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by Peter Miller Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The modern world may be obsessed with speed and productivity, but twenty-first-century humans actually have much to learn from the ancient instincts of swarms. A fascinating new take on the concept of collective intelligence and its colorful manifestations in some of our most complex problems, The Smart Swarm introduces a compelling new understanding of the real experts on solving our own complex problems relating to such topics as business, politics, and technology. |
by Caroline Taggart Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. It's no myth: The legacy of the ancient
Greeks and Romans touches each of us in some way every day. In fact,
the great thinkers from this period laid the foundation for much of our
language, art, architecture, and science. Unfortunately, learning about
such things can often be oh, so boring. But nil desperandum (do
not despair). It's really no Herculean task. With The Classics,
author Caroline Taggart presents a lively refresher course of the most
important "stuff" you need to know. |
by Kristan Higgins Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss (and five-week fling) is way overdue in his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has suddenly announced his engagement to the company’s new Miss Perfect.
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by Dora Calott Wang, M.D. Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Part memoir and part rallying cry, The Kitchen Shrink is an
unflinchingly honest, passionate, and humane inside look at the
realities of free-market medicine in today's America. |
by Landy Chase Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Competitive Selling has what you need to out-maneuver, out-negotiate, and out-sell everyone who stands between you and a closed sale. It reveals exactly how today's highest achievers win every battle and provides a blueprint for replicating this success |
by Sherrie Dillard Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. In this heartfelt and uplifting book, professional psychic Sherrie
Dillard teaches you how to develop your intuition to attract and
sustain soulful love. After discovering your personal love type --
emotional, spiritual, mental, or physical -- you can find out your
spouse or partner's love type and practice creative exercises,
visualizations, and guided meditations to strengthen your relationship,
heal rifts, get a better understanding how you relate to each other,
and deepen your connection. |
by Susannah Charleson Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Susannah Charleson clipped a photo from the newspaper: an exhausted canine handler, face buried in the fur of his search-and-rescue dog. A dog lover and pilot with search experience herself, Susannah was so moved by the image that she decided to volunteer with a local canine team and soon discovered firsthand the long hours, nonexistent pay, and often heart-wrenching results they face. |
by Dorothy Howell Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Fashionista and amateur sleuth Haley Randolph is in hot pursuit of the season's newest must-have handbag. But soon she's also in hot pursuit of a killer -- when she discovers the corpse of none other than her designer purse party rival. . . |
by Andrea Lyon Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Dubbed the "Angel of Death Row" by the Chicago Tribune, Lyon was the first woman to serve as lead attorney in a death penalty case. Throughout her career, she has defended those accused of heinous acts and argued that, no matter their guilt or innocence, they deserved a chance at redemption. |
by Kristen Moeller Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Waiting for Jack is Eat, Pray, Love meets The Success Principles. Its memoir meets “how to.” It’s an inquiry into why we keep waiting for our lives to start, why we look outside ourselves for the answers and why we hide the magnificence that we really are. After so many years of being a seeker and not a finder, I declared an end to the “waiting for Jack.” Through the sharing of intimate and authentic stories (both mine and others), the reader takes the journey to break free from the “self-help treadmill” and to find their own “inner Jack.” |
by Marcia Reynolds Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. After years of coaching high-achieving women, master coach and personal development expert Marcia Reynolds started noticing something troubling: many of the clients with whom she worked were plagued by anxiety over their own restless responses to the world. These women were jumping jobs regularly, defining and redefining their relationship with the marketplace, constantly questioning their roles as wives and mothers and sisters. |
by Bernard von Bothmer Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. This book tells how presidents and other prominent figures have shaped public memory of the turbulent 1960s. Over the past quarter century, American liberals and conservatives alike have invoked memories of the 1960s to define their respective ideological positions and to influence voters. |
by John R. Coats Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. In this vivid new interpretation of Genesis, former Episcopal priest John R. Coats looks at the ancient text and its characters in a new light, as storiesabout people whose day-to-day concerns, triumphs, and failures are not unlike our own. In fact, understanding the people and stories of Genesis can help you understand your own life, family, and colleagues. |
by William Irwin with George A. Dunn and Rebecca Housel Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Teeming with complex, mythical characters in the shape of vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and the like, True Blood, the popular HBO series adapted from Charlaine Harris's bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a rich collection of themes to explore, from sex and romance to bigotry and violence to death and immortality. |
by William Irwin with Rod Carveth and James B. South Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. From Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to John Kenneth Galbraith, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand, Mad Men and Philosophybrings the thinking of some of history's most powerful minds to bear on the world of Don Draper, and the Sterling Cooper ad agency. |
by Gail Fraser Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Pam and Mark Walker are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary with a week-long family reunion and a ceremony renewing their vows. But when Mark's brother-in-law starts broadcasting his radio talk show from Montis Inn, his disparaging remarks about small-town life cause immediate rifts that only widen when he sides with a real estate developer who wants to turn Lumby into an asphalt Aspen. As the controversy pits family against family, and neighbor against neighbor, will the spirit that defines Lumby triumph once again? |
by Kamran Pasha Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. An epic saga of love and war, Shadow of the Swords tells the story of the Crusades -- from the Muslim perspective. |
by Michael Tasner Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. This is the complete, practical, no-fluff desk reference to next generation online and mobile marketing. Drawing on his extensive experience helping companies of all sizes successfully utilize the web, mobile marketing, and social media, Michael Tasner helps marketers, entrepreneurs and managers move beyond hype and high-level strategy to proven tactics and successful ground-level execution. |
by Peri Pakroo Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Approximately eight million U.S businesses are currently women-owned, and the number is growing at twice the national average for all businesses. As one of the millions of aspiring female small business owners, you know that there are specific issues and questions that need to be addressed when you're setting up shop. The Women's Small Business Start-Up Kit, written by the author of the bestselling The Small Business Start-Up Kit, gives you the practical and legal information you need to kickstart a successful enterprise. |
by Brian Tracy Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. You don't need to have been born under a lucky star, or with incredible wealth, or with terrific contacts and connections, or even special skills...but what you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline. Unfortunately, most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they're lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: they don't consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today. |
by Keith I. Block, M.D. Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Dr. Keith Block is at the global vanguard of innovative cancer care. As medical director of the Block Center for Integrative Cancer Treatment in Evanston, Illinois, he has treated thousands of patients who have lived long, full lives beyond their original prognoses. Now he has distilled almost thirty years of experience into the first book that gives patients a systematic, research-based plan for developing the physical and emotional vitality they need to meet the demands of treatment and recovery. |
by Pamela Yellen Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and BusinessWeek bestseller Bank On Yourself: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future reveals the secrets to taking back control of your financial future that Wall Street, banks, and credit card companies don't want you to know. |
by Vivian Diller, Ph.D. with Jill Muir-Sukenick, Ph.D. Edited by Michele Willens Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Let's face it: everyone's getting older. But millions of women, raised to believe that success and happiness are based on their intelligence and accomplishments, face an unexpected challenge: the physical realities of aging. If looks are not supposed to matter, why do so many women panic as their appearance changes? |
by William Irwin with Richard Brian Davis Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis Carroll introduce us to such oddities as blue caterpillars who smoke hookahs, cats whose grins remain after their heads have faded away, and a White Queen who lives backwards and remembers forwards? |
by John E. Wade II Interested in featuring this book on your site? Email us. This collection of inspirational essays from 101 of the world's leading thinkers, statesmen, artists, and theologians addresses the question of how to make the world a better place. Contributors include Al Gore, David Brooks, Tony Blair, Thomas L. Friedman, George Bush, Nicholas D. Kristoff, Leonard Pitts Jr., James K. Glassman, Ted Turner, and many more. |


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