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	<title>Adventures in Reading</title>
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		<title>Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss (Summing Consulting Group) and while I&#8217;m certainly no consultant, this book seems to have lots of useful information for budding independent consultants.
Some topics discussed:

importance of low overhead
why working from a home office and without staff is just fine
how to finance a consulting practice
how to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books on Consulting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t received any recommendations for Books for Artists or on Non-profit Management, but  these books were championed for Consulting:

The Business of Consulting: The Basics and Beyond by Elaine Biech
The Consultant&#8217;s Toolkit: High-Impact Questionnaires, Activities and How-to Guides for Diagnosing and Solving Client Problems by Mel Silberman
The Consultant&#8217;s Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vegetable Gardening - tomatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal Vegetable Miracle]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Omnivore’s Dilemma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a consequence of reading Barbara Kingsolver&#8217;s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben,  I started my first &#8212; and fairly successful &#8212; attempt at fruit and vegetable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally finished Bernd Heinrich&#8217;s New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year in 1999 Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds (click here to read all my entries about this book) and wanted to share this humorous Eskimo tale that Heinrich used to end Chapter Twenty-One &#8220;Tulugaq&#8220;:
The practice of following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-profit Management</title>
		<link>http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/nonprofitmanagementbooks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m involved with many non-profit organization on a volunteer basis and would like to read a book or two on non-profit management.
Any advice?
Suggestions on books relevant to non-profits in general would be appreciated as well!
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		<title>Modern Library&#8217;s Best Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just came across Modern Library&#8217;s 100 Best Novels and 100 Best Nonfiction, first published in The New York Times on Monday, July 20, 1998, and the Radcliffe&#8217;s Rival 100 Best Novels List.
I&#8217;ve read few from all three of the lists and wondered what folks think about these &#8220;best books&#8221; lists.
Of the ones I&#8217;ve read, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, a friend reminded me about yet another book related to nutrition and health that I&#8217;ve been meaning to read: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II.
Drawing on the studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks Store Closing</title>
		<link>http://baltimorebookworm.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/starbucks-store-closing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard, Starbucks announced on July 1 that it will close 600 &#8220;underperforming&#8221; stores in the U.S. and lay of nearly 12,000 employees &#8212; approximately 70 percent of these stores were opened since the beginning of fiscal 2006.
An just last week, I found out that my favorite Starbucks store &#8212; the closest [...]]]></description>
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