Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber's book, Trust Us, We're Experts, has just been released in a paperback edition. The authors will be speaking in dozens of U.S. cities in the months ahead. During the week of February 11, Stauber will be in California in Santa Monica on Monday (2/11), Del Mar on Tuesday (2/12), Santa Cruz on Wednesday (2/13), San Francisco on Thursday (2/14), and Berkeley on Friday (2/15).

Nick Nichols, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Nichols-Dezenhall Communications Management Group, Ltd., has a book out titled Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group Shakedowns, which purports to offer advice for the once-proud corporations hunted into near-extinction by the overwhelming power of left-wing activists and their allies in the anti-corporate media.

Charlotte Beers, the former advertising executive in charge of improving America's image in the Muslim world, recently spent three days in Cairo talking about mending fences.