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Future Shock
Future Shock is about what is happening today to people and groups who are overwhelmed by change. Change affects our products, communities, organizations--ever our patterns of friendship and love. Future Shock vividly describes the emerging super-industrial world--tomorrow's family life, the rise of new businesses, subcultures, life-styles and human relationships--all of them temporary. Future Shock illuminates the world of tomorrow by exploding countless cliches about today. Future Shock will intrigue, provoke, frighten, encourage and, above all, change everyone who reads it.".
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50 Great Short Stories
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world
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The Interpretation Of Dreams
Now, in this definitive translation by James Strachey, Freud's timeless exploration of the dream world is clearly and precisely rendered. Including dozens of case histories and detailed analyses of actual dreams, THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS remains an invaluable tool in helping us all discover the truth about ourselves.
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Games Alcoholics Play
The most lucid account of the patterns of problem drinkers ever set down in a book! Drawing on soundly tested theories of transactional behavior, Dr. Steiner describes the three distinct types of alcoholics -- Drunk and Proud, Lush and Wino -- and their games, scripts and rackets: Debtor... Kick... Cops and robbers... Plastic Woman... Captain Marvel...Ain't it awful... Schlemiel... Look how hard I've tried... and others. His approach is the single most useful tool for dealing with alcoholism since A.A. and the Twelve Steps, and offers the first real help -- and hope -- for problem drinkers and their families.
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Murder list
There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills, edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully as Julie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with Murder List, in which evil is on the hunt
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A New Leash on Life
Dog trainer Jane Connor has always preferred the company of canines, so when her kennel is destroyed in an Arizona wildfire, she finds her whole world in ashes. Jane managed to rescue all the animals, but her status as a local hero won't pay the bills. Soon she's reluctantly agreeing to work on a reality TV series about life on the dog show circuit-starring herself and her golden retriever, Shadow. Jane has complete confidence in Shadow's star quality-until she sets eyes on their chief competitor:an irritatingly perfect little papillon! Worse, the dog is attached at the leash to hunky Cole Forrest. Jane can hardly hide her attraction off-camera, so how will she conceal it from a national audience? It's exactly the kind of distraction she doesn't need. But in a summer of surprises, Jane just might discover that an old dog learn new tricks-when love is the treat.
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Coping with difficult people
Bosses, friends, family members, they've made your life hell -- until now! Based on fourteen years of research and observation, Dr. Robert Bramson's proven-effective techniques are guaranteed to help you right the balance and take charge of your life. Learn how to: Stand up to anyone -- without fighting.Blunt a sniper's attack.Get a clam to talk.Cut off a Sherman tank at the pass.Manage bulldozers.Get stallers off the dime.Move a complainer into a problem-solving mode.Learn the six basic steps that allow you to cope with just about anyone. Reclaim the power the rightfully belongs to you in any relationship!
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The Secret
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found in the oral traditions, in literature, in religions and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible revelation that will be life-transforming for all who experience it. In this book, you'll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life -- money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You'll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that's within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life. The Secret contains wisdom from modern-day teachers -- men and women who have used it to achieve health, wealth, and happiness. By applying the knowledge of The Secret, they bring to light compelling stories of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.
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Secrets Of A Pix Up Fanatic
Ever since her former boss introduced her to her handsome, brilliant husband-to-be, Susan Shapiro has been on a marital mission. So far, she
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Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul III
Jack, Mark & Kimberly understand that more and more life is a struggle for you. Not just dealing with the tragedies that seem to plague them so often, but also handling the daily pressures that pervade their lives. This book, like the first two volumes in the series, will help them, and will serve as their guide and constant companion.
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Chicken Soup For The College Soul
College is a time of excitement, exuberance and triumph, as well as one of anxiety, doubt and confusion. Readers will identify with the stories that express feelings they undoubtedly share as they stand at the brink of adulthood, sometimes ready to take the world by storm, other times wondering whether they will ever be ready. This book deals with the myriad issues of college life, from homesickness to partying to G.P.A.s and everything in between.
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Taste Berries For Teens
Being a teenager is hard. This book shares what other teens have learned about life so far. Its not advice from adults, but from peers. Teen years are a time of turmoil. This book helps make the years bearable by answering many of the questions that come up, by showing that there are lots of teens experiencing the same things and by just giving encouragement.
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Natchez flame
A woman of courage and honor. She sold everything she owned to go west and marry a powerful land baron she'd never seen. But Priscilla Wills hadn't counted on the gunfight--or the gun--fighter--who would change her life: the tall, broad-shouldered man who killed her guardian in self-defense. Reluctantly he agreed to take her through the dangerous Texas back country to her fiance's ranch. She hadn't planned on a journey that would take her into a stranger's soul as he delivered her into another man's waiting arms. A man who lived by the gun. He was an outlaw--yet Brendan Trask unleashed in the prim and proper Priscilla a fiery passion that matched his own. But a man running for his life couldn't afford a woman who hungered for the security that only her wealthy fiance could provide.
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The Edgar Cayce Handbook For Creating Your Future
The once-esoteric secrets of Edgar Cayce, the twentieth century'smost famous clairvoyant, are now the tools that can help you create your future. The Edgar Cayce philosophy paradoxically promises two things. First, you can create your future: You are an extraordinary beingwith powers to shape your life. Second, your future can create you: Your life has a destiny that draws you toward it. This remarkable handbook presents Cayce's twenty-four spiritual keys, which can unlock the doors of self-understanding. They operate like formulas that teach us about the mysteries of livingand are evident to anyone who is willing and able to look closelyat life. As you will see, these principles can be applied to every situation, and you can begin to use them instantly in your everyday life.
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Banker to The Poor
It’s not people who aren’t credit-worthy. It’s banks that aren’t people-worthy’ —Muhammad Yunus Muhammad Yunus, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, set up the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh to lend tiny sums to the poorest of the poor, who were shunned by ordinary banks. The money would enable them to set up the smallest village enterprise and pull themselves out of poverty. Today, Yunus’s system of ‘micro-credit’ is practised in some sixty countries, and his Grameen Bank is a billion-pound business acknowledged by world leaders and the World Bank as a fundamental weapon in the fight against poverty. Banker to the Poor is Yunus’s own enthralling story: of how Bangladesh’s terrible 1974 famine underlined the need to enable its victims to grow more food; of overcoming scepticism in many governments and in traditional economic thinking; and of how micro-credit was extended into credit unions in the West
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Blink
This Book is all About those moments when we know something without knowing why. Here Malcolm one of the world's most original thinkers, explorers the phenomenon of blink showing how a snap judgement can be far more effective than a cautious decision.
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Why men Lie & Women Cry
1. Why are men confused about love 2. Why do men avoid commitment 3. Why do men feel women nagging around 4. Why don't women ever get to the point 5. Why do men love high heels on women and women love men with small tight bums? 1. Nagging - When someone just won't let up 2. Seven things men do that drive women insane 3. Why women cry - The dangerous emotional blackmail 4. Women's top secret point - scoring system 5. Solving the seven biggest mystery about men 6. The other woman - mother 7. Women's secret ways with words 8. Women's sex appeal test 9. What made Rogger Rabbit's eyes pop out 10.Men's sex appeal test 11.Male Sex appeal - what makes women turn on 12.Does this outfit make me look big? 13.When a hunter hangs up his bow - Retirement
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Diary
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she?s now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn?t stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they?ve found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins a period of compulsive painting. Inspired but confused by this burst of creativity, she soon finds herself a pawn in a larger conspiracy that threatens to cost hundreds of lives. What unfolds is a dark, hilarious story from America?s most inventive nihilist, and Palahniuk?s most impressive work to date.
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Life's not Fair But God Is Good
There's no doubting that life can be tough and sometimes even seems downright unfair. But Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the world's premier positive thinker, has great news. Even when life is toughest, even when you're battling more than your share of disappointments, you can rise above adversity and find new hope and true happiness Dr. Schuller shows you know to keep your faith in good times and bad. You'll discover how to turn disappointments into stepping-stones to success. Five self-esteem boosters that can give you the confidence to turn your dreams into reality. Six easy steps for unlocking the tremendous healing power of prayer. The nine commandments of thankful to restore your positive outlook on life. How to keep your goal in sight, even when obstacles get in the way. . .and much more! Life may not always be fair, or easy, but you can triumph over any obstacle that comes your way if you remember these simple but powerful life
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King Of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan
Here is the astonishing true story of Bollywood, a sweeping portrait about a country finding its identity, a movie industry that changed the face of India and one man's struggle to become a star. Shah Rukh Khan's larger than life tale takes us through the colourful and idiosyncratic Bollywood movie industry, where fantastic dreams and outrageous obsessions share the spotlight with extortion, murder and corruption. Shah Rukh Khan broke into the $1.5 billion business despite the fact that it has always been controlled by a handful of legendary film families and sometimes funded by black market money. As a Muslim in a Hindu majority nation, exulting in classic Indian cultural values, Shah Rukh Khan has come to embody the aspirations and contradictions of a complicated culture tumbling headlong into US-style capitalism. His story views the greater Indian story and the underbelly of the culture of Bollywood.
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The Memory Book
Unleash the hidden power of your mind through Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas's simple, fail-safe memory system, and you can become more effective, more imaginative, and more powerful, at work, at school, in sports and play. Discover how easy it is to: file phone numbers, data, figures, and appointments right in your head; learn foreign words and phrases with ease; read with speed--and greater understanding; shine in the classroom--and shorten study hours; dominate social situations, and more.
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Why Men Don't Listen And Women Can't Read Maps
Why men really can't do more than one thing at a time. Why women make such a mess of parallel parking. Why men should never lie to women. Why women talk so much and men so little. Why men love erotic images and women aren't impressed. Why women prefer to simply talk it through. Why men offer solutions, but hate advice. Why women despair about men's silences. Why men want sex, and women need love.
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The Joy of success
For fifteen years, Susan Ford Collins shadowed successful people from all walks of life and discovered ten skills they were using consistently but unconsciously. In this must-read guide to personal satisfaction and fulfillment, Susan outlines each skill and provides easy-to-learn methods for putting it to use. Whether readers are changing jobs or relationships, starting or managing companies or families, these ten skills will guide them to success.