Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA - Children's Lifestyle Expert and Author Lisa Dunn-Dern is profiled in the inaugural edition of 'Who's Who In Black Los Angeles - Celebrating African-American Achievements,' just published by Who's Who Publishing Company of Columbus, Ohio. Dunn-Dern joins such luminaries as Stevie Wonder, Tavis Smiley, Earvin ('Magic') Johnson, Natalie Cole, Speaker Karen Bass, Bernard Parks, Mark Ridley-Thomas and many others from the worlds of business, community, academia, sports and entertainment.

She is the author of two acclaimed children's books, 'Dr. Duncan Dog on Duty,' about a family's therapy dog who visits children in the hospital every week, and 'Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow,' featuring

Vanderbilt University News - Nashville,TN,USA - Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the international best-seller Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, will speak at Vanderbilt University Tuesday, Nov. 18.

Dubner’s talk begins at 7 p.m. in the ballroom of the Student Life Center located at 310 25th Ave. S. on Vanderbilt’s campus. The university’s Speakers Committee, a student-run organization, is sponsoring the event.

Tickets for the lecture are available now. General public tickets may be purchased through Ticketmaster at 615-255-9600 or www.ticketmaster.com. General admission tickets are $10. Tickets are free to Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff and must be picked up in advance at the

Off the Page - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA - As a critic, it is always rewarding to see an author whose work you’ve admired reach a level they deserve.

As a reader and fan – and yes, I consider myself both – it’s equally rewarding to know that others share your enthusiasm for an author.

For the past couple of years, Charlaine Harris has been getting the attention she’s long deserved. And this year, the HBO series True Blood based on her Sookie Stackhouse series opened a whole new fan base for this author.

Right now, Harris has two hardcovers on the extended New York Times best-sellers list – her novel From

Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA - Award-winning presidential historian and best-selling author Michael Beschloss will speak Oct. 1 at Purdue University.

eschloss, author of eight books, including New York Times best-seller "Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989," will speak at 8 p.m. in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. His talk, titled "Presidential Courage & the Upcoming 2008 Elections," is part of Purdue Libraries' Distinguished Lecture Series and is free and open to the public. There will be a book sale and book signing of "Presidential Courage" following the lecture.

"We've been very fortunate to be able to have some of the great authors whose works

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA - Mark Victor Hansen, best-selling author and one of today's most well-known authorities in the area of human potential, today announced the first Young Entrepreneurial Challenge for teens through his recently launched Mark Victor Hansen Foundation. The 2008 competition will run from August 15, 2008 to December 15, 2008. A formal awards ceremony presenting the winners will be held during the annual Soul Motion Ball-Rockin' The Universe gala event at the Irvine Marriott Hotel, located in Southern California on January 31, 2009.

The Mark Victor Hansen Foundation was established to create a lasting and impactful difference by providing literacy to end poverty,

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - The controversy that erupted Tuesday over Ron Suskind's new book-length account of the Bush/Cheney administration's conduct of the war on terrorism raises some interesting questions about the way publishers treat a literary genre that has become increasingly vital to our political journalism.

The flap, at least so far, stems from the book's allegation that the White House ordered then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet to fabricate a letter from an Iraqi intelligence official in which he not only admitted a Baghdad-Al Qaeda connection but bragged that Mohamed Atta, ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers, had been trained in Iraq. Nothing of the

eMediaWorld.com Newswire Press Release Distribution Service (Press Release) - Phoenix,AZ,USA - At its July 9 meeting, the Los Angeles Business Travel Association (LABTA) will feature Chip Conley, CEO and founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality and author of several books including his latest, "Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow." The meeting, sponsored by Los Angeles World Airports, will begin at 11:30 a.m. at the Flight Path Museum (6661 W. Imperial Highway, Los Angeles, 90009).

Conley will speak about his new book, which explores how his company, the second largest boutique hotelier in the world, overcame the storm that hit the travel industry in the post-dot.com and post-9/11 economy. Conley

Market Wire (press release) - USA - --  New book authored by noted management experts C.K. Prahalad and M.S.
Krishnan explores Ramco's "co-creation" approach to delivering operational
change-on-demand enterprise technology solutions
--  Ramco-sponsored roadshow and roundtable events kick off today in Chicago with       address by co-authors Prahalad and Krishnan

Ramco Systems, Inc., the U.S. enterprise technology arm of the global technology company Ramco Group, today announced that it is the technology sponsor of the InformationWeek New Age of Innovation Executive Roundtable Roadshow. The roadshow tour of five U.S. cities starts today in Chicago. The roadshow is built around the findings of the recently released business strategy book entitled "The New Age

Library Journal - New York,NY,USA - I wish I did plan! When I started writing the Effington stories, I had no intention of starting a series. I would introduce a secondary character in one book who would grab my imagination and demand a story of his or her own. (That sounds like I'm talking about real people, but your characters do become real to you, and they should.) That lack of advance planning explains why the progression of stories seems somewhat random. It is.

When I started the "Last Man Standing" series, I did plot sketches of no more than a paragraph each for all four books.

Southern California InFocus - Anaheim, CA, USA - Dr. Jamal Badawi is one of the world’s most widely-recognized scholars, having authored several works on Islam and lectured in more than 30 countries.

He is “Professor Emeritus” at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he served as professor of both management and religious studies.
He completed his undergraduate studies in Cairo, Egypt, and his master’s and Ph.D. degrees at Indiana University.
He is also very active in journalism and broadcasting. He designed and presented a 352-segment television series on Islam, many of which were shown all over the world.
He is a member of the Islamic Fiqh Council of North

Asianjournal.com - Los Angeles, CA, USA - Marisa de los Santos captivated a surprisingly big group of writers, journalists, community activists, even a few radicals from the Philippines’ first quarter storm era last Friday at Remy’s on Temple art gallery at the heart of historic Filipinotown. The event was sponsored by the Filipino American Library.

De los Santos who was promoting her newly published novel

Belong to Me. She grew up in Northern Virginia, tracing back her roots to Cebu. She lives with her family in Wilmington, Delaware.

Marisa’s first novel,

Love Walked In, received endorsement from Sarah Jessica Parker (who plays Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City) saying that

Stephen M. Ross School of Business - Ann Arbor, MI, USA - To succeed in "new age of innovation," firms must partner with individual consumers to co-create customized experiences, say researchers.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Who will shape the consumer experience of the future? The actual consumer, argue Ross professors C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan in The New Age of Innovation (McGraw-Hill, 2008). Their new book, subtitled Driving Co-Created Value Through Global Networks, asserts that the most successful companies no longer invent products and services on their own, but rather "co-create" them in partnership with customers.

"The sources of value are rapidly shifting from products to personalized experiences," Prahalad says in a recent interview with InformationWeek.

Editor & Publisher - USA - "The Last Lecture" has shot to the top of many bestseller lists.

Published April 8 by Hyperion (which reportedly paid a $6.7-million advance), the book is by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch "with" Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow.

Pausch, who is dying of pancreatic cancer, gave a moving and upbeat "last lecture" last September that stirred a vast amount of interest. A big reason why Pausch's comments quickly spread worldwide was a Journal column Zaslow wrote about the talk that was accompanied by a video. Zaslow subsequently took a leave of absence from the newspaper to work on the book.

"The Last

PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Brian Lawley, CEO of The 280 Group, recently won this years "Excellence in Thought Leadership" award at the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) annual conference. The "Excellence in Thought Leadership" award is the only industry award of its kind, and is awarded to individuals who are considered experts in the field of Product Management and who have made significant contributions.

"This award recognizes the need for excellence in the area of product management…" said Mr. Lawley "…winning the AIPMM award for Excellence in Thought Leadership is one of the highlights of my 20 years work in the area

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

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

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX) Internet broadcasting pioneer, producing and syndicating online audio and video, today announced that Career Coach, speaker and author of the first books on Career Contentment, Jeff Garton has joined the VoiceAmerica Network, online internet talk radio network, as host of his new show, "Career Contentment Radio." The program debuted August 16 and can be heard every Thursday at 12:00PM/PST, 3:00 PM/EST (http://www.voice.voiceamerica.com).

Jeff Garton is a career coach and author whose career has been devoted to the discovery of practical solutions to combat prolonged unemployment and job dissatisfaction. His efforts have produced the first book and learning

Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA - Hewlett Packard is an extremely successful technology company that serves more than one billion customers in more than 170 countries on six continents. It is no surprise that they are one of the leading sources of information for small business owners around the world.

A major vehicle for getting small business advice to their many customers around the world is through their blogs, the Small Business Toolbox. HP isn't alone in using this technology - the use of blogs is becoming industry standard with small and large businesses around the world.

Dave Sifry, the CEO of Technorati, recently wrote, "The blogosphere is

Market Wire (press release) - USA - Women Against Cancer (WAC) is hosting its annual Pink and White Party with a Purpose to raise funds for the fight against breast cancer. The 2007 Pink and White Party will take place Saturday, August 25, 2007, 4:00 to 9:30 pm at BLVD/Crash Mansion, 199 Bowery, NYC. This event provides food, fun, entertainment, DJ and dancing as well as a silent bachelor/bachelorette auction. Ticket holders are automatically entered in a raffle to win wonderful gifts.

100% of proceeds raised last year were donated to the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Each year, WAC facilitates an exciting bachelor/bachelorette silent auction. A highlight