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Written Voices podcasts are hosted by life enhancement expert Allan Hunkin. en-us ℗ 2004-2008 FSB Associates, LLC FSB Associates, LLC wv1@writtenvoices.com Marc Blatte Casting a widely satirical net on all spectra and species of the Manhattan social scene—from tweaking downtown hipsters, wrestling fetishists, and rapper wannabes to real estate moguls and hip-hop impresarios—this satirical urban noir novel offers intrigue, insight, and an innovative brand of humor. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/090303-BlatteM1.mp3 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:18:00 EST 13:53 author interview, Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed, Marc Blatte, Allan Hunkin Noah St. John 7 Hidden Steps to More Wealth and Happiness In this groundbreaking book, based on work with thousands of clients around the world, Noah St. John has created a remarkable, step-by-step approach that helps you achieve long-term happiness, success, and wealth. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081111-StJohnM1.mp3 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:35:00 EST 15:45 author interview, The Secret Code of Success, Noah St. John, Allan Hunkin Milton Katselas Take A Seat Down-to-earth, accessible, funny, and conversational, Acting Class is the culmination of 40 years of teaching that has helped thousands of actors achieve both the art and the careers of their dreams. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081002-KatselasM1.mp3 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:35:00 EST 15:20 author interview, Acting Class, Milton Katselas, Allan Hunkin Judith O’Reilly In the heart of the country, with no decent coffee in sight, Judith swaps high heels for rubber boots and media-darlings for evangelical strangers and farmers’ wives, in an effort to do that simple thing that women do—make hers a happy family. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081016-OReillyM1.mp3 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:30:00 EST 15:15 author interview, Wife in the North, Judith O’Reilly, Allan Hunkin Tracy L. Tuten Social Media Marketing in a Web 2.0 World Advertising 2.0 ensures that readers understand the advertising options possible in the Web 2.0 environment, provides examples of companies using these options, and offers guidelines for their application. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081009-TutenM1.mp3 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:25:00 EST 20:30 author interview, Advertising 2.0, Tracy L. Tuten, Allan Hunkin Jennifer Wider, M.D. How to Reclaim Your Body, Your Health, Your Sanity, and Your Sex Life After Having a Baby In this compassionate, comprehensive guide, Dr. Jennifer Wider, a physician as well as the mother of two small children, delivers up-to-date medical information, candid answers to a host of questions, and expert advice on a range of postpartum issues. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081009-WiderM1.mp3 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:20:00 EST 17:55 author interview, The New Mom’s Survival Guide, Jennifer Wider, M.D., Allan Hunkin Alexander Rose A Biography From physics to geopolitics, from frontiersmen to the birth of the influential National Rifle Association, American Rifle is a must read for history buffs, gun aficionados, soldiers -- and anyone who wants to understand the dynamic relationship between the rifle and our nation’s history. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081002-RoseM1.mp3 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:30:00 EST 13:54 author interview, American Rifle, Alexander Rose, Allan Hunkin Dr. Bernie S. Siegel In Dr. Bernie Siegel’s new book, Buddy’s Candle, a father shares a meaningful story from his childhood with his nine year old son. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081002-SiegelM1.mp3 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:25:00 EST 12:00 author interview, Buddy’s Candle, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, Allan Hunkin Thomas J. Craughwell From the Whiskey Rebellion and War of 1812 to the Bay of Pigs and War in Iraq Failures of the Presidents is a gripping and horrifying history of presidential directives—most well intended but some arguably not—resulting in terrible disaster. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/081009-CraughwellM1.mp3 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:20:00 EST 16:48 author interview, Failures of the Presidents, Thomas J. Craughwell, Allan Hunkin Bill Murphy Jr. The Proud and Perilous Journey of West Point’s Class of 2002 The dramatic story of West Point’s class of 2002, the first in a generation to graduate during wartime. Vivid, inspiring, and sometimes heartbreaking, In a Time of War is a story about courage, honor, and what war really means to the men and women whose lives it defines. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080918-MurphyM1.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:20:00 EST 18:30 author interview, In a Time of War, Bill Murphy Jr., Allan Hunkin Dr. Shobha S. Krishnan Sex, Cancer, God, and Politics: A Guide for Parents, Women, Men, and Teenagers The Human Papilloma Virus, HPV for short, is responsible for one of the most widespread sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Parents, young adults, and teenagers considering the HPV vaccine will find answers to their questions in this book. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080818-KrishnanM1.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:00:00 EST 13:26 author interview, The HPV Vaccine Controversy, Dr. Shobha S. Krishnan, Allan Hunkin Wendy Chant Outsmart Your Metabolism and Conquer the Diet Plateau Now a revolutionary lifestyle plan finally cracks the code for efficient fat loss. Developed by leading nutrition specialist Wendy Chant, the plan is scientifically designed to help you "outsmart" your body’s natural cycles for storing and burning calories. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080923-ChantM1.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:05:00 EST 13:37 author interview, Crack the Fat-Loss Code, Wendy Chant, Allan Hunkin Judith Matloff Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block Blending her finely honed reporter’s instincts with superb storytelling, Judith Matloff has crafted a wry, reflective, and hugely entertaining memoir about community, home, and real estate. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080918-MatloffM1.mp3 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:10:00 EST 18:05 author interview, Home Girl, Judith Matloff, Allan Hunkin William Rothwell The event is a summit bringing the best experts in talent management together from December 9-11, 2008. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080911-Rothwell1M1.mp3 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:20:00 EST 21:54 author interview, The Best of Talent Management Summit, William Rothwell, Allan Hunkin Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson The Smart Citizen’s Guide to What the Politicians Won’t Tell You A quick and easy resource for voters, with basic facts on the big challenges facing America and a nonpartisan review of the major solutions being debated. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080911-BittleM1.mp3 Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:20:00 EST 15:38 author interview, The 2008 Voter’s Self-Defense Kit, Scott Bittle, Jean Johnson, Allan Hunkin Bruce J. Gevirtzman Shaking Hands with Aliens Gevirtzman’s book is threaded with one recurring truth: "Sadly, instead of parents and teachers and lawmakers and the public looking out for our kids, today’s kids are largely left to fend for themselves," he concludes. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080825-GevirtzmanM1.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:50:00 EST 15:11 author interview, An Intimate Understanding of America’s Teenagers, Bruce J. Gevirtzman, Allan Hunkin Sumbul Ali-Karamali The Qur’an, the Media, and That Veil Thing The Muslim Next Door clears away the misconceptions about Islam and why they flourish -- media distortion, confusion about what is cultural rather than religious, the language barrier, and the old tall tales that still persist after thirteen centuries. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080904-KaramaliM1.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:30:00 EST 20:02 author interview, The Muslim Next Door, Sumbul Ali-Karamali, Allan Hunkin Jonny Bowden The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What Meals to Eat and Why The Healthiest Meals on Earth helps you live a longer, healthier, and tastier life! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080828-BowdenM1.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:35:00 EST 19:06 author interview, The Healthiest Meals on Earth, Jonny Bowden, Allan Hunkin Joseph Hosey The Tragic Wives of Sergeant Drew Peterson Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Stacy’s friends and family and even Drew himself, Chicago-area reporter Joseph Hosey presents the most researched account of the Stacy Peterson case yet. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/0080828-HoseyM1.mp3 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:40:00 EST 10:28 author interview, Fatal Vows, Joseph Hosey, Allan Hunkin Robin M. Mills Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming According to geologist, economist, and industry-insider Robin M. Mills, many ideas about petroleum depletion and its consequences are not just grossly overstated but plain wrong. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080828-MillsM1.mp3 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:25:00 EST 17:36 author interview, The Myth of the Oil Crisis, Robin M. Mills, Allan Hunkin Edward Chupack My Own Tale As Written by Me with a Goodly Amount of Murder This being the last testament of the infamous pirate Long John Silver, you would do well not to trust a word in its pages. Held captive aboard his own ship, the Linda Maria, he is to be taken to England, where he will hang at the king’s pleasure. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080814-ChupackM1.mp3 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:30:00 EST 17:00 author interview, Silver, Edward Chupack, Allan Hunkin Jon Gordon Positive Ways to Deal with Negativity at Work For managers, team leaders, or anyone looking to turn negative energy into positive solutions, The No Complaining Rule shares powerful principles and an actionable plan to win the battle against individual and organizational negativity. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080814-GordonM1.mp3 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:00:00 EST 14:51 author interview, The No Complaining Rule, Jon Gordon, Allan Hunkin Jay Hakes How Freedom from Foreign Oil Can Improve National Security, Our Economy, and the Environment A Declaration of Energy Independence -- written by one of the country’s top energy experts -- outlines seven economically and politically viable paths to energy independence. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080821-HakesM1.mp3 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:05:00 EST 25:05 author interview, A Declaration of Energy Independence, Jay Hakes, Allan Hunkin Dean Karnazes Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days-and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance! Dean Karnazes has run 350 continuous miles through three sleepless nights, ordered pizza during long runs, and inspired fans the world over with his adventures. So what does a guy like this do when he wants to face the ultimate test of endurance? He runs 50 marathons in 50 states – in 50 consecutive days. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080814-KarnazesM1.mp3 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:30:00 EST 14:23 author interview, 50/50, Dean Karnazes, Allan Hunkin Richard Rene Silvin An Arc to Triumph Walking the Rainbow: An Arc to Triumph shares with readers Silvin’s battles, both won and lost, on the pathway to understanding and struggling with the war against the deadly HIV virus. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080814-SilvinM1.mp3 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:35:00 EST 16:20 author interview, Walking the Rainbow, Richard Rene Silvin, Allan Hunkin Marina Lewycka A Novel An International Bestseller Shortlisted for the Orange Prize When an elderly and newly widowed Ukrainian immigrant declares his intention to remarry, his intended turns out to be a voluptuous gold digger from the old country with a proclivity for green satin underwear and an insatiable appetite for the good life of the West. And so his children Vera and Nadezhda must set aside years of bitter rivalry to rescue their annoyingly frisky father who (when he is not pursuing Valentina) is busily writing a grand history of the tractor and its role in human progress. As the intrigues multiply and secrets spill out, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian takes in love and suffering, family and ethnicity, sibling rivalry and the joys of growing old disgracefully. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060831-LewychakaM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:53:00 EST 10:01 author interview, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka, Allan Hunkin Jon Fasman A Novel When a reclusive scholar dies under obscure circumstances, reporter Paul Tomm is assigned to write his obituary. But when the coroner in the case is murdered, Tomm finds himself pursuing a story that began nine hundred years ago with the theft of alchemical instruments from the court geographer of Sicily. As Tomm investigates their present whereabouts, we are introduced to these charmed -- and sometimes cursed -- artifacts and the men and women who coveted them in ages past: a Genoese merchant, a Soviet engineer, an elderly Chinese father. For the objects in The Geographer’s Library have powers that go well beyond the transmutation of lead into gold. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060831-FasmanM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:56:00 EST 09:28 author interview, The Geographer’s Library, Jon Fasman, Allan Hunkin John F. Burnett Travels with an NPR Correspondent "Radio is cool. There’s something that happens when writing, natural sound, and voice come together to transport listeners to a place. It only happens with radio. At National Public Radio, where I’ve been a journalist for 20 years, there’s only so much you can squeeze into a 7 1/2-minute story. Over the years, I’ve filled my reporter’s notebooks with so much that I couldn’t report. Often it is the sixth ’W,’ the one they never teach in J school. After deadlines, reporters don’t talk about the who, what, where, why, and when. We talk about the whoa -- bizarre encounters, miserable journeys, horrible hotels, great fixers, dangerous highways, gruesome dead people, gruesome live people, and unsung heroes. This book is my attempt to make sense of it all, to sort through the beasts and the hellions." In this candid, intimate account, John Burnett exposes the whoa he’s known through his adventures as an NPR reporter. The result is a revealing and personal account that will fascinate not only NPR listeners, but anyone interested in the state of our world today and how the media covers it. As a radio journalist whose work appears regularly on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, John F. Burnett has reported from the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco and the Kosovo conflict; covered the guerilla wars in Central America; ridden with US marines during the invasion of Iraq; and reported from the flooded streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and from New York City, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in the weeks and months following 9/11. In Uncivilized Beasts and Shameless Hellions, John Burnett takes readers behind the scenes of the major events of our time, letting us see what it’s really like gathering the news on the front lines. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060831-BurnettM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:11:00 EST 14:31 author interview, Uncivilized Beasts, John Burnett, Allan Hunkin Phyllis Pellman Good All-Purpose, Welcome-Home Recipes Meet the Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook, an irresistible collection of All-Purpose, Welcome-Home Recipes. Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook offers choice recipes for stove-top and oven cooking. Note this: --Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook is a "cousin" of the extraordinarily popular Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook. --Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook is by New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good, lead author of the Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook series (more than 6.4 million copies already sold!). Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook brings you: --delicious food for everyday that is easy to prepare; --recipes which use ingredients that are already in most cooks’ cupboards; --recipes which are not intimidating; the skills they require are simple and basic; --nutritional food which your family and friends of all ages will heartily enjoy! This wonderful collection is packed with more than 800 recipes. Each includes the amount of Prep Time and Cooking Time needed. Each includes clear, step-by-step procedures for making the dish. Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook delivers recipes that are easy and pleasing -- for the cook -- and all who gather around the table. This is good everyday food! Persons who have loved the Fix-It and Forget-It slow cooker series will also love the all-purpose Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060907-GoodM1.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:02:00 EST 12:11 author interview, Phyllis Pellman Good, Fix It and Enjoy It Cookbook, Allan Hunkin Jed Rubenfeld A Novel An Intricate Tale of Murder and the Mind’s Most Dangerous Mysteries The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud -- already world famous and highly controversial -- disembarks in New York from a steamship. With Freud is his rival Carl Jung; among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first -- and only -- journey to America. The morning after Freud’s arrival, in an opulent penthouse across the city, a barely clad, beautiful woman is discovered murdered -- whipped, mutilated, and strangled with a white silk tie. The next day, a rebellious heiress named Nora Acton barely escapes becoming the killer’s second victim. Yet the lovely Miss Acton, suffering from hysteria, cannot remember the terrifying incident or her attacker. Asked to consult on the case, Dr. Younger calls on the visiting Freud to guide him through the girl’s analysis. As Younger is drawn into her story -- her desire to attend college, her rich, difficult parents, her rejection of the mogul who has fallen in love with her -- he comes to care deeply for this remarkable young woman, even as he discovers that she may still be in grave danger. Then Younger is pulled into another crisis: he learns of a series of bizarre events suggesting a conspiracy to ruin Freud’s reputation. Joining forces with the mayor, the city’s eccentric coroner, and a young homicide detective named Jimmy Littlemore, Younger takes part in a murder investigation that reveals the divided soul of a great metropolis on the verge of a sophisticated, violent new era. The chase for the culprit leads through New York, from the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria to the luxurious salons of Gramercy Park, from the rising skyscrapers that seem to dot every street corner to the bottom of the East River, where laborers are working on the new Manhattan Bridge. The Interpretation of Murder is an intricately plotted, elegantly wrought entertainment filled with delicious surprises, subtle sleights of hand, and fascinating ideas. Drawing on Freud’s case histories, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and the rich history of New York, this remarkable novel marks the debut of a brilliantly engaging new storyteller. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060907-RubenfeldM1.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:04:00 EST 11:19 author interview, Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld, Allan Hunkin David Kamp How We Became a Gourmet Nation "I don’t expect we will ever appear on television, but possibly we will give demonstrations if we are successful." --Julia Child, in a 1954 letter to Simone Beck, one of her collaborators on Mastering the Art of French Cooking "Getting your vegetables doesn’t have to take a lot of time, especially when you lunch on a tasty McDonald’s Premium Salad. Our salads feature up to 16 types of greens that may include baby red romaine, baby green leaf, baby spinach, radicchio and arugula." --Excerpt from the McDonald’s Web site, 2006 The United States of Arugula is the wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the American food revolution that has made celebrity chefs, baby greens, fancy fridges, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives. One day we woke up and realized that our "macaroni" had become "pasta," that our Wonder Bread had been replaced by organic whole wheat, that sushi was fast food, and that our tomatoes were heirlooms. How did this all happen, and who made it happen? The United States of Arugula is the rollicking, revealing story of how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive, thanks to the contributions of some outsized, opinionated iconoclasts who couldn’t abide the status quo. Vanity Fair writer David Kamp chronicles this amazing transformation, from the overcooked vegetables and scary gelatin salads of yore to our current heyday of free-range chickens, extra-virgin olive oil, Iron Chef, Whole Foods, Starbucks, and that breed of human known as the "foodie." In deft fashion, Kamp conjures up vivid images of the "Big Three," the lodestars who led us out of this culinary wilderness: James Beard, the hulking, bald, flamboyant Oregonian who made the case for American cookery; Julia Child, the towering, warbling giantess who demystified French cuisine for Americans; and Craig Claiborne, the melancholy, sexually confused Mississippian who all but invented food journalism at the New York Times. The story continues onward with candid, provocative commentary from the food figures who prospered in the Big Three’s wake: Alice Waters and Jeremiah Tower of Berkeley’s Chez Panisse, Wolfgang Puck and his L.A. acolytes, the visionary chefs we know by one name (Emeril, Daniel, Mario, Jean-Georges), the "Williams" in Williams-Sonoma, the "Niman" in Niman Ranch, both Dean and DeLuca, and many others. A rich, frequently uproarious stew of culinary innovation, flavor revelations, balsamic pretensions, taste-making luminaries, food politics, and kitchen confidences, The United States of Arugula is the remarkable history of the cultural success story of our era. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060907-KampM1.mp3 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:04:00 EST 15:03 author interview, United States of Arugula, David Kamp, Allan Hunkin Lynnette Khalfani 7 Smart Habits to Building the Wealth of Your Dreams Each day, nearly 25,000 people in the U.S. become millionaires . . . Why not you? All it takes is smart planning, shrewd investing, and a little personal coaching from the world-renowned Money Coach, Lynnette Khalfani. She’s living proof that you can go from rags to riches if you follow a few simple guidelines. Believe it or not, Lynnette managed to dig herself out of $100,000 of credit card debt, turn her life around, and become a millionaire herself. Even more amazing: You can do it, too. The Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million tells you exactly what to do. First you’ll formulate an easy-to-follow budget that fits your lifestyle. Then you’ll be able to construct a plan to get out of debt, establish perfect credit, and save a bundle, using the same strategies the wealthy do to manage the money they have -- and to keep making more. Soon you’ll learn how to invest in stocks and bonds (without losing your shirt) and make a fortune in real estate (without becoming a landlord if you don’t want to). You’ll learn the financial benefits of entrepreneurship and discover the SMART way to set goals (Specific, Measurable, Action-oriented, Realistic, and Time-bound). You’ll avoid the most common financial pitfalls and come out on top every time. In fact, you’re just 7 steps away from your first million! The Money Coach’s "Millionaire Success Formula" will show you how to: Make a personal prosperity plan Invest first, last, and always in your reputation Live like a lender, not a borrower Leverage the power of property Increase your fortune with proven methods not shortcuts Overcome setbacks and minimize risks to your financial health Never forget the next generation http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060914-KhalfanM1.mp3 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:43:00 EST 21:18 author interview, Money Coach’s Guide to Your First Million, Lynnette Khalfani, Allan Hunkin Anne Firth Murray Leading and Managing for Positive Change In 1987, Anne Firth Murray had the idea that funding should go to grassroots women’s organizations around the globe and that the recipients themselves should decide how to use that money. From that idea, The Global Fund for Women was born. The organization became a major force for good in the world, embodying a new paradigm of philanthropy. In these pages, Murray shares her wisdom, offering guidelines that demonstrate how anyone can turn a clear vision of a better world into reality. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060926-Murray2b.mp3 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:48:00 EST 22:17 author interview, Paradigm Found, Anne Firth Murray, Allan Hunkin Peter Ames Carlin The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson Their sound registers in a wave crashing on an empty beach; in the four-on-the-floor squeal of a tricked-out roadster; in a prom-night kiss. For more than four decades, their music has defined what it means to be young, to be ambitious, to be American. But how well do you really know the Beach Boys? Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, along with their cousin Mike Love, and childhood friend Al Jardine -- better known as the Beach Boys -- rocketed out of a working-class Los Angeles suburb in the early sixties, and their sun-and-surf sound captured the imagination of kids across the world. In a few short years, they rode the wave all the way to the top, standing with the Beatles as one of the world’s biggest bands. Along the way, Brian Wilson redefined what was possible in rock ’n’ roll. A virtuosic musician and songwriter, Wilson’s genius was most evident in the studio -- his experimental masterpieces, Pet Sounds and Smile, are among rock’s finest achievements. Despite their utopian visions, infectious hooks, and stunning harmonies, the Beach Boys were beset by abuse, jealousy, and terrifying mental illness. Now in Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin pulls back the curtain on Brian Wilson, one of popular music’s most revered luminaries, as well as its biggest mystery. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and access to never-before-heard studio recordings, Carlin follows the Beach Boys from their earliest days and explores their relationship with their demanding father, Murry, whose devotion to his children was curdled by his own insecurities. Carlin also chards the heartbreaking evolution of Brian’s deepening emotional problems, which grew increasingly profound even as he was producing his greatest words. But Catch a Wave is more than just an affecting portrait of Brian’s descent (and triumphant reemergence); it’s also a celebration of Wilson’s transcendent music and the Beach Boys’ place in rock ’n’ roll history. In this elegantly written portrait, Carlin delivers the definitive account of Brian Wilson’s expansive genius and consuming madness. Thoughtful, provocative, and impeccably researched, Catch a Wave is the final word on one of rock’s greatest visionaries and marks Peter Ames Carlin as an author of uncommon insight. You’ll feel the vibration. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060921-CarlinM2.mp3 Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:50:00 EST 18:34 author interview, Catch a Wave, Peter Ames Carlin, Allan Hunkin Michael Weisskopf Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 A Powerful Account of Eighteen Months in the Lives of Three Soldiers and a Journalist, All Patients in Ward 57, Walter Reed’s Amputee Wing Time magazine’s Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee, an embedded reporter alongside soldiers from the First Armored Division, when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he saw a small, dark object rolling inches from his feet. He reached down and took it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his hand and was sent for treatment to Ward 57 at Walter Reed Medical Center, the wing of the armed forces hospital reserved for amputees. There he crossed paths with Pete Damon, Luis Rodriguez, and Bobby Isaacs, three soldiers whose stories he learned during his months in the ward. Alongside these men, Weisskopf navigated the bewildering process of recovery and reentry, and began reconciling life before that day in Baghdad with everything that would follow his release. Blood Brothers is the story of this difficult passage -- for Weisskopf, Damon, Rodriguez, Isaacs, and hundreds of others -- a story that began with healthy men heading off to a war zone and continued through the months in Ward 57 as they prepared their minds and bodies for a different life than the one they left. A chronicle of devastation and recovery, this is a deeply affecting portrait of the private aftermath of combat casualties -- the battle after the war. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060929-WeisskopfM1.mp3 Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:47:00 EST 13:59 author interview, Blood Brothers, Michael Weisskopf, Allan Hunkin Mark Moyar The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 Drawing on a wealth of new evidence from all sides, Triumph Forsaken overturns most of the historical orthodoxy on the Vietnam War. Through the analysis of international perceptions and power, it shows that South Vietnam was a vital interest of the United States. The book provides many new insights into the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 and demonstrates that the coup negated the South Vietnamese government’s tremendous, and hitherto unappreciated, military and political gains between 1954 and 1963. After Diem’s assassination, President Lyndon Johnson had at his disposal several aggressive policy options that could have enabled South Vietnam to continue the war without a massive U.S. troop infusion, but he ruled out these options because of faulty assumptions and inadequate intelligence, making such an infusion the only means of saving the country. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061005-MoyarM1.mp3 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:39:00 EST 20:12 author interview, Triumph Forsaken, Mark Moyar, Allan Hunkin Barbara Delinsky Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors With Uplift, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky, whose life has been shaped by her mother’s breast cancer as well as her own, created a resource she wished she’d had for herself during her own treatment: one that is filled with all the helpful advice that only women who have already been there can give us -- from tips on even the smallest details of daily life to inspiring personal anecdotes that amuse, comfort, and instruct. Here readers can find answers to all the questions they were afraid to -- or never even knew how to -- ask: What kind of deodorant can I use during radiation? Are there certain foods that really satisfy on treatment days? How do I address my surgery with my coworkers? Will I still feel feminine? And what about a sex life? Practical, warm, often funny, always reassuring, Uplift arms readers with the various means by which countless women diagnosed with breast cancer have faced their fears, survived their illness, and bravely gotten on with life and love, career and family. Originally published in 2001, this updated edition includes an additional chapter that follows up on the lives of the original contributors. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061003-DelinskyM1.mp3 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:41:00 EST 15:34 author interview, Uplift, Barbara Delinsky, Allan Hunkin Christine Wicker Dark Arts, Sex Spells, Money Magic, and Other Things Your Neighbors Aren’t Telling You Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young American soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seemingly normal family determines that they are in fact elves. National bestselling author and award-winning religion reporter Christine Wicker leaves no talisman unturned in her hunt to find what’s authentic and what’s not in America’s burgeoning magical reality. From the voodoo temples of New Orleans to the witches’ covens of Salem to a graveyard in north Florida, Wicker probes the secrets of an underground society and teaches lessons she never dreamed could be taught. What she learns repels her, challenges her, and changes her in ways she never could have imagined. And if you let it, it might change you, too. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061003-WickerM1.mp3 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:44:00 EST 16:23 author interview, Not in Kansas Anymore, Christine Wicker, Allan Hunkin Ronald R. Fieve, M.D. Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression -- The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder You are on fire. For a few days, you’ve stayed up late, woken up early, and accomplished your to-do list -- and then some. You’ve called friends you haven’t talked to in ages, organized your closet, finished your project, danced until dawn, and still made it to work on time the next morning. Everyone and everything is great -- you love life! You’ve finally "made it," and you’re feeling fantastic. Would you like to feel like this all the time? Who wouldn’t? This buzz, this electric, ultra-positive feeling of focus and productivity is called hypomania, a key symptom of bipolar II, a subtype of the bipolar spectrum. Acclaimed author Dr. Ronald Fieve says millions of the most accomplished Americans enjoy just these types of highs on a regular basis. Many people with this condition never seek treatment for their subsequent lows because they treasure their highs and don’t want to lose them. The danger is that undiagnosed Bipolar II has one of the highest rates of depression and suicide among all mental illnesses, because the lows can be so devastating. But Dr. Fieve wants to spread the word that Bipolar II can actually be beneficial, if diagnosed and treated. That’s what drove Dr. Fieve, a world-renowned psychopharmacologist and bipolar researcher, to write Bipolar II, the first book exclusively focused on this little-understood condition. He wants to help people make the most of the highs -- and minimize, if not do away with entirely, the devastating lows. From his preface: "From the thousands of patients I have treated since the early 1970s, along with the major diagnostic changes of manic depression, I concluded that about half of my Bipolar II patients used their mild hypomanic highs to an advantage. I labeled this group of gifted people as Bipolar IIB (beneficial) and published a medical journal study on this topic in 1992. "Since then, I have learned so much more about what keeps patients feeling in top form and living highly productive lives. Throughout this book, I want to help you recognize the earliest signs of this increasingly diagnosed soft condition, Bipolar II, and teach you how to be proactive in preventing debilitating episodes. I want you and your family to see how early recognition of the signs and symptoms of mild to severe depression and hypomania (mild mania) will improve the prognosis for Bipolar II, so you can see your doctor immediately for effective treatment. Above all, I want to help you prevent the tormenting high and low moods that often arise with Bipolar II disorder. And with proper treatment and maintenance, you will be able to prevent them." http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061017-FieveM1.mp3 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:47:00 EST 17:12 author interview, Bipolar II, Ronald Fieve, Allan Hunkin Jeff Hoke Welcome to Wonder Open The Museum of Lost Wonder and step into an alternative world full of compelling images, fascinating historical tidbits, and provocative challenges to common myths. Follow your whimsy into this treasure trove to create a place where you can expand your mind. Find your way back to the wonder of your own imagination as you peruse these seven halls: Calcinatio, The Hall of Technology Solutio, The Hall of Aquaria Coagulatio, The Zoological Garden Sublimatio, The Observatory Morificatio, The Mausoleum of History Separatio, The Laboratory of Science and Faith Conjunctio, The Gallery of the Arts Where Physics Meet Metaphysics Jeff Hoke blends his knowledge of science and art with his classical studies of 14th-century alchemy and the origins of philosophy and scientific theory, creating exhibits in his "museum" that dazzle the imagination. These magnificent illustrations return us to an era where the physician was also the magician, and the astronomer the astrologer. Wander the pages of The Museum of Lost Wonder and discover new ways of seeing yourself, your place in the world, and the world itself. Jeff Hoke distills life’s big questions into easy, imaginative experiments. Take a mind-expanding romp through the worlds of physics, science, art, alchemy, and metaphysics, a trip that will have you asking -- and answering -- questions about the origins of the universe, as well as your creative mind. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061012-HokeM1.mp3 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:49:00 EST 19:26 author interview, Museum of Lost Wonder, Jeff Hoke, Allan Hunkin Cindy Sheehan A Mother’s Journey Through Heartache to Activism "Writing this book is the second most difficult thing I have ever done, next to burying Casey." On April 4, 2004, Cindy Sheehan learned that Casey, the eldest of her four children, had been killed in Iraq, where he was serving in the United States Army. After struggling through crippling grief for three weeks, she came to an epiphany: "I will spend my life trying to make Casey’s sacrifice count for peace and love, not killing and hate." Peace Mom is the heartfelt and profoundly moving story of Cindy’s journey to activism. She recounts the dark days following Casey’s death, when it seemed her life would never have meaning again. She tells of her June 2004 meeting with President Bush, and how that encounter ultimately set her on a path that would take her to hearings in the Capitol, test old friendships and family ties, and culminate outside Crawford, Texas, in a monthlong peace action that would draw thousands of supporters and worldwide attention. Here are the stories Cindy has never shared before about her own experiences at the center of a media firestorm, the life-altering events that were sparked by her simple act of defiance one hot August day in Texas. Going behind the headlines and sound bites, Cindy writes candidly about the toll her activism has taken on her own life and her family, as well the unforeseen rewards her quest for peace has brought. Through days of rage, despair, laughter, and tears, Cindy has found ways to celebrate the life of her son Casey and give meaning to his death. Her story points the way to a future of peace and justice for the world and for our children. Heartrending and powerful, Peace Mom is at once an honest account of one woman’s triumph over loss and a clarion call to all those who wonder if they can make a difference. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061012-SheehanM1.mp3 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:51:00 EST 15:16 author interview, Cindy Sheehan, Peace Mom, Allan Hunkin Andy Borowitz Scandals. Lies. A breathtaking disregard for federal laws. How on earth do the Republicans keep winning? Easy: They’ve got a Playbook. After the 2004 presidential debates, eagle-eyed observers hypothesized about the rectangular bulge tucked inside George W.’s suit jacket, visible in images shown around the world. Was it a radio receiver, allowing Karl Rove to feed the president complete sentences he’d never form on his own? Perhaps it was a remote-control device that enabled Dick Cheney to operate W. like a robot. Nah. The real explanation was much simpler, and yet far more disturbing: It was The Republican Playbook. Required reading for every Republican candidate, office-holder, or super-secret covert operative, The Republican Playbook contains all the schemes, scams, and dirty tricks used to attain victory since Richard Nixon commissioned the first edition back in 1972. Did you know: --President Gerald Ford’s notorious clumsiness wasn’t caused by an inner-ear disorder -- the Playbook stashed in his left rear pants pocket threw off his equilibrium. --A chapter entitled "Deny Knowing Anything About Anything" was particularly helpful to President Ronald Reagan. Packed with detailed instructions on essential topics like how to run a smear campaign, how to cover a leak, and how to plant one, plus diagrams for fully functioning voting booth/ballot shredders (to be used in Florida, Ohio, and other battleground states), The Republican Playbook is a must-read if we’re ever going to survive the 2006 elections. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061012-BorowitzM1.mp3 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:20:00 EST 14:58 author interview, Andy Borowitz, The Republican Playbook, Allan Hunkin Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, eds. The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women An Inspiring Collection of the Personal Philosophies of a Group of Remarkable Men and Women Based on the National Public Radio series of the same name, This I Believe features eighty essayists -- from the famous to the unknown -- completing the thought that begins the book’s title. Each piece compels readers to rethink not only how they have arrived at their own personal beliefs but also the extent to which they share them with others. Featuring a list of well-known contributors -- including Isabel Allende, Colin Powell, Gloria Steinem, William F. Buckley Jr., Penn Jillette, Bill Gates, and John Updike -- the collection also contains essays by a Brooklyn lawyer; a part-time hospital clerk from Rehoboth, Massachusetts; a woman who sells Yellow Pages advertising in Fort Worth, Texas; and a man who serves on the state of Rhode Island’s parole board. The result is a stirring and provocative trip inside the minds and hearts of a diverse group of people whose beliefs -- and the incredibly varied ways in which they choose to express them -- reveal the American spirit at its best. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061019-believeM1.mp3 Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:00:00 EST 15:28 author interview, Jay Allison, Dan Gediman, This I Believe, Allan Hunkin Stephanie Lessing A Novel Zoe Rose Never Quite Fit In. As the only kid in kindergarten with an enormous red afro, Zoe was taunted by the other little girls for refusing to share her "Annie" wig, even when she swore it was her own hair (it was). In second grade, after seeing her best friend ridiculed for wearing a dirty, pink, polka-dot party dress to school every day, she became obsessed with understanding what makes normal girls tick and why they’re so cruel to the girls who never seem to "get it." And so Zoe begins a lifelong study of girl behavior, and by thirty, finds herself editor of Issues magazine. Determined to raid the locker room of the female psyche and rip open the frilly facade of femininity once and for all, she sets out to reform an entire nation of women, beginning with the readers of the most notorious magazine on Madison Avenue. It’s the feminist vs. the fashionistas. Can Zoe stop girls from behaving badly toward other girls, and turn them into a strong, united force that can succeed in our male-dominated world? Or will her spectacularly warped sense of humor, pathetic wardrobe, and plethora of psychosomatic illnesses get her eaten alive? Zoe’s willing to risk losing it all, including her mind, but she’ll walk away with something she never dreamed she wanted: the little girl hiding inside of her. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061019-LessingM1.mp3 Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:02:00 EST 15:27 author interview, Stephanie Lessing, Miss Understanding, Allan Hunkin Edward Humes How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers almost as much as it longed for peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, Congress, and veterans groups devised a modest measure, the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944. They intended this G.I. Bill of Rights simply as a bit of help for the sixteen million men and women who so bravely served their country. Instead, quite by accident, it transformed America and rewrote the American Dream. The G.I. Bill made homeowners, college graduates, professionals, rocket scientists, and a booming middle class out of a Depression-era generation that never expected such opportunity. Today’s America was built on the bill’s greatness. The Greatest Generation would not exist without it. Here are the stories of some of these men and women -- how their lives changed because of the bill, and how this country changed because of them. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061019-HumesM1.mp3 Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:31:00 EST 16:15 author interview, Edward Humes, Over Here, Allan Hunkin Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins with Rachel Kranz Our Adventures Casting Some of Hollywood’s Biggest Movies For anyone who’s ever wondered how the Princess Bride ended up with an English accent or what Julia Roberts wore to the audition for her first major role -- or for anyone who’s ever walked out of a movie saying "I would never have put that guy in that part" -- here is a first-of-its-kind look at how actors are chosen and careers are born. Two of the top casting directors in the business, who have cast everyone from the Harry Potter kids to the new James Bond, offer an insider’s tour of their crucial craft -- spotting stars in the making. Recounting their remarkable shared career that started at Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope studio, Janet and Jane tell the funny and fascinating stories of discovering and casting then-unknown stars like Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Cusack, Matt Damon, Winona Ryder, Jennifer Connelly, Brendan Frasier, Virginia Madsen, Joaquin Phoenix, Meg Ryan and Benicio Del Toro, as well as share insights about the many famous directors for whom they’ve worked. Taking us from the first casting call through head shots, auditions, meetings, and desperate searches to fill a part, A Star Is Found gives readers behind-the-scenes access to the machinery of star-making. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061026-StarFoundM2.mp3 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:31:00 EST 19:03 author interview, A Star Is Found, Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins, Allan Hunkin Robert Wilson As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody’s fears of terrorism. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. But as more bodies are dragged from the rubble, and the media interest and political pressure intensify, Falcon suspects that all is not what it appears to be. Just as he seems close to cracking the conspiracy, a terrifying discovery reveals that the threat reaches far beyond Spain’s borders. Shaken to the core, Falcon races against time to restore calm to a frantic city and prevent the deaths of thousands. The Hidden Assassins is a thriller of the highest order. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061026-WilsonM1.mp3 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:33:00 EST 15:19 author interview, The Hidden Assassins, Robert Wilson, Allan Hunkin Fred Brock The New York Times Guide to Getting Affordable Coverage From bestselling author Fred Brock, the first ever hands-on guide to managing your family’s health-care costs -- and maximizing your coverage With Retire on Less Than You Think and Live Well on Less Than You Think, Fred Brock inspired families to focus on increasing wealth by decreasing expenses -- rather than chasing investment fads -- and by following his distinctively achievable, pragmatic strategies. He now tackles the most alarming financial issue facing Americans today: the health-care crisis that is stifling job changes, bankrupting families, and unsettling retirement plans. Brock investigates the best insurance options available, offering a one-stop guide to maximizing your coverage while minimizing your costs -- with potential savings of thousands of dollars each year. Drawing on the experiences of regular Americans and his practical, dollars-driven analysis, he shows how to choose among the health plans and minimize costs based on location shop for coverage when your job does not provide insurance assess whether health savings accounts help your budget track down the biggest savings on prescription drug costs master your insurer’s fine print and win battles over payments manage Medicare and long-term-care insurance to protect your retirement savings Worksheets and a handy resource list give you the tools to manage your health and your budget. Once again, Fred Brock provides unrivaled, objective, and essential financial reporting and advice to safeguard the wallets of American families. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061024-brockM1.mp3 Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:35:00 EST 21:15 author interview, Health Care on Less Than You Think, Fred Brock, Allan Hunkin Dan Kindlon, PhD Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World Following on the heels of his groundbreaking bestseller Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys comes another important work on adolescents and gender from author Dan Kindlon. In Alpha Girls: Understanding the New American Girl and How She Is Changing the World, Kindlon takes on the American girl, using startling new evidence based on newly commissioned studies and hundreds of interviews with young girls throughout the country. In his new book, Kindlon turns on its head the traditional views held by many social scientists that adolescent girls are psychologically disadvantaged compared to their male peers. Instead, Kindlon finds in his research that American girls are by and large outstripping the boys who are their contemporaries in academic terms and in self-esteem levels, and in general increasingly appear to be better equipped to succeed. In particular, Kindlon identifies what he terms "alpha girls," girls who are especially accomplished: They are often academically superior, athletically gifted and driven, socially engaged, and often have a strongly defined sense of self and of where they would like their lives to take them. This important new book -- a must-read for parents of girls and boys alike as well as for all those who interact with them -- will forever change the perceptions of those who read and took to heart the precepts of such previous seminal books as Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia. What is it that sets apart these "alpha girls"? Kindlon finds that a strong father-daughter relationship is one of the keys, among many others. But finally, what Kindlon offers is an insightful, illuminating portrait of the new American girl. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/060921-Kindlon1M1.mp3 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:03:00 EST 21:58 author interview, Alpha Girls, Dan Kindlon, Allan Hunkin John Van Epp, Ph.D. The Foolproof Way to Follow Your Heart Without Losing Your Mind It’s happened to everyone: you meet someone and fall madly in love and all good judgment and perspective are thrown out the window -- until slowly you realize this person isn’t who you thought he or she was. But follow the steps in How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk -- a proven program used by thousands of singles worldwide -- and break the destructive dating patterns that have prevented your happiness in the past. Based on years of research on marital and premarital happiness, How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk maximizes your potential of finding "the one" by giving you the tools to focus on the crucial characteristics of a loving, lasting relationship. These Engaging Techniques Will Help You Ask the right questions to inspire meaningful, revealing conversations Analyze your prospective mate’s level of conscientiousness -- considered the window to the soul Judge character based on compatibility, relationship skills, friends, and patterns from family and previous relationships Resolve your own emotional baggage so you’re ready for a healthy relationship Open your eyes to problems in the relationship and stop giving a jerk too many chances Identify -- and break -- destructive dating patterns that prevent you from finding a life partner Years of clinical research along with observations from his own private practice have inspired Dr. John Van Epp to develop universally applicable, proven strategies to navigate the complexities of love. His foolproof method will help you determine exactly what the person you date will be like as a spouse so you can spot the gem among the jerks. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061017-VanEppM.mp3 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:06:00 EST 19:02 author interview, How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk, John Van Epp, Allan Hunkin Linford Stutzman Following an Ancient Voyage Seafaring isn’t for the faint of heart. It wasn’t for the Apostle Paul in the first century A.D.-- shipwrecked, imprisoned, and often a stranger in foreign lands. And it turned out to be a heart-stopping task some 2,000 years later when Linford Stutzman, a religion professor, and his wife undertook a 14-month journey by sailboat. They visited every site where St. Paul stopped on his tumultuous missionary journeys. SailingActs traces this 21st-century voyage from Volos, Greece, to Rome, Italy, by car, by foot, by motorized scooter, but mostly on a 33-foot boat, logging more than 3,600 nautical miles over two sailing seasons. Stutzman’s knowledge of 1st-century Rome’s socio-political setting is an informative backdrop to St. Paul’s activities and writings. The book includes dozens of photos, maps showing the couple’s travel routes, a list of all the repairs and replacements Stutzman made to the aging boat (which he negotiated to buy sight-unseen), and an itinerary of places they visited. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061027-StutzmanM1.mp3 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:08:00 EST 16:13 author interview, SailingActs, Linford Stutzman, Allan Hunkin Arthur Agatston, MD Healthy Recipes for Entertaining Family and Friends Entertaining doesn’t mean giving up the foods you love! It’s easy to celebrate parties and holidays and stay on the South Beach Diet. Preventive cardiologist, Dr. Arthur Agatston, who has helped millions of people the world over to lose weight and eat more healthfully, shows you how the basic nutritional principles of the South Beach Diet -- choosing good, unsaturated fats; nutrition-rich, high-fiber fruits and vegetables; lean sources of protein; and low-fat dairy -- easily translate to preparing and enjoying special occasion meals throughout the year. Whether you’re inviting a few friends and relatives for a weekend brunch, throwing a baby shower or a backyard barbecue, celebrating Valentine’s Day, the Fourth of July, Christmas, or Hanukkah, or launching your South Beach Diet with a Phase 1 kickoff party, The South Beach Diet Parties and Holidays Cookbook is filled with more than 20 menus and 150 recipes that will make every party or holiday celebration memorable. No need to worry about what South Beach Diet dishes go together. We take all the guesswork out of menu planning for you. Whether you’re making Shrimp Salad in Cucumber Cups, Roast Turkey with all the trimmings, Crown Roast of Pork with Apple-Onion Chutney, Matzoh Ball Soup, Chicken Cassoulet, Ricotta Cheesecake, or Pumpkin Pie, you can be certain that every recipe meets the South Beach Diet guidelines for healthy eating and great taste. Dr. Agatston also provides plenty of practical advice about maintaining your South Beach Diet lifestyle throughout the holiday season and making the best food choices possible whatever the occasion. In addition, full-color photos provide ideas for stylish food presentation, beautiful table settings, and creative centerpieces. And for every menu there are helpful nuke-ahead tips for stress-free entertaining. Remember, the South Beach Diet is about living well. This book is your essential guide to preparing satisfying, delicious, and healthy meals for every special occasion. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061120-ConnellM1.mp3 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:44:00 EST 13:52 author interview, South Beach Diet, Arthur Agatston, Allan Hunkin Roy J. Blitzer Package Yourself to Get Your Dream Job Become the Next Big Thing Entrepreneurial thinking grew Starbucks from a mom and pop coffee shop to a global brand. Donald Trump used it to move from a run-of-the-mill real estate investor to a mega-millionaire. And, now, it can change the way you tackle job hunting forever. Instead of being a job seeker, envision yourself in a uniquely entrepreneurial way -- as the ultimate product. Your company is Hire Me, Inc. -- and you are its only product. From packaging to features and benefits to negotiation, Roy J. Blitzer shows you how to present and sell yourself the way a CEO would sell his best product. Use this easy to read, easy to absorb, easy to implement method and you’ll never approach a job opportunity the same way again. The result will put you one step ahead of the competition and hiring companies will be convinced they can’t function without you. Get the ultimate job by packaging yourself as the ultimate product! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061109-BlitzeM1.mp3 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:42:00 EST 07:01 author interview, Hire Me, Roy J. Blitzer, Allan Hunkin Jacquelyn Lynn Order Anything, Anywhere, Anytime The Indispensable Guide to Fabulous Shopping! Savvy shopping survival expert Jacquelyn Lynn navigates all the twists and turns of online shopping, offering you secrets that save big bucks! Whether you’re maneuvering through the jungle of online stores or trying your luck in an auction, her expert tips and tricks will make you a pro at ordering anything, anywhere, anytime for the best deal possible. Learn how to: Find sites and locate items with rock-bottom prices Win online auctions on eBay or other sites for less than you think Recognize scams and steer clear of unscrupulous e-commerce sites Uncover discount codes and special online promotions Plus, get little-known survival tips on the most popular categories that require special strategies, like jewelry, cars, real estate and travel services. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061109-LynnM1.mp3 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:44:00 EST 13:33 author interview, Online Shopper’s Survival Guide, Jacquelyn Lynn, Allan Hunkin David S. Kidder and NOah D. Oppenheim Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class Daily Devotionals have long been a favored tool of those looking for a regular dose of spiritual growth. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular compendium in the same tradition -- one year’s worth of daily readings that will refresh the spirit, stimulate the mind, and help complete your education. These readings, drawn from different fields of knowledge -- History, Literature, Visual Arts, Science, Music, Philosophy, and Religion -- will keep your mind sharp and refresh your spirit. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061116-KidderM1.mp3 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:06:00 EST 15:30 author interview, Intellectual Devotional, David Kidder, Noah Oppenheim, Allan Hunkin Jeremy Geffen, MD Healing and Transforming the Whole Person The Most Important Cancer Book You Will Ever Read What do you do when your world is turned upside-down by a diagnosis of cancer? How do you sort through the dizzying array of conventional and nonconventional treatment options while also searching for meaningful ways of embracing the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of healing? The Journey Through Cancer answers these questions and more. Board-certified oncologist Jeremy Geffen, MD, has spent more than fifteen years providing treatment, guidance, and care for thousands of cancer patients and their families. In this groundbreaking work, he offers real and inspiring solutions to the unique challenges encountered on the cancer journey, while honoring and caring for the whole person -- and his or her entire family -- at every step along the way. Full of practical guidance, The Journey Through Cancer will help you to: Understand the essential aspects of conventional diagnosis, staging, and treatment. Make informed and intelligent choices about the most effective, safe, and reliable complementary and alternative therapies. Discover new possibilities for physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061116-GeffenM1.mp3 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:06:00 EST 16:11 author interview, Journey Through Cancer, Jeremy Geffen, Allan Hunkin Michael B. Schachter, MD, with Deborah Mitchell The Breakthrough Integrative Approach for Effective Treatment Learn How to Fight Depression -- Safely and Effectively If you are afflicted with depression, you know the terrible toll this illness can take on all aspects of your life. But despite the millions of prescriptions that are written each year, costly antidepressants are not always effective and can produce disabling side effects. Now Dr. Michael Schachter, a leading expert in orthomolecular psychiatry and nutritional medicine, presents a groundbreaking program that has helped thousands find relief naturally, safely, and effectively; often without the use of medication. In this authoritative, supportive guide, you’ll discover: How to identify the causes of your depression and where to seek help A proven regimen of safe natural supplements and proper nutrition tailored to your personal needs Tools to determine which treatments work best for you Drug-free methods for controlling the levels of mood-affecting chemicals in your brain How to eliminate depression-inducing toxins from your system Important lifestyle modifications that can really make a difference. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061130-SchachterM1.mp3 Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:06:00 EST 21:18 author interview, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression, Michael B. Schachter, Allan Hunkin Michael Useem When It’s Time to Decide -- Knowing What to Do and When to Do It The Go Point -- The Moment of Truth When You Have to Say "Yes" or "No" When It’s Time to Get Off the Fence. Michael Useem -- through dramatic storytelling -- shows how to master the art and science of being decisive. He places you smack in the middle of people facing their go point, where actions -- or lack of them -- determined the fates of individuals, companies, and countries. Why on earth did Robert E. Lee send General George Pickett on an almost suicidal charge against the Union lines at Gettysburg? How does the leader of a firefighting crew make life-or-death decisions, directing his people -- with little information about weather patterns to guide him -- to go up or down the mountain? One direction means safety, the other danger. You’ve just assumed responsibility for a scandal-wracked corporation, a company teetering on the brink of disaster. What you decide over the course of the next several days will have consequences for thousands of employees and investors. How do you fulfill your responsibilities? Michael Useem makes you feel as if "you are there," right in the center of the action. He was there: tramping up and down the mountain where firefighters made their momentous decisions; walking the battlefield at Gettysburg to see for himself just what General Pickett faced before making his ill-fated charge; going into a trading pit where million-dollar buy-and-sell decisions are made that affect fortunes of both the firm and the person making the call. You’ll discover why some decisions were flawless, perfectly on target, and others utterly disastrous. Most of all, you’ll learn how to make the right calls yourself, whether you’re changing your career, hiring an assistant, launching a product, or deciding on a potential acquisition or merger. Smartly written and offering unusual insights into the minds of decision makers such as General Lee, The Go Point will provide the guidance for you to move with confidence when it’s your turn to get off the fence. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061207-UseemM1.mp3 Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:04:00 EST 23:26 author interview, The Go Point, Michael Useem, Allan Hunkin Eric Dezenhall A Novel When a gorgeous woman appears at the gates of the White House bearing a mysterious letter, disgraced presidential press secretary and professional spinmeister Jonah Eastman knows that his past has finally caught up with him. Raised by a Jewish mobster in Atlantic City, Jonah was only seventeen when he met Claudine Polk, an unabashed Southern belle, and placed her on an unshakable pedestal for one glorious summer of reckless youth and first love. Now Claudine desperately needs Jonah’s help to save Rattle and Snap, her family’s plantation in Tennessee, from the hands of her crooked soon-to-be-ex-husband. Jonah must use all his connections, from shady undercover agents to the president himself, to engage in Operation Dixie Knish and save his Southern belle’s ancestral home. A perfect mix of The West Wing, The Godfather, and Gone with the Wind, Spinning Dixie is an epic novel full of adventure, romance, and unforgettable characters that will have readers laughing out loud. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061207-DexenhallM1.mp3 Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:06:00 EST 15:20 author interview, Spinning Dixie, Eric Dezenhall, Allan Hunkin Bernie Siegel, MD Raising Your Kids to Feel Loved, Be Kind, and Make a Difference In this delightful book, one of America’s most beloved and best-selling authors shares new gems of his trademark wit, wisdom, and thoughtful advice with parents of all ages. From Bernie Siegel’s introduction to Love, Magic and Mudpies: Love is necessary for our survival and is the key ingredient for both the parent and the child. Children see the magic in everything, and loving parents can and will experience so many magical moments while raising their children. Mudpies can be fun at times and also leave us covered with dirt. From my experience as a father of five, grandfather of eight, pediatric surgeon, counselor to those with life-threatening illnesses, and as a Chosen Dad for the suicidal and abused children I have met, I know our childhoods have a profound effect on our lifelong health. I’ve seen that what we learn in our earliest years has a direct effect on our self-esteem, behavior, and choices. It makes me realize that the parenting we receive is truly the number one health issue in most people’s lives. In this book, I will share with you the gems I have garnered from my medical practice and family life; I will explore every aspect of parenting, from help for new parents, to those with young children or teens, to parents facing an empty nest. If you have the desire and intention, this book will uplift, strengthen, and guide you through the inevitable ups, downs, joys, and heartaches of parenting; it may even help you re-birth and re-parent yourself. Remember, parents are the cocreators of life, so decide what you desire to create and begin now. Your children are the finest raw material you will ever have to work with. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061214-SiegelM1.mp3 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:06:00 EST 20:30 author interview, Love, Magic and Mudpies, Bernie Siegel, Allan Hunkin Ysabeau S. Wilce Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog Flora Fyrdraaca knows taking shortcuts in Crackpot Hall can be risky. After all, when a House has eleven thousand decaying rooms that shift about at random, there’s no telling where a person might end up. But it’s not just household confusion that vexes Flora, what with Mamma always away being Commanding General of the Army, Poppy drowning his sorrows in drink, and Crackpot Hall too broken down to magickally provide the clean towels and hot waffles that are a Fyrdraaca’s birthright. Yet Flora is nothing if not a Girl of Spirit. So when she takes a forbidden shortcut and stumbles upon her family’s biggest secret -- Valefor, the banished Butler -- she and her best friend plunge happily into the grand adventure of restoring Valefor to his rightful (or so he says) position. If only Flora knew that meddling with a magickal being can go terribly awry -- and that soon she will have to find a way to restore herself before it is too late. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061212-WilceM1.mp3 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:08:00 EST 15:43 author interview, Flora Segunda, Ysabeau Wilce, Allan Hunkin M.J. Ryan How to Finally Change a Habit, Keep a Resolution, or Make a Dream Come True Learn the Secret to Making Changes That Stick. Every so often people get inspired (again!) to lose weight, get organized, start saving, or stop worrying -- but a few months later they give up, frustrated. It doesn’t have to be that way. In This Year I Will . . ., bestselling author M. J. Ryan offers breakthrough wisdom and coaching to help readers make this time the time that changes become permanent. Why do people find it so hard to change? The secret is that everyone has their own formula for making changes that stick, but most people don’t know what theirs is. They think there is one way to lose five pounds, and another way to stay on top of their e-mail, but they don’t realize that for all changes, there is one system that works best for each individual. This Year I Will . . . helps you lock on to your unique formula for planning, implementing, and seeing a life change through, so you can use it again and again to tackle anything else you’d like to do. For anyone who has broken a New Year’s resolution, fallen off a diet, or given up on fulfilling a dream, the ingenious strategies, inspiring stories, and sheer motivational energy of This Year I Will . . . will help you make a promise to yourself that you can actually keep. Are You Really Ready To Change? Take This Quiz And Find Out. Every New Year’s Day, my list of resolutions is: a) Ambitious. I aim for everything from losing weight to saving more money for my retirement. b) Realistic. I just try to bump my good behavior up a notch -- be a better friend, give more money to charity -- without giving myself any strict deadlines or goals. c) Precise. I decide exactly how many men I will ask for a date, or how many new jobs I will apply for. Whenever I decide to change something, it’s usually because: a) My doctor has put the fear of God into me. b) I read a magazine article about why making this change is important. c) I start daydreaming about how great life will be after I make the change. True or false: When you want to make a big change in your life, timing is crucial. Failure is: a) Impossible. b) Inevitable. c) Not in my vocabulary. (The answers are on the inside back flap.) http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061221-RyanM1.mp3 Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:34:00 EST 17:53 author interview, This Year I Will, M.J. Ryan, Allan Hunkin Jason Ryan Dorsey The Twentysomething’s Guide to Cashing In on Your Real-World Dreams It’s time to cash your reality check and re-create your life on your own terms. In your twenties you expect to finally live your life on your own terms. But it can seem like the world won’t cooperate. Roommates drive you crazy (but you can’t afford to lose them), entry-level jobs frustrate you ("Four hundred double-sided copies before lunch"), and even a dream job can take over your nights and weekends, leaving you feeling like you’re running hard but going nowhere. Jason Ryan Dorsey helps you turn this coming-of-age crisis into opportunity. He shows you the big secret of the real world -- that you don’t realize how much control you have over your life until you use it. In My Reality Check Bounced! Jason shows you how to: Find the courage to climb out of your real-world rut Create a Future Picture that gets you off your "buts" Uncover opportunity and build a tag team to make the most of it Live like you mean it, and finally cash your reality check http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061221-DorseyM1.mp3 Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:37:00 EST 20:47 author interview, My Reality Check Bounced, Jason Ryan Dorsey, Allan Hunkin Albyn Leah Hall A Novel The mesmerizing debut novel about driving trucks, loving music, and growing up A truck driver’s daughter who grows up in the front seat of her father’s truck, Jo shares her father’s love of country music, junk food, and the open highway. Jo’s life is a perfect slice of Americana, except that their "open road" is in England, and her father -- the gentle, melancholy Bobby Pickering -- is from Northern Ireland. The only truly American thing about Jo is her mother, whom she has never met. Jo is twelve when she and Bobby pick up hitchhiker Cosima Stewart, an American country singer whose band is touring England. They become dedicated fans, and Cosima, touched by the unlikely duo, comes to regard Jo with an indulgent, even sisterly, eye. But when Jo is sixteen, Bobby sinks into total despair and Jo seeks refuge in Cosima and the band. Jo’s adoration becomes obsessive as she follows her idol all the way to California. Here, in the sweltering Mohave Desert and alone for the first time, Jo must face the painful truths of her own life, the mother she has never known, and the father she can’t force from her mind. With shades of Zadie Smith and Mark Haddon, Albyn Leah Hall’s debut is a page-turning study of what frightens us about one another and ourselves -- of how we run away, and from what we can’t, ultimately, escape. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061213-HallM1.mp3 Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:42:00 EST 15:43 author interview, The Rhythm of the Road, Albyn Leah Hall, Allan Hunkin Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grosssman, RD The Weight-Loss Plan That Boosts Serotonin, Improves Your Mood, and Keeps the Pounds Off for Good No cravings. No stress. No fatigue. Finally, a diet you can feel good about! Introducing The Feel-Good Diet, a scientific breakthrough in weight loss that will help you: Turn off your hunger Turn on your energy Tone up your body And "yo-yo" no more! The Feel-Good Diet is a revolutionary weight-loss program that works with you, not against you. Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, reveal that many other diets cut out essential carbs and pack on too much protein, which depletes your brain’s neurotransmitters, especially serotonin. This "yo-yo brain" effect zaps your willpower and leaves you irritable, depressed, and craving carbs. The Feel-Good Diet will help you battle "yo-yo brain" and finally win your war with your weight. With a few simple guidelines and easy-to-prepare menus, you can eat delicious, healthy foods that actually boost your serotonin levels -- so you can lose weight, end cravings, reduce stress . . . and feel good. There is a biological reason why diets make you miserable. Cheryle Hart, M.D., and Mary Kay Grossman, RD, explain that most diets deplete the brain’s neurotransmitters, resulting in the low energy, moodiness, and cravings that sabotage weight-loss success. They call this condition "yo-yo brain," a hormone imbalance that affects women most severely. They also discovered that there’s something you can do about it. The Feel-Good Diet is the first medically proven weight-loss plan that actually boosts your brain’s "feel good" power to counteract hunger pangs, depression, fatigue, and the dreaded "yo-yo" aftereffects. With the balance of carbohydrates, protein, and other nutrients recommended here, you can increase your levels of serotonin and dopamine -- and feel the best you’ve ever felt. Not only will you battle those cravings and lose weight, but you’ll also be renewed, revitalized, and re-energized. With The Feel-Good Diet, you can: Stop obsessing about the foods that do you in Learn to feel satisfied with smaller portions Be less hungry and gain more energy Maintain your new weight without feeling deprived This groundbreaking book provides you with easy-to-follow guidelines plus dozens of delicious new recipes and complete meal plans. It also includes simple lifestyle tips and an easy-to-do exercise program, so you can increase your metabolism, improve your muscle tone, and live a more active, fulfilling life. It’s a whole new experience in dieting -- a proven weight-loss plan that you really can feel good about. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061221-FeelGoodM1.mp3 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:57:00 EST 16:19 author interview, The Feel-Good Diet, Cheryle Hart, Mary Kay Grossman, Allan Hunkin Tom Weede The On-the-Go Plan for Fitness, Weight Loss, and Healthy Living "A Diet for Those Too Busy to Diet!" Mainstream diets, daily two-hour workouts . . . They just don’t fit the lifestyles of busy entrepreneurs, or anyone who’s crunched for time. If you have a daily routine that keeps you constantly on the go, you know just what we mean. That’s why the publishers of Entrepreneur magazine and an advisory board of world-renowned experts in nutrition, health, exercise, goal-setting and business joined forces with Tom Weede to develop this groundbreaking diet and exercise plan. Shed pounds, shape up and boost energy in just six weeks! Eat healthy without sacrificing taste or time with a six-week meal plan that offers both traditional meals and "Quick Fix" options from Starbucks, McDonald’s, great restaurants and more. Start a workout plan that works with your schedule, not against it. Designed exclusively for busy people with demanding schedules who don’t think they have time for a weight-loss program, this easy-to-use diet and fitness plan delivers what’s important -- lasting weight-loss results. In addition to The Entrepreneur Diet Six-Week Meal Plan, Weede covers: Eight must-have habits for shedding fat The Quick-Start Action Plan that works with any busy schedule Healthy selections from fast food to frozen dinners to restaurant fare "Stealth" exercises that can be done on an airplane, at a desk or in a car Four core elements that help control stress and increase energy The business-fitness connection and how it boosts success http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/061219-WeedeM1.mp3 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:09:00 EST 19:53 author interview, The Entrepreneur Diet, Tom Weede, Allan Hunkin Judith J. Wurtman, PhD, and Nina Frusztajer Marquis, MD Use Your Brain’s Natural Chemistry to Cut Cravings, Curb Emotional Overeating, and Lose Weight No Willpower Needed! Do diets make you cranky? Do you crave sweets and starches? Do you overeat when stressed or worried? Have you gained weight as a side effect of your antidepressant medication? Are you ready to effortlessly lose 2 pounds of pure fat each week? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, it’s time to harness the power of serotonin. Serotonin is the body’s "feel good" brain chemical. It increases feelings of well-being and calm -- and it also turns off the appetite. Eating your favorite starchy and sweet snacks, in carefully calculated amounts and at specific times, causes your body to increase its natural serotonin production, turning off your appetite. The result? Easy and painless weight loss. These are just some of the snacks you’ll enjoy on The Serotonin Power Diet! Biscotti Breakfast cereals Cinnamon Raisin Bread Crackers Fig Bars Graham Crackers Granola Bars Hot Chocolate Marshmallows Mentos Pita Bread Popcorn Pretzels Rice Cakes Toaster Waffles For more than 30 years, Dr. Judith Wurtman, PhD, has researched the connection between the brain, emotions, appetite, and overeating. Now, for the first time, she and Dr. Nina Frusztajer Marquis, MD, present The Serotonin Power Diet, their clinically tested program for safe and effective weight loss. By prompting the body to produce additional serotonin, the brain’s "feel good" chemical, The Serotonin Power Diet curbs appetite and targets emotional overeating. In addition, this user-friendly guide includes: Twelve-Week Program. For readers who are looking for close guidance, this week-by-week guide removes guesswork from the program. Troubleshooting Guide and Frequently Asked Questions, based on the questions and experiences of hundreds of successful clients at Adara Weight Loss Centers founded by Dr. Wurtman and Dr. Marquis. More than 75 Delicious Recipes. Including Potato Pancakes, Corn Burritos, Sushi Rice Salad, Pasta with Meat and Mushroom-Tomato Ragu -- this is comfort food at its best. Stop the deprivation and start losing weight with The Serotonin Power Diet! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070104-WurtmanM1.mp3 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:12:00 EST 22:41 author interview, The Serotonin Power Diet, Judith J. Wurtman, Nina Frusztajer Marquis, Allan Hunkin David Finkel and Diane Kennedy, CPA Discover the Secrets Behind the World’s Most Exclusive Wealth Retreat and Become Financially Free It’s an event so popular, it’s sold out up to a year in advance. It’s an experience so powerful, participants willingly pay the $30,000 ticket price -- and return again and again. It’s a place where dreams are made, expectations are exceeded, and multimillionaires are born. It’s the Maui Mastermind, the most exclusive wealth retreat in the world, and its secrets have been kept behind closed doors -- until now. It’s your turn to become a Maui Millionaire. For the first time, Maui Mastermind founders David Finkel and Diane Kennedy share the key steps to creating and maintaining great wealth that they have taught to their elite clients. The Maui Millionaires reveals just how easy it is to become exceptionally rich by creating consistent income streams, networking with other like-minded individuals, and giving back to the community. The authors teach you the Maui Wealth Leverage Strategies -- five life-altering techniques that you can start applying today to build tremendous wealth. You’ll see how, by changing the way you look at money, you can practically guarantee your financial freedom. Maui Millionaires don’t just have money -- they have a healthy balance in all areas of their lives. You’ll see how, as a Maui Millionaire, you’ll have money PLUS: Freedom to enjoy it Family and friends to share it Health to fuel it Meaning to magnify it Peace of mind to sustain it You’ll learn about the awesome power of a Mastermind Group, one of the most powerful tools for building a healthy and successful life. You’ll also hear the real-life success stories of the authors and their Maui Millionaire clients, which will inspire you to live the life you’ve always dreamed about. Take charge of your financial destiny today with The Maui Millionaires -- and join the exclusive ranks of the richest, happiest, most fulfilled people in the world. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070109-FinkelM1.mp3 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:16:00 EST 14:27 author interview, The Maui Millionaires, David Finkel, Diane Kennedy, Allan Hunkin Richard North Patterson A Novel From one of America’s most compelling novelists comes the mesmerizing story of a trial lawyer who must defend the woman he loves against a charge of conspiring to assassinate the prime minister of Israel. David Wolfe’s life is approaching an exhilarating peak: he’s a successful San Francisco lawyer, he’s about to get married, and he’s being primed for a run for Congress. But when the phone rings and he hears the voice of Hana Arif -- the Palestinian woman with whom he had a secret affair in law school -- he begins a completely unexpected journey. The next day, the prime minister of Israel is assassinated by a suicide bomber while visiting San Francisco; soon, Hana herself is accused of being the mastermind behind the murder. Now David faces an agonizing choice: will he, a Jew, represent Hana -- who may well be guilty -- or will he turn away the one woman he can never forget? The most challenging case of David’s career requires that he delve into the lives of Hana Arif and her militant Palestinian husband, both of whom have always lived in exile. Ultimately, David’s quest takes him to Israel and the West Bank, where, in a series of harrowing encounters, he learns that appearances are not at all what they seem. Culminating in a tense and startling trial with international ramifications, Exile is that rare novel that both entertains and enlightens. At once an intricate tale of betrayal and deception, a moving love story, and a fascinating journey into the lethal politics of the Middle East, this is Richard North Patterson at his most brilliant and engrossing. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070118-PattersonM1.mp3 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:21:00 EST 14:11 author interview, Exile, Richard North Patterson, Allan Hunkin Felicia Drury Kliment An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes Uncover the Secret to Better Health and Wellness Modern agriculture and food-preservation methods have done serious damage to the human diet. The detrimental effects on the human body caused by acidic wastes from processed food and chemical additives are myriad. By-products of the foods we eat, acidic wastes are the common denominator in all degenerative diseases. When acidic wastes accumulate, they can cause organs to malfunction and break down. Balancing the body’s acid-alkaline pH factor is a dynamic way to improve health. The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet explores this exciting new treatment in alternative medicine. Based on Eastern medicinal practices, The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet advocates a sensible food-combination program in conjunction with herbal medicine therapies to balance the positively charged acidic particles in the body with the negatively charged particles. This simple plan can aid in curing a wide range of medical problems including: -- arthritis -- insomnia -- alcoholism -- lung disorders -- kidney disease -- and much more Organized by medical condition, this book makes it easy to quickly find the help and advice you need. There’s also a practical test you can administer to help determine your metabolic type: grain eating, meat eating, or balanced. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070111-KlimentM1.mp3 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:26:00 EST 15:10 author interview, Acid Alkaline Balance Diet, Felicia Drury Kliment, Allan Hunkin Dr. Frank Luntz It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Here Why are some people so much better than others at talking their way into a job or out of trouble? What makes some advertising jingles cut through the clutter of our crowded memories? What’s behind winning campaign slogans and career-ending political blunders? Why do some speeches resonate and endure while others are forgotten moments after they are given? The answers lie in the way words are used to influence and motivate, the way they connect thought and emotion. And no person knows more about the intersection of words and deeds than language architect and public-opinion guru Dr. Frank Luntz. In Words That Work, Dr. Luntz not only raises the curtain on the craft of effective language, but also offers priceless insight on how to find and use the right words to get what you want out of life. Whether your goal is to boost company sales, win political office, inspire your employees, or get that raise you deserve, Dr. Luntz has something instructive to say about how language can help. Learn about the phenomenon of transforming mere words into an effective arsenal for the war of perception we all wage each and every day. Take it from the man who helped craft "The Contract with America," who turned the mild-mannered term "estate tax" into more politically charged "death tax," who reframed "drilling for oil" into "exploring for energy" -- words can and do mean the difference between success and failure. We all submit to the power of language, whether we know it or not. And the right words can give you the edge in any venture. As Dr. Luntz points out, it’s not what you say -- it’s what people hear. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070118-LuntzM1.mp3 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:59:00 EST 16:31 author interview, Words That Work, Dr. Frank Luntz, Allan Hunkin Martha Beck, PhD End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace Everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, move more. But though they know what to do, millions of dieters don’t do what they know. Why not? Because they don’t understand the brain-body dynamics of weight loss. Now, cutting-edge research has revealed that millions of overweight dieters are programming themselves to get fatter. These unlucky individuals are following typical weight-loss programs and are being trained to become thinner versions of themselves, like caterpillars becoming thinner caterpillars. In The Four-Day Win, Harvard-trained Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck, PhD, reverses this trend and teaches dieters to get lean from the brain outward. Instead of becoming thinner caterpillars, those who follow The Four-Day Win will metamorphose into butterflies, with entirely new bodies . . . for good. In the book, Martha Beck observes that: Traditional dieting relies on the ability to go numb or to override physical and emotional feelings. Overeating is a self-calming compulsion similar to OCD -- dieters turn to food (and lots of it) when they’re deprived of comfort. Overweight people can reverse the brain-body programming that is making them fat. Instead of attacking their bodies, they can learn to support them. By ending each chapter with psychological exercises, Dr. Beck helps her readers to think thin and end their compulsion to overeat. For those who aren’t patient enough to await the transformation that will inevitably follow, she also includes a Jump-Start weight-loss program that will help them shed pounds in the best way, both psychologically and physically. As empathetic and funny as she is informative, Martha Beck provides readers with an easy and fail-proof way to change their lives. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070118-BeckM1.mp3 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:02:00 EST 17:25 author interview, The Four Day Win, Martha Beck, Allan Hunkin Peter H. Gott, MD with Robin Donovan The Simplest Way to Lose Weight! No calorie counting. No gram counting. Cheating is allowed! It’s uncomplicated. Inexpensive. A cinch to maintain. And most of all, a sensible guide to healthy eating that will help you lose weight fast and keep it off for the rest of your life. Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet During his forty years of medical practice and in his nationally syndicated medical column, Dr. Peter Gott has been asked constantly by patients and readers for a simple, foolproof way to lose weight. In response, he developed the No Flour, No Sugar Diet, which has prompted countless success stories from his patients, thousands of letters from his readers raving about their phenomenal weight loss, and this New York Times bestselling book. While Dr. Gott’s program teaches you how to eliminate flour and sugar from your diet, you won’t go hungry. The diet includes selections from all the food groups, with a strong emphasis on nutrient-dense foods that leave you feeling satisfied. You’ll still enjoy lean meats, brown rice, low-fat dairy products, vegetables, fruits, and other goodies -- and discover how to satisfy your sweet tooth and carb cravings without sugar or flour. In addition, Dr. Gott’s No Flour, No Sugar Diet features: Easy-to-follow meal plans you customize to your needs More than 50 mouthwatering recipes for soups, entrees, desserts, and more . . . from Omelet Muffins to Pork Tenderloin Roasted with Fennel, Apples, Potatoes, and Onions to Strawberry Crepes with Dark Chocolate Sauce Pantry and food lists Guidelines for finding the hidden flour and sugar in many foods Important nutritional and exercise tips Inspirational stories from Dr. Gott’s patients and letters from readers . . . and much more. Get ready to let four powerful words -- No Flour, No Sugar -- make you healthier than you’ve ever been before! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070125-GottM1.mp3 Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:52:00 EST 15:13 author interview, Dr. Gott’s No Flour No Sugar Diet, Peter H. Gott, Allan Hunkin David A. Clary Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship That Saved the Revolution In Adopted Son, historian David A. Clary tells the exciting story of possibly the most important friendship in American history. Bringing together the latest research, this dramatic narrative interweaves the private and public lives of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, who did together what neither could have done alone. They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond between them as strong as any between father and son. It was an unbreakable trust that saw them through betrayals, shifting political alliances, and the trials of war. Lafayette came to America a rebellious youth whose defiance of his king made him a celebrity in France. His money and connections attracted the favor of the Continental Congress, which advised Washington to keep the exuberant Marquis from getting himself killed. But when the boy-general was wounded in his first battle, he became a hero of two countries. As the war ground on, Washington found in his young charge the makings of a courageous and talented commander whose loyalty, generosity, and eagerness to please his Commander in Chief made him one of the war’s most effective and inspired generals. Lafayette’s hounding of Cornwallis’s army was the perfect demonstration of Washington’s unconventional "bush-fighting" tactics, and led to the British surrender at Yorktown. Their friendship continued throughout their lives. Lafayette inspired widespread French support for a struggling young America and personally influenced Washington’s antislavery views. Washington’s enduring example as general and statesman guided Lafayette during France’s own revolution years later. Using personal letters and other key historical documents, Adopted Son offers a rare glimpse of the American Revolution through the friendship between Washington and Lafayette. It offers dramatic accounts of battles and intimate portraits of such major figures as Alexander Hamilton, Benedict Arnold, and Benjamin Franklin. The result is a remarkable, little-known epic of friendship, revolution, and the birth of a nation. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070201-ClaryM1.mp3 Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:53:00 EST 14:49 author interview, Adopted Son, David Clary, Allan Hunkin Portia Iversen Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism Portia Iversen was an award-winning art director and television writer whose life changed irrevocably when her son Dov was diagnosed with autism at the age of two. As she and her husband, Jon Shestack, sought treatments for Dov and struggled to understand what was happening, they were stunned to learn that almost nothing was known about the disorder and only a handful of researchers were even studying it. Faced with little hope of a medical breakthrough in Dov’s lifetime, Iversen and her husband started the foundation Cure Autism Now, knowing that speeding up the pace of autism research might be the only meaningful thing they could do to help their son. One day Iversen heard about a severely autistic nonverbal boy in India whose mother had taught him to read, write, and communicate. Soma Mukhopadhyay’s methods were unorthodox, and her tools surprisingly simple -- just a piece of cardboard with the alphabet written on it -- but her achievement was astonishing: not only could Tito communicate, but he had an IQ of 185 and wrote beautiful poetry. Iversen realized that Tito could provide an unrivaled window into autism, and she organized a visit to the United States for the boy and his mother and arranged for some of the country’s top scientists to study him. Strange Son is the captivating account of these two families and how their personal journeys into autism intersected for a time and allowed Tito to explain to scientists the startling differences in his sensory perception, giving them insights that reframed the very definition of autism, and challenging everything we thought we knew about it. For more information, please visit www.strangeson.com. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070125-IversonM1.mp3 Fri, 2 Feb 2007 08:54:00 EST 24:25 author interview, Strange Son, Portia Iversen, Allan Hunkin Ram Charan The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform From Those Who Don’t The new grand theory of leadership by Ram Charan . . . the breakthrough book that links Know-How -- the skills of people who know what they are doing -- with the personal and psychological traits of the successful leader. How often have you heard someone with a commanding presence deliver a bold vision that turned out to be nothing more than rhetoric and hot air? All too often we mistake the appearance of leadership for the real deal. Without a doubt, intelligence, vision, and the ability to communicate are important. But something big is missing: the know-how of running a business -- the capacity to take it in the right direction, do the right things, make the right decisions, deliver results, and leave the people and the business better off than they were before. For well over four decades, Ram Charan has been learning in the most visceral way the underlying reasons why leaders succeed and fail. As one of the most influential advisers to top management teams of leading companies around the world, he has had a front-row seat to observe the cause and effect of leadership practices and behaviors. Ram Charan’s insight into the real content of leadership provides you with the eight fundamental skills needed for success in the twenty-first century: Positioning (and, when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs and makes money Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others Shaping the way people work together by leading the social system of your business Judging people by getting to the truth of a person Molding high-energy, high-powered, high-ego people into a working team of leaders in which they equal more than the sum of their parts Knowing the destination where you want to take your business by developing goals that balance what the business can become with what it can realistically achieve Setting laser-sharp priorities that become the road map for meeting your goals Dealing creatively and positively with societal pressures that go beyond the economic value creation activities of your business Know-How is the missing link of leadership. By showing how the eight know-hows link to, interact with, and reinforce personal and psychological traits, Ram Charan provides a holistic and innovative portrait of successful leaders of the twenty-first century. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070202-CharanM1.mp3 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:15:00 EST 15:35 author interview, Know-How, Ram Charan, Allan Hunkin Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter How Successful People Become Even More Successful WHAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK? Your hard work is paying off. You are doing well in your field. But there is something standing between you and the next level of achievement. That something may just be one of your own annoying habits. Perhaps one small flaw -- a behavior you barely even recognize -- is the only thing that’s keeping you from where you want to be. It may be that the very characteristic that you believe got you where you are -- like the drive to win at all costs -- is the one that is holding you back. WHO CAN HELP? Marshall Goldsmith is an expert at helping global leaders overcome their sometimes unconscious annoying habits and attain a higher level of success. Named one of the five most-respected executive coaches by Forbes and a top-ten executive educator by the Wall Street Journal, Goldsmith has worked with some of the most influential leaders in Fortune 500 companies. His one-on-one coaching comes with a six-figure price tag. But, in this book, you get Marshall’s great advice without the hefty fee! WHAT IS THE SOLUTION? The Harvard Business Review asked Goldsmith, "What is the most common problem faced by the executives that you coach?" Inside, he answers this question by discussing not only the key beliefs of successful leaders, but also the behaviors that hold them back. He addresses the fundamental problems that often come with success -- and offers ways to attack these problems. Say, for example, you have an extremely loyal and talented staff. You are known for spotting and nurturing talent. Your inner circle of employees regularly gets assigned the plum projects. You may think you are building a solid team, but from the outside looking in, you are encouraging sucking up. You are guilty of Habit #14: Playing favorites. Goldsmith outlines twenty such habits commonly found in the corporate environment and provides a systematic approach to helping you achieve a positive change in behavior. Whether you are near the top of the ladder or still have a ways to climb, this book serves as an essential guide to help you eliminate your dysfunctions and move to where you want to go. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070202-GoldsmithM1.mp3 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:18:00 EST 17:42 author interview, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith, Allan Hunkin Kim Marshall What Satisfied Women and Men Know That No One Talks About The ultimate guide to women’s sexual satisfaction. Traditional sexual intercourse almost always produces an orgasm for men but rarely does for women. This is because most women require sensitive, appropriate and sustained stimulation when they make love. In truth, full satisfaction for both partners is neither easy nor obvious; it doesn’t "come naturally." The Great Sex Secret now comes to the rescue. This much-needed book provides: * three approaches that will fully satisfy both partners during lovemaking, including simultaneous orgasms * a breakthrough for couples in achieving mutual satisfaction and long-term sexual happiness * revolutionary ideas that liberate couples from conventional advice that doesn’t work and helps them communicate about what does work http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070208-MarshallM1.mp3 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:20:00 EST 14:05 author interview, The Great Sex Secret, Kim Marshall, Allan Hunkin Jennifer Ouellette Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of the Buffyverse The Buffyverse is an undeniably bizarre place -- a world where the melding of magic and science is a defining feature, and mystical convergences and otherworldly phenomena are everyday occurrences. Through examples from the hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel -- and the vampires, demons, witches and interdimensional portals therein -- acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ouellette explains complicated principles of biology, chemistry, and theoretical physics. From electricity, conservation of energy, and special relativity to wormholes, black holes, and string theory, The Physics of the Buffyverse provides a serious shot of science for those who prefer their physics with a pop-culture chaser. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070206-OuelletteM1.mp3 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:22:00 EST 13:53 author interview, The Physics of the Buffyverse, Jennifer Ouellette, Allan Hunkin Cris Beam Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in a few hours volunteering at a school for gay and transgender kids while she got settled. Instead, she found herself drawn more deeply than she could ever have imagined into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of them -- Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and Ariel. As she earns their trust she shows us their world, a dizzying mix of familiar teenage drama and far less familiar changes like how to morph your body on a few dollars a day. Funny, heartbreaking, defiant, and sometimes defeated, the girls form a singular community. But they struggle valiantly to resolve the gap between the way they feel inside and the way the world sees them -- and who among us can’t identify with that? Beam’s astute reporting, sensitive writing, and passionate engagement with her characters place Transparent in the ranks of the very best narrative nonfiction. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070206-BeamM1.mp3 Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:24:00 EST 16:49 author interview, Transparent, Cris Beam, Allan Hunkin Robert Crais A Joe Pike Novel The city was hers for a single hour, just the one magic hour, only hers. Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Until out of nowhere a car appears, and with it the metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident. Dazed, Larkin attempts to help the other victims. And finds herself the sole witness in a secret federal investigation. For maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. But by agreeing to cooperate with the authorities, she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. And when the U.S. Marshals and the finest security money can buy can’t protect her, Larkin’s wealthy family turns to the one man money can’t buy -- Joe Pike. Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. He’s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep Larkin alive. The one upside of the job is reuniting with Bud Flynn, Pike’s LAPD training officer, and a man Pike reveres as a father. The downside is Larkin Barkley, who is the uncontrollable cover girl for self-destruction -- and as deeply alone as Pike. Pike commits himself to protecting the girl, but when they immediately come under fire, he realizes someone is selling them out. In defiance of Bud and the authorities, Pike drops off the grid with the girl and follows his own rules of survival: strike fast, hit hard, hunt down the hunters. With the help of private investigator Elvis Cole, Pike uncovers a web of lies and betrayals, and the stunning revelation that even the cops are not who they seem. As the body count rises, Pike’s biggest threat might come from the girl herself, a lost soul in the City of Angels, determined to destroy herself unless Joe Pike can teach her the value of life . . . and love. The Watchman is Robert Crais’s most intense and powerful page-turner to date. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070216-CraisM1.mp3 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:03:00 EST 16:49 author interview, The Watchman, Robert Crais, Allan Hunkin Donna J. Grisanti A Novel On the cusp of World War II, Raine Foster buries her beloved grandmother and flees impending marriage. After faking her own death, she forges another life intertwined with three strangers. Their lie-sealed odyssey encounters forbidden love, racism, natural disaster, and murder. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070308-grisaniM1.mp3 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:41:00 EST 12:29 author interview, Wandering Hearts, Donna Grisanti, Allan Hunkin Gail Godwin A Novel In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flee to the States, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Emma’s avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. By day she toils at the news desk, but she spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel -- and rendezvousing with her married lover Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club. As Emma experiences the historic events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade; a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul; and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emma’s obsession and her alter ego. Like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off balance, Emma’s life is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to remain the protagonist of her own quest. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070228-GodwinM1.mp3 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:42:00 EST 13:22 author interview, Queen of the Underworld, Gail Godwin, Allan Hunkin Brene Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W. Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame Shame manifests itself in many ways. Addiction, perfectionism, fear, and blame are just a few of the outward signs that Dr. Brene Brown discovered in her six-year study of shame’s effects on women. While shame is generally thought of as an emotion sequestered in the shadows of our psyches, I Thought It Was Just Me demonstrates the ways in which it is actually present in the most mundane and visible aspects of our lives -- from our mental and physical health and body image to our relationships with our partners, our kids, our money, and our work. We live in a culture that tells us we must reject our bodies, reject our authentic stories, and ultimately reject our true selves in order to fit in and be accepted. After talking to hundreds of women and therapists, Dr. Brown, in I Thought It Was Just Me, illuminates the myriad shaming influences that dominate our culture, and explains why we are all vulnerable to shame. Outlining an empowering new approach that dispels judgment and awakens us to the genuine acceptance of ourselves and others, I Thought It Was Just Me begins a crucial new dialogue of hope. Through potent personal narratives and examples from real women, Brown identifies and explains four key elements that allow women to transform their shame into courage, compassion, and connection. Shame is a dark and sad place in which to live a life, keeping us from connecting fully to our loved ones and being the women we were meant to be. But learning how to understand shame’s influence and move through it toward full acceptance of ourselves and others takes away much of shame’s power to harm. It’s not just you, you’re not alone, and if you fight the daily battle of feeling like you are -- somehow -- just not "enough," you owe it to yourself to read this book and discover your infinite possibilities as a human being. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070308-brownM1.mp3 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:44:00 EST 30:43 author interview, I Thought It Was Just Me, Brene Brown, Allan Hunkin Dr. Mary S. Furlong How to Profit in the New Boomer Marketplace As they age, America’s 78 million baby boomers will live more active, creative, inventive lives than any generation before them. This represents a truly enormous business opportunity. In this book, the world’s number one authority on marketing to "post-50" baby boomers offers a complete blueprint for profiting from that opportunity. Dr. Mary Furlong reveals breakthrough product and service opportunities, and gives you the tools, resources, techniques, and data you need to capitalize on them. She offers powerful insight into baby boomers’ new lifestage transitions in housing, health, fitness, finances, family, fashion, romance, travel, and work -- and the new brand choices they’re about to make. Throughout, Furlong combines extensive, authoritative market research with inspirational stories about passionate, tenacious entrepreneurs and brand leaders who are blazing new trails in these fast-growing markets. You’ll learn how to segment boomer markets, and identify opportunities to innovate entirely new categories of products and services. You’ll discover which sales and marketing strategies really work, and even uncover opportunities in the surprising worldwide boomer market. Five Trends Shaping the Next Baby Boomer Revolution Global markets, longevity, lifestage transitions, technology, and spirituality From Concept to Product to Financing, and Beyond All you need to execute on your baby boomer product/service opportunity The New Healthcare Revolution, The New Healthcare Business How boomers are using the newest innovations to take control over their health futures Sex and Romance: I’ll Have What She’s Having The new sexual revolution: making it feel like the first time -- or better Choosing Families, Making Connections Powerful new opportunities in helping boomers reach out and connect http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070315-FurlongM1.mp3 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:08:00 EST 18:23 author interview, Turning Silver Into Gold, Dr. Mary S. Furlong, Allan Hunkin Tom Schmitt and Arnold Perl Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results Despite the seemingly endless challenges and pressures in today’s workplace, many people are firm in their resolve to assume leadership roles and make a difference. One of the barriers they face is that there simply isn’t a clear-cut path to follow. This inside look at a uniquely effective style of leadership remedies that and guides the reader along the path taken by these two proven leaders. Written by Tom Schmitt, a longtime FedEx executive, and internationally renowned management attorney and community leader Arnold Perl, Simple Solutions explains how their style of leadership combines tried-and-true tactics that really work with new leadership metrics that are highly effective in today’s high-performance benchmark company. Simplicity is the underlying concept of this style of leadership. The fast-changing and competitive world of business can look exceedingly complex. But Simple Solutions reveals how even the most complex problem can be broken down into simple components and solved using the right tools and the right amount of leadership passion. Great leadership, as revealed here, is both highly practical and deeply inspirational because it mixes logical leadership skills with creativity and personality. Schmitt and Perl include real advice from effective leaders and real case studies that reveal the ins and outs of truly effective corporate leadership. You’ll find expert guidance and real-world insight on making collaboration work, pursuing breakthrough goals, tailoring leadership styles to fit team needs, assembling great teams, and inspiring your people to ever higher levels of success. But this is much more than a guide to leadership theory; not only does Simple Solutions reveal that the art of great leadership can be learned, it also teaches you that art. You’ll learn how to take complex business ideas and turn them into simple solutions and how to apply those solutions to your own organization. You’ll see how the heart of quality leadership is the ability to boil things down to their essence, see issues in their simplest forms, and find the simplest answers to problems. When it comes to leadership, simple is better. If you’re searching for answers in the maze of big business, try these Simple Solutions. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070315-SimpleSolutionsM1.mp3 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:10:00 EST 16:37 author interview, Simple Solutions, Tom Schmitt, Arnold Perl, Allan Hunkin Janet Bond Brill, Ph.D., R.D., LND 10 Simple Steps to Lower Your Cholesterol in 4 Weeks -- Withuot Prescription Drugs Take Control of Your Cholesterol -- Without Drugs If you are one of the nearly 100 million Americans struggling with high cholesterol, then Dr. Janet Brill offers you a revolutionary new plan for taking control of your health -- without the risks of statin drugs. With Dr. Brill’s breakthrough Cholesterol Down Plan, you simply add nine "miracle foods" to your regular diet and thirty minutes of walking to your daily routine. That’s all. This straightforward and easy-to-follow program can lower your LDL ("bad") cholesterol by as much as 47 percent in just four weeks. Cholesterol Down explains Dr. Brill’s ten-point plan as well as the science behind it. You’ll learn how each miracle food affects LDL cholesterol and how the foods work together for maximum effect, as well as: --How eating whole grains helps reduce LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream --Why antioxidants keep plaque from building up in your arteries --How certain steps change the structure of LDL cholesterol particles (and why it’s best for them to be large and fluffy) --Why walking just thirty minutes a day lowers "bad" cholesterol and cuts dangerous belly fat With everything you need to stay focused on the plan, including a daily checklist, a six-month chart for tracking LDL cholesterol changes, tools for assessing your risk level for cardiovascular disease, sample weekly menus, and even heart-healthy recipes, Cholesterol Down is the safe and effective alternative or complement to statin drugs. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070308-brillM1.mp3 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:12:00 EST 14:48 author interview, Cholesterol Down, Janet Bond Brill, Allan Hunkin John Ghazvinian The Scramble for Africa’s Oil Although Africa has long been known to be rich in oil, extracting it hadn’t seemed worth the effort and risk until recently. But with the price of Middle Eastern crude oil skyrocketing and advancing technology making reserves easier to tap, the region has become the scene of a competition between major powers that recalls the nineteenth-century scramble for colonization there. Already the United States imports more of its oil from Africa than from Saudi Arabia, and China, too, looks to the continent for its energy security. What does this giddy new oil boom mean -- for America, for the world, for Africans themselves? To find out, John Ghazvinian traveled through twelve African countries -- from Sudan to Congo to Angola -- talking to warlords, industry executives, bandits, activists, priests, missionaries, oil-rig workers, scientists, and ordinary people whose lives have been transformed -- not necessarily for the better -- by the riches beneath their feet. The result is a high-octane narrative that reveals the challenges, obstacles, reasons for despair, and reasons for hope emerging from the world’s newest energy hot spot. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070322-GhazvinianM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:39:00 EST 15:02 author interview, Untapped, John Ghazvinian, Allan Hunkin Benjamin Black A Novel In the debut crime novel from Booker Award winner John Banville, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society. Quirke and Malachy Griffin were raised as brothers, though Quirke -- rescued from an Irish orphanage by Malachy’s father, the eminent Judge Garrett Griffin -- was always the favored son. But Malachy married the American girl Quirke loved, and Quirke settled for her sister, who died in childbirth soon thereafter. Malachy went on to become a prominent obstetrician and Quirke a hard-drinking pathologist, and for the past twenty years the two have coexisted uneasily as brothers-in-law as well as rivals. Then one night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down to the morgue and discovers Malachy altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find him there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted, Quirke begins to suspect that his brother-in-law was in fact tampering with a corpse -- and concealing the cause of death. It turns out the body belonged to a young woman named Christine Falls. And as Quirke reluctantly presses on toward the true facts behind her death, he comes up against some insidious and very well guarded secrets of Dublin’s high Catholic society -- which includes members of the Griffin family. But when he is urged -- at first subtly and then with considerable violence -- to probe no further, he nevertheless finds himself drawn inexorably down a trail that leads him across the ocean to Boston, and deep into his own past. The first novel in the Quirke series brings all the vividness and psychological insight of Booker Prize winner John Banville’s fiction to a thrilling, atmospheric crime story. Quirke is a fascinating and subtly drawn hero, Christine Falls is a classic tale of suspense, and Benjamin Black’a debut marks him as a true master of the form. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070316-BlackM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:40:00 EST 14:01 author interview, Christine Falls, Benjamin Black, Allan Hunkin Elizabeth Cunningham The Beginning In this Celtic wonder tale, prequel to Elizabeth Cunningham’s acclaimed novel, The Passion of Mary Magdalen, Maeve and Jesus, brimming with youthful charm and arrogance, find each other and fall in love, forging a bond that is stronger than death. Born to eight warrior-witches on one of the Shining Isles of the Celtic Otherworld, Maeve is trained in her mothers’ heroic arts and raised on colorful tales of her conception that agree on one point only: her father is a god, Manannan Mac Lir, no less, the god of the sea. When the Cailleach, an ancient wise woman, foresees a great, if perilous, destiny for Maeve in the wider world, Maeve’s mothers reluctantly agree to send her to be trained as a bard at the famous Druid College on the Isle of Mona (Anglesey). Maeve departs eagerly, longing to find the Mysterious Other she has glimpsed only in vision and dream. Driven by his own dreams and prophecies, a young Jew from Galilee, known to the Celts as Esus, also gains admission to the college. From the start, the two are sparring partners, by turns delighting and outraging each other with their opposing views on just about everything. The pleasure of their early exploration is soon overshadowed. Maeve draws the attention of Lovernious, a brilliant but unbalanced druid with a secret he’s kept buried -- until Maeve unwittingly awakens his memory. But it is Esus, a stranger called by the name of a sacrificial Celtic god, who becomes the ultimate object of the druid’s dangerous obsession. Tensions mount between Lovernious and the lovers, even as hostilities escalate between the free Celtic tribes of Britain and the Romans across the channel in occupied Gaul. Disaster looms on all fronts. But our Maeve was not raised as a hero for nothing. New readers and Maeve mavens alike will be moved by the tale of this young woman’s courage, her bold determination to save the life of the one she loves, at whatever cost to herself. Outrageous, funny, full of heart, in Magdalen Rising Maeve grows into the woman who will become Mary Magdalen, whose passion will take her all the way to the Cross and beyond. Writing in the visionary tradition of C.S. Lewis, Cunningham brings fresh meaning to the concept on incarnation and opens our eyes to life on this earth, a place alive with magic and rich with divine and human mystery. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070316-CunninghamM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:41:00 EST 14:36 author interview, Magdalen Rising, Elizabeth Cunningham, Allan Hunkin Richard Moss, MD Discovering the Power of Awareness Practical Guidelines for Living More Completely In the Now The Mandala of Being shows us why and how we habitually obstruct our innate potential for what Richard Moss calls radical aliveness, a life of authenticity, overflowing energy, and joy. In these pages, Richard Moss gives us an effective practice that is readily incorporated into day-to-day life. It illustrates that there are in fact only four places our minds ever go when we leave the Now -- the past, the future, judgments of ourselves, and judgments of others. It allows us to trace precisely the path we have taken away from our most authentic and essential being whenever we are not fully present, and simultaneously shows us the way home. Drawing from his profound self-realization and more than three decades of working with people of diverse backgrounds, Richard Moss accompanies and encourages the reader on a journey toward freedom from fear and any other limiting or threatening feeling. Deep self-understanding, inner ease, spontaneous healing, more fulfilling relationships, and enhanced creativity are all wonderful blessings that can arise from reading and reflecting on The Mandala of Being. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070322-MossM1.mp3 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:07:00 EST 18:00 author interview, Mandala of Being, Richard Moss, Allan Hunkin Jon Gordon 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy It’s Monday morning and George walks out of the front door to his car and a flat tire. But this is the least of his problems. His home life is in shambles and his team at work is in disarray. With a big new product launch coming in two weeks for the NRG-2000, he has to find a way to get it together or risk losing his marriage and job. Forced to take the bus to work, George meets a unique kind of bus driver and an interesting cast of characters who, over the course of two weeks, share the ten rules for the ride of his life. In the process, they help him turn around his work and life, saving his job and marriage from destruction. In the style of other bestselling business fables, The Energy Bus takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals ten secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment -- at work and at home. Everyone faces challenges. And every person, organization, company, and team has to overcome negativity and adversity to define themselves and create their success. No one goes through life untested and the answer to these tests is positive energy -- the kind of positive energy that consists of the vision, trust, optimism, enthusiasm, purpose, and spirit that defines great leaders and their dreams. Drawing upon his experience and work with thousands of leaders, sales professionals, teams, nonprofit organizations, schools, and athletes, Gordon infuses this engaging story with keen insights, actionable strategies, and a big dose of positive infectious energy. For managers and team leaders or anyone looking to turn negative energy into positive achievement, The Energy Bus provides a powerful plan for overcoming common life and work obstacles and bringing out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus, you’ll enjoy the ride of your life. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070320-GordonM1.mp3 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:09:00 EST 19:30 author interview, Jon Gordon, The Energy Bus, Allan Hunkin Arianna Huffington . . . in Love, Work, and Life Observing that her teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her -- how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up? -- Arianna Huffington set out to explore the ways in which fear affects all our lives. In stories drawn from her own experiences and from the lives of other women, she celebrates the moments of extraordinary strength, courage, and resilience that result from overcoming fear. Her inspiring book shows how all of us can become bold from the inside out -- whether our goal is feeling comfortable in our own skin, getting what we want in love or at work, or changing the world. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070323-HuffingtonM1.mp3 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:17:00 EST 14:46 author interview, Arianna Huffington, On Becoming Fearless, Allan Hunkin D.L. Wilson A Novel A Hidden Gospel Throughout the centuries, it was shrouded in mystery, entrusted to a precious few. But now the guardians of what has become known as the secret gospel are mysteriously dying -- their bodies scarred with the stigmata. A Secret Unveiled A series of French articles -- supposedly based on the writings of Jesus’s brother James -- has revealed that the descendants of Christ exist to this very day. A Man’s Revenge Now, one man has taken the name of the archangel Gabriel and has embarked on a quest to protect Christianity’s innocence by eliminating all who could expose the secrets of the gospel -- and its connection to the Holy Grail . . . http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070222-WilsonM1.mp3 Tue, 3 Apr 2007 11:32:00 EST 13:01 author interview, D.L. Wilson, Unholy Grail, Allan Hunkin Nancy C. Widmann, Elaine J. Eisenman, Ph.D., Amy Dorn Kopelan The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Avoid Being Blindsided in Business How to use smart strategy and political savvy to control and direct your success in business. I Didn’t See It Coming provides critical counsel and keen observation on how all employees can develop strategic insights, effective tools, and sharp instincts for reading the room and controlling their own career destiny. Fast trackers, top performers, and managers at every level are often too busy to notice when their jobs are on the line. This insightful guidebook shows readers how to spot the danger signs, see red flags, and wage a successful campaign to win in business. For anyone in a dicey situation -- even if they don’t know it yet -- this is the ultimate guide for surviving when the time bombs begin ticking. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070339-IDidNotSeeM1.mp3 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:07:00 EST 25:29 author interview, Nancy Widmann, Elaine Eisenman, Amy Dorn Kopelan, I Didn’t See It Coming, Allan Hunkin Laura George Attract the Work You Want The Secret to Attract the Work You Want Positive Feelings + Effective Job Search = The Perfect New Job! New York Times best-selling author Lynn Grabhorn’s Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting showed half a million readers how to "magnetize" their emotions to draw their desires to them. Now, human resource manager Laura George applies Grabhorn’s powerful Law of Attraction to the life experiences of both losing and getting a job. George captures the style and substance of Excuse Me and helps you identify the qualities you want in a job. She then shows you how to flip the negative feelings you may be carrying ("the economy is terrible"; "I can’t believe I got laid off!"; "I’m too old!") so you can stay focused and upbeat, and draw that perfect job to you. Plus, she shares the one secret that will put you ahead of the rest: Finding the perfect job isn’t all based on logic and luck. In Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting, Laura George: Uncovers a 4-step process for identifying the qualities you want in a job Reveals how to decide if a company’s energy is right for you Discloses how to turn negative emotions into positive ones Shows how to infuse your resume and interview with your positive energy Helps you stay focused and upbeat to draw that perfect job to you Debates the big step -- Is it time to start your own business? http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070329-GeorgeM1.mp3 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:02:00 EST 17:50 author interview, Excuse Me Your Job Is Waiting, Laura George, Allan Hunkin Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery and Mark Thompson Creating a Life that Matters Imagine discovering what successful people have in common, distilling it into a set of simple practices, and using them to transform your company, your career, and your life. Authored by three thought leaders in organizational development and self-improvement -- including Built to Last coauthor Jerry Porras -- it challenges conventional wisdom at every step. Success Built to Last draws on face-to-face, unscripted conversations with hundreds of remarkable human beings from around the world. Meet billionaires, CEOs, presidents of nations, Nobel laureates, and celebrities. Meet unsung heroes who’ve achieved lasting impact without obvious power or charisma. Famous or not, almost all started out ordinary. Above all, discover why successful people stay successful and how you can too. Why it’s so damn hard to do what matters -- and what you can do about it See what you have in common with people who have impacted the world we live in, such as Nelson Mandela, Charles Schwab, and Maya Angelou Learn how these enduringly successful people harvested their victories and failures and found the courage to follow their passions http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070329-ThompsonM1.mp3 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:05:00 EST 28:27 author interview, Success Built to Last, Jerry Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson, Allan Hunkin Atul Gawande A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance The bestselling author of Complications examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in a complex and risk-filled profession. The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is the drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with every decision. In his new book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and actual performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable. Gawande’s gripping stories of diligence, ingenuity, and what it means to do right by people take us to battlefield surgical tents in Iraq, labor and delivery rooms in Boston, a polio outbreak in India, and malpractice courtrooms around the country. He discusses the ethical dilemmas of doctors’ participation in lethal injections, examines the influence of money on modern medicine, and recounts the astoundingly contentious history of hand washing. And as in all his writing, Gawande gives us an inside look at his own life as a surgeon, offering a searingly honest firsthand account of work in a field where mistakes are both unavoidable and unthinkable. At once unflinching and compassionate, Better is an exhilarating journey narrated by "a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye" (Time). Gawande’s investigation into medical professionals and how they progress from good to great provides rare insight into the elements of success, illuminating every area of human endeavor. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070412-GawandeM1.mp3 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:50:00 EST 14:34 author interview, Better, Atul Gawande, Allan Hunkin Marlene Zuk Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites that Make Us Who We Are Did You Know . . . that sufferers from some intestinal diseases can find relief by eating worms? that households that use antibacterial products end up with just as many colds and cases of the flu as those who don’t? that hairlessness in humans may have evolved because it gave parasites fewer places to hide? that early exposure to germs actually helps to protect us against food allergies and asthma? We treat disease as our enemy, and germs and infections as things we battle. But what if we’ve been giving them a bum rap? In this witty, engaging book, evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk makes us rethink our instincts as she argues that disease is our partner, not our foe. From the earliest days of life on earth, when parasites spurred the creation of complex life forms, disease has evolved alongside us, becoming not only natural but essential to our health. Drawing on the latest research and most unusual studies, Zuk explains the role of disease in answering a fascinating range of questions: Why do men die younger than women? Why are we attracted to our mates? Why does your average male bird not have a penis? Why do we -- as well as insects, birds, pigs, cows, goats, and even plants -- get STDs? Why do vultures have yellow heads and roosters have red wattles? Why do we have sex at all, rather than simply splitting off copies of ourselves like certain geckoes do? And how is our obsession with cleanliness making us sicker? Using her own work on sexual selection as well as an amazing sampling of stories from the natural world, Zuk makes us reconsider the fearful parasite. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070405-Zuk.mp3 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:52:00 EST 13:07 author interview, Riddled with Life, Marlene Zuk, Allan Hunkin Missy Chase Lapine Simple Strategies for Hiding Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals If you think your kids will never eat anything healthy -- think again! Learn how to make the meals your children already love -- but with secret sneaky ingredients that pack a healthy punch. Your kids will never suspect that there’s blueberries pureed into their brownies, cauliflower in their mac ’n’ cheese, or sweet potatoes in their lasagna -- but they’ll love every bite! Here are simple, practical recipes and techniques that will help every busy parent create healthy meals for the whole family. "Sneaky" recipes include: Masterful Mac ’n’ Cheese Power Pizza Incognito Burritos Hi-Fi Fish Sticks Guerilla Grilled Cheese Brainy Brownies 5-minute quick fixes for Jello and other kid-popular mixes And much more! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070412-LapineM1.mp3 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:54:00 EST 17:56 author interview, Sneaky Chef, Missy Chase Lapine, Allan Hunkin Thomas O’Callaghan Thomas O’Callaghan drew rave reviews for Bone Thief, his chilling debut. In his riveting new thriller, a diabolical killer is terrorizing New York City . . . John Driscoll has laid the ghosts of his past to rest. He’s ready to start over -- both personally and as an NYPD homicide commander. But it seems that a serial killer has other plans for Driscoll. The victims’ bodies are found, brutally mutilated and carefully arranged for the world to see -- grotesque visions to all except for the depraved killer, who considers them masterpieces. These blood rituals spell out a message to Driscoll. And they are just the beginning . . . Driscoll’s investigation will lead him down the darkest of journeys, toward an evil beyond his worst nightmares. In a hellish landscape conceived by the all-too-clever mind of a twisted schemer, Driscoll must play a killer’s deadly game. It’s up to him to save his city -- or die trying. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070419-OCallaghanM1.mp3 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:29:00 EST 16:21 author interview, Thomas O’Callaghan, The Screaming Room, Allan Hunkin Lynn Grabhorn The Astonishing Power of Feelings never before told, because it was never before known In an upbeat, humorous, and somewhat irreverent style, Lynn Grabhorn introduces us to the amazing Law of Attraction, a new and rapidly unfolding realm of feelings that physicians, scientists, physicists, and theologians are coming to believe is very, very real . . . Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting clarifies why most of our dreams have never materialized, why the majority of us have lived with all-too-empty bank accounts, tough relationships, failing health, and often spiritually unfulfilling lives. Most importantly, in an easy-to-read style peppered with logical explanations, simple steps, and true-life examples, Lynn Granhorn shows us how to turn it all around -- right now. The most unconscious thing we do all day long is what actually creates and molds every moment of every day of our lives. And what is this "thing" that governs us so forcefully? Feelings! Grabhorn reveals how our feelings make our lives what they are -- not positive thinking, or sweat and strain, or good or bad luck, or even smarts, but feelings: good ones, bad ones, down ones, and all the ones in between. Until now, we have run our lives on a default setting, manifesting experiences by happenstance rather than intent. Now, with no effort other than paying attention to how we’re feeling, the play becomes our own deliberate creation, and the world becomes our oyster. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070419-GrabhornM1.mp3 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:31:00 EST 21:26 author interview, Lynn Grabhorn, Excuse Me Your Life Is Waiting, Allan Hunkin Vince Thompson Managers! Light Up Your Company and Career for More Power, More Purpose, and More Success Have you ever been maligned, misunderstood, downsized, reengineered, reorganized, or even misled? Even in the best organizations, you face brutal competition, non-stop pressure, and relentless change. Ignited reveals the gathering forces that will offer you unprecedented opportunities to reshape your career and organization. It outlines clear, realistic steps for leveraging your networks and resources to transform your vision into reality, and accomplish powerful goals only you can achieve. This is not another diatribe on leadership or grand strategic vision written by those already at the top: the Jack Welches or Rudy Giulianis who can simply dictate their visions to the organization. Ignited is for those leading from the middle: managers who need real tools to make a real difference. If you’re ready to take back your business, your career, and your life, Ignited is for you. More Power Learn how to lead in a limited space Power up your network, expand your influence Overcome the traps of time, powerlessness, and negative emotions Drive meaningful strategic change across your company and industry More Purpose Harness the power of seven key ignition points for achieving your highest purpose Accomplish the powerful goals you’re uniquely positioned to achieve Master the new roles of linkmaker, process master, pilot, healer, bard, scout, and translator Connect your personal passions with your company’s goals More Success Master a system for selling your vision, and succeeding with the projects you’re most passionate about Live your best life, not just your company’s http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070412-ThompsonM1.mp3 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:33:00 EST 13:47 author interview, Ignited, Vince Thompson, Allan Hunkin Joy Bauer, MS, RD, CDN with Carol Svec Treat Common Health Concerns, Look Younger and Live Longer You’ve known it all along: your health is directly related to what you eat. But did you know that bothersome symptoms, life-threatening diseases, and other health concerns can be managed, treated, and even cured by the foods you eat? Joy Bauer is one of the country’s foremost nutritionists. In this book, she has distilled the very best of her practice and expertise, combined with cutting-edge research, into 4-step user-friendly programs. You will learn to use food as nature’s medicine -- without giving up your favorite meals and snacks. In addition, Joy Bauer’s Food Cures includes: Easy-to-follow 4-step food prescriptions for treating common ailments like arthritis and IBS; reducing cholesterol and blood pressure; improving your skin and hair; managing chronic conditions like diabetes, osteoporosis, migraines, PMS -- and more! Customizable and convenient meal plans with realistic options like Chinese Takeout and Cheddar Burger. Delicious recipes like Sour Cream Coffee Cake, Rosemary Chicken, and Vidalia Sweet Potatoes. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/070418-BauerM1.mp3 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:00 EST 16:44 author interview, Joy Bauer’s Food Cures, Joy Bauer, Carol Svec, Allan Hunkin Adrian J. Slywotzky with Karl Weber The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs How to turn your greatest threat into your biggest growth opportunity Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning, such as How to change the odds for your next major initiative and create potential industry breakthroughs, as Toyota did with its expanding universe of Prius vehicles. Shape and exploit risk, don’t be shaped by it. Become a knowledge-intensive business and continually increase the knowledge gap between yourself and rivals, as Coach and Tsutaya of Japan have convincingly done. A category killer can’t kill what’s not in its category. When basketball legend Bill Russell faced a taller, stronger Wilt Chamberlain, he led the Celtics to victory by inventing a different game. The same thinking lets Target prosper in a Wal-Mart world -- and can help you outcompete the "unbeatable" rival in your own industry. When you come to a fork in the road -- take it! Only a fraction of companies survive when industries experience technological or strategic transitions. To be a survivor, learn the secret that enabled Microsoft to weather the advent of the Internet -- the art of the double bet. Stuck in a business box? Find the bigger box -- and then the biggest. When growth stagnates, capture more of your customer’s dollars through demand innovation and big-box thinking, as companies from Continental AG and Ikea to Procter and Gamble have done. Your competitors can also be your greatest enablers of profit. Stop competing yourself to death! The key is knowing when to compete and when to collaborate, as Apple has shown with its revolutionary approach to the music business. In the 1980s conventional wisdom was that you could have high quality or low cost, but not both -- until Japanese makers of cars and electronics showed otherwise. Now, high quality and low cost are required just to enter the marketplace. Today, we face a similar paradox when it comes to risk and reward. Rather than shrink from the high risk so integral to the tumultuous global economy, Adrian Slywotzky shows how it can be your greatest source of growth and future reward. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/HBR_IdeaCast_39.mp3 Wed, 9 May 2007 11:05:00 EST 16:55 author interview, The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky, Karl Weber Minna Lessig Tighten and Tone Your Body in as Little as 10 Minutes a Day This time, it’s your turn. Show off your arms with tank tops and spaghetti straps. Bare your belly with a bikini. Wear boy shorts on the beach. It’s your turn, thanks to this fun and energizing plan from esteemed fitness trainer Minna Lessig. With Minna’s 30-day program, you’ll learn the most effective, time-saving, and body-sculpting moves to tone your trouble spots. No more boring crunches, lunges, and curls. With influences from hip-hop dancing, ballet, gymnastics, yoga, and Pilates, Minna’s moves are exciting and fresh, keeping you motivated and ready to sculpt a sexy, bikini-ready body. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070526-LessigM1.mp3 Thu, 10 May 2007 15:06:00 EST 15:54 author interview, Tank Top Arms, Bikini Belly, Boy Shorts Bottom, Minna Lessig, Allan Hunkin Stephen Marshall The New Liberal Menace in America Forget the neoconservatives. As the Democrats retake Washington and progressives think they can pull the U.S. back from the brink, Stephen Marshall’s up close and personal investigation finds that the biggest threat to Western democracy is the U.S. liberal elite. In the tradition of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Marshall, Sundance-award winning director and cofounder of Guerrilla News Network, hits the road and travels from the front lines of the Iraq War, through the wasteland of the former communist Eastern bloc, into a coke-dusted sex party of Britain’s intellectual elite, and into the minds of America’s most influential liberal figures. Marshall recounts his meetings and conversations with Christopher Hitchens, Gore Vidal, David Horowitz, Lewis Lapham, John Avlon, the Economist’s John Micklethwait, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger and bestselling authors Naomi Klein, Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and John Perkins. He finds that American liberals have dumped the ’60s era radicalism of their youth and become complicit in a complex game of bait-and-switch, selling the world a vision of liberal democracy in which they, in fact, no longer believe. Have liberals buckled under the pressure of America’s declining fortunes and taken on the role of good cop to the conservatives’ bad? http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070503-MarshallM1.mp3 Fri, 11 May 2007 08:44:00 EST 18:59 author interview, Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing, Stephen Marshall, Allan Hunkin Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? In this terrifically insightful and engaging book, renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look at how the brain is wired for self-justification. When we make mistakes, we must calm the cognitive dissonance that jars our feelings of self-worth. And so we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility, restoring our belief that we are smart, moral, and right -- a belief that often keeps us on a course that is dumb, immoral, and wrong. Backed by years of research, Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) offers a fascinating explanation of self-deception -- how it works, the harm it can cause, and how we can overcome it. Turn the page, but be advised: You will never be able to shun blame quite so casually again. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070503-TavrisM1.mp3 Fri, 18 May 2007 12:28:00 EST 24:54 author interview, Mistakes Were Made, Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson, Allan Hunkin Anthony F. Smith The 10 Secrets No One Will Tell You About Leaders and What They Really Think Most experts on leadership would have us believe that successful leaders are superhuman beings who are humble servants, have hearts of gold, and are motivated by the needs of their employees and shareholders. That’s because no one’s been telling the truth about leadership . . . Most leaders who make it to the top possess characteristics that are all too human: they have politically incorrect attitudes, are conflicted, and play politics to get their way. Written by leading management consultant Anthony F. Smith, The Taboos of Leadership reveals the rarely discussed realities of leadership -- the secrets that leaders just cannot admit publicly for fear of losing power, self-respect, or even their jobs. This revelatory book will help both leaders and followers achieve real understanding and co-create a two-way street culture of openness, trust, and improved performance in their organizations. The Taboos of Leadership discloses ten guarded secrets that leaders can’t discuss, even with their closest constituents, including: charisma shouldn’t make a difference . . . but it does; women make better leaders . . . when that’s what they really want to do; blatant self-interest is dangerous . . . in followers, not leaders; thou shalt not play favorites with friends and family . . . except when it makes a lot of sense; and more. Using real, in-the-trenches stories from Fortune 500 companies, Smith shows that once leaders and followers acknowledge the existence of a taboo in the workplace, they can then consider its positives and negatives. Leaders can determine if an existing taboo is hurting the organization or if it serves a useful purpose. If the taboo serves a useful purpose, they can consider ways to preserve it. If not, it should be pruned back and weeded out, allowing an organization and its leaders and followers to grow in a new way. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070503-SmithM1.mp3 Fri, 18 May 2007 12:31:00 EST 30:17 author interview, Taboos of Leadership, Anthony Smith, Allan Hunkin William Ury How to Say No and Still Get to Yes From the coauthor of Getting To Yes -- the world’s bestselling book on negotiation , with over 5 million copies in print -- comes a revolutionary new book that can teach everyone . . . The Power of a Positive No How to Say No and Still Get to Yes No is perhaps the most important and certainly the most powerful word in the language. Every day we find ourselves in situations where we say No -- to people at work, at home, and in our communities -- because No is the word we must use to protect ourselves and to stand up for everything and everyone that matters to us. But as we all know, the wrong No can also destroy what we most value by alienating and angering people. That’s why saying No the right way is crucial. The secret to saying No without destroying relationships lies in the art of the Positive No, a proven technique that anyone can learn. This indispensable book gives you a simple three-step method for saying a Positive No. It will show you how to assert and defend your key interests; how to make your No firm and strong; how to resist the other side’s aggression and manipulation; and how to do all this while still getting to Yes. In the end, the Positive No will help you get not just to any Yes but to the right Yes, the one that truly serves your interests. Based on William Ury’s celebrated Harvard University course for managers and professionals, The Power of a Positive No offers concrete advice and practical examples for saying No in virtually any situation. Whether you need to say No to your customer or your coworker, your employee or your CEO, your child or your spouse, you will find in this book the secret to saying No clearly, respectfully, and effectively. In today’s world of high stress and limitless choices, the pressure to give in and say Yes grows greater every day, producing overload and overwork, expanding e-mail and eroding ethics. Never has No been more needed. A Positive No has the power to profoundly transform our lives by enabling us to say Yes to what counts -- our own needs, values, and priorities. Understood this way, No is the new Yes. And the Positive No may be the most valuable life skill you’ll ever learn! http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070510-UryM1.mp3 Mon, 21 May 2007 10:03:00 EST 17:01 author interview, Power of a Positive No, William Ury, Allan Hunkin R. Donahue Peebles with J.P. Faber Tales and Tactics from an Entrepreneur’s Life of Winning Deals, Succeeding in Business, and Creating a Fortune from Scratch At the tender age of nineteen, Donahue Peebles entered the business jungle with no resources beyond his native smarts, a decent education, and a powerful drive to succeed. Seven years later he became a multimillionaire. Today, with a net worth of more than a quarter-billion dollars, he commands a real estate empire stretching from the boulevards of Washington, D.C., to the sparkling beaches of Miami Beach to the glitzy strips of Las Vegas. How did this determined young entrepreneur achieve such spectacular success so quickly? Can others learn his secrets and emulate his accomplishments? Can you? Part The Art of the Deal and part Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun, The Peebles Principles distills the lessons Mr. Peebles has learned on his journey from congressional page to CEO of the largest Black-owned real estate development firm in the nation. These crisp, straightforward principles can help any motivated entrepreneur go from dirt poor to filthy rich in a hurry. In entertaining first-person accounts of his most important deals, Mr. Peebles reveals how each transaction required him to find new resources within himself to ensure its success. Through this process, he discovered valuable principles that would aid him in all of his future endeavors. Some lessons are motivational and inspirational; many are hardball business how-to’s that apply in any industry and any type of transaction. Key Peebles Principles include: Make your money going into the deal Control of the deal is more important than cash Being lucky means being ready If the key doesn’t fit, change the lock Be a bulldog on details Listen to your first instinct Respond quickly to attacks Find out what the other side really wants and give it to them Turn vinegar into wine; setbacks are opportunities in disguise Seeing value is everything Be the last man standing Colorful and detailed behind-the-scenes accounts of each transaction provide a real-world business context for each principle and show you how to apply them in practice. Complete with a unique discussion of the importance of politics in business and how to make it work in your favor, The Peebles Principles is the indispensable resource for anyone eager to turn dreams of business success into reality very, very fast. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070517-PeeblesM1.mp3 Mon, 21 May 2007 10:06:00 EST 32:48 author interview, Peebles Principles, R. Donahue Peebles, Allan Hunkin David Verklin and Bernice Kanner Inside the 300 Billion Dollar Business Behind the Media You Constantly Consume Who decides what you see on TV, hear on the radio, click on the Web, or read in a magazine? And who pays for it? Authors David Verklin, CEO of one of the world’s largest media-buying agencies, and marketing expert Bernice Kanner are going to tell you. In Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here, they draw the curtain back to expose the money, personalities, and politics that control the billion-dollar business behind the media you constantly consume. Back when three networks dominated broadcast TV and the Internet was something only computer geeks had heard of, reaching consumers was easy. Companies could place an ad in a magazine or buy some time on TV or the radio and be sure that millions of captive consumers would know about their product -- whether they wanted to or not. But cable, the Internet, and other forces are breaking that audience down into ever-smaller groups interested in niche topics. And the media industry is responding in fascinating ways. Rather than advertise to everyone, today’s marketers have become much more savvy, targeting smaller groups with special interests across a much larger range of media. Their success at finding the audience has made media buyers -- the professionals who buy ad space and decide which ads go in what media in which concentrations -- the kings of media. This is where Verklin’s company, and others like it, come in. Marketing and advertising are changing rapidly. Where they go from here and how they will affect our lives and reflect our values in the future is the basis of this book. You’ll learn the real reason your favorite shows get cancelled, why Oprah gives away Pontiacs to audience members, why billboard advertising is actually on the rise, how technology is growing the TV audience, and other changes brought about by the decisions made by those who control what we watch, click, see, and hear every day. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070510-VerklinM1.mp3 Thu, 24 May 2007 08:39:00 EST 14:52 author interview, Watch This Listen Up Click Here, David Verklin, Bernice Kanner, Allan Hunkin Marcus Mabry Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power Perhaps no American leader is better known and less understood than Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Beyond the dramatic story of her past -- her ascent from segregated Alabama to the halls of power -- and the controversy of her present, little is known about her as a woman, and while she has broken barriers and achieved extraordinary success, she is also one of the most polarizing figures of our time. Rice embodies contradiction. As an African American girl growing up in the South when the civil rights movement was at its most tumultuous and inspiring, her own views on race are complex. While she has benefited from advances in civil rights legislation and evolving acceptance of blacks, hers has been a singularly individualistic rise, the product of her parents’ determination to make her "special." Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power is the first biography of Rice to reveal the private woman behind the public image. Bringing his superlative skills as a journalist to bear on this most intriguing of subjects, Newsweek chief of correspondents Marcus Mabry chronicles the fascinating story of Rice’s life so far: from her childhood in Alabama and Colorado -- where she loved ice skating and playing the piano -- to her discovery of international affairs at the knee of Madeleine Albright’s father, Josef Korbel, to her role in taking America to war in Iraq. What drove her to the fateful decisions that the United States and the world are now living with? How will history judge her and what awaits her after her service to George W. Bush? Mabry answers these questions in a deeply nuanced portrait of a driven woman of many contradictions whose power is vast -- and still growing. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070510-Mabry-M1.mp3 Fri, 25 May 2007 15:11:00 EST 26:55 author interview, Marcus Mabry, Twice as Good, Allan Hunkin Cam Marston Manage Across the GEnerational Divide and Increase Profits All generations are not alike. While Baby Boomers base their vision of professional success on climbing hierarchical corporate ladders, Gen-X and New Millennial workers view success quite differently. These younger workers care little for tradition, placing a higher value on individuality, personal freedom, and the professional flexibility and creativity it takes to succeed in a globalized economy. This generational divergence creates a communication challenge for many of today’s managers. The promise of slowly climbing the company ladder no longer has the motivational force it once did, and the traditional management structure is quickly slipping into obsolescence. Younger workers are less loyal to their organizations, quicker to adapt to cultural and technological changes, and more possessive of their free time. In Motivating the "What’s In It For Me?" Workforce, Cam Marston reveals how to diffuse the conflict between managers with one set of expectations and employees with another. He shows managers how to deal with differing generational expectations regarding promotions, incentives, recognition, and prioritizing of work itself, bridging the gap between managers raised in one tradition and workers raised in another. Based on his long experience consulting with and interviewing managers and workers of every age, Marston provides detailed guidance on motivating every employee to achieve peak performance -- no matter what generation they belong to. Packed with guidance on bringing the generations together to achieve organizational success, this practical guide offers concrete steps for solving generational problems in any workplace. It takes more to motivate today’s "What’s In It For Me?" workforce, but connecting with younger generations is vital for any manager’s success -- as well as any organization’s. Marston helps you bridge that gap, so you can get more out of every worker, no matter their age and attitude. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070525-Marston-M1.mp3 Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:23:00 EST 17:14 author interview, Cam Marston, Motivating the What’s In It for Me Workforce, Allan Hunkin Joe Calloway The Joy, Jazz, and Kick of Being Better Tomorrow Than You Were Today A guide to creating joyful success in work and in life What the world needs is more showoffs. Showing off is a good thing. Showing off is a mindset. Showing off is about living life and doing work in a way that creates joy, jazz, and a kick in our lives and in the lives of those around us. This is a business book for everyone from executives and managers to receptionists and sales clerks. Here’s the key: success is an inside job. After 26 years of studying and working with top performers, Joe Calloway shares the key factors in creating success -- without pulling any punches. Work Like You’re Showing Off! isn’t for sissies; it’s a tough, realistic approach to getting the most out of life by giving more to others. This book proves that not only is "working like you’re showing off" the smartest way to get ahead in a career, it’s also the most joyful and rewarding way to live. Work Like You’re Showing Off! explores the four commitments that lead to personal and professional success: Commitment to action: Stop talking about it and do it Commitment to improvement: Either get better or quit Commitment to connection: Connect with coworkers and friends Commitment to purpose: Look beyond the job to the purpose of work http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070524-Calloway-M1.mp3 Thu, 7 Jun 2007 10:26:00 EST 14:08 author interview, Joe Calloway, Work Like You’re Showing Off, Allan Hunkin Charlotte Mathes Moving from Despair to Meaning After the Death of a Child Jungian psychoanalyst Charlotte Mathes suffered a parent’s worst nightmare -- the death of her child. In this book, she describes her struggle to find meaning and wholeness in one of the most shattering of experiences. That journey led her to Jungian archetypal psychology and to a heartfelt desire to help others come to terms with the profound sense of grief and loss that follows such an event. As she tells her story of "personal knowing from walking the path of mother grief," Dr. Mathes establishes a background that guides the reader through the steps and archetypes that mark the process of mourning. Through personal experience, myth, and stories, she shows how one can gain a renewed sense of inner and outer wholeness in life. This invaluable guide will help parents discover the "myth" they have been living and find ways to greater self-awareness, understanding, and wisdom. It also offers practical resources such as movies, books, and music that help parents regain perspective and learn how and where to reach out for help. Dr. Mathes’s profound psychological perspective puts it all together in a holistic way that is accessible and helpful in a time of personal tragedy. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070524-MathesM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:37:00 EST 14:17 author interview, Charlotte Mathes, And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart, Allan Hunkin Brent Ghelfi A Novel The explosive debut introducing Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy -- not since Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne has a hero shifted so effortlessly between hunter and hunted A firefight reverberates through Moscow’s dark, rain-soaked streets; shattered glass and screams echo in the air. In the lawless ways of Russia’s capital city, the gunmen melt away into the night. Two men are dead, the targets not what they seem. A shadowy figure lopes along the riverbank outside the Kremlin walls. Known to all as Volk, a battle-hardened veteran of Russia’s brutal war in Chechnya, he prowls Moscow’s grim alleyways, a knife concealed in his prosthetic foot at all times. As both a major player in the black market and a covert agent for the Russian military, Volk serves two masters: Maxim, a psychotic Azeri mafia kingpin with hordes of loyal informers; and a man known only as the General, to whom Volk is mysteriously indebted. By his side is Valya, an exotic beauty charged with protecting her lover from his unsavory associates. Valya is the most dangerous weapon in Volk’s arsenal. Together they are commissioned to steal a long-lost da Vinci painting called Leda and the Swan from St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum. Leda’s ethereal radiance is undeniably captivating and incalculably dangerous. Volk must choose which powerful man he will betray in order to escape with the painting -- and with his life. With the high-octane rush and vivid intensity of a feature film, Volk’s Game delivers at every turn, announcing Alexei Volkovoy as the boldest hero of a new generation. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070531-GhelfiM1.mp3 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:45:00 EST 13:28 author interview, Brent Ghelfi, Volk’s Game, Allan Hunkin Peter Pagnamenta and Momoko Williams A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman A True-Life Madame Butterfly The Rise and Fall of a Romance Between Two People and Two Nations This is the true story of an extraordinary love affair that began when a young Army officer fell in love with a Japanese woman in the early years of the twentieth century. An astonishing story of enduring love and great loss, Sword and Blossom is based on a treasure trove of more than eight hundred letters that chronicle Arthur Hart-Synnot and Masa Suzuki’s attempts to make a life together despite long periods of separation, racial prejudice, and political turbulence. Their doomed relationship, like that of their countries, was part of a confused age of extremes and contradictions, of violence and beauty, and of destinies etched out amid the conflicts of their day. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070531-WilliamsM1.mp3 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:05:00 EST 11:28 author interview, Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams, Allan Hunkin Marc Freedman Finding Work That Matters in the Second Half of Life Beverly Ryder left a corporate career to work on revitalizing the Los Angeles public schools. Robert Chambers left his job as a used car salesman to create a better way for poor people in New Hampshire to buy fuel-efficient cars. Ed Speedling left thirty years as a hospital executive and academic to help solve the problem of homelessness in Philadelphia. In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women’s movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work. If the old golden years dream was the freedom from work, the dream of this new wave is the freedom to work -- in new ways, on new terms, to new and even more important ends. Encore tells the stories of Ryder, Speedling, Chambers, and other encore career pioneers who are not content, or affluent enough, to spend their next thirty years on a golf course. These men and women are moving beyond midlife careers yet refusing to phase out or fade away. They are searching for a calling in the second half of life, crafting a new phase of work that offers not only continued income but the promise of more meaning -- and the chance to do work that means something beyond themselves. As their numbers swell, these individuals stand to transform the nature of work in America. They also hold the potential to create a society that balances the joys and responsibilities of contribution across the generations -- in other words, one that works better for all of us. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070601-FreedmanM1.mp3 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:08:00 EST 19:42 author interview, Marc Freedman, Encore, Allan Hunkin Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin A Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms Who Want to Return to Work Do I list "stay-at-home mom" on my resume? How can I find a family-friendly office? Should I return to my old field, or go in a new direction? If you’re a stay-at-home mom considering going back to work, these are some of the questions that have likely come to mind. Returning to the workforce can be a daunting prospect. It requires reigniting old contacts (including those with coworkers once your junior), marketing yourself strategically, and building confidence -- whether you’ve been out of the workforce for two, six, or fifteen years. Carol Fishman Cohen and Vivian Steir Rabin understand, because they’ve been there. As Harvard MBAs who successfully relaunched their own careers after staying home full-time with their children, they know it can be done -- with careful planning, strategizing, and creativity. Now, in Back on the Career Track, they offer a prescriptive, seven-step program that includes: Assessing career options and updating job skills Networking and preparing for interviews Getting the family on board. Packed with expert advice from career counselors and recruiters, and insightful stories from others who have been through the process, this book also offers an inside look at what employers and universities are doing to help relaunchers today -- including how many businesses are recognizing them as valuable assets. Frequent speakers to women’s groups, professional schools, and corporations, Cohen and Rabin provide a thorough, unique program from two experts on the topic of career reentry. Back on the Career Track is sure to become the classic guide in the field. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070604-CareerM1.mp3 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:52:00 EST 21:58 author interview, Carol Fishman Cohen, Vivian Steir Rabin, Back on the Career Track, Allan Hunkin Ted Kerasote Lessons from a Freethinking Dog Merle and Ted found each other in the Utah desert. Merle was about ten months old, surviving on his own, and looking for someone to hang his heart on. Ted was forty-one, liked to write about animals, and had been searching for a pup whom he could shape into a companion. The training went both ways. Ted showed Merle how to live around wildlife, and Merle reshaped Ted’s ideas about the complexity of a dog’s mind by showing him how a dog’s intelligence could be expanded by allowing it to make more of its own decisions. Acting as Merle’s translator, and using Merle’s life and lessons as a door into the world of dogs, Ted Kerasote takes us on the journey they shared. He explores why the dog-human bond is so intense and how people and dogs can communicate readily with each other. He also uses the latest wolf research -- showing that wolves treat maturing pups as partners rather than as subordinates -- to explain how sharing leadership with your dog, rather than being its alpha, can help to create a healthier, more self-reliant, and better-socialized companion. Funny, fascinating, and tender, Merle’s Door is a moving love story that reveals how the partnership between dogs and humans can become far more than we have imagined. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070614-KerasoteM1.mp3 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:52:00 EST 16:21 author interview, Merle’s Door, Ted Kerasote, Allan Hunkin Jean Pfaelzer The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans The brutal and systematic "ethnic cleansing" of Chinese Americans in California and the Pacific Northwest in the second half of the nineteenth century is a shocking -- and virtually unexplored -- chapter of American history. Driven Out unearths this forgotten episode in our nation’s past. Drawing on years of groundbreaking research, Jean Pfaelzer reveals how, beginning in 1849, lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians purged dozens of communities of thousands of Chinese residents -- and how the victims bravely fought back. In town after town, as races and classes were pitted against one another in the raw and anarchic West, Chinese miners and merchants, lumberjacks and field-workers, prostitutes and merchants’ wives, were gathered up at gunpoint and marched out of their homes, sometimes thrown into railroad cars along the very tracks they had built. Here, in vivid detail, are unforgettable incidents such as the torching of the Chinatown in Antioch, California, after Chinese prostitutes were accused of giving seven white boys syphilis, and a series of lynchings in Los Angeles bizarrely provoked by a Chinese wedding. From the port of Seattle to the mining towns in California’s Siskiyou Mountains to "Nigger Alley" in Los Angeles, the first Chinese Americans were hanged, purged, and banished. Chinatowns across the West were burned to the ground. But the Chinese fought back: They filed the first lawsuits for reparations in the United States, sued for the restoration of their property, prosecuted white vigilantes, demanded the right to own land, and, years before Brown v. Board of Education, won access to public education for their children. In order to starve out towns that tried to expel them, Chinese Americans organized strikes and refused to sell vegetables. They ordered arms from China and, with Winchester rifles and Colt revolvers, defended themselves. In 1893, more than 100,000 Chinese Americans refused the government’s order to wear photo identity cards to prove their legal status -- the largest mass civil disobedience in United States history to that point. Driven Out features riveting characters, both heroic and villainous, white and Asian. Charles McGlashan, a newspaper editor, spearheaded a shift in the tactics of persecution, from brutality to legal boycotts of the Chinese, in order to mount a run for governor of California. Fred Bee, a creator of the Pony Express, became the Chinese consul and one of the few attorneys willing to defend the Chinese. Lum May, a dry goods store owner, saw his wife dragged from their home and driven insane. President Grover Cleveland, hoping that China’s 400,000 subjects would buy the United States out of its economic crisis, persuaded China to abandon America’s Chinese in return for a trade treaty. Quen Hing Tong, a merchant, sought an injunction against the city of San Jose in an important precursor to today’s suits against racial profiling and police brutality. In Driven Out, Jean Pfaelzer tells the unknown story of immigrants who, under assault, stood up for their own civil rights and the civil rights of others. This is an account of racial pogroms, purges, roundups, and brutal terror, but also a record of valiant resistance and community. This deeply resonant and eye-opening work documents a significant and disturbing episode in American history. It is a story that defines us as a nation and marks our history and humanity. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070524-PfaelzerM1.mp3 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:53:00 EST 18:55 author interview, Driven Out, Jean Pfaelzer, Allan Hunkin Timothy Hallinan A Thief, found dead in an alley. A Man, disappeared from a city that never knew he existed. A Boy, grievously hurt, who everyone called Superman. Bangkok, the glittering center of a country full of ghosts. Travel writer Poke Rafferty is good at looking for trouble -- so good he makes his living writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored. His Looking for Trouble series is for travelers obsessed with the unusual: how to beat official foreign-exchange rates; how to spot fake amber or counterfeit money; how much to bribe a cop; how to identify a transvestite before it’s too late; and how to know, within an hour of arriving in a strange city, where to find the best bars, the best clubs, the best food, the best clothes, and the dodgiest entertainment at the best prices. Then Rafferty falls in love with Rose, an ex-Patpong Road bar girl, and he badly wants to be a part of her new life. Both Rose and Bangkok itself have stolen his heart. To complete his new family, Rafferty is in the process of adopting a wary eight-year-old street child -- one of the many casualties of Thailand’s poverty -- when trouble comes looking for him. First he takes in another orphan, a troubled and terrifying street urchin nicknamed Superman. Then he agrees to find a distraught woman’s missing uncle, a task that seems simple enough given the uncle’s predilections for just the kind of shadowy places Rafferty knows well. Finally, in a moment of weakness, he accepts an old woman’s generous payment in exchange for locating a blackmailing thief. Soon, these three seemingly disparate events begin to overlap, pulling Rafferty deeper into dark, unfamiliar terrain, and he begins to realize that some people guard unspeakable secrets that don’t always show on their faces -- and that all this time he’s been gliding across the surface of a culture he doesn’t understand. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070614-HallinanM1.mp3 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:01:00 EST 15:11 author interview, A Nail Through the Heart, Timothy Hallinan, Allan Hunkin Daniel Yankelovich The New Stage of Market Capitalism This wise and optimistic book examines the scandals that plague American corporations today and shows how companies can reverse the discouraging trend. New laws won’t solve the problem, writes Daniel Yankelovich, a social scientist and experienced boardroom member, but business leaders have an opportunity to rebuild an ethic of corporate stewardship. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070622-YankelovichM1.mp3 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:42:00 EST 32:09 author interview, Profit with Honor, Daniel Yankelovich, Allan Hunkin Alafair Burke In this electrifying thriller, a rookie detective goes undercover on the internet dating scene to draw out a serial killer targeting single women in Manhattan. When two young women are murdered on the streets of New York, exactly one year apart, Detective Ellie Hatcher is called up for a special assignment on the homicide task force. The killer has left behind a clue connecting the two cases to FirstDate.com, a popular online dating service, and Flann McIlroy, an eccentric, publicity-seeking homicide detective, is convinced that only Ellie can help him pursue his terrifying theory: Someone is using the lure of the Internet and the promise of love to launch a killing spree against the women of New York City. To catch the killer, Ellie must enter a high-tech world of stolen identities where no one is who they appear to be. And for her, the investigation quickly becomes personal. She fits the profile of the victims, and she knows firsthand what pursuing a sociopath can do to a cop -- back home in Wichita, Kansas, her own father lost his life trying to catch a notorious serial murderer. When the FirstDate killer begins to mimic the monster who destroyed her father, Ellie knows the game has become personal for him, too. Both hunter and prey, she must find the killer before he claims his next victim -- who could very well be herself. Expertly plotted and perfectly paced, Dead Connection catapults Alafair Burke to the front ranks of American thriller writers, and introduces the dynamic Ellie Hatcher to readers eager for a young, fresh heroine in the gritty world of the NYPD. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070613-BurkeM1.mp3 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:06:00 EST 14:28 author interview, Dead Connection, Alafair Burke, Allan Hunkin Ann Brashares (of You and Me) In the town of Waterby on Fire Island, the rhythms and rituals of summer are sacrosanct: the ceremonial arrivals and departures by ferry; yacht club dinners with terrible food and breathtaking views; the virtual decree against shoes; and the generational parade of sandy, suntanned kids, running, swimming, squealing, and coming of age on the beach. Set against this vivid backdrop, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is the enchanting, heartrending story of a beach-community friendship triangle among three young adults for whom summer and this place have meant everything. Sisters Riley and Alice, now in their twenties, have been returning to their parents’ modest beach house every summer for their entire lives. Petite, tenacious Riley is a tomboy and a lifeguard, always ready for a midnight swim, a gale-force sail, or a barefoot sprint down the beach. Beautiful Alice is lithe, gentle, a reader and a thinker, and worshipful of her older sister. And every summer growing up, in the big house that overshadowed their humble one, there was Paul, a friend as important to both girls as the place itself, who has now finally returned to the island after three years away. But his return marks a season of tremendous change, and when a simmering attraction, a serious illness, and a deep secret all collide, the three friends are launched into an unfamiliar adult world, a world from which their summer haven can no longer protect them. Ann Brashares has won millions of fans with her blockbuster series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, in which she so powerfully captured the emotional complexities of female friendship and young love. With The Last Summer (of You and Me), she moves on to introduce a new set of characters and adult relationships just as true, endearing, and unforgettable. With warmth, humor, and wisdom, Brashares makes us feel the excruciating joys and pangs of love -- both platonic and romantic. She reminds us of the strength and sting of friendship, the great ache of loss, and the complicated weight of family loyalty. Thoughtful, lyrical, and tremendously moving, The Last Summer (of You and Me) is a deeply felt celebration of summer and nostalgia for youth. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070521-BrasharesM1.mp3 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:49:00 EST 13:12 author interview, The Last Summer, Ann Brashares, Allan Hunkin J. Ruth Gendler An Intimate Look at an Essential Quality Beauty builds bridges and makes connections between the senses and the soul, between contemplation and expression, between ourselves and the world. In this wide-ranging and deeply felt book, J. Ruth Gendler invites us to reclaim the often misunderstood quality of beauty as one of the most profound forces in our lives. Drawing on observations from art and nature, contemporary culture and personal experience, Gendler looks at her subject in its most generous implications -- not simply as a reflection of surface and image, but as a pathway to wholeness, integrity, coherence, and ultimately, to love. Written with curiosity, courage, a discerning eye and a lyrical sensibility, and illustrated with evocative line drawings, Notes on the Need for Beauty displays the strong personal voice that has made Gendler’s previous book, The Book of Qualities, so beloved. It is a work to savor and to share. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070705-GendlerM1.mp3 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:20:00 EST 20:38 author interview, Notes on the Need for Beauty, J. Ruth Gendler, Allan Hunkin Debra Finerman A Novel Love and Art Create Lasting Impressions When Victorine Laurent joins the chorus of the grand Paris Opera ballet, she expects to become the mistress of a wealthy man; this is how young women without family survive in the decadent City of Light. Yet when the artist Degas introduces her to Edouard Manet, her life changes dramatically. She agrees to pose for him, and the result is a painting that shocks Paris. Overnight, Victorine becomes the city’s most sought after courtesan. When she becomes the favorite of the Duke de Lyon, the power behind the shaky government of Emperor Louis-Napoleon, her continued attraction to Manet becomes dangerous to them both. And when an astonishing secret from Victorine’s past comes to light, her carefully constructed world may come crashing down around her. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070705-FinermanM1.mp3 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:24:00 EST 11:38 author interview, Mademoiselle Victorine, Debra Finerman, Allan Hunkin Aurelie Sheehan A Novel In 1975, Alison Glass, age thirteen, moves to Connecticut with her bohemian parents and her horse, Jazz. Shy, observant, and in a back brace for scoliosis, Alison finds strength in an unlikely friendship with Kate Hamilton, the charismatic but troubled daughter of an egomaniacal new age guru and his substance-loving wife. As the sincere but misguided "Women of History" plan the town’s bicentennial (complete with red, white, and blue Porta-Potties), the girls escape into the world of their horses, seeking refuge from the chaos in their lives. Set against the backdrop of the disturbingly reckless and often hilariously tacky 1970s, History Lesson for Girls is a coming-of-age story rich in humor and heartbreak, and an elegy to a friendship that meant everything. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070712-SheehanM1.mp3 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:51:00 EST 15:34 author interview, History Lesson for Girls, Aurelie Sheehan, Allan Hunkin Dina Koutas Poch Falling in Love with His Family -- One Passive-Aggressive, Over-Indulgent, Grandkid-Craving, Streisan-Loving, Bible-Thumping In-Law at a Time A practical, laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your man’s family -- from your first date to your firstborn Girlfriends, fiancees, and wives, rejoice! Here, at last, is THE guidebook for practical advice about in-laws. A road map. A beacon of hope and light when, for the fiftieth time, you’ve told your in-laws what you do at your high-tech company and that your name is Christy, not Crispy. Mirroring the natural progression of a relationship and incorporating interviews from women just like you, this hilarious, savvy guide will help you survive holidays, weddings, new babies, and the day your in-laws retire to the house next door because "it’s a great real estate investment." Discover a wide array of sanity-retention techniques and tips on scoring major points with each and every in-law. Learn how to sweet-talk his sister, mollify his mother, and defuse potentially explosive situations -- like when your pumpkin pie gives Nana a bad case of hives. Offering handy translation charts with curse words in Irish and compliments in Portuguese, a list of gifts and how to interpret their hidden meanings, tips for reclaiming the holidays one Labor Day at a time, and your very own In-Law Vacation Playbook, I Heart My In-Laws embodies the old saying, "It’s funny because it’s true." http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070712-PochM1.mp3 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:53:00 EST 14:22 author interview, I Heart My In-Laws, Dina Koutas Poch, Allan Hunkin Jonathan Selwood A Novel Life -- Or An Amazing Facsimile -- In Postearthquake, Preapocalypse L.A. For years, painter Isabel Raven has made an almost-living forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not-quite-Sotheby’s-auction rich. But when she serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the "It Girl" of the L.A. art scene, her career takes off just as the rest of her life heads south. Her personal-chef boyfriend is having a wild sexual dalliance with the teenage self-styled "Latina Britney Spears." If Isabel refuses to participate in an excruciatingly humiliating ad campaign, her sociopathic art dealer is threatening to "gut her like an emu." And her reclusive physicist father has conclusively proven that the end of the world is just around the corner. Now, with the Apocalypse looming -- and with only a disaffected Dutch-Eskimo billionaire philanthropist and his dissolute thirteen-year-old adopted daughter to guide her -- there’s barely enough time remaining for Isabel to reexamine her fragile delusional existence . . . and the delusional reality of her schizophrenic native city. The story continues at www.isabelraven.com, where you can view some of Isabel’s art, and find out how and when exactly the world will end at www.pinballapocalypse.com. For more information, please visit www.jonathanselwood.com. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070719-SelwoodM1.mp3 Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:43:00 EST 15:17 author interview, The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse, Jonathan Selwood, Allan Hunkin Neal Thompson A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina "There’s always a point in the season when you’re faced with a challenge and you see what you’re capable of. And you grow up." --J. T. Curtis, head coach, John Curtis Christian School Patriots On Saturday, August 27, 2005, the John Curtis Patriots met for a grueling practice in the late summer New Orleans sun, the air a visible fog of humidity. They had pulled off a 19-0 shutout in their preseason game the night before, but it was a game full of dumb mistakes. Head coach J. T. Curtis was determined to drill those mistakes out of them before their highly anticipated next game, which sportswriters had dubbed "the Battle of the Bayou," against a big team coming in all the way from Utah. As fate played out, that afternoon was the last time the Patriots would see one another for weeks; some teammates they’d never see again. Hurricane Katrina was about to tear their lives apart. Hurricane Season is the story of a great coach, his team, his family, and their school -- and a remarkable fight back from shocking tragedy. The Patriots are a most unlikely football dynasty from a small, nondescript, family-run school, the buildings constructed by hand by the school’s founding patriarch. In this era of high school football as big business with 20,000-seat stadiums, John Curtis has no stadium of its own. The team plays an old-school offense, and Coach Curtis insists on a no-cut policy, giving every kid who wants to play a chance. As of 2005, they’d won nineteen state championships in Curtis’s thirty-five years of coaching, making him the second most winning high school coach ever. J. T. Curtis has honed to a fine art the skill of teaching players how to transcend their natural talents. No screamer, he strives to teach kids about playing with purpose, the power of respect, dignity, poise, patience, trust in teamwork, and the payoff of perseverance, showing them how to be winners not only on the gridiron but in life, and making boys into men. Hurricane Katrina would put those lessons to the test of a lifetime. Hurricane Season is a story of football and faith, and of the transformative power of a team that rises above adversity, and above its own abilities, to come together again and prove what they’re made of. It is the gripping story of how, as one player put it, "football became my place of peace." http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070726-ThompsonM1.mp3 Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:45:00 EST 15:45 author interview, Hurricane Season, Neal Thompson, Allan Hunkin Douglas R. Andrew It’s Not Too Late to Become Wealthy Wouldn’t it be great if you heard some good news for a change about planning for your retirement? Wouldn’t it be even more amazing if you learned that you didn’t need to pay down your mortgage . . . and that there’s a better way to save beyond a 401(k) plan? And wouldn’t it be over the top of you could find a way to transform your home’s equity into a retirement package that could allow your golden years to be truly golden, including a vacation home? Sound too good to be true? Welcome to a new approach to retirement planning. The time has come for you to read bestselling financial author Douglas Andrew’s explosive new book. The Last Chance Millionaire Regardless of whether you’re retiring in just a few years or retirement is still down the road. Andrew’s well-researched financial strategies will turn everything you’ve heard about retirement planning upside down. One of the nation’s leading financial experts, Douglas Andrew will teach you totally unexpected methods for gaining the financial independence you want: Learn how buying that dream vacation home can actually be one of your shrewdest retirement investments. Learn how to dramatically increase your spendable income using maximum tax-advantage life insurance. Discover the three marvels of wealth accumulation -- and how to put them to work for you. Learn why your home equity is a hidden gold mine of tax-favored wealth. With clear language and a wealth of contrarian financial knowledge, this book is the definitive retirement guide for the baby boomer generation. So don’t settle for living off Social Security of your taxed-to-death 401(k) -- read this book and enjoy your best years while securing your financial future for yourself and your loved ones. There are lots of books on retirement planning -- but this one is different! Isn’t it time you became a Last Chance Millionaire? http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070719-AndrewsM1.mp3 Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:52:00 EST 18:05 author interview, The Last Chance Millionaire, Douglas Andrew, Allan Hunkin Stephen H. Baum with Dave Conti How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders Surprisingly, it’s not about education or pedigree or even native smarts. Most of us are like jack welch, who started life as a lowercase guy, the son of a railroad conductor, but went on to become the most celebrated and successful executive of recent years. Sure, Jack Welch -- and lots of other people like him -- are smart and talented, but there are countless people even smarter and more talented who stall out on the way up. Something else is going on. What is it, and what can the rest of us learn from such people to improve our own chances of accomplishment? Stephen Baum uncovers not only the business secrets of prominent CEOs but their inner stories as well. He ferrets out the real men and women behind public personas, learning about life-shaping experiences they all have in common that turn out to be the foundation for true success in career and in life. Baum has gotten them to recall key moments they hadn’t thought about for years, as well as the fears, emotions, and learning they’ve experienced during moments of challenge and doubt. The seminal events are "archetypal shaping experiences" -- critical and often unexpected learning moments when future leaders take advantage of challenges thrown in their path: -When you take calculated personal risks without the safety net of specific instructions on how to proceed. -When you are clueless about how to solve a knotty problem but dive in and prepare yourself to work through it. -When you learn to swim in water over your head, make the tough choice, get good on your feet, or are forced to take a hard look in the mirror. These character-building moments engender an inner core of toughness and confidence that is the real key to leadership in any business or endeavor -- they are what made jack welch . . . Jack Welch. Stephen Baum provides an entirely new way of thinking about how to fulfill your dreams and aspirations. You’ll come away the feeling that "if they can do it, so can I" . . . and that is the first step on the journey to becoming extraordinary, awakening the JACK WELCH that lives in each of us -- just waiting to take us further than anyone could have predicted. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070726-BaumM1.mp3 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:24:00 EST 18:19 author interview, What Made jack welch Jack Welch, Stephen H. Baum, Allan Hunkin Hanna Rosin A Christian College on a Mission to Save America Since 2000, America’s most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation’s capital. Most of them are homeschoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average American teenager to shame. At "God’s Harvard" they are groomed to become tomorrow’s elite. Diplomas in hand, they are dispatched to the front lines of politics, entertainment, and science, where they will lead the battle to take back a godless nation. Hanna Rosin spent a year and a half embedded at the college, following students from the campus to the White House, Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other centers of influence. Her account captures this nerve center of the evangelical movement at a moment of maximum influence and also of crisis, as it struggles to avoid the temptations of modern life and still remake the world in its own image. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070808-RosinM1.mp3 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:35:00 EST 15:06 author interview, God’s Harvard, Hanna Rosin, Allan Hunkin Gabrielle Walker Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere In 1960 Captain Joseph Kittinger fell to earth from the edge of space and lived. He jumped from the basket of a gigantic helium balloon into an appalling, hostile environment that, without the protection of a pressure suit, would have simultaneously frozen his body and boiled away his blood. But the air that Kittinger fell through is what makes our lives on earth possible. Air is about more than just breathing. Air miraculously transforms into solid food, and without it every creature on earth would starve; it wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth; the floating mirror of metal in the air allows radio signals to bounce around the world; and the outer layer of our atmosphere shields us from sun flares that are more violent than all the world’s nuclear warheads put together. In this exuberant work, Gabrielle Walker peels back the layers of our atmosphere with stories of the people who uncovered its secrets: A flamboyant Renaissance Italian discovers how heavy our air really is: The air filling Carnegie Hall, for example, weighs seventy thousand pounds. -A one-eyed barnstorming pilot finds giant rivers of air that blow five miles above our heads with the force of a hurricane. -An impoverished American farmer figures out why storms move in a circle by carving equations with his pitchfork on a barn door. -A well-meaning but ill-fated inventor creates wonder chemicals that nearly destroy the ozone layer (he also came up with the idea to put lead in gasoline). -A reclusive mathematical genius with a predilection for painting his toenails cherry red figures out the technology that allowed the rescue of passengers on the Titanic. An Ocean of Air is a triumphant celebration of the Earth’s atmosphere and a completely engaging work of popular science. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070809-WalkerM1.mp3 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:45:00 EST 12:25 author interview, An Ocean of Air, Gabrielle Walker, Allan Hunkin William Cope Moyers My Story of Addiction and Redemption One evening in 1994, William Cope Moyers was lying flat on his back on the floor of an Atlanta crack house at the end of a four-day cocaine binge while his father, veteran journalist Bill Moyers, frantically searched for him. In this haunting memoir, William shares the incredible and harrowing story of how he got from there to where he is today -- a recovered addict and family man who has dedicated himself to those who continue to struggle with the merciless influence of addictive drugs. Candid, shocking, and unforgettable, Broken is a clear-eyed, unromanticized tale that offers hope for all those wrestling with addiction and has already inspired thousands of people to step forward and ask for help. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070816-MoyersM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:46:00 EST 24:37 author interview, Broken, William Cope Moyers, Allan Hunkin Alan Alda On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has written Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funny look at some of the impossible questions he’s asked himself over the years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even mean?) http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070823-AldaM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:50:00 EST 20:48 author interview, Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself, Alan Alda, Allan Hunkin Rick Atkinson The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 In the second volume of his epic trilogy about the liberation of Europe in World War II, Rick Atkinson tells the harrowing story of the campaigns in Sicily and Italy. In An Army at Dawn -- winner of a Pulitzer Prize -- Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and then, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north toward Rome. The Italian campaign’s outcome was never certain; in fact, Roosevelt, Churchill, and their military advisers engaged in heated debate about whether an invasion of the so-called soft underbelly of Europe was even a good idea. But once under way, the commitment to liberate Italy from the Nazis never wavered, despite the agonizingly high price. The battles at Salerno, Anzio, and Cassino were particularly difficult and lethal, yet, as the months passed, the Allied forces continued to drive the Germans up the Italian peninsula. Led by Lieutenant General Mark Clark, one of the war’s most complex and controversial commanders, American officers and soldiers became increasingly determined and proficient. And with the liberation of Rome in June 1944, ultimate victory at last began to seem inevitable. Drawing on a wide array of primary source material, written with great drama and flair, this is narrative history of the first rank. With The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson has once again given us the definitive account of one of history’s most compelling military campaigns. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070823-AtkinsonM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:00:00 EST 22:18 author interview, The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson, Allan Hunkin Andromeda Romano-Lax In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local land-owner’s wrath threatens his family, he Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he meets up with the charming and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz and begins the lifelong friendship and rivalry that will orchestrate a tumultuous course for them both. As a war-torn world careens toward catastrophe, they make splendid music together and clash over women, politics, and almost everything else. Then Aviva, an Italian violinist with a haunted past, enters their lives, and Feliu and Justo embark upon their final and most dangerous collaboration. Inspired by the life of Pablo Casals and with appearances by Pablo Picasso, Bertolt Brecht, and others who wrestled with the competing demands of art and conscience during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, "The Spanish Bow" is a deeply imagined tale of the passions that accident bestows -- and the sacrifices history exacts. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070823-LaxM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:05:00 EST 12:56 author interview, The Spanish Bow, Andromeda Romano-Lax, Allan Hunkin Christine Comaford-Lynch How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality Renegade entrepreneur -- and runaway success story -- Christine Comaford-Lynch has lived the kind of life most of us can only dream about. From model to monk to multimillionaire, she does what she wants -- and gets things done. Now, in ten outrageous life lessons, she’ll show you how to make your dreams come true. Your way. Your rules. Rules for Renegades distills what Christine has learned as she succeeded (and failed) in business, built strong relationships (and some disasters), and evolved spiritually and professionally. If you want to become financially independent, she’ll show you how to do it. If you want to build your confidence and self-esteem, she’ll give you a crash course. If you want a meaningful life full of rich connections, she’ll share her secrets. Ultimately, she lets you in on the greatest secret of all -- how to build a fulfilling life while rocking your career. She has also filled her book with lots of cool free stuff: links to a sample business plan outline, tutorials on sales and marketing techniques, and tools to help you enhance your own power. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070823-LynchM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:08:00 EST 17:43 author interview, Rules for Renegades, Christine Comaford-Lynch, Allan Hunkin Robert Greer When Cornelius McPherson, a former highway maintenance man, finds himself trapped in a tunnel he helped create decades earlier, he’s horrified to discover the well-preserved, frozen arm of a fellow worker. McPherson remembers a secret the man whispered to him -- that he knew who assassinated John F. Kennedy. When McPherson also turns up dead, CJ Floyd steps in to sort out the details, in the process going on his own hunt for the presidential assassin. CJ’s journey is retrospective trek that has him fielding CIA plots, mafia dons, and Cuban conspirators. But it’s not until he realizes that there were two attempts on Kennedy’s life prior to his actual assassination in 1963 -- one in Chicago and one in Tampa -- that he’s able to hone in on who might have really killed the president. The investigation takes him from the pristine mountains of Colorado to the muggy swamps of Louisiana, and ultimately leads him to a grieving, long-silent, Louisiana backwoods Creole mother who may hold the key to what happened. Robert Greer brings his trademark complex but never confusing plot, colorful cast of characters, and stylistic brio to one of America’s enduring mysteries in this dazzling whodunit. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070906-GreerM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:17:00 EST 12:34 author interview, The Mongoose Deception, Robert Greer, Allan Hunkin Mark Tungate A Global History of Advertising The worldwide spend on advertising currently stands at over US$400 billion a year, and -- love it or hate it -- it has an immense impact on our lives. But where did it all start? Who are the big players now? Adland is the first book to explore the development of advertising from an international perspective. Delving into the origins of modern advertising, it moves forward to examine the evolution of the current global advertising landscape, with all its rivalry and consolidation. Mark Tungate has conducted dozens of interviews with the leading names in the ad business: from hard-bitten survivors of the golden age to today’s hotshot creative directors. Their first-hand accounts of life are at the heart of Adland. He tramps Madison Avenue in the footsteps of creative legends Bill Bernbach and David Ogilvy, and gets inside giant Tokyo agency Dentsu. Along the way he finds the answers to questions such as: - What was it like to work in Manhattan in the 1950s or London in the 1980s? - How has advertising contributed to popular culture? - How did the dotcom boom and bust change the face of the industry? - Can TV advertising survive the digital revolution? - What will the agency of the future look like? http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070906-TungateM1.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:25:00 EST 18:47 author interview, Adland, Mark Tungate, Allan Hunkin Harry I. Freund A Novel On his way to a department store on 57th Street in Manhattan, 64-year-old businessman Irving Caldman is waiting at the intersection of Park Avenue with three other pedestrians when a driver, asleep at the wheel, jumps the curb and ends all their lives. The next thing Irving knows, he is no longer preparing for a trip to Paris with his wife. Instead, he is watching four faces as they ascend, presumably to Heaven, on their way to be greeted by the angel Malakh. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070920-FreundM1.mp3 Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 16:08 author interview, I Never Saw Paris, Harry I. Freund, Allan Hunkin Michael A. Singer The Journey Beyond Yourself What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space or you’ve devoted your life to the inward journey, this book will transform your relationship with yourself and the world around you. The Untethered Soul begins by walking you through your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, helping you uncover the source and fluctuations of your inner energy. It then delves into what you can do to free yourself from the habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit your consciousness. Finally, with perfect clarity, this book opens the door to a life lived in the freedom of your innermost being. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070920-SingerM1.mp3 Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 34:52 author interview, The Untethered Soul,Michael A. Singer, Allan Hunkin Bill Yenne The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint Guinness Stout has a unique place in global beverage folklore. It’s a beer with a long and colorful history and mythology that maintains a passionate following among beer connoisseurs the world over. Indeed, two billion pints are poured and enjoyed around the world each year. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070927-YenneM1.mp3 Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 15:28 author interview, Guinness,Bill Yenne, Allan Hunkin Jane May Hooked The moment Clarence "Woody" Woods, assistant dock master at Miami’s exclusive Trade Winds Yacht Club, sets eyes on waitress Madalina Dragoi, he falls head over heels in love. As bad luck would have it, Madalina is smitten too -- with Todd Hollingshead, a wealthy, suave club regular. Woody has no problem handling the sleek, multi-million dollar sailing vessels that dock at Trade Winds, but when it comes to winning a woman like Madalina, he could use a little help. Who knew it would arrive in the form of the enchanted fish he catches one afternoon? Before Woody can write off the talking tuna as a sun-induced hallucination, this unlikely benefactor is granting Woody’s every wish, allowing him to sweep Madalilne off her feet and into the sunset. At least that’s how things were supposed to work out. Now, as Woody is about to discover, fairy tales aren’t what they used to be -- and fate has a way of writing its own version of happily-ever-after . . . http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/070927-MayM1.mp3 Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 15:38 author interview, Hooked,Jane May, Allan Hunkin Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes Finally, a crash course in philosophy via jokes. Gags really do explain the meaning of it all in this lively book, loaded with one-liners, vaudeville humor, cartoons, and even a limerick or two. Harvard philosophy majors Tom Cathcart and Dan Klein are your emcees on this hilarious yet profound tour de farce through Western philosophy, covering such topics as: Logic Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything! Existentialism You haven’t lived until you think about death all the time. Ethics The Sopranos’ contribution to the Golden Rule. Language It all depends on what your definition of "is" is. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071004-PlatypusM1.mp3 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 19:58 author interview,Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ,Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, Allan Hunkin Hector V. Barreto The Secrets to Small Business Success from Entrepreneurs Who Have Made It! A lifelong entrepreneur, the second longest serving administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the son of small business owners Hector Barreto has been involved in small business nearly all his life. He has seen firsthand how the small business sector drives a strong and growing American economy. In The Engine of America, Barreto reveals his personal and professional insights, and those of many of America’s most innovative entrepreneurs, on why some small businesses succeed while others fail. This book explains how you can join the ranks of successful business owners. Each year, millions of entrepreneurs start new businesses. Unfortunately, too many fail -- even when owners are passionate, driven, and dedicated. The most obvious culprit is the failure to plan thoroughly. The Engine of America presents the tools and knowledge you need to plan adequately, avoid common pitfalls, and follow proven paths to success. Whether you already own a small business, head a growing business, or are just starting to research a new venture, you’ll find expert practical and motivational guidance to reach your ultimate dream. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071004-BarretoM1.mp3 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 18:20 author interview, The Engine of America ,Hector V. Barreto, Allan Hunkin William Bonner and Lila Rajiva Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics Collectively, people think and act in ways that are different from how they think and act as individuals. Understanding these differences, says William (Bill) Bonner -- a longtime maverick observer of the financial world and the vagaries of the investing public -- is vital to preserving your wealth and personal dignity. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071011-BonnerM1.mp3 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 32:25 author interview, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets,William Bonner and Lila Rajiva, Allan Hunkin Michael A. Stusser Conversations with 45 of the Most Accomplished, Notorious, and Deceased Personalities in History Ever wanted to ask Napoléon about his complex for Van Gogh about the whole ear episode? How about asking Thomas Jefferson about his hypocritical slavery stance or if Frida might consider a brow wax? Here’s your chance! In The Dead Guy Interviews, modern-day journalist Michael Stusser chats with forty-five of the most famous personalities of all time, asking them probing and illuminating questions about their lives, conquests, and what’s on their iPods. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071011-StrussermMixed1.mp3 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 16:13 author interview,Dead Guy Interviews,Michael A. Stusser, Allan Hunkin Lise Alschuler, ND, and Karolyn A. Gazella An Integrative Approach to Prevention, Treatment, and Healing he first layperson’s guide to using natural nutritional supplements to support conventional cancer therapy, the Definitive Guide to Cancer encourages an integrative approach that embraces both alternative and conventional therapies in the battle against cancer. Naturopathic physician Lise Alschuler and medical journalist Karolyn A. Gazella present in-depth discussions of twenty specific cancers, empowering stories from cancer patients and their caregivers, as well as their own firsthand experiences with the disease. This comprehensive guide evaluates and recommends effective strategies for reclaiming your vitality in the midst of cancer treatment. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071004-AlschulerM1.mp3 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 21:25 author interview, Alternative Medicine, Cancer, Allan Hunkin Paul Brown and Gerd Leipold The Last Chance for Change Scientists may still be discussing what caused the disappearance of the once-dominant dinosaurs, but there is no doubt among any of them what is causing the current round of mass extinctions. It is mankind. People have been cutting down forests and polluting water and land for centuries, but it is the burning of coal, oil, and gas that has brought the planet to the brink of disaster. As ice melts, storms get more violent and deserts spread; our major cities now face being overwhelmed by the elements. Author Paul Brown has 16 years’ experience as the environment correspondent at The Guardian newspaper and presents persuasive up-to-the-minute scientific research about global warming and climate change in a form that is easy to comprehend. More than 300 amazing photographs and maps from around the world illustrate the plight of wildlife, industrial disasters, coastal erosion, disappearing glaciers, and more. http://http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071011-BrownM1.mp3 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:25:00 EST 20:32 author interview, Global Warning, Paul Brown, Allan Hunkin Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes How the Constitution Saved Our Country -- and Why It Can Again The United States is the longest running democracy in history at 220 years. While over a hundred countries around the world have used our Constitution as their model, Americans are growing frustrated with gridlock, partisan politics, and special interests. In our impatience for results, we have lost sight of what the framers forged -- a pragmatic document that channels self-interest into productive consensus. In this important book, veteran journalist Michael Oreskes and legal scholar Eric Lane make a passionate plea to restore our "Constitutional Conscience." http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071018-LaneM1.mp3 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:25:00 EST 24:30 author interview, U.S. government, politics, constitution, Allan Hunkin Philomena Keet and Yuri Manabe Stylish to Spectacular, Goth to Gyaru, Sidewalk to Catwalk Come with us on a stroll through Tokyo’s fashion neighborhoods and meet the city’s trendy teens and twenty-something’s captured as they work and play. The Tokyo Look Book will appeal to fashion lovers everywhere and to anyone with an interest in Japanese pop culture. http://www.podcasts1.com/podcasts/071025-KeetM1.mp3 Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:25:00 EST 12:21 author interview, Tokyo, fashion, pop culture, Allan Hunkin Robert W. MacDonald 11 Secrets to Building an Entrepreneurial Culture in a Bureaucratic World Does bureaucratic inertia have your business locked in a losing status quo? Are you being held back by gray suits who won’t allow innovation and creativity at work? Do you want to build a business that isn’t slowed down by the concrete shoes of bureaucratic indecision or stifled by unimaginative groupthink? If so, maybe it’s time to beat the system! In this insurgent guide to business success, Robert MacDonald shows professionals, business leaders, and entrepreneurs how to smash the bureaucracy that smothers the innovative, entrepreneurial spirit essential to long-term business success. Whether you own a small business, run a large corporation, or work for someone else, Beat the System provides proven, real-world advice for building an entrepreneurial culture in your entire organization, your department, or even in your individual position. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071025-MacdonaldM1.mp3 Thu, 1 Nov 2007 20:25:00 EST 20:30 author interview, business, innovation, entrepreneurship, Allan Hunkin Ruth Rudner Our Kinship with Animals Wild and Domestic Ask Now the Beasts is a beautiful meditation on how we relate to animals: sometimes loving, sometimes misguided, often exploitive, often with genuine concern. Capturing the powerful ways that animals interact with us spiritually, activate our imaginations, and tie us to our own ancient beginnings, Ruth Rudner finds meaning and appreciation for the way in which each animal exists fully in its own world -- and how that world relates to ours. Entering variously into love, hope, possibility, heartache, and wonder, Rudner’s stories ponder the richness of relationship, whatever form it takes. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071101-RudnerM1.mp3 Fri, 9 Nov 2007 20:25:00 EST 29:42 author interview, animals, nature, Allan Hunkin Louis Navellier A Proven Market-Beating Formula for Growth Investing Louis Navellier is one of the most well-respected growth investors of our day. He’s pulled impressive profits from the stock market for over twenty-seven years, he has also helped investors beat the market by nearly a 4-1 margin. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You Rich, he’ll show you how to do the same. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071108-NavellierM1.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:12:18 EST 13:21 author interview, Little Book That Makes You Rich, Lois Navellier, Allan Hunkin Ken Fisher Introducing the new Fisher Investment Series Comprised of engaging and informative titles written by renowned money manager and bestselling author Ken Fisher, this series offers essential insights into the worlds of investing and finance. Over the course of nearly two centuries, the innovations, mistakes, and scandals of many different market participants have all played an important role in shaping today’s financial markets. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071108-FisherM1.mp3 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:12:09 EST 17:01 author interview, 100 Minds That Made the Market, Ken Fisher, Allan Hunkin Sandra Blakeslee How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better In this compelling, cutting-edge book, two generations of science writers explore the exciting science of "body maps" in the brain -- and how startling new discoveries about the mind-body connection can change and improve our lives. Why do you still feel fat after losing weight? What makes video games so addictive? How can "practicing" your favorite sport in your imagination improve your game? The answers can be found in body maps. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071108-BlakesleeM1.mp3 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:11:54 EST 26:24 author interview, Body Has a Mind of Its Own, Sandra Blakeslee, Allan Hunkin Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World(Social Venture Network) Many business leaders view marketing as the crass, ugly side of business. This new book proves that "marketing" isn’t a dirty word - it’s the key to advancing both business ideals and the bottom line. Written by two down-to-earth, experienced entrepreneurs, Marketing That Matters is an in-the-trenches guide to building a marketing plan that embodies personal values instead of exploiting them. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071120-WarwickM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:10:00 EST 12:25 author interview, Marketing That Matters, Chip Conley and Eric Friedenwald-Fishman, Allan Hunkin Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson have written a modern and comprehensive book that celebrates the sacredness of the body (and desire) within the Hindu Tantric tradition, one which aims to dispel remnants of our Puritan past that define many natural activities of our daily life, including sexual activity and desire, in negative terms. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071115-TantricM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:15:00 EST 24:47 author interview, Essence of Tantric Sexuality, Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, Allan Hunkin Melissa Kirsch A colossal cheat sheet for your postcollege years. Finally, all the needs of the modern girl -- from the benefits of a Roth IRA to the pleasure and pain of dating (and why it’s not cliche to love yourself first), from figuring out what to wear to a job interview to the delicate enterprise of defriending -- are addressed in one rollicking volume. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071121-KirschM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:00:00 EST 17:33 author interview, Girls Guide to Absolutely Everything, Melissa Kirsch, Allan Hunkin Christ Resto, Ian Ybarra, and Ramit Sethi How Any Business Can Beat the Big Guys in the War for Young Talent The recruiting game has changed. It now takes more than simply attending a campus career fair, hosting an information session, and posting job descriptions to draw the best young talent to work for your organization. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071115-RestoM1.mp3 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:15:00 EST 14:38 author interview, Recruit or Die, Christ Resto, Ian Ybarra, and Ramit Sethi, Allan Hunkin Traci Slatton In an age of wonderous beauty and terrible secrets, one man searches for his destiny... http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071129-SlattonM1.mp3 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:40:00 EST 16:52 author interview, Immortal, Traci Slatton, Allan Hunkin Derek Gatehouse The 6 Best Practices of the World’s Best Sales Teams How any company can build an incredibly effective salesforce by learning from the best in the world. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071129-GatehouseM1.mp3 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:40:00 EST 25:08 author interview, Perfect Salesforce, Derek Gatehouse, Allan Hunkin Wendy Walker A Novel In Wendy Walker’s brilliant debut novel, the lives of four wives and mothers intertwine in an insightful tale of suburban life set amid outrageous wealth. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071206-WalkerM1.mp3 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:00:00 EST 12:45 author interview, Four Wives, Wendy Walker, Allan Hunkin Mark Penn The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes Mark Penn, the man who identified "Soccer Moms" as a crucial constituency in President Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign, is known for his ability to detect relatively small patterns of behavior in our culture -- microtrends that are wielding great influence on business, politics, and our personalities. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071129-PennM1.mp3 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:30:00 EST 18:18 author interview, Microtrends, Mark Penn, Allan Hunkin Jordan Goodman 10 Secret Strategies to Make You Rich in an Up or Down Economy Do you think you can’t profit if the economy is in serious decline? Many investors believe you can earn substantial profits only if it’s strong. But in this groundbreaking book, Jordan E. Goodman, "America’s Money Answers Man" and an expert with thirty years of experience in the financial media, proves how wrong they can be. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080103-GoodmanM1.mp3 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:30:00 EST 18:21 author interview, Fast Profits in Hard Times, Jordan Goodman, Allan Hunkin Carole O’Malley Gaunt A Memoir On a sweltering June night in 1959, Betty O’Malley died from lymphatic cancer, leaving behind an alcoholic husband and eight shell-shocked children -- seven sons and one daughter, ranging in age from two to fifteen years. The daughter, Carole, was thirteen at the time. In this poignant memoir, she recalls in vivid detail the chaotic course of her family life over the next four years. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080110-GauntM1.mp3 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:00:00 EST 20:11 author interview, Hungry Hill, Carole O’Malley Gaunt, Allan Hunkin Amanda Eyre Ward A Novel Nadine Morgan thinks she has the life she’s always wanted. After fleeing her childhood home on Cape Cod, she chases down the world’s most dangerous stories as a foreign correspondent, leaving each place before her ties grow too deep. But it Cape Town, South Africa, Nadine discovers a story -- and a man -- she can’t forget. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080110-WardM1.mp3 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:00:00 EST 16:03 author interview, Forgive Me, Amanda Eyre Ward, Allan Hunkin Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis Federal debt will affect your savings, your retirement, your mortgage, your health care, and your children. How well do you understand the government decisions that will take money out of your pocket? http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071220-BittleM1.mp3 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:00:00 EST 18:30 author interview, Where Does the Money Go?, Scott Bittle, Jean Johnson, Allan Hunkin Eric A. Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It Eric Finkelstein is a renowned health economist who has spent much of his career studying the economics of obesity. Now, with the help of coauthor Laurie Zuckerman, he skillfully reveals the economic drivers behind America’s growing obesity epidemic, its impact on society, and what can be done to get the epidemic under control. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071213-FinkelsteinM1.mp3 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:05:00 EST 17:58 author interview, Fattening of America, Eric A. Finkelstein, Laurie Zuckerman, Allan Hunkin Rafe Esquith The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 In a rough Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by violence, there is an exceptional public school classroom called Room 56 . . . The fifth-graders inside are either immigrants or children of immigrants; most live in poverty and few speak English as their first language. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071213-EsquithM1.mp3 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:10:00 EST 15:55 author interview, Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire, Eric A. Finkelstein, Laurie Zuckerman, Allan Hunkin Brian Kurth with Robin Simons A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Creating the Work You Love Find It, Live It, Love It! Yes, you can try your hand at the career of your dreams without risking your present job, your next mortgage payment, or your kids’ future. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/071220-KurthM1.mp3 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:15:00 EST 13:08 author interview, Forgive Me, Amanda Eyre Ward, Allan Hunkin I. Glebe Women Have Them, Men Need Them Intrepid researcher and lazy relationship partner I. Glebe reveals the secret formula that has kept relationships off-balance for years. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080124-GlebeM1.mp3 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:00:00 EST 16:12 author interview, Points!, I. Glebe, Allan Hunkin David M. Traversi Eight Drivers of the High-Impact Leader Discover the keys -- the source -- to embodying and performing the well-known but highly elusive traits and functions, respectively, of the high-impact leader. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080117-TraversiM1-P1.mp3 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:30:00 EST 26:40 author interview, Source of Leadership, David M. Traversi, Allan Hunkin Jacqueline Winspear A Maisie Dobbs Novel In her fifth outing, Maisie Dobbs, the extraordinary Psychologist and Investigator, delves into a strange series of crimes in a small rural community. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080214-winspear.mp3 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 9:14:00 EST 13:40 author interview, An Incomplete Revenge, Jacqueline Winspear, Allan Hunkin Dave Ulrich Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value In Leadership Brand, Ulrich and Smallwood explore the advantages of a branded approach to corporate leadership. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080207-ulrich.mp3 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 9:19:00 EST 25:24 author interview, Leadership Brand, Dave Ulrich, Allan Hunkin Ryan P. Allis How I Built a Company to $1 Million in Sales . . . And How You Can, Too Do You Want to Become a Multimillionaire Entrepreneur? Here’s How. By the time Ryan Allis had reached the age of twenty-one, he had achieved the financial goal most people just dream about: He built his company to one million in sales. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080207-allis.mp3 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 9:25:00 EST 17:39 author interview, Zero to One Million, Ryan P. Allis, Allan Hunkin Joan Liebmann-Smith and Jacqueline Egan From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective We all notice things about our bodies that don’t seem quite right. But when are these simply harmless physical quirks and when are they signs that a visit to the doctor is in order? This comprehensive and fascinating guide covers every body part from head to toe-and everything in between-to help you decode the often mysterious messages your body sends you. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080207-SmithM1.mp3 Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:49:00 EST 22:54 author interview, Body Signs, Joan Liebmann-Smith, Allan Hunkin Jack Mitchell Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Your Employees to Achieve Remarkable Results In Hug Your Customers, Jack Mitchell showed business readers how to keep their customers happy-and their profits booming. In Hug Your People, he elaborates on his big secret: hiring, motivating and keeping your biggest asset, great employees! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/08021-MitchellM1.mp3 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 9:44:00 EST 30:37 author interview, Hug Your Customers, Jack Mitchell, Allan Hunkin Jim Schlagheck Use the Investing Techniques of the Mega-Wealthy to Secure Your Retirement Future Cash-Rich Retirement, as seen on the public television series Retirement Revolution, brings the investing strategies of the mega-rich to everyday people. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080228-SchlagheckM1.mp3 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:56:00 EST 25:16 author interview, Cash-Rich Retirement, Jim Schlagheck, Allan Hunkin Douglas Schoen The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System America is at a political crossroads. We are growing alienated from the two major parties. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080220-SchoenM1.mp3 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:03:00 EST 13:28 author interview, Declaring Independence, Douglas Schoen, Allan Hunkin Scott M. Shannon, MD Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective Choices for Your Child’s Emotional Health A leading child psychiatrist warns against today’s alarming eagerness to brand kids with a diagnosis of emotional illness and shows parents where to look for the real culprits. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080228-ShannonM1.mp3 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:53:00 EST 22:59 author interview, Please Don’t Label My Child, Scott M. Shannon, MD, Allan Hunkin Robert T. Kiyosaki Get Smarter with Your Money Financial intelligence is more important today than ever before. In a world of financial turbulence, your best asset is your financial IQ. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080310-KiyosakiM1.mp3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:30:00 EST 20:05 author interview, Rich Dad’s Increase Your Financial IQ, Robert T. Kiyosaki, Allan Hunkin Pamela Druckerman Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee An irreverent and hilarious journey around the world to examine how and why people cheat on their spouses; this global look at infidelity reveals that Americans are uniquely mixed up about being faithful. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080304-DruckermanM1.mp3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:35:00 EST 25:09 author interview, Lust in Translation, Pamela Druckerman, Allan Hunkin Masha Gessen From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080306-GessenM1.mp3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:42:00 EST 18:28 author interview, Blood Matters, Masha Gessen, Allan Hunkin Sarah Sentilles What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit Thirty years after the first group of women was ordained by the Episcopal Church, women are among some of the most vital and successful ministers in all Protestant denominations, even as churches struggle to hold on to their members. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080306-SentillesM1.mp3 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:45:00 EST 19:27 author interview, A Church of Her Own, Sarah Sentilles, Allan Hunkin Ed Sherman Specific Steps to Make Things Smoother, Faster, Less Painful, and Save You a Lot of Money Divorce is a difficult passage, but there are practical things any couple can do, individually or together, to make the transition as painless as possible. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080320-ShermanM1.mp3 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:25:00 EST 17:34 author interview, Make Any Divorce Better, Ed Sherman, Allan Hunkin John Hammergren How Putting Yourself First Today Will Revolutionize Health Care Tomorrow Did you ever notice that you always seem to come last in our health care system, with its mega-hospitals, giant pharmaceutical companies. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080317-HammergrenM1.mp3 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:25:00 EST 24:57 author interview, Skin in the Game, John Hammergren, Allan Hunkin Nancy H. Taylor How to Build an Earth-Friendly Economy Go Green is an indispensable resource for those who are ready to stop talking the talk and start walking the walk! http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080327-TaylorM1.mp3 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:10:00 EST 18:10 author interview, Go Green, Nancy H. Taylor, Allan Hunkin John B. Izzo P.Hd. Based on a highly acclaimed public television series, this book takes the reader on a heartwarming and profound journey to find lasting happiness. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080327-IzzoM1.mp3 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:15:00 EST 22:14 author interview, The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die, John B. Izzo P.Hd., Allan Hunkin Norman Doidge MD Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains -- even into old age -- is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080403-DoidgeM1.mp3 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:45:00 EST 22:58 author interview, The Brain That Changes Itself, Norman Doidge MD, Allan Hunkin Tony Horwitz Rediscovering the New World An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080327-HorwitzM1.mp3 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:50:00 EST 15:45 author interview, A Voyage Long and Strange, Tony Horwitz, Allan Hunkin Christine Hassler Quarter-Lifers Speak Out About Who They Are, What They Want, and How to Get It If you’re in your twenties, you’re likely feeling the combination of the excitement of this defining decade and the pressure to figure out your entire life. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080401-HasslerM1.mp3 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:12:00 EST 12:45 author interview, 20 Something Manifesto, Christine Hassler, Allan Hunkin Alex Abella The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire Soldiers of Reason is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been driving the force behind American government for sixty years. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080409-AbellaM1.mp3 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:15:00 EST 16:18 author interview, Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella, Allan Hunkin Richard Louv Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder This new edition updates the growing body of evidence linking the lack of nature in children’s lives and the rise in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080410-LouvM1.mp3 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:30:00 EST 17:08 author interview, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv, Allan Hunkin Dr. Todd Sinett A Revolutionary, Individualized Approach to Diagnosing and Healing Back Pain The Truth About Back Pain dispels the many myths of back pain as it offers an innovative and flexible prescription. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080410-SinettM1.mp3 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:35:00 EST 15:21 author interview, The Truth About Back Pain, Dr. Todd Sinett, Allan Hunkin Sue Thoele Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart In this book, Sue Patton Thoele shows you how to incorporate mindfulness into your busy and dynamic life. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080411-TholeleM1.mp3 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:40:00 EST 23:22 author interview, The Mindful Woman, Sue Thoele, Allan Hunkin Sue Mittenthal and Linda Reing The Uncensored Guide to Divorce, Dating, Sex, Spite and Happily Ever After Still Hot is a completely hilarious and saucy survival guide that takes you from the first inkling that your marriage is toast to regaining your long-forgotten inner peace, and all the bizarre tragicomedy that comes in between. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080417-ReingM1.mp3 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:45:00 EST 14:48 author interview, Still Hot, Sue Mittenthal, Linda Reing, Allan Hunkin Nick Heil The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season Written by an experienced climber and outdoor writer, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiraled out of control. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080417-HeilM1.mp3 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:50:00 EST 22:34 author interview, Dark Summit, Nick Heil, Allan Hunkin Ernie Malik The Official Illustrated Movie Companion Inside this ultimate visual companion to the making of the second film in C.S. Lewis’s beloved Narnia series, discover lavish photos and behind the scenes stories that give you a front-row seat of how the movie magic is made. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080424-NarniM1.mp3 Mon, 5 May 2008 07:24:00 EST 16:13 author interview, The Chronicles of Narnia, Ernie Malik, Allan Hunkin Jerry White Five Steps to Overcoming a Life Crisis An astoundingly effective guide to recreating a happy and fulfilling life after catastrophe strikes, from the cofounder of the Survivor Corps, who Lance Armstrong says "embodies the spirit of survivorship." http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080501-WhiteM1.mp3 Mon, 5 May 2008 07:28:00 EST 19:47 author interview, I Will Not Be Broken, Jerry White, Allan Hunkin Andrew Yarrow The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility A plain-English explanation of federal deficits and debt and the threat they pose to our nation and our children’s future. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080501-YarrowM1.mp3 Mon, 5 May 2008 07:32:00 EST 14:32 author interview, Forgive Us Our Debts, Andrew Yarrow, Allan Hunkin Ariane de Bonvoisin Your Guide to Any Change (And Loving Your Life More) The First 30 Days reveals how the beginning of any change is a pivotal time that can either leave us stressed and stuck or lead us forward in our lives with clarity and hope. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080508-deBonvoisinM1.mp3 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:40:00 EST 20:56 author interview, The First 30 Days, Ariane de Bonvoisin, Allan Hunkin Maragret Richard Strong, Toned, and Sexy in Just 3 Hours a Week With just one Body Electric thirty- to sixty- minute exercise session every three days, you will develop stronger muscles, denser bones, and a more fit body. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080508-RichardsonM1.mp3 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:45:00 EST 18:12 author interview, Body Electric, Maragret Richard, Allan Hunkin Steven S. Little Overcoming Stupid Systems, Pointless Policies and Muddled Management to Realize Real Growth In The Milkshake Moment, growth guru Steven S. Little shows you how to identify and overcome the stifling behaviors built into your organization and lead the way toward substantive change and real growth. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080515-LittleM1.mp3 Tue, 20 May 2008 07:50:00 EST 13:59 author interview, The Milkshake Moment, Steven S. Little, Allan Hunkin Sherri Rifkin After a recent breakup sent her into a self-imposed "personal hiatus," thirty-something New York TV-promo producer Tori Miller is determined to get a life. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080522-RifkinM1.mp3 Tue, 27 May 2008 01:35:00 EST 13:40 author interview, Lovehampton, Sherri Rifkin, Allan Hunkin Marci A. Hamilton What America Must Do to Protect Its Children There is a silent epidemic of childhood sexual abuse in the United States, but our legal system is not effectively protecting the most innocent from predators. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080515-HamiltonM1.mp3 Tue, 27 May 2008 01:40:00 EST 19:50 author interview,Justice Denied, Marci A. Hamilton, Allan Hunkin John Harwood and Gerald Seib Profiles in Backroom Power Prizewinning journalists John Harwood and Gerald F. Seib show how today’s Washington power game really works, through stories of people who are making a difference on Pennsylvania Avenue. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080514-HarwoodM1.mp3 Tue, 27 May 2008 01:45:00 EST 14:13 author interview, Pennsylvania Avenue, John Harwood and Gerald Seib, Allan Hunkin Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert How the Best Managers Get Outstanding Results The Breakthrough Imperative presents core laws of business to help you determine where you are, just how far you can go, and how to get there with stellar results. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080519-BreakthroughM1.mp3 Thu, 29 May 2008 08:15:00 EST 27:08 author interview, Breakthrough Imperative, Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert, Allan Hunkin Christopher L. Jones and William F. Sharpe Practical Wisdom on Personal Investing from Financial Engines Through simple explanations of powerful investment ideas and real-world examples that bring them to life, The Intelligent Portfolio reveals what you need to know when making personal investment decisions. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080529JonesM1.Mp3 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:20:00 EST 13:25 author interview, Intelligent Portfolio, Christopher L. Jones and William F. Sharpe, Allan Hunkin Josh Waitzkin A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence The Art of Learning is essential reading for those who want to reach the highest levels of achievement. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080529WaitzkinM1.mp3 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:30:00 EST 24:04 author interview, Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin, Allan Hunkin Jeffrey Kluger Why Simple Things Become Complex (And How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Jeffrey Kluger adeptly translates newly evolving theory into a delightful theory of everything that will have you rethinking the rules of business, family, art--your world. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080507-KlugerM1.mp3 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:40:00 EST 18:45 author interview, Simplexity, Jeffrey Kluger, Allan Hunkin Lucy J. Puryear MD Emotions, Mental Health, and Happiness -- Before, During, and After Pregnancy Through engaging personal stories reflecting her own practice, she illuminates the little-discussed feelings that are virtually universal for pregnant women. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080529-PuryearM1.mp3 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:45:00 EST 26:08 author interview, Understanding Your Moods When You’re Expecting, Lucy J. Puryear MD, Allan Hunkin Richard A. Clarke Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters Clarke minces no words in his examination of the breadth and depth of the mediocrity, entropy, and collapse endemic in America’s national security programs. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080607-ClarkeM1.mp3 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:30:00 EST 19:09 author interview, Your Government Failed You, Richard A. Clarke, Allan Hunkin Karen Abbott Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America’s Soul Step into the perfumed parlors of Chicago’s Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history -- and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080606-AbbottM1.mp3 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:35:00 EST 13:10 author interview, Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott, Allan Hunkin Bob Livingston Create Service Excellence That Wins Clients For Life In this breakthrough book, customer service expert Bob Livingston gives you practical tools for transforming your approach to serving clients by strengthening "how you do what you do." http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080612-LivingstonM1.mp3 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:05:00 EST 15:44 author interview, How you do...What you do, Bob Livingston, Allan Hunkin Stephen T. McClellan Do What Wall Street Does, Not What It Says, To Make Money in the Market Now, for the first time, he reveals the Street’s secrets and misleading signals, putting you on a level playing field with the world’s biggest institutional investors. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/0819-McclellanM1.mp3 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:00:00 EST 19:09 author interview, Full of Bull, Stephen T. McClellan, Allan Hunkin Kaya McLaren Gracefully capturing the strange alchemy of people and places, Kaya McLaren’s story of redemption and rediscovery will inspire readers to find the magic and power in every day shared with the people they love. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080619-MclarenM1.mp3 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:05:00 EST 14:19 author interview, Church of the Dog, Kaya McLaren, Allan Hunkin Dr. Sue Johnson Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/80626-JohnsonM1.mp3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:10:00 EST 19:49 author interview, Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson, Allan Hunkin Maggie Jackson Distracted vividly shows how, day by day, our hyper-mobile, cyber-centric, interrupt-driven lives erode our capacity for deep focus and awareness. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/80626-JacksonM1.mp3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:15:00 EST 18:24 author interview, Distracted, Maggie Jackson, Allan Hunkin Daniel Silva Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East -- and Silva’s finest novel yet. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/80626-SilvaM1.mp3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:20:00 EST 14:32 author interview, Moscow Rules, Daniel Silva, Allan Hunkin Joseph A. Michelli 5 Leadership Principles for Creating a Legendary Customer Experience Courtesy of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company The New Gold Standard weaves practical how-to advice, proven leadership tools, and the wisdom of experts to help you create and embed superior customer service principles, processes, and practices in your own organization. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/80626-MichelliM1.mp3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:25:00 EST 15:24 author interview, The New Gold Standard, Joseph A. Michelli, Allan Hunkin Matthew Randazzo V The Story of Chris Benoit and the Fall of the Pro Wrestling Industry Providing a detailed look at one of the most compelling stories of 2007, Matthew Randazzo V investigates Chris Benoit’s drug-fueled double murder-suicide, which put the deadly world of wrestling in the global spotlight. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080703-RandazzoM1.mp3 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:30:00 EST 15:09 author interview, Ring of Hell, Matthew Randazzo V, Allan Hunkin Florence Falk The Art of Being a Woman Alone In this invigorating, supportive book, psychotherapist Florence Falk aims to take the fear, doubt, confusion, and helplessness out of being a woman alone. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080710-FalkM1.mp3 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:15:00 EST 14:51 author interview, On My Own, Florence Falk, Allan Hunkin Sam Taylor Part detective story, part haunting gothic tale, The Amnesiac is a journey into memory and amnesia, fiction and reality, heaven and hell. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080710-TaylorM1.mp3 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:20:00 EST 13:09 author interview, The Amnesiac, Sam Taylor, Allan Hunkin Jim Champy How to Do What Your Competitors Can’t This concise, fast-paced book shows how you can achieve breakthrough growth by consistently outsmarting your competition. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080703-ChampyM1.mp3 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:25:00 EST 20:21 author interview, Outsmart!, Jim Champy, Allan Hunkin Tana French In Tana French’s powerful debut thriller, three children leave their small Dublin neighborhood to play in the surrounding woods. Hours later, their mothers’ calls go unanswered. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080718-FrenchM1.mp3 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:35:00 EST 14:19 author interview, In The Woods, Tana French, Allan Hunkin Dirk Wittenborn William Friedrich, an ambitious professor of psychology at Yale in the early 1950s, has stumbled upon a drug that promises happiness -- and that can make him a famous man. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080724-WittenbornM1.mp3 Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:55:00 EST 16:53 author interview, Pharmakon, Dirk Wittenborn, Allan Hunkin Janet Horn M.D. and Robin H. Miller M.D. A No Nonsense Approach to Staying Healthy After 50 This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with your body instead of against it to stay healthy and happy through menopause and beyond. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080731-HornM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EST 17:31 author interview, The Smart Woman’s Guide to Midlife and Beyond, Janet Horn M.D. and Robin H. Miller M.D., Allan Hunkin Win McCormack A Citizen’s Guide to Repulican Family Values Shocking, illuminating, profoundly disturbing, You Don’t Know Me details over 100 cases of sexual misconduct by Republican officials, office holders, and ideological supporters. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080731-McCormackM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:05:00 EST 15:56 author interview, You Don’t Know Me, Win McCormack, Allan Hunkin Jasper Fforde First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel Thursday Next returns to rescue reading from certain destruction . . . again. http://www.podcasts2.com/podcasts/080807-FfordeM1.mp3 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:10:00 EST 15:01 author interview, Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde, Allan Hunkin false