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Kathleen Cushman

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kathleen cushman

Title: Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery

ISBN: 9781118160213

 

Topic/Genre: Teaching/Learning (K-12)

 

Publication Date: February 2012

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Kathleen Cushman is an educator and writer who has specialized in the lives and learning of youth for over two decades. In 2001 she co-founded the nonprofit What Kids Can Do (WKCD), whose aim is to make public the voices of youth and support their partnerships with adults both in and outside school, and to expand current views of what constitutes challenging learning and achievement. With support from MetLife Foundation, her work there has resulted in nine book collaborations with students, most recently Fires in the Mind: What Kids Can Tell Us About Motivation and Mastery (Jossey-Bass, 2010). Cushman’s other books with WKCD youth include Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students (2003) and its two sequels, Fires in the Middle School Bathroom (co-authored with Laura Rogers, Ed.D., 2008) and Sent to the Principal (2005).

Author Websites:

http://firesinthemind.org

http://twitter.com/#!/kathleencushman

Fires in the Mind

Jody Spiro

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Title: Leading Change Step-by-Step: Tactics, Tools, and Tales

ISBN: 9780470635629

 
 

Topic/Genre: Education

 

Publication Date: December 2010

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Jody Spiro, Ed.D., has worked with schools, districts, nonprofits and governments in the U.S. and abroad on leading change. She currently serves as Interim Director of Education at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and as a senior program officer at The Wallace Foundation where she works with education leaders across the United States. Previously, Spiro held leadership positions at large organizations in the private, public, non-profit, university, philanthropic and international sectors. She has seen firsthand that the approach laid out in this book applies in all these venues. Spiro presents frequently on the topic of leading change at conferences such as: ASCD, The National Staff Development Council, The National Council of State Legislatures, The National Association of State Boards of Education, and The Council of Chief State School Officers.

Author Website:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jody-spiro/a/ab/510

Steve Faktor

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Title: Econovation: The Red, White, and Blue Pill for Arousing Innovation

ISBN: 9781118054000

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Innovation/eCommerce/Leadership

 

Publication Date: December 5, 2011

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Steve Faktor (New York, NY) is a futurist, digital commerce expert, and author of Econovation (Wiley, Nov. 2011), a mesmerizing, satirical tale about the future of the US economy and the innovations it will demand. Steve is the former head of Growth and Innovation and the Chairman’s Innovation Fund at American Express.  As a senior innovation and strategy executive at Citi, MasterCard, and Arthur Andersen, Steve has created several $100-million-plus businesses, generated billions in sales volume, and deployed three enterprise-level innovation programs. Steve’s launches include Zync, LoyaltyEdge, Private Sales (joint venture with Vente Privee), Commerce Intelligence, and Spending Pulse.

Steve is the founder of Blue Beacon Partners, which helps companies think big, invent better offerings, and deliver sustainable growth. He is a popular global keynote speaker on new growth opportunities and leads workshops, ideation and training sessions based on his proprietary 4C’s of InnovationTM methodology. Steve is also the creator and host of a forthcoming TV series about reinventing American small business.

Author Website: 

http://www.ideafaktory.com

Paul Light

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Paul Light

Title: Driving Social Change:  How to Solve the World’s Toughest Problems

ISBN: 9780470922415

 
 

Topic/Genre: Non-Profit Management

 

Publication Date: December 2, 2010

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Paul C. Light (New York NY) is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at the Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and co-founder (along with Paul Volcker) NYU/Abu Dhabi Center on Global Public Service and Social Impact. Before joining NYU, Dr. Light served as the Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, founding director of its Center for Public Service, and vice president and director of the Governmental Studies Program. He has served previously as director of the Public Policy Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts and associate dean and professor of public affairs at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Light has written 23 books, including the award-winning Thickening Government and The Tides of Reform. He is also a co-author of a best-selling American government textbook, Government by the People, now in it’s 23rd edition.

Author Website:

http://wagner.nyu.edu/light

Paul Kaplan

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Title: Frontiers of Modern Asset Allocation

ISBN: 9781118115060

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Finance

 

Publication Date: January 2, 2012

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Paul D. Kaplan is the Quantitative Research Director at Morningstar Europe and is responsible for the quantitative methodologies behind Morningstar’s fund analysis, indexes, advisor tools, and other services. Prior to his current position, Dr. Kaplan served as chief investment officer of Morningstar Associates, LLC, a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc., where he developed and managed the investment methodology for Morningstar’s retirement planning and advice services. Many of Dr. Kaplan’s research papers have been published in professional books and publications such as the Journal of Portfolio Management, the Journal of Investing, the Journal of Performance Measurement, the Journal of Indexes, and the Handbook of Equity Style Management. Before joining Morningstar in 1999, Dr. Kaplan was a vice president of Ibbotson Associates and was the firm’s chief economist and director of research.

Author Website:

http://www.morningstar.com/

Steve Cone

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Title: Steal These Ideas!  Second Edition:  Marketing Secrets That Will Make You a Star

ISBN: 9781118004449

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Marketing

 

Publication Date: October 10, 2011

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Steve Cone (New York, NY) is the Chief Marketing Officer of The Brierley Group comprised of four businesses including Ad Gateway, a revolutionary online advertising channel, e-Rewards, the world’s largest online market research panel, Brierley+Partners, a customer relationship marketing agency, and The Brierley Group, a loyalty program design and implementation team. Previously, Steve served as Chief Marketing Officer of Epsilon from 2007 to early 2010. From 2000 through 2007, Steve was Managing Director and head of advertising and brand management at Citigroup Global Wealth Management. He also coordinated worldwide brand management for all of Citigroup’s businesses in more than 100 countries and encompassing 200 million customers. Prior to joining Citigroup, Cone was president of Fidelity’s retail business and Fidelity’s Chief Marketing Officer.  Cone is one of the most respected figures in marketing today. Over his thirty-five year career he was instrumental in creating many of the Airline, Hotel, and Retail loyalty programs millions participate in as well as major campaigns for Apple, American Express, Federal Express, and other global brands. 
Steve lectures on marketing strategy and tactics at leading universities and businesses around the world.

Christine Romans

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Title: How to Speak Money:  Becoming Fluent in the World’s Most Important Language

ISBN: 9781118114957

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Personal Finance

 

Publication Date: October 19, 2011

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Christine Romans (New York, NY) is the host of Your Bottom Line, CNN’s Saturday morning personal finance and lifestyle program. In addition, Romans’ money reports are featured regularly on CNN’s American Morning and her reporting is often featured on CNN International. From Timothy Geithner and Paula Deen to Tony Hawk and Russell Simmons, Romans interviews a diverse range of public personalities on financial issues facing Americans. She is the author of Smart is the New Rich:  If You Can’t Afford It, Put It Down (Wiley), her first book based on her experience covering the financial crisis.

Author Website: 

 http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/romans.christine.html

Maneet Ahuja

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Title: The Alpha Masters:  Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds

ISBN: 9781118065525

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Investments/Securities

 

Publication Date: October 17, 2011

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Maneet Ahuja (New York, NY) is CNBC’s Hedge Fund Specialist and a producer on “Squawk Box,” specializing in hedge funds and alternative investments. She was awarded CNBC’s prestigious Enterprise Award in 2009 for her groundbreaking coverage of the ultra-secretive hedge fund industry for the network. Prior to joining CNBC in 2008, she was a part of the Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing team. She began her career on Wall Street in 2002 at age 17 in Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking division as a credit risk analyst.  In 2010, she was nominated for Crain’s NY Business Forty Under 40 Rising Stars.

Author website:

Twitter @WallStManeet

Peter Tanous

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Title: Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy

ISBN: 9781118021514

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Economics/Investments

 

Publication Date: May 9, 2011

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Peter Tanous is President of Lepercq Lynx Investment Advisory. Over the course of his forty years as a finance professional, he has served as executive vice president of Bank Audi (U.S.A.) in New York City, chairman of Petra Capital Corporation—an international investment bank that he cofounded—and first vice president and international regional director with Smith Barney. Mr. Tanous is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including Investment Gurus, which was chosen as a Main Selection of The Money Book Club, as was his subsequent book, The Wealth Equation.

Author Websites:

http://www.lepercqlynx.com/

@petelx60 on Twitter

Byron Janis

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Title: Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal

ISBN: 9780470604441

 
 

Topic/Genre: Biography

Publication Date: October 01, 2010

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Byron Janis is a living legend of the classical music world and is renowned for both the power and the sensitivity of his interpretations. After hiding the painful arthritis that had plagued him for twelve years, he accepted the role of artistic spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation in the 1980s. Today, he gives lectures and performances, teaches master classes, composes, and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Janis’s life is also the subject of the public television documentary “The Byron Janis Story,” released nationally in late October 2010.

Author Website:

 http://www.byronjanis.com

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