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	*Creative Project Management* with Ted Leemann (McGraw-Hill) Release date: Summer 2010. This new book adds SideWise Thinking to conventional project management. It's a powerful combination that will help you find opportunities, solve problems, and gain insights into the real challenges facing even the toughest projects. You'll learn how to adjust your thinking to avoid cognitive decision traps, how to run high-powered brainstorming sessions that turn blue-sky ideas into practical results, and how to manage when the project is tightly constrained, highly complex, and very uncertain. With new techniques for managing assumptions and risks, including the powerful Seven Level Outcome Evaluation Technique, you're only a small step away from dramatic improvements in project cost, time, and quality.

	*The Six Dimensions of Project Management* (Management Concepts, 2007) Who would imagine that a project management book could also be funny? Sharp and insightful case studies illustrate core project management principles in memorable form. From Bugsy Siegel’s management of the Flamingo Hotel to G. Gordon Liddy’s management of the Watergate break-in, you’ll see real life project management up close like you’ve never seen it before.

	*Practical Project Management* (SkillPath, 1996)The most popular resource for new project managers. Clear, quick, easy to read and filled with practical detail, this book has been chosen by numerous companies as the one project management book to be given to each and every employee.

	*The Juggler’s Guide to Managing Multiple Projects* (Project Management Institute, 1999) The first formal project management book to address one of the toughest challenges any project manager can face: multiple projects. What kind of project portfolio do you have? Task-based portfolios involve very small projects, but lots of them—when you have a full-time job on top of them. Independent portfolios involve projects that share resources but have unconnected outcomes. Interdependent portfolios involve larger projects that may share resources, but definitely have connected outcomes.

	*Streetwise Project Management* (Adams Media, 2003)This comprehensive yet highly readable 386-page resource is PMBOK® compliant, covering everything from PERT and CPM to project charters and team building. It’s the one-stop resource every professional project manager needs—and it’s accessible enough to be useful to the new project manager, too!

	*Project Management for the Technical Professional* (Project Management Institute, 2001) There’s really no such thing as a promotion. Instead, each level up the ladder amounts to a career change. From technical work to people management, from facts to politics, the transition can be tough. Let this book show you how to manage the transition and equip yourself for your new role.

	*The Triple Constraints in Project Management* (Project Management Essential Library) (Management Concepts, 2004). The project manager’s universe is bounded in three dimensions: how long have I got, how much can I spend, and what do you want it to do? The triple constraints of time, cost, and performance are at the very heart of project management. If you don’t understand the Triple Constraints nature of your project, you’ll overlook resources and fall into traps for the unwary. Don’t let this happen to you. Detailed cases lay out exactly how to find the hidden resources in your own project. (Part of the Project Management Essential Library.)

	*Enlightened Office Politics* (AMACOM, 2006) Take a positive look at the political side of the workplace, see why office politics are inevitable and important, and learn how to play them—and win—in an ethical, principled manner.

	*Real-World Time Management* (AMACOM, 2008) Most of us dream about having a few extra hours in our day for taking care of business, relaxing, or engaging in the activities we most enjoy. But how can we make the most of our time when it seems as though there aren’t enough hours in the day? This instructive guide to time management is full of tips, techniques, and commonsense advice that will make anyone more productive.

	*Working with Difficult People* (Worksmart Series, Second Edition) (AMACOM, 2008) This is a handy tool to help novices through seasoned managers deal with difficult employees; it’s a quick read and easy to follow.

	*Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss* (AMACOM, 2000) The ideas, strategies, and tactics found here will help you to * Enhance your relationship with your supervisor in a constructive and effective manner * Accurately you’re your boss’s likes and dislikes * Provide the kind of support that helps your boss succeed * Make sure you’re in tune with their boss’s goals * Build mentoring and networking relationships throughout the organization * Handle criticism, deal with problem bosses, and more.

	*Goal Setting: How to Create an Action Plan and Achieve Your Goals* (Worksmart) (AMACOM, 2008) Why is it that some people consistently seem to get more done than others? The answer is that they know how to set specific, achievable goals for themselves...and then follow through on them. This revised and updated edition of Goal Setting features worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, giving you powerful techniques to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve your objective.

Alternate Histories Three highly acclaimed novels by the team of Michael Dobson and Douglas Niles

	*MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan* (Forge, 2008) What if the Battle of Midway was yet another setback for the Allies? If the Manhattan Project was subject to lethal problems, delaying the creation of the atomic bomb? What if the United States couldn’t intimidate the Japanese into surrender?

	*Fox on the Rhine* (Forge, 2000) July 20, 1944: A group of disillusioned officers of Hitler’s high command plant a bomb that succeeds in killing the Führer, bringing forth an option for surrender, peace, and survival for all of Germany . . . but Himmler has other plans.

	*Fox at the Front* (Forge, 2003) The sequel to Fox on the Rhine, the action here takes you to the bloody end of WWII, with the Soviet Union re-entering to ignite non-stop tension.