addition to my current private practice, I serve as the Official Guide for Career Coaching and Coaches for www.selfgrowth.com, the # 1 ranked self-improvement website on Google and Yahoo with more than a million monthly visitors.
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- Justin Spizman, The Insider's Guide to Your First Year of the Real World (Careers / Self-Help / 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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- Phillip Trupp, Money on Ice: How Everyday Investors Beat the Biggest Fraud in Wall Street History (Personal Finance / Investing / Real Estate)
On February 14, 2008, I received a call from my broker telling me my investments were frozen—on ice—essentially leaving me broke. When the fog started to clear, I realized I was caught up in what experts called the greatest attempted securities fraud in the history of the world—a $336 billion scam which made the savings and loan scandal of the 1980s look like a simple street mugging. Money on Ice is the story of how individual investors became mad as hell and joined together to beat Wall Street, and reclaim their investments.
But the real human interest lies in the pain of scam victims — in the way they were cheated and lied to, how their lives turned upside down by cool, coordinated betrayal at the hands of those they trusted to keep their money safe. While this is a classic 21st century tale of Wall Street greed and betrayal, it also is a story of redemption and the life-altering struggle of tens of thousands of American investors who, in the end, beat the Wall Street fraud-masters and kept America from slipping from recession into the depths of a 1929-style depression.
About the Author:
Phil Trupp is a veteran investigative journalist, and the author of many books, including Sea Of Dreamers and Tracking Treasure. As Assistant Bureau Chief of Fairchild Publications/ABC Cap Cities Washington Bureau, he covered every major federal agency, including the White House, Pentagon, NASA, Commerce, the Federal Reserve, and the Supreme Court. In 1978, the Carter Administration selected Trupp as a "journalist-diplomat"; he was given permission to fly to Cuba heading a team of writers. While in Cuba, he met with various Cuban officials, was introduced to Fidel Castro, and traveled the island to gather information for the U.S. Administration regarding economic and social conditions. Trupp has received awards for investigative journalism on subjects ranging from mob influence in the trucking industry (The Interstate Commerce Commission Letter of Commendation for Public Service) to health and safety hazards endured by coal miners ( cited in congressional hearings).
Merriam Webster's Dictionary credits him with a byline for the official English language definition of "time capsule". He traveled widely and was accepted as a special "Citizen Astronaut" during NASA's Mercury project. Trupp is a NOAA Aquanaut, and led the first team of journalists to live and work under the sea in Hydrolab, America's first under water habitat. Trupp is also a Fellow of the Explorers Club, a member of the United States Naval Institute, and the National Geographic Society. He lectures on "The Future of Journalism" at American and Georgetown Universities.
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- Eric Tyson, Financial Nonsense: How Gurus, Economic Illiteracy and Hype Threaten Your Financial Future — And What You Can Do to Build Real Wealth (Personal Finance / Investing / Real Estate)
Unfortunately, growing up, most of us aren't taught the financial facts of life. In Financial Nonsense, Eric Tyson will document and tackle financial illiteracy in the media and elsewhere and enable readers to dramatically accelerate their learning curve so that they don't have to stumble through numerous mistakes during their prime wage earning years. He'll show you how to avoid all the media nonsense that makes for good ratings, but doesn't give you a true perspective on what's going on.
Financial Nonsense presents a comprehensive, action-oriented and jargon-free plan to help both individuals and families create workable and realistic financial budgets and financial plans regardless of the economy. The book molds solid, time-tested principles of money management into best practices for people who didn't learn the financial facts of life growing up. Once these lessons are mastered, not only do they benefit you, but you're then empowered to pass these powerful insights and strategies onto others. It's never too late to get your financial life under control—Financial Nonsense shows you how.
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. He started his new company with a simple mission: to provide objective, cost-effective personal financial advice, especially to non-wealthy Americans.
Eric Tyson is one of the best-selling personal finance book authors in the country (his books have sold more than 5 million copies). He 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.
Personal Finance for Dummies, which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Business Book of the Year.
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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- Laurence Vincent, The Simplicity Principle: How Simplification Drives the Strategy of Leading Brands (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
Three decades of euphoric
consumerism, shallow brand management, and a very
complex business landscape have ended in the worst
financial disaster since the great depression, and the lowest
consumer confidence in US history. The businesses that will
succeed in the years ahead are those that can deliver an
exceptional experience based on a simple, fundamental
promise. The Simplicity Principle explains how
simplification connects brands to the embodiment of a
promise that provides strategic advantage over time.
It is a book that promises to help readers
build strong brands and organizations using
common sense principles and sustainable
practices that connect businesses to people.
About the Author:
Laurence Vincent is a writer and a seasoned brand strategist. He leads the strategy
practice at the Los Angeles office of Siegel+Gale, one of the world's premier strategic
branding companies. His clients have included MasterCard Worldwide, Microsoft,
vitaminwater, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, the National Football League, The Four
Seasons, The Home Depot, and dozens of venture-financed, early stage technology
companies. Prior to his work at
Siegel+Gale, he led the Los Angeles office and entertainment marketing division of
Octagon Worldwide. Before that, he was a senior partner and lead strategist.
He holds an
MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He
received his Bachelor's degree from USC, where he attended the School of Cinema-Television. When he is not working on brands he is an active writer and poet. Larry's first book, Legendary Brands: Unleashing the Power of Storytelling to Create a
Winning Market Strategy, was released by Dearborn Trade Publishing in 2002. It has been translated into seven languages. In 2007,
he published his first collection of poetry, Mad Man's Creed. For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Don Wetmore, Doing What Works: Productivity Tools, Tips and Techniques to Keep You Focused on All the Right Stuff (Careers / Self-Help)
Nearly everyone has more to do than time permits and especially in tough times it is essential to be organized and focused on spending time on those things that will yield the most results. However, many do not have the time to learn how to find more time and to be more successful and productive. But everyone has a little time each week, to learn about how to improve a bit here and there and it's those small little changes made on a consistent basis that produce significant increases in results by working smarter, not harder.
Doing What Works is unique and provides the reader with the tools, tips and techniques to significantly increase their results 24/7. It contains 52 short 3-5 page chapters, one for each week in the year, containing a new step to help the reader to leverage their time. Every chapter has a specific time saving tool or technique with action steps that are easy to understand and easy to implement. Doing What Works is about helping the reader not only to learn new tools, tips and techniques to leverage their time but moreover it is about helping the reader to make real changes that will increase their productivity.
About the Author:
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore received his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Bentley University, his Master's Degree in Business Administration from Babson College, and his Juris Doctor Degree in from Suffolk University Law School. He has owned and operated employment agencies, real estate offices, and a consulting practice and has hired and managed over 1,000 sales people and trained over 15,000 sales people through his time management and personal productivity seminars. His clients have included IBM, Philips Medical, Smith Barney and 100's more. He is also a practicing attorney. Don has been a member of the faculty at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he has served as Assistant Professor of Business Law and Department Chair, and he has also served as Adjunct Professor of Communications Processes for the Master of Business Administration program.
During the past twenty years, he has made over 2,000 public speaking presentations before 100,000 people from around the globe, sharing his unique philosophy about the time management and sales tools he has created. He is the author of two books: "Organizing Your Life" and "The Productivity Handbook" and over 100 published articles. He is frequently interviewed by major media including ABC Radio, The New York Times, USAToday, and the Dallas Morning News, and served as the host of the cable TV program, "It's the Law". For more information, see author's Web site.
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- Nancy Wimmer and Dipal Barua, New, Green and Booming: How Grameen Shakti Is Changing Business—and a Million Lives (foreword by Dr. Muhammad Yunus) (Business / Management / Entrepreneurship)
Grameen Shakti is a rapidly growing, remarkably successful organization that has revolutionized business and changed lives. It thrives in one of the toughest business environments in the world: rural Bangladesh. Although Grameen Shakti started out as an affiliate of its Nobel Prize-winning parent Grameen Bank and its founder Dr. Muhammed Yunis, it is not simply riding the bank's coattails. Shakti is an innovative, visionary company that has turned business start-up, entrepreneurship, and capitalism on its collective head.
The organization's three thousand engineers have turned into social engineers, mastering a business based on trust, service, and persistence. In doing so, Shakti is well on its way to creating more than 100,000 jobs by 2015—and showing the rest of the world how and why doing the business the right way pays off both socially and financially. New, Green and Booming reveals for the first time Shakti's innovative model, pioneering methods of making profits, and unique approach to providing energy and jobs to millions of villagers —all while showing readers how they can learn from Shakti's forward-thinking, long-term vision.
About the Authors:
• Nancy Wimmer - For more information, see author's Web site.
• Dipal Barua - For more information, see author's Web site.
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