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Nickel and Dimed is a modern classic that deftly portrays the plight of America's working-class poor. Author Barbara Ehrenreich decides to see if she can scratch out a comfortable living in blue-collar America. What she discovers is a culture of desperation, where workers often take multiple low-paying jobs just to keep a roof overhead.

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explore the important notion of legacy and the critical questions any leader must ask him or herself in order to leave a lasting impact.

With consumers bombarded by thousands of marketing messages a day, a salesperson has exactly 3 seconds to capture the mind of his prospect. Today consumers are forced to make quick evaluations as a matter of survival. Within 3 seconds sales are made, deals are closed, and empires are built. The Irresistible Offer suggests that marketers and salespeople should stop practicing gimmickry and concentrate on the one aspect of every sale that truly makes the difference: the offer.

In a book that challenges the typical entrepreneurial strategy, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne assert that tomorrow's leading companies will succeed, not by battling their rivals for market share in the bloody "red ocean" of a shrinking profit pool, but by creating "blue oceans": untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Business leaders today face many challenges. They must create cooperation, share knowledge, and transmit a vision of the future. By using an appropriate story to illustrate a problem, leaders can draw their staff toward a fuller understanding and commitment.