Carol Quinn: Life Lessons, Canine Style

“Training my dogs became a way to train myself to become a confident, assured leader, and to assume the position of alpha dog in my own life—to follow my own lead,” advertising exec and screenwriter Carol Quinn writes in the introduction to Follow My Lead.

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Chronicling the agility training of her two beloved Rhodesian Ridgebacks Sheila and Nairobi, Quinn—a single mother in the midst of a rocky romance—learns as much, if not more, than the dogs themselves. Here, she tells us about taking life by the reins, her love ...

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Jad Adams: ‘Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India’

Journalist, TV producer and historian Jad Adams takes on one of the world’s most iconic figures in Gandhi. His biography shows that the man who led a movement for India’s independence struggled with his own spirituality, sexuality, eating habits and more. Here, Adams talks to us about the iconic leader.

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What piqued your interest in Gandhi? 

A publisher approached me and asked if I would like to work with them. They said they wanted a series of landmark biographies and asked which major world character I should like to ...

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‘Please fire me': Dispatches from workplace hell

Have you ever had one of those days when your cubicle is closing in on you? Or you’ve just had to tell your boss—who runs a multimillion dollar operation—what product his company sells? Then Please Fire Me might be for you.

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Adam Chromy and Jill Morris, the creators of PleaseFireMe.com, offer a blasting board for the unhappily employed and weave quirky Venn diagrams and factoids into their manifesto for life in ...

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'Write More Good': A Guide From @FakeAPStylebook

The Bureau Chiefs took Twitterdom by storm with their witty and often downright hilarious tweets from @FakeAPStylebook. Their book, Write More Good, a tongue-in-cheek guide for journalists, newshounds and those who have canceled their subscriptions to the daily ad sheets, includes highlights from their online feed in addition to a wealth of new material.

Covering everything from beat reporting, grammar suggestions and concise explanations of media law, the bureau chiefs—a conglomerate made up of reporters, a librarian, an attorney, an English professor and an artist—include their trademark glossary of terms at the end of each chapter. Here, 20 ...

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In the Depths of the Cocaine Trade

Over four years, Luca Rastello, an Italian journalist for La Repubblica, interviewed many of the players involved in the global cocaine trade. His new book, I Am the Market: How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons, is a jolting behind-the scenes look at the how cocaine is cultivated and dispersed throughout the world—and the people who make it happen.

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Rastello, also the director of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, a think tank focusing on criminal economies and international relations, speaks through an anonymous sistemista, the ultimate drug-smuggling mastermind ...

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