Product Description: Interviewing is a crucial skill for journalists but the list of professions that rely on the interview to conduct business is long. From doctors and police to clergy and the gal or guy at the drive-through window, just about every human interaction is a form of interview...read more

Product Description: After eating some suspect "organic" walnuts that he was shocked to find were produced in Kazakhstan, veteran journalist Peter Laufer traces the origins of items in his pantry back to the source, learning how easily we are tricked into buying "organic" claims...read more

Product Description: With this provocative and concise book, journalist Peter Laufer launches a Slow News movement, inviting us to question the value of the perpetual empty-calorie news that accompanies our daily lives.Slow News: A Manifesto for the Critical News Consumer examines the nature of news in the context of the increasingly frenetic pace of modern life in the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: Neon Nevada is at once a stirring ode to a fading tradition and a celebration of a unique modern art, one whose pages will bring back memories while, perhaps, also conjuring up dreams of the future.

Product Description: Investigative journalist Peter Laufer is back with his third book in a trilogy that explores the way we humans interact with animals. The attack of a trainer at Sea World by a killer whale in February 2010 is the catalyst for this examination of the controversial role animals have played in the human arenas of entertainment and sports...read more

Laufer exposes the network of hunters, traders, breeders, and customers who constitute this nefarious business—which, estimated at $10 to $20 billion annually, competes with illegal drug and weapons trafficking in the money it earns criminals.

Do your employees plan exit strategies around the water cooler?Are your office hallways filled with nasty gossip?Is your productivity shrinking and your profits dissolving?As a manager, every day you're faced with disgruntled employees. Now Peter Morris, host of the popular radio show "The Business Shrink," draws on his long experience to help you fix these problems.Gleaning tips from experts such as CNN commentator Lou Dobbs and job search guru Martin Yate, Morris shows you how to:Give workers strong, positive feedbackBreak the endless chain of blaming and backstabbingAbolish poor employee performance and boost productivityNip cases of harassment and bullying in the budUsing sample scenarios, workplace quizzes, and actual examples from Morris's show, you'll learn how to create a harmonious workplace and how to turn disgruntled workers into productive, committed employees.

Product Description: Kounalakis and Laufer, hosts of a nationally syndicated radio program and authors of a regular feature in Washington Monthly, present conversations with a diverse selection of leading policy and opinion leaders. These well-known personalities from across the ideological spectrum propose solutions to problems and conflicts vexing America as it heads into the 2008 election...read more

Fullcolor collages and accompanying text describe the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a tiny town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.

Product Description: In this delightful brother-sister collaboration, the tiny guitar-making village of Paracho, Mexico comes vibrantly to life. Full-color collages of cut paper, ribbons, strings, confetti, souvenirs, shopping bags, bits of tablecloths, and wood shavings accompany the text, describing how one village's life revolves around making, selling, and playing guitars...read more

Product Description: Peter Laufer's explosive proposals for the U.S.-Mexican border go far beyond President Bush's initiative to ease restrictions on immigration. Mr. Laufer argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open, with a free flow of people between the two countries...read more

Analyzing what some consider a daily tragedy along the border between México and the United States, an award-winning news correspondent makes a significant contribution to the debate, demonstrating that the time is ripe for the creation of a more humane as well as a more practical immigration policy.

A woman's guide to staying safe while traveling covers a wide range of topics and potentially treacherous situations, including how to identify scam artists, choose a safe travel companion, dress appropriately, find safe guides, and navigate hotel registration. Original.

Argues that the U.S.-Mexican border should be open for free passage of Mexicans who wish to come to the United States.

Product Description: Spring 2003, President Bush launched his pre-emptive war on Iraq as mililons of citizens worldwide protested the invasion and occupation. Journalist Peter Laufer responded by filling a time capsule marking those three weeks from the first "shock and awe" bombs over Baghdad to the made-for-TV US-orchestrated toppling of Saddam Husseins' statue in the conquered capital...read more

Product Description: In the years following the Holocaust, the Jewish community in Germany was tiny, decimated by the Nazis and shrinking fast as most survivors died or emigrated. But once the Berlin Wall fell, the German government invited Soviet-bloc Jews to come make a new life in prosperous and democratic Germany...read more

Product Description: Primer volumen de una nueva colección que traduce un concepto diferente de libros de viajes, en los que se abordan aspectos muy diversos, desde los necesarios consejos prácticos hasta una manera distinta de explorar el mundo como parte del viaje de crecimiento interior...read more

Fullcolor collages and accompanying text describe the importance of the guitar in Mexico, especially in Paracho, a tiny town which is becoming the center of the Mexican guitar industry.

Drawing on official studies, anecdotes, and interviews on this timeless subject, the author plunges into the Mars-Venus debate with vigor, exposing some of the secrets behind well-documented gender differences. Original.

Product Description: A specific guide to help with the mobile, electronic communications networks of our present age. The book covers such common grounds as how to answer the phone, how to place calls, where and when to place calls, when and where to receive calls, the car phone, the portable phone; when is it safe to call and to receive calls...read more

A radio host and program director traces the rise of today's influential radio talk shows, criticizing the half-truth that often passes for informed commentary on the airwaves and debunking the myth that liberals dominate the media. 35,000 first printing.

Recounts the 1993 case of four teenagers from an upper-middle-class New Jersey town who were accused of raping a mentally retarded girl, arguing that it exposed the sexism, racism, and discrimination against the handicapped underlying American society.