Superagent David Falk -- the man who called the shots for some of the greatest heroes in the history of basketball -- reveals the innovative business secrets that catapulted him to the top of his game. David Falk is the most successful agent in the game of basketball. He has represented more NBA first-round draft selections, lottery picks, Rookies-of-the-Year, and All-Stars than anyone else in the business. He changed the NBA's entire salary structure with a unique approach to negotiations that garnered some of the biggest contracts in league history, including Alonzo Mourning's $100-plus million contract with the Miami Heat -- the first ever in professional sports. His groundbreaking Nike deal for Michael Jordan, the most successful endorsement relationship in history, revolutionized basketball by creating the game's first commercial superstar. Basketball Digest called Falk one of the sport's most influential people, second only to NBA commissioner David Stern. In The Bald Truth, Falk, respected throughout the industry as an innovator, candidly unveils the business secrets that have fueled his extraordinary success. For the first time, he shares the fascinating insider details of how he negotiated lucrative contracts, learned from his mistakes, and branded and marketed not only the greatest basketball stars in history but also other elite athletes and coaches. Falk is blunt, he's fair, and he looks at the long run rather than the short-term gains. To make a great deal, he believes, both sides have to win. He adheres to steadfast principles, some of which he learned from the celebrated champion athletes and revered coaching legends -- like Georgetown's John Thompson and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski -- who have been long-standing clients and lifelong friends. Since Falk began representing athletes more than thirty-five years ago, basketball has grown from a fledgling team sport to a multibilliondollar business with celebrity players, powerful endorsement deals, salary caps, and ever-evolving free agency rules. He has made millions of dollars for himself and his clients, but today he remains in the business for one reason: love of the game -- on and off the court.

With the introduction of Propecia™ the drug approved by the FDA for the treatment of male pattern baldness, and Rogaine™ 5%, regrowth of regular or "terminal" hair -- not peach fuzz -- is finally a reality. Yet thousands of products in the $7 billion hair-loss treatment and restoration industry claim their effectiveness too. Now in The Bald Truth, consumer advocate Spencer David Kobren offers the antidote to decades of hair-raising hype. In this comprehensive, authoritative book, Kobren examines the largely unregulated baldness treatment industry and tells how, after years of research, he successfully treated his own hair loss -- and how you can too. IN THE BALD TRUTH YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: * the latest in hair restoration -- including a thorough review of the breakthrough drugs Propecia and Rogaine 5%, and how they work * how to keep from getting scalped by botched surgical procedures * how nutrition can supercharge treatment -- the diet that helps hair grow * the power of herbal treatments * hair systems -- what they are and where to find the good ones Exploring case histories, the latest scientific studies, and new treatments being developed, The Bald Truth proves that male pattern baldness can be combated -- and helps you make an educated decision about the best alternatives available today.

Bernath Beatrice's Art represents a blatant and loud talking, declares its presence as a social and personal truth, not for decoration value, and was reflected in recent years in Israel and galleries overseas, particularly in Berlin, as called SOCIAL ART and sometimes INHOSPITABLE ART. This Art raises social and personal pain, the right to be different, to love who they want, the urban loneliness and so, it is uncomfortable to talk about, but, it turns out, that most artists are tired to hide important issues and use art to point them out, and young people identify with this clean direct art, that speaks for them. Beatrice Bernath about her art: frying schnitzels - lazy housewife, artist who no longer has the patience to cook complicated dishes. I twist in my head different methods for the public presentation of my written words - I was told it'll be open scene - I say it'll be action for sure, more cliché than that is not possible: the housewife turned poet with artistic desires planning the world's "Existential Nonsenses breaking in public fragments of her inner life. Today I feel your awareness in my melodrama "Utopia my love" you are an universal mockery of my theater and a less gentle picture waiting for that evil Godot who is never coming because he is already in my bed. "My Decameron" was born deep in me and it can be you again and again, they are all versions of that strange stranger that tried to enter my life. I will speak my verse eye to eye with the audience I will do it with a bow for you to know: it's a show. In "Nude" I present on the tray a naked soul. What is the value from a literary and deepness point of view if I touch only a single string from the audience? who cut the hair from your nose, who does she dream about when she washes your underwear named childishly shpile-hose will you recognize my wicked smile in my sarcastic poems? Life is an everyday's kitsch but poetry with the moon stars and my tears- they are the Utopia of my refuge. And who will draw the line who has the right of the delimitation among the hilarious reality observed by the subconscious that screams shit and loves silly falling ghowkly between the lines? Although I'm afraid of being exposed, I provoke the public bravely, I read my obsolete thoughts endlessly with immeasurable thirst of love, my upsets disguised in a sarcastic parody are talking to "a Fish on the plate" and I will be face to face with you, anonymously but intimate from my two-sided mirror.

This Absurdist masterpiece by the author of Rhinoceros “is explosively, liberatingly funny...a loony parody with a climax which is an orgy of non-sequiturs” (The Observer). Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco’s first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books. Ionesco went on to become an internationally renowned master of modern drama, famous for the comic proportions and bizarre effects that allow his work to be simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and profound. As Ionesco has said, “Theater is not literature. . . . It is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means.”

Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.