landmark book

'The Vitamin D Solution'

http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 03/31/2010 - 22:00

(Penguin Group USA) In the landmark book "The Vitamin D Solution: A 3-Step Strategy to Cure Our Most Common Health Problem" (April 1, 2010) Dr.

Michael F. Holick identifies the causes of vitamin D deficiency, outlines why it is essential to our health and provides a 3-step program to attain optimal levels of vitamin D in our bodies.


 

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs

The jury is still out on what the future of Goldman Sachs will look like, but no one can argue that the 139 year old firm has been (and, if Warren Buffett has his way, will be) the dominant investment banker and dealer on Wall Street. What does Buffett see that we on the outside do not? It’s all about the people.

Charles D. Ellis has written a landmark book that couldn’t come at a better time.


 

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives.


 

Who: The A Method for Hiring

In this landmark book, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent.