Books in the News
Myself and Other More Important Matters 
Author: Charles Handy
Pub Date: 2008
Your Price: $25.00
ISBN:9780814401736
Format: Hardcover
Jack Covert, 800-CEO-READ: “Charles Handy, one of today's greatest managerial thinkers, has written a memoir about his life, his loves and his ideologies. It is not a business book per se, yet it's packed from page to page with his theories about the way business and organizations are run. Reading the book feels like Handy is carrying on a personal conversation with a young protégé to whom he reminisces about how he first started out, all the mistakes he made along the way, some philosophies that helped him, his own personal gurus, and even love and mortality. Myself and Other More Important Matters not only provides a portrait of this thoughtful author, it offers his unique understanding of the business of business from almost every angle...Handy's memoir is for anyone interested in his personal views on management, but it also serves as a companion to his other books. If you haven't thought about reading a Handy book until now, we recommend this as the place to start. He refers to this as his memoir, but there will be, no doubt, other books to come. Or so we can hope.”
The Eccentric Billionaire
Author: Nancy Kriplen
Pub Date: 2008
Your Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9780814408896
Format: Hardback
Ft. Worth Star-Telegram: “In The Eccentric Billionaire, former Time business researcher Nancy Kriplen offers an incisive warts-and-all account of the business and personal life of John D. MacArthur.”
Rebuilding Brand America
Author: Dick Martin
Pub Date: 2007
Your Price: $27.95
ISBN:9780814473337
Format: Hard back
Foreign Policy Association U.S. Diplomacy blog: "[Martin] is not a foreign policy expert—and in fact it is his outsider perspective that is so valuable. In a nutshell, he applies his 30 years of experience in the advertising world to the problem of America’s recent credibility issue. The use of branding and marketing techniques in public diplomacy is controversial. I must admit I have also been skeptical about the marketing world’s potential for facilitating and informing U.S. public diplomacy efforts. But to my surprise Martin showed his audience that, in fact, Madison Avenue can teach us a thing or two about public diplomacy."
The New Human Capital Strategy
Author: Bradley W. Hall, Ph.D.
Pub Date: 2008
Your Price: $27.95
ISBN:9780814409275
Format: Hard back
IHRIM Journal Magazine (International Association for HR Information Management): "The statement 'People are our greatest source of competitive advantage' is hackneyed at best, but still it is true. Author Bradley Hall thinks the main problem is that the leadership in companies doesn’t know if their employees are 'better' than their competitor peers and whether they continue to improve annually. He proposes a radical new way of identifying and measuring precisely which activities are most and least responsible for sustained growth, and determining, much the way financial analysis does, which human capital investments will pay dividends over and over. The book maps out a way for HR departments to deliver true business results and tie human capital initiatives directly and consistently to bottom-line results...The book enables both general managers and HR professionals to create a blueprint of human capital success and a strategy and system for achieving it. In so doing, it calls for 'blowing up' today’s HR paradigm and questions many of its assumptions."
Your Guide to VA Loans
Authors: David Reed
Pub Date: 2007
Your Price: $17.95
ISBN:9780814474358
Format: Paper or Softback
Army magazine: "In a casual and down-to-earth tone, Reed demystifies the intricacies of applying for a VA loan and takes the reader through each step necessary to qualify for and receive one…Any veteran, active duty soldier or spouse thinking of purchasing a home will find Your Guide to VA Loans a good investment."
Managing Government Employees
Author: Stewart Liff
Pub Date: 2007
Your Price: $$24.95
ISBN:9780814408872
Format: Hardback
Graziadio Business Report (Pepperdine University): “His [Liff’s] 32-year career, which includes service at both the management and executive levels in the Department of Defense, General Service Administration, Federal Energy Administration, and Veterans Health Administration, make Managing Government Employees an extraordinarily credible endeavor. …a ‘must-read’ for those contemplating entering management…. his comments and insights are useful to all managers, particularly first line managers, everywhere.
The First-Time Homeowner’s Survival Guide
Author:Sid Davis
Pub Date: 2007
Your Price: $16.00
ISBN:9780814473726
Format:Paper or Softback
Columbus Dispatch: "The information is concise and presented clearly, and chapters are rife with information tables that do a good job outlining the options...information is easy to grasp...it is incredibly useful. Even veteran homeowners can benefit from the information it contains."