Ava Shamban

Heal Your Skin

Ava Shamban

Title: Heal Your Skin: The Breakthrough Plan for Renewal

ISBN: 9780470532157

Topic/Genre: Consumer Health General

Publication Date: May 6, 2011

Price: $17.95

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Dr. Ava Shamban M.D. is the founder and director of the Laser Institute for Dermatology and the Recovery Skin Care Clinic in Santa Monica and Beverly Hills as well as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at UCLA. She was the featured dermatologist on ABC’s Extreme Makeover and has been featured on shows such as Good Morning America, E!, Extra!, and The View. She has also been featured in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Allure, Marie Claire, and many major fashion and women’s magazines.

Author Website:

http://www.avamd.com

Barbara Obermeier

Photoshop CS6 All-in-One For DummiesBarbara Obermeier

Title: Photoshop CS6 All-in-One For Dummies

ISBN: 9781118174562

Topic/Genre: Technology/Graphics/Photography

Publication Date: June 2012

Price: $39.99

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Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. Her clients include both national and regional companies from a wide variety of industries, including healthcare, telecommunications, insurance, construction, entertainment and performing arts. Her work encompasses several areas of design including publication, corporate identity and branding, direct mail and advertising. She’s the author or co-author of over two dozen publications on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, PowerPoint and Digital Photography. Barb currently teaches graphic design at Brooks Institute and has also taught at University of California, Santa Barbara, California Lutheran University, Ventura College and numerous private training facilities.

Author Website:

linkedin.com/in/barbaraobermeier

Ben Halpert

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Title: Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide

ISBN: 9780470874745

 
 

Topic/Genre: Auditing/Accounting/Tax

 

Publication Date: August 15, 2011

Price: $65.00

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Ben Halpert is a man on a mission: to keep all kids, including his own, safe online. Ben comes by his passion and expertise honestly. By day, he is the Director of Information Technology Risk Management and Compliance for a Fortune 500 firm. By night, he is a champion for the protection of children in cyberspace.

Ben is an award-winning author of several books for wildly divergent audiences. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Family Gets A Computer is a picture book which teaches the concepts online safety and privacy to preschool age children. The Savvy Cyber Kids At Home: The Defeat of the Cyber Bully  teaches our children how to appropriately respond to a cyber bully before they start playing in the virtual world. For those in the business field, Ben has published Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide through John Wiley & Sons.

Seeing a void in the conversation about online safety for children before they begin K-12, Ben created a nonprofit to represent those who cannot speak for themselves: infants, toddlers and preschool children. Savvy Cyber Kids, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is now working with the National Cyber Security Alliance and other organizations towards filling the gap.

Ben was a contributing author to Readings and Cases in the Management of Information Security and the Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Security. Ben writes the security column for Mobile Enterprise Magazine and has contributed to seven NIST special publications and Ben is on the advisory board of numerous colleges and universities. He has keynoted and presented sessions at numerous conferences, including the RSA Security Conference, InfoSec World, IEEE, and ACM conferences. Ben is an adjunct instructor at a local University where he teaches the Master’s of IT information security concentration curriculum. Ben is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds two Master’s degrees.

Author Website

http://www.benhalpert.com

Beverly Schwartz

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Beverly Schwartz

Title: Rippling: How Social Entrepreneurs Spread Innovation Throughout the World

ISBN: 9781118138595

Topic/Genre: Business/Management

Publication Date: April 2012

Price: $27.95

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Beverly Schwartz  is vice president of global marketing at Ashoka, the world’s largest association of leading social entrepreneurs. Schwartz is an “entrepreneurial” behavioral scientist and has made her career in the field of social marketing. She has devoted her career to working on some of the world’s most challenging societal issues, including smoking and drug prevention, gender equity, educational and environmental reform, and HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention. She is a frequent speaker at universities and conferences. She holds an MS degree from Queens College, City University of New York. Please visit her at www.changemakers.com/Rippling

Author Website:

www.changemakers.com/Rippling

Bill Breen

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Title: The Responsibility Revolution:  How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win

ISBN: 9780470558423

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business/Leadership/Management

 

Publication Date: March 1, 2010

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Bill Breen is Seventh Generation’s Editorial Director and was the founding Senior Editor on the original team that launched Fast Company.  He edited major sections of the magazine and helped it win numerous awards, including the coveted National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and wrote some of FC’s most talked about articles on brand building, leadership, competition, innovation, and risk.  Breen speaks to business audiences throughout the country and has appeared on CNN, Fox, CBS Radio, National Public Radio, and other media outlets.

Bill Franks

Taming The Big Data Tidal WaveBill Franks

Title: Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics

ISBN: 9781118208786

Topic/Genre: Analytics/Statistics/Big Data/Data Warehousing

Publication Date: April 2012

Price: $49.95

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Bill Franks is Chief Analytics Officer for Teradata’s global alliance programs, providing insight on trends in the Advanced Analytics space and helping clients understand how Teradata and its analytic partners can support their efforts.  Bill also oversees the Business Analytic Innovation Center, which is jointly sponsored by Teradata and SAS and focuses on helping clients pursue innovative analytics.  In addition, Bill works to help determine the right strategies and positioning for Teradata in the advanced analytics space.

Bill is the author of the book Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., April, 2012).  In the book, he applies his two decades of experience working with clients on large-scale analytics initiatives to outline what it takes to succeed in today’s world of big data and analytics.  Bill is also a faculty member of the International Institute for Analytics, which was founded by leading analytics expert Tom Davenport.  Bill is an active speaker and blogger.

Bill’s focus has always been to help translate complex analytics into terms that business users can understand and to then help an organization implement the results effectively within their processes.  His work has spanned clients in a variety of industries for companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to small non-profit organizations.

Bill earned a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Statistics from Virginia Tech and a Master’s degree in Applied Statistics from North Carolina State University.

Author Websites:

http://www.bill-franks.com/

Blog: http://iianalytics.com/category/faculty-blogs/bill-franks/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tamingthebigdatatidalwave

Twitter: @billfranksga

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/billfranksga

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/billfranksga

Book: http://www.tamingthebigdatatidalwave.com/

Book Twitter: @datatidalwave

Bill Treasurer

Courageous Leadership

Bill Treasurer

Title: Courageous Leadership Deluxe Facilitator’s Guide Set

ISBN: 9781118049105

Topic/Genre: Business/Leadership

Publication Date: February 2011

Price: $240.00

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Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a Courage-building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. 

Bill is considered the originator of the new organizational development practice of “courage-building”. Bill is the author of Courage Goes to Work, a book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings. The book became the 6th bestselling management book in China. See: www.couragegoestowork.com.

Bill’s newest material is titled Courageous Leadership: Using Courage to Transform the Workplace. As a comprehensive off-the-shelf training program, the material is designed to help organizational development practitioners and training professionals inspire more courageous behavior in their organizations. Learn more at www.pfeiffer.com/go/courage.

Bill’s first book, Right Risk is about how to take smart risks, and draws on Treasurer’s experiences as both an organizational development professional and as a daredevil athlete. 

Bill’s insights have been featured in over 100 newspapers, including The Washington Post, The NY Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Boston Herald, and Investor’s Business Daily.  Bill’s insights have also appeared in such magazines as Leader to Leader, Leadership Excellence, Business-to-Business, Parents Magazine, Redbook, Women’s Day, Fitness, and The Harvard Management Update. 

Since 1991 Bill has conducted over 500 corporate workshops and webinars for notable clients such as NASA, Accenture, Monster.com, Bank of America Merchant Services, CNN, SPANX, the Center for Creative Leadership, Saks Fifth Avenue, UBS Bank, EarthLink, PNC Bank, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Learn more at www.giantleapconsulting.com.

Prior to founding Giant Leap Consulting, Bill was an executive in the change management and human performance practice at Accenture, a $25 billion dollar management consulting firm. Bill became Accenture’s first fulltime internal executive coach, where he coached Accenture senior executives to become more courageous leaders.

Bill is a former member of the U.S. High Diving Team.  For seven years he traveled throughout the world performing with a team of high performing athletes. During that time, Bill did over 1500 high dives from heights that scaled to over 100 feet…sometimes on fire! 

Bill holds an MS degree from the University of Wisconsin and attended West Virginia University on a full scholarship. He is the father of three children, Alex, Bina, and Ian. He serves as board chairman for Leadership Asheville, is on the board of his local YMCA, and fights for the rights of people with disabilities. In his spare time he enjoys kayaking the wonderful whitewater rivers of Western North Carolina.

See videos of Bill in action at: http://www.youtube.com/user/GiantLeapConsulting

Author Websites:

www.pfeiffer.com/go/courage

www.giantleapconsulting.com

www.couragebuilding.com

www.couragegoestowork.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bill.treasurer

Twitter: @btreasurer

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/courage

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cynq8rYyEnM&feature=player_embedded

Bob Davis

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 Davis, Bob

Title: Lights, Camera, Capture: Creative Lighting Techniques for Digital Photographers

ISBN: 9780470549537

 
 

Topic/Genre: Digital Cameras/Photography

 

Publication Date: May 2010

Price: $44.99

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Celebrity photojournalist and visual storyteller, Bob Davis has over 25 years of experience as a professional photographer.  As a Canon Explorer of Light, Bob has been chosen as one of an elite group of 60 photographers representing Canon and united by a passion for photographic excellence.  Bob spent 14 years contributing his award-winning photography to the Chicago Sun-Times before he began building his private photography empire.  Bob’s work has been featured in publications such as  O MagazineTime,PeopleOKRangefinder, and a variety of other digital photography resources.  His clients include Oprah Winfrey, Eva Longoria Parker, and celebrity event planners Mindy Weiss and Colin Cowie.  More information on Bob’s distinguished career as well as extensive examples of Bob’s photography can be found at  www.bobanddawndavis.com.

Author Website:

http://www.bobanddawndavis.com

Bob LeVitus

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Title:  iPad for Dummies, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 9781118024447

Topic/Genre: Technology

Publication Date: April 18, 2011

Price: $24.99

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Bob LeVitus, aka Dr. Mac, is a leading authority on the iPad, iPhone, and Mac OS X. One of the Mac community’s most trusted gurus for almost twenty years, he has written or co-written more than 55 books. Bob is also a columnist for the Houston Chronicle and The Mac Observer.  Bob is also the author of Incredible iPad Apps For Dummies, Office 2011 for Mac For Dummies, and iPhone For Dummies, 5th Edition.

Author Website:

http://www.boblevitus.com

Bob Lucas

Training Workshop Essentials

Bob Lucas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Training Workshop Essentials: Designing, Developing, and Delivering Learning Events that Get Results

ISBN: 9780470385456

Topic/Genre: Training & Development/Learning & Performance

Publication Date: June 2009

Price: $52.00

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Bob Lucas is an internationally known author and learning and performance expert who specializes in workplace performance-based training and consulting services. He has four decades of experience in human resources development, management and customer service in a variety of organizational environments and was the 1995 and 2011 President of the Central Florida Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Bob has lived, traveled and worked in nineteen different countries and geographic areas. His experience gives him a real-world perspective on the application of theory he has studied and used. 

In addition to having the top selling customer service textbook in the United States, Bob has written and contributed to thirty-one other books and compilations. During the past seventeen years, he has shared his knowledge with workplace professionals from organizations such as Walt Disney World, SeaWorld, Martin Marietta, and Wachovia Bank in the Webster University Master of Arts program in Orlando, Florida. In addition, he has provided consulting and training services to numerous major organizations on a variety of workplace learning topics, such as customer service, presentation skills, creative training and management program development, train-the-trainer, interpersonal communication, adult learning, diversity, team building, and employee and organizational development. Bob regularly gives regular presentations to various local and national groups and organizations such as ASTD (formerly the American Society for Training and Development).

Listed in the Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the South & Southeast, Bob is also an avid writer. His publications include:

- Please Every Customer: Delivering Stellar Customer  Service across Cultures

- Energize Your Training: Creative Techniques to Engage Learners

- Customer Service Skills for Success

- Training Workshop Essentials: Designing,

- Developing and Delivering Learning Events That Get Results

- Creative Learning: Activities and Games That REALLY Engage People

- People Strategies for Trainers: 176 Tips & Techniques for Dealing with Difficult Classroom Situations

- The Creative Training Idea Book: Inspired Tips & Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning

- The BIG Book of Flip Charts

- How to be a Great Call Center Representative

- Customer Service Skills & Concepts for Success

- Customer Service: Building Successful Skills for the  21st Century

- Job Strategies for New Employees

- Communicating One-to-One: Making the Most of Interpersonal Relationships

- Coaching Skills: A Guide for Supervisors

- Effective Interpersonal Relationships

- Training Skills for Supervisors

- Customer Service: Skills and Concepts for Business.

Additionally, Bob has been a contributing author for the Annual: Developing Human Resources series by Pfeiffer & Company since 1992 and several compilation works by various publishers.

Bob has earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement from the University of Maryland, a M.A degree with a focus in Human Resources Development from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and a second M.A. degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University in Orlando, Florida.

Author Websites:

www.robertwlucas.com

www.presentationresources.net