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Cloned embryos, magnified on a screen, observed by Rohm in the Seoul lab of Dr. Hwang, summer of 2004. The inside story of Hwang's efforts, and his subsequent fraud, can be found in Rohm's new book "The Eighth Day."
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21-Oct-2002 NY Times Business Bestseller List
(The Microsoft File was number 14)
October 11, 1998
Best Sellers Plus
This
Month
Business Hard Cover Last Month
1 THE 9 STEPS TO FINANCIAL FREEDOM, by Suze Orman. (Crown, $23.)
Ways to manage your money now and in the future. (+)
2 THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR, by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko. (Longstreet Press, $22.) An analysis of the lives of wealthy Americans.
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3 THE ROARING 2000s, by Harry S. Dent, Jr. (Simon &
Schuster, $25.) Building wealth during the upcoming boom.
4 EAT THE RICH, by P. J. O'Rourke. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) The satirist
explains popular economic theories
5 WINNING EVERY DAY, by Lou Holtz. (HarperBusiness, $25.) Success strategies from the football coach of Notre Dame who is also a motivational speaker to corporate executives.
6 TITAN: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron
Cherow. (Random House, $30.) A large scale narrative portrait of the
founding father.
7 ELECTRONIC DAY TRADER, by Marc
Friedfertig and George West. (McGraw Hill, $34.95.) Strategies for
on line market trading.
8 THE MILLENNIUM BUG: How to Survive in the
Coming Chaos, by Michael S. Hyatt. (Regnery, $24.95.) The year 2000
computer crisis and how it affects global banking and other industries.
9 PHILISTINES AT THE HEDGEROW: Passion and Property in the Hamptons, by Steven Gaines. (Little, Brown, $26.95.) How eighties' Wall Street
tycoons junk bond kings, financiers and corporate raiders came to
shape the social fabric and property values of this oceanfront enclave.
10 HOW TO THINK LIKE LEONARDO DA VINCI, by Michael J. Gelb. (Delacorte, $24.95.) An approach to learning and freeing the imagination, toward
creating renaissance thinkers in any workplace.
11 WORK IN PROGRESS, by Michael Eisner with Tony Schwartz. (Random House, $27.95.) The business memoirs of the CEO of the Walt Disney Company.
Also Selling
12 DIE BROKE, by Stephen M. Pollan and Mark Levine. (Harper
Business, $25.) A planner's advice to baby boomers: rethink your jobs,
spending and retirement.
13 THE JOY OF WORK, by Scott Adams.
(HarperBusiness, $22.) A send up of popular corporate management guides.
14 THE MICROSOFT FILE: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates, by Wendy
Goldman Rohm. (Times Business, 25.95.) A detailed examination of ways in
which Microsoft has achieved a near monopoly in the high tech industry.
15 THE 48 LAWS OF POWER, by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers. (Viking,
$24.95.) Three thousand years of writings about success and the
strategies for keeping it.
16 THE BEST LITTLE BOY IN THE WORLD GROWS UP,
by Andrew Tobias. (Random House, $23.95.) Coming of middle age memoirs
by the financial writer.
17 WINNING WITH INTEGRITY, by Leigh Steinberg with Michael D'Orso. (Villard, $24.95.) Principles of negotation.
Rankings are based on September figures of almost 4,000 bookstores and
of wholesalers serving 50,000 hardcover retailers and 60,000 paperback
retailers (gift shops, department stores, newsstands, supermarkets). The
numbers are statistically weighted to represent sales in all such
outlets nationwide. An asterisk indicates that a book's sales are barely
distinguishable from those of the book above. (+) Some bookstores report
receiving bulk orders on these titles.
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International Writers Workshop
Sept. 3-6, 2006
Suketu Mehta, Rohm, to lead workshop
Writers of all levels and genres welcome. This book and film workshop, inspired by an original series of talks given at Yale University by New York Times best-selling author Wendy Goldman Rohm, features some of the top people in book publishing and film. This year, the workshop is being held in the tiny village of Lacoste, France, on the mountaintop next to the Marquis de Sade's castle. It's a small event, and can accept only 20 participants. Among the speakers are:
Suketu Mehta
Pulitzer prize finalist and best-selling author, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Dorian Karchmar
Literary agent, William Morris Agency, NY, NY
Rachel Shteir
Award-winning author, Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show
and British screenwriter Jane Hawksley, poet and children's author Gwen Strauss,
and poet Finn McEoin
The workshop includes room and board in one of the most breathtaking spots on earth, three French meals a day and wine tastings, tours and live writing sessions at remarkable historical locations, and nightly soirees with the authors and speakers. Sessions focus on all aspects of book publishing, screenwriting and adaptations, from the creative process to business issues related to: finding and working with a literary agent, developing a book or book proposal, working with publishers, and selling film and international rights. For registration deadlines and enrollment details, in the US call:
312-239-0965 or email GreatManuscripts@cs.com
(In France, call 0870 46 71 87)
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