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A short, sharp guide to tackling life's biggest challenges: understanding ourselves and making the right choices.

Every day offers moments of decision, from what to eat for lunch to how to settle a dispute with a colleague. Still larger questions loom: How can I motivate my team? How can I work more efficiently? What is the long tail anyway?

Whether you're a newly minted MBA, a chronic second-guesser, or just someone eager for a new vantage point, The Decision Book presents fifty models for better structuring, and subsequently understanding, life's steady challenges. Interactive and thought-provoking, this illustrated workbook offers succinct summaries of popular strategies, including the Rubber Band Model for dilemmas with many directions, the Personal Performance Model to test whether to change jobs, and the Black Swan Model to illustrate why experience doesn't guarantee wisdom. Packed with familiar tools like the Pareto Principle, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and an unusual exercise inspired by Warren Buffet, The Decision Book is the ideal reference for flexible thinkers. MORE

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176 pages, Hardcover
January 2012

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THE AWARD-WINNING CRIME NOVEL THAT LAUNCHED A LEGENDARY WRITING CAREER IS NOW AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK.

Stuart Woods on Chiefs:

More than sixty years ago, while rummaging in a closet in my maternal grandmother’s home, I found a large chief-of-police badge. It had been torn and pockmarked by buckshot and still bore traces of dried blood. It had belonged to my grandfather, who had died wearing it more than ten years before my birth. The story of his death, as related to me by my grandmother’s sister, my great aunt Ruby, formed the basis of Chiefs. Later, James S. Peters, upon whom the character Hugh Holmes is based, sat down with me for a long interview and filled in many blanks about the founding of my hometown, Manchester, Georgia. In addition to Will Henry and Holmes, a number of other characters were based on real people, all of whom are long dead.

I began writing the novel in Ireland, in February 1973, and did not finish it until November 1980. It was finally published in March 1981 and was made into a six-hour television miniseries two year later, which starred Charlton Heston, Billy Dee Williams, John Goodman, Brad Davis, Tess Harper, Danny Glover, Paul Sorvino, Stephen Collins, and Victoria Tennant.

The book established me as a novelist, and from that time onward I have earned my living as a writer. In January 2012 I completed my fiftieth novel, to be published in September of that year. A complete list can be found on my Web site, stuartwoods.com, along with an interview, a biography, and other features.

I intend to continue writing as long as I can think and move my fingers.

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A thought-provoking and humorous collection on NASA and the future of space travel.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a rare breed of astrophysicist, one who can speak as easily and brilliantly with popular audiences as with professional scientists. Now that NASA has put human space flight effectively on hold-with a five- or possibly ten-year delay until the next launch of astronauts from U.S. soil-Tyson's views on the future of space travel and America's role in that future are especially timely and urgent. This book represents the best of Tyson's commentary, including a candid new introductory essay on NASA and partisan politics, giving us an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for America's economy, security, and morale. Thanks to Tyson's fresh voice and trademark humor, his insights are as delightful as they are provocative, on topics that range from the missteps that shaped our recent history of space travel to how aliens, if they existed, might go about finding us. MORE

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362 pages, Hardcover and e-book
February 2012
Jacket design by Chin-Yee Lai

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With poems about loss, home, marriage, and the inner music of our lives, Pitch is a series of variations on an overturned piano. By turns bright and dark like the keys on a keyboard, these poems demonstrate the range of one of contemporary poetry's most musical poets, a master of internal rhyme. MORE

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110 pages, Hardcover
February 2012
Jacket design by Catherine Casalino

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In these poems of broken unions and acute longing, Major Jackson explores art, literature, and music as seductive forces in our lives. MORE

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92 pages, Paperback
February 2012
Cover design by David J. High, highdzn.com

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