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Featured Books and Videos
Civilisation: A Personal View : By
Lord Kenneth Clark. Order the recently released US DVD
set of this groundbreaking 13-part PBS series on our
Civilisation page.
Middle Chamber Books Podcast #6, June 16, 2007:
In this edition of the podcast, we chat with Dr. Robert Schram, the Executive Director of BARC in Bucks County Pennsylvania. BARC is a nonprofit agency serving people with developmental disabilities.
Rob is the author of Maximize Life by Living for Peace, Harmony, and Joy, the story of his own personal struggles with clinical depression, and how he cured himself through a combination of traditional therapy, yoga, and a return to the traditions of his Jewish background.
Rob is also my cousin on my mother's side.
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the podcast here (Stereo
MP3, 24.4 mb, 17.50)
Middle Chamber
Books Podcast #5: The Men Who Loved Trains, with
author Rush Loving, Jr.
In this episode of the podcast, we
interview Rush Loving Jr., a former associate editor
of Fortune magazine, and author of The
Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled
Greed to Save an Ailing Industry, about the
recent history of U.S. railroads, particularly the
Penn Central, its bankruptcy and consolidation into
Conrail, and then Conrail's privatization and sale.
Rush Loving steps off
an inspection trip on a
Norfolk
Southern locomotive in October 2003.
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the podcast here (Stereo
MP3, 50.2 mb, 35:40 duration)
Middle
Chamber Books Podcast #4, May 22, 2006: Susan
Werner, a singer-songwriter based in Chicago,
has been getting a lot of buzz in the blogosphere
for her free MP3 download, "My Strange Nation," a
love song to America as a dysfunctional family.
We speak with Susan, play "My Strange Nation," and
a couple of other tracks from her recent CD, "I
Can't Be New," which is available for sale in the
Middle Chamber Book Store along with some of her
other CDs (see links at left and below.)
Download the podcast here (Stereo
MP3, 43.8 mb, 31:11)
Middle
Chamber Books Podcast #3, March 28, 2006: David
Meerman Scott, author of
Cashing In With Content : How Innovative
Marketers Use Digital Information to Turn Browsers
into Buyers, is our guest in our latest Middle
Chamber Books Podcast. David has recently made available
a free electronic book, The
new rules of PR: How
to create a press release strategy for reaching
buyers directly, that you can download
from his website here.
So far, more than 50,000 people have
downloaded his e-book. In this podcast, we speak
with David about his principles for using press releases
directly with web readers. He also describes the
companies profiled in Cashing
In With Content.
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the podcast here (Stereo MP3, 36.3 mb, 25:48), or
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RSS feed for our podcasts.
David Meerman Scott
Middle
Chamber Books Podcast #2: Humorist Fred
Pollack tells college seniors how to survive their
first years in the corporate world, with wit and
style.
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the podcast here (31.7
mb stereo MP3 file, 22:02 duration).
Fred Pollack
Middle
Chamber Books Podcast #1: In
our inaugural podcast for Middle Chamber
Books, we interview Joe DiStefano. Philadelphia
Inquirer business writer Joseph N. DiStefano's
first book, Comcasted, describes the rise
of the Roberts family as it grew Comcast
into the most influential company in the
cable television industry.
Download the
podcast program (54 mb stereo MP3 file,
38:28).
Joe DiStefano
Podcasting Books and Tools
Podcasting is one of our major activities
at Middle Chamber Books and Lubetkin Communications. Here
is a selection of books about podcasting so that you can
get started yourself.
Here are some podcasting hardware and software tools.
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