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Whether you want to win that new account or inspire your family and friends, bestselling author and acclaimed speaker Mark Sanborn shows us how to make every performance count.

Every day, we are called to perform— at work, at home, in our communities. But is it possible to make every performance outstanding, the kind that leaves people applauding for an encore?

Mark Sanborn, leadership expert and bestselling author of The Fred Factor, says that anyone can achieve remarkable performance time after time—no matter what their personality, strengths, or weaknesses. In The Encore Effect Sanborn demonstrates, through his own experiences as well as those of the people he’s worked with in his career, how you can cultivate the traits shared by remarkable performers and achieve extraordinary results in all aspects of your life. The secrets lie in five steps:

Passion: The fuel for remarkable performance
Prepare: How remarkable performance begins
Practice: It won’t make you perfect, but it will make you better
Perform: How to engage your audience
Polish: Making your performance shine

Whether your “stage” is an office, a sales floor, the boardroom, or your own home, Sanborn’s sound advice and rousing encouragement will help you shine in every situation where it matters most.

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The Celebrity Black Book contains the best celebrity addresses and celebrity contact information for over 55,000 public figures worldwide. Whether you're a fan, business person, nonprofit, author or a member of the media, you're bound to find this book useful. Everyone who is anyone is inside: actors, athletes, musicians, politicians, world leaders, artists, authors. even reality TV stars! The Celebrity Black Book is a staple for fans who want to request autographs, nonprofits who want to do the same so they can hold an autograph auction to raise money for their cause, businesses who want to get their products and services in the hands of celebrities, authors who want to get celebrity endorsements for their books, and members of the media who want to get an interview or a quote. There are so many uses, the possibilities are endless! This edition contains a free 60-day Membership to ContactAnyCelebrity.com's online database -- a $60.00 value!.
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Need to contact a celebrity? Now you can! "The Celebrity Black Book 2007" contains over 55,000 accurate celebrity addresses for movie, television, music and sports stars as well as politicians, authors,models, directors, producers, world leaders, religious figures, and more... even reality TV stars! Everyone who is anyone is included. Perfect for fans, businesses, nonprofits, authors, and the media..
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The Celebrity Black Book 2009 edition contains the best mailing addresses and representative names (agent, manager, publicist, production company, etc.) for over 55,000 celebrities and public figures worldwide. Everyone who is anyone is inside: actors, musicians, athletes, politicians, religious figures, world leaders, authors, writers, supermodels, directors, producers, artists, photographers, even reality TV stars! The Celebrity Black Book 2009 is a staple for fans who want to send fan mail and request autographed photos or signed sports cards, nonprofits who want to hold a celebrity autograph auction to raise money for their cause, businesses who want celebrity endorsements and spokespersons for their products and services, authors who want celebrity endorsements or "blurbs" for their books, and members of the media who want interviews or quotes. There are so many uses, the possibilities are endless! This completely updated 2009 edition contains a free 60-day Membership to the www.ContactAnyCelebrity.com online database for unlimited address updates -- a $60.00 value!.
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This book started as a lunch speech called "Amtower's Laws of Survival and Success" at the July 2005 Merit Direct Business Coop in Westchester, NY. Over time, these evolved into the core of the author's business and life philosophy, the rules that govern his conduct The Merit speech was the first public utterance of these, giving people who knew his work a chance to see why he is the way he is. These simple rules have been the basis for his conduct for two decades..
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We've supersized our homes, cars, meals--and our news. With continuous TV, Internet, newspaper, and radio coverage--all that news time to fill--we hear the same negative stories, accompanied by the same negative images, over and over and . . . It's enough to leave us feeling hopeless!

The truth is, this hyper bad-news environment isn't giving us an accurate picture of our world. If we were aware of all the individuals acting with generosity and even courage to help their communities and beyond, the surprisingly positive trends regarding crime rates and international conflicts, the many businesses and organizations getting creative and making the world a better place, we'd see there's a whole lot to be optimistic about.

And Now for the Good News is an exploration of American news and media consumption and its effect on our individual and collective psyches. But more than that, it's a refreshing antidote to all the bad news, with positive news and trends and helpful resources that will leave you feeling inspired and motivated. Read it and share the good news--especially with your kids; they need some positive news, too..
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Former Playboy centerfold and soft-porn movie actress Xuxa (SHOO-sha) emerged in the 1980s as Brazil's mass media megastar. Through her children's television show, which reaches millions of people in Latin America and the United States, this blond sex symbol has attained extraordinary cultural authority. Reaching far beyond younger audiences, Xuxa's show informs the culture at large about gender relations, racial democracy, and idealized beauty.

Backed by Brazil's TV Globo, the fourth-largest commercial network in the world, Xuxa has built an empire. Amelia Simoson's colorful portrayal is the first book to explore how Xuxa's representation of femininity, her privileging of a white ideal of beauty, and her promotional approach to culture perpetuate inequality on an unprecedented scale. Simpson's thoughtful analysis exposes the complicity of a mass audience eager to celebrate Xuxa's deeply compromised representations of gender, race, and modernity.

Xuxa also explores the meaning behind the myth—Xuxa's long-term relationship with Brazil's soccer idol, Pelé, and the near-worship of her atypical blond, blue-eyed appearance by Brazil's population. As the author examines Xuxa's suggestive style juxtaposed with juvenile entertainment, and the phenomenon of Xuxa-look-alike teenaged paquitas, she unfold the symbolic territory of blond sex symbols worldwide..
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WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT MEGA MEDIA

"Every so often an author explains our culture in such an original way that from that day on we see the world around us in a new, if not clearer, light. This is especially true when the topic is the business of media, because its influence is a thread woven intricately into our daily routine. "MEGA MEDIA" is an important and a good read."
Anil Padmanabhan
Nieman Reports


"MEGA MEDIA is must-reading for any communications executive or any citizen seriously interested in the transformation of the news business."
Walter Anderson
Publisher
Parade Magazine

"MEGA MEDIA...is an important story told in a concise, thoughtful and highly readable manner. It effectively debunks the conventional wisdom that so easily emerges from the myths about our business. For that reason alone, the book deserves to be read and discussed widely."
Robert H. Giles
Senior Vice President
The Freedom Forum
Media Studies Center

"With the grace of an accomplished journalist and the experience of a newspaper owner, Nancy Maynard analyzes the forces shaping the newspaper business. Her passion for the social mission of journalism is clear, but so is her vision of economic necessity. Don't come to this volume for nostalgia or newsroom populism. Maynard knows that the future is brightest when at present one begins by facing up to the earth."
Jack Fuller
President/Publishing
Tribune Co.

"MEGA MEDIA is the best distillation of what's happening to the news businesses that I have read. I'm recommending it to people I know who are concerned about these issues - which should mean everyone in journalism."
Jim Bettinger
Director
John S. Knight Fellowships

"I can't imagine anyone lecturing about the media or the future of journalism without turning to [this] book."
Jim Steele
Senior Writer-at-Large
Time Inc.

If you feel besotted by the hoopla over what is happening to the news business these days, over how the frenetic marketplace and rampaging technology seem to be placing everything up for grabs, then here is a welcome piece of clarity and insight. Everyone from Luddites to early adopters can benefit from Nancy Maynard's nonhysterical, nondefensive, nonjargony - and delightfully nonlengthy - analysis.
"The news business today", she aptly writes, "is like the Wild West, in digital drag". But Maynard, a veteran journalist, businessperson and educator, takes a straightforward approach to demystifying this superheated environment. She identifies seven "forces driving the future of news" and offers clearheaded analysis, sensible predictions and some measured but wise advice.
Her work is characterized by balance and open-mindedness. She clearly has a point of view - the love of journalism, particularly the kind that serves the public interest with robustness and diversity. But she is no oldtimer flailing away at all things modern. She understands the business imperitve (she and late husband, Robert Maynard owned the Oakland Tribune), she appreciates technological advance, and she seems comfortable with change.
Exerpted from August, 2000 review by
Carl Sessions Stepp
Senior Editor
American Journalism Review

To read more about Maynard and her book, please visit the author's website..
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