Book Corner

Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas

This book shows you how to use thought-provoking questions to engage prospects and uncover their most pressing issues. It gives you the tools to get inside the heart and mind of anyone you meet. In 35 inspiring chapters, you’ll meet a fascinating group of men and women. Through these riveting, real-life stories, you’ll learn exactly how each power question was used and the impact it had.

You’ll discover …

Alex Johnson

This book celebrates the innovation and inspiration in one of the most basic of all home designs: the bookshelf. From bookshelves that are shaped like trees, or ones that hold books upside down, this beautifully crafted book will bring joy to the book lover in you.

Inside, you’ll find plenty of inspiration and diversity, from “Juxtaposed,” a shelf capitalizing on limited space to display seven books containing the world’s most influential …

Ilene Strizver

Type Rules! is an up-to-date, thorough introduction to the principles and practices of typography. From the fundamentals to cutting-edge applications, this third edition has everything today’s serious designer needs to use type effectively.

Dozens of exercises reinforce authoritative coverage on such topics as how to select the appropriate type for the job, how to set type like a pro, how to avoid common mistakes, and how to design a typeface, as …

Jennifer and Ken Visocky O’Grady

Doing research can make all the difference between a great design and a good design. Most experienced designers would quantify this “legwork” with the term research.

By engaging in competitive intelligence, customer profiling, color and trend forecasting, etc., designers are able to bring something to the table that reflects a commercial value for the client beyond a well-crafted logo or brochure. Although scientific and analytical in nature, research …

Jason Womack

How did you spend your time today? What did you do really well? Were you running behind for every meeting? Feeling stressed? Constantly struggling to maintain your focus?

In this book, productivity expert Jason Womack shows you that working longer hours doesn’t make up for a flawed approach to productivity and performance. Workers need to clarify their habits, build mindset-based strategies, and be proactive. The author presents techniques that offer specific …

Debbie Millman

We are now living in a world with over 100 brands of bottled water. The United States alone is home to over 45,000 shopping malls. And there are more than 19 million customized beverage choices a barista can whip up at your local Starbucks.

Whether it’s good or bad, the real question is why we behave this way in the first place. Why do we telegraph our affiliations or our beliefs …