Language and Litterature

Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all of these wonders were designed to make communication easier and faster, speed and efficiency have come with a price. Clear business writing has never been more difficult or stressful. Writers are expected to respond quickly to an endless flow of e-mail messages.

The central message of POWERSPEAK is the importance of engaging stimulating and maintaining the attention of an audience. Focusing on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective Dorothy Leeds isolates these elements to ensure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience enthralled.

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the "Mathnawi.

Linda Goodman is the world's best-known astrologer. Her three books, Sun Signs, Love Signs, and Star Signs have sold over 40 million copies in many languagaes. Known to her friends as both a poet and a romantic, Linda Goodman's view of the world was influencd by the astrology she understood so well.

Just like precious gems are formed by the Earth's pressures, so to is wisdom gained through life's many challenges. The Hope book contains a distillation of wisdom borne through life experiences. Experiences that are common to us all. Words used sparingly too are precious gems that can transform someone's life.

The only psychic ever to lecture at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Renier has assisted law enforcement officials all over the world, working on more than 400 criminal cases.

Russll Targ's story is an idiosyncratic journey through the highways and byways of intellectual, scientific and cultural life in 20th century. His father (the long-time editor-in-chief at Putnam) acquired The Godfather on the basis of an outline scribbled on the back of a napkin. His mother was the first press agent of the fan dancer Sally Rand.

The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."