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Holding The Dream
Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, California, Kate Powell treasures her life at Templeton House and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacks Margo's beauty and Laura's elegance, she knows she has something they would never possess - a shrewd head for business. Driven by ambition, Kate measures her life's success with each soaring promotion. But now faced with accusations of professional impropriety, Kate feels that she has lost everything she's worked so hard for. Which is when Byron DeWitt walks into her life and Kate is forced to re-evaluate exactly what it is she's fighting for.
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A Perfect Mess
A groundbreaking book that sheds new light on ideas of order - and shows how disorder and mess make our world a better place! Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. But most people still shun disorder - or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. No longer! With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success. Drawing on examples from busines, parenting, cooking, the war on terrorism, retail, and more, Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman demonstrate that moderately messy systems use resources more efficiently, yield better solutions, and are harder to break that neat ones. Applying this idea on scales both large (government, society) and small (desktops, garages), A Perfect Mess uncovers all the ways messiness can trump neatness, and will help you assess the right amount of disorder for any system. Whether it's your company's management plan or your hallway closet that bedevils you, this book will show you why to say yes to mess.
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The Saint The Surfer And The CEO
Within the pages of this extraordinary book, you'll discover yet powerful process to re-create your life and reconnect with your best self. Written in an engaging and herartfelt story, the book offers you a potent blend of deep wisdom and practical life lessons that will help you discover your destiny, live your highest truth as a human being, and find the lasting hapiness that you've been seeking.;In this revolutionary yet gentle guide to living your life at its most authentic level, you'll learn:;- how to awaken your true gifts and shine powerfully in the world;- how to transform your fears into freedom and your wounds into wisdom;- lessons to help you master your mind, open your heart and mature your spirit.;- simple methods to have beautiful relationships filled with true love;- ways to inject adventure, mystery, and fun back into your life;- tools to become a star in your career and attract prosperity
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Misfortune
On a moonlit night on the outskirts of London, Lord Geoffroy Loveall findsthe answer to his prayers: an abandoned baby, somehow still alive amid thejunk of a rubbish heap. Rescuing the infant from certain death, Lord Geoffroy adopts her as his only child, heir to the fabulous Love Hall fortune. He names her Rose in memory of his long-dead sister and gives hera childhood of unparalleled gaiety and unstinting pleasure. But every house has a secret, and as Rose approaches adolescence, the secret of Love Hall becomes impossible to hide. As much as Lord Geoffroy wanted a daughter, the baby he brought home is, in fact, a boy. As a flock of outraged relatives Circles,Rose has no choice but to flee. He must abandon the safety Of his beloved home and travel half way around the world in search of his rightfull place.
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Mother India
A bountiful mother figure to her legions of admirers, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) is unsparingly portrayed as an arrogant ruler enamored of her celebrity status and a key cause of her country's woes in this acerbic, compulsively readable political biography. According to Gupte, a columnist for International Newsweek who was born and raised in India, Gandhi substituted vague socialist ``mantras'' for concerted economic transformation and looked the other way when her close associates engaged in wholesale corruption. Her ``paranoid attachment to power'' is held responsible for the fissure in 1969 of her Congress Party, which led to the disintegration of secular, centralist politics in India. Blending lively firsthand reportage with astute political analysis, Gupte draws up a useful scorecard of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's missed opportunities for increasing productivity, distributing income and trimming a gargantuan bureaucracy.
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I Bought the monk's ferrari
Excited and nervous, a fresher of twenty- three, takes his first career flight from Bangalore to Delhi. He peeps out of the window as the flight takes off - and presto! He sees on the road below, fast fading from his vision - an immaculate brght red Ferrari. Thus, begins the quest of his life
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How To Talk To Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere
We do it everyday, but talking to people
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The Be Happy Attitudes
Many seek happiness in wealth, fame, relationships, even drugs-and, of course, they fail. How CAN we be happy? In his most inspirational best-selling book to date, Dr. Robert H. Schuller, the spiritual host of the weekly telecast "The Hour of Power," probes the Beatitudes for the answer-and discovers eight universal positive mental attitudes that have been used for their healing value through the ages. Through them, you can make real happiness truly possible. The Be (Happy) Attitudes 1) I Need Help-I Can't Do It Alone. Learn two miracle-working statements: "I need help" and "I am sorry." 2) I'm Really Hurting-But I Am Going To Bounce Back. Learn that when bad things happen to good people, they become better people. 3) I'm Going To Remain Cool, Calm, And Corrected. "Blessed are the Meek..." is a poor translation. "Meek" in the Bible means: mighty, stable. kind, 4)I Really Want To Do The Right Thing. Learn how to adopt a "Go for it" attitude toward your life and dreams. 5) I'm Going To Treat Others The Way I Want Them To Treat Me. Learn how to heal your hidden wounds, and allow them to turn you into a better person. 6) I've Got To Let The Faith Flow Free Through Me. Learn how to know God better and overcome doubt. Faith makes love a possibility. Love makes miracles happen. 7) I'm Going To Be A Bridge Builder. Learn how to make peace with yourself before becoming a peacemaker for others. Learn how to remain positive and pardon those who persecute you, even when all else fails.
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Half A life
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
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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.