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3rd Degree
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a beautiful San Francisco street as a ferocious blast rips through the neighbourhood. A townhouse owned by an internet magnate explodes into flames, three people die and a sinister note signed ‘August Spies’ is found at the scene.
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While My Pretty One Sleeps
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the death of Ethel Lambston. When Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposes, is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories of her mother's long-unsolved murder come to life. As an innocent witness in the Lambstone investigation, Neeve is drawn into a sinister labyrinth of greed and ambition. Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposes, is one of the best customers at Neeve's exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethel's ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have reason to be glad she's no longer around. When Ethel Lambston is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories of her mother's long-unsolved murder loom up once again. Now as an innocent witness in the Lambston investigation, Neeve is drawn into a new nightmare...a sinister labyrinth of greed and ambition that will lead her into mortal danger... A stunning tale of murder, glamour and romance, "While My Pretty One Sleeps" is the most exciting novel yet from Mary Higgins Clark, America's undisputed master of suspense.
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The McKinsey Way
If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place." --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. "Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains valuable lessons on widely diverse topics such as marketing, interviewing, team-building, and brainstorming." --Paul H. Zipkin, Vice-Dean, The Fuqua School of Business It's been called "a breeding ground for gurus." McKinsey & Company is the gold-standard consulting firm whose alumni include titans such as "In Search of Excellence" author Tom Peters, Harvey Golub of American Express, and Japan's Kenichi Ohmae. When Fortune 100 corporations are stymied, it's the "McKinsey-ites" whom they call for help. In THE MCKINSEY WAY, former McKinsey associate Ethan Rasiel lifts the veil to show you how the secretive McKinsey works its magic, and helps you emulate the firm's well-honed practices in problem solving, communication, and management. He shows you how McKinsey-ites think about business problems and how they work at solving them, explaining the way McKinsey approaches every aspect of a task: How McKinsey recruits and molds its elite consultants; How to "sell without selling"; How to use facts, not fear them; Techniques to jump-start research and make brainstorming more productive; How to build and keep a team at the top its game; Powerful presentation methods, including the famous waterfall chart, rarely seen outside McKinsey; How to get ultimate "buy-in" to your findings; Survival tips for working in high-pressure organizations. Both a behind-the-scenes look at one of the most admired and secretive companies in the business world and a toolkit of problem-solving techniques without peer, THE MCKINSEY WAY is fascinating reading that empowers every business decision maker to become a better strategic player in any organization. About The Author Ethan M. Rasiel joined McKinsey & Co.'s New York office in 1989 and worked there until 1992. While at "The Firm", his clients included major companies in finance, telecommunications, computing, and consumer goods sectors. Before working at McKinsey, he worked as an equity fund manager at Mercury Asset Management in London. He has also worked as an investment banker. He has a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Table Of Contents Acknowledgements Part I: The McKinsey Way of Thinking About Business Problems Chapter 1. Building the Solution Chapter 2. Developing an Approach Part II: The McKinsey Way of Working to Solve Business Problems Chapter 4. Selling a Study Chapter 5. Assembling a Team Chapter 6. Managing Hierarchy Chapter 7. Doing Research Chapter 8. Conducting Interviews Chapter 9. Brainstorming Part III: The McKinsey Way of Selling Solutions Chapter 10. Making Presentations Chapter 11. Displaying Data with Charts Chapter 12. Managing Internal Communications Chapter 13. Working with Clients Part IV: Surving at McKinsey Chapter 14. Find Your Own Mentor Chapter 15. Surviving on the Road Chapter 16. Take These Things with You Wherever You Go Chapter 17. A Good Assistant Is a Lifeline Chapter 18. Recruiting McKinsey Style Chapter 19. If You Want a Life, Lay Down Some Rules Life After McKinsey Chapter 20. The Most Valuable Lesson Chapter 21. Memories of McKinsey Index
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Yoga For Common Ailments
This guide helps readers to design a personal yoga programme which fits into their lifestyles. This updated edition shows how a few minutes of yoga every day can improve general health and fitness. There are step-by-step instructions for a basic yoga session, and treatments to more than 35 common ailments. Presented in two parts, the book begins with a comprehensive introduction to the origins of yoga, and the basis of yoga as a complementary healing therapy. Part One, "The Basic Session", provides a general programme to improve health and fitness. This can be tailored, using the chart of exercises, to suit individual requirements and to suit different levels of ability. The exercises are presented step-by-step, each with instructions accompanied by a detailed artwork. The routine starts with warm-up exercises and continues with yoga postures, relaxation techniques and breathing exercises, and includes advice on diet and lifestyle and meditation. Part Two, "The Ailments", focuses on yoga routines to treat over 35 specific conditions, from backache, rheumatism and arthritis, to varicose veins, obesity and headaches.
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Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient He
Reiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of “laying on of hands” healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first time. Teaching from the perspective that Reiki healing belongs to all people, Diane Stein breaks new ground in her classic guide to this ancient practice. While no book can replace the directly received Reiki “attunements,” ESSENTIAL REIKI provides everything else that the healer, practitioner, and teacher of this system needs. About the Author DIANE STEIN is a popular and acclaimed healer and the best-selling author of Essential Reiki and 25 other books in the fields of metaphysical healing, women's spirituality, and alternative health. She lives and teaches in Florida. THE AUTHOR SCOOP Read any good books lately? My favorite reading is science fiction, there are new good books coming out every day. Look at Sharon Shinn, Tamora Pierce, Ann Bishop, and so many more talented women fiction writers. If you had to boil your book's message down to one sentence, what would it be? Serve the Light, trust the Light, make a difference in the world with who you are and what you do. What are you working on now? I prefer to keep future books a secret until they are finished. No one will know until the manuscript is mailed in. Do you eat your vegetables? I have been a vegetarian since 1983. I do eat my vegetables. If you had a superpower, what would it be? Wonder Woman, of course. How long did it take you to write this book? I have been working with herbs for over 35 years, so you could say it took that long to write it.
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Chakras Energy Centers Of Transformation
Chakras are psychic centres in the body that are active at all times, whether we are conscious of them or not. Energy moves through the chakras to produce different psychic states. Modern biological science explains this as the chemical changes produced by the endocrine glands, ductless glands whose secretions mix into the body's bloodstream directly and instantaneously. Ancient philosophers of the East related those changes with the five basic tattvas, or elements- earth, water, fire, air and akasha ( ether ). These elements are constantly coming and going with the circadian rhythms inside the body. The ancient Indian science of Yoga therefore laid great emphasis on knowing these elements and on working accordingly, for the chakras are understood as the playground of the elements. In the ancient science of Svara Yoga (the yoga of conscious breathing), various methods to identify the presence of the tattva in the body are prescribed and by mastering these techniques yogis can program themselves so as to accomplish much by using the least possible amount of energy. By the constant practice of kshata chakra bhedana (piercing the six chakras by visualization) and mantra japa (mantra recitation), they can finally transcend the tattvas, which dominate the five basic centers of the body-that is, the first five chakras-and thereby achieve the nondual consciousness that liberates them from the illusory world of maya.
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Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu
The original do-it-yourself guide to Shiatsu--the ancient Japanese art of acupressure--is now printed with a new Preface and cover. Includes clear explanations of all technical terms and 100+ helpful photos to illustrate Shiatsu techniques and show locations of pressure points. A growing number of Americans are discovering the pleasurable and therapeutic uses of shiatsu, a Japanese method of acupressure. In Do-It-Yourself Shiatsu, Ohashi, one of the most knowledgeable and well-known U.S. -based shiatsu experts, offers step-by-step instruction on how to perform shiatsu at home. Ohashi, who has taught and practiced shiatsu for more than thirty years, focuses on common ailments faced here in the West. He provides clear explanations of all technical terms and helpful photographs throughout to illustrate shiatsu techniques and locations of pressure points. Also included are explanations of special shiatsu exercises, designed to keep energy flowing through the body, and a new preface by the author.
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Comdex Computer Course Kit
This book has unique – 3 Stage guaranteed learning system with interactive software. In the 1st Stage book offers you detailed explanation with illustration and diagrams, in 2nd Stage Audio video CD demonstrates what was taught in the book, and in the 3rd Stage self - testing software tests your skill and corrects when you make a mistake. The CD-ROM contains Self –learning tutorials on Windows, Word, Excel, Access, Internet plus ‘Busylite’ financial Accounting & SmartCop Anti Virus Software.
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Complete Book of Home Remedies
An authoritative and illustrated complete reference on home health?care, describing the properties and uses of herbs and other natural elements. This book is designed as a practical and an easy-to-use everyday reference manual. It deals with about 150 diseases and their herbal treatment and explains things in non-technical language. It outlines simple practical remedies as well as preventive measures for ailments. The book deserves to be in every home for it really provides home remedies and is immensely helpful to anyone looking for indigenous systems of medicine.
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The Orange Hangover
THEN Cool Lifestyle Dinner with friends First Day First Show(s) Good paying Job Good Girlfriend NOW Cool Lifestyle Dinner With Friends + Best Restaurants First Day First Show(s) Good Paying Job Good Girlfriend? She Has Gone Bad Girl Who Understands Me (Only One) Tangled In A Case Of Extreme Crime THE ORANGE HANGOVER Would he be able to follow his heart and stick to his values and ambitions? Would he ever be able to win the girl he likes? Would the terrible case of extreme crime ever be solved? About The Author RAHUL SAINI is the bestselling author of two hugely popular novels Those Small Lil Things and Just Like in the Movies. Formerly an architect, he has a keen interest in fine arts and filmmaking. He is a high-spirited young man who loves to spend time with his family and friends.
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Devil In Pinstripes
Devil in Pinstripes takes you behind the scenes through the power-packed aisles of New York International Bank (NYIB) and the sharpest of its minds. It is the story of Amit, an ambitious MBA who joins NYIB and thereby, the world of high pressure competitive foreign banking and the current crisis that engulfs this sector. As life throws its curves, Amit finds himself stuck between the lives of three others – his wife and later colleague, Chanda; Gowri, a power-hungry political maestro par excellence and Amit’s arch rival; and above all, his mentor Aditya, who plays devious power games with almost everyone in his quest for success and fame.
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The Map
London, 1953. Classics scholar August Woodthorpe, son of a prominent American politician, has stumbled upon an extraordinary artefact: an ancient book - a chronicle - that once belonged to an infamous alchemist burned at the stake in 1646. Within the ancient text is a map - an intricate, ingeniously designed labyrinth that will lead August on a spectacular journey to three mazes secreted within France, Spain, and Germany. And at the heart of one of these mazes is hidden the elixir of eternal life. But Western Europe is still reeling from the shock of war, and if he's to survive his perilous quest, August must translate ancient codes, decipher deadly riddles, and expose a mystical secret three hundred years old - even as he outwits Spanish militants and German spies.
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Buried Secrets
Nick Heller returns in an explosive new thriller. When PI Nick Heller moves back to Boston to set up his own agency, he soon gets an urgent case even closer to home than expected. Alexandra Marcus - teenage daughter of hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus - has been kidnapped. But it's no ordinary kidnapping - and it's not even clear what they want. She's been abducted by professionals and buried alive in an underground casket. A video camera is streaming her desperate pleas live over the internet. With only a limited supply of food and water, her time is quickly running out. A close friend of the family, Nick is more determined than ever to catch the perpetrators. But when Marshall is arrested for fraud, Nick uncovers some powerful enemies and a conspiracy that reaches up to the very highest levels of government. Faced with opponents wellprotected by wealth and position, Nick must play a dangerous game if he hopes to flush out those responsible before Alexa is buried for good.
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Lenobia's Vow
Before becoming Zoey's favourite professor and the House of Night's powerful horse mistress, Lenobia was just a normal 16-year-old girl - but with enough problems to last a lifetime. In 1788, Lenobia's father places her on a ship bound for New Orleans. An evil bishop, skilled in Dark magic, makes the same journey. His appetite for beautiful young women forces Lenobia to remain hidden, but she secretly visits the ship's stables, where a handsome young man and his horses capture her attention. Can they make it to the New World before the bishop discovers her true identity and a powerful evil breaks loose? And will Lenobia follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk?
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You Are Unique
The thoughts of A P J Abdul Kalam, in You Are Unique, with their heartfelt sincerity, chiselled logic and experienced intuition are amazing lamps on the path of life, giving strength to seek one's Unique Self. This book draws an unforgettable blue print of success for all. One lesson that shimmers from every page of this book is hope. Whether in failure or in success, there is always a clear vision of future. In human life as well as in the corporate world, the value of vision, leading to planning, followed by action should not be underestimated. The success smiles on those who dream and act. A message of spirituality, honesty, being unselfish and the value of giving emerges from these pages as from his life. The world has changed and there is a need for awakening together the head and the heart. While poems touch the heart and leave a deep impression, his prose leads you to think how to go beyond the rock walls of conditioning, perceptions and prejudices to achieve success and fulfilment. Clearly presented thoughts, in You Are Unique, become our inspiration and constant companion, flashing 'upon the inward eye' at our decision making, vision creating as well as ordinary moments of life. Visually appealing, illuminating, dotted with his simple and charming experiences of life, you will love to read this book again and again. About the Author Born on 15th October 1931 at Dhanushkodi in Rameshwaram district, Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is one of the most distinguished and world acclaimed scientists of India. He has received several awards including the highest civilian award of India— Bharat Ratna. He rose from being a technocrat to the 11th President of India, the largest democracy in the world. His penetrating vision and deep concern for removing human misery places him in the class of prophet poets and writers who inspire and elevate fellow human beings and show the path for being noble, honest and true to oneself, to discover one’s unique self. Dr Kalam writes: "What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful and to remove the wrongs of injured..." A P J Abdul Kalam
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I've Got Your Number
When Poppy loses her engagement ring and her mobile all in the same disastrous evening, it seems the obvious solution to make use of a phone she finds, by chance, abandoned in a hotel bin. But inevitably her life becomes entangled with the real owner of the phone, a high-flying businessman called Sam who becomes increasingly irritated when Poppy can't resist meddling in his affairs. About The Author Sophie Kinsella is the author of the bestselling Shopaholic series as well as ,The Undomestic Goddess, Can You Keep a Secret? and Remember Me? She lives in England.
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Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering The Art Of Manifesting
This book is dedicated to your mastery of the art of realizing all your desires. The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination. Everything that now exists was once imagined. And everything that will ever exist must first be imagined. Wishes Fulfilled is designed to take you on a voyage of discovery, wherein you can begin to tap into the amazing manifesting powers that you possess within you and create a life in which all that you imagine for yourself becomes a present fact.Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explores, for the first time, the region of your highest self; and definitively shows you how you can truly change your concept of yourself, embark upon a God-realized way of living, and fulfill the spiritual truth that with God all things are possible-and "all things" means that nothing is left out. By practicing the specific technique for retraining your subconscious mind, you are encouraged to not only place into your imagination what you would like to manifest for yourself, but you are given the specifics for realigning your life so you can live out your highest calling and stay connected to your Source of being. From the lofty perspective of your highest self, you will learn how to train your imagination in a new way. Your wishes-all of them-can indeed be fulfilled. By using your imagination and practicing the art of assuming the feeling of your wishes being fulfilled, and steadfastly refusing to allow any evidence of the outer world to distract you from your intentions, you will discover that you, by virtue of your spiritual awareness, possess the ability to become the person you were destined to be. This book will help you See-with a capital S-that you are divine, and that you already possess an inner, invisible higher self that can and will guide you toward a mastery of the art of manifestation. You can attain this mastery through deliberate conscious control of your imagination!
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My Greatest Teacher
Despite having a loving family and a fulfilling career as a university professor, Ryan Kilgore has always held deep resentment and anger toward the father who abandoned him when he was born. When these emotions take their toll on his marriage—and his relationship with his own son—Ryan realizes he must confront these unhealed wounds in order to move forward in his life. While at an academic conference, he embarks on a search to track down his father, Big Bob. Along the way, Ryan encounters friends and acquaintances of Big Bob, while reawakening memories of his childhood. My Greatest Teacher is an inspiring tale of how we can transform suffering and pain into forgiveness and love, and the lessons we can learn through the most difficult challenges we face. About The Author Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned author and speaker in the field of self-development. He's the author of 30 books, has created many audio programs and videos, and has appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. His books Manifest Your Destiny, Wisdom of the Ages, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, and The New York Times bestsellers 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, The Power of Intention, Inspiration, and Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life have all been featured as National Public Television specials. Wayne holds a doctorate in educational counseling from Wayne State University and was an associate professor at St. John's University in New York. Lynn Lauber is a fiction and nonfiction author, teacher and book collaborator. She has published three books of her own, as well as many collaborations with other authors. Her specialties include fiction, personal narrative and self-improvement. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times.