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AudioFile, the only magazine devoted to audiobooks, is indispensable for anyone who enjoys spoken-word audio. We review more than 100 audiobooks in each issue and award exceptional performances with AudioFile's Earphones Awards.

AudioFile reviews unabridged and abridged audiobooks, original audio programs, commentary, and dramatizations in the spoken-word format. Our focus is the audio presentation, not the critique of the written material.

AudioFile reviewers are professionals in the information, education, and performance fields. Each issue of AudioFile lists the reviewers of the month's titles. All reviews are signed.

M&C, Perfection in Planning!

M&C magazine is the definitive resource for meetings industry news featuring issues and trends, practical how-to features and destination guides for more than 70,000 meeting professionals who plan and book over one million meetings annually. Monthly, 13 issues per year (including the annual Gavel issue).

Since 1965, Meetings & Conventions magazine has been helping meeting and event planners in corporations, associations, incentive houses and independent planning companies excel at their jobs and effectively manage their careers. In our award-winning monthly print publication and here at M&C Online, we offer in-depth features, informative columns, destination insights, news analysis, original research and much more. And, our new, improved website offers additional tools: an articles archive, a powerful facility search engine, breaking news and other helpful features -- literally at your fingertips.

By Amber Frey, Regan Books, January 2006

The dramatic story of the young woman unknowingly ensnared in convicted killer Scott Peterson's web of lies. Amber Frey risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child.

Witness is the chilling story of how a young woman became ensnared in Scott Peterson's web of lies, then risked everything to seek justice for Laci Peterson and her unborn child, Conner. It is also a story of forgiveness and faith, and of one woman's struggle to live with an open and honest heart.

Amber Frey is a certified massage therapist and lives in Fresno, California. She has a daughter, Ayiana, and a son, Justin.

By John Dos Passos, 1921, eBook Provided by Pennsylvania State University, 2004

“I regard Dos Passos as the greatest writer of our time.” —Jean-Paul Sartre

Wikepedia: Three Soldiers is a 1921 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre.

H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. "Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality."

A Work By Laurence Sterne, eBook Provided by Pennsylvania State University, 2006.

The comic masterpiece Tristram Shandy is often regarded as a progenitor of the twentieth century novel. Within the resolutely tangled strands of this narrative is the life, from conception, of a gentleman cursed at birth with the name Tristram. Though everything occurs between parlor and garden, Tristram's excitable father, bewildered mother, and Uncle Toby provide ample opportunity for the digressions and madcap events that structure this seminal novel.

Wikipedia: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not always highly thought of by other writers (Samuel Johnson responded that, "Nothing odd will do long"[1]), but its bawdy humour was popular with London society, and it has come to be seen as one of the greatest comic novels in English, as well as a forerunner for many modern narrative devices.

By Wil Schroter, Go BIG Media, March 2006

How the next generation of startup companies think BIG, grow FAST, and dominate markets overnight.

How to position your small business for funding, pitch venture capital firms, and leverage an angel investor network.

Wil Schroter’s latest book, “Go BIG or Go HOME” helps entrepreneurs understand the principles behind small business funding, growth and development. Whether you’re looking to leverage an angel investor network or go on to solicit a big venture capital firm, you’ll get an inside track on how to position your startup company for BIG growth

By Jay Conrad Levinson, ChangeThis.com, 2004

Over 90 field-tested tactics to get your business into the frontlines...

The Guerrilla Marketing Guru, Jay Conrad Levinson, serves up 93 (yes, 93) examples of unusual, quirky, and downright effective ways you can catch people's attention. Marketing your business or yourself doesn't have to boring, and if you're a guerrilla marketer, it better not be!

You're guaranteed to leave this one with some ideas of your own.

By: Paul K. Davis, Brian Michael Jenkins, RAND Corporation, December 2002

This short report from RAND is a must-read for operators and for policy-makers who are developing strategy for the global war on terrorism... The authors open the report with a discussion of terrorists' motivations and commitment to their cause, the cultural traditions of violence, and al-Qaeda's organizational structure... The authors complete the report with broad strategic prescriptions and discussions on deterring the use of weapons of mass destruction, on political warfare, and on the clash between American values and those of several of our regional allies. Davis and Jenkins cannot provide a complete strategy in a short report, but they do provide a useful template and techniques for developing a comprehensive strategy for the global war on terrorism. Their report should be on the reading list of every policy-maker or strategist. (Special Warfare)

"It is highly recommended for courses on security politics in Eastern Europe.... The book is rich in empirical detail, comparative, critical, and without competition on the current book market." (Contemporary Security Policy)

By: John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, RAND Corporation, 1999

This study discusses the opportunities that may be raised by the emergence of noopolitik--ranging from construction of noosphere to recommendations.

This report builds on what we have accomplished so far in a set ofstudies, since 1991, about future military affairs (cyberwar), societal-levelconflict and crime (netwar), and information strategy. Here we advance the idea of "noopolitik" , a new approach to state craft based principally on the primacy of ideas, values, laws, and ethics, as enabledby the emergence of the noosphere (an all-encompassingrealm of the mind), to extend our research agenda in a new direction. Primarily of interest to U.S. policymakers and strategists, this report will also interest those in academia and think tanks concerned withhow the information revolution is altering the conditions for and conduct of strategy.This study was prepared for a project on information strategy.