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Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably?Expanding on the film’s themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world.

South Beach Star is a modern day Valley of the Dolls set in South Beach. Life is sweet for Jamie Kidd, a thirty-something writer, till he wakes up one morning to discover that his lover has left town after cleaning out the bank account and leaving Jamie heartbroken, penniless, and somewhat suicidal. Jamie makes the entirely sensible, or so he believes, decision to escape to South Beach where he finds success and quasi-celebrity as a nightlife columnist for the SOUTH BEACH STAR, a weekly tabloid that covers the trendy South Beach scene and the celebrities that populate it. South Beach opens its arms to Jamie, who, like an actor taking on a new role, throws himself into his fabulous new lifestyle covering the notorious celebrity-studded party scene where nightly he mingles with beautiful shallow fashionistas, famous models, and wealthy jet-setters. His coveted lifestyle masks an out-of-control roller-coaster ride of late-night parties and photo-ops, fueled by a gradual addiction to crystal meth. Like many before him, Jamie loses control and falls victim to his fast lifestyle.

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When is it that you get stuck? Is it your on-going inability to muster up the confidence you need to make a cold call? Is it the frequent waste of business hours because you haven't properly planned your work day? Are you constantly late because you over schedule yourself? Do you consistently have difficulty dealing with "certain types" of people? Do you repeatedly catch yourself making promises that you know you cannot fulfill? The fact of the matter is, with rare exception, we all get stuck. Regardless of our success in sales, we all have consistent patterns of behavior that limit our potential. Yet, despite our awareness of a particular behavioral situation, and the logic we apply (hundreds of times) we cannot seem to overcome it. Why? -- Because our behaviors are not tied to logic, but the core motivations that are all but an indelible part of our personalities. Theresa Gale and Mary Anne Wampler, founders of Transform, Inc., call upon their 30 years of consulting sales training to help you overcome your motivational and behavioral blind spots that will allow you to Wake Up And Sell. Wake Up And Sell is based on the Enneagram, a dynamic personality profiling system that explores nine distinct patterns of motivational behavior. Specifically, you'll learn what keeps you from realizing greater success and what causes your relationships to flourish or flounder. Unlike other personality systems that merely label your "type" and provide little guidance on how to change, the Enneagram provides you with a prescriptive path that allows you to consistently and permanently change your behavior. Wake Up And Sell offers strategies that will improve your sales results, client relationships, sales effectiveness, communications, time management, conflict resolution, negotiation skills, and stress management. Bid farewell to those previously unidentifiable futile behaviors that have kept you from the success you desire. Read this book and Wake Up And Sell. You'll be amazed!

In this family saga spanning four generations, a Southern woman tells a family story that is in many ways America's story from the 1940s to the present. Served up in bits and pieces, the puzzle parts gradually come together to form a convincing picture of who we are and how we got here. The picture which emerges is of a colorful cast of characters, heroic at times, not so admirable at others, but always lovable. Sometimes eras and generations fit nicely into decades, and for what is often called the postwar "babyboom" era those decades are the 1950s and 60s. Those two decades, during which most babyboomers grew up and approached adulthood, are often described as polar opposites, but in fact they had much in common. Both grew out of the optimism which followed World War II. Of course new technologies like television had profound effects on the culture, but more than anything America was awash in confidence. The expansion of industry necessary to fight the Great War had left America with huge muscles and feeling it had hung the moon. Victories over enemies around the globe had the country-and especially the men returning from the war-expecting something in return. They believed America could provide a more comfortable lifestyle and a wider distribution of wealth and opportunity. And it did. This simple belief in the goodness of America which permeated the 1950s carried over into the early 60s. Even the late 60s, marked as they were by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, expressed optimism that ordinary people standing up for the truth could profoundly change political order. The Blake family in Stephanie DeBry's memoir The Shoebox is both a Southern family and a babyboom family fighting to claim their space on the expanding American landscape. Morgan Blake returns from service in the South Pacific to find a land filled with a new buzz, but still laboring with many of the old moralities his preacher father had drilled into his reluctant skull. For Morgan and his wife Elizabeth it is an exciting and frightening time. Day by day they dance to life's rhythms, moving to music seemingly played by ear. But despite all the uncertainty, they do what every other postwar couple is doing: they have babies. Four girls and a boy. A lot of mouths to feed. And a lot of adventures along the way. Shoebox is a story of a family growing up, and of America growing up. If you or your parents were part of this exciting time, or if you are just curious about what it was really like those days, time spent with the Shoebox will be time well spent.

WAKE UP! 42 Ways to Improve Black America is a call-to-action for all people, including African Americans, who want to improve their lives today. The only way to improve is for each of us to take personal responsibility for our own lives. More and more African Americans across the nation believe that we can change things; we can make a difference. The American Dream applies to us too, and we have numerous shining examples to prove it. These examples are there for us to study and duplicate in order to become successful in this society. Success breeds other successes, if African Americans can follow the blueprint. What is this blueprint? The blueprint is a series of ideas that can be used to live the life that we all are seeking. To teach these principles, this book is broken into six categories: History, Education, Self-Motivation, Self Improvement, Communication, and Support. This information is directed at African-Americans; however, regardless of race, gender, origin, or economic status, everyone can all learn and apply the principles in this book to become more successful. Best wishes and blessings on your journey through the following thoughts and ideas. I sincerely hope that the words that follow will inspire us all to improve our lives NOW!

Praise for Workforce Wake-Up Call"Great questions + great thinkers = novel ideas. Workforce Wake-Up Call deals with the challenges of getting, revitalizing, treating (engaging), and leading talent in today's workplace. These talent issues are at the core of successful organizations. And the authors deal with these challenges as a marvelous mix of theory, research, and practice. This anthology offers practical insights that give hope for mastering the challenges of the new workforce."--David Ulrich, Professor, Ross School of Business University of Michigan and Partner, The RBL Group"In the near future, there will be dramatic shifts in workplace practices and a further evolution of employment relationships. The authors provide provocative insights that help business leaders better navigate the talent maze and workforce challenges."--J. Randall MacDonald, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, IBM"This book addresses the question that all companies need to answer: Are your talent management efforts competitively positioning the business? The global economy is leveling the playing field on many fronts, leaving talent as the one true area where your company can gain leverage in the marketplace. Change is proving to be a constant in the workplace, and the authors have created a great blueprint for handling these ever-present challenges in the recruitment and retention of your workforce. This book is a must-read for any executive serious about building a high-performing team and achieving sustainable advantage for both today and tomorrow."--Dennis Donovan, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, The Home Depot"The best ideas from the best minds on the workforce of the future!"--Marshall Goldsmith, author or coeditor of twenty books, including The Leader of the Future (a BusinessWeek bestseller) and Global Leadership: The Next GenerationContributors to Workforce Wake-Up Call include:* Max Bazerman, Harvard Business Schoolcoauthor of Predictable Surprises* Peter Cappelli, The Wharton School author of The New Deal at Work* Lynda Gratton, London Business School author of The Democratic Enterprise* Ed Lawler, University of Southern California author of Treat People Right!* Thomas Malone, MIT Sloan School of Management author of The Future of Work* N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys Technologies Limited* Nigel Nicholson, London Business School author of Executive Instinct* Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford University author of The Human Equation* Matt Schuyler, Executive Vice President of Human Resources, Capital One* Ricardo Semler, President of Semco author of The Seven-Day Weekend* Noel Tichy, University of Michigan author of The Leadership Engine* Sheila Wellington, Stern School of Business author of Be Your Own Mentor

Gabriel Tucker is a globe-trotting, trust fund–endowed twenty-nine-year-old who suddenly finds himself penniless and alone in the world, except for an old Miami Beach apartment building named the Venus De Milo Arms, the last thing of value left to him by his now-vanished family. Lacking skills or resources, he heads to Miami Beach to reconstruct his life, finding himself neighbors with an unlikely mix of tenants: an elderly Holocaust survivor, a lip-synching drag queen, a cynical two-bit gossip columnist, and a rebellious young performance artist who will eventually capture his heart. Within days, Gabriel is thrust into the outrageous world of South Beach, Miami of the nineties: temptations, quick fortunes, mountains of drugs, notorious murders, nonstop sex, and beautiful women (and men) for sale (or rent) are the order of the day. He is a ringside witness to the excesses and intrigues of Italian fashion empires, Cuban refugee supermodels, rapacious German developers, old-fashioned crooked politicians, and a cast of characters that would make Caligula blush. It is in South Beach that Gabriel will eventually discover the long-buried mysteries of his family and find a soul he never imagined he had and a love he never dreamed he deserved.

“My choice for the economics book of the year…it’s the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood.”—David Leonhardt, New York TimesOur health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls “the medical-industrial complex” and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive.Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care re