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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
306.13 HEA 2007
Unabashedly inspired by Malcolm Gladwell's bestselling The Tipping Point, the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable.

Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
BIO Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, has written a snappy, random, remarkable memoir--the first of its kind to give readers an honest flaws-n-all perspective of what it's like to be...ordinary. Rosenthal has collected a lifetime of thoughts, observations, and decisions, and created an alphabetized personal encyclopedia, complete with cross-referenced entries and illustrations.

History’s Great Untold Stories
By Joseph Cummins
909 CUM 2006
This volume combines vivid first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history with authoritative commentary. Revealing startling links among events and people separated by centuries and continents, the epic struggles and bombastic personalities have been carefully chosen for their power to challenge some of the fiercest debates of our present day. History's Great Untold Stories will be welcomed by readers who are eager to uncover "history's mysteries" and explore lesser known, non-Western views of world events.

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
By Ruth Reichl
BIO Reichl
In her third memoir, Ruth Reichl focuses on her life as a food critic, dishing up a feast of fabulous meals enjoyed during her tenure at The New York Times. As a critic, Reichl was determined to review the "true" nature of each restaurant she visited, so she often dined incognito--each chapter highlights a new disguise, a different restaurant, and a fresh culinary adventure.