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2007 Quill Nominees by Kate At BEA, the 2007 Quill Award nominees were announced.
What titles were eligible?
Eligible titles for the 2007 Quill Awards were those published between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
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Last week 30,000 booksellers flooded New York City's Javits Center to attend the annual Book Convention (known to insiders as BEA). This is where people wait in endless lines for an autograph, where people compare their tradeshow loot like Halloween candy (in this case, advance copies of books), and where Stephen Colbert, Rosie O'Donnell, LL Cool J and Khalid Hosseini can be seen under one roof.
With 90-degree New York heat and a temperamental air conditioner, booksellers struggled to stay cool.
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A new batch of ChangeThis manifestos will be up this week, but in case you missed these popular manifestos, here's your chance to check in with what our readers are reading.
Growing
Great New Managers by Erika
Andersen
10
Unwealthy Habits - Alicia
Castillo
Manifesto to
Accelerate: 15 Truths by Dan Coughlin
What Must Starbucks Do? by John Moore
100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why
Most Ideas Get Shot Down by Michael Iva
Few and Far Between: Black
Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod
The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin
Managers Ignite!
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BusinessWeek | The Working-Mom Quandary
"Out now are four books that deconstruct the underlying causes of stopping out and formulate some smart solutions beyond HR pablum. "
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The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List
April 2007 bestsellers
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BusinessWeek Bestsellers - Slideshow
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Richard Florida of Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class is looking for some help on the title for his next book. Some of the ideas include:
The Wealth of Place
Who's Your City?
Where
Location Factor
Why Place Matters
Geography is Destiny
What's Your LQ (Location Quotient)
I suggest in the comments that they keep working on it.
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