50 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR IDENTITY AND YOUR CREDIT: Everything You Need to Know About Identity Theft, Credit Cards, Credit Repair, and Credit Reports (Pearson/ Prentice Hall, January 2005, $19.95 Paperback) might be the scariest book you pick up this year. Filled with the latest identity theft and credit scams, outrageous true cons, new laws, and authentic cases against identity theft and credit fraud, this tell-all manual by nationally syndicated radio host and legal editor Steve Weisman provides invaluable tips, and offers innovative yet crucial ways to safeguard yourself.
     Steve Weisman is host of the nationally syndicated radio show A Touch of Grey, heard on more than 50 stations across America, including New York’s legendary WOR and KRLA, in Los Angeles. A member of the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys, he has taught at the University of Massachusetts, Curry College, and Boston University. Weisman is a legal editor and columnist for Talkers Magazine, and writes for publications ranging from the Boston Globe to US Air Magazine. He has earned a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association for excellence in legal journalism.
     
     THE 100-MILE WALK: A Father and Son on a Quest to Find the Essence of Leadership (AMACOM Books; January 2006; $24.95), Sander and Jonathon Flaum retrace their six-month journey of discovery, which took them from strolls through the streets of New Orleans and Manhattan to hikes up the Blue Ridge Mountain and around the Long Island coast. Along the way, they reflect on what they learned from the many leaders who crossed their path, and what they learned about one another.                       
     Sander A. Flaum is the founder and CEO of Flaum Partners, a consultancy focused on transformational thinking for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. He is a former Chairman and CEO of Robert A. Becker, Euro RSG. He also serves as Adjunct Professor of Management at Fordham Graduate School of Business, where he chairs the Fordham Leadership Forum. He lives in New York City. Jonathon A. Flaum is the founder and CEO of WriteMind Communications, a consultancy that specializes in crafting speeches, workshops, and articles for corporate leaders. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina. 

     You can transform your life in just 10 minutes with Dan Lier’s THE 10 MINUTE COACH: Daily Strategies for Life Success (Beaufort Books, February 28, 2007; $22). While most self-empowering resources give too much information for people to stay focused, Dan’s technique involves just reading a chapter a day -- to change your life for the better.
Designed as an accessible guide, THE 10 MINUTE COACH is laid out in four parts: TAKING YOUR CAREER AND LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL, SELLING AT THE NEXT LEVEL, PARENTHOOD AT THE NEXT LEVEL, and RELATIONSHIPS AT THE NEXT LEVEL.
     Dan Lier has a proven record of success, and has had an impact on hundreds of thousands of people through his public speaking, his one-on-one personal coaching, and his popular “10 Minute Coach” CD series. He is an executive coach, business consultant and former leader of Tony Robbins’ successful sales team. Dan regularly appears nationally on HSN.
   “In All Rise, Bob Fuller gives us the essential tools to fight abuses of rank and to build high-performing institutions and organizations based on respect. All Rise is the operating manual for leaders who recognize the latent power of each individual to make a difference in a free and fair society.”
     --Wes Boyd, Co-founder of MoveOn.org
     Robert W. Fuller explores the social and political costs of rankism-discrimination based on rank- in his new book ALL RISE : Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, June 2006, $22.95 Hardcover). Fuller describes an emerging “politics of dignity” that spans the conservative-liberal divide by putting the “We” back in “We the people.” It argues that democracy is a work in progress and that its next natural step–one that will deliver on both individual liberty and social justice–is the building block of a dignitarian society.
     In AMBIENT FINDABILITY (O’Reilly Media: October 15, 2005; Paperback $29.95), Peter Morville, the father of information architecture, reveals the realities of a network culture being forged at the intersection of 24/7 computing and the Internet, explaining the complex relationships between wayfinding, information retrieval, evolutionary psychology, social software, librarianship, and authority. AMBIENT FINDABILITY describes a fast emerging world where we can find anyone or anything from anywhere at anytime.
     Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and findability consultancy. For over a decade, he has advised such clients as AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard Business School, Internet2, Procter & Gamble, and Yahoo!. Peter is best known as a founding father of information architecture, having co-authored the field’s best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Peter serves on the faculty at the University of Michigan’s School of Information. He is a founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute and a member of the American Library Association.
       "ARTIFICIAL HAPPINESS is a bold book. The use of antidepressants is skyrocketing, creating what Ronald W. Dworkin calls an artificial happiness that can backfire, locking men and women into unhealthy relationships. You probably won't agree with all that Dworkin maintains, as he also undermines some common beliefs aboutalternative medicine and aggressive exercising, but you will learn an impressive amount of medical and social history. And you are likely to review some of your most coveted habits, perhaps even make some fundamental changes in your lifestyle that can bring true happiness. It's a revolutionary treatise and a gripping read."
     —Dr. Helen Fisher, Ph.D., Visiting Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University and author Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
     ARTIFICIAL HAPPINESS, published by Carroll & Graf, (June 6, 2006, $24.95).
     Ronald W. Dworkin received his B.A. with High Honors from Swarthmore College in 1981, followed by his M.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1985. After completing the UCSD training program in anesthesiology in 1989, he moved to Baltimore to join the Department of Anesthesia at Greater Baltimore Medical Center (where he continues to practice), while simultaneously working toward his Ph.D. in political philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. In 1998, he was the senior health policy advisor to Ellen Sauerbrey during her Maryland gubernatorial quest. Two years later, he joined the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. as a Senior Fellow while continuing to work part-time as an anesthesiologist. His essays on religion, medical science, and health care have appeared in The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The Public Interest, and Policy Review, and have led to appearances on both television and radio.
      ARTISTS’ ESTATES: Reputations in Trust , edited by Magda Salvesen  and Diane Cousineau , (Rutgers University Press, $34.95 cloth w/ 87 b&w illustrations, August 2005). “This is an engrossing and valuable work for collectors, scholars, and artists, which surveys the lives of important 20th century American artists and the management of their accumulated works by widows, families, and dealers. It opens a window into problems of taxes, wills and trusts, the inheritors’ role in conservations, succession and interpretation, and the responsibility for preservation of our visual heritage.”
      — Gerald Nordland, former director of the San Francisco Museum .

      “Spar raises some troubling ethical issues surrounding the baby-making machinery. Science is handing us the ability to choose the method of conception and its likely results, yet there is little public debate and even less regulation surrounding these choices.”
    —Business Week 
     In THE BABY BUSINESS: HOW MONEY, SCIENCE AND POLITICS DRIVE THE COMMERCE OF CONCEPTION (HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS; February 14, 2006; $26.95 Hardcover), Debora Spar explores thoroughly the history and practices involved with creating or adopting babies.
     Debora Spar is the Spangler Family Professor at Harvard Business School, where she works on issues of business-government relations and the political environment of international commerce. She is also author of Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet and The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International Cartels, and co-author with Raymond Vernon of Beyond Globalism: Remaking American Foreign Economic Policy.
     Money talks. Where political elections are concerned, corporate donors give money for a variety of reasons, some honorable, some not. So how do America’s top businesses fall on the political spectrum? THE BLUE PAGES 2006: A Directory of Companies Rated By Their Politics and Practices (PoliPointPress; April 2006; $9.95), answers that question and many others. A guide to intelligent spending, THE BLUE PAGES allows consumers to support businesses that share their political and social views while eschewing those that do not. With a summary of over 1,000 companies and over 4,000 brands, and organized in an accessible, easy-to-use, pocket format, THE BLUE PAGES also provides important information about companies’ contributions to charitable causes and social programs, their labor practices, and their employment policies.
     PoliPointPress was established in 2004 to publish authors with progressive political ideas, insight and passion. Through the dissemination of their unique perspectives, we hope to invigorate the national political dialogue and motivate citizens to engage in social, ethical and political action. Previously published titles include The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America by John Sperling, and The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal by Joe Conason.
 
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