Turn On The Human Calculator In You!

English | 2009 | 33 pages | PDF
The primary goal for this program is to motivate. Students and adults alike who feel they are “poor at mathematics” often perform below their true ability level in other scholastic courses and in the workplace, by avoiding math. Our system will not make each person who studies it a genius, however, those who practice the strategies will look at math and all other courses of study in a more enjoyable and more confident light. You will be acquiring a more healthy self concept and attitude towards numbers and higher mathematics.................

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The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods (CourseSmart)

304 pages | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (May 3, 2010) | English | ISBN-10: 1405190183
"The Philosopher’s Toolkit is a very good book. It could be highly useful for both introductory courses in philosophy, or philosophical methodology, as well as independent study for anyone interested in the methods of argument, assessment and criticism used in contemporary analytic philosophy. It is unique in approach, and written in a pleasant and considerate tone. Its authors are both competent philosophers, and the book visibly reflects their deep sympathy to the discipline and their appreciation of its unique character. This book will help one to get going to do philosophy, but more advanced students might find this text helpful too. I wish I had had access to this book as an undergraduate." Teaching Philosophy

"This book is ... an encyclopedia of philosophy. It should be of great use as a quick and accurate reference guide to the skill of philosophy, especially for beginners, but also for instructors ... highly recommended." (Choice)

"Its choice of tools for basic argument ... is sound, while further tools for argument ... move through topics and examples concisely and wittily... Sources are well chosen and indicated step by step. Sections are cross-referenced (making it better than the Teach Youself "100 philosophical concepts") and supported by a useful index." (Reference Reviews)

"...the average person who is interested in arguments and logic but who doesn't have much background in philosophy would certainly find this book useful, as would anyone teaching a course on arguments, logic, and reasoning. Even introductory courses on philosophy in general might benefit because the book lays out so many of the conceptual "tools" which will prove necessary over students' careers." (About.com)

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The Indispensable Employee: How to Keep Your Job in Hard Times

160 pages | Publisher: Berkley Trade (June 2, 2009) | English | # ISBN-10: 0425231410
It’s Tough to Find a Job & Tougher to Keep it

In a day where companies are constantly downsizing, shutting their doors, or moving to other parts of the country the chances of being unemployed have increased. With more people vying for the same job, it becomes tougher to get a job, and even tougher to keep it. How can we make our position more secure?

When it comes to job security, there are no guarantees. But there are ways to beat the odds. To become a key player. To become irreplaceable. Now, at a time when people are losing their jobs at an alarming rate all across America, bestselling author Eric Weber-s updated edition provides the basic tools to keeping your job.

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The Chocolate Bible: The Definitive Sourcebook, With Over 600 Illustrations

240 pages | Publisher: Chartwell Books, Inc. (August 31, 2009) | English | ISBN-10: 078581907X
A guide to chocolate includes the history of chocolate throughout the world, innovative ideas for cooking chocolate, and entrees that include chocolate, as well as delectable desserts, cookies, candies, and cocoas. 25,000 first printing." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review
Okay, we know you only read The Chocolate Bible for the articles, but will your friends believe you? After all, this stunning book is so overflowing with luscious photographs of chocolate in all its delectable varieties, shapes, and forms that it's hard to believe one could get any reading done under the circumstances. Still, if you can tear your eyes away from the illustrations, the text in this beautiful reference work is well worth perusing. From the history of chocolate in the first chapter to the recipes featuring a savory rather than sweet version of the bean in the last, The Chocolate Bible lives up to its name as the definitive resource.

Consider unusual dishes such as Noodles with Chocolate or Mexico's wondrous combination of chiles and chocolate to make Mole sauce; how about a recipe for modeling chocolate--a substance you're meant to play with, not eat--The Chocolate Bible has them all. Recipes for macaroons and tortes, wafers and candies, cakes, fillings, and beverages are at the heart of the book, but even if you never attempt a single one, you'll still get hours of pleasure just leafing through the pages--reading the articles, of course.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Digital Restoration from Start to Finish: How to Repair Old and Damaged Photographs - 2010

Publisher: Focal Press 2010 | 446 Pages | ISBN: 0240812085 | PDF
Digital Restoration - Start to Finish 2nd edition guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, Picture Window, and now Elements. Nothing is left out, from choosing the right hardware and software and getting the photographs into the computer, to getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity.

LEARN HOW TO:
* Scan faded and damaged prints or films
* Improve snapshots with Shadow/Highlight adjustment
* Correct uneven exposure
* Fix color and skin tones quickly with Curves, plug-ins, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers
* Correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with adjustment layers
* Hand-tint your photographs easily
* Correct skin tones with airbrush layers
* Clean up dust and scratches speedily and effectively
* Repair small and large cracks with masks and filters
* Eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph in just a few steps
* Minimize unwanted print surface textures
* Erase mildew spots
* Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs
* Increase sharpness and fine detailand
* Maximize print quality

* NEW Photoshop Elements included for those that don't own Photoshop
* NEW layout to make it easier for you to understand the step-by-steps
* MORE solutions for you to solve the restoration problems you are facing

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Boost Your Presentation IQ: Proven Techniques for Winning Presentations and Speeches

188 pages | Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Jan 2006) | English | PDF
Become a presentation genius without spending painstaking hours practicing and polishing

Boost Your Presentation IQ reveals how you can create powerful presentations and speeches for any business setting. Through an interactive format that features multiple-choice questions, you will determine your "Presentation IQ." Business consultant Marilyn Pincus delivers strategies for determining the best type of presentation to give, sample phrases for attention-getting beginnings and motivational endings, Q&A sessions, effective visual aids, and strategies for putting together a presentation fast.

From the Back Cover
Improve your presentation skills, gain confidence, and get results--fast!

Whether you're delivering a keynote address to a large audience or giving news to your staff, the response you generate depends on how well people relate to you. Management consultant Marilyn Pincus takes you through this entertaining and interactive guide, offering 50 multiple-choice questions to help you determine your "Presentation IQ." In minutes, you'll know where your strengths and weaknesses lie, and discover a wide range of ways to improve your technique. Inside, you'll find

* Strategies for determining the best type of presentation to give
* Sample phrases for attention-getting beginnings and motivational endings
* Tips for soliciting feedback
* Lists of words to use for success, as well as boring and overused words to avoid
* A guide to the most effective visual aids
* Advice for handling questions from the audience
* A handy cheat-sheet for putting together a presentation at the last minute

"Marilyn Pincus shows you how to have impact whether you are speaking for 5 minutes or 6 hours!"--Joan Burge, Founder and CEO, Office Dynamics, Ltd.

"Help on every page for even the most poised and experienced presenter/communicator...a fresh approach to a subject that bedevils us all...how to effectively reach our audiences."--Paul M. Sanchez, ABC, APR, Communication Business Leader, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, Europe

"Marilyn Pincus unveils strategies every great speaker uses."--Angela Schelp, Executive Speakers Bureau

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Handbook on Decision Making, Vol 1: Techniques and Applications (2010)

PDF | English | 1st Edition., 2010 | 548 pages | ISBN: 978-3-642-13638-2 | 10.4 Mb
Decision making is a multi-faceted and challenging, yet important task. A decision maker normally has to take into consideration a number of alternatives, which often conflict with one another, before reaching a good decision. To cope with the challenges of decision making, decision support systems have been developed to provide assistance in human decision making processes. The key to decision support systems is to collect information/data, analyse the information/data collected, and subsequently make quality and informed decisions. In this aspect, intelligent reasoning and learning techniques have emerged as a powerful approach to solving real-world decision making problems. The main aim of this research handbook is to present a small fraction of techniques stemmed from artificial intelligence, as well as other complementary methodologies, that are useful for developing intelligent decision support systems. In addition, application examples on how the intelligent decision support systems can be deployed to undertake decision making problems in a variety of domains are presented.

Among the topics covered in this book include:
• modelling and design of intelligent decision support systems
• artificial neural networks, genetic algorithm, and fuzzy systems for intelligent decision making
• case based reasoning and agent-based systems for intelligent decision making
• application of intelligent decision support systems to business, management, manufacturing, engineering, biomedicine, transportation and food industries.

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Top 10 for Men: Over 250 Lists that Matters

Pages: 288 | PDF | English | 5.2 Mb
It's a fact that men love lists: with lists, men can find the most interesting information with the least amount of effort. This book contains over 250 lists covering the most important subjects in life - cars, sports, barbecues, gadgets - and answers the most vital questions: Are Ferraris faster than Lamborghinis? What's the most common murder weapon? Who was the fattest Prime Minister? Which city has the highest proportion of women to men? and, What's the most alcholic beer in the world? No matter what your chosen subject may be, "Top 10 for Men" is a must for every pub-trivia king.

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Fun With Figures: Brilliant Mental Math Short Cuts that will Amaze Everyone

English | ISBN 1902517016 | 2009 | PDF | 5.7 Mb
Is It Math Or Magic? Brilliant Mental Math Short Cuts That Will Amaze Everyone! Fun With Figures is for those who think they are no good at maths and for those who are good at maths. It is for those would like to steal a little lightning. The book answers a need of our time, offering easy, enjoyable maths which improves mental agility and memory, promotes confidence and creativity — as well as being useful in everyday life...........................................

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The Fast Food Diet: Lose Weight and Feel Great Even If You're Too Busy to Eat Right

258 pages | Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 18, 2006) | English
Cardiologist Sinatra used to despair about his patients' fast food addictions, but "getting mad didn't do any good. So I got smarter." This book is the result, a call for good nutritional sense that takes a pragmatic approach toward the often-unwholesome eating habits of contemporary America. The nutritional advice Sinatra gives is basic but essential: eat more fiber, avoid trans fats, load up on fruit and vegetables. His theory is that if you're "eating right about 80% of the time, it's OK to splurge the other 20%." In his final estimate, though, he ends up recommending a very small portion of each menu he considers: french fries and big burgers are out, veggies and fish are almost always in. While there are many suggestions, as well as a comprehensive 6-week plan, for eating on the go, the fact that Sinatra can't quite avoid is that there is no substitute for eating nutritious foods correctly prepared. Instead, he provides transparent equivocations, like letting a Whopper Jr slide but admonishing, "you'll still want to eat leaner foods at home to compensate for the relatively high fat total." Subway sandwiches and "light" menus at sit-down chain restaurants (Applebee's, the Olive Garden) merit predictably higher marks. Perhaps the biggest reward for readers is a clearer understanding of just the body needs to function, and how little the fast food industry cares.

Review
Eat super-sized fries, lose weight, and prevent disease? Not exactly. As cardiologist and nutritionist Sinatra (former chief of cardiology & director of medical education, Manchester Memorial Hosp.; Optimum Health: A Natural Lifesaving Prescription for Your Body and Mind) and Punkre (chief copywriter, Rodale Press) explain, their approach to weight loss is actually quite sensible: greatly decrease caloric intake by making healthier, more nutritious choices at fast food restaurants (fast food consumption should be limited to 20 percent of the daily diet) and increase activity with a 10,000-steps-a-day exercise regimen. The book includes an invaluable chapter listing the calorie and fat content of the offerings at the most popular food chains as well as a suggested meal plan for weight loss that incorporates fast food. Also useful is the chapter on vitamin and mineral supplementation. Michael F. Jacobson and Sarah Fritschner's The Fast-Food Guide covered similar ground but is now outdated. Recommended purchase for public libraries and for academic libraries serving colleges with courses in nutrition.
—Florence Scarinci, Nassau Community Coll. Lib., Garden City, New York (Library Journal, June 15, 2006)

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Above Top Secret Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age

Publisher: The Disinformation Company | 2008 | Pages : 207 | PDF | English
Jim Marrs can justifiably be considered the world’s leading conspiracy author, with multimillion bestsellers like Alien Agenda, Rule by Secrecy, and the book that Oliver Stone used as a basis for his JFK movie, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. Now Marrs has allied with the web’s most popular conspiracy forum to investigate everything from chemtrails to the Nazis’ Antarctic base, moon landing hoaxes to UFOs, God as an alien to the end of the world in 2012.

AboveTopSecret.com is the Internet’s largest and most popular discussion board community, with more than twelve million page views per month. It is dedicated to the intelligent exchange of ideas and debate on a wide range of “alternative topics” such as conspiracies, UFOs, paranormal, secret societies, political scandals, new world order, terrorism, and dozens of related topics. AboveTopSecret’s popular podcast is downloaded tens of millions of times per month.

Marrs brings his rigorous journalist’s credentials to bear on these topics and more, asking (and often answering) the essential who, what, when, where, why, and how questions in compelling, page-turning fashion.

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Jim Marrs has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. After a leave of absence to serve with Fourth Army intelligence during the Vietnam War, he became a military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter. Since 1980, Marrs has been a freelance writer, author, and frequently invited public speaker.

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Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings (Multi Format) - 2010

 
Oxford University Press | 2010 | 200 pages | ISBN 9780195388541 | Formats: Mobi | ePub | Lit | LRF | PDF
Why is eating chocolate so pleasurable? Can the function of just one small group of chemicals really determine whether you are happy or sad? Does marijuana help to improve your memory in old age? Is it really best to drink coffee if you want to wake up and be alert? Why is a drug like PCP potentially lethal? Why does drinking alcohol make you drowsy? Do cigarettes help to relieve anxiety? What should you consume if you are having trouble staying in your chair and focusing enough to get your work done? Why do treatments for the common cold make us drowsy? Can eating less food preserve your brain? What are the possible side effects of pills that claim to make your smarter? Why is it so hard to stop smoking? Why did witches once believe that they could fly?

In this book, Gary Wenk demonstrates how, as a result of their effects on certain neurotransmitters concerned with behavior, everything we put into our bodies has very direct consequences for how we think, feel, and act. The chapters introduce each of the main neurotransmitters involved with behavior, discuss its role in the brain, present some background on how it is generally turned on and off, and explain ways to influence it through what we consume.

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How To Build A Great Home Workshop

PDF | 292 Pages | English | 60 Mb
From the publisher of WOOD Magazine. Turn your basement, backyard shed, or garage space into the perfect shop for your needs. Everything is covered--lighting and ventilation, smooth workflow, handy storage for tools and materials, sturdy fold-away work surfaces--all at a cost to fit any budget. Choose one of five basic layouts and then customize the one that's best for you. There are dozens of great projects, including workbenches, all-hung and floor-mounted cabinets, movable power tool accessory chests, rolling sheet goods racks and more.

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Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition

North Atlantic Books; 3 edition | ISBN: 1556434715 | English | 780 pages | PDF | 10.10 MB
"Healing with Whole Foods contains a wealth of information on health, diet, alternative medicine, natural food presentation, and recipes, researched by an expert in the field. Readers will learn how to apply Chinese medicine and the five-element theory to a contemporary diet; treat illness and nervous disorders through diet; and make the transition to whole vegetable foods. The most detailed source book yet published on preparing food and eating consciously, Healing with Whole Foods includes complete sections on Ayurvedic principles of food—combining; the treatment of disease conditions through meals; transition from animal products to whole vegetable foods; micro-algae; selection of waters and salts; the extremely complex varieties of oils, sugars, and condiments; vitamins and minerals; fasting and purification; food for children, food presentation and proportions; vibrational cooking; the physiology of nourishment; color diagnosis and therapy; consciousness in diet changes; plus descriptions of the nature and uses of various grains, legumes, miso, tempeh, tofu, seaweeds, nuts and seeds, sprouts, and fruits. Also featured are sections on chutneys, relishes, pickles, different milks, rejuvelac, yogurt, salads, and desserts." - Midwest Book Review

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Food (Experimenting With Everyday Science)

 

Chelsea House Publications; 1 edition (September 2010) | ISBN: 160413173X | 169 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB
Food explores some of the scientific principles involved in the production, preparation, and preservation of food. Discover why food is a form of stored solar energy and how everything you eat can really be traced back to the sun. Learn how cooking food involves some rather complex chemical reactions and how even something as simple as making ice cream depends on the laws of physics. Hands-on activities help bring the science of food to life, with topics ranging from why food tastes the way it does to how acids and bases produce chemical changes in food as you make cheese and marinate meat.

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Corrective Exercise: A Practical Approach

288 pages | English | PDF | 6.4Mb
Corrective and functional exercise is a rapidly advancing field. Exercise is an essential factor in all injury recovery, conditioning and performance, and if used correctly can play a preventative role in injury management. In the injured athlete, gym user or armchair athlete, corrective exercise can help to restore range of motion, re-build strength, endurance and power, re-establish neuromuscular control and balance, and provide positive progress for a specific sport or a healthier lifestyle. Written by an experienced specialist in the field of rehabilitative and performance exercise, this book provides an essential practical guide to corrective and functional exercise for every sports therapist and fitness trainer, particularly those taking diplomas or NVQs at level 3. Packed with photos and illustrations, and full of accessible step-by-step explanations of the latest rehabilitative methods, every corrective and functional technique is covered in detail, from initial consultation to whole body exercises.

About the Author
Kesh Patel is an exercise and movement specialist, a registered nutritionist and lecturer in clinical sports therapy. He is also the founder of the wellness clinic Origin: Health, which specialises in innovative functional and corrective exercise solutions for rehabilitation and performance.

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Celtic Mythology A to Z (2nd Edition) 2010

Date : 2010 | 149 Pages | PDF | English
Celtic Mythology A to Z is a clearly written, illustrated guide to the characters, objects, and places that make up the mythic lore of the Celtic peoples. With more than 450 entries providing readable definitions, explanations, and descriptions of the major stories, gods and goddesses, places, and beliefs, this book is the perfect resource for young people who want to know more about ancient Celtic myths.

This volume is part of the Mythology A to Z series from Facts On File. Each volume has a similar format: an introduction includes a history of the culture(s), an explanation of the book, and a pronunciation guide, followed by a time line and a map. The main text is an alphabetical listing of names, places, and ideas important to the mythology of the culture. The definitions are mostly brief--a single paragraph--although some are as lengthy as a page. Many black-and-white illustrations, mostly of artifacts, enhance the text.

Each volume includes a good bibliography with Internet addresses.

The series is designed for young people in junior high and high school, and it is appropriate for younger children who are better readers or interested in mythology. Except in the Celtic volume there is not much storytelling since the volumes are intended to be encyclopedias rather than collections of stories. They will help students to make connections between mythological characters and images and compare similarities between cultures. The indexes are constructed to help make those connections, too. Although the pronunciation guides in the introductions are excellent, a young audience also needs pronunciations at appropriate entry headings. It is difficult to remember strange pronunciations or to flip to the front of the book to figure out how to say foreign names.

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1001 Horrible Facts

English | 208 Pages | PDF | 28.4 Mb
Brand new knowledge book with cartoon illustrations, "1001 HORRIBLE FACTS" (208 pages). One of a series of 1001 Fact books for children with a fascination for the wierd and wonderful side of life - a yuckopedia of gross truths about everything...

Did you know...? In Anglo-Saxon England, people who died in a famine were eaten by their neighbours! In France in the late 1600s, it was considered a great honour o talk to King Louis XIV while he was on the toilet. During the Second World War, people in the UK were urged by the government to make the most of wild foods, and were given recipes for cooking roast squirrel, rook casserole, stewed starlings and baked sparrows.

Read all these facts ... and another 998, in this fascinating book!

Got a thirst for knowledge of all things nasty? Then this yuckopedia's for you! A team of cartoon characters guides you through a feast of festering facts so horrible they're hard to believe. Featuring gross truths about the human body, food, animals, history, science, and even world records in horribleness, it's a real education in all things rotten... Enter ye not, those of a weak constitution...

This cartoon duo make reading a voyage through all things horrible - more interesting than the average reference book. Horrible facts are always popular on radio, TV and in book format. This title appeals to parents because it encourages children to widen their reading and acquire more information while they do so.

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12 Weeks to Better than Ever: Navy Seal Breakthrough To Master Level Fitness

Bronze Bow Publishing | PDF | 64 pages | 9,72 MB
The daily workout guide to Mark’s Navy SEAL Breakthrough to Master Level Fitness ™! You will never wonder again whether you are following the best possible program to give yourself the results you’ve always dreamed of having. This is the one book that contains the exact same training strategies and technologies used to transform ordinary men into the world’s most elite fight force, the U.S. Navy SEALs.

Everything You Need to Know to
Reshape,
Reenergize,
Revitalize,
& Renew

Every Muscle in Your Body From Head to Toe in 12 Weeks or Less.

12 Weeks will take you through three level workouts: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. We have taken the guess work out of your workouts. Now you can take the evaluation test to figure out your fitness level. Next, go to the appropriate 12 week program and you are done. Each day is laid out for you in a systematic form. All you have to do is refer to your day of the week and it tells you step by step what exercise, stretch or routine.

If you are ready to take your workouts to the next level then 12 weeks is the program for you.

MARK DE LISLE was a member of Navy SEAL Team Three

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Black & White Photography Techniques with Adobe Photoshop

128 pages | English | PDF | 6.6Mb
Fine art quality, black-and-white prints are within every photographer's reach with the techniques illustrated in this digital image editing guide. Taking advantage of the control and reproducibility that the digital darkroom offers, this handbook teaches photographers how to fine-tune images with contrast and exposure levels, crop and rotate images for dynamic results, and remove flaws such as dust and scratches long after the photograph has been taken. Instruction on techniques that simulate traditional hand coloring and tinting and add special effects such as frames, infrared, and lighting and lens effects helps photographers realize their artistic vision. Screen shots and images guide readers through the presented techniques, allowing photographers to gauge their own results and anticipate the effects of the outlined corrections and enhancements on their own images. A gallery of the author's work provides inspiration for simulating—and improving upon—the chemical-based darkroom experience.

Review
"Describes and illustrates classic concepts and Adobe Photoshop editing techniques for digital photographers seeking to create fine art prints." —Art Book News Annual

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Leading Strategy Execution: How to Engage Employees and Implement Your Strategies - 2010

216 pages | Publisher: Kogan Page (June 28, 2010) | English | PDF
Leading Strategy Execution demonstrates to senior executives ways they can inspire their employees to execute essential company strategies. Having a good strategy isn't enough to guarantee a company's success; executives and managers need to ensure that their strategies are implemented correctly throughout the company and that all staff are on board.

The book is divided into three sections:
1. Energy of Engagement: This section demonstrates how to engage and energize employees so that they want to implement company strategy, and so that they accept their role and contribution towards making the strategy a success.

2. Energy of Change: This section illustrates ways in which executives can persuade employees to alter their habits, which may have been reinforced over a number of years by business processes and systems. Managers will learn how to give staff the exact skills and confidence needed to apply the new ways of thinking that are required to turn today's new strategy into tomorrow's business culture.

3. Energy of Management: This section reveals to executives how to energize and employ the middle managers within the business. It explains how to ensure that middle managers focus company strategy and become ambassadors of change rather than inertia.

About the Author
Philippe Korda is founder of the training and consulting firm Korda & Partners, based in Paris and London. Christine Antunes and Christophe Korda both work as trainers and consultants at the firm. Suresh Mistry is head of the UK branch of the firm and has years of consulting/training experience with clients such as Barclays, Tesco, and British Telecom.

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Google Magic Formula: Unscramble The Google Code - Volume 1&2

Publisher: Google Magic Formula | ISBN: N/A | | PDF | 66 pages | 9 Mb
The Google Magic Formula book is a completely NEW, UNIQUE, and insightful step-by-step method for affiliates to promote products via the well-known advertising system called Google AdWords.
From what I know, there is no other manual like this on the marketplace right now and the inside information will prove to be invaluable to ALL affiliates, no matter if they are newbies or gurus.
Google Magic Formula is written by Andrew X and Steven Lee Jones. Just in case you don't know, they both are authors of one of the most successful books that teach affiliates to promote products using Google AdWords strategies.

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Business Plans Handbook, Volume 17 - 2010

Cengage Gale | 12 Mar 2010 | ISBN-10: 1414445717 | PDF | 289 pages
Business Plans Handbook, Volume 17 (BPH-17) is a collection of business plans compiled by entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses throughout North America. For those looking for examples of how to approach, structure, and compose their own business plans, BPH-17 presents 20 sample plans, including plans for the following businesses:

• Apparel Manufacturer
• Architecture Firm
• Bed and Breakfast
• Bookkeeping Practice
• Children’s Bookstore
• Currency Trading
• Dog Training Business
• Health Advocacy Business
• Healthcare Translation & Interpretation Business
• Home Repair and Improvement Contractor
• Microbrewery
• Mobile Veterinary Practice
• Mortgage Banking Firm
• Oil and Gas Manufacturing and Services Company
• Organic Lawn Care Services
• Pipeline Fracture Testing Service
• Safety Consulting Firm
• Self-Service Laundry Business
• Solar Energy Farm
• Utilities Reclamation Services

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The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

English | 2008 | 270 pages | PDF | 20 MB
The bestselling The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don’t live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door. This new edition, the first since 1998, includes a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley.

How can you join the ranks of America’s wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It’s easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You’ll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It’s only fair. The authors’ conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers–particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society.

“You aren’t what you drive,” admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling...................

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Simple Italian Snacks Cookbook

Review
The authors of Simple Italian Sandwiches have returned to print with more panini, alongside a variety of small plates including bruschette, salads, spiedini (skewers) and pizzas. Quality ingredients and simple preparation are the basis for the 80-plus recipes, designed for entertaining or easily grouped together for casual mid-day and evening meals. Organized by occasion, chapters such as World Cup Final and Backyard Bocce Tournament may not have significance for many American home cooks, but nevertheless ground the spirit of the book, which include delicious musts such as the classic dish of arancini (rice balls), stuffed fried zucchini flowers, sliced skirt steak panini, and sweet pea bruschetta with mint and pecorino. Headnotes are filled with pertinent information on ingredients and serving suggestions, and paired cocktail recipes make nice additions. Its handy trim size and well-shot, full-page color photos make this an appealing gift title, ideal for housewarming
- Publishers Weekly

Libraries that find Italian cookbooks a popular lend will also welcome the more specific SIMPLE ITALIAN SNACKS: MORE RECIPES FROM AMERICA'S FAVORITE PANINI BAR. 80 recipes for small snack plates range from Fig-Stuffed Lamb Chops to Sweet Corn Bruschetta, Stuffed Fried Zucchini Flowers, and more. An excellent guide for any collection already strong in general Italian cookbooks, who want more.
- Midwest Book Review

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Detective Marketing: Creative Common Sense in Business

Stefan Engeseth Publishing | PDF | 180 pages | English
In his book Detective Marketing, Stefan has succeeded in creating what we always strive for: simplicity, clarity, perfection. Using simple, yet thought-provoking examples, he manages to inspire both creativity and clear-sightedness. His hypothetical cases use humor to tickle the imagination and to shed new light on the role of common sense in marketing and communications. Claes Andréasson, Director, Absolut Akademi, The Absolut Company Stefan Engeseth crackles with energy in his book Detective Marketing. He`s not afraid to think differently and he does so with the authority of long practical experience. We all need the fresh breeze that blows through this book. I recommend it whole-heartedly. Per Frankelius. PhD Economics Örebro University and the International School of Economics, Jönköping. This book is based on my theory of creative business and the meeting of minds. Because this requires a certain mindset from the reader, my readers are primarily professionals in IT, PR, corporate communications, advertising, marketing and sales. Creativity, however, knows no boundaries. No matter what your profession is, Detective Marketing can help you grow.

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50 Ways to Create Great Relationships: How to Stop Taking and Start Giving

Description
This is a book of gentle and practical advice that helps you develop the creativity and consciousness to make all your relationships deeper and more satisfying.

Through Steve Chandler's wit and wisdom, you'll learn:
- How to be a creator of great relationships and not just a reactor to circumstances.
- How to stop feeling and start thinking and thanking.
- The necessity of innovation, imagination, and creativity in building great relationships.
- How to be a creative listener instead of a passive listener.
- Why appreciating the other person is the start to making great relationships.
- The key to great relationships: shift from taking to giving.
50 Ways to Create Great Relationships helps you gain a brand-new sense of ownership for all your relationships. Far from a chore or challenge to be dealt with, you'll learn that great relationships offer unlimited opportunities for support and sharing.

About the Author
STEVE CHANDLER is a consultant, trainer, author,and keynote speaker whose clients include over 100 Fortune 500 companies.

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Rules of Thumb for Business Writers: Includes 100s Of Tips And Examples!

McGraw-Hill | ISBN: 0071457577 | 224 pages | PDF
Rules of Thumb for Business Writers offers busy professionals solutions to most on-the-job writing challenges. Brief, to-the-point chapters cover all the basics, including reports, resumes, speeches, memos, letters, and PowerPoint, with tips for meeting deadlines and managing paper flow. This edition contains new information on Internet research and communications technology, with examples, sample documents, and a resource list.

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Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs to Know

Stanford Business Books | 2010 | ISBN: 0804763429, 0804774676 | 232 pages | PDF
Leading Culture Change: What Every CEO Needs To Know is a practical guide for top leaders who are faced with the challenge of shaping their culture to create long term, sustainable value. Culture is changeable—but only with CEO sponsorship and a methodical, best practices approach.

Author Christopher S. Dawson draws on 25 years of experience as an organizational consultant in a variety of industries to delineate five critical success factors, without which culture change is unlikely to occur. He offers practical tools and approaches to facilitate culture change, in addition to an overall framework that acts as a yardstick for seasoned and new top leaders. The book pres a "red-yellow-green" level of urgency tool for determining the degree of organizational effort required to address the gap between strategy and culture; a roadmap for culture change; and more.

After describing how to effect change, the text describes frequent scenarios, pring guidelines, an in-depth case example, and lessons for top leaders. Finally, the book outlines four essential leadership competencies—dual-horizon vision; self-awareness; team leadership; and source of inspiration—based on the requirements for leaders of any transformation.

This book is an ideal guide for today and tomorrow's top leaders—as well as a valuable supplement to management consultants' and human resource executives' professional training.

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Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing - 2010

Focal Press | 2010-03-03 | ISBN: 0240811836 0080953972 | 344 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing presents a solid foundation for any student learning how to become a broadcast journalist in today's world of convergent journalism. The broadcast industry continues to morph as newer and more advanced content platforms are hatched and developed, and broadcast journalists must understand how to writer, report, and produce for multiple platforms simultaneously.

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing is completely overhauled to reflect the trends of convergent journalism on every page. New co-author Frank Barnas brings a multi-faceted perspective of writing, reporting, and producing that allows for multi-platform delivery systems, and shows students with real-world examples the functions and practices of today's media. The new edition has been rewritten and restructured to accommodate common 16-week course modules, and is now divided into four major sections of the news: gathering, writing, reporting, and producing.

The comprehensive approach of this text brings a multi-tiered perspective of writing, reporting, and producing that is needed more than ever in today's world of convergent journalism. New photos and illustrations, a restructuring of the text, expanded end-of-chapter exercises, newer and more relevant examples, and more information on producing all contribute to giving readers what they need most: a nuanced understanding of how the media of today function in a world without news boundaries.

* Comprehensive text that spans gathering, writing, reporting, and producing the news
* Convergence in the news process is fully covered throughout the text in a sidebar feature
* Relevant examples and new photos used throughout text

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The Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies and Activities for Developing Leadership in Everyone

Nicholas Brealey Publishing | 2010 | ISBN: 0891063803, 0891063889 | 224 pages | PDF
The Global Economy--the flattened networked world--demands a new type of leadership: one that is collective and collaborative, where solutions and vision are co-created by everyone. Although generously depicted in the author's Creating Leaderful Organizations, the practical application of collective leadership remains a mystery to many practicing executives and managers.

It is evident that the development of leaderful organizations cannot happen overnight; in fact, we need agents to emerge to help us learn how to change longstanding regressive organizational cultures into more leaderful communities. When we say "leaderful," we refer to leadership practices that are collective and concurrent - people can serve as leaders all together and at the same time.

This fieldbook is designed for these change agents - coaches, facilitators, OD consultants, and weavers - wishing to embark with their clients on a leaderful journey across a range of levels - from individual to network - and adopting a style of collective engagement that matches the democratic processes that they are seeking to produce. The Leaderful Fieldbook presents the most practical of recommendations in the form of an array of exercises that can be adopted immediately across these multiple levels of experience. It also features a set of cases that demonstrate the use of the exercises in each of these levels - individual, interpersonal, team, organizational, and social network.

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Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology 2010

207 pages | Publisher: McFarland (July 6, 2010) | English | PDF
From the earliest days of oral history to the present, the vampire myth persists among mankind's deeply-rooted fears. This encyclopedia, with entries ranging from "Abchanchu" to "Zmeus," includes nearly 600 different species of historical and mythological
vampires, fully described and detailed.

About the Author
Theresa Bane was featured on Discovery Channel's "Twisted History: Vampires." She is also the author of other books on unusual phenomena and lives in Asheboro, North Carolina.

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8 Ways to Great: Peak Performance on the Job and in Your Life

Publisher: Putnam Adult | 2009 | 128 Pages | PDF | English
Discover the success secrets of top performers who thrive in today's toughest frontline corporate jobs

Hard-hitting and pragmatic, Hirschhorn's no-nonsense advice has inspired thousands via his lectures, one-on-one coaching, and media appearances. But 8 Ways to Great goes beyond inspiration to provide the practical tools that anyone can use-no matter what their profession or personal goals-to break through self-defeating behaviors and deluded thinking to truly excel.

1. Let your true passion be your core motivation.
2. Develop self-awareness and use what you know about both your strengths and weaknesses.
3. Set goals and game plans-and learn to love this process, because it is all about the process.
4. Identify your competitive advantage-what sets you apart and what will turn the odds in your favor.
5. Develop inner confidence that keeps you from judging yourself based on other's standards and expectations.
6. Keep your cool-and don't let emotions dictate your decisions.
7. Take risks yet act intelligently with imperfect information.
8. Be accountable.

About the Author
Doug Hirschhorn, Ph.D., a.k.a. Dr. Doug, is a performance coach and executive trainer who works with high achievers in the trading business to take them from "good to exceptional." He has conducted workshops at financial institutions, multibillion-dollar hedge funds, and corporations across the country in addition to his one-on­one coaching. He has appeared on the Today show and on several CNBC programs, including The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch

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Forks, Phonographs, and Hot Air Balloons: A Field Guide to Inventive Thinking

Oxford University Press | 292 pages | PDF | 14 MB
How do inventions take shape? How did the inventors of the sewing needle, the hammer, or the wheel find their ideas? Are these creations the result of random events, or are hidden principles at work?
Using everyday objects most of us take for granted --from forks and Velcro to safety pins and doorknobs-- noted cognitive psychologist Robert Weber takes a fascinating look at how our world of inventions came into being, and how the mind's problem-solving abilities gave them the forms they have.

Weber finds a hidden intelligence at work in everyday objects as well as recurrent heuristics (basic principles or rules of thumb) that are common among many of our most successful inventions--heuristics powerful enough to generate endless new ideas.
Weber ranges across the work of Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, the Wright brothers, as well as grade-school children who have won national awards for their inventions, revealing that the same principles are at work in the discoveries of all of them.
Basic principles of invention, he writes, govern how we think, solve, and manipulate ideas, whether mechanical or mental, real or mythological.

Weber's playful, original, and insightful look at the inventions around us reveals a hidden intelligence in everything from screws to tea bags to synthesizers--an intelligence based on principles of creativity and problem-solving.
His fascinating account sheds light on how the mind hones its most original thoughts and products, and provides a field guide for how we can tap into our own creativity.

Contents
Prologue: Peeling an Apple
I The Hidden Intelligence of Invention
1. A Context for Invention
2. Novice Invention and a Problem-Based Diary
3. Expert Invention and the Turn of the Screw

II An Invention Framework
4. Describing an Invention
5. Evaluating and Comparing Inventions
6. Understanding the Created World

III The Heuristics of Invention
7. Heuristics as the Engine of Variation
8. Single-Invention Heuristics
9. Multiple-Invention Heuristics: Linking
10. Multiple-Invention Heuristics: Joining
11. Transformational Heuristics
12. Discovering Heuristics
13. Applying Heuristics: Inventions After Their Time?

IV Common Invention Themes
14. A Material World
15. The Interface's Form
16. The Art of Containment
17. Procedure's Way
18. Transgenic Myth to Transgenic Mouse
Epilogue: Invention Through the Looking Glass

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Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration

Wiley | June 8, 2010 | ISBN: 0470449942, 047061577X | 268 pages | PDF
"This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environments. It addresses how interaction and collaboration online can be effectively harnessed in virtual teams. It is an important contribution to the larger field of Internet-based education." —Frank Mayadas, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

How to create and manage highly successful teams online

With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry. This book takes online collaboration to the next level, showing how you can bolster online learning and business performance with the innovative use of virtual teams.

Written by a team of experts headed by online learning pioneer Robert Ubell, Virtual Teamwork covers best practices for online instruction and team learning, reveals proven techniques for managing enterprise and global virtual teams, and helps you choose the best communication tools for the job.

Educators, project managers, and anyone involved in teaching online courses or creating online programs will find a wealth of tips and techniques for building and managing successful virtual teams, including guidance for:

* Integrating team instruction in the virtual classroom
* Using best techniques for team interaction across borders and time zones
* Structuring cost-effective, competitive projects that work
* Leveraging leadership, mentoring, and conflict management in virtual teams
* Conducting testing, grading, and peer- and self-assessment online
* Managing corporate, global, and engineering virtual teams
* Choosing the right technologies for effective collaboration

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E-mail Etiquette: Are We Using It Right?

Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb | 2009 | ISBN: 981261673X | 184 pages | PDF
E-mail is one of the greatest inventions of our lifetime phenomenally affecting the way we communicate. Reading, writing and managing e-mail is taking up an increasing amount of our time. But are we using it right? E-mail can be used to stay in touch whether we are traveling or working from home. Perhaps we can relax standards when it comes to personal e-mails, but e-mailing for business purposes has reached a new dimension. People whose jobs never used to involve writing skills are now replying dozens of e-mails each day. But under such pressure to respond quickly, what happens to the quality of the messages exchanged? The bottom line remains: just as body language helps you to making an impression in person, what you write and how you write it affects what people think of you and your organisation. Be it a thank you note, a meeting reminder, a proposal or a sales pitch, a well-written message that looks and sounds professional will make it easier for people to want to do business with you. It will help people feel good about communicating with you and help you achieve the right results.

About the Author
Shirley Taylor has established herself as a leading authority in modern business writing and communication skills. She is the author of six successful books on communication skills, including the international bestseller, Model Business Letters, E-mails and Other Business Documents, which is now in its sixth edition, having sold almost half a million copies worldwide.
Shirley conducts her own popular workshops on business writing and e-mail, as well as communication and secretarial skills. She puts a lot of passion and energy into her workshops to make sure they are entertaining, practical, informative, and a lot of fun.
Having learnt a lot from her workshop participants over the years, Shirley has put much of her experience into the pages of this book. She s delighted that it will be one of the first to be published in ST Training Solutions Success Skills series.

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The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Punctuation, Usage, Construction, and Formatting

AMACOM | 2010 | ISBN: 081441589X, 0814415903 | 637 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB
Just because you're not a born writer doesn't mean you should settle for less than perfect business documents. After all, every piece you write reflects directly on the quality of the product or service your business offers. Now, this helpful guide takes the guesswork out of more than 50 commonly used business documents, including: Reports Proposals; Business plans; Presentations; Press releases; Memos; Email Newsletters; Collection letters; and, Sales materials. Arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced for easier use, the book presents clear examples of how to (and how not to) create winning materials every time. The authors' step-by-step instructions begin with an overview of the writing process, from preparation and research right through to final review and publication. Sample documents show you how your pieces should look and read, and close to 300 individual entries cover key points of grammar, style and spelling, and present strategies for writing more clearly, avoiding bias, eliminating cliches, and much more

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Mobile Marketing: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Wireless Technology

Publisher: Butterworth | PDF | 256 pages | English
In the past 10 years mobile phones have gone from being high-end gadgets only the wealthy could afford to an essential accessory, now owned by a large portion of the population of the world. The integration of the Internet, mobility and communications at the device, service and transport level has created a new set of business opportunities.

Mobile marketing has become a mainstream marketing tool and marketers must now identify and reach their mobile audience. This book is designed to teach marketeers how to tap into this potential.
Mobile Marketing is as different from traditional marketing as Internet marketing was, and this book outlines methods and techniques for:

* Defining and implementing a wireless marketing strategy
* Making sense of what can be a technically and commercially confusing industry
* Providing a wealth of carefully chosen international cases and examples to demonstrate techniques in the real world

Written by experienced practitioners with experience of advising major international companies on both strategy and individual campaigns in the mobile sector it is an essential guide and reference for professional marketeers.
* Defining and implementing a wireless marketing strategy.
* Making sense of what can be a technically and commercially.

confusing industry
* Providing a wealth of carefully chosen international cases and examples to demonstrate techniques in the real world.

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Critical Choices That Change Lives - How Heroes Turn Tragedy Into Triumph

Description
Have you ever wondered why some people can survive and prosper in the midst of adversity while everyone else around them crumbles?

Dan Castro conducted ten years of research into the lives of thousands of people throughout history who overcame extreme obstacles. He wanted to know if they were following any kind of pattern that could help explain their success. After ten years, Dan concluded that they are following a pattern, and that this pattern is both observable and exlpainable. In CRITICAL CHOICES THAT CHANGE LIVES, Dan put the best of the best stories side by side so others could see the same patterns he saw.

You will learn:
• The patterns that heroes have followed for thousands of years to turn tragedy into triumph.
• The three reasons why heroes thrive under pressure while others crack.
• What heroes choose to focus on in the heat of the battle.
• Why heroes choose their own beliefs even when the evidence looks grim.
• How heroes choose their own expectations when everyone else's expectations are low.
• The three critical choices that turn ordinary people into heroes.

"Make a critical choice. Read this book and change your life." — Robert G. Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Creating Wealth.
"This is an amazingly powerful book that can change your life from the moment you read it."—Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup Series.
"I love this book! It is brimming with uplifting stories and concrete, historical principles for turning tragedy into triumph."—Best-selling author Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.

Review
"Make a critical choice. Read this book and change your life."
-- Robert G. Allen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Creating Wealth and Nothing Down

"This is an amazingly powerful book that can change your life from the moment you read it."
--Jack Canfield, co-author of the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

"I love this book! It is brimming with uplifting stories and concrete, historical principles for turning tragedy into triumph."
-- Best-selling author Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., whose books include Life Is Huge! and Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

"Dan Castro offers weighty and timely advice for anyone facing difficult decisions. Thoughtful and profound."
--Laurie Beth Jones, bestselling author of Jesus, CEO, The Path and Jesus, Inc.

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Your Money or Your Life

William Morrow | PDF | 288 pages | 12.75 MB
As the host of Fox News Channel's Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, Neil Cavuto reports on today's most influential business leaders and newsmakers. His great talent is to get beneath the issues, connecting people to the events that define them and changing the way that Americans think about their money. Ending each show with a provocative, insightful commentary, Cavuto stirs people to see the world in a new light, calling on them to think beyond the stories at hand and challenging people to reevaluate the world that they live in.

In Your Money or Your Life, Cavuto compiles the best of these commentaries in one volume, creating a collection that is at once witty, thought-provoking, and inspiring. Covering a variety of topics—from remembering life before 9/11, to providing tips for empty nesters—Cavuto presents a wry yet evocative look at our world, one that speaks to the heart of the American condition. Spanning one of the most tumultuous decades in memory—from the wild and chaotic Clinton years through the sobering challenges of the War on Terror—Cavuto's words offer a window into our America at its best and its worst.

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The Cyber Spellbook: Magick in the Virtual World

New Page Books | | 190 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
From creating virtual sacred space, to using your microwave and cellular phone for spellcasting this book is the ultimate hands-on companion for technowitches everywhere. Shows how to effectively marry all the magickal potential and powers of modern mechanical gadgetry with traditional metaphysical using humor, wisdom, and old-fashioned creativity. Designed specifically to bring yesterday's insights and modern wonders back into balance. Within these pages technology does not mean the loss of spirituality or a magickal focus. Rather, it becomes the focus! The book includes: cyber spells by theme (love, health, joy), user-friendly techno-focals, cyber dedications, virtual visualizations, proactive computer conjurings, directions on how to make an online Book of Shadows, and much, much more.

Review
Mixing modern technology with witchcraft, Sirona Knight (A Witch Like Me) and Patricia Telesco (An Enchanted Life) offer Cyber Spellbook: Magick in the Virtual World. Although thousands of Wicca enthusiasts use the Web daily for research and to meet people, they may not realize their computer's witchcraft-related properties. For example, a keyboard can represent "creative flow," with the "delete" key an instrument for banishing and the "shift" key helping one shift between the ordinary and magickal worlds.

The authors explain ways to integrate technology (from cell phones to lawn mowers) with spells, making this a truly up-to-date Wicca resource.

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The Communication Problem Solver: Simple Tools and Techniques for Busy Managers

AMACOM | 2009 | ISBN: 0814413080 | 272 pages | PDF
Managers need top-flight communication skills to keep their staffs productive and collaborative. But often, those who manage lack the ability to get things back on track once miscommunication occurs. This book helps readers analyze their communication skills and challenges and explains how they can use simple problem-solving techniques to resolve the people issues that derail productivity at work. Easily accessible and filled with real world management examples. This no-nonsense guide is packed with practical tools to help any manager be immediately effective, as well as a handy list of common communication problems and corresponding solutions.

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African Mythology A to Z (2nd Edition) 2010

Chelsea House Publications; 2 edition (April 2010) | Pages : 176 | PDF | English
The African continent is home to a fascinating and strong tradition of myth, due in part to the long history of human habitation in Africa; the diversity of its geography, flora, and fauna; and the variety of its cultural beliefs.
African Mythology A to Z, Second Edition is a readable reference to the deities, places, events, animals, beliefs, and other subjects that appear in the myths of various African peoples. For the first time, this edition features full-color photographs and illustrations.

Content:
Introduction
Map of Modern Africa
Countries and Tribal Regions
Time Line of African History
A-to-Z Entries
Selected Bibliography

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700 Places to Volunteer Before You Die: A Traveler’s Guide (2010)

English | PDF | Dog's Eye View Media (July 1, 2010) | Pages: 532
From the creator of The Voluntary Traveler: Adventures from the Road Best Traveled and The Volunteer Before You Die(tm) Network, 700 Places to Volunteer Before You Die: A Traveler's Guide (700) is the definitive guidebook on voluntourism, offering readers the most diverse listings of global volunteer projects available! `700' Includes:

* Tips from voluntourism industry leaders on what makes a good volunteer
* Advice from renowned travel writers, as well as serial volunteers on how to on select the right project for your personal voluntary style
* Coverage of issues facing voluntary travelers such as to pay or not to pay to volunteer
* Detailed project description of 750+ global philanthropic travel opportunities and hundreds of additional resources by region
* An extensive index of projects allowing readers to compare available opportunities at a glance by skill, region and type of travel

`700' presents options and inspirations for every style of traveler: budget, families, teens, humanitarian, wildlife, education, conservation, builders, tour combos, business, skilled, unskilled... Simply put, `700' is an introduction to awe-inspiring possibilities and a new way of experiencing the world!

About the Author
Zoologist Nola Lee Kelsey is the author of seven books, the creator of The Voluntary Traveler and the maniacal queen bee behind The Volunteer Before You Die(tm) Network, in charge of fluttering about and pollination every aspect of the network's blog, podcast, Facebook page and Twitter posts while making everyone around her a little bit nervous.

Over the past two decades Nola has worked as a dog caregiver for Best Friends Animal Society (Nat Geo Channel's `Dogtown'), a reptile keeper, marine park trainer, penguin handler and a wildlife rehabilitator. She is also a self-confessed serial volunteer for global animal rescue organizations.

As she has meandered the globe, her humor and travel articles have appeared in hundreds of diverse publications from Reptiles Magazine to The Bangkok Post Over the course of her life, Kelsey has been bitten by just about everything - twice! The final culprit was the writing bug. (According to Kelsey, this distant relative of the travel bug actually pumps ink into your veins while sucking your wallet dry.)

Kelsey is also a professional speaker and a published photographer with (and this is the only part that matters) a passion for educating people about volunteer travel opportunities.

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Red Fire Branding: Creating a Hot Personal Brand so that Customers Choose You!

Happy About | 2010 | ISBN: 1600051731, 160005174X | English | 252 pages | PDF
How do you create a hot personal brand and have customers for life? What is the key to making your brand synonymous with success? 'Red Fire Branding' focuses on how to implement branding techniques to make your brand sizzle and your name unforgettable.

In 'Red Fire Branding,' Liz Goodgold directs her works towards the business-to-business market to help small business owners, entrepreneurs, sales professionals, or anyone who is looking to create an indelible image. She offers quick and easy techniques that business owners can learn today and implement tomorrow by presenting readers with immediate, actionable solutions coupled with in-the-trenches insights delivered in a concise and cut-to-the-chase format.

This book will spark new ideas that will drive sure-fire results. Learn the super hot secrets and blistering business concepts that have brought success to athletes, authors, consultants, newsmakers and even chefs. Discover how other entrepreneurs and executives have managed to add spice and interest to their brands while winning and keeping new customers and clients. Buy this book today!

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501 Questions and Answers for Company Secretaries and Company Directors

Thorogood | 2009 | ISBN: 1854186736, 1854187295 | 296 pages | PDF
Everything the Company Director or Company Secretary needs to know. This extensive new reference work covers every topic of relevance for the Company Secretary and Company Director. It provides structured answers and expert guidance on a vast range of frequently asked and less frequently asked questions. Clearly arranged and written in a no-nonsense, jargon-free style, this book offers concise, useful and practical answers through a wide variety of day to day business scenarios encountered by Company Directors and Company Secretaries. A goldmine of information, it will prove indispensable not just to Company Directors, Secretaries and their support staff but also to lawyers and accountants. Fully up to date with the latest law including the Companies Act 2006, which comes into fruition on the 1st October 2009, this work is straightforward and accessible. Ultimately, it will enable its readers to create savings in time and professional fees, by avoiding those costly mistakes through its easy to use reference system.

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Listening and Human Communication in the 21st Century - 2010

315 pages | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; New edition (March 23, 2010) | English | PDF
Bringing together top listening scholars from a range of disciplines and real world perspectives, Listening and Human Communication in the 21st Century offers a state-of-the-art overview of what we know and think about listening behavior in the 21st century.

* Introduces students to the core issues listening theory and practice
* Includes student friendly features such as editorial introductions to each section and questions for further reflection at the end of each chapter
* Discussion ranges from historical perspectives to present theory, to teaching and performing listening in the classroom, in health care, and in corporate settings

Review
"The book describes and grounds the listening research process and findings in broad brush strokes that all can follow. It’s the most comprehensive view of the listening field since Duker." Charles Roberts, East Tennessee State University

"Wolvin’s new text is long overdue. It provides an excellent introduction to listening theory and research – past and present – qualitative and quantitative. For those new to this area, this text is a must read." Debra Worthington, Auburn University

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Think Like Your Customer: A Winning Strategy to Maximize Sales by Understanding How and Why Your Customers Buy

McGraw-Hill | 288 pages | CHM | 5 Mb
The most common complaint Bill Stinnett hears from his corporate clients is that would-be vendors and suppliers "just don't understand our business." In Think Like Your Customer, Stinnett explains why the key to landing corporate customers is to learn to think about the things executives and business owners think about and understand how they make complex buying decisions.

In addition, you receive:
* Solid marketing insights delivered in a fun, breezy style by a top corporate consultant and seminar leader
* Expert tips on how to maximize the value and profitability of relationships with corporate clients and customers

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Work Your Strengths: A Scientific Process to Identify Your Skills and Match Them to the Best Career for You

Publisher: AMACOM | 2010 | 235 Pages | PDF | English
Ever feel like you're in the wrong job, maybe even the wrong career? You may be right. But before you make another move, consider this: your brain is hardwired with a unique combination of 12 different Executive Skills -the cognitive strengths that determine how well you will perform in a particular role. Your strongest and weakest Executive Skills can make the difference between big-time career success and years of disappointment and failure. "Work Your Strengths" helps you avoid 'trial-and-error' career moves by matching your strengths to the jobs that call on those skills specifically. Based on the authors' two-year study of more than 2000 top-performers at hundreds of organizations of all types, from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits, the book reveals which strengths correlate with success in different jobs. Take a one-time, free online profile to determine your unique strengths and weaknesses and then use that information to identify your ideal career path. Not ready for a move yet? "Work Your Strengths" can also make a world of difference in the job you're in now. It can help you not only focus on the projects best suited for you but also recognize skills in others and assign tasks accordingly. So whether you're planning a jump to the career of your dreams or just wondering how to make your current job easier and more rewarding, "Work Your Strengths" gives you the science and the system to find your success.

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The Company Secretarys Desktop Guide - 6th Edition

Thorogood | 2009 | ISBN: 1854185020, 1854187309 | 312 pages | PDF | 10,1 MB
A guide to the complex duties, rights and responsibilities of the role of the Company Secretary. It includes checklists, summaries and do's and don'ts.

The new 6th edition of The Company Secretary’s Desktop Guide is the most important edition within its series as it reflects the changes made to the law from the most significant Act passed in recent years.

Even before the new Act, Directors faced a minefield of obligations and liabilities – these have now become more numerous and complex. It has become compulsory for all Directors to acknowledge the changes made to the law that significantly affect the liabilities of company secretaries.

The Companies Act 2006 has been implemented and can be found in the statute book. This new edition provides accessible, expert guidance for professionals on every aspect of the company secretary’s role, clearly explaining the significance of the new provisions of the Act and ending each chapter with a valuable summary of those changes.

Its detailed Contents section is designed to help you treat this guide as a menu, providing easy access to advice and solutions to particular problems. Packed with checklists, hints and tips, techniques and warnings, this guide is indispensable. It ends with a set of valuable Appendices including a full list of Companies House forms and the new Table A and Table C.


Content Overview
1. The position of the company secretary
2. Directors – appointment, restrictions, responsibilities
3. The statutory registers and the company seal
4. Accounts – content, standards, auditor’s report
5. Dividends and interest payments
6. Share capital and shareholders
7. The issue of shares and the reduction of share capital
8. Debentures and loan stock
9. The Memorandum of Association
10. Articles of Association
11. General meetings
12. Board meetings
13. Transfer and transmission of shares
14. Receivership and administration
15. Winding up companies
16. The annual return
17. Dealing with Companies House and Companies House forms
18. Proposed contents of the expected Company Law Reform Bill

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