The Idea in Brief We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you've got ambition, drive, and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession--regardless of where you started out. But...
Why does a successful entrepreneur roll the dice? PeopleJam President Robert Tercek says it isn't always for the money. While Tercek certainly has his eye on the $11 billion personal development market, he says learning is just as important as the bottom line. Here, Tercek talks about spotting opportunity, taking...
The latest issue of Going Bonkers Magazine, aquarterly launched in Winter 2007, has just hit newsstands with timelyadvice during this summer-of-the-worst-gas-prices-ever. Popular author EliDavidson, whose latest book is "Funky to Fabulous," in the article"Recession without Depression," tackles not just gas prices but moreserious family issues of job...
TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS: A Differentiated Approach. Carol Rothenberg & Douglas Fisher. Columbus, OH: Pearson Education, 2007. 273 pp. Paperback, $17.00. Teaching English Language Learners: A Differentiated Approach is an easy-to-read, self-help book for educators of English language learners ELLs. The book is organized into eight chapters, with a last...
Managing Editor Eric Nee spoke with Self-Help's founder and CEO, Martin Eakes, about the subprime loan crisis and its impact on the poor. When Martin Eakes was a teenager growing up in a poor, rural community outside of Greensboro, N.C., his best friend, who was an African...
NORFOLK, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. C. K. Hersh has released a new book Conquering the Game of Life. He shares life stories and a unique perspective to catapult the reader to create and live the game of life that they desire. Dr. C. K. Hersh,...
"What To Do When Your Child GetsSick," written by two registered nurses frustrated with the typical 11thgrade reading level of most patient education materials, recently reached a2 million copies sold mark since the book's initial publication in 2000. This milestone was made possible in part because of the ongoing search...
PHILADELPHIA -- The ACE Group of Companies today announced that the ACE INA Foundation is making a three-year, $720,000 grant to Freedom from Hunger, a U.S. non-profit organization that brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty. The funds will be used for its...
Collaboration Features Key in Selection of Knowledge Management Platform SAN BRUNO, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- InQuira, Inc., a provider of integrated software applications for web self-help, agent-assisted support and enterprise knowledge management, today announced that MSC.Software, the industry leader in enterprise simulation solutions that help companies...
The general rule when writing pieces about the multimillionaire TV hypnotist, bestselling author and self-help guru Paul McKenna is to go in deeply sceptical and to come out less so. Well I'm sorry, but I can't be doing with any of that. 'Paul, ' I say, when I...
Travis Alexander was a young, successful businessman, a well- known motivational speaker and a devout Mormon. Alexander wanted to get married some day and have a family. The 30-year-old Mesa man who had recently finished a self-help book to inspire others didn't get the...
Last week was a celebration marking the 40th anniversary of the Central City Community Center. In 1965, the Salt Lake City Community Action Program, as part of the War on Poverty, hired me to help people develop self-help programs for its community. The program called for the "maximum feasible participation...
SAN DIEGO, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Taylor Wilshire, award-winning author of The What-If Guy (ISBN: 0-9778018-02), has a new novel out, The Book of Mom (ISBN: 978-0-9778018-1-7, Nautilus Press) which is one of the Top 10 New Releases of 2008 on Amazon.com's "Listmania," as well as an international best-seller...
Fulfill your summer passions by asking yourself these life questions. SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The verdict is in this summer: happiness is truly just around the corner -- you just need to know what corner you want to turn. Who Are You and...
Brite-Strike Technologies, Inc.( http://www.brite-strike.com ), producers of personal protection systems forpolice officers and citizens, announces support for a new non-profitorganization called STOP AOW ASSAULTS ON WOMEN ( http://www.stopaow.org ). STOP AOW ASSAULTS ON WOMEN, headquartered in Kingston, Massachusetts, isdedicated to providing education awareness in preventing assaults on women. STOP AOW...
ToolsToLife.com , the leading onlinecommunity for self-help, has beaten a 10:1 selection ratio to become ashowoff finalist at Twiistup 4 in Santa Monica, CA on July 17. Twiistup 4is the premier event in Southern California which showcases and promotesthe best of the new Internet economy's emerging companies. ToolsToLife.com ...
Almost six months after the UN launched its largest, most expensive and most hyped peacekeeping mission, promising to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, the operation is failing to protect the people it was sent to save. Just one third of the military personnel and one quarter of...
SAN BRUNO, Calif., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- InQuira Inc., a provider of integrated software applications for web self-help, agent-assisted support and enterprise knowledge management, today announced that Forrester Research, Inc. has recognized InQuira as a leader in enterprise search, according to the new Forrester WaveTM: Enterprise Search, Q2 2008....
The collapse in the Lehman Brothers share price is complicating the American investment bank's efforts to raise new money to shore up its battered balance sheet, and it is examining the possibility of seeking alternative funding from the Far East. If it tapped foreign capital - perhaps...
Clinical Question What are the most effective treatments for bulimia nervosa? Evidence-Based Answer Cognitive behavior therapy CBT is the most effective treatment for bulimia nervosa based on multiple consistent randomized-controlled trials RCTs. (Strength of Recommendation [SOR]: A). Guided self-help has not been shown to...
