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Brazen Careerist The New Rules For Success
Are you taking long lunches? Ignoring sexual harassment? Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like you don't have enough to do? The answer to all three should be yes, if you want to succeed in your career on your own terms. Penelope Trunk, expert business advice columnist for the Boston Globe, gives anything but standard advice to help members of the X and Y generations succeed on their own terms in any industry. Trunk asserts that a take-charge attitude and thinking outside the box are the only ways to make it in today's job market. With 45 tips that will get you thinking bigger, acting bolder, and blazing trails you never thought possible, BRAZEN CAREERIST will forever change your career outlook.
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You, Inc The Art of Selling Yourself
HARRY BECKWITH heads Beckwith Partners, a marketing firm that advises twenty-three Fortune 200 clients and dozens of venture-capitalized start-ups on branding and posi-tioning. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford, Beckwith is an internationally acclaimed speaker. His four bestselling books have been translated into twenty-three languages.CHRISTINE CLIFFORD BECKWITH, also of Beckwith Partners, is an award-winning international speaker. The former senior executive vice president for SPAR Marketing Services was her industry's leading producer for eight consecutive years before being diag-nosed with breast cancer in 1994. Since then she has written five award-winning books and leads The Cancer Club, the world's largest provider of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer. Christine and Harry and their family live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.You can visit Harry and Christine at www.beckwithpartners.com.
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Tarot
One of the foremost authorities in the field reveals the intricacies of this ancient art, with detailed reproductions and explanations Eden Gray offers explicit advice about the three different methods of reading the cards, and using the taro for divination and meditation, Both beginning student and advanced devotee will find in this book new insights into the ancient lore of the trot.
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The Pill Book
For more than two decades, millions of consumers have trusted The Pill Book to provide official FDA-approved drug information plus guidelines from leading pharmacists. Each drug is profiled in a concise readable, and easy-to-understand entry, making The Pill Book the perfect reference when you have questions about the medications your doctor prescribes.The most up-to-date information about the more than 1,800 most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States:
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The Black Swan
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty.
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Inside AL Qaeda
The definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, extensive interviews with its members and field research in Al Qaeda supported conflict zones around the globe. The book sheds light on Al Qaeda's financial infrastructure and how the organization trains combat soldiers and vanguard fighters for multiple guerrilla, terrorist and semiconventional campaigns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Caucasus and the Balkans. In addition, Rohan Gunaratna investigates the clandestine Al Qaeda operational network in the West. Finally, Gunaratana shows that for Al Qaeda to be destroyed or seriously weakened there needs to be a multipronged, multiagency and multinational response by the international community.
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Phantoms In The Brain
Combining gripping stories and cutting edge science,V.S.Ramchandran,one of the worlds leading nero scientists, pushes back medicines last great frontier the human mind to address some of the big questions.
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Autobiography Of A One Year Old
Have you ever wondered just what your baby was thinking? Are you ready to find out? 'I thought it was about time someone told it like it is. So I'm spilling the beans on the world of a one-year-old. A world where you're left in the charge of totally inept parents. Where everything's at completely the wrong height. Where you're not allowed to splash in the bath but you are in the pool.Where nobody understands a single word you say. And where diapers and diapers and poop loom large at every turn. It's a roller-coaster ride through on heck of a year. I've laughed a lot, I've cried a lot, I've learned a lot. And so will you. You might even discover the answer to that age-old question: Humpty Dumpty - did he fall or was he pushed? Anyway, must run. I see a bowl of tepid gloop is being spooned out for me. What joy."
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Darwin's Radio
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. <BR>Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve--an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
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Breakfast With The Ones You Love
Meet Lea Tillim, aka Cadaver Dimples, Star of Morgues and Emergency Rooms. Scarecrow thin, with a sharp crew cut and a dead face, Lea
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Why Do I Love These People ?
We all have an imaginary definition of a great family. We imagine what it would be like to belong to such a family. No fights over the holidays. No getting on one another
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Eight Steps To Seven Figures
In the tradition of the megabestseller The Millionaire Next Door, Eight Steps to Seven Figures brings together in-depth interviews with over two hundred everyday people whose investments have made them millionaires. But while The Millionaire Next Door describes its subjects' lifestyles and spending habits, Eight Steps to Seven Figures focuses squarely on the investing strategies and principles that ordinary people have used to achieve the magic million-dollar mark.Filled with the insights and investment advice that hundreds of everyday people have followed to become rich, and buttressed with countless you-are-there stories of how these millionaires did it, Eight Steps to Seven Figures is an absolute must for today's investors.
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Letting Go of Your Bananas
I have been told that the way they used to capture monkeys in Africa was by placing bananas in the bottoms of narrow-necked jars. When a monkey came upon the jar, in an effort to remove the banana, it would put its hand into the jar and grab on to the banana. Unwilling to let go of its food, the monkey was now stuck with a jar on its hand.
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Boom
Drs. Kevin and Jackie Freiberg are two of the most influential voices on the professional-speaking circuit today. Their mission: to create corporate cultures where impassioned people exercise the freedom to make a difference and change the world! The Freibergs have coauthored the international bestseller NUTS! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success and GUTS! Companies that Blow the Doors off Business-As-Usual. They have been interviewed by CBS's 60 Minutes and appeared on CNBC and the CBS Morning News for their insights on the links between gutsy leaders, passionate employees, cultures of accountability, and loyal customers.
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Funny Letters From Famous People
In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney. Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib- tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flannery O'Connor, S. J. Perelman, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, John Cheever and dozens more. Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier in one of comedy's most amusing epistles. Sprinkled throughout with Osgood's own humorous quips, Funny Letters from Famous People is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best.
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The Diary Of A Young Girl
Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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21st Century Synonym And Antonym Finder
Designed for rapid access, this innovative reference helps the reader find the perfect choice of words to get his/her ideas across with impact and accuracy. Specially created for contemporary writers and speakers, it includes essential definitions and avoids outmoded, useless entries.
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Nightfall
ON A PLANET WITH SIX SUNS, NIGHT IS ABOUT TO FALL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN TWO THOUSAND YEARS. The planet Kalgash is on the brink of chaos
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The Rebel
By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For albert camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular unrisings
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Joker in the pack
An addictive, attention-grabbing account of life at IIMs! I could see half of my batchmates fit into the shoes of the protagonist. Realisim, lack of political correctness, and the human element to the protagonist love life are the key elements of the story. The authors have done an excellent job of capturing the range of emotions-excitement, disappointment, turmoil, joy- that is a part and parcel of MBA life.' SRamakrishnan (IIMC) Execituve vice president & regional head North india, HDFC bank 'A very entertaining read... one person's "insider" perspective of the MBA system. Although fictional, it remains grounded just enough in reality to evoke nostalgia in most MBA graduates... and perhaps anger in a few!' Vinit S Chauhan Global business manager JP Morgan chase President IIML alumni association Support Manjunath Shanmugan Trust You can support the trsut by pruchasing a copy of the book and also encouraging your family and freinds to do so. One percent of all sales will go to the trust.
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The Vault
In a hospital basement in Stockholm, two bullet-riddled bodies lie sprawled on the floor-the victims of a terrifying hostage siege. Behind the tragedy lie dark secrets- of a murder, corruption and torture
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The Art Of living
The art of living contains practical guidence for every day living. It also deals with subjects like: How to be more likeable How to read character The art of developing memory The divine art of making friends.