Obama Taps Oprah's Campaign Star

Obama Taps Oprah's Campaign Star
Sen. Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey blitzed through three early primary states over the weekend, drawing huge crowds for Obama's bid for the presidency. They made appearances in Iowa, South Carolina and New Hampshire.

AP Photographer Gets First Hearing

AP Photographer Gets First Hearing
An Iraqi investigating magistrate on Sunday convened the first criminal hearing in the case of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held by the U.S. military without charges for nearly 20 months.

GOP Candidates Praise Hispanics at Debate

GOP Candidates Praise Hispanics at Debate
Republican presidential candidates sought to embrace Hispanics in a Spanish language debate Sunday, striving to soften anti-immigration rhetoric that has marked their past encounters.

Greek parrot in parking fine row

Greek parrot in parking fine row
A legal battle is under way in Greece over a parrot that is facing a parking fine.

Venezuela turns back clocks

Venezuela turns back clocks
The Venezuelan president has turned back the clocks and given his country a time zone all of its own.

Pig farmer guilty of murder

Pig farmer guilty of murder
A man feared to be Canada's most prolific killer has been convicted of second-degree murder in six cases.

5 Steps to Great Leadership

5 Steps to Great Leadership
The founder of the Institute for Women's Leadership, Rayona Sharpnack, presents her new book TRADE UP! Discover how anyone, from MBA students to CEOs, can become vastly better leaders in five steps.

Book Description
Silicon Valley wunderkind Rayona Sharpnack has been a schoolteacher, tennis champion, manager and player for a women’s professional softball team, and a celebrity who coaches some of the most successful leaders in business. Trade Up! draws on Sharpnack’s experience, as well as stories of successful leaders she has worked with, to reveal how leaders limit themselves by holding on to ideas or assumptions about ourselves—what she calls your “context” —that are no longer valid. Trade Up! outlines the 5 steps to help leaders gain awareness of these assumptions and trade up from limiting beliefs and behaviors to those that will help them change the world. The 5 steps are

• Reveal your context: what do you believe about yourself? What holds you back? How do you impact others?

• Own your context: take stock of the upside and downside of your context, and examine the intended and unintended consequences of it!

• Design a new context that gets you what you want: begin by asking yourself “how good are you willing to have life be?”

• Sustain your new context: develop new practices to get this new context to stick!

• Activate your context and engage with the world: move out of your own concerns and into partnership and community with others to help change the world around you!

Hate Your Job? Here's Why.

Hate Your Job? Here's Why.
Famed 'leadership fable' writer Patrick Lencioni pinpoints the issue of job dissatisfaction in his latest book, THREE SIGNS OF A MISERABLE JOB.

From Publishers Weekly
Lencioni, a consultant, speaker and bestselling author (The Five Dysfunctions of a Team), pinpoints the reasons behind and ways around what many consider a constant of the human condition: job dissatisfaction. According to Lencioni, job-fueled misery can ultimately seep into all aspects of life, leading to drug and alcohol abuse, violence and other problems, making this examination of job misery dynamics a worthy pursuit. Through the "simple" tale of a retired CEO-turned-pizzeria manager, Lencioni reveals the three corners of the employee unhappiness pyramid-immeasurability, anonymity and irrelevance-and how they contribute to dissatisfaction in all jobs and at all levels (including famously unfulfilled celebrities and athletes). The main culprit is the distancing of people from each other (anonymity), which means less exposure to the impact their work has (immeasurability), and thus a diminished sense of their own utility (irrelevance). While his major points could have been communicated more efficiently in a straightforward self-help fashion, his fictional case study proves an involving vessel for his model and strategies (applicable to managers and lower-level staff alike), and an appendix-like final chapter provides a helpfully stripped-down version.

Where Great Companies Get Their Mojo

Where Great Companies Get Their Mojo
Chip Conley, founder of a successful hospitality company reveals how businesses can achieve their fullest potential in his new book, PEAK. Discover how classic principals can spell fulfillment and for profits.

From Publishers Weekly
Despite using the word mojo in the subtitle and citing inspiration he received from 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary, this guide to better management isn't for hippies. Yes, Conley started the California boutique hotel chain Joie de Vivre Hospitality with the Phoenix Hotel, once a haven for faded rock stars. And yes, he quotes liberally from rebel CEOs who surf. But Conley's book is packed with thoughtful, instructional stories and advice for entrepreneurs as well as Fortune 500 managers, gleaned from his own experience as well as other business books. At the center of this confessional how-to is psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a pyramid that ranks human needs from base to self-actualizing. Used as the basis for employee, customer and stakeholder satisfaction, Conley contends, it can transform a business and its people. Though Stephen Covey and Peter Drucker have looked to Maslow before, Conley describes how using the pyramid saved his company from bankruptcy when the dot-com bubble burst. Conley is most successful when he expresses his ideas in numbered lists rather than the wordy passages that slow down the beginning. On the whole, though, his advice is inspiring and accessible.

Proven To Profit

Proven To Profit
Author Louis Navellier, editor of EMERGING GROWTH, debuts his new book THE LITTLE BOOK THAT MAKES YOU RICH. Learn the sure-fire strategies for picking the right stocks and growing your portfolio.

Book Description
Profit from a powerful, proven investment strategy

The Little Book That Makes You Rich is the latest book in the popular "Little Book, Big Profits" series. Written by Louis Navellier -- one of the most well-respected and successful growth investors of our day -- this book offers a fundamental understanding of how to get rich using the best in growth investing strategies. Navellier has made a living by picking top, actively traded stocks and capturing unparalleled profits from them in the process. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You Rich, he shows you how to find stocks that are poised for rapid price increases, regardless of overall stock market direction. Navellier also offers the statistical and quantitative measures needed to measure risk and reward along the path to profitable growth stock investing. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book That Makes You Rich gives individual investors specific tools for selecting stocks based on the factors that years of research have proven to lead to growth stock profits. These factors include analysts' moves, profit margins expansion, and rapid sales growth. In addition to offering you tips for not paying too much for growth, the author also addresses essential issues that every growth investor must be aware of, including which signs will tell you when it's time to get rid of a stock and how to monitor a portfolio in order to maintain its overall quality. Accessible and engaging, The Little Book That Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth in today's markets.

Louis Navellier (Reno, NV) has one of the most exceptional long-term track records of any financial newsletter editor in America. As a financial analyst and editor of investment newsletters since 1980, Navellier's recommendations (published in Emerging Growth) have gained over 4,806 percent in the last 22 years, as confirmed by a leading independent newsletter rating service, The Hulbert Financial Digest. Emerging Growth is one of Navellier's four services, which also includes his Blue Chip Growth service for large-cap stock investors, his Quantum Growth service for active traders seeking shorter-term gains, and his Global Growth service for active traders focused on high growth global stocks.

Tricking Kids Into Eating Vegetables

Tricking Kids Into Eating Vegetables
Using some innovative vegetable purees hidden in your kids' favorite treats, Missy Chase Lapine shows you how to get your kids to eat healthily without fuss in THE SNEAKY CHEF.

The House, and the Affair that Frank Built

The House, and the Affair that Frank Built
The life of the woman who had a scandalous, passionate affair with famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright is deliciously fictionalized in LOVING FRANK, a daring debut novel by author Nancy Horan.

From Publishers Weekly
Horan's ambitious first novel is a fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first marriage. Despite the title, this is not a romance, but a portrayal of an independent, educated woman at odds with the restrictions of the early 20th century. Frank and Mamah, both married and with children, met when Mamah's husband, Edwin, commissioned Frank to design a house. Their affair became the stuff of headlines when they left their families to live and travel together, going first to Germany, where Mamah found rewarding work doing scholarly translations of Swedish feminist Ellen Key's books. Frank and Mamah eventually settled in Wisconsin, where they were hounded by a scandal-hungry press, with tragic repercussions. Horan puts considerable effort into recreating Frank's vibrant, overwhelming personality, but her primary interest is in Mamah, who pursued her intellectual interests and love for Frank at great personal cost. As is often the case when a life story is novelized, historical fact inconveniently intrudes: Mamah's life is cut short in the most unexpected and violent of ways, leaving the narrative to crawl toward a startlingly quiet conclusion. Nevertheless, this spirited novel brings Mamah the attention she deserves as an intellectual and feminist.

Deeper into DINOTOPIA

Deeper into DINOTOPIA
The beloved story of DINOTOPIA continues in JOURNEY TO CHANDARA, a new adventure by James Gurney. The journal of explorer Arthur Denison reveals unexplored parts of the wondrous lost island, where humans and dinosaurs coexist.

STAR WARS: Legacy of the Force

STAR WARS: Legacy of the Force
The adventure in a galaxy far, far away continues in the LEGACY OF THE FORCE book series, the latest epic adventure to expand the Star Wars universe. LOTF sees the return of major Jedi and Sith players in an explosive galactic war.

Cornelia Funke's Princess in Shining Armor

Cornelia Funke's Princess in Shining Armor
International bestselling INKHEART author Cornelia Funke presents IGRAINE THE BRAVE, a magical tale about a princess longs to be a knight, a wizard family, a gentle giant, a sad soldier, and a dastard with a plan to storm her castle.

Book Description
Princess Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring. Until the nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up. He's got a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim as his own the wonderful singing spell books that belong to Igraine's magician parents. To make matters worse, at the very moment of the siege, her mom and dad botch a spell, turning themselves into pigs! Aided by a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight, it's up to Igraine to be brave and save the day--and the books!

Behind the Moosic with Sandra Boynton

Behind the Moosic with Sandra Boynton
Illustrator-songwriter Sandra Boynton brings 50s jukebox music back with BLUE MOO, a songbook and new album featuring Neil Sedaka, Davy Jones, Brian Wilson, and B.B. King.

Book Description
Put a nickel in the jukebox, assuming you can locate a jukebox, and that you remember what a nickel is. Here's legendary Beach Boy Brian Wilson singing lead and 10-part harmonies on "Speed Turtle." The incomparable Neil Sedaka crooning "Your Nose." B. B. King brings you a wistful "One Shoe Blues," Gerry and the Pacemakers offer "Mersey Lullaby," and relative newcomer (in this seasoned company) Patti LuPone of "Evita" fame sings—what else—the "Rabbit Tango." And then there's the hit single from Boynton's Your Personal Penguin sung by the impossibly cute Davy Jones of The Monkees. I mean jeepers, even Sha Na Na is here.

So roll over, Beethoven—and Lieber and Stoller. Boynton & Ford once again bring great words, great music, great performers to children and vintage children alike. And OH! The book! Boynton has filled it with all things 50s and 60s. And, well, golly, it’s so happy and colorful and just terrific, Mister! Grab your saddle shoes, plunk two straws into that swell chocolate malt, and let's twist again like we did last century.

This Dog Rocks!

This Dog Rocks!
Larry is an average dog, except he talks, sings rock 'n' roll, and sells millions of records. LARRY: THE KING OF ROCK AND ROLL is a new book for all the kids and animal lovers who ever wondered if their pet could do more than meets the eye.

Book Description
Did you know dogs can talk? Well, neither did Cathy and her father, Tom, a songwriter struggling with a new tune—that is, until their pet dog Larry opened his mouth and helped Tom finish the song!
Once Larry reveals he can not only talk but sing, there’s no stopping him. In no time, he’s on stage singing for sold-out audiences. Even the President of the United States is a fan of Larry. But soon enough, fame goes to Larry’s head: he drops Tom from his act, abandons Cathy and moves in with his agent. By the time of his showcase gig at the Hollywood Bowl, it’s clear he’s the king of rock and roll—but at what cost?

A fun-filled, tongue-in-cheek romp through the world of music stardom, Larry: The King of Rock and Roll is sure to win this lovable pooch a whole new legion of fans—young readers everywhere!

Scotch Whisky smashes records

Scotch Whisky smashes records
An investor from New York snapped up a rare bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch Whisky for 54,000 dollars at an auction at Christies, in New York.The auction was the first of its kind in the city since the prohibition of alcohol ended in 1933.

Inside the Minds of Married Men

Inside the Minds of Married Men
HUSBANDRY: SEX, LOVE, AND DIRTY LAUNDRY is an insightful and uproariously funny collection of articles by Stephen Fried that delves deep into the mind and the mystery of the married man.

A Piece of Peace for Mommy

A Piece of Peace for Mommy
Taking a Zen approach to motherhood brings abundant rewards, as explained in MOMMA ZEN. This new book by Karen Maezen Miller contains lessons that show women how to de-stress and delight in their new role.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW Author Travels World for Answers

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW Author Travels World for Answers
Author Robert Fulghum, of the literary sensation ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, releases a new inspirational work. WHAT ON EARTH HAVE I DONE collects essays on everyday trials and joys, here and abroad.

Book Review: SUPER CRUNCHERS

Life by Numbers
In SUPER CRUNCHERS Yale Law School professor Ian Ayres reveals why increasingly, data sets are being used to make accurate predictions that affect our lives in every way, from business to travel to dating.

Lamu island, too popular for its own good

Lamu island, too popular for its own good
Lamu, a small island off the Kenyan coast, has been attracting tourists since the 1960s. But over the past decades the hippies and backpackers who used to be its main visitors have been steadily losing ground to another type of tourist: the jet-setting elites in search of an exclusive experience. Wealthy visitors are buying property on the island, sparkling a real estate boom, as well as concerns that its unique Swahili culture is being compromised by its success.

Sigmund Freud 'hangs Out' in Michigan

Sigmund Freud 'hangs Out' in Michigan
A Gallery owner is hanging a life-sized sculpture of famed psychiatrist Sigmund Freud outside of the seventh floor of a building. The art exhibit is causing a bit of controversy and a lot of frantic calls to police, asking for help.

Reuters QuickCut: Risky driving

Reuters QuickCut: Risky driving in Pushkar, India

Reuters Oddly Enough: And Finally...

Reuters Oddly Enough: And Finally...
Chad Ruble presents the of this week's Oddly Enough video from the Reuters studio in Times Square. Knut gets BIG. Tiger cub cuteness. An elaborate water clock.

Japanese Robot Plays the Violin

Japanese Robot Plays the Violin
Check out thses new robots Toyota's unveiled in Toyko. One plays the violin. The other not only 'talks' - it signs autographs.