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Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Twelve (December 7, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0446542695
ISBN-13: 978-0446542692

Seven: The Number for Happiness, Love, and Success….

What is it about the number seven that has such a hold on us? Why are there seven deadly sins? Seven days of the week? Seven wonders of the world, seven colors of the spectrum, seven ages of man, and seven sister colleges? Why can we hold seven numbers or words in our working memory–but no more? Author Jackie Leo explores everything about this mystical, magical, useful, and fun number in her new book.

SEVEN REASONS YOU NEED THIS BOOK

1. SEVEN is a tool to improve the quality of your life. It is a way to define time, synthesize ideas, and keep your mind performing at top speed in an era of distractions.

2. SEVEN is culturally significant. It pops up everywhere, structuring our world in ways so fundamental, we notice them only when we pause to look. Across the ages and across cultures, the number has acquired a huge scientific, psychological, and religious significance.

3. SEVEN is intriguing. Why, out of hundreds of recipes in a cookbook, do people return to the same seven, over and over? Why, when asked to choose a number between one and ten, does such a large majority of people choose seven? Why does it take seven rounds of shuffling to obtain a fully mixed deck of cards?

4. SEVEN is influential. You’ll learn how the number seven shapes our thinking, our choices, and even our relationships.

5. SEVEN is practical. Throughout this book are Top Seven lists covering the best ways to get someone’s attention, to build your personal brand, and to put yourself in the path of prosperity and good luck.

6. SEVEN is fun. You’ll encounter surprising facts, intriguing puzzles, and hilarious anecdotes.

7. SEVEN is wise. You’ll hear stories about the meaning of seven from Mehmet Oz, Sally Quinn, Liz Smith, Christina Ricci, and many others.
Artfully designed and full of enough insights to keep you engaged in conversation at the water cooler for years, SEVEN will provoke, enlighten, and amuse.

About the Author’s..

Media guru JACQUELINE LEO has held a number of high-level positions in publishing and television. She founded and launched Child magazine in 1986, and went on to be editor in chief of Family Circle magazine and editorial director of the New York Times Women’s Magazine Group, where she launched Fitness magazine. She was senior producer and editorial director of Good Morning America, editorial director for Consumer Reports, and vice president and editor in chief of Reader’s Digest. She is currently director of digital operations for the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. She lives in New York City.

Edward Burger is a pioneer in rich, multimedia Internet lectures that, together with written material, form an electronic textbook. By providing students with the presence of a recorded instructor, the material is much more interactive and engaging compared to traditional text books. Together with Thinkwell, Burger “crafted the first-ever virtual, CD-ROM video, interactive, mathematics texts/courses” published over the World Wide Web; he is featured in several of the entertaining multimedia math lessons. Additionally, his lesson tutorial videos earned publisher Holt, Rinehart and Wilson one of the 2007 Awards of Excellence from Technology & Learning, an academic publication.

Burger has written and starred in number of educational videos, including the 24-lecture video series Zero to Infinity: A History of Numbers and An Introduction to Number Theory. He has delivered more than 400 lectures worldwide and has appeared on more than 40 radio and TV programs including ABC News Now on WABC-TV in New York and National Public Radio.

SEVEN CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Just ask …
– Mehmet Oz:”I decided to be a heart surgeon at age seven.”
– Christina Ricci:”Every seven years, everything changes: your physical being, your emotional being, the way other people look at you. Everything.”
– Sally Quinn:”I have always had a thing about birthdays with a seven in my age: seven and seventeen and twenty-seven, thirty-seven, etc. I can’t wait to be seventy-seven.”
– Liz Smith:”Like Sophie Tucker, I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor and believe me, rich is better. It is, as long as you know the difference. And the difference for me was seven years.”
– Jeff Greenfield:”I always thought Mantle would forever be the most memorable ‘seven’ of my baseball fandom-alas, that was not to be the case.”
– Danny Meyer:”When I opened my second restaurant, Gramercy Tavern, I knew we’d make it. Why? Because we were given the following phone number: GR 7-0777.”
– Jacqueline Novogratz:”Seven was the organizing principle for our wedding, a reference to the wisdom of many religions, our way of bowing to those who came before us.”

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