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Blog / News & Opinion
How to Work a Room Turns 21
By 800-CEO-READ
We have been selling Susan RoAne's How to Work a Room for a long time now, nearly all the way back to its first edition—published 21 years ago this month. RoAne's book has obviously not had the historical reach or significance of another anniversary being celebrated today—the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—but it has quietly torn down many smaller, more personal walls of its own over the past two decades, giving people the tools to improve their lives through better communication and social skills at work and beyond. Ms.
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Blog / News & Opinion
October's Best Sellers on Audio
By 800-CEO-READ
Audio books are one of those strange, enigmatic creatures whose popularity depends not on the customers themselves, but on the core popularity of the book they are based on. If the book isn't doing well (if there was an audio version at all) its life will be short lived. But, oh what a life to lead!
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Blog / Jack Covert Selects
Lee Eisenberg's Shoptimism (and 50% off of The Number)
By 800-CEO-READ
One of the books we really tried to get people to read in 2006 was Lee Eisenberg's The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life, published by Simon & Schuster imprint Free Press. We were huge evangelists of the book, constantly blogging and telling everyone we could about it. It was a Jack Covert Selects and Todd picked it as one of his best books of 2006.
Categories: jack-covert-selects
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Future
By Porchlight
"The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
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Blog / News & Opinion
The Portfolio Catalog & Business Beat
By 800-CEO-READ
Being the publisher of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, we're obviously fond of the folks at Portfolio. Beyond the personal connection, though, we feel they have consistently put out some of most intriguing books in the business genre over the past decade, and continue to do so. The list below contains the titles coming out of that publishing house in hardcover before year end.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
October's Best Selling International Titles
By 800-CEO-READ
It's been awhile! A whole summer, in fact! Have you felt as much out of the loop as to what's HOT across the seas, oceans and borders of the world as I have?
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Brainstorming?
By 800-CEO-READ
Every day, people come together in groups to brainstorm: share ideas, create projects, and turn dreams into reality. The leaders of those groups would be well advised to serve the appetizer, The Art of the Idea: And How It Can Change Your Life by John Hunt before those meetings get under way. Because, let's be honest, oftentimes, there are people who think they have "the answer" before the question has really been explored.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Jobs
By Porchlight
"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man [or woman] who holds the job.
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Blog / News & Opinion
Barbara Ehrenreich in Milwaukee: November 4th, 2009
By Sally Haldorson
If you are in Milwaukee on November 4th, we encourage you to attend Barbara Ehrenreich’s appearance at Alverno College’s Pittman Theater at 7pm. This event is co-sponsored by Boswell Books, a local independent bookstore owned and operated by the former buyer and general manager of the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, our former sister company.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
The News Hour on the Publising Industry
By 800-CEO-READ
As most who read this blog know, there's a lot happening in publishing right now. Price wars, eBooks, Todd Sattersten leaving 800-CEO-READ. .
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