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Nestled away in the suburban landscape of chain restaurants and clothing stores stands a building, a facility for the treatment of those who happen to be brought in through its front doors. Few take note of it and what patients are brought here are safely tucked away from society, left alone to suffer through what is considered treatment in this place.

An easy listen with sufficient humor and human interest to make it appealing to the listener. A casual look at the chapter titles is sufficient to evoke interest even from the most apathetic student. The use of direct conversation in many of the examples adds vividness and life.

We began with a question: “Do you listen to respond, or listen to understand?” While many books are written about how to get your point across, effective communication is about transmitting and receiving messages as close to the intended meaning as possible. One central issue contributes more than others to the deterioration of a message’s intended meaning. Real-world communication can be compared to standing on a two-way street filled with loud and distracting traffic. Imagine that you are on one side of that street, but the person trying to speak with you is on the other side.

The zombie apocalypse has begun. Metro City descends into a chaotic nightmare at frightening speed. An ever-growing army of flesh-eating zombies now walk the streets and savagely attack the living. Four survivors from very different walks of life are forced to band together on a terrifying journey to survive and its deadly perils. Follow their footsteps as they seek to escape Metro City, fighting their way through the horror it has become. This is the second book in the Regenschirm survival horror series.

The beginning of a young boy's dark gritty adventure from the safe confines of home to the harsh realities of the world beyond. The journey changes his perception on the value of life, personal morals, and his understanding of the world.

June came to the city on the back of hopes and dreams. Now, a year later, she finds herself having to confront the reality of her failures, of the inability of her talent to raise her any higher than the levels of abject despair and poverty. Ready to call it a day, she makes the decision to travel back to her small-town Michigan home in the least conventional way possible. She decides to walk home.

The songs and poems from the entire Peers of Beinan science-fiction series come together in one collection, and includes poems from The Lost Tales.

In this guidebook and sequel to Preparing for My First Cockatiel, author Laurel A. Rockefeller explores how to enhance your birds’ lives so they live well beyond the “senior bird” threshold of 10 years old. Diet is covered extensively, along with how to improve your birds’ home environments for the challenges older birds face. As with Preparing for My First Cockatiel, Senior Cockatiel is filled with personal stories and science, exploring what a cockatiel is and how to live a long and very happy life with your best friend.

Lost in the rubble of a society long dead, a small group of survivors forages for what supplies are left to be found. Their explorations will lead to a fatal confrontation as their paths cross with one young man with a death wish. The story of what drove him to that place on that day is one that will change their outlook forever on their increasingly bleak existence on the landscape of a newly alien world.

A college party lands freshman Hal Christianson in an America that could have been: no smartphones, no cars, no flush toilets. What he finds is a squabbling bunch of states, the consequence of the colonies having grown up on their own after European civilization collapsed from plague in the 1670s, and they are poised on the brink of war. For a socially awkward young man who takes refuge in online games, this is a bad situation.

As Escape from Extinction opens, the last Neanderthal dies in a cave on the Iberian Peninsula. Thirty thousand years later, the naturalist Muir O'Brien, hunting deep in the Oregon wilderness, spots a fern believed to be extinct since the end of the last ice age. His discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the visionary and narcissistic Leo Bonelli, founder of the world's most successful biotech company.

You’ve been meaning to buy a home for a long time, but the very thought of it makes your insides twist and turn. On the face of it, the venture looks very risky, and a mistake of this magnitude could have you regretting for decades to come. After all, you’ve never bought a home before, and real estate is an area filled with professionals of all kinds, all who might take advantage of a naïve buyer.

Grady has led a serene and perfect life within the Compounds, self-sustaining living units that are sealed off from the rest of the world. His existence has been comfortable, having never wanted or desired anything that wasn't provided for him. All of that is about to change.

There are other worlds all around us. Every day, there are near brushes with those worlds, though we rarely know it. Sometimes, the bubbles of existence that compromise everything we know and don't know come close enough to collide. Sometimes they merge and become defined as each other. Those other worlds can be seen in the abrupt acts of violence perpetrated upon the unsuspecting. It can be as simple as the sudden, darker aspects of the people we encounter in our lives. Those other worlds can be glimpsed in the random moments of impossibility we seem fated to encounter.

Every organization, regardless of the industry, possesses a hidden operational treasure. It exists everywhere and is embedded in each and every process. Unlike a shiny coin, this raw gold is dull and dirty, providing no reason to be noticed, but it’s there. There are “process jewels” buried deep inside your day-to-day activities - rough and uncut, just below the surface, but they are there. The potential they possess can only be realized when you find them, but their combined value is beyond estimation.

Kirk Murphy was burdened with guilt from a past mistake that took the life of his girlfriend Sarah. For years, he struggled with this burden, finding no relief from its grip. Kirk is invited to a small town in South Dakota to join a secret order that will start him on an amazing journey to discovering who he truly is and the redemption that has eluded him for so long.

Emotional intelligence is crucial to succeeding in the modern world. In an economy based almost entirely on services, you need to be able to key in quickly and efficiently to the emotional states or needs of those around you. This is necessary in order to understand how to best serve not only yourself but the other person, as well.

After trying over and over again to find a new job, Olivia Meyer hops on the plane to attend a presentation by an employment guru, Kara Kingsley, hoping that listening to Kingsley will solve all her problems. The presentation takes place at the Blue Bird Summit in Miami, Florida. On the way to the summit, Olivia meets people who teach her important lessons and provide a fresh perspective.

A house in the mountains, the roads to and from it impassable. The perfect place for best-selling author Peter’s annual holiday; a refuge from the pressures of life and an opportunity to recharge his creative batteries in solitude. A dream location. Except this year, something else has taken residence on the snow-covered slopes, something filled with malignant intent and a desire to kill. Driven by impulses beyond its ken, it seeks out the house in which Peter is staying and the writer soon finds himself in a battle with the deadliest of foes, a creature born of nightmares...

As the struggles of being a new entrepreneur were quickly mounting, giving him with the feeling of having bit off a lot more than he could chew, Peter reached out to his old friend in the hopes of gaining some much needed insight and mental stimulation. But he had no idea what was about to transpire or the grand discoveries he would receive.