Show me the money! This is the frantic cry of the "old guard" of senior executives as they desperately struggle to deal with commoditizing markets, the loss of their differentiator and the inevitable impact on profitability.
At the same time the new breed of enlightened, customer-focused executi[...]

"Prior to this book project I wrote for the Indianapolis Star. I traveled throughout Indiana writing about people and situations I found interesting. On my long drives through the state, I'd pass old homes along country roads or around courthouse squares and wonder who lived in them, and why? Who ha[...]

The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of typography and culminated in the release of the first movie ever made starring a typeface. Yet Helvetica's fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with[...]

Blackmailed into His Bed! Wanted: Bride Rafiq, heir to a desert kingdom, thinks innocent Lizzie will be the perfect wife for his brother. But Lizzie isn't agreeing, so Rafiq plans to blackmail her! Then suddenly, Rafiq's demanding her for himself! Sold...to the Desert Prince Victoria McCallan had to[...]

This provocative book explores the cross-fertilization between music and the visual arts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Reassessing the work of a wide range of composers and artists including Richard Wagner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and John Cage, Simon Shaw-Miller demonstrates how[...]

Back in the thirties and forties, when New York City was the capital of the jazz worldyou could hail a cab, ask the driver to take you to "The Street," and find yourself on 52nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Musicians, jazz lovers, college students, big businessmeneverybody knew that this[...]

Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of "5 People Who Died During Sex. "Nothing is too insane, too inane, or too sacred for Karl Shaw's eclectic lists of the world's ver[...]