My colleague, Kerry Bodine, co-author of the book Outside-In: The Power Of Putting Customers At The Center Of Your Business and an expert in customer experience published a blog post in November 2012 that talked about the importance of employee empowerment and the need to design the employee experience in the same way that you design the customer experience.

FORBES: Measuring Workforce Experience

Acer is promoting its book-sized nettop, the AspireRevo, as an entertainment center that can serve up photos, music and video in high-definition.

FORBES: Acer Goes After Asus

What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?

FORBES: Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan Sounds Just Like Zeke Emanuel's Voucher System

Meanwhile in England, the FA Cup quarterfinals took center stage with Wigan the first to book a place in the semifinals with a comprehensive 3-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park.

CNN: Bayern stretch lead to 20 points as Dortmund falter

Thilo Sarrazin, a governor of the Bundesbank (and it's worth mentioning, a member of the left-of-center Social Democratic party) was pressured to resign his post in September after publishing a book arguing the failure of Germany's absorption of immigrants.

CNN: Germany's Merkel is right -- multiculturalism has failed

In the dining room there's a five-panel Egyptian pictograph spanning the length of one wall. (As with many of his objects, Mr. Davis said he got it in a barter deal, trading it with the publisher of a popular book series for the use of his music.) At the center of the home is a 44-foot-tall, four-sided fireplace.

WSJ: The Mannheim Steamroller Founder's Wild Holiday Home

In his penetrating new book "The History of Future Cities, " author Daniel Brook matter-of-factly declares Dubai as the center of the world.

CNN: Is Dubai the center of the world (again)?