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Dot.Bomb is the amazing story of the Internet gold rush as it could only be told by an insider. As SVP of Communications at Value America, David Kuo saw it all: sky's-the-limit optimism, hundreds of millions of dollars spent in a grab for eyeballs and market share, investors slavering to be on the inside, and the belief that there really were new rules. But Value America's plan to sell merchandise directly to manufacturers over the Internet fell apart in the blink of an eye...

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.

You are on a mission for your team, you along only in a supporting role. Suddenly the team member who is supposed to give the key presentation is in an accident and can't make it in time. Your team leader gives you the job of preparing the speech and delivering it the next day. There is a problem, you haven't given a speech in years. You have to prepare and deliver it from scratch.

On the eve of the invasion, five nuclear devices are smuggled out of Iraq and hidden in the most unlikely of places—neighboring Iran. Now, as the threat of WMDs fades into a late-night punch line, a hardline splinter group waits for the perfect moment to unleash nuclear terror. When Navy SEAL Brendan McHugh captures a mysterious Iranian diplomat on a raid, it feels all wrong. While the official rules of engagement say he must release the diplomat, that doesn't stop McHugh from investigating further.

In today's high-octane business world, you need all the advantages you can get. Success isn't just about making the right decisions or adopting smart strategies. Success also depends on knowing what's going on around you. As a business leader, imagine if you could almost always tell when people were lying to you, or if you could successfully persuade colleagues, workers, or bosses to always go along with your ideas. The truth is, you can.

David J. Greene's words are the epitome of poetic grace. His poems will take your mind to places of romance, heartbreak, and fantasy. His words cut deep to the soul, leaving you breathless and inspired all at once. If you've ever flipped through the radio in the hopes of finding a song that fits your mood, you'll find yourself doing the same thing with the pages of Unkempt Dreams.

Combining short stories in the alternate military-history genre with speculative history, this entertaining book invites listeners to consider what didn't happen to gain a richer understanding of what did. Acclaimed fiction writers John Mina, Kim Stanley Robinson, William Sanders, and Harry Turtledove pose intriguing "What if?" questions about Napoleon, the U.S. Civil War, the American South, and World War II, such as "What if Napoleon had become emperor of the United States?" and "Could one faulty screw have altered America's atomic-bomb policy?"

As the fate of the planet lies in the hands of two scientists, Dr. Vinsant and Dr. Maak develop their own opinions on what the end should hold. One scientist's loyalty to an experiment reinforces the idea of letting science take its course, while the other's love and compassion towards the planet consumes him.

All conversations start small. In most cases, it starts with a simple greeting, and sometimes ends with one, too. The greeting part is easy though - the challenge is in how to make small talks end big. Making your conversation grow can help you a lot in your business, relationships, and work. It can also create new friendships and create opportunities to advance in your job. Some say, you need to have a lot of charisma to make small talk grow into memorable conversations.

When FBI Special Agent Liz Soroush leads a raid on a local Minneapolis night club to capture a suspected terrorist recruiter, she ends up with a dead suspect and a community up in arms. But instead of a reprimand, she gets promoted to run a brand-new Joint Terrorism Task Force. The new threat is “jihadist mobilization”, young people in Minneapolis being radicalized to fight for terrorist groups like Al-Shabab and ISIS. As Liz digs deeper into the shadowy world of homegrown radicalism, she realizes the real threat has been in plain sight all along.

Super Agent. Maverick. Reformer. Iconoclast. Dealmaker. Dentist? Jerry Argovitz has worn many hats in his remarkable life, both inside and outside of the world of sports. As a player agent representing and advising some of the biggest names in the game, Argovitz challenged the NFL both at the negotiating table and in the courtroom, earning a reputation as one of the most powerful men in professional sports.

Through poetry I find a path to make one cry, to make one laugh. Hinted expressions of how I feel. Epitome of something real... David J. Greene's style of poetry is one all to its own. Not only is it expressive and motivational, it's beautifully written and undeniably honest. David's way of explaining his inner emotions and thoughts leaves you yearning for yet one more line. His poems draw you in, hold you close, and leave you recklessly forwarding to see what the next one has in store.

Barbara Adams, head of the Windbrook Library in suburban Chicago, has died, apparently from a fall down the stairs to the library's basement. But when Julia Fairbanks, her closest friend's daughter starts to poke around, she finds troubling emails that indicate Barbara was not the victim of a heart attack, but a vicious killer instead. Can Julia find the murderer? Or will she end up on The Last Page?

The first and second editions of Repacking Your Bags helped people develop their own unique visions of the good life and take practical steps at home and at work to make sense of their lives and live in an authentically meaningful way. Written as a travel guide it helped people to put together a "trip checklist" that provided the elements of the good life: work, love, place, and purpose.

In So What Are the Guys Doing?, Figura bares all and relates the changes he made in his marriage. He tells of the radical steps he took to make more male friends and the risks he took in his career to turn things around - and of his conversations with more than 50 men who were dealing with many of the same issues. It is his hope that this book will inspire other men to seek happier, more satisfying lives.

Based on a Bold-Faced Lie is a collection of nine short stories with slightly unique twists. It contains such stories as "Pages of Life", "Undead Love", "Illmoonati", and "Censored", among others.

It takes just two things for powerful marketing. First of all you need to know how to turn your digital presence into something useful, like leads or customers. To do this you need a digital sales funnel in place from top to bottom.

Drawing on ancient and contemporary wisdom and many moving stories, Leider and Shapiro invite readers on a journey to discover how to live authentically and wholeheartedly in the second half of life and, in doing so, find new ways to both enjoy the world and make a meaningful contribution to improving it.

Journey to the farthest reaches of the universe. Explore the deepest mysteries of creation. Behold the brightest lights of the imagination. Discover the Writers of the Future...and experience the power of science fiction and fantasy to transform your world.

In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth. It shows that Mississippi's past was never frozen, but always fluid. It shows too that slavery took a number of shapes before its form in the late antebellum mold became crystalized for popular culture.