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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: May 2012

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 http://www.byronjanis.com

Monona Rossol

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Title: Pick Your Poison: How Our Mad Dash to Chemical Utopia is Making Lab Rats of Us All

ISBN: 9780470550915

 
 

Topic/Genre: Political Science

Publication Date: February 2011

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Monona Rossol is an industrial hygienist, dividing her time between inspecting worksites,   training workers, and delivering expert testimony in court cases involving chemical exposure.   She is the President and Founder of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc., and a regular guest on the Leonard Lopate Show on NPR.   She has lectured and consulted in the US, Canada, Australia, England, Mexico and Portugal.

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http://www.artscraftstheatersafety.org

Sloane Miller

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Title: Allergic Girl: Adventures in Living Well with Food Allergies

ISBN: 9780470630006

Topic/Genre: Consumer Health General

Publication Date: March 2011

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Sloane Miller, MFA, MSW, LMSW is a writer, advocate, coach to the food allergic community, and consultant to the food service industry. Since its inception in August 2006, the author’s popular blog allergicgirl.com quickly became a respected leading voice in the blogosphere for adults with food allergies. Allergic Girl has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Allergic Living Magazine, Boston Globe, Reader’s Digest, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and many others. In addition, she has been featured on such websites as CNN.com, ABCNEWS.com, Eater.com, Health.com, and Reuters.com. Miller opened a food allergy coaching practice in 2007. Part of her practice includes Worry-Free Dinners, a NYC-based dining membership club for adults and families in the food allergic and food intolerant communities. Worry-Free Dinners has established relationships with Union Square Restaurant Group (Danny Meyer), Craft Restaurants (Tom Colicchio) and BRGuest (Steve Hanson), among others. She has been filmed by Al Roker Entertainment for the series My Life in Food and her segment will be aired on the Cooking Channel in October 2010. Sloane Miller is a native New Yorker.

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http://allergicgirl.com

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Gil Marks

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Title: Encyclopedia of Jewish Food

ISBN: 9780470391303

 
 

Topic/Genre: Food/Drink

Publication Date: August 25, 2010

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Gil Marks is a chef, rabbi, writer, historian, and expert on Jewish cooking. The author of five cookbooks, including the James Beard winner and IACP finalist Olive Trees and Honey, he was the founding editor of Kosher Gourmet magazine and currently writes for various Jewish and food-related publications. He has served as a guest lecturer at The Culinary Institute of America and has been featured on radio and television.

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www.gilmarks.com

Stephanie Diamond

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Title: Dragon NaturallySpeaking For Dummies, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9781118083802

Topic/Genre: Marketing/Multimedia/Business

Publication Date: September 16, 2011

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Stephanie Diamond (New York, NY) is a thought leader and marketing professional with 20+ years of experience building profits in over 75 different industries. She worked as a Marketing Director at AOL for 8 years where she developed a highly successful line of multimedia products that brought in an annual $40 million dollars in incremental revenue. In 2002, she founded Digital Media Works, Inc., an online marketing company that helps business owners discover the hidden profits in their business.

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http://www.marketingmessageblog.com

http://marketingmessagemindset.com;

Twitter:  @diamondsf

Nancy Reagin

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Title: Twilight and History

ISBN: 9780470581780

 
 

Topic/Genre: History/Popular Culture

 

Publication Date: March 26, 2010

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Nancy Reagin is a professor of History and Women’s & Gender Studies at Pace University.  She helped build the Organization for Transformative Works, an organization dedicated to promoting and protecting fans’ creativity and works.

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http://webpage.pace.edu/nreagin

 

Gilbert Levine

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Title: The Pope’s Maestro

ISBN: 9780470490655

 
 

Topic/Genre: Consumer/Religion

 

Publication Date: April 4, 2011

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Sir Gilbert Levine is a distinguished American conductor who has led major orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Bayerischer Staatsorchester, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the WDR Symphony Orchestra (Koln), and the Pittsburgh Symphony. He has conducted televised concerts on PBS and the European Broadcasting Union and has performed for Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI on numerous occasions.

Author Website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Levine

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