Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA - In its 5th year, the Mind Body & Beyond Expo will return to the Los Angeles Convention Center on September 13-14, 2008. The name highlights the event’s focus on the trio of the mind, the body and all things beyond that are in synch with the common goals of clean and natural conscious living. Building on the momentum and public demand for natural and healthy living alternatives, including green products and services, Mind Body & Beyond Expo will offer consumers the opportunity to become more educated about the latest specialty focused products, services, and health and wellness trends available within

New York Times - United States - Julie Andrews’s memoir is full of crisp locutions like “poor unfortunate” and “banished to the scullery” and “trivet,” a characteristically precise term that the dictionary defines as “an iron tripod placed over a fire for a cooking pot or kettle to stand on.” It opens with a soppy poem she wrote about England, but what follows is a decisively unsoppy account of a typically dismal English childhood, complete with cramped lodgings and brutish relatives, which Andrews tells briskly and without self-pity.

Trivets come into it because, as is so often the case with the theatrically well-to-do, Andrews has refashioned herself out

New York Times - United States - Call it the Gang Theory of history: the idea that a number of charismatic revolutionaries coalesce and together grab power and attention, overturn orthodoxies and remake their time. It’s an alluring idea, and well suited to describing the dynamics of scenes and subcultures of, say, cooks or comedians. The best Gang Theorists focus not just on iconic figures but on the connections between them. For every telegenic chef there are a thousand anonymous immigrant cooks chopping alone, sweating the onions, changing everything; for every lauded late-night comedian, a thousand funnymen of the night shift, scratching by the hours with a

Multichannel News - New York, NY, USA - Jim Cramer is celebrating the third anniversary of his series on CNBC today.

Many of the manic money maven’s best fans will be in the studio audience for Mad Money w/Jim Cramer, when it premieres today at 6 p.m. (ET).

he show, which also is expected to include star-studded salutes and revisit some of the show’s top and most profitable moments, will encore at 11 p.m. on CNBC.

Cramer will also be taking his show to Happy Valley, as part of his “Mad Money Back to School” tour. The show will broadcast live before students from Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business

United Press International - USA - Patrick Swayze's family and friends said the Hollywood actor is staying strong in his battle against pancreatic cancer.

Swayze, 55, is best known for his roles in "The Outsiders," "Dirty Dancing," "Ghost" and "Road House." It was announced last week that he was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

"I've never seen him scared of anything." his sister-in-law Maria Haapaniemi told Us Weekly magazine. "He deals with everything the same way. He's determined, enthusiastic, full of energy and hope. ... We appreciate the love that's coming back to Patrick from all his fans."

"He is what we would like America to be," his longtime

Emailwire - USA - Best Selling Author and Entrepreneur, Jason Oman has been in business of helping other authors for four years. He has a proven method of teaching authors how to get their books listed on the best sellers list. Jason teaches authors how to realize their dreams of absolute success in the publishing industry. Jason has a website dedicated specifically for authors searching for information on becoming a best selling author.

Jason has had phenomenal success as a published author. “Many authors wait for the day to realize their dream of having their book published, however the real dream is having a book

The Winchester Star - Winchester, VA, USA - All media have their place and their pitfalls in helping voters follow the presidential race, one expert says.

Douglas C. Waller, best-selling author and a former correspondent for Time magazine, was the latest speaker in the Long Branch Lecture Series on Sunday, presenting a message on the changing role of the media in political campaign coverage.

Waller, whose books include "Big Red: The Three-Month Voyage of a Trident Nuclear Submarine" and "A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial that Gripped the Nation," said the political arena is seeing a change resulting from a power struggle between the "old media"

Sacramento Bee - CA, USA - Luanne Rice peered out from behind her glasses at a crowd of roughly 150 people as she discussed the importance of family and solitude in nature.

"My mother would have loved the book's jacket," Rice said of her latest novel, which features horses in the glowing marshlands of the Camargue in France.

"A lot of 'Light of the Moon' had to do with losing her (13 years ago to a brain tumor).""

Throughout the evening, the New York Times best-selling author spoke fondly of her mother, who worked as a reporter for the New Britain Herald.

"My lullaby as a kid was my mother

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Ken Fisher, noted columnist in Forbes Magazine, in his recent column entitled "I Still Hate Funds" praised a new author's book with one lucid statement: "The first 35 pages of Don F. Wilkinson's 'Stop Wasting Your Wealth in Mutual Funds ...' are worth the book's $20 purchase price. Read them!"

Fisher, best selling financial author and Forbes portfolio strategy columnist for 23 years, gave thumbs up on a book by one of his author contemporaries that reveals why mutual funds are wrong for building wealth for many investors.

Fisher is renown as a top-ranked stock market forecaster, a New York Times best

BlackNews.com (press release) - Long Beach, CA, USA - Since nothing compares to a great cup of coffee and a good book, Starbucks at Largo recently showcased Michele Fletcher, local author of the hot new book, Charge It To The Game, at their new, summer flavor kick-off. The event, which introduced the new Orange Crème Frappucciono drink, was the first event of its kind in which an author was marketed in the store with posters, fliers, book marks and given the opportunity present and sign copies of their book. "The buzz surrounding Michele's book has been tremendous. As a local author who is also self-published, the community is really

High Springs Heralds - High Springs, FL, USA - JONESVILLE -- Local teen and New York Times Best Selling author Nancy Yi Fan will visit Jonesberry Books at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 21.

Nancy will give a presentation about her life and the writing of "Swordbird," a bestseller book about birds and peace. She will sign copies of her book following the presentation.

"Swordbird" was selected as the third book in “Al’s Book Club for Kids,” and Nancy was interviewed by Al Roker on NBC’s The Today Show on July 13.

Jonesberry Books will hold a free raffle drawing to give away an autographed "Swordbird" T-shirt. Tickets will be handed out