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News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The ALA announced the Top Ten Challenged Books of 2016.

The ALA's Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009 reflect a range of themes, and consist of the following titles:

In fact, the explicitly erotic books came in at # 4 on the American Library Association's list of the most challenged books of 2012.

The American Library Association released its list of the 10 most challenged books of 2017 last week, and this year, there was only one graphic novel: Raina Telgemeier's Drama, which has become sort of a perennial.

As a result, many people believe Carson is a flat - out mass murderer - not a hero who beautifully blended care for human health and nonhuman nature in one of the most important and challenging books of the 20th century.

The book of Hebrews stands out as one of the most difficult and most challenging books of the New Testament.

It is considered the most challenging book of the Bible, with many possible meanings.

Not exact matches

The book tells their stories of growth, challenge, anguish, triumph, and more, interspersed with other big names of other basketball legends and high - stakes brinksmanship.

King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

With varying principles in the world, it's only a question of WHEN a business owner will go through a slump, and having read Tony's book they will know how to personally overcome the challenges of their business because they understand that they are unlimited and unbound!

Here, we learn how to prepare for our own end and how to help others transition... Unreligious and truly transformational, this book continues to inspire and provide endless wisdom on the great mysteries and challenges of our human existence.»

Best known as the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad — the No. 1 personal finance book of all time — Robert Kiyosaki has challenged and changed the way tens of millions of people around the world think about money.

In his book and TED Talk «Start with Why» Simon Sinek challenges us on the importance and power of having a «Why.»

Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO of Tastemakers Africa, a mobile app for booking experiences in Africa, found it challenging to transition from running a bootstrapped company to one with outside capital behind it.

«In The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, expert James Montier takes you through some of the most important behavioral challenges faced by investors.

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

Self - deprecating and refreshingly free of management - speak, this book explains what Gilman learned; and while he doesn't bother drawing analogies to management challenges in other industries, the lessons are obviously translatable.

In honor of World Book Day, and in response to a challenge from an admirer, Branson took to his blog to list 65 titles he thinks everyone could benefit from reading during their lifetime.

Written by a Buddhist philosopher, «this book speaks to the challenges and opportunities of aging,» explains Paul Tasner.

Michael's book The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics covers ways you can build trust with consumers and tackle other industry challenges with communication.

I recommend this book for any leader who appreciates the importance of challenging conventional business models in order to master this new economy and propel their organizations forward.»

The challenges of daily life between work and family are seemingly never - ending so this book provides a good reminder for a balanced approach to more positively navigate those challenges.»

Much of the rest of the book coaches you through these challenges in a satisfying way.

Why It's Worth Reading: The book challenges a lot of the common conceptions about negotiating, including the famous win - win bromides and the «BATNA» (Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement) theory.

As we close the book on the silver anniversary of CNBC, the company's digital arm is looking ahead to the next 25 years and the trends, challenges and innovations that will define that era.

Some of today's business books suggest that speed is the answer to today's business challenges.

The book was my first deep - dive exposure to the technically challenging, murky frontiers of human knowledge.

In her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, developmental psychologist Carol Dweck describes how children react to challenges.

The late - night Comedy Central host has challenged his audience to boycott the ecommerce giant for its manipulative treatment of book sales.

The book's short chapters address the economic underpinnings and challenges of everything from climate change to global governance to the imbalance between savings and investment in China.

In his book Where the Jobs Are: Entrepreneurship and the Soul of the American Economy, Dearie and his co-author interviewed more than 200 founders about the challenges of building businesses.

The principles of investment are simple, says Bernstein, so he takes a long view of the financial industry, dedicating half the book to investment history and theory (in a manner accessible to the math - challenged among us) in the hopes of giving his readers «the ability to coolly observe extraordinary current events and say «I've seen this movie before, and I know how it ends.»»

Since 2011 he has been tackling the challenges of its main advertising outlet, Google, increasingly competing with it for travel - related bookings, of expanding its hospitality - related services, such as with its acquisition of OpenTable, and of retaining its customers as they migrate from desktop to mobile devices.

Whether it's writing a book, making a sales goal or getting your office organized, this week of The Goal Standard Challenge, aptly known as the Honeymoon Stage, is full of excitement and drive.

Classic books challenge your brain more than the breezy, shallow styles of many bestsellers.

Philosophizing with a hammer In his 1889 book Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche philosophized about challenging — or taking a «hammer» to — our idols.

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

Steve Tobak's book gets it right about leadership and all of its challenges.

Lost My Name Now here's a company that belongs on an innovation list: $ 9 million in Series A funding from firms like Google Ventures and Greycroft; company - sponsored hackathons to solve tricky software challenges — and all in the name of... kids» books?

Addressing the diverse challenges at all stages of business, each Entrepreneur Press book aims to provide actionable solutions to help entrepreneurs excel in all ventures they take on.

Here's one of the more challenging parts of this to grasp: when we're talking about digital currency such as Bitcoin, there's no repository of coins — that line item in the record book is the money.

[42:14] Tony explains the questions to ask an advisor, to ensure they're truly on your side [42:28] 60 % of people surveyed today say they believe their financial advisor is putting the company interests above their own — it's actually worse than they believe [42:45] Why Tony has chosen to support Peter and his firm, Creative Planning [43:33] How you can get a second opinion from Peter's firm, Creative Planning, through their website (www.GetASecondOpinion.com)-- it doesn't matter how much or little you have, they'll give you feedback [44:00] Tony's biggest challenge when writing his first book, and how it brought him to Peter Mallouk [44:30] Peter explains the process Creative Planning went through to open their services to people at the $ 100,000 level, and how offering this extensive range of services to people at this level is unprecedented

I've admitted my own stumbles, addressed our own challenges, and have created an open book of data and analysis to support very deep concerns about the risks that investors face over the completion of the current market cycle.

He won an Apex Award for a book he wrote several years ago called Principled Profit, which was one of the first to challenge the conventional wisdom about the place of ethics and the environment in business successand that self - published book was republished by mainstream publishers in both India and Mexico.

«Just like the entrepreneurs he highlights in his book, Ellsberg challenges the conventional wisdom of what it takes to make it in this world.

Doug's book challenges us to look at disruption more than by assuming that one form of retail will win over another - simply put, the book forces us to understand the power of personalization and customer engagement - the lifeblood of our new retail world.»

The first order for the U.S. edition of my most recent book, Management Challenges for the 21st Century (1999), came to Amazon.com, and it came from Argentina.

The book walks readers through the fundamentals of investing in sideways markets, and I think it will help most investors do well in what will be an otherwise challenging environment.

I failed my yearly Goodreads challenge of reading 12 books in 2015.

When asked if their old firms» male culture led them to go off on their own, Fonstad stated that it has been challenging at times and mentioned that she's experienced some of the «penalties women take for being aggressive and tough» that were highlighted in Sheryl Sandberg's book, Lean In.