After she signed him -- "intercepting" him from agency head Sterling Lord because she loved his newspaper and magazine work -- she spent years funneling him book ideas from interested publishers.
This loose-leaf book, the work of a retired estate planner, has fill-in-the-blank pages for everything from bank and stock accounts, to life insurance policies, to family medical history and funeral preferences.
With good cash management practices, your month-end book work will seem less daunting.
Finally, there is the field work I did to prepare for writing Borrowed Dreams, a book of real-life adventures about the work that makes us who we are.
The 63-year-old received the National Book Award for non-fiction for her work, which chronicles her youth in 1960s New York.
Until such saviors arrive, IPOs in these post-bubble days will have to do old-fashioned work: Find customers and book sales.
To prove his point, Makarov offers this: Plus One Collection, a 200-page photography book representing work from 53 countries on four continents.
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As my colleague Chris Ernst, co-author of the recent book Boundary Spanning Leadership, has found in his work, game-changing, sustained innovation won't happen until an organization's entire workforce starts pooling its talents.
And one of the things I tried to do that year was to begin work on rewriting what we had done for Congress as a book that I would put out and my co-author who would work with me on the project was my former teacher and collaborator, Karl Brunner.
Among the first things likely to go, according to Peter Thomson and Alison Maitland, co-authors of the book "Future Work: How businesses can adapt and thrive in the new world of work, " is the idea of a fulltime job.
During the course of the project, UNESCO-LINKS will work to facilitate the insertion of the book, and in this manner Mayangna culture, knowledge and language, into the new curriculum as part of the regional or national education programme.
Three-quarters of Ms Lorenz's work is at antiquarian book auctions, mostly in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
And the show's Washington curator, Diane Waggoner, has created a complementary exhibit, "Pre-Raphaelites and the Book, " highlighting their work as illustrators.
Mr Sinn's new work is a thoroughly updated English-language version of a German book that has gone through no fewer than 11 editions.
Far too many books portray corporate chiefs as comic-book superheroes, whose legendary vision, drive and hard work have accomplished miracles.
In his paper, Bidwell references the work of Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg, who published a well-received book two years ago about what happens to star investment analysts when they switch firms.
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Please read The ETF Book for broader information on exchange-traded products and how they work.
Against that backdrop, most self-styled conservatives probably would be surprised to learn that in his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman opposed right-to-work laws.
What will be lost, or at least diminished, is the sense of a book as a finished and complete object, a self-contained work of art.
Ostensibly a purely nonfiction autobiography, it sold millions--thanks in no small part to Winfrey's inclusion of the work in her book club.
She read a book called Co-Active Coaching: New Skills For Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life, by Karen and Henry Kimsey-House (co-founders of the Coaches Training Institute), Phillip Sandahl, and Laura Whitworth.
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From 20 years of contact with Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, I'd describe his life and work in two words: open book.
Sarcasm and disdain may work in a 500-word opinion piece in a newspaper but they become tedious over 500 pages of a book.
For a plain-English explanation of how GRATs and other estate planning opportunities work, see Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly Action-Oriented Guide, the bestselling book by Deborah L. Jacobs .
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The interesting historical detective work, and some neat demolition of myths and conspiracy theories, bring Mr Fitzgibbons half-way through a short book.
Crawford means his book to be a philosophical manifesto for a dawning age: an ode to old-fashioned hard work, and an argument that localism can help cure our spiritual and economic woes.
What caught my eye this month is "The Sisters" (below), a hypnotically luminous 1991-93 abstract work by Brice Marden, one of America's leading artists and the subject of a new book, "Brice Marden: Phaidon Focus" (Phaidon).
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