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By Star Jones Reynolds, HarperCollins, January 2006

"Shine! by Star Jones Reynolds is an inspiring read for women seeking tools for greater fulfillment in every area of their lives."

Star Jones Reynolds had done it all. College on scholarship, law school on loans, and life by faith. She had achieved a prestigious career as a lawyer and prosecutor, provided much-needed calm and insight while reporting the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson trials on television, and landed a spot cohosting one of America's most popular daytime television shows, The View. Then why was she feeling so down?

Everyone knows Star Jones Reynolds is a success story, a happy, rough-edges-to-emotional-and-financial-riches tale. Until you read this book, you won't know how she got there -- and how you can echo her triumphs and shine.

By Howard Sounes, HarperCollins, May 2004

Golf is sometimes referred to as "the wicked game" because it is fiendishly difficult to play well. Yet in the parlance of the Tiger Woods generation, it's also a wickedly good game -- rich, glamorous, and more popular than ever.

When we think about golf -- as it is played at its highest level -- we think of three names: Tiger Woods, the most famous sports figure in the world today, Arnold Palmer, the father of modern golf, and Jack Nicklaus, the game's greatest champion.

The Wicked Game is a compelling story of talent, fame, wealth, and power. Entertaining for dedicated golfers, and accessible to those who only follow the game on television, this may be the most original and exciting sports book of the year.

Edited by: John Arquilla, David Ronfeldt, Rand Corporation, January 2002

"... A useful collection of pieces on how contemporary communications shape nontraditional forms of warfare." Foreign Affairs, March/April 2002

"Arquilla and Ronfeldt are a rare breed: strategic thinkers of the information age." Nathan Gardels, New Perspectives Quarterly

Netwar-like cyberwar-describes a new spectrum of conflict that is emerging in the wake of the information revolution. Netwar includes conflicts waged, on the one hand, by terrorists, criminals, gangs, and ethnic extremists; and by civil-society activists (such as cyber activists or WTO protestors) on the other. What distinguishes netwar is the networked organizational structure of its practitioners-with many groups actually being leaderless-and their quickness in coming together in swarming attacks. To confront this new type of conflict, it is crucial for governments, military, and law enforcement to begin networking themselves.

By Catherine L. Mann, Sue E. Eckert and Sarah Cleeland Knight, Institute for International Economics, July 18, 2000

Electronic commerce is changing the way businesses and consumers create, sell, and buy products, and the way they communicate and learn. How can policymakers position their countries to take advantage of this new environment? How should policymaking adjust to a more global, more networked, and more information-rich marketplace where relationships and jurisdictions between the governments, businesses, and citizens increasingly overlap? How can governments effectively harness rapidly changing technologies and partner with both domestic and foreign private sectors to reap the greatest benefits for their constituents?

This primer answers these questions using both general analysis and specific examples. It addresses in particular the needs of policymakers in emerging markets who must formulate and refine policies that affect e-commerce in areas such as telecommunications, finance, taxation, privacy, and international trade and domestic distribution.

By Tibor Machan, Hoover Institution Press, January 2004

In Neither Left nor Right, a collection of his columns, Machan, a relentless advocate of the political philosophy of libertarianism, offers his always well-reasoned, often controversial opinions on the variety of threats to individual liberty in the United States and around the world.

Tibor R. Machan is professor emeritus at the Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the Freedom Communications Professorship of Free Enterprise and Business Ethics at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, California. A research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he is a widely published columnist and the author or editor of more than twenty books.

By Clarence Y. H. Lo (Author), University Of California Press, March 1995

"A fine example of practical scholarship a brass tacks inquiry into a political eruption that has been short-shrifted and oversimplified. It could be a useful handbook for citizen groups on the perils and promise of fighting City Hall."

Tax reformers, take note. Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property tax bills in the 1970s, got mad and pushed back, starting an avalanche that swept tax limitation measures into state after state. What we learn is that, although the property tax was slashed, two-thirds of the benefits went to business owners rather than homeowners.

By Robert Zelnick, Hoover Institution Press, May 2004

Ever since her 1981 nomination to the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has consistently provided the "swing vote" between a four-justice bloc of liberals and a four-justice bloc of conservatives. Rarely in the minority on any case, her position in 5–4 splits has usually prevailed. Swing Dance looks at her key role in the 2003 controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases, which spelled out a new approach to how race may be used in admissions.

These contentious decisions preserved affirmative action but applied it less strictly, without assigning any numerical advantage, or extra points, to minority applicants, as Michigan had done in the past. Many now believe they will serve as a model for how other public universities can seek to create diverse campuses in a constitutionally permissible way.

By Scott Atlas, Hoover Institution Press, March 2005

The debate rages on over how to cope with the rising costs of medical care—proposed solutions range from a single payer system with a broad government control to loosely defined market-driven plans. The authors look at three key elements of health care costs and offer thoughtful, realistic suggestions to help stem the tide of rising expenses for everyone.

When calculated on a per capita basis, the United States has the costliest health care system in the world. The debate rages on over how to cope with the rising costs of medical care, with proposed solutions ranging from a single-payer system with broad government control to loosely defined market-driven plans. Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions looks at three key elements of health care costs and offers thoughtful, realistic suggestions to help stem the tide of rising expenses for everyone. Scott W. Atlas proposes changing the nature of health care insurance so that patients make direct payments to their health care providers. Daniel P. Kessler reviews the current debate over the medical liability system, examining several different areas of proposed reforms. Mark V. Pauly looks at why real medical spending has increased and concludes that it is virtually impossible to lower costs without lowering quality of care.

By Stephanie Laurens, HarperCollins, January 2006

When New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens created the Cynsters, a phenomenon was born. Now, Stephanie Laurens has written her most romantic and powerful novel to date, one that dares tell The Truth About Love.

Gerrard Debbington is one of the chosen few -- the gentlemen who've learned their social and amorous skills at the feet of the masters. Handsome and wealthy, protégé and brother-in-law of Vane Cynster, Gerrard is part of the charmed Cynster family circle. Now Gerrard travels to Helleborn Hall, a dark and mysterious place. His lure-- unlimited access to sketch the Hall's famous but rarely seen gardens. But what seems like a simple exchange grows more and more complicated from the moment Gerrard meets Jacqueline, the beautiful daughter of the house. Determined to understand her , he tries to dig deeper into Jacqueline's identity, but she is shrouded and secretive. The gardens have been hidden from outside eyes for so long because they are hiding something themselves, and though Gerrard knows he should leave these secrets undisturbed, his developing passion for Jacqueline cannot be ignored, even as danger grows ever closer to them both.