New Author Garners Third Award Nomination

James Heaphey of Williamsburg, Virginia, new to trade book publishing, has  received a nomination for the Benjamin Franklin Award, career category, for his book How to Survive in an Organization,  a realistic look at the dynamics of human interaction in the organizational setting. With an acute eye and sharp wit, Author Heaphey gives the reader an understanding of how the “system” really works and brings him and her into the control rooms of corporate and organizational power to illustrate how the power of perception is used to control employee behavior. The Award is sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association which grants awards annually to the best of Independent and University Presses.

James Heaphey has an expertise in Organizational Theory and Behavior, his PhD in that discipline from the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught, lectured and consulted for the Agency for International Development, the State Department, General Motors and IBM.
 
He has also received a nomination from Foreword Magazine, the premier journal for independent and university presses, for its Book of the Year Award for Legerdemain: The President’s Secret Plan, the Bomb and What the French Never Knew. A memoir of his participation as a member of a United States Air Force Security Service covert team, he was sent by President Harry Truman to help Morocco break away from colonial France before a Communist takeover. The mission was authorized to safeguard airbases vital to American nuclear retaliatory strategy against the Soviet Union. Legerdemain has also been nominated for 2008-2009 Best Book on American National Security Issues by the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. Based largely on recently declassified files, World Bank Editor Herbert Werlin said of Legerdemain, it is “the kind of history that you will only find in the deepest part of the archives.”

James Heaphey is Professor Emeritus, Rockefeller College of Public Policy and Administration, State University of New York. His writings have appeared in several texts published by the University of New York Press, Sage Press and Duke University Press and his articles have appeared in twenty- seven journals such as World Politics, Public Administration Review and Management Science and Policy Analysis. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences in Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, Brazil, South Korea, Switzerland, and Chile.

How to survive in an Organization, 9781933909196, Today’s Books/History Publishing Company, was published in April 2008 and Legerdemain 9781933909363 History Publishing Company in January 2008 and is available to libraries through Baker and Taylor and Ingram and to the public at Barnes and Noble nationally.