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Shayne Gilbert

90 DAYS TO LAUNCH:
Internet Projects on Time and on Budget

A recently completed study by the Gartner Group estimated that medium to large companies spent, on average, $350,000 to $2 million on building e-commerce enabled websites last year. This spending created a global market for Internet services in 1998 of approximately $7.8 billion. 90 Days To Launch is not a book for designers or developers, nor is it a book for dummies, idiots, or other self-professed novices to the Web. It is for the person or small group of people in every organization who is responsible for planning and delivering a site on time and on budget. 90 Days To Launch delivers succinct information that will enable the Internet manager to streamline and deliver a website that will meet the underlying business objectives of the organization.

Shayne Gilbert founded Silverweave Interactive in 1994 with the objective of applying proven business strategies to the emerging market of the Internet. Her clients include FleetBank, Ernst & Young (MKO Division), Addison Wesley, BankBoston, and many others. A leader in the interactive industry, Shayne is the president of The Cyber District Association. She is an adjunct faculty member at Massachusetts Communications College and Marlboro College. Her work has been recognized in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and Wired magazine.

John Wiley & Sons (retained World English rights)

Pearson (German)

Yuan-Liou (Chinese/complex)

IBL (Hebrew)

Softbank (Japanese)

Nance Guilmartin

HEALING CONVERSATIONS:
What to Say When You Don’t Know What to Say

HEALING CONVERSATIONS is a collection of poignant stories and proven advice to help friends, family, and colleagues support one another during times of crisis and change.  Nationally recognized executive coach Nance Guilmartin has spent a lifetime bringing people together, and helping others to breakthrough and help themselves.

Nance has worked with Fortune 500 companies nationwide and was press secretary to U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas.  In addition to the Designated Driver and For Kids’ Sake campaigns, Nance has launched award winning community action initiatives on drug abuse, hunger, disability, and Alzheimer's disease.  She is the recipient of numerous national awards as well as four Emmys from the New England Academy of Arts and Sciences.  But, beyond all her professional accomplishments, Nance has a remarkable gift for connecting with people and helping them communicate what they feel they cannot.  And not merely communication with words:  Nance teaches the art of a more profound communication achieved through listening.

The stories Nance has provided offer not only touching, often humorous, accounts of the trials we face in life, but sound and sage advice on how to bravely face these challenges and help others to do the same.  The stories are short and meant to be read when inspiration is needed.  You only have to read a story once to learn a lesson that can help others for a lifetime.  These are stories to be shared and what tears you shed will prove cathartic just as the laughter you find will prove contagious.

HEALING CONVERSATIONS Reviews

Jossey-Bass

Ankh-Hermes (Dutch)

Sogides (French)

Goldmann (German)

Bertrand-Brasil (Portuguese)

Svenska (Swedish)

Cite

(Complex Chinese)

NLN s.r.o.

( Czech )

Haneon

Dutch Holland

CHANGE IS THE RULE:
Practical Actions for Changes On Target, On Time, On Budget

What all managers and Senior Executives need in this time of globalization and constant change to remain competitive and remain successful is to first learn change.  Dutch Holland has been helping organizations deal with changes varying from shifts in strategy to right-sizing to restructuring organizational change since he started his own consulting company in 1970.

As Chairman and CEO of Holland & Davis, Dutch Holland is also Professor of Management, Department Chair, and Director of a Management Development Center at the University of Houston.

Dearborn Press (retained all translation rights)

Dutch Holland

RED ZONE MANAGEMENT:
Changing the Rules for Pivotal Times

In football, the Red Zone is the last twenty yards on the way to a touchdown.  The Red Zone playbook contains that special set of plays that history has shown to have the statistically highest chance of success in a do-or-die situation.

Businesses also have Red Zones, special times and places when they must shift to a new way of managing to continue to move toward a successful future.  Unfortunately, in business there are no 20-yard markers, so managers have to recognize the Red Zone by looking at the critical initiatives of their company and applying what Dutch Holland has created as “Red Zone Management.”

Dearborn Press (retained all translation rights)

Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO MUTUAL FUND INVESTING

Today there are more and more mutual funds, as more and more people understand that mutual funds are the best place to put money. So how do you find the funds that are right for you without spending a lifetime trying to become a market maven and finding yourself buried in graphs and charts? What you can do is spend a little time with the swiftest, surest, smartest book ever to lead you through the mutual fund maze with wit and wisdom. No other guide provides the information in such a clear, concise, and captivating way.

“The Neatest Little Guide stands alone. There is no other book on the market like this one.” — Michael H. Sherman
chairman, Sierra Global Management

Penguin Group/Plume

Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO STOCK MARKET INVESTING

Second edition published January 2004

This is the bestselling title of the series so far, although the brand new Making Money Online could change that.

Jason Kelly shows the reader how to invest with this eye-opening, user-friendly handbook that puts all the information necessary in clear and uncomplicated language. He combines friendly guidance with sound financial expertise from master strategists, enabling the reader to navigate the fiscal tides.

This is the first book to cover strategies from expert investors like Warren Buffet, automated techniques such as the Dow Dividend approach, and individual research guidance for finding your own millionaire-makers using the Internet and traditional publications.

The book includes unique worksheets that gather everything you need to find and track your portfolio of stocks.

Perhaps nobody has written higher praise for the book than its readers at Amazon.com. So far, every reviewer has awarded the book five stars. The following is Jason’s favorite comment:

“This book is a gem. It’s the only new book about stock investing to earn a place beside the classics by Graham, Fisher, and Lefevre. Jason Kelly has a splendid way with words and teaches everything a person needs to know to profit from the stock market. He even manages to get a laugh here and there, something I've found to be rather rare among money books. While this title may be redundant to old pros, it is the best choice for novices. That said, this old pro found himself engrossed in the pages for an entire evening. Mr. Kelly, take a bow. You've penned the newest classic in the body of investment literature.”
— Reader from Stamford, Connecticut

Do not miss this modern investment classic!

• Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and The Money Book Club
• Consistently in the top 50 selling stock investment books at Amazon.com

Penguin Group/Plume

Economy Daily Press (Chinese/simple)

MVG Verlag (German)

Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO PERSONAL FINANCE

Jason Kelly’s third book in the series provides guidance on how to figure your net worth, get out of debt, stop wasting your money, and plan an investment strategy for retirement. He includes lessons on how to borrow money wisely, choose an IRA, and manage student loans, while offering hints on selecting insurance plans, filing tax returns, and financing a home.

With his trademark flair for making the impossible understandable, Jason Kelly shows how sensible saving and spending can lead to peace of mind and a profitable future.

“I know Jason Kelly’s stock book gets all the attention, but this little book about personal money and saving and stuff is really good too. I liked the stock book, but I’m so darned far in debt that I can’t use it yet. So I’ve found this money book better for me. Maybe when I’m done paying off my debt I will be able to use his other books about investing. He’s a good writer and funny too.”
— Reader from Iberia, Louisiana

Penguin Group/Plume

 Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO MAKING MONEY ONLINE

The Neatest Little Guide to Making Money Online shows in clear terms exactly how anybody can make money with a Web site that they design from their own home. Because a Web site runs 24 hours a day, this is one of the few sources of income that works while you sleep!

With advertising, affiliate product partnerships, and clever marketing techniques, Jason Kelly has assembled a formula that anybody can use to earn an extra $400 every month. This is the first Neatest Little Guide that switches focus from managing money to making more of it to manage.

Be sure to look for Making Money Online in January, 2000.

Penguin Group/Plume

Nicholas Brealey Publishing (UK)

Robin Book (Spanish)

IBL (Hebrew)

MVG Verlag (German)

Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO DO-IT-YOURSELF INVESTING

The latest title in Jason Kelly’s hot-selling series, The Neatest Little Guide to Do-It-Yourself Investing: Time-Tested Principles for Making Money in Any Market will help readers to navigate the tricky world of investing without the help of a broker.

Penguin Group/Plume

Jason Kelly

THE NEATEST LITTLE GUIDE TO STOCK MARKET INVESTING, 3RD EDITION

Published January 2008

The latest edition of Kelly's classic introduces Maximum Midcap, hi all-new way to beat the Dow using a midcap index. This strategy rises more in good times, falls less in bad times, and makes more profit over the long run than any other approach shown in previous editions of the book.

Now includes a profile of legendary Legg Mason mutual fund manager Bill Miller. He beat the market for 15 years in a row. Find out how.

For the first time ever in print, a ten-year perspective on his original IBM Value Line example providing investors with a vital snapshot of how companies change over time. See what really matters!

New examples of real investments that worked, including my doubling down on Deckers Outdoor after it fell 26%, and then rose 200% in a little more than a year.

Once again, thoroughly updated resources including free online stock screeners and the newest online brokers.

All data refreshed, all contact info current, and all examples provided with historical perspective.

Penguin Group/Plume

Econ Publisher (Korean)

China Machine Press (Simple Chinese)

Toyo Keizai (Japanese)

Warner Burke and William Trahant
with Richard Koonce

BUSINESS CLIMATE SHIFTS:
How to Make Your Company Thrive in an Environment of Constant Change

In order for companies to achieve success in today’s competitive environment, they must master the art of continuous change.

Richard Koonce, accomplished author, consultant, and journalist, along with Warner Burke, Professor of Psychology and Organization Development at Teacher’s College at Columbia University, and William Trahant, Senior Partner in charge of the Change Management Practice worldwide for newly-merged Price Waterhouse Coopers, direct companies on how best to focus their change efforts using case studies of “change capable” organizations.

By concentrating on how companies can reinvent themselves through successful change in appropriate managerial, operational or strategic levels, the book prepares companies to effectively cope with periods of business turbulence in a global climate that is constantly shifting

Butterworth-
Heinemann (World English)

Diamond, Inc. (Japanese)

Citic (Chinese/simple)

Dick Smith and Jerry Blakeslee
with Richard Koonce

STRATEGIC SIX SIGMA:
Best Practices from the Executive Suite

One of the biggest causes of business failures today is the inability of companies to effectively execute their strategies.  Partner-in-charge Dick Smith and global partner Jerry A. Blakeslee, Jr. of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Center of Excellence for Six Sigma Services, along with renowned author, consultant, and journalist Richard Koonce suggest that Six Sigma, a highly statistical quality improvement technique which was often used at an operational level, should also be implemented by companies at the strategic level to acquire a ‘market-smart’ attitude that will support their business goals.

Six Sigma has the potential to serve as a tool to help companies undertake far-reaching strategy formulation and bring about broad-gauge transformational change—to serve as a “high-order” leadership approach, philosophy and methodology.

In an era in which companies are increasingly affected by great competition and instability, the authors suggest an effective 7-step plan to benefit from Strategic Six Sigma for improving and protecting companies from the volatility of global economy.

John Wiley & Sons

Tsinghua University Press

(Chinese Simple)

Jaclyn Kostner

BIONIC E-TEAMWORK:
How to Build Collaborative Virtual Teams at Hyperspeed

BIONIC E-TEAMWORK is the first book to capture the world’s most successful virtual teams and explain how fast, cohesive virtual teams actually communicate by using the power of technology to extend human capability and touch.  It focuses on collaboration for teams whose members dot the globe and is therefore written with an international audience in mind.

Kostner has written other business books, which include Virtual Leadership (Warner), as well as Information Processing books with over half a million in sales.  Dr. Kostner has appeared as a major media expert in various publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Fast Company Magazine, as well as television and radio programs on CNN, CNBC and CBS. 

Dearborn (retained World English rights)

Nancy Liebler and Sandra F. Moss

UNTITLED DEPRESSION BOOK:

Liebler and Moss provide a regimen of physical and spiritual nourishment, yoga and physiological based movements, and techniques for deep rest, ultimately undoing the factors in one’s body and mind that lead to depression.

At the heart of their Ayurveda approach is the idea that the mind is inextricably connected to the body – whatever the body encounters affects the well-being of the mind. Studies have shown the recurrence of depression and depression symptoms is between 50%-70% in patients that have already been prescribed medication and talk therapy. Clearly, current medicinal treatments are not working. They do not work because they do not approach the body as an extension of the mind.

Nancy Liebler is a psychotherapist and professor at the Michigan School of Professional Psychology, and has been on the board of and chaired national committees and conferences regarding the Committee for Stress Free Schools, Children at Risk, and the David Lynch Foundation, among others. Liebler studied Ayurveda through working at Oakwood Hospital’s Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Westland, Michigan. After leaving Oakwood, she served on the board of the Center for Enlightened Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Sandra Moss received her training in Ayurveda from the Center for Enlightened Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She apprenticed with Dr. Paul Dugliss, an Internist and Ayurvedic Physician. She also studied at the Aloha Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine in Kauai, Hawaii. There she obtained advanced training in Panchakarma, a sub-specialty of Ayurveda, from the renowned Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar. Currently, Moss is a medical education consultant for alternative health practitioners throughout the United States. She is also the Director of Curriculum Planning & Accreditation for the New Leaf Ayurvedic Institute in Southfield, Michigan

John Wiley & Sons (retained World English rights)

Stuart Lucas

WEALTH:

Grow It, Protect It, Share It, and Pass It On

Many people who have wealth or who see wealth in their future worry about protecting it and making it available to their children in the years to come. WEALTH will help them take the proactive role in their wealth management and build stronger more productive relationships with their financial advisors.

Stuart Lucas has immense wealth management experience from both sides of the table, as a high-profile wealth management consumer and advisor. To best illustrate his hard-earned advice, the author uses stories from his own, his clients’ and his family’s experiences. WEALTH allows the reader a glimpse into a multi-generation, private family of self-made wealth due in large part to all-American household brands such as Carnation, Friskies and Coffee-Mate. Between Stuart Lucas’ multi-perspective platform and captivating, original tales, this is a unique and valuable book.

WEALTH Reviews

Prentice Hall

(retained World English and audio rights)

Alpina (Russia)

Gary MacDougal

MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
How One Man Helped to Solve America’s Poverty Problem

Gary MacDougal is Senior Advisor to the Governor for Human Resources Reform for the Sate of Illinois. For four years he chaired the Governor’s Task Force on Human Services Reform, which developed and implemented a major reform and reorganization of the $10 billion human services system.

In 1988, Gary served as Senior Advisor to the Bush Presidential Campaign, and in 1989, President Bush appointed him a Public Delegate and Alternate Representative of the United States to the United Nation General Assembly in New York. He was also appointed by George Bush to the United States Commission on the Effectiveness of the United Nations. Having acted as CEO and Director of several NYSE corporations and venture capital funds, and after his tenure as a Partner at McKinsey, Gary realized the importance of giving back to the community, and is currently a Trustee of the Casey Foundation, with assets of over $1 billion established to assist children at risk. He has contributed articles to The Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications.

Make a Difference is a pivotal project on both the political and social levels, and demonstrates how the straight forward, bi-partisan principles Gary has been instrumental in implementing in Illinois can be developed and realized in the remaining states to dramatically improve the chances of those on welfare of becoming self-sufficient.

Anecdotal and easily comprehensible, Make a Difference will be one of the most notable contributions to social reform.

St. Martin’s Press/ Truman Talley Books

Vickie Nam

YELL-OH GIRLS!
Eemerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American

If there is a place where self help meets pop culture, then it is here -- YELL-OH GIRLS! is a collection of stories, essays, and poems by young Asian American women between the ages of 13 and 21.  It offers the uncut, untempered voices of a burgeoning demographic that has gone unrecognized until now.  While there is no single, prescribed way of growing up Asian American and female, there are common threads of shared experiences.  YELL-OH GIRLS! explores and celebrates those ties of culture, community, and coming of age in the 21st century.

Vickie Nam worked at Teen People and at AsianAvenue, an online Asian American community with over 50 million page views per month.  She is now the Content / Community Manager at Voxxy.com, the new interactive network for teenage girls.  She is 24 years old.

HarperCollins
(retained all translation rights)

Lynn Peril

PINK THINK:
Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

From the moment she’s wrapped in a pink blanket, long past the traumatic birthday when she realizes that her age is greater than her bust measurement, the human female is bombarded with advice on how to be a woman. This is not to say that women have ever followed these prescriptions, least of all Lynn Peril who, for example, formed an early aversion to all things pink and girly and found herself being hurtled down the roller-coaster track of Femininity – seemingly out of control and screaming at the top of her lungs.

The artifacts of Pink Think come in many forms, from mid-century home economics textbooks to other guides offering advice to girls and women about etiquette, sex and dating, or charm, beauty, and personality. Even the box of a sanitary belt can tell the tale of Pink Think.

A pop culture history peppered with personal anecdotes, Pink Think presents the material in an amusing fashion that nevertheless causes reader to think as they laugh.

Lynn Peril is the founder and editor of the zine, Mystery Date, which has sold over 10,000 copies throughout the world, and is even used as a text in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Sociology. Lynn’s column, “The Museum of Femorabilia” appears in Bust magazine, which has a circulation of over 20,000, and her essays have appeared in The Guardian, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Book of Zines (Henry Holt ’97), and ThriftSCORE (HarperCollins ’97).

W. W. Norton (World english)

Lynn Peril

COLLEGE GIRLS: An Informal History of Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Sweet Girl Graduates

When the dust settled in favor of the affirmative on the centuries-old argument of whether or not women should be educated, a new American archetype was born: the college girl.  From the '40s through the '70s, college girls were often perceived in one of two ways, a bluestocking who studied far too hard and was a drag to date, or as a lusty co-ed, a sex kitten.  COLLEGE GIRLS is a smart and funny look at the college girl as a 20th century icon.

COLLEGE GIRLS Reviews

W. W. Norton (World English)

Joe Robinson

WORK TO LIVE:
The Guide to Getting a Life

There is no arguing that most people are in need of a vacation.  At some point in recent history, the work ethic changed into an overwork ethic, and our grasp on the importance of Life has begun to slip away.  We have long prided ourselves on our productivity, working long hours and sacrificing our deserved and much needed vacation days in that pursuit, and now we find ourselves craving help on how to cope with hours run amok, desperate for a way out of the burnout trap.

WORK TO LIVE is practical information that gives readers the realistic tools to relieve burnout and create a balanced life.

Joe Robinson of the Editor in Chief of Escape, an adventure travel magazine with over 70,000 readers, and in the past six months has appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio, and in Time magazine, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and many more media outlets for his views on our changing workplace.  He is the author of YOU’RE THE BOSS (St. Martin’s Press, 1987) and his articles have appeared in Utne Reader, London’s Time Out and several other publications.

"Joe Robinson...[t]he Santa Monica-based founder of the Work to Live campaign...has written a new book on the subject called Work to Live (Perigee), which encourages readers to 'Get a life'...and has presented his petition to Senator Kennedy, demanding three weeks of paid leave after one year on the job, four weeks after three years."

--Sarah Brown, Vogue, June 2003

Penguin Group

Commonwealth Magazine Co., Ltd.

(Chinese Complex)

CITIC Publishing House

(Chinese Simple)

Peter Roy and James Autry

THE BOOK OF HARD CHOICES:

How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect

Peter Roy is one of the founders of the natural food market. He was the founding president of the industry trade association Natural Food Network and is the former president of Whole Foods Market. James Autry is an established author and coauthor of books such as THE SERVANT LEADER and REAL POWER: Business Lessons from the Tao Te Ching (with expert Stephen Mitchell).

These two powerhouses teamed up to write a new approach to the subject of integrity. THE BOOK OF HARD CHOICES covers integrity in an easy-to-read manner, demonstrating through practical examples the positive and negative consequences of difficult business decisions that leave your integrity on the line.

Random House (North America)

Elsevier (Brazil)

Dan Seidman

SALES AUTOPSY

In his hilarious new book Sales Autopsy, top sales coach Dan Seidman reveals stories of sales gone horribly, embarrassingly wrong, and what if anything can be learned  from them. 

Kaplan (World English)

Jeffrey C. Shuman and Janice M. Twombly with David Rottenberg

COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES:
Partnering for Profit in the Networked Economy

The business world is going through some very tumultuous times with brick and mortar businesses are becoming e-businesses, companies going global and taking advantage of the Internet, and moving forward at such an incredible speed that they don't even seem to realize that they have yet to make a profit!  In their new book, Jeff Shuman and Janice Twombly explain how e-businesses can generate profits while taking full advantage of the Internet and its many possibilities. 

Jeffrey Shuman is widely recognized as a leading expert in entrepreneurship.  He is the founder of the company, The Rhythm of Business, as well as four other companies in technology, manufacturing, and distribution.  Jeff is a winner of Ernst & Young's 1999 New England Entrepreneur of the Year Award and a judge for the year 2000 award.  He has been nationally recognized by The Ewing Marion Foundation and The Coleman Foundation.

Janice Twombly co-founded The Rhythm of Business with Jeff Shuman and had been a partner in a large regional CPA firm. In 1998 Jan was named the Small Business Administration's Accountant Advocate of the Year for New England.

Dearborn (retained World English rights)

Jeffrey Shuman and Janice Twombly with David Rottenberg

EVERYONE IS A CUSTOMER:
A Proven Method for Measuring the Value of Every Relationship in the Era of Collaborative Business

Purposeful collaboration is the key to success in the world of business. Building and maintaining a successful business and the ability to profitably satisfy customers’ needs depends on the development of long-term relationships with the trust needed to achieve strategic and financial benefit. Such relationships require a customer-centric perspective in which each entity of the business relationship has needs to be fulfilled. This book explains how businesses can save resources and improve company performance by recognizing opportunities to create value through meaningful and intensive interaction within a collaborative community.

Dearborn (retained World English rights)

IBL (Hebrew)

Jeffrey C. Shuman

THE RHYTHM OF BUSINESS:
The Key to Building and Running Successful Companies

The reality of business is that most companies do not succeed with the idea with which they began. All businesses change as they grow, and change creates rhythm.

In this book, Jeff Shuman not only explains the rhythm of business, but describes in a simple and highly readable fashion the natural development process that all businesses go through in order to succeed. This book is a must read for anyone who owns, or has thought about owning, their own business.

“Simply revolutionary! The Rhythm of Business is one of the rare business books that understands the soul of a revolutionary idea.”
— Faith Popcorn
author, Clicking and The Popcorn Report

“This is far and away the best description of the business building process I have ever seen. Jeff Shuman has captured the underlying principle for achieving business success.”
— Timothy A. DeNello
founder and CEO, Streamline, Inc. 

Butterworth-
Heinemann

EDS International Culture Enterprise (Chinese/complex) 

Kathleen Sindell

SAFETY NET:
Protecting Your Business on the Internet

SAFETY NET will help managers of internet security protect their business from the many vulnerabilities that the internet exposes them to.  It will explain how to prevent, detect, and counteract these vulnerabilities while it also explains how to create an effective security policy. 

Dr. Kathleen Sindell is the author of Loyalty Marketing for the Internet Age (Dearborn, 2000), The Unofficial Guide to Buying a Home Online (IDG, 2000), the Encyclopedia of Computer Science (Macmillan), and Investing Online for Dummies (IDG Worldwide), which has been ranked by Amazon.com as their #1 bestselling online reference book, and by Barnes & Noble as their #1 bestselling personal finance/money management book.

John Wiley & Sons (retained World English rights)

Kathleen Sindell

LOYALTY MARKETING FOR THE INTERNET AGE:
How to Identify, Attract, Serve, and Retain Customers in an E-Commerce Environment

LOYALTY MARKETING FOR THE INTERNET AGE unveils the secrets of anticipating customer needs, satisfying customer wants, and building customer loyalty.  It provides both small and large business leaders with an understanding of how to leverage the Internet to develop, nurture, and manage multiple relationships with their customers.

Dearborn Press
(retained all translation rights)

Kathleen Sindell

THE UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO BUYING A HOME ONLINE

This comprehensive guide walks readers through what is becoming more and more the norm when purchasing a house: buying it online. With people moving more frequently and buying houses at younger ages, Kathleen Sindell’s advice is clear and concise and offers readers a step-by-step plan.

Kathleen Sindell is an expert in electronic commerce.

MacMillan/IDG
(retained all translation rights)

Barbara Stoker

POSITIVE RISK

Originally self-published, POSITIVE RISK includes four simple strategies for taking the right risks in the smartest way possible, addressing women's personal & professional mountains . Barbara Stoker’s innovative approach to taking calculated risks include four mountain climbing related steps:

1. Choose your mountain.
2. Plan your route.
3. Build your courage.
4. Climb strong!

This simple approach makes taking risks and achieving personal and professional goals more attainable than they have ever been. This applies to a vast array of women, whether searching for that first job, that next promotion, switching careers, attempting to land a big client, or taking the next step into retirement, among a vast array of other risks women take on a daily basis.

POSITIVE RISK Reviews

Barbara Stoker

Through word of mouth, A WOMEN WITH A MINUTE appeared on the Colorado bestseller list nine times shortly after being self-published. This project has already created waves and exceeded expectations as demonstrated by this field testing. Women often buy multiple copies when they see it. Over the holidays, friends of Ellen Degeneres, Oprah and Katie Couric gave these celebrities autographed copies. Just recently, Barbara Stoker received a call from The Today Show. The message of the book is strong and prevails amid—or because of—the chic and fun wedding of illustrations and story line.

Barbara Stoker is the perfect face behind this dynamic book. She is an impassioned speaker, her hard work and perseverance to be admired. She is a former executive for Hallmark, Disney, Mattel and Coors. Barbara Stoker is a rock and ice climber and a paragliding pilot, not to mention a wish granter for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. And as a single mother of three teenaged boys, she knows what it’s like to have a never-ending to-do list.

WOMAN WITH A MINUTE Reviews

John Strelecky

THE WHY ARE YOU HERE CAFE

This self-published title has sold over 10,000 copies propelled by word of mouth alone. Having been sold to Perseus, it is now set to be marketed as a lead title in spring 2006.

THE WHY ARE YOU HERE CAFE takes the reader on a journey from gridlock to a small café in the middle of nowhere. John finds himself facing a platter of food and three questions on a menu. Why are you here? Do you fear death? Are you fulfilled? With the menu for reading material and the guidance of Casey, Mike, and Anne, John leads the reader on the path to discovering one’s Purpose For Existence and how to lead a life fulfilling that purpose.

Through his book, articles, speeches, and appearances on television and radio, John Strelecky has positively impacted the lives of millions of people. John’s organization, the Why Café Institute, offers workshops and seminars dedicated to helping people “Create and Live their Perfect Lives.” John presents nationally and has consulted with Fortune 500 companies such as Walt Disney, Audi, Sears Roebuck and more. During a nine month period in 2002, John and his wife used a combination of horse, boat, bicycle, elephant, and numerous other modes of transport, including their own two feet, to travel over 70,000 miles (almost three times the circumference of the earth) as they backpacked around the world. Experiences from that journey are a standard part of his entertaining presentations, and woven into this parable.

WHY CAFE Reviews

Da Capo Press  - an imprint of Perseus

(North American)

Campus (Brazil)

Gimm Young (Korea)

TA-KE SHOBO (Japan)

China Times (Taiwan)

DTV (Germany)

Dekolte (Turkey)

Beta (Czech Republic)

Piatkus (UK)

Ankh-Hermes (Holland)

Vocatio Publishing (Poland)

Leda (Romania)

Infodar (Bulgaria)

RBA (Spain)

Infodar (Bulgaria)

Sinais de Fogo (Portugal)

Aryeh Nir (Israel)

Shanghai Century (China)

John Strelecky

THE BIG FIVE FOR LIFE

Published book available January 2008.

Work, ideally, should not be separate from the rest of your life. When you go to work each day, you should look forward to taking the steps toward fulfilling your life’s goals. This radical notion is exactly what makes Thomas Derale the world’s greatest leader. He has created 14 companies that thrive because the people in them thrive. Thomas has so many important lessons to share, but his time is limited by rapidly decreasing health.

In the last few weeks of Thomas’s life, his “fellow traveler” Joe teaches and learns the many lessons that make businesses profitable. From improving employee attrition rate to attaining individual company goals, THE GREATEST LEADER IN THE WORLD illustrates how to achieve success in any company in any industry.

St. Martin's Press

(North American)

Campus (Brazil)

Gimm Young (Korea)

Kodansha (Japan)

China Times (Taiwan)

DTV (Germany)

Piatkus (UK)

Ankh-Hermes (Holland)

Jean Walker

THE AGE ADVANTAGE:
Making the Most of Your Midlife Career Transition

Since the earlier part of this decade, downsizing, right sizing, layoffs, terminations, acquisitions, and mergers have completely altered the infrastructure of corporate America. In these business transitions, mid-age Americans have been hit the hardest. Today’s baby-boomers and their older brothers and sisters are out on their own, long before they are physically, mentally, or financially ready to retire.

Jean Erickson Walker, Ed.D, is a Career Counselor, Management Consultant, and Public Speaker who has worked with thousands of people in career transition, the majority of whom are mid-age. She has just been accepted as a Career Management Fellow by the International Board for Career Management Certification, sponsored by the International Association of Career Management Professionals and the Association of Career Management Consulting Firms International. This is a significant achievement in the field — Jean is the only certified person in the state of Oregon. The Fellow designation requires not only academic background, 15 years in business, and 10 years in the career management field, but also requires having published articles nationally, being a speaker at national and international conferences, and demonstrating industry leadership.

Jean Walker provides advice for what mid-age career transitioners need to become current in today’s marketplace. This is a practical, hands-on book with attitude, and it provokes thoughtful consideration of the issues involved in mid-life career transition; it provides the resource to take charge of life; it inspires and motivates readers to challenge their own expectations and stretch their limits; and it teaches specific strategies and techniques for getting a job when the competition is stiff and you are no longer thirty-five.

Penguin Group/Berkeley

Cynthia Whitcomb

SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY

SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY was first published by Crown in 1988 and was in print for ten years.  The rights have since reverted back to Ms. Whitcomb and the rights to publish the updated version has been sold to Kalmbach Books.

The original book explained the ins and outs of Hollywood from agents to lawyers and directors to producers.  Ms. Whitcomb explains everything the screenplay writer needs to know about selling screenplays.

The new version has updates in the sections such as "What Hollywood is Looking For" and "Resources" and incorporates the additional knowledge attained by Ms. Whitcomb, who has spent twelve more years working in the industry since the first version of SELLING YOUR SCREENPLAY was published.

A veteran in the industry, Cynthia Whitcomb has won or been nominated for the Emmy Award (twice), the Writers Guild of America Award (twice), the Edgar Allen Poe Award, the Cable Ace Award, the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, and the Humanitas Award (three times).  She has sold over 50 full-length scripts such as "Tidings" which is currently in development and will air on CBS and "Selma, Lord, Selma" which aired on ABC in January of 1999.  She has had 25 movies produced including "Buffalo Girls" starring Anjelica Huston, Melanie Griffith, and Jack Palance.  She spent seven years as a teacher of Screenwriting at UCLA Film School and has seen her students sell such notable screenplays as Face/Off and The Mask.  She also writes the "Scripts" column for Writers Digest magazine.

Kalmbach Books

Cynthia Whitcomb

WRITING YOUR SCREENPLAY

WRITING YOUR SCREENPLAY gives an aspiring screenwriter the steps to take to successfully write a screenplay from the initial idea to the finished script.  It explains how to create a structure, how to make the screenplay come to life, how to resolve problems that inevitably arise during the creative process, and how to clean up the first, second, and third drafts so that the writer emerges with a completely polished script.

Kalmbach Books

Stacy Whitman with Wynne Whitman

SHACKING UP:
The Smart Girl’s Guide to Living in Sin Without Getting Burned

More and more Americans are choosing to live together before tying the knot -- but unfortunately, much research suggests that this approach to relationships often backfires.  So while she’s wondering where to hang his late 20^th century garage sale monsterpiece, and he’s shying away from the box of tampons under the sink, SHACKING UP can help couples maneuver gracefully as they join hearts and households.

Stacy Whitman writes for magazines including Glamour, Shape, Cosmopolitan, and Parenting.  Her sister, Wynne Whitman, is a lawyer and MBA, giving her expertise in both the legal and the financial aspects to moving in with a significant other.

Broadway Books

Wynne Whitman and Shawn Glisson

WISHES, WANTS AND WILLS:
Critical Medical and Legal Information Guiding Individuals in Sickness and in Health

For many families, end of life decisions are approached with extreme hesitance and nervousness – for good reason. The future, by nature, is unpredictable, so how does one plan for the unknown?

• How will continuing advances in medicine affect your plans?
• How and why do you prepare a Living Will ?
• How do you decide which care regimen is right for you?
• What alternative therapies are worthwhile?
• How do you deal with your properties and possessions?
• And how do you insure your wishes are fulfilled?

These are just some of the questions people face when thinking about the future. With up to date information, thorough analyses, and straightforward, non-legalese explanations, WISHES, WANTS, AND WILLS provides straight-forward, useful discussions allowing every reader to create individualized answers to their many questions. Glisson and Whitman fill the universal need for this kind of information.

A leading oncologist and hematologist, Glisson is well-versed in the current options available to patients with the most tragic prognoses. As a tax, trusts and estates attorney, Whitman offers expertise in the steps patients and families need to take to secure all possible legal matters and affairs. Both co-authors come with the experience of their given fields and of their previously published books.

Prentice Hall (World English)

Susan Zimmermann

WRITING TO HEAL THE SOUL:
Transforming Grief and Loss Through Writing

Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter's disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to resurface and heal only through writing. The powerful process of working through conflicting emotions with paper and pen enabled her to transform her sadness into acceptance and even joy. Writing to Heal the Soul is her gift to others who are suffering any kind of grief or loss, whether the death, disability, or injury of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the end of a relationship. Lyrically illustrated with examples from life, the book offers simple yet inspiring writing exercises to help you focus and resolve your pain as you transform your loss into words of hope and healing.

Susan Zimmermann is the author of the memoir GRIEF DANCERS, a finalist for the Colorado Book Award, and co-author of MOSAIC OF THOUGHT, a book on reading comprehension. She speaks throughout the United States on the healing power of writing and ways to deepen reading and writing experiences for adults and children. A graduate of Yale Law School, Susan began her career practicing corporate law and later co-founded and served as the executive director of the Public Education and Business Coalition. Susan lives in the foothills west of Denver with her husband and four children.

Praise for Grief Dancers:

“[Susan’s] courage, her joy and her hope reach through her tragedy, and offer us all a way of life that is creative, no matter what the circumstances.”
              --Madeline L’Engle, Newberry Award winning author

“Although the circumstances of our lives may not be the same as Susan’s, her words compel us to walk alongside her as her story unfolds and becomes our own; and we, too, are inspired and strengthened to face the truths of our own lives.”
          --Georgia Heard, author of Writing Toward Home

Random House/Crown Books (retained all translation rights)