Start the year with a good book

The staff at Pharmaceutical Representative hit the bookstores looking for some of the most interesting sales, business and finance titles this season. Here's what we found.

•Â "Brain$ell: Harnessing the Selling Power of Your Whole Brain" by Tony Buzan and Richard Israel, $19.95 hard cover from McGraw-Hill. Want to know if your a left-brained or right-brained sales rep? Read the book.

•Â "Stop Selling, Start Partnering" by Larry Wilson with Hersch Wilson, $14.95 paperback from John Wiley and Sons Inc. Learn how to keep customers through long-lasting relationships.

•Â "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work" by Jack Canfield and others, $12.95 paperback from Health Communications Inc. Stories from Alex Haley, Dave Thomas and others provide examples of courage and creativity on the job.

•Â "The Greatest Sales Stories Ever Told: From the World's Best Salespeople" by Robert L. Shook, $18.95 hard cover from McGraw-Hill. The book offers selling tips from experts in a broad range of industries.

•Â "How to Drive Your Competition Crazy" by Guy Kawasaki, $12.95 from Hyperion. A Forbes columnist gives tips for launching a new product or holding your own against a competitor with greater resources.

•Â "Talking from 9 to 5" by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., $12.50 paperback from Avon Books, a division of Hearst Corp. The author of "You Just Don't Understand" looks at how men and women communicate in the workplace.

•Â "People, Performance and Pay: Dynamic Compensation for Changing Organizations" by Thomas P. Flannery and others from The Hay Group, $27.00 hard cover from The Free

Press. A book for managers that explains how companies can align their pay policy with their work culture. PR