“marian salzman”

From the world-renowned trendspotting duo who has predicted everything from metrosexuality to the growth of global brands comes a new, enlightening look at the future. Based on intensive research and interviews as well as the authors' real-world and business experience in locations across the globe,... More

"The trend-spotting authors who popularized the term 'metrosexual' have decided that the two-year-old phenomenon is, well, so two years ago. The new ideal is the 'ubersexual'...reading "Esquire" or "Sports Illustrated," shopping less but more discriminatingly, and favoring men over women as their cl... More

Praise for Buzz "Buzz is 'step-ahead marketing' at its very best. No other book comes close to combining such fresh insights with compelling case studies on this crucially important marketing topic. It's pure dynamite." -Kevin Lane Keller E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing, Tuck School of Business... More

"Next is a book for everyone, explaining that what already exists technologically is about to change the way we live, not the day after tomorrow, but tomorrow - and not necessarily the way one would expect."--BOOK JACKET. "A non-fiction armchair journey into the near future, Next breaks down the art... More

Discusses what life is like in high school, covering such aspects as stress, schoolwork, family, romance, and sports.... More

This is an extremely useful and informative book that provides everything an activist needs to know for communicating effectively through the media. The book explains how you can stage an event or stunt that will put an issue that concerns you in the news. It takes you through the entire process, st... More

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularl... More

This anthology is a unique collection of rare women's writing written during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This collection introduces modern readers to the various examples of the work of women writers from these centuries and includes poems, prose and fiction, drama, letters, prophecies,... More

Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading ... More

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.... More