Archive for March, 2009

No Limit Hold’em has become the glamor game of poker. Yet today’s savvy pros know that some of the best low-risk money-making opportunities exist in Limit Hold’em. This complete manual will show you how to consistently beat today’s Limit Hold’em game, whether you play on the Internet or in live games. Revised, updated and expanded with over 100 pages of all-new material and over 250 sample hands to bring the lessons to life, this classic text shows you how to win again and again.

Title: Internet Texas Hold’em: Winning Strategies for Full-Ring and Short-Handed Games (New Expanded Edition)
Author: Matthew Hilger is a 1996 Thunderbird graduate. His interest in professional poker is three-fold: playing, writing, and managing poker content websites. He has written three best-selling poker books: Internet Texas Hold’em, Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities, and The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success, coauthored by Ian Taylor. He cashed in the main event of the World Series of Poker three times between 2004 and 2007, including a 33rd place finish.
Publisher: Dimat Enterprises (Jan. 2, 2009)
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-0974150284
Description: Paperback, 409 pages
Information: www.InternetTexasHoldem.com

What “secret” separates top poker players from poker wannabes? Is it zen-like mind-reading skills, a computer-like brain or thousands of hours of play? No. It is a series of established approaches and behaviors that enables these experts to bring their “A” game to the table session after session, regardless of short-term results.

Title: The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success
Authors: Matthew Hilger is a 1996 Thunderbird graduate. His interest in professional poker is three-fold: playing, writing, and managing poker content websites. He has written three best-selling poker books: Internet Texas Hold’em, Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities, and The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success, coauthored by Ian Taylor. He cashed in the main event of the World Series of Poker three times between 2004 and 2007, including a 33rd place finish. Co-author Ian Taylor is a professional poker player and writer.
Publisher: Dimat Enterprises (March 26, 2007)
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0974150239
Description: Paperback, 280 pages
Information: www.InternetTexasHoldem.com

How often does each starting hand win against a specific hand or random hand? What are the odds of your opponent holding a pocket pair when he raises? What is the probability that an over-card will flop when you hold JJ? How do you determine if drawing is profitable or not? Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities answers all of these questions and more.

Title: Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No-Limit, and Tournament Strategies
Author: Matthew Hilger is a 1996 Thunderbird graduate. His interest in professional poker is three-fold: playing, writing, and managing poker content websites. He has written three best-selling poker books: Internet Texas Hold’em, Texas Hold’em Odds and Probabilities, and The Poker Mindset: Essential Attitudes for Poker Success, coauthored by Ian Taylor. He cashed in the main event of the World Series of Poker three times between 2004 and 2007, including a 33rd place finish.
Publisher: Dimat Enterprises (June 1, 2006)
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0974150222
Description: Paperback, 256 pages
Information: www.InternetTexasHoldem.com

Here is your complete reference to family-friendly beaches and parks, attractions, events, shops, hotels and restaurants in Santa Barbara and beyond. This handy travel guidebook makes it easy to plan an enjoyable hour, day, or weekend with the kids.

Title: Guide to Exploring Santa Barbara with Kids: From Tots to Preteens
Author: Annabelle Abba Brownell is a 1997 Thunderbird graduate. She is the mother of two children and owner of Santa Barbara Baby Company, a service-based company with an online storefront.
Publisher: Pacific Coast Publishing (June 11, 2008)
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0981575674
Description: Paperback, 224 pages
Review: “Whether exploring Santa Barbara by land or by sea, this book has it covered!” Rachael Ross Steidl, SBParent.com Founder
Information: www.amazon.com

Roadside assistance operator Jessie Dancing knows what it’s like to take a life and she’s trying to put that memory behind her. But when the call comes in from real estate tycoon Darren Markson and she thinks she hears him being killed while she’s on the phone with him, she knows that the world of violence and death are never very far away. Jessie travels from Phoenix to her hometown of Tucson to let Markson’s wife hear that last communication from her husband. But according to Emily, he’s very much alive …

Title: Liars Anonymous
Author: Louise Ure, a 1976 graduate of Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Ariz., lives in San Francisco with her husband.
Excerpt: I got away with murder once, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen again. Damn. This time I didn’t do it. Well, not all of it anyway.
Price: $17.13
Publisher: St. Martin’s Minotaur (April 14, 2009)
Description: Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-0312375867
Information: www.louiseure.com

This autobiographical story describes the misadventures of a small-town boy from Wisconsin and his successes in later life.

Title: Past Imperfect
Author: John Tolford Harycki is a 1960 Thunderbird graduate. He taught Spanish at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh from 1967 to 1980. His memoir describes growing up in Wisconsin and successes that came later in life.
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing (July 1, 2008)
Price: $20.99
ISBN: 978-1419696206
Description: Paperback, 358 pages
Information: www.amazon.com

This book provides teenagers, singles, husbands and wives with rules based on wisdom that is probably as old as the human species…and if followed, will dramatically improve the quality of life—not only of those who adhered to them but also of others whose lives they touch.

Title: Book of New Rules: For Teens, Singles, Husbands and Wives
Author: Boye Lafayette De Mente is the author of more than 60 books. He first came to Japan in 1949 and has since worked as a journalist, editor, lecturer and writer. In 1948 De Mente switched from Naval intelligence to the Army Security Agency and was assigned to Japan during the heyday of the American occupation of that country. In 1950 he went from intelligence work to being the editor of the ASA Star, a weekly newspaper he founded. De Mente graduated from Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1953.
Publisher: Phoenix Books; Kindle Edition (Feb. 23, 2009)
Kindle Price: $6.36
Description: 39 KB file size (Sold by Amazon Digital Services)
ASIN: B001TRE14Y
Information: www.boyedemente.com

This essential resource guide to exporting will help you enter the exporting business, save time and money and comply with complex federal regulations. This book helps you develop an export plan and keep your business up-to-date with trends in international trade. You will learn how to: enter the export market, identify target markets and price your product. Helpful forms and checklists are provided to help you through the export documentation and shipping process.

Title: Exporting Guide for California Business
Author: J.H. (Ham) Dethero is a 1958 Thunderbird graduate. He is an international business consultant, writer and instructor, with a 50-year background in international banking, trade and state government. His career is detailed in “Who’s Who in America.” He lives in Lafayette, Calif.
Publisher: California Chamber of Commerce, Sacramento; 3rd edition (Jan. 21, 2009)
Price: $39.99 ($31.99 for chamber members)
ISBN: 978-1579972530
Description: Perfect Paperback, 276 pages
Information: www.calbizcentral.com

By embracing the concepts and developing the eleven leadership practices discussed in this book, you will begin to function as a leader by taking charge of your life and all that it encompasses. The Barrett Leadership Model is not a feel good motivational theory; rather it is a practical guide to achieving sustainable happiness through the creation and pursuit of your life’s vision.

Title: Leading from the Inside-Out: Using the Barrett Leadership Model to Achieve Sustainable Happiness by Creating and Pursuing the Fulfillment of Your Life’s Vision
Author: Mario O. Barrett III, Ph.D., has a 2008 executive certificate from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Price: $13.95
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing, LLC (April 9, 2008)
ISBN: 978-1598585650
Description: Paperback, 152 pages. After years of self-inquiry and discovery, coupled with academic research in the field of leadership development, Dr. Barrett is now ready to teach you what it takes to become the leader of your life.
Information: www.BarrettLeadershipBooks.com

“Knock, Knock … Where Am I?” is a brain puzzle book written by two children, but it’s for everyone ages 6 and up. In the classroom, in the car, on a train or on a plane, everyone has fun learning about their own country and new countries and cultures. Volume 1 contains 69 U.S. and world geography puzzles, plus maps and fun facts about each puzzle solution.

Title: Knock, Knock … Where Am I? The Brain Puzzle Book of Syllables, Cities, Countries & States
Authors: Brady and Sam Ettenson are the children of Thunderbird Professor Richard Ettenson, Ph.D. They learned to love world geography while traveling with their family to places such as Iceland, China and Australia.
Price: $9.95
Description: Volume 1 contains 69 U.S. and world geography puzzles, plus maps and fun facts about each puzzle solution.
Sample question: Where am I? I am in a capital city in Asia with two syllables. The first syllable is what a man wears when he gets dressed up. The second syllable is what you do when you want to buy something. (Answer: Taipei, Taiwan)
Information: www.knockknockwhereami.com