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...In His Own Words |
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| Michael Jordan is not only the greatest basketball palyer of all time, but also an international figure and genuine role model. Jordan's inspirational story is one of intense personal struggle and unequaled success not only on the hardwood but also as a respected actor, international businessman, a compassionate humanitarion, and a loving son, husband, and father. Michael's own voice is woven throughout with other famous voices culled from the author's exclusive audio archives; including Scottie Pippen, President Bill Clinton, Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson, and NBA Commissioner David Stern. |
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10 Ways to Fast Track Your Career |
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| Has your career reached a crossroads? Would you like to advance your career but don’t know how? Do you feel like you’re in the slow lane and want to find a faster route to success at work? In 10 Ways to Fast Track Your Career, best selling self-help author and leading executive coach, Gabriella Goddard, will show you how to work smarter, not harder. Her ten success strategies have been tried and tested on thousands and will show you how to take charge of your career, discover what you really want, plan your next steps and boost your self-confidence and belief that you can get there. What’s more you’ll be armed with easy tools and techniques that you can use straight away. So if you want to dust off the cobwebs of your career, apply for a promotion, make a great impression in your new job or even if you’re thinking about your next career move, Gabriella’s inspiring, no-nonsense practical approach will give you the boost you need to change gears and step into your fullest potential. You’ll learn: how to be strategic and create a clear career vision - how to play to your strengths - how to prioritise and stay focused - how to say “no� without feeling guilty - how to take advantage of curve balls - how to get into action with the bigger picture in mind. Life’s way too short to spend it doing a job you don’t enjoy. Listen to 10 Ways to Fast Track Your Career and very soon you’ll be shifting your career to a whole new level - and finding greater happiness and success in the process. |
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100 People Who Are Screwing Up America: And Al Franken Is #37 |
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| Bernard Goldberg takes dead aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans and detest so much of what this country is about)...the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous)...the TV Schlockmeisters (including the one whose show has been compared to a churning mass of maggots devouring rotten meat)...the Intellectual Thugs (big-wigs at some of our best colleges, whose views run the gamut from left-wing to far left-wing)...and many more. |
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
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| Starred Review. In a riveting and fast-paced history, massing archeological, anthropological, scientific and literary evidence, Mann debunks much of what we thought we knew about pre-Columbian America. Reviewing the latest, not widely reported research in Indian demography, origins and ecology, Mann zestfully demonstrates that long before any European explorers set foot in the New World, Native American cultures were flourishing with a high degree of sophistication. The new researchers have turned received wisdom on its head. For example, it has long been believed the Inca fell to Pizarro because they had no metallurgy to produce steel for weapons. In fact, scholars say, the Inca had a highly refined metallurgy, but valued plasticity over strength. What defeated the Inca was not steel but smallpox and resulting internecine warfare. Mann also shows that the Maya constructed huge cities and governed them with a cohesive set of political ideals. Most notably, according to Mann, the Haudenosaunee, in what is now the Northeast U.S., constructed a loose confederation of tribes governed by the principles of individual liberty and social equality. The author also weighs the evidence that Native populations were far larger than previously calculated. Mann, a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and Science, masterfully assembles a diverse body of scholarship into a first-rate history of Native America and its inhabitants. 56 b&w photos, 15 maps. |
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22 Immutable Laws of Marketing |
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| The authors have distilled their 40-plus years of marketing expertise to provide the key to today's competitive marketplace, showing you what makes some products inordinately successful while others fall by the wayside. |
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25 Most Common Sales Mistakes And How To Avoid Them! |
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| Noted sales trainer, Stephan Schiffman, the famous master of cold calls and sales techniques, provides bite-sized tips on correcting common sales problems, using the same nuggets-of-advice format as in many of his other books! |
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25 Things to Say to the Interviewer, to Get the Job You Want: Being Qualified Isn't Enough |
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| "If you’re looking for a job that lets you do what you’re good at, pays you what you’re worth, read this book. And if you want to make your dreams come true, read it over and over again. It takes a lifetime to learn these life lessons. But you don’t have that kind of time. And no one is going to teach them to you. There just aren’t that many good bosses around. Most of them are selfish, busy, or under the gun. Here’s a one-of-a-kind book that’ll teach you how to get past interviewers. But, that’s the half of it. It’ll also teach you the life lessons you need to succeed in business, in your career, in your life. When you finish reading this book, you’ll know what it takes most successful people, at least, half a lifetime to learn. Lucky you found it.�—from the book" |
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250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked?: And the Answers That Will Get You Hired! |
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| Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job? Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good jo is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career and human resources expert Peter Veruki, Director of Career Planning at Rice University's graduate school of business, you?ll know you have the right answers at your job interview! |
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3000 Degrees: The True Story Of A Deadly Fire And The Men Who Fought It |
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| During the long night of December 3, 1999, a windowless, century-old storage building in downtown Worchester, Mass., was turned into a six-story stove. In gripping prose ("The smoke banked down like bolts of black velvet, heavy sheets curling and rolling and folding together"), Flynn describes how, once ignited, the deserted Worchester Cold Storage building must have been the perfect structure for a perfect fire. In a style similar to Sebastian Jungers, Flynns chapters hustle from disastrous city fires that occurred earlier that summer, building tension and setting the scene for the final disaster in this tottering working-class New England town. With confident, deft description, Flynn brings to life this 3,000-degree catastrophe with a crackling intensity, which, unfortunately, he never quite achieves for the people within his story. The human element doesnt quite live up to what he presented in his first award-winning Esquire magazine piece that won notice for the survivors as well as the spouses and parents of the six firemen who were killed. Likewise, Flynn minimizes the subsequent police investigation and forensics that made national headlines for weeks after the fire. Nonetheless, the same work ethos that made New York City firemen and rescue companies run into the doomed World Trade Center towers is here in a smaller dimension but equally intense story of fire-fighting tragedy. Photos, blueprints and map not seen by PW. |
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Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War |
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| Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. "Why?" she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of Abarat is familiar to her? Why can she speak words of magic she doesn't even remember learning? |
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