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In the Books - Off to the Printers II
By Porchlight
For our second installment of articles from past issues of In the Books, we turn to Kate Mytty and her piece on sustainability in business. We lost Kate to Boston this year, where she is working her magic for PublicWords. ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ When Ecology and Economy Meet BY KATE MYTTY Ecology and economy have finally reached a crossroads.
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Our Mile High Book Club: Best Airplane Reads from 8CR
By Porchlight
I was inspired by NPR's Mile HIgh Book Club listing today and thought to myself, "Hey! Lots of people will be grabbing a plane to visit family and friends this weekend - what would business minded people want to read during their travels? " Well, why not pick from the Top 10 business books that we've sold overseas and across borders in 2009?
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In the Books - Off to the Printers
By Porchlight
We've been working very hard on producing In the Books, our annual review of business books, for many months now. Like the year itself, it wasn't an easy project, but it is always a labor of love and one we're extremely proud of. We've mentioned many times over the year that the downturn in the economy has hit us as it did everyone else out there, and along with focusing on the many books that address—and offer solutions to—the challenges we all face, it is something we go into a bit more personally in this year's annual.
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New Space Update #4
By Porchlight
Here it 'tis - almost the holiday season - and we're knee deep in renovations still! It's coming along nicely but it cannot happen too soon enough for us.
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Huge Discounts
By Porchlight
Around this time of year, companies commonly slash prices to ease the cost of gift giving. While all of our books can be ordered in bulk at great discounts any time of year, there are certain books we offer at huge discounts at any quantity. But, we wondered, did anyone know these offers existed on our site?
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A Man in Woman's Clothes?
By Porchlight
I just spotted an article posted by aol jobs this morning about a woman in Quebec that posed as a man on her blog and received benefits on both professional and monetary levels. It's astounding to think such sexism still is in place at the end of 2009 - read on: What's in a Name? Big Profits, Apparently - by Lisa Johnson Mandell Oh no he didn't!
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TIME's Person of the Year - In Fed We Trust
By Porchlight
Time magazine has picked its person of the year, beginning their description of him thus: A bald man with a gray beard and tired eyes is sitting in his oversize Washington office, talking about the economy. Hooked yet? Try this: He's shy .
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Free Rich Dad Workshop: Milwaukee
By Porchlight
If you're in the Milwaukee area for the holiday season, or if you just REALLY like the Rich Dad books, or if you're cheap (like me) - check out the FREE workshop that Robert Kiyosaki is throwing in our neck of the woods! ! The seminar will touch on topics from the Rich Dad Prophecy, help you get financial freedom, includes advanced training, special offers and you get a FREE USB flash drive.
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What is it about Baseball?
By Porchlight
I’ve been reading a lot about baseball lately. In The Man with Two Arms by Billy Lombardo (coming in February 2010), a new father is thinking about his soon-to-be-born son. What about baseball?
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The Billion Dollar Mistake
By Porchlight
How much can a person learn through other people’s mistakes? Plenty, especially when those people are successful billionaire investors. Author and a successful investor himself Stephen L.
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