The Fast Track 50 The Get-Ahead Guide for Temporary Employees Tim Whitney The Fast Track 50 is a simple system, designed by an in-the-trenches procurer of temp services, to substantially improve a temp’s chances of achieving a full-time position. The 50 tips are designed to help any temp get quickly up to speed on any… Continue reading The Fast Track 50
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Glory for Sale
Glory for Sale Fans, Dollars and the New NFL Jon Morgan In 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell, lured by the promise of a new stadium, shocked football fans with his decision to move to Baltimore. Now, one of the few journalists to cover the business of sports, the Baltimore Sun’s Jon Morgan, chronicles the… Continue reading Glory for Sale
Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor
Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor C. Fraser Smith The Len Bias Tragedy and the Search for Reform in Big-Time College Basketball Where were you on June 19, 1986? That’s the day when Len Bias, one of the greats of the college basketball game, a player seemingly destined for NBA stardom, died of a cocaine overdose.… Continue reading Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor
Vintage Reading
Vintage Reading From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World’s Best Books Robert Kanigel Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world’s most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around… Continue reading Vintage Reading
The Whole Kitt & Caboodle
The Whole Kitt & Caboodle A Painless Journey to Investment Enlightenment Susan Laubach Written for readers who are novice investors, The Whole Kitt & Caboodle combines Laubach’s own experience as a broker and educator in the setting of a novel. Readers follow the adventures of investment rookie Missy Kitt as she seeks employment from a… Continue reading The Whole Kitt & Caboodle
Gradebusters
Gradebusters Stephen Schmite How Parents Can End the Bad Grades Battle Throughout his long and varied career as an educator, Steve Schmitz has been told one story, and asked one question, more than any other: “I know my child is in grade trouble at school, Dr. Schmitz, and it’s making my life hellish at home.… Continue reading Gradebusters
Bridges
Bridges Jonetta Rose Barras Reuniting Daughters & Daddies In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking bestseller Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl? author Jonetta Rose Barras broke the code of silence surrounding the devastating impact father absence has on girls and women. Using her own story, and that of other women from across the country, Barras identified… Continue reading Bridges
The Art of Acquiring
The Art of Acquiring A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone Mary Gabriel For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists’ studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received… Continue reading The Art of Acquiring
A Cry Unheard
A Cry Unheard New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness James J. Lynch It is one of the most perplexing paradoxes of modern life. As technology dramatically expands our ways of communicating, loneliness has become one of the leading causes of premature death in all technologically advanced nations. The medical toll is made heavier… Continue reading A Cry Unheard
The Last of the Black Emperors
The Last of the Black Emperors Jonetta Rose Barras The Hollow Comeback of Marion Barry in a New Age of Black Leaders The 1990 FBI videotape of Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry smoking crack transfixed television viewers nationwide. Shouting now-notorious obscenities at the woman who helped agents trap him, Barry was publicly disgraced, his personal… Continue reading The Last of the Black Emperors