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Sell or Be Sold Author: Joseph Finder I can’t quite imagine how much pressure it is to support your family as a salesman.  Quotas and commissions and competition – it all sounds like a recipe for a bleeding ulcer.  But some people thrive on it all – or are simply born to sell.  Jason Steadman doesn’t really fit the salesman suit, but he’s good at his job.  Sometimes good isn’t good enough, though, something Jason finds out in great detail in Killer instinct. Jason is a good guy.  Affable, well liked and laid back, his clients love him.  He isn’t [...]

The Life Story of Cancer... Author:  Siddhartha Mukherjee Cancer affects everyone, either directly or indirectly, and given the seemingly indiscriminate manner in which it chooses its victims, it’s a topic that garners a lot of attention.  But despite decades of intense effort and expenditure, medical science hasn’t really seemed to make a substantial dent in the destruction that cancer leaves in its wake.  There may be a few victories here and there, but the “C” word still evokes the same dread that it did when I was a kid. But maybe change is on the way.  About ten years ago, [...]