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The Lifetime Career Manager: New Strategies for a New Era

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Cabrera, James C. / Albrecht, Charles F. / Albretch, Charles F., PUBLISHER: Adams Media Corporation, The Lifetime Career Manager is an easy-to-read, pragmatic, and practical guide to taking charge of your own career. Offering proven advice and strategies based on the authors' 25 years of experience with the world's premier career consulting firm, it can help readers recognize danger signals, avoid career crises, and make the right decisions -- including how to identify and attain their own career goals.

Kitchens: A Design Source Book

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Lee, Vinny / Merrell, James, PUBLISHER: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, Whether remodelling, renovating, or planning a brand-new kitchen, this thorough book provides hundreds of inspirational ideas for the hardest-working (and most valuable) room in the house. -- A comprehensive guide taking the reader through every aspect of putting a kitchen together, from selecting a sink, stove, cupboards, work surface, and flooring to installing spice racks, bookshelves, and small appliances. -- Shows a huge variety of kitchens: Simple Modern, Traditional, New Professional, and Simple Country. -- Features a wealth of great decorating ideas, including how to make the most of color schemes -- to make your kitchen look bigger or smaller -- as well as helpful hints for integrating the cooking and dining areas. -- Includes a comprehensive source guide to the best suppliers of everything from paint and hardware to furnishings and appliances.

Domain Names: How to Choose & Protect a Great Name for Your

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Elias, Stephen / Gima, Patricia, PUBLISHER: NOLO, This Quick & Legal book explains in plain English how to choose, register and protect a domain name chat works. Includes up-co-date information and samples of letters and agreements.

The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sears, Martha / Sears, William, PUBLISHER: Little Brown and Company, Might you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence? Dr. Bill and Martha Sears -- the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and-wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" -- answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide. Attachment parenting is a style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment, and advocates parental responsiveness to babies' dependency needs. "The Attachment Parenting Book" clearly explains the six "Baby B's" that form the basis of this increasingly popular parenting style: Bonding, Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Bedding close to baby, Belief in the language value of baby's cry, Beware of baby trainers.Here's all the information you need to achieve your most important goals as a new parent: to know your child, to help your child feel right, and to enjoy parenting.

Learning While Leading: Increasing Your Effectiveness in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Farber-Robertson, Anita / Antal, James M., PUBLISHER: Alban Institute, As the world changes, so do people's expectations of their faith community and clergy. This book uses three case studies to speak to religious professionals about the challenges they face, to provide readers with specific, user-friendly techniques to become more aware of how they function, and to learn new ways to lead. Clergy will find real-life examples of how more effective leadership enhances the life of the community and promotes the deepening of members' faith.

The Doctor's PDA and Smartphone Handbook: A Guide to

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Al-Ubaydli, Mohammad, PUBLISHER: Royal Society of Medicine Press, Handheld computers, or PDAs, are computers small enough to hold in your hand or fit into your pocket. Smartphones are PDAs which also allow the user to make and receive phone calls. For doctors, PDAs are possibly the most clinically appropriate of all the computer devices created. This is an essential guide for doctors wishing to maximise the potential of their PDA or smartphones and is the only book available to address the specific needs of doctors in relation to PDAs and smartphones. The Doctor's PDA & Smartphone Handbook is a step by step guide which introduces readers to the basics of PDAs. Comprehensive in its approach and easily accessible to those with no technical knowledge, the first few chapters demonstrate how the devices are used and how effective they can be in day-to-day clinical care and in training activities. Communication and sharing data and clinical information is enhanced if the full team is equipped with PDAs, and later chapters discuss more advanced uses and issues that should be considered if planning to equip the whole team. The text is accompanied by invaluable teaching videos and vignettes illustrating how teaching points covered in each chapter can be applied to realistic scenarios.

How to Get Publicity: Revised and Updated for the Internet

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Parkhurst, William, PUBLISHER: Harper Paperbacks, Business needs a boost? Invented the software that's going to revolutionize cyberspace? How is everyone going to find out about that fundraiser you're organizing? Publicity is the simple answer to your prayers--the greatest (and cheapest) resource for self-promotion that's available. Learn everything you need to know about promoting yourself efficiently, effectively, and economically with the indispensable "How to Get Publicity"-- now completely revised an updata Television, radio, and publishing public relations wizard William Parkhurst offers his proven insider's expertise, using examples and case histories as well as his own tried-and-true methods--covering everything from writing a penetrating press release and booking a successful tour to handling bad publicity and the unlimited opportunities the Internet has to offer. The techniques and media may have changed through-out the years, but the basic steps remain the same on the path to self-promotion--and "How to Get Publicity" is the perfect guide to capturing millions of dollars' worth of media coverage and maximizing your opportunities.

Growth & Income: How to Build a Mutual Fund Money Machine

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Stoker, R. Bryan, PUBLISHER: Lifestyle Publishing, "Growth & Income" presents an easy, step-by-step plan for investing in the real world without timing or predicting the markets. This book fully explains new techniques to invest in mutual funds to create growing account values and increasing income for the rest of your life automatically. Dr. Stoker's simple worksheets and procedures include all the latest changes from the Tax Payer's Relief Act of and will show you how to minimize taxes and boost your returns. "Growth & "Income" also includes a special section on building retirement wealth. You will learn which tax-deferred investments to pursue first (e.g., IRA, 401 (k), SIMPLE, SEP-IRA, annuities, etc.) and how to make your investments last as long as possible after you retire. Buy this book now for yourself or a loved one, and learn how to retire early and how to earn 3 times your salary after you retire Dr. Stoker's academic research and personal quest for financial wealth over the last 20+ years have finally culminated in the exciting results published in this book. Dr. Stoker's techniques presented in this book show you how to magnify your mutual fund returns and create a growing income all with less risk than what you are doing now

Unlocking the Vault

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Toney, Joyce J., PUBLISHER: Xulon Press, Have you been called out as priests or priestess for the Almighty God? Has God conferred a kingly or queenly authority on you? What rights do you have as one of Gods priest-kings or priestess-queens? Is the enemy of your soul holding your inheritance in a vault? Learn how to unlock your priestly and kingly inheritance. Unlocking The Vault To Your Priestly and Kingly Inheritance will answer all of these questions and give you keys on how to lay hold of your rightful inheritance. Obtaining our inheritance is crucial to walking in the full power and authority conferred upon us from God.

Affluent for Life

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ridlehuber, Ted, PUBLISHER: Charter Financial Publishing Network, From one of America's most respected authorities on wealth management, a refreshingly straight-forward book that explains the 12 issues essential for expanding and protecting a person's net worth. Affluent for Life informs readers how to increase wealth without taking on uncomfortable risk; how to preserve wealth for children; how to give wealth wisely to charity; and the estate at death. This book explains the concepts and strategies essential for any discussion with financial professionals.

Change Your Thinking: Overcome Stress, Combat Anxiety and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Edelman, Sarah, PUBLISHER: Marlowe & Company, Practicing psychologist Sarah Edelman clearly lays out how to use CBT to develop rational thought patterns in response to upsetting emotions and situations. By following the practical, easy-to-follow exercises and examples, you can take control of your thoughts, emotions, and feelings, and find more positive ways of dealing with life's hurdles-and a happier you.Change Your Thinking will teach you how to Fight negative and self-defeating beliefs to minimize your experience of upsetting emotions Recognize "thinking errors" that cause you unnecessary distress Learn how to dispute thinking errors with your behavior and rational thoughts Prevent negative thoughts and emotions from occurring Acknowledge and face the obstacles that prevent you from obtaining your goals Achieve a more balanced and happier life Whether you're faced with overwhelming feelings of worthlessness, frustration, anger, depression, or anxiety, CBT can help you change your thinking and make a difference in your life-beginning today.

The Illustrated Key to the Tarot

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: de Laurence, L. W., PUBLISHER: Standard Publications, Destiny is not some planed and unchangeable road imposed on life. Tarot, as a system of interpretation, can discover many secrets of your destiny by the way of the Major and Minor Arcana. Tarot cards can give you an answer to almost any question and can uncover solutions to the problems before you. They can warn you of dangers or assure you of your decisions. They are your guide on the road of life. Simply present your question and follow the rules of the tarot to find your answer. This book is the traditional guide to reading the tarot. It presents you with the meanings of all of the cards, even their specific tricks and pitfalls. It will also show you exactly how to lay out the cards and the exact methods that are best used when divining from your Tarot deck.

Fall

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Thayer, Tanya, PUBLISHER: Lerner Publications, Taking a brief look at each of the four seasons, this delightful series introduces beginning readers to the basic idea of seasons and how animals, plants, and people adapt to them. Crisp, close-up photography teams with easy-to-understand, repetitive sentences that encourage new readers to discover the world--one season at a time.

Choose to Lose: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Solution

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Powell, Chris, PUBLISHER: Hyperion Books, Don't lose the will to become the person you want to be. Choose to Lose the weight, and start the next chapter of your life as the person you know you truly are. EAT MORE CARBS BURN FAT BUILD MUSCLE QUICK-FIX RECIPES NO GYM REQUIRED CHEAT EVERY OTHER DAY From celebrated fitness trainer Chris Powell, star of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, comes this inspirational weight loss book to help anyone conquer their weight. You've seen him change lives on television. Now, in Choose to Lose, Powell presents fast and easy workouts, diet guidance, basic recipes, and insight into finding the true transformation mindset. Following his Carb Cycle Solution, you can drop pounds safely and quickly while learning how to 'listen to your body' to optimize your overall health and fitness. Powell's easy-to-follow Carb Cycle Solution contradicts everything you've heard about avoiding carbohydrates in an attempt to lose weight. Not only are you encouraged to eat carbs, but he will show you how to use them to amplify your weekly weight loss. By cycling between high-carb and low-carb days, your body will alternate boosting metabolism one day and burning fat the next. You will never feel deprived of the foods you love because you can fine-tune the solution to suit your needs. Powell gives you complete control over your nutrition, plus plenty of opportunities to indulge, and offers many delicious recipes to help you stay on track. If you work it, the Carb Cycle Solution may very well work for you--for the rest of your life. With detailed exercises and accompanying photographs, as well as guidelines on how to revamp your environment, support system, and more, Powell not only shows you how to lose pounds, but also works with you as a coach and mentor, teaching you how to finally take control of the incredible machine that is your body. His words of encouragement will be there day after day as you build unstoppable momentum, guiding your body toward your ideal weight. Great physical change begins with a psychological one: change your mind, change your body.

The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Klein, Maury, PUBLISHER: Times Books, From one of America's foremost business historians, a penetrating and engaging look at the qualities that create great entrepreneurs Entrepreneurs, even more than inventors, are essential to American business. While inventors produce ideas, entrepreneurs get things done, build the markets, make ideas reality. But what creative talents do the legendary American entrepreneurs share, and what can you learn from them about business success? Using lively character sketches and company stories, University of Rhode Island professor and author Maury Klein analyzes how innovators from Andrew Carnegie to Bill Gates triumphed over perennial challenges in planning and strategy, production, operations, staffing, and sales-and transformed entire industries. Comparing the retailing acumen of J.C. Penney and Wal-Mart's Sam Walton, the organizational ingenuity of Standard Oil's John D. Rockefeller and Citigroup's Sandy Weill, the imaginative marketing of General Motors' Alfred Sloan and MacDonald's Ray Kroc, Klein reveals the art and archetype of successful entrepreneurialism. Moving beyond the cliches, he describes the artistry of great businessmen who build empires and dreams as well as fortunes.

The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Baron, Renee / Wagele, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: HarperOne, The first easy, and fun 埧uide to the Enneagram, the fascinating and revealing method of understanding personality types, for the beginner, the expert, and everyone in between. This witty and informative guide demystifies the ancient Enneagram system with cartoons, exercises, and personality tests that reveal our motivations and desires and show how to put that knowledge to use in our everyday lives. The 9 types of people: The Perfectionist motivated by the need to live life the right way, improve oneself and others, and avoid anger. The Helper motivated by the need to be loved and appreciated and to express your positive feelings towards others. The Achiever motivated by the need to be productive, to achieve success, and to avoid failure. The Romantic motivated by the need to understand your feelings and to be understood to search for the meaning of life, and to avoid being ordinary. The Observer motivated by the need to know everything and understand the universe, to be self-sufficient and left alone, and to avoid not having the answer or looking foolish. The Questioner motivated by the need for security, to feel taken care of, or to confront your fears. The Adventurer motivated by the need to be happy and plan fun things, to contribute to the world, and to avoid suffering and pain. The Asserter motivated by the need to be self-reliant and strong, to make an impact on the world, and to avoid being weak. The Peacemaker motivated by the need to keep the peace, merge with others, and avoid conflict.

Monet: The History and Techniques of the Great Masters

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jennings, Guy / Copplestone, Trewin, PUBLISHER: Booksales, See these masterworks close up. Each book in this lively series shows, with increasingly close-range photos, the actual brushstroke and color techniques for ten or more paintings. The text analyzes the masterpieces and captions provide information on types of brushes, canvas and priming, and how the colons were mixed. Like having your own art gallery and your own personal curator to show you around.

Publish Your Family History: Preserving Your Heritage in a

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Yates, Susan / Ioannou, Greg, PUBLISHER: Dundurn Group, Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then "Publish Your Family History" is for you. It will tell you all the fundamentals of book production, together with the important details that distinguish a home-published book from a homemade one. You'll learn: how to get your manuscript ready for production; design ideas for the pages and the cover; methods of making pages with or without a computer and printing those pages quickly and inexpensively; and ideas on bindings that last and look great. Even if time is at a premium, you're not comfortable with computer technology, or the budget is tight, you'll learn how to publish a professional-looking family history of your own

Compression for Great Video and Audio: Master Tips and

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Waggoner, Ben, PUBLISHER: Focal Press, This is the complete resource if you need to get quality video and audio on the Web. It teaches you to improve the quality of your deliverables while understanding optimum workflow practices. Now in its second edition, Compression for Great Video and Audio keeps up with the the industry by covering MPEG-2, VC-1, and H.264. This book provides a single place where both novices and practiced hands can learn to get optimum video and audio compression done with minimum hassles. It starts with an introduction to the basic concepts of vision and hearing, applying that in the context of compression, then moves on to practical, applicable information on how to create, edit, and compress different kinds of video for different kinds of deliverables. *New in the 2nd edition: VC-1, H.264, and mobile video *Clear examples throughout of how to make different choices for real-world projects *Covers multiple platforms form complete compression technology

I Can Relate: The I.C.R. System for Entertainers,

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Manor, Joe Blair, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, "I CAN RELATE" may be the most important book you read for your entertainment or sales career Add a whole new dimension to your bits and presentations. The "ICR" system takes things that relate to your target and combines them to strike more responsive chords with your listener or client. You want your audience to remember you when rating time comes. If you are in sales you want to be imaged better for recall when your clients decide between you and the competition The "I CAN RELATE" system is fun and practical Read about on-the-air and on-the-street examples of ICR at work. This book is a great tool for those who want to be #1

XML Security

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Dournaee, Blake / Dournee, Blake, PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, Use this book as both an XML primer and to get up to speed on XML-related security issues. Written by the experts at RSA Security, Inc., you'll get inside tips on how to prevent denial of service attacks, and how to implement security measures to keep your XML programs protected.

The Maxwell Manual for Good Citizenship: Public Policy Skill

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Coplin, Bill, Professor, PUBLISHER: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, This is a completely revised update of the third edition of Public Policy Skills. That manual has been used to teach more than students at Syracuse University and in a college credit course taught at more than 50 high schools as part of the academic program of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, the Number 1 school of public affairs in the country. Using this book and taking a course based on it prepares you to bring your heart and your mind to solving the many problems that we face in the twenty-first century. The book teaches students the essential components for public policy analysis; how to get information from published sources and individuals; how to survey stakeholders; formulate public policy; examine costs and benefits of a policy; develop political strategies; write a briefing paper; research and write a quantitative research paper; among other skills.

Work with Anyone Anywhere: A Guide to Global Business

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Goodman, Michael B., PUBLISHER: Professional Publications (CA), Business is now conducted on a global scale. Learning how to communicate and interact across national and cultural boundaries is a key to success. This book discusses the issues affecting international business and how business functions are adapted for specific regions and cultures to facilitate effective working relationships ""Work With Anyone Anywhere is a very practical tool and one I'll keep handy. I still never remember all the rules of Japanese gift giving, for example. Now I'll know where to quickly find the answer."" --Keith Reinhard, Chairman Emeritus, DDB Worldwide Inc Learn to advance your business in a global environment Understand international business principles Recognize and adapt to important cultural differences Negotiate, market, and manage effectively in a global environment Work successfully within specific regions and cultures

Fundamentals of Effectively Managing Criminal Investigation

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: McIntyre, Mark D., Jr., PUBLISHER: PublishAmerica, This book is intended to assist and guide criminal investigation division supervisors to enable them to more effectively manage criminal investigators and investigations. The following topics are covered in this book: How to properly assign criminal investigative cases and how to manage investigations after assignment. Methods and strategies I have employed to investigate serial and high profile cases, which is a must for criminal investigative supervisors to know and understand. Ways to handle employee problems such as dealing with mistakes, dealing with incompetent employees, dealing with employee personal problems, and how to handle lazy employees. How to successfully hire and train new investigators. In order to have a successful criminal investigative unit you must hire the right people for the job and then train them well at the onset of their career. Numerous other informative topics are covered that are specific to the duties required of investigative supervisors that are crucial for these supervisors to know, understand, and use. Unlike some authors, I am not trying to get rich off this book. My sole intentions for writing this book are to help, assist, and guide criminal investigative supervisors to be able to more effectively do their jobs as investigative supervisors.

Good to Great in God's Eyes: 10 Practices Great Christians

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ingram, Chip, PUBLISHER: Baker Books, Jim Collins??'s Good to Great became a bestselling business book because it studies the characteristics of great businesses. But should Christians want to become great in the eyes of the world? In Good to Great in God??'s Eyes, bestselling author Chip Ingram shows how Christians can honor God with lives of great faith and excellent work. Believers become great in God??'s eyes by applying the 10 common characteristics of great Christians: ??? think great thoughts ??? read great books ??? pursue great people ??? dream great dreams ??? pray great prayers ??? take great risks ??? make great sacrifices ??? enjoy great moments ??? empower great people ??? develop great habits Using Scripture, personal stories, and examples from Christians who left a lasting legacy, Ingram offers practical steps for becoming great in all areas of life, in spiritual growth, family, relationships, and career.

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