Title: The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results
ISBN: 9781118115718
Topic/Genre: Business/Management
Publication Date: November 2011
Price: $24.95
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As principal of Chris Grivas Consulting, a global consultancy based in Seattle, Chris focuses on increasing the creative capacity of individuals, teams, and organizations. Chris is the lead author of “The Innovative Team: Unleashing Creative Potential for Breakthrough Results,” and his work has been featured in Success Magazine, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur.com, the Entrepreneur Organization, and Training Magazine among others. He offers customized presentations, programs, coaching, and consulting designed to help you build the skills necessary to enable creativity to flourish in your organization. Whether you are looking for a dynamic speaker to spark innovation in your organization, short-term training or a full-scale organizational shift, Chris can help you get there (and even have some fun along the way).
Author Websites:
http://www.chrisgrivas.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/in/cgrivas
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Title: Building a Small Business that Warren Buffett Would Love
ISBN: 9781118138885
Topic/Genre: Business/Small Business/Investing
Publication Date: March 12, 2012
Price: $24.95
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Adam Brownlee is the author of three books on the subjects of business and investing: My Happy Assets, Small Business Coffee Hour and Taking the Last Steps to Financial Independence. As the Director of the Small Business Development Center at Western Kentucky University, he consulted with hundreds of small business owners in the areas of financial management, strategic decision making and marketing strategies, assisting business owners in making key decisions regarding the refinement and reformation of their businesses. He has filled the role of computer programmer and business analyst and currently teaches courses on business, finance and investing while serving as a business analyst to one of the nation’s leading retailers. He lives in the Bowling Green, Kentucky area with his wife Michelle and space-ranger kid, Cooper.
Author Websites:
http://www.onemillionjobsnow.com/
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Title: Starting a Tech Business: A Practical Guide for Anyone Creating or Designing Applications or Software
ISBN: 9781118205556
Topic/Genre: Tech/Small Business/Entrepreneurship
Publication Date: March 2012
Price: $29.95
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Alex Cowan is the founder and CTO of Leonid Systems, a software company providing solutions to the world’s largest communications providers. He has worked with companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 100s, improving their competitive advantage in a fast-changing high-tech landscape.
Author Websites:
http://www.alexandercowan.com/
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Title: King of the Road: True Tales from a Legendary Ice Road Trucker
ISBN: 9780470643686
Topic/Genre: Consumer
Publication Date: October 8, 2010
Price: $24.95
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Alex Debogorski (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada) is the larger-than-life star of HISTORYTM’s Ice Road Truckers and IRT Deadliest Roads (premiering on HISTORYTM this fall). He’s the father of 11 children and 10 grandchildren, married for 38 years, and brimming with stories.
Author Website:
http://www.iceroadtrucker.ca/
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Title: Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors: Fighting for the Soul of America’s Toughest School
ISBN: 9781118001752
Topic/Genre: Education
Publication Date: March 21, 2011
Price: $24.95
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Alexander Russo is an education writer whose work has appeared in Slate, Miller-McCune, The Washington Monthly, City Limits, the Huffington Post, National Review, and Washington Post. He is also the creator of two education blogs, “This Week In Education” and “District 299: The Chicago Schools Blog” (sponsored by the Chicago Tribune). The Washington Post recently named “This Week In Education” one of its best education blogs of 2010. Chicago Magazine has named “District 299″ one of the best blogs in the city.
Author Website:
http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation
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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
Price: $29.95
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Ali Velshi (Atlanta, GA) is CNN’s Chief Business Correspondent, connecting the news through finance, global issues, contemporary governance, education, and big ideas. He is also anchor of CNN Newsroom, host of Your $$$$$ and host of the “Ali V” podcast. Velshi’s in-depth reporting for CNN’s “How The Wheels Came Off” was honored with a National Headliner Award for Business & Consumer Reporting in 2010. He anchored CNN’s breaking news coverage of the attempted terror attack on a flight into Detroit, delivering CNN’s worldwide newsgathering for which the network was nominated for a 2010 Emmy.
Author Website:
http://alivelshi.com
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Title: Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team, 4th Edition
ISBN: 9781118099209
Topic/Genre: Business, Economics & Marketing
Publication Date: November 12, 2012
Price: $45.00
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Alina Wheeler is a branding consultant and author of Designing Brand Identity: An Essential Guide for the Whole Branding Team (Wiley), the best selling global resource for businesses and nonprofits. Her business is managing perception; her service is strategic imagination and her passion is brand. She was advisory council member for The Dictionary of Brand, edited by Marty Neumeier, along with Seth Godin, Al Ries, and Tom Kelley.
Author Website:
http://alinawheeler.com
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Title: Identity Shift: Where Identity Meets Technology in the Networked-Community Age
ISBN: 9781118181133
Topic/Genre: Marketing, Technology, General Business, Computer Science – General Interest
Publication Date: November 22, 2011
Price: $24.95
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Allison Cerra has more than 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry, working in both the service provider and equipment vendor categories. She has led the marketing, sales and product strategy efforts for several new technologies, including broadband, mobile and video services. She holds two Bachelors degrees from the University of South Florida and Masters of Business Administration and Telecommunications degrees from Southern Methodist University. In addition to Identity Shift, Allison is also the co-author of The Shift: The Evolving Market, Players and Business Models in a 2.0 World and has published several whitepapers and articles about emerging end user broadband trends and market potential for next-generation services. She has served on multiple industry and non-profit boards, including the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Telecommunications Industry Association.
Author Website:
http://www.theshiftonline.com/
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Title: First Things Fast: A Handbook of Performance Analysis, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780470477748
Topic/Genre: Business/Training & Development
Publication Date: May 2009
Price: $52.00
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Dr. Allison Rossett, long time Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University, is in the Training magazine HRD Hall of Fame, was a member of the ASTD International Board of Directors, was honored with selection as an ISPI Member-for-Life and more recently with the ISPI Thomas Gilbert Award. Recipient of ASTD’s recognition for lifelong contributions to workplace learning and performance and designated a 2008 LEGEND, Allison co-authored Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving from Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere, and recently, a new edition of her book, First Things Fast.
Rossett edited The ASTD E-Learning Handbook: Best Practices, Strategies, and Case Studies for an Emerging Field. She also completed a white paper for the American Management Association, Blended Learning Opportunities and another, on learner engagement, for Adobe Systems. She is the author offour award-winning books, including Beyond the Podium: Delivering Training and Performance to a Digital World and First Things Fast: A Handbook for Performance Analysis. Prior award-winning books are Training Needs Assessment, and A Handbook of Job Aids. Some of Allison’s articles are “Ode to Mobile Performance Support,” “Moving Your Class Online,” “Confessions of a Web Dropout,” and“Training and Organizational Development, Siblings Separated at Birth.” She has conducted research and published articles on needs analysis, learner engagement, on demand learning and support, and persistence. Her client list includes IBM, HP, the Getty Conservation Institute, Fidelity Investments, Kaiser Permanente, BP, the IRS, Amgen, Royal Bank of Scotland, USAA, National Security Agency, Transportation Security Administration, Ingersoll Rand, and several new media and learning start-ups.
Author Website:
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/arossett/arossett.html
Twitter: @arossett
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Title: Locavesting: The Revolution in Local Investing and How to Profit From It
ISBN: 9780470911389
Topic/Genre: Business & Economics, Personal Finance, Investing
Publication Date: June 13, 2011
Price: $22.95
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Amy Cortese is a journalist who has spent her career writing about business, finance, environmental issues and food, giving her a unique perspective on how these different realms are intricately linked. A former editor at BusinessWeek, her work has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the American, Mother Jones, Portfolio, Afar, TheDailyBeast.com, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Author Website:
http://www.amycortese.com
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