When Peter DeLeo set out one Sunday morning on a sightseeing and photography trip over the central Sierra Nevada mountains in California, he had no idea that he would soon be fighting for his life with the odds stacked very much against him. DeLeo's single-engine plane encountered turbulence, and he ... more »

In his smart and thoughtful book, scholar, civility expert and popular radio personality P.M. Forni identifies the 25 rules of civility that are most essential in connecting effectively and happily with others. Here, civility is presented and conceived not as sociological or philosophical tract, but ... more »

Sales Dogs will: · Show the five simple but critical revenue-generating skills to generate endless streams of qualified buyers and life-long sales · Teach you how to communicate and sell to your own natural strengths · Give you the steps to inspire and direct any group of salespeople into a charging ... more »

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for people who care passionately about one particular plant -- thought this time the obsessions revolves around the intoxicating ... more »

FISH! told the story of a fictional company that transformed itself by applying lessons learned from Seattle's famous Pike Place Fish Market. Now, with FISH! TALES, readers can learn how real-life businesses and individuals energized their workplaces--and their lives--by implementing the lessons from ... more »

In October 1998, one of the most savage storms in Atlantic history cornered a 282-foot passenger sailing ship against an exposed Caribbean coastline. With nowhere to hide and no time to run, Fantome turned to face Hurricane Mitch's assault of 180 mile-per-hour winds and 50-foot seas. As the eye of the ... more »

Absolute fascinating--it fills a huge void in the literature of the subject... . Brown's familiarity with the technical aspects of shipdriving, based on his own career at sea, gives him enormous credibility... . The Last Log of the Titanic has more surprises than any book I've seen on the topic in the ... more »

Dot coms will come and dot coms will go, but one thing is for sure: technology and the Internet have forever changed the way we communicate and do business. Two computer scientists from Minnesota are at the vanguard of the revolution. Their creation is collaborative filtering, and it?s turning out to ... more »

Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds ... more »

Venice is sinking - six feet over the past 1,000 years. Reasons for this are many. Although there is a natural geologic tendency for some sinking, humans have exacerbated the problem by exploiting on a massive scale underground water resources for industrial purposes. Coupled with these events - and ... more »

ABC?s John Miller has been tracking this story since his coverage of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He was the first American journalist to interview Osama bin Laden. He has a sophisticated knowledge of the structure and workings of bin Laden?s and other extremist organizations. And he ... more »

Since moving west over a decade ago, Tom Groneberg has worked with horses as a trail guide, as a ranch hand, and as the manager of his own ranch in Montana, but he has never owned a really good horse. Until, on an autumn night, in a warm barn under a blanket of snow, Blue is born. Soon, he will belong ... more »