NEUE TITEL IM		November
Non Fiction
		Titel	Agr.-No.
		Originalverlag	Verkauft
Autor/en	Klassifikation	Erste Publikation	Seitenzahl
Arison, Shari	Spirituality	BIRTH	106507
		Phoenix Books
		Nov 09	186pp.
WHEN THE SPIRITUAL AND THE MATERIAL COME TOGETHER - One of the Most Successful Women in the World Offers Guidance on Achieving Spiritual and Material Wealth. In this book, a tremendous bestseller in Israel during the Summer of 2009, Shari Arison, Forbes Magazine’s “wealthiest woman in Israel” and one of their “50 Most Influential Women in the World”, puts forth her provocative vision for the new world. Blending memoir, economics-based teachings and practical philosophy, Arison shares her ideas for spiritual growth in a material world, emphasizing the essential need for individuals to establish inner peace before contributing positively to the community and the world. Shari Arison is an Israeli-American business woman and the daughter of Ted Arison, founder of Carnival Cruise Lines. Shari Arison assumed the chairmanship of the Arison Group in 1999, a business and philanthropic group headquartered in Tel Aviv. Since that time, Arison has led significant business ventures including the acquisition of the sole controlling equity stake in Israel’s largest global bank and the largest salt manufacturer in Israel. Arison founded Miya, a global water company providing water loss-prevention management solutions to municipalities and utilities around the world. Arison created Essence of Life, an organization promoting awareness and providing tools for individuals for finding inner and social peace. Arison also initiated the Good Deeds Day, a day held annually in which people are encouraged to perform good deeds. "I believe that Shari Arison can play a crucial role in our achieving world peace, and BIRTH is an important first step in that journey.  Her book teaches us that it is through inner peace that we can create larger, global change.  BIRTH connects the material to the spiritual, and provides a blueprint --for both businesses and individuals alike -- of a new world about to be born." – Brian L. Weiss, author of MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS
Becker, Suzy	Parenting Memoirs	ONE GOOD EGG	106490
		Manuscript
			23pp.      Strichzeichnungen
Suzy Becker is the bestselling author/artist of ALL I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM MY CAT (new expanded edition out October 2007), MY DOG’S THE WORLD’S BEST DOG, and THE ALL BETTER BOOK (to be revised).
Biava, Pier Mario	Health Spirituality	CANCER AND THE SEARCH FOR LOST MEANING	106513
		North Atlantic Books
		Apr 09	151pp.
THE DISCOVERY OF A REVOLUTIONARY NEW CANCER TREATMENT Foreword by Ervin Laszlo. - A story of personal insight that came unexpectedly to cancer researcher Pier Mario Biava, Cancer and the Search for Lost Meaning presents his original theories for curing cancer and bringing deeper meaning to our lives. - In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Pier Mario Biava argues that the problem with cancer is not the disease itself, but how to treat it, how to approach the affected body. Malfunctioning cells, he says, need not always be cut out or chemically destroyed: they can be reprogrammed for normal functioning. This process involves identifying the information that stem cells receive during embryonic growth in the mother’s womb and reapplying it to cancer cells in the fully developed organism. - Thus cancer cells can shift from multiplying and damaging tissue to healthy growth within the organism. - Dr. Biava’s dramatic story recounts not only how he came by his key insight but also how he devoted years to its testing and making it operational. - Cancer and the Search for Lost Meaning also contains fascinating conclusions about what the lessons of this work can offer in terms of how we view human life and existence. The book makes a powerful case that cancer is a by-product of the sense of loss and lack of meaning in modern society and that healing cancer involves healing that sense of meaninglessness—a process that can lead to a deeper understanding of, and connection to, life. Pier Mario Biava received his degree in medicine from the University of Pavia in 1969. He went on to specialize in occupational medicine at the University of Padova and in hygiene at the University of Trieste. - Dr. Biava worked at the Institute of Occupational Medicine at the University of Trieste, where he taught Industrial Toxicology, Industrial Technology, and Epidemiology of Occupational Diseases. He has been studying environmental carcinogens since 1974.
Bodine, Echo	Health	MY BIG BOOK OF HEALING	106509
		Hampton Roads Publishing Comp.
		January 2009	221pp.
RESTORE YOUR BODY, RENEW YOUR MIND, AND HEAL YOUR SOUL - Updated and revised edition. Nirvana is not another form of delayed gratification! Originally published in 1993 by Nataraj as Passion to Heal, this popular companion and guide to deep inner healing is now revised and updated for a new generation of readers as My Big Book of Healing. Many people are dealing with addiction and abuse issues. Others suffer from physical ailments. Some are recovering from the emotional fallout of growing up in a dysfunctional family. My Big Book of Healing provides one-stop shopping for anyone in search of emotional and physical health. Renowned author and spiritual teacher Echo Bodine shows readers how they can heal from eighteen illnesses, addictions, and “distractions,” including: • the debilitating power of secrets • chemical dependencies • excessive weight loss or weight gain • stress and depression • fear and resentment • loss and grieving After exploring these common personal issues, Bodine offers concrete, easy-to-understand guidance on where and how to find the deep inner healing necessary to overcome these issues. She takes readers through such healing solutions as 12-Step groups to Lifework clinics to therapy and good medical help. ECHO BODINE is known internationally for her work as a spiritual healer and writer. She has appeared on numerous national television shows, including Sally Jesse Raphael and NBC’s Later Today. Bodine is the author of a number of books, including Hands that Heal, Echoes of the Soul, Relax, It’s Only a Ghost, and A Still, Small Voice. She lives in Minnesota. “A wonderful companion for anyone who is on a healing path . . . friendly, practical, easy to understand, and spiritual, a truly helpful guide.” —Gerald Jampolsky, MD, and Diane Cirrincione “Essential reading for those on a deep healing journey.” —Melody Beattie readers.
Bracken, Peg	Cookbooks	THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK	106516
		Grand Central
		July 2010	207pp.
Updated Edition of the huge bestseller in the 60s and 70s - combined sales of previous editions total over three million copies. Her recipes and wit are just as fresh today as ever and this new edition includes a new foreword by Peg's daughter Jo and updates to the recipes for a whole new generation of women who hate to cook (and for those that like it a bit too)!   Philosopher's Chowder. Skinny Meatloaf. Fat Man's Shrimp. Immediate Fudge Cake. These are just a few of the beloved recipes from Peg Bracken's classic I HATE TO COOK BOOK. Written in a time when women were expected to have full, delicious meals on the table for their families every night, Peg Bracken offered women who didn't revel in this obligation an alternative: quick, simple meals that took minimal effort but would still satisfy. 50 years later, times have certainly changed - but the appeal of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK hasn't. This book is for everyone, men and women alike, who wants to get from cooking hour to cocktail hour in as little time as possible.
Chatfield, Tom	Business/Management	FUN INC.	106593
		Virgin Books
		January 2010	272pp
WHY GAMES ARE THE 21ST CENTURY'S MOST SERIOUS BUSINESS - Gaming is entertaining, hugely profitable, incredibly sophisticated in its technology and design, and the industry continues to grow at an impressive rate: dismiss it at your peril. This is an interesting and engaging read and would sit well on many popular culture or business book lists. - There are some things that are simply a given about video games: Games are played by teenage boys. 40 per cent of all US video game players are women. Video games tend to be violent and it's their violence that makes them popular. Of the 20 bestselling console games of all time, only 1 involves any real-world violence at all. Then there are the elements of games we're less familiar with: The South Korean government will invest $200 billion into its video games industry over the next 4 years. Games are used to train the US Military, and they are also used to model global pandemics. Over 350 million people play video games. The games industry is a global phenomenon: over 350 million people now play games online. Whether we like video games or loathe them they're a part of our lives. Tom Chatfield is currently the arts and books editor at Prospect magazine and has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman and the Observer. - He has done puzzle design and creative consultancy work for a number of online games and media companies, including Mind Candy, Grex, Red Glasses and Intervox, and has spoken on gaming at international conferences including Picnic in Amsterdam.
Clegg, Brian	Science	INSTANT EGGHEAD GUIDE: PHYSICS	106460
		Griffin / St. Martin's Press
		Nov 09	217pp.
Enclosed please find FINAL PDF materials for INSTANT EGGHEAD GUIDE: PHYSICS (Griffin, November 2009). From Scientific American's 60-Second Science Podcast, which has had over Thirty two million downloads, comes this latest entry into the series exploring the world of popular physics. The Instant Egghead Guide: PHYSICS will explore quantum physics, relativity, and light. It will break down complex ideas and explore why Einstein made some big blunders, how the ipod came to be, and what it would take to make teleportation possible. Each Instant Egghead Guide book in the series is written by a top expert author in that field. These guides will make figuring out complicated topics simple, accessible, and fun by breaking each one up into manageable bites. "Clegg’s latest will engage scientists and lay readers with a thorough, level-headed, reader-friendly treatment of controversial and complex material." – Publishers Weekly, *starred review* "A superb exploration of this weird and wonderful physical phenomenon and the ways it could change our lives."  —Popular Science "A clear, non-technical guide to entanglement and its fascinating implications.  —Physics World
Comins, Neil F.	General Non Fiction	WHAT IF THE EARTH HAD TWO MOONS?: AND NINE OTHER THOUGHT-PROVOKING SPECULATIONS ON THE SOLAR SYSTEMS	106151
		St. Martin's Press
		Apr 10	357pp.
Ten "What If" scenarios about Earth and the solar system that shed fresh light on our planet and possible other earths in the universe. A follow-up to his previous bestseller What if the Moon Didn’t Exist? -Praise: Seductively cunning. . .All these ‘what-ifs’ have the cumulative effect of making us excruciatingly aware of what a special and precarious place we inhabit—and how easy it would have been for it to be otherwise.  Washington Post
Davis, Matthew	Travel Anthropology	WHEN THINGS GET DARK	106579
		St. Martin's Press
		February 2010	304pp.
At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town—and a country—undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians Matt meets, but also focuses on the author's downward spiral into alcohol abuse and violence--a scenario he saw played out by many of the Mongolian men around him. Matt's self-destruction culminates in a drunken fight with three men that forces him to a hospital to have his kidneys X-rayed. He hits bottom in that cold hospital room, his body naked and shivering, a bloodied Mongolian man staring at him from an open door, the irrational thought in his head that maybe he is going to die there. His personal struggles are balanced with insightful descriptions of customs and interactions, and interlaced with essays on Mongolian history and culture that make for a fascinating glimpse of a mysterious place and people. Matthew Davis is a MFA graduate of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program and is currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International studies. He lives in Washington, D.C. “Matthew Davis’s portrait of Mongolia is riveting, insightful, and deeply honest.  He captures the timeless elements of this remarkable country ­--the glorious history, the wide-open landscapes ­--but he also writes about the forces that shape today’s Mongol society.  As a teacher he experiences it all firsthand: he lives in a nomad-style ger; he drinks too much, like the locals; he witnesses the mass migration to the cities and foreign countries.  He even finds himself caught up in a quarantine for the plague.  It’s rare for a young person to have such intimate contact with such a distant country, and even rarer for him to write about it so well.”-- Peter Hessler, author of Country Driving,  River Town, and Oracle Bones  “Mongolia is a bewitching land, and Matt Davis captures the exotic and the quotidian aspects of living there in this sweet and utterly engaging book. Braving an outbreak of the plague, surviving in minus-40 degree cold, drinking vodka and fermented mare’s milk just like the locals, Davis looks past Mongolia’s desperate challenges and finds moments of touching humanity. Davis has a forgiving eye and a sharp pen. A lovely, memorable book.”--Seth Faison, author of South of the Clouds: Exploring the Hidden Realms of China "When Things Get Dark is an intimate, sometimes ambivalent account of the terrible beauty and the sometimes squalid underbelly of modern Mongolia, by a young American who lived the real Mongolian life, including serious drinking, for two years. The warmth and hospitality of the Mongolian people shine through despite moments of desperation and despair, both his and theirs. It made me remember the coal and dung smoke and the mutton stew.  It made me want to go back."--Steve Bodio, author of Eagle Dreams and Querencia  “WHEN THINGS GET DARK is a beautifully written, vivid book that presents a very well observed picture of Mongolian society. I was quite moved by many of the passages. The universal themes of love and growing up will appeal to people anywhere with or without an interest in exotic, far away Mongolia.” –Jasper Becker, author of Mongolia and Dragon Rising
DeCurtis, Anthony	Music	BLUES & CHAOS /EDITED	106504
		Scribners
		Nov 09	438pp.    o.I.
THE MUSIC WRITING OF ROBERT PALMER - Palmer's extraordinary knowledge and boundless love of music were evident in all his writing. He was an authority on rock & roll, blues, jazz, punk, avant-garde, and world music -- often discovering new artists and trends years (even decades) before they hit the mainstream. Now, noted music writer Anthony DeCurtis has compiled the best pieces from Palmer's oeuvre and presents them here, in one compelling volume. - A member of the elite group of the defining rock critics who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, Palmer possessed a vision so complete that, as DeCurtis writes, "it's almost as if, if you read Bob, you didn't need to read anyone else." Blues & Chaos features some of his most memorable pieces, including gripping stories about John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Moroccan trance music, Miles Davis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Philip Glass, and Muddy Waters. - Wonderfully entertaining, infused with passion, and deeply inspiring, Blues & Chaos is a must for music fans everywhere.
Dobkin De Rios, Marlene Janiger, M.D., Oscar	Esoterica/New Age	HOW THE WORLD IS MADE	106558
		Inner Traditions
		October 2009	272pp.  Farbgraphik
THE STORY OF CREATION ACCORDING TO SACRED GEOMETRY - Understanding the role of sacred geometry in cosmology and human affairs. • Explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies • Illustrates the social and spiritual values in the natural progression of number • Contains more than 300 full-color drawings showing the interplay of number and sacred geometry Galileo described the universe as a large book written in the language of mathematics, which can only be read by those with knowledge of its characters--triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures. The laws of geometry are not human inventions. They are found ready-made in nature and hold a truth that is the same in all times and all places and is older than the world itself. In How the World Is Made John Michell explains how ancient societies that grasped the timeless principles of sacred geometry were able to create flourishing societies. His more than 300 full-color illustrations reveal the secret code within these geometrical figures and how they express the spiritual meanings in the key numbers of 1 through 12. For example, the number 8 and its octagon are symbols of peace and stability, the holy 7 and its seven-sided figure are connected to the world-soul. He identifies the various regular shapes and shows their constructions; their natural symbolism; their meetings, matings, and ways of breeding; and their functions within the universal order. Some are musical and structural, others relate to life and humanity. In the process of making these discoveries, Michell helps us see the world in a new light. Disparate shapes and their corresponding numbers are woven together, resolving themselves into an all-inclusive world image--that “pattern in the heavens,” as Socrates called it, “which anyone can find and establish within themselves.”
Dolgoff, Joanna	Parenting	RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT, EAT RIGHT	106452
		Rodale Press
		December 2009	249pp.
The Food Solution that Let’s Kids be Kids! - This nutrition game plan for the whole family has the potential to be the definitive book on healthy eating for children and their families. Parents who have looked for guidance from EAT THIS, NOT THAT FOR KIDS and DECEPTIVELY DELICIOUS will buy this book.  This diet book uses the power of play to get families excited about healthy eating.  Foods are categorized by the colors of the traffic light—Green Light (Go!), Yellow Light (Slow!), and Red Light (Uh-Oh!).  Based on their age, gender, and goals, children eat a certain number of Green Light foods every meal and snack.   There’s Free Fuel and Pit Stops; they can Mix and Match their Lights.  It’s fun! There is no calorie counting. No foods are off-limits, from chocolate to cheese, home-cooked meals to fast food. It’s a real-world game plan, with real-world options, preferences, and lifestyles.  Kids actually learn to make healthier choices for themselves, which empowers them to make healthy choices for a lifetime.  There is no tricking or deception; no complicated calculations to confuse their food choices. And overweight children don’t feel singled out because siblings in a normal weight range can improve their health too since the full spectrum of eaters can be accommodated—over- or under-, picky or undiscerning, parent or child.  In the first twelve weeks of the program, many children lose up to fifteen pounds, and in its inaugural year, the program has enjoyed a 96% weight loss success rate.  Dr. Dolgoff has been featured as a childhood obesity expert on ABC and NBC, works as CBS News Official Online Correspondent, and has relationships with Good Morning America, The Today Show, Dr. Phil, The View, The Early Show, Inside Edition, Extra TV, and Good Day New York.  Dr. Dolgoff also participated in round table discussions for the National Institutes of Health and Subway Restaurants’ We Can! Childhood Obesity Prevention Program and is building an extensive online platform, which includes blogging, social networking, and online advertising.  Recently, Dr. Dolgoff launched the only online child weight loss program, which gives her the ability to help even more families change the way they eat.  I will send you your own log in and password to check it out yourself.  Her website is www.drweigh.com. “Finally, a medically-sound weight reduction program that will improve the health of our children and promote life-long healthy food choices.  Dr. Dolgoff’s Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right will turn the tide of the obesity epidemic we confront daily in our practices.  Highly recommended!” —Joseph Levy, M.D., Professor, NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics "Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right is a smart, creative way to start changing a growing problem in America.  It gives kids and their parents a fun way to learn and apply healthy knowledge to everyday activities. I can't wait to share it with my own kids one day!" –Ali Vincent, winner of The Biggest Loser and author of Believe It, Be It
Duno, Steve	Memoirs Animals	LAST DOG ON THE HILL	105201
		St. Martin's Press
		June 2010 ?	727pp.MS.
The Extraordinary Life of Lou “If Jack Reacher had a dog, he’d be Lou. If Jack Reacher was a dog, he’d be Lou.”  -- Lee Child, New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series Born of guard dogs on a secreted marijuana farm in California, Lou truly was one dog in a million.  On the winter day that the ailing, feral pup was rescued by the author, Steve Duno, neither dog nor man had a clue as to what they were getting into, or where the relationship would lead. The Last Dog on the Hill tells the story of an indigent young Rottweiler who, after abandoning his pack and the hills of his birth, went on to change the lives of hundreds of people and dogs, including the author’s, whose career as a behaviorist and writer was made possible through Lou’s extraordinary intelligence and heart. Lou won the respect of gang members, foiled an armed robbery, caught a rapist, fought coyotes and kidnappers, comforted  elderly war veterans and Alzheimer patients in their final days, learned scores of unique behaviors and tricks and amassed a vocabulary of nearly 200 words, helped rehabilitate hundreds of aggressive dogs and saved them from euthanasia, among other achievements. He was also a clown, consummate performer and Steve’s best friend and companion for 16 years, and his story will make readers laugh and cry in equal measures. Veteran pet behaviorist and author Steve Duno has to date authored seventeen books and scores of magazine and web articles. He has trained thousands of dogs, and a good number of cats.  Known for his “Be the Dog” philosophy, Duno believes that seeing things from a pet’s perspective is the only way to truly understand and manage the household dog or cat. He has covered a wide variety of subject matter on both dogs and cats, including basic training, aggression, environmental enrichment, behavior modification, breed profiling, trick training, and pet health care. Steve is also an avid golfer, and has published two successful books on the sport.  Formerly a teacher in New York City and Los Angeles, he currently lives in Seattle with his family and an ever-changing assortment of rescued pets.
Epstein, Samuel S. Fitzgerald, Randall	Health	TOXIC BEAUTY	106512
		BenBella Books
		Apr 09	283pp.
HOW COSMETICS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS ENDANGER YOUR HEALTH ... AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT - Anti-aging products are the fastest growing sector of the cosmetics industry as women and men are becoming rapidly more obsessed with looking and feeling young. Splashy ads and commercials are everywhere we turn, promising to keep our appearances fresh and our partners satisfied. - But do consumers really know what they’re applying to their faces and bodies in their quests for youth and beauty? Do they know the health risks they’re taking by simply applying lipstick, face moisturizer or deodorant? - Toxic beauty products clutter the shelves at retail stores everywhere, and consumers don’t know the avoidable risks they’re taking by following a simple beauty regimen. - Written by Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, a founder and chairperson of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Toxic Beauty gives critical information on salon safety, health risks hiding in everyday products, how we put our children in danger and more. Toxic Beauty will also educate you and your family on easily implemented solutions through the use of a variety of positive alternatives. - Through the help of Dr. Epstein and Toxic Beauty, you can protect yourself from the possible long-term effects of a simple beauty product. Samuel S. Epstein, MD, D. Path., D.T.M&H, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is an internationally recognized authority on the causes and prevention of cancer, the toxic and carcinogenic effects of environmental pollutants, and of ingredients and contaminants in consumer products—food, cosmetics and toiletries, and related public policy concerns. He has published some 270 peer-reviewed scientific articles and authored or co-authored 15 books. Epstein has served as consultant to the U.S. Congress and has presented to the United Nations. Epstein has been awarded numerous honors, including the 1998 Right Livelihood Award for International Contributions to Cancer Prevention; and the 2005 Albert Schweitzer Golden Grand Medal for Humanitarianism and for International Contributions to Cancer Prevention. - Randall Fitzgerald has been an investigative newspaper and magazine reporter and book author for 37 years. He has written investigative features for Reader's Digest, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. His most recent book is The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health, published in hardcover in 2006 by Penguin/Dutton and in paperback in 2007 by Plume.
Freyd, Jennifer	Relationship	BETRAYAL	90462
		Wiley & Sons
			41pp.
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF BETRAYAL AND ITS POWER TO BLIND US Manuscript due October 2010. English language world rights sold to Wiley; Portuguese/Brazil rights sold to Campus/Elsevier. Projected length: 200-250 pages.
Gerdes, Lee	Esoterica/New Age	LIMITLESS YOU	106548
		Namaste Publishing
		March 2009	290pp.   e-MS:303pp.
THE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES OF A BALANCED BRAIN  - Thanks to advances in neuroplasticity, we now know that the brain can rewire its own network and thereby optimize its capabilities. Capital-izing on these advances, brain training, invites the brain to become more in tune with itself. - Brain training isn’t based on diagnosis and neither is it concerned with symptoms a client may be suffering. Its focus is on the degree of balance and harmony the brain experiences, plus the flexibility it demonstrates when it moves from being at rest to being activated. This is quite different from modalities that compare a person’s brain with a normative database and then try to teach the individual to bring their brain functioning up to par with the average brain. - By altering levels of brain energy through a feedback loop that allows the brain’s own activity to be input into a computer and then fed back to it via auditory input, this advanced technology allows the brain to see itself—to recognize where it’s out of balance and not functioning well. - Once our amazing brain discovers how it has established neural patterns that may have been necessary for our survival in the past but that limit us in the present, it readjusts itself. When the brain is balanced between its hemispheres and lobes, and its energy patterns from low to high are harmonized in each region of the brain, no part of our life remains unaffected. - As emotions stabilize and mental acuity picks up, health and physical well-being advance also. Clients report reduced post-traumatic stress disorder, relief of stress and anxiety, the ability to rid themselves of addictions, lessening of impulsivity, curbing of tendencies to anger and violence, diminishing of depression, and enhancement of the overall quality of their lives. Brain training is an especially good fit with more natural approaches to wellness and recovery. - By optimizing our brain, we optimize our entire life. Life no longer feels as if we are stepping on the gas while someone else is stepping on the brake. We can at last be the limitless individuals we were born to be. Lee Gerdes’ background as a systems analyst, pastoral counselor, management consultant, and vice president of Solutions for NetPerceptions prepared him to become founder and CEO of Brain State Technologies™. He has done advanced studies in math and physics and holds a Masters degree in Divinity with advanced studies in psychology. Brain State Technologies™ is located in Scottsdale, Arizona, with affiliate offices throughout the world.
Grier, Pam	Movie & Media Autobiography	FOXY	106464
		Grand Central
		Apr 10	320pp.
A LIFE IN THREE ACTS - Beautiful, bold, and bad, Pam Grier burst onto the movie scene in the 1970s, setting the screen on fire and forever changing the world’s view of African-American actresses. With a killer attitude and body to match, Grier became the ultimate fantasy of men everywhere. But she quickly proved that she was more than just a desirable film goddess. She had the brains, courage, and tenacity to sustain a career that would span more than 30 years. In FOXY, she chronicles the good, bad, and steamy highlights in her life and career. From her early beginnings as a star in Foxy Brown to her Golden-Globe nominated role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, Grier reveals her hard-won battles against racism and sexism, her victories in Hollywood, and her relationships with Richard Pryor and Kareem Abdul Jabar. Here, we see Pam in all of her incredible roles-from army brat and movie star to cancer survivor and dedicated activist. Revealing, thoroughly candid, and audacious, this is a no-holds-barred look at one of our most enduring screen idols.
Guilmartin, Nance	Self-help	POWER OF PAUSE	104200
		Jossey-Bass Publ.
		December 2009	256pp. pdf
HOW TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN A DEMANDING, 24/7 WORLD - In Nance Guilmartin’s second book, she explains how taking a moment to reevaluate our circumstances allows us to make better decisions and avoid disastrous miscommunications. For many years Nance has been teaching the concept of pausing to business audiences, as well as professionals in government, health care and nonprofit organizations. In our increasingly fast paced world, split second decisions are becoming more difficult to make and the effect of wrong decisions – on the bottom line, customers, corporate reputations, employees and colleagues – is becoming more explosive. - THE POWER OF PAUSE teaches readers how to stop automatically moving recklessly forward, how to regain control of our thoughts and actions, how to prevent costly mistakes and quickly make more productive choices. In the workplace, in any industry, it is more important than ever that meanings and intent do not get lost in the shuffle and that we learn how to achieve extraordinary results in the time we have. - An expert communicator, Nance is an Emmy award winning journalist, business consultant, keynote speaker, former Westinghouse national executive and manager, and former congressional press secretary. She has taught communications at Tufts University and is a Fellow of Florida International University’s Center for Leadership. Her previous book, HEALING CONVERSATIONS: What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say has been published in 11 languages worldwide.
Handler, Chelsea	Lifestyle	CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG /ESSAYS	106597
		Grand Central
		March 2010	212pp.
The Philadelphia Inquirer calls her a “hot blonde with a filthy mouth” and Jennifer Weiner, bestselling author of Good In Bed says “Chelsea Handler writes like Judy Blume, if Judy Blume were into vodka, Ecstasy, and sleeping with midgets and nineteen-year-olds” Now, in a major publication for Grand Central, #1 New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Handler brings us CHELSEA CHELSEA BANG BANG, her newest hilarious collection of essays.  Grand Central will publish in March 2010 with a major marketing campaign and a 350,000 first printing.  Previous publishers include Random House UK, Mondadori (Italy), Rowohlt (Germany) and Columbus (Czech). In this new, no-holds-barred account of life on the ridiculous side, Chelsea mines the wealth of material that is her family, her sex life, her career, and her distinctively outrageous worldview. Here is young Chelsea discovering "The Feeling" during a third-grade sleepover...and grown-up Chelsea at the mercy of the remote control, Lean Pockets, and Sex and the City—but still managing to convince her boyfriend that there are Swiss Army knives in the soles of her $16,000 shoes.  Through it all, Chelsea never lets anyone off the hook, even herself, as she delivers page after page of irreverent humor, biting wit, and deliciously off-kilter entertainment. Born in Livingston, New Jersey, to a Jewish father and a Mormon mother, Chelsea Handler is the youngest of six children.  She is the star and host of E!'s Chelsea Lately and the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Are You There Vodka?  It’s Me, Chelsea.
Harcombe, Zoe	Dieting	STOP COUNTING CALORIES AND START LOSING WEIGHT - THE HARCOMBE DIET	106406
		Accent Press
		January 2008	352pp.
1.1 billion people are overweight worldwide. The more we tell them to 'eat less', the fatter they get...What if your body stores fat the minute you 'eat less'? What if you have 1 of 3 very common medical conditions, which cause insatiable food cravings? What if eating less causes these conditions? What if insulin makes you fat and not calories? What if eating less makes you eat the wrong things? What if there was a way out? There is! You can eat real food, in unlimited quantities, and lose pounds and keep them off. You just need the secret of working with your body, not against it. You need to "Stop Counting Calories" to "Start Losing Weight". Zoe Harcombe is author of "Why do you overeat? When all you want is to be slim". She gives diet advice on Real Radio FM and BBC Radio Wales and writes regularly for newspapers and magazines. Having suffered from both anorexia and bulimia she has spent 20 years researching the causes of overeating. Zoe is a graduate from Cambridge University.
Hayzlett, Jeffrey W.	Business/Management	THE MIRROR TEST	106232
		Grand Central
		May 2010	239pp.
HOW TO BREATHE NEW LIFE INTO YOUR BUSINESS - A definitive, prescriptive and very much "in-your-face" approach on how business managers (including small business owners) can evaluate what's not working well in their businesses and then figure out how they can turn their companies around.  Hayzlett has built his career on his ability to get people to look up and pay attention to the problems at hand. THE MIRROR TEST will teach readers—through entertaining and timely anecdotes—how to thoughtfully yet aggressively evaluate, deconstruct, and then reconstruct one's business.  Jeff Hayzlett is the chief marketing officer for Kodak. He has 25 years of international marketing and management experience and has received numerous global awards and honors, including the Frost & Sullivan Lifetime Achievement Award for marketing.
Kane, Ariel Kane, Shya	Spirituality	WORKING ON YOURSELF DOESN'T WORK	106511
		McGraw-Hill
		October 2008	140pp.
THE THREE SIMPLE IDEAS THAT WILL INSTANTANEOUSLY TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE - This acclaimed, life-changing book shows you how to stop “working on yourself–and start living in the moment. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go through your day without stress or self-doubt? How to have a real sense of inner peace and fulfillment? To experience the sheer joy of being alive? Now you can—through the three simple principles in this book. Once you grasp the Kanes’ three basic but profound concepts, you will stop “working” on yourself and start living the life you’ve always wanted—instantaneously—free from old self-perceptions and open to a world of new possibilities. Ariel & Shya Kane are masters of Instantaneous Transformation, the ability to live in the moment and dissolve problems through awareness. Their revolutionary technology has inspired thousands of individuals, couples and organizations across the globe, including at the United Nations Society of Enlightenment and Transformation. Bestselling, award-winning authors, as well as internationally acclaimed seminar leaders and business consultants, the Kanes are dedicated to supporting people in living in the moment and having extraordinary, fulfilling lives. Their approach has a unique flavor that is designed for modern day circumstances and complexities.
Khoury, Ziad	Business/Management	FRONTLINE PROFIT MACHINE	106514
		SelectBooks, Inc.
		June  2009	248pp.
THE KHOURY BLUEPRINT FOR EXPLODING PROFI TS AT THE POINT OF SALE - In most businesses you have very little control over your competitors, their pricing and their occasional perplexing strategies. You have no control over the economy or the litany of outside influences that affect the health of your business. - What you do have control over is the performance of your own team, the environment you help create and the people you invite into this environment to be part of your team. - For many businesses, improving the service and sales ability of the frontline—the customer-facing staff—usually provides the opportunity for the biggest upside impact for the organization. For many companies a 5% to 10% improvement in top line revenue can mean 100% improvement for the bottom-line. - Front Line Profit Machine helps businesses increase profits by improving service and sales at the frontline. - This is not just a matter of up-selling customers, rather it requires a cultural transformation in the organization, encompassing training, a sense of ownership and empowerment among frontline employees, measurement and appropriate financial incentives -- all part of the Khoury Performance equation blueprint. Ziad Khoury is the originator and developer of the Khoury Performance Equation. A comprehensive and proven blueprint on how to create a high performing service based sales culture. The result is happier employees, happier customers and exploding profits at the point of sale.
Krupp, Charla	Fashion How To	HOW TO NEVER LOOK FAT AGAIN	106601
		Springboard
		March 2010	???pp color illustr.
OVER 1,000 WAYS TO DRESS THINNER WITHOUT DIETING! There’s a huge amount of anticipation for this follow-up to Charla’s bestselling How Not to Look Old (on the NYT bestseller list for 15 weeks!).  This new style-guide shows readers how to look 10 pounds lighter, 10 years younger and 10 times sexier every day, all year in summer, winter, even in bed!  Are your clothes making you look fat? How else do you explain why some days you look your thinnest and other days, not so much—when you weigh exactly the same?  What's lurking in your closet that's packing on the pounds? - Bestselling author Charla Krupp will answer these questions and many more in this amazing new style guide. As in How Not to Look Old, Charla will examine every aspect of how not to look fat.  She'll share smart, easy ways to hide any reader's arm flap, big bust, muffin top, back fat, Buddha belly, booty, wide hips, thunder thighs, heavy calves, and that's only half the chapters.  She'll also look at special problem situations like how not to look fat in work-out gear, evening wear and even in a swimsuit… - Charla discusses everything about women's clothes from their shape and fit to fabric and color.  Every chapter will have a checklist for the reader to determine if the body part in question is a problem for her; how to get a "no-fat" look;  a list of fabrics, color and styles that will make you look fat; and, conversely, the absolutely best shades, shapes and material that will take off the pounds; a list of products and fashions you shouldn't waste a penny on, and a list of ten things to have you looking thinner by tonight! Charla Krupp has appeared for ten years on the Today show and on more than thirty national TV shows including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Tyra, CBS Early Show, Entertainment Tonight, and Access Hollywood.  She is a contributing editor to People: Style Watch, and was formerly beauty director at Glamour, senior editor at InStyle, and contributing editor at More.
Martenson, Marla	Relationship	EXCUSE ME, YOUR SOUL MATE IS WAITING	106515
		Hampton Roads Publishing Comp.
		February 2008	200pp.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO FINDING THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE - Successful Beverly Hills matchmaker Marla Martenson demonstrates how the Law of Attraction can help those on the prowl to find their soul mate. - This is a fun, concrete, and practical approach to finding Mr./Ms. Right. While based on the principles of Lynn Grabhorn’s best-selling Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, there is nothing “woo woo” about Martenson’s approach. - She combines practical advice, self-tests for the reader, and amusing anecdotes in this delightful howto book. - She challenges the reader to decide what they don’t want, name what they do want in a partner, feel it, and then allow it to happen. One of the real positives here is that she tells readers to stop being victims and take control of their lives. It is a practical book of empowerment. Concrete suggestions are given on how to make the person of your dreams appear in real life. • Workbook questions encourage readers to learn about themselves. • Contains dating anecdotes from the author’s Beverly Hills clients. • Great stories will inspire those on the prowl for their soul mate. • Author is a former actress—young, perky, articulate—a television and radio natural. Marla Martenson has been a professional matchmaker for six years, and is currently the executive director of an exclusive Beverly Hills matchmaking service. Prior to her matchmaking career, Marla was an actress and also worked in print modeling.
Meckelson, Doug Haithman, Diane	How To Self-help	THE ELDER WISDOM CIRCLE	106399
		Plume /Penguin Books
		???	304pp.
GUIDE FOR A MEANINGFUL LIFE - The adage "age is wisdom" proves true in this guide to living a meaningful life. Topics include wisdom for how to help children understand the death of a loved one; for awkward moments like the little girl whose new haircut is the subject of ridicule at school; for big moments like what to say when you give a toast to your sister's marriage; and for the little annoyances none of us can avoid, like how to ask your noisy neighbors to quiet down.  Taken together, this is a heartwarming, refreshing, insightful guide to how to live the meaningful life you've always desired by making better choices in everyday matters.
Meltzer, Marisa	Music	GIRL POWER	106503
		Faber & Faber
		February 2010	151pp.    o.I.
THE NINETIES REVOLUTION IN MUSIC - In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically active. Rejecting both traditional gender roles and their parents’ brand of feminism, riot grrrls celebrated and deconstructed femininity. The media went into a titillated frenzy covering followers who wrote “slut” on their bodies, wore frilly dresses with combat boots, and talked openly about sexual politics. - The movement’s message of “revolution girl-style now” soon filtered into the mainstream as “girl power,” popularized by the Spice Girls and transformed into merchandising gold as shrunken T-shirts, lip glosses, and posable dolls. Though many criticized girl power as at best frivolous and at worst soulless and hypersexualized, Marisa Meltzer argues that it paved the way for today’s generation of confident girls who are playing instruments and joining bands in record numbers. - Girl Power examines the role of women in rock since the riot grrrl revolution, weaving Meltzer’s personal anecdotes with interviews with key players such as Tobi Vail from Bikini Kill and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. Chronicling the legacy of artists such as Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinney, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, and, yes, the Spice Girls, Girl Power points the way for the future of women in rock. Marisa Meltzer is the coauthor of How Sassy Changed My Life (Faber, 2007). Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Elle, and Teen Vogue. She attended Evergreen State College and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Morgan, Aishling XCite Series,	Erotica	NAUGHTY!	106588
		Accent Press
		October 2009	236pp.
This book is about pleasure; joyful, liberated, sexual pleasure. User-friendly – it’s designed for the curious amateur. It’s about pleasures that go beyond what most people are used to, and beyond what is generally accepted as mainstream, not just sex, but naughty sex, the kind of sex that involves more leather than lace, more kink than kissing, that involves bound wrists and smacked bottoms and perhaps even the occasional jugful of custard! - · User-friendly. Designed for the curious, liberated amateur - · Playful. This is what consenting adults can do for fun. - · Written with 25 years of experience. - · Focussed on playing at home. You don't have to spend a lot of money or go out to clubs - – perfect for the credit crunch. - · Polysexual not excluding hetro, gay, lesbian, transgender or polyamorous people. - Topics covered include -Domination/SubmissionFetishism and Erotic Display Bondage Spanking Role Play including puppy and pony games Messy Fun Aishling Morgan is one of many pseudonyms used by the world’s most prolific author of erotic literature, with over one hundred published titles. Aishling also has long experience in London’s active and vibrant fetish scene, and personal experience stretching back to the seventies, with tastes that cover a multitude of pleasures and leave very few avenues unexplored. Nobody could be better qualified to write this book.
Morrone, Marc Ellis-Bell, Nancy	Memoirs	A MAN FOR ALL SPECIES	106415
		Harmony Books/Crown
		Apr 10	???
THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF AN ANIMAL LOVER AND EXPERT PET KEEPER - In A MAN FOR ALL SPECIES Morrone has created a playful, yet informative, memoir told loosely through stories about the dogs, cats, birds, ferrets, monkeys, reptiles and rodents that he has loved, lost, saved, and in some cases, feared. Readers not only learn important facts about many different species, but also can experience the delightful, personal stories that Morrone shares about each animal.
Muller, Wayne	Spirituality	A LIFE OF BEING, HAVING AND DOING ENOUGH	106546
		Harmony Books/Crown
		Apr 10	272pp.   e-MS:189pp.
Diesen Titel bieten wir OHNE 'Radio Reading'- und Audiorechte an. From the bestselling author of Sabbath and Legacy of the Heart, a bold new book that answers this most pressing question: How do we know what is enough? The pace of life quickens, economic pressures mount, and we feel exhausted, overwhelmed, unhappy, and afraid. Many are losing treasured possessions, while others are losing jobs, health, and vitality. Wayne Muller questions the roots of a "successful" life and offers traditional wisdom that suggests true happiness begins with a deep satisfaction and contentment in realizing what is enough. Drawing on a rich variety of spiritual teachings, Wayne Muller invites us to calm our fearful grasping for so much and find sanctuary and peace in what we already have. Filled with wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Wayne Muller teaches how to find the spiritual grace, courage, and wisdom to overcome fears and insecurities and reclaim a life of joy, love, and contentment. This is an important book for these rapidly changing and challenging times. Wayne Muller is a therapist, public speaker, minister, and bestselling author. He is the author of Legacy of the Heart; How Then, Shall We Live?; Sabbath; and Learning to Pray. The author was previously published by Pensamento (Brazil); Lion Publishing & Hodder (UK); Dosol (Korea); Simon & Schuster (Australia); Sogides (France); Urano (Spain); RED Studio Redazionale (Italy).
Nissan, Colin Farrell, Sean	Humor Gift Book	DON'T BE THAT GUY	106394
		Three Rivers Press
		Apr 09	167pp.   Cartoons
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Popovich, Gregory	Animals Self-help	YOU CAN TRAIN YOUR CAT	106576
		Griffin / St. Martin's Press
		October 2009	228pp.  20s/w-Fotos
Since the beginning of time, cats have convinced the world that they are untrainable so they can do whatever they want…but those days are over!  Gregory Popovich is a professional cat trainer who’s trained cats to perform amazing circus-style tricks for television and stage, and he’s about to reveal his most closely guarded secrets so cat lovers everywhere can put an end to the most common problems: *Stop bad litter box habits - *End early-morning howling - *Banish your cat from tabletops and countertops - *Prevent begging before mealtime - *Put an end to destructive clawing - *Make peace between rival cats... - And so much more, including how to become an expert cat trainer at home and teach your cat to perform Gregory’s favorite tricks, like jumping through a hoop or perching on your shoulders. This fun-to-read book also provides wonderful insights into the mysterious, complex feline mind, explaining why cats do the things they do so we can better understand them and enjoy a closer, more meaningful friendship. Gregory Popovich and his performing cats have appeared on The Tonight Show, Late Night With David Letterman, Craig Ferguson, America’s Got Talent, Pen and Teller, Animal Planet and more.  He has also trained cats for Saturday Night Live and pet food commercials, and has been written up in Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker and People Magazine.
Renier, Noreen Lucks, Naomi	Esoterica/New Age True crime	A MIND FOR MURDER	106510
		Hampton Roads Publishing Comp.
		May 2008	252pp.   s/w Fototeil
THE REAL-LIFE FILES OF A PSYCHIC INVESTIGATOR - The amazing story of psychic detective Noreen Renier. The only psychic ever to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Noreen Renier has assisted law enforcement officials all over the world, working on more than 400 criminal cases. From the discovery of her unique abilities, through the honing of her talents in entertainment venues, to becoming a respected figure in the police community, this is the true account of Noreen Renier’s remarkable life and career. Included here are the stories of: • Her prediction of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. • The client who was a professional mercenary. • The police officer suspected of being a rapist and murderer. • Her involvement in the Laci Peterson murder (she told the police where to find the body). Noreen Renier first lectured at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, in 1981. At the time, her work with police detectives was considered controversial. She is now a well-known psychic detective who has worked on more than 400 unsolved cases with city, county, and state law enforcement agencies in 38 states and 6 foreign countries. She has been featured on The Larry King Show, Psychic Detectives Court TV, Good Morning America, and the Biography Channel.
Ruder, Raisa	How To	BABUSHKA'S BEAUTY SECRETS	106463
		Grand Central
		June 2010	181pp.
OLD WORLD TIPS FOR A GLAMOUROUS NEW YOU  - This is a must-have guide to younger looking, glowing skin with the all-natural, old world beauty secrets of Hollywood's go-to beauty expert. Raisa Ruder, a Russian esthetician, has taken her grandmother's natural beauty recipes out of the cupboard to make women such as Madonna and Tyra Banks red-carpet ready.  In BABUSHKA'S BEAUTY SECRETS, Raisa shares her Russian grandmother's, her Babushka's, time-tested, old world secrets to using simple, ingredients—like eggs, strawberries, honey, milk, and avocado—for proven, amazing results.  Women don't need to pay hundreds of dollars in the name of beauty to purchase products like vitamin C serum, alpha-hydroxy acids, pigmentation creams, masks, peels and scrubs.  With Ruder's guide, readers will learn simple, affordable ways to plump, tighten and smooth the skin.  The "recipes" in this book will help women say good-bye to crow's feet, dark circles and acne, and say hello to plumper lips, glowing wrinkle-free skin, and thick beautiful hair.  One trip to the market for some oranges, olive oil, pineapple, and tomatoes (and some vodka to preserve it all!), and you'll be on your way to a younger looking, more glamorous you! Raisa Ruder was a registered nurse in her native Russia when she decided to move to the United States fifteen years ago.  For seven years she worked at the famed Anastasia salon doing eyebrows and facials until opening her own West Hollywood salon in 2005.  She noticed the large amount of preservatives in American products and decided to introduce her Babushka's old world beauty "recipes" in her  salon. She quickly became LA's go-to-girl.  Her clients include: Madonna, Tyra Banks, Molly Simms, Ali Larter, Nicolette Sheridan and others.
Scheu, Muriel	Autobiography	THAI-BUCH	104378
		???
			49pp.
Shapiro, Ed Shapiro, Deb	Spirituality	BE THE CHANGE	106242
		Sterling Publishers
		Nov 09	342pp.
HOW MEDITATION CAN TRANSFORM YOU AND THE WORLD - Today’s most notable voices in spirituality speak out about meditation – and the processof gazing within – has inspired them to look out-ward to the wider world and work toward a better future. Meditation is now enjoying a renewed surge of popularity, penetrating the public consciousness as never before. - What might that mean for us all? Be the Change examines the transformations wrought by this ancient practice through the wisdom of extraordinary luminaries, interwoven with text from award-winning authors Ed and Deb Shapiro. The words of these spiritual leaders from all disciplines and walks of life will surprise, enlighten, and inspire readers to begin their own meditation practice—and perhaps create the foundation for a new and more hopeful age. Includes these distinguished contributors: Joan Borysenko • Jon Kabat-Zinn • Byron Katie • Jane Fonda • HH The Karmapa • Jack Kornfield • Krishna Das • Dean Ornish • Ram Dass • Robert Thurman • Marianne Williamson • and more
Skloot, Rebecca	Science History	THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS	94437
		Crown Publishers
		February 2010	353pp.
Rebecca Skloot, an award winning science journalist, who delivers her long-awaited book about HeLa, the first immortal human cell line and one of the most widely used tools in science research which led to advancements in the study of cancer, stem cell research and infertility, which was taken from a poor woman in 1951 without her consent.  The book tells the extraordinary story of the science behind the cells as well as the tragic impact on the Lacks family when they eventually discovered what had happened, 25 years after the fact.
Smith, Martin	Anthology Religion	THE ART OF COMPASSION	106115
		Hodder & Stoughton
		Nov 08	231pp.  2x8p.Illu.   256pp.pdf
There are two amazing forces that exist in the world: Compassion for those in need and Art that helps us see beyond ourselves. THE ART OF COMPASSION brilliantly brings the two together by gathering the top songwriters in Christian music to help raise money for relief and suffering around the planet. Martin Smith, Compassionart founder, is the lead vocalist for the Christian band Delirious?. Legendary Christian worship songwriters Steven Curtis Chapman, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, Darlene Zschech, Israel Houghton, Andy Park, Tim Hughes, and many others have each contributed a chapter reflecting on the poverty people suffer around the world, the art of compassion, and how we can make a difference. Darlene Zschech, best known for her song "Shout to the Lord" which is sung by 25 to 30 million churchgoers each week, gives an apologetic on her personal role and the greater church's role of social justice in her story, "Rise Up, Church!" In "A Visible Gospel" five-time Grammy Award-winning Steven Curtis Chapman humbly shares his family's call to adopt three children and their ongoing ministry to help fund other families' adoptions. Sold to FaithWords/USA and Première Partie/Frankreich AMAZON Reader Reviews This book tells the tales of the authors and their expirences of poverty and writing their music. A truly inspiring read, and one that tells of the coming about of ComppasionArt. Well worth the money and it goes to help the poor. It's always interesting to hear stories and thoughts behind songs/projects. I've appreciated each of the writers insights into the music and what's behind all of it. This book has opened my eyes to some new aspects of poverty that I was unaware of! Thankyou!
Toms, Justine	Spirituality	SMALL PLEASURES	106547
		Hampton Roads Publishing Comp.
		October 2008	192pp.
FINDING GRACE IN A CHAOTIC WORLD - Charming and thoughtful meditations for people who do too much. - This is a beautifully written series of forty-nine short pieces that encourages us to pause, step back from the external chaos of our lives, and look for the possibilities of divine grace; of the possibilities that are available to us and we fail to see hidden in the midst of our frenetic lives. - Toms brings a light touch to these meditative essays. Whether she is pointing to the miracle of tiny spiders over a rushing creek or motivating the reader to be an activist without becoming a crazy fanatic, Toms’s writing displays a grounded sensibility that is always open to the wonder found in nature and in everyday relationships. It weaves a tapestry of the sacredness of life. - The pay-off for readers is that she provides myriad ways to “tune-in” to their daily lives and connect to what is good, what has deeper meaning, and what is beautiful. It is a feel-good book for literate spiritual seekers. Justine Toms and Michael Toms are the co-founders of the syndicated radio program New Dimensions. She lives in northern California.
Wessel, David	Business/Management	IN FED WE TRUST	106395
		Crown Business
		Aug 09	323pp.    o.I.
Diesen Titel bieten wir OHNE 'Radio Reading'- und Audiorechte an. BEN BERNANKE'S WAR ON THE GREAT PANIC - HOW THE FEDERAL RESERVE BECAME THE FOURTH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT From The Washington Post: David Wessel's "In Fed We Trust" opens on Sept. 14, 2008, when Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is badly sleep-deprived, living on trail mix and wrestling with the decision of a lifetime. For months, he has been trying to stamp out the spreading wildfire of the international financial crisis, yet he, along with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and New York Fed President Timothy Geithner, can't seem to get ahead of the flames. Bernanke had slashed interest rates, helped the Treasury Department and Wall Street bail out the investment bank Bear Stearns -- and still, Wessel writes, "every time officials at the Treasury or the Fed thought they finally had gotten ahead of the Great Panic, they turned out to be insufficiently pessimistic." And on Sept. 14 the problem is what to do about Lehman Brothers. A lifelong scholar of the Great Depression and its causes, Bernanke deeply believes that the global economic crisis of the 1930s, with all its baleful political consequences, could have been avoided if the Federal Reserve had more aggressively pumped liquidity into the economy. He has also been informed that the venerable Wall Street investment firm, with hundreds of billions of dollars worth of connections to the global financial sector, is running out of cash. A second Great Depression is in the offing -- the moment, in a sense, for which Bernanke has been preparing his whole life. Yet he does not know quite what to do. No private-sector buyer for Lehman can be found. The Fed stretched its legal authority to rescue Bear Stearns the previous March, and that doesn't appear possible in the Lehman case. Paulson, for his part, was spooked by the bad political reaction to the Bear bailout and doesn't want to repeat it if he doesn't have to. And so, Bernanke, believing that the markets might have had time to prepare their defenses against a Lehman collapse, concludes in consultation with Paulson and Geithner that there is no alternative to letting the firm fail. It was the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, and it triggered a near-global financial meltdown. And from that moment on, Wessel argues, Bernanke was determined never to be accused of doing too little again. "Whatever it takes" became his depression-beating mantra, and under Bernanke the Fed either carried out or supported some of the most sweeping government interventions ever. Today, the Treasury owns most of General Motors and part of Citigroup and Bank of America, while the Fed funds mortgage-backed securities and the commercial paper markets to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. The Fed's balance sheet stands at about $2 trillion, double what it was two years ago. Did it work? Wessel, the economics editor at the Wall Street Journal, has clearly had access to all the key players; his reporter's judgment is that Bernanke does deserve credit for preventing what he aptly dubs the Great Panic from morphing into something even worse. The interventions Bernanke spearheaded cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars, much of which necessarily flowed into the coffers of Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and AIG. But the relevant question is what Americans would have paid, now and in the future, if Bernanke and his colleagues had not done what they did. From that point of view, their actions look more cost-effective. Indeed, recent data suggest that the worst may be over. The U.S. economy's shrinkage decelerated to a rate of 1 percent between April and July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering near 9,200, up 2,700 points from its lowest point of the past 52 weeks. Even housing is finding a bottom. Unemployment is at 9.4 percent and will probably peak at around 10 percent -- bad, but far from 1930s levels. Last week, the central bank said it would allow a $300 billion program to buy Treasury bonds to lapse in October, a sign that it thinks the economy can stand on its own two feet. Still, as Wessel shows, the Fed in general and Bernanke in particular were hardly blameless in the buildup to the crisis. Under former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, the central bank probably kept interest rates too low for too long in the wake of the 2001 recession, fueling the housing boom whose bust in the second half of 2007 brought on the Great Panic. The Fed's policy under Greenspan reflected the intellectual influence of none other than Bernanke, Wessel writes, whose fear of a downward spiral made him "a strong ally of Greenspan's in making the case that the Fed should keep interest rates low and say so publicly." Bernanke on that occasion was not necessarily well served by his lifelong focus on depression economics: When you're a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. A final verdict on Bernanke's performance will have to wait until the Fed finishes the job he started. If the U.S. economy has stopped sinking, it is because of the flood of artificial liquidity, released by Bernanke, that has borne it up. The Fed's next job will be the perfectly timed withdrawal of all that extra money, so as to avoid either roaring inflation or a relapse of deflation. Bernanke's term ends in 2010, and it's clear he is itching for a chance to finish what he began, even though President Obama will be sorely tempted to replace him with a Democrat such as Larry Summers, the White House economic adviser (and Bernanke's longtime intellectual competitor). A second term for Bernanke would be a good call for Obama if he wants to preserve continuity at the Fed, and if he concludes that Bernanke's belated but creditable actions merit a reward. But in a sense, the Fed's job for the next half-decade has already been determined by the course Bernanke chose in the past 18 months. Whoever takes the helm will face the greatest liquidity mop-up in history. And only if the Fed pulls it off can there be a happy ending to the Great Panic, whose scary beginning David Wessel has so effectively narrated. lanec@washpost.com Copyright 2009, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved. “...gives a revealing blow-by-blow account of the recent financial crisis” —David Brooks, The New York Times “...essential, lucid—and, it turns out, riveting—reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “...a tale that’s nothing short of hair-raising..reveals in scary detail how unprepared politicians and regulators truly were...” —Paul M Barrett, The New York Times Book Review “Wessel delivers an engrossing account of Bernanke's improvisational responses to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.” —Fortune Magazine “... so far the most entertaining and most readable book on the financial crisis.” —Tyler Cowen, marginalrevolution.com “...persuasively told and richly reported... It will win awards and inspire copycats.” —BusinessWeek "David Wessel brings his deep knowledge of the Federal Reserve and U.S. politics and economics to a topic that will be studied by historians for decades to come...No one can understand what happened and what did not happen without reading this book." –Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and author of GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Woodward, Woody	How To	YOUR EMOTIONAL FINGERPRINT	106165
		Wiley & Sons
		February 2011	???
This prescriptive book by internationally acclaimed behavioral expert Woody Woodward shows readers how to figure out their own unique emotional fingerprint, the emotional fingerprint of others, and a path to a happier, more fulfilling life. Each of our emotional fingerprints is made up of at least five characteristics that we view to be most important to our happiness. If two or more of these are being met—by family, friends, career, personal choices—that‘s when we are happiest and at our best. But if two or more of these are compromised, that‘s when we‘re down in the dumps. By understanding these building blocks of emotion, readers will become better, more effective parents, spouses, friends, and colleagues. By going back into their memories to find these answers, readers will learn what most directly dictates their highs and lows. Readers will be shown what influences good days and bad days. And they will also get to see that they can control this by discovering what specifically motivates them to do what they do. Woody Woodward is one of the most sought-after behavioral experts of our time. Having interviewed over 2,500 people around the world for his research, Woody has developed one of the more powerful behavioral tools used globally, the Law of Importance. This method was chosen and presented to the United Nations to assist them in reaching goals they had for the new millennium. It has been so successful that Woody produced an award-winning documentary, I-ology, which has been translated into French and German and is currently being distributed in Germany, France, Canada, Switzerland and U.K and is expected to be distributed in Australia and Italy. The film explores a variety of people‘s emotional fingerprints and shows how these people were able to overcome amazing obstacles. Mr. Woodward is also an international seminar leader and speaker who has entertained and spoken to several hundred thousand people. He has worked in China, Thailand, India, Europe.