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The Complete Plays Of Sophocles
The greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides not only in the number of plays he wrote but also in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven works in this volume have survived intact. From the complex drama of Antigone, the heroine willing to sacrifice life and love for a principle, to the mythic doom embodied by Oedipus, the uncommonly good man brought down by the gods, Sophocles possessed a tragic vision that, in Matthew Arnold's phrase, saw life steadily and saw it whole.
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Chicken Soup For The Soul Stories For A Better World
This celebration book returns readers to the core of the Chicken Soup mission: to tell great stories that warm the heart, touch the spirit and inspire people to be the best they can be. There is no specific audience or fancy packaging here, just the straight-ahead great storytelling that made the original Chicken Soup for the Soul an 80 million copy-selling phenomenon.
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The Magic Of Thinking
Millions of people throughout the world have improved theirlives using The Magic Of Thinking Big. Regarded as one of the foremostexperts on motivation, the author helps you to sell better, manage better, earn moremoney and, most important of all, find greater happiness and peace of mind. Thebook gives you workable methods, not empty promises. Its ideasand and techniques are so original that the author had to invent a whole newvocabulary to express them. He presents a planned programme for living on a bigscale - in one's job, marriage and family life and in social and culturalactivities. He proves that you need not have a great intellect or great talentto be a giant among men; but you do need the habit of thinking and acting
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Anna karenina
A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband (and Russian high society) would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life, haunted by thoughts of suicide, Levin's struggles echo Tolstoy's own spiritual crisis. But Anna's inner turmoil mirrors the own emotional imprisonment and mental disintegration of a woman who dares to transgress the strictures of a patriarchal world. In Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy brought to perfection the novel of social realism and created a masterpiece that bared the Russian soul.
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Parents Book Of Discipline
The Essential Guide to Raising an Independent, Confident, and Well-adjusted Child -- From America's #1 Family Magazine. Practical with love, patience. and understanding, discipline is one of the greatest gifts you can give to a child. As this warm and insightful book makes dear, discipline is not the same as punishment, but is one of the fundamental ways that parents reach their children to respect others and themselves. Based on the latest research, and on extensive interviews with parents, the Parents: "TM" Book of Discipline will show you how to: -- Get your baby on a sleeping schedule that feels right for both of you -- Keep toddlers in line without holding them back -- Get your preschool child to perform simple chores, without nagging -- Teach your child to cooperate and share toys -- Deal with temper tantrums -- Tailor your discipline to the age, developmental progress, and temperament of your child -- Teach our child how to ask for what she wants without whining -- Make rules, set limits, and enforce them effectively
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The Prince and the Pauper
Rich with surprise and hilarious adventure, The Prince and the Pauper is a delightful satire of England
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Time Flies
WE'RE ALL GETTING OLDER, AND BILL COSBY KEEPS GETTING BETTER America's best-loved humorist, media personality and bestselling author now brings his unique warmth, wisdom and wit to a subject common to all: aging. From five to fifty and beyond, Bill Cosby takes us on a hilarious romp through the trials and tribulations of growing
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Stay Alive All Your life
Stay alive all your life, this dynamic guide to fruitful and joyous living by America s famed Minister to Millions shows you: how to put positive thinking into action; how to use the magnificent power of belief; how to learn from your mistakes; how enthusiasm can work wonders for you; how to attain self-confidence; how to live above pain and suffering how to lift depression and live vitally.
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Success Is Never Ending Failure Is Never Final
Each of us has experienced "down times"-setbacks at work, in relationships in our inner lives- times where nothing seems to go right. Most of us have also felt as if we've failed at times, as well. But what is the difference between those who succeed and those who fail? the answer is simple: attitude. In the practical and empowering new book Dr. Robert H Schuller, the host and master of possibilities of the weekly telecast The Hour of Power shows how to overcome the fear and the groundless excuses that keep us from success, fulfillment, and happiness. Here Dr. Schuller reveals his own unique formula for never ending success: The 10 steps for turning your dreams into reality The amazing power of possibility thinking The 22 stops on the roadmap to success The 4 C's of "Success thinking" How to Banish "Impossibility thinking " from your life The "Miracle ingredients" of faith and hope ...and much more Your dreams Dr. Schuller tells us, no matter how impossible are the seeds of your success! now can learn how to nurture and cultivate your possibilities uproot the negatives, and watch your dreams blossom into reality.
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The Greatest Salesman in The World
You are holding in your hands an almost impossible dream, finally become reality ... the sequel to the inspirational classic that has touched more lives in the past two decades than any other motivational work in the world. More than 9 million people continue to find solace and hope in The Greatest Salesman in the World, the gripping tale of a little camel boy, Hafid, who becomes the greatest salesman in the world through following the principles in ten special scrolls of success. And now, at last, the world will discover what happens to the greatest salesman when he finally emerges from his lonely retirement to commence a new career. At first he finds failure -- until he receives a special gift from someone he has not seen in half a century. He then returns triumphantly to his homeland to write his own Ten Vows of Success to be shared with all who seek a better life -- including you.
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My Life Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton's My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals. Here is the life of a great national and international figure, revealed with all his talents and contradictions. Filled with fascinating moments and insights, it is told openly, directly, in President Clinton's completely recognizable voice.
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Creating Competitive Advantage
Whether you are a retailer, manufacturer, distributor, or service provider
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Serving Two Masters ?
C. William Pollard joined ServiceMaster in 1977 and has served not once but twice as its CEO. His first term as CEO was from 1983 to 1993, a period characterized by major change, including the introduction and growth of the company"s consumer group. In 1999, Bill returned as CEO and served for sixteen months until the process of electing his successor was completed. During his leadership, ServiceMaster was recognized by Fortune magazine as the #1 service company among the Fortune 500. ServiceMaster was also identified as a "star of the future" by the Wall Street Journal and recognized by the Financial Times as one of the most respected companies in the world. In 2004, Pollard received the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Business Ethics at Notre Dame.
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Ice Cream Maker
Innovation, claims quality consultant Subir Chowdhury, is part of America’s DNA. No other country in the world matches America’s creative drive and its ability to turn innovative ideas into revolutionary products–from antilock brakes and steel-belted radial tires to sophisticated software and microprocessors. But as fast as we introduce new products, we lose the markets we establish to countries that know how to manufacture higher quality versions for less money. As Japanese and European firms win market share by concentrating on quality, America is continually forced to rely on innovation to stay ahead. In The Ice Cream Maker, Chowdhury uses a simple story to illustrate how businesses can instill quality into our culture and into every product we design, build, and market. The protagonist of the story is Peter Delvecchio, the manager of a regional ice cream company, who is determined to sell its ice cream to a flourishing national grocery chain, Natural Foods. In conversations with the Natural Foods manager, Peter learns how the extraordinarily successful retailer achieves its renowned high standard of excellence, both in the services it provides its customers and in the foods it manufactures and sells. Quality, he discovers, must be the mission of every employee; by learning to listen, enrich, and optimize, he can encourage and sustain the highest levels of quality in everything the company does. Like Fish! and Who Moved My Cheese? The Ice Cream Maker offers an essential and universal lesson about one of industry's foremost challenges in a thoroughly engaging style. For managers and executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs, The Ice Cream Maker is a compelling, eye-opening guide to the most effective ways to achieve excellence and become industry leaders on the global stage.
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Superstar India
This is a story about India. My India. It is a very personal story. You see, I'm exactly as old as India is.' It all began when, viewing the breathless preparations for independent India's 60th birthday celebrations--and poised then on her own sixth decade
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Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
For the first time, the secrets, principles, and techniques of Eker's popular personal success seminars are captured on the page for readers across North America. Eker teaches people how to play the inner game of money so that they not only achieve financial success, but keep it once they have it.
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What Just Happened
For the past decade change seemed to happen over night, every night. Fueled by the exponential rise of technology, the digital revolution was difficult for many to make sense of, but James Gleick watched and analyzed, criticized and commended, participated in and prophesized about the instantaneous transformations of the world as we knew it. What Just Happened is a collection of Gleick
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No More Letting Go
for the last twenty years. The conventional wisdom offered to an addict
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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.