Author: David Alle
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: free, productivity, stress, art, things, getting
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2002-12-31
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0142000280
ISBN-13: 9780142000281

With first-chapter allusions to martial arts, "flow," "mind like water," and other concepts borrowed from the East (and usually mangled), you’d almost think this self-helper from David Allen should have been called Zen and the Art of Schedule Maintenance. Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do’s clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you’re working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion t

Authors:Neil Postman,  Andrew Postma,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: show, business, discourse, public, ourselves, death, amusing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-12-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 014303653X
ISBN-13: 9780143036531

Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining controlof ou

Author: Stanley Karnow
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: history, vietnam
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 1997-06-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0140265473
ISBN-13: 9780140265477

Provides a comprehensive look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal tales and delves into the political and military events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and the brought it to an end. Reprint. TV tie-in."

Author: Amy Ta
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: club, luck, joy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-09-21
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143038095
ISBN-13: 9780143038092

A stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don’t know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don’t know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves. Heartwarming and bittersweet, this is a novel for mother, daughters, and those that love them.

Author: G. Richard Shell
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: reasonable, people, strategies, negotiation, advantage, bargaining
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143036971
ISBN-13: 9780143036975

The award-winning guide to business negotiation used by top negotiators and training programs all over the world—completely updated and revised As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. His systematic, step- by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storytelling, proven tactics, and reliable insights gleaned

Author: Eric Alterman
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: deception, consequences, official, history, lie, presidents
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2005-10-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0143036041
ISBN-13: 9780143036043

At a time when most Americans assume that their presidents lie to them, no book could be more essential than bestselling author Eric Alterman s devastating analysis of the costs of executive duplicity. One of the best-known left-of-center journalist-historians in America, Alterman argues that those costs are not merely moral but practical. As examples, he uses four key lies told by presidents in the postwar era. From FDR at Yalta to LBJ in Vietnam, and from JFK in Cuba to Ronald Reagan in Central America, Alterman shows how attempts to mislead the American people ended up haunting

Author: David Alle
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: work, life, principles, productivity, anything, ready
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-12-28
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0143034545
ISBN-13: 9780143034544

In his bestselling first book, Getting Things Done, veteran coach and management consultant David Allen presented his breakthrough methods to increase efficiency. Now "the personal productivity guru" (Fast Company) shows readers how to increase their ability to work better, not harder—every day. Based on Allen’s highly popular e-newsletter, Ready for Anything offers readers 52 ways to immediately clear your head for creativity, focus your attention, create structures that work, and take action to get things moving. With wit, inspiration, and know-how, Allen shows readers how to make things h