New Word City LLC announces the publication of Lead From the Front, a new eBook by Edwin D. Fuller, president of Marriott Lodging International and author of You Can’t Lead With Your Feet on the Desk.

“We’re entering a kill zone.”  So begins Fuller’s account of his team’s mission to scout a Marriott hotel location in Iraq.  Here he explains what it means to lead from the front.  Standing shoulder to shoulder with the troops, he writes, is critical when it comes to inspiring people to take on a tough task.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edwin D. Fuller is one of the most effective leaders in the hotel business.  [While earning a business degree at Boston University, he worked as a Pinkerton guard.][I could cut.]  After serving in the U.S. Army, including a tour of combat duty in Vietnam, he joined Marriott in the airline hotel division.  He has been in charge of International Lodging since 1990.  The business has grown to 350 hotels in 70 countries, with another 175 hotels under construction.  When he took charge of the International Lodging Division in 1991, Marriott had 16 hotels outside the United States with gross sales of $325 million – today, they [lead market share in most markets and][cut?] generate [gross sales of][some?] $6.6 billion [in annual revenue?].

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of How to Allocate Your Assets, a new eBook by the Editors of New Word City.

More than 90 percent of your investment returns depend not on the particular stocks and bonds you buy but on how you allocate your assets across a variety of categories – from cash and cash equivalents to stocks, bonds, and real estate.  Here’s everything you need to know about allocating your assets.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of Benjamin Franklin in Paris, a new eBook by New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming.

It can be said that if Benjamin Franklin hadn’t traveled to Paris in 1776, the United States would still be part of Great Britain.  Here, Fleming tells the little-known story of how Franklin charmed the French and pulled off a diplomatic miracle..

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas Fleming is one of the most distinguished and productive historians and novelists of our time.  He has written 20 nonfiction books that have won prizes and praise from critics and fellow historians, many with a special focus on the American Revolution.  He has also written 23 novels, many of them bestsellers, which explore the lives of men and women in vivid narratives that range from the raw America of the 1730s to the superpower that confronted World War II and endured Korea and Vietnam.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of What You Can Learn From Ronald Reagan, a new eBook by the Editors of New Word City.

Ronald Reagan was a product of America’s heartland.  He moved to Hollywood, became a minor film star, and got involved in politics – at first on the left.  But in the shadow of the 1950s’ anti-communism furor, he moved to the right and began a steady rise to the pinnacle of power.  With his extraordinary charm, conviction, communication skills, and stagecraft, Reagan became one of the most beloved, admired, and influential presidents in American history.  Here’s what every leader can learn from him.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of Shrimp Inc., a new eBook by award-winning journalist and author Jim Carrier.

Americans love shrimp.  More than 1 billion pounds, most of it farmed abroad, are consumed each year – more than any other seafood.  But at what human and ecological toll?  Here is Carrier’s eye-opening and stomach-churning account.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of The Lost Buddha, a new eBook by award-winning author and veteran journalist Joshua Hammer.

Come with Hammer as he travels to the ancient Afghan city of Bamiyan, where the Taliban destroyed two giant standing Buddhas.  There he finds archaeologist Zemaryalai Tarzi in search of a third Buddha – this one 1,400 year old and 1,000 feet long – that he believes lies buried beneath the same cliffs.  Will Tarzi find his lost Buddha, one of archeology’s greatest mysteries?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joshua Hammer spent 15 years a foreign correspondent and Bureau Chief for Newsweek magazine, based, successively, in Nairobi, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Cape Town.  A Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2004-2005, Hammer left Newsweek the following year and became a freelance writer, based in Berlin.  He is a contributing writer and editor for the Smithsonian and a contributing editor for Outside.  He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Fast Company, Atlantic Monthly, among other publications.  He is the author of Chosen by God, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; A Season in Bethlehem; and Yokohama Burning.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of Seeing What Galileo Saw, a new eBook by journalist and Smithsonian contributor David Zax.

Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei looked into space and changed our view of the universe.  Here’s award-winning journalist David Zax on invention of the telescope.  “From that ugly old cylinder,” he writes, came the profound idea that we are part of something much larger.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Zax is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn. A frequent contributor to Smithsonian magazine, where he writes on science, history, and the arts, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of What You Can Learn From Pepsi, a new eBook by the Editors of New Word City.

With U.S. soda sales flagging, Coca-Cola resurgent, and the world in recession, PepsiCo’s CEO Indra Nooyi has found ways to cope with each challenge.  She has also moved PepsiCo toward a greater commitment to health and the environment, a strategy that has inspired employees, attracted customers, and boosted operations the world over.  Her experience, the authors write, provides lessons no leader can afford to ignore.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of The Real Pirates of the Caribbean, an eBook by award-winning journalist and author Colin Woodard.

Here’s the true story of the British Royal Navy’s struggle with the greatest pirate gang of all time.  Drawing on archives in Great Britain and the United States, Colin Woodard separates fact from fiction, revealing the real motivations and struggles of Blackbeard, Black Sam Bellamy, Calico Jack Rackham, and more.

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New Word City LLC announces the publication of George Washington, Spymaster, a new eBook by New York Times bestselling author and historian Thomas Fleming.

Without Washington’s brilliance at espionage, writes Fleming, the Revolution could not have been won. Here’s the little-told story of America’s spymaster-in-chief.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas Fleming is one of the most distinguished and productive historians and novelists of our time. He has written 20 nonfiction books that have won prizes and praise from critics and fellow historians, many with a special focus on the American Revolution. He has also written 23 novels, many of them bestsellers, which explore the lives of men and women in vivid narratives that range from the raw America of the 1730s to the superpower that confronted World War II and endured Korea and Vietnam.

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