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A baseball audiobook full of on the field action perfect for middle grade readers. "Strike one is the best pitch in baseball." Mike loves pitching, and he loves knowing his team counts on him to deliver wins. But Mike's father starts to worry that Mike is getting too carried away with baseball...

Over his 30-year career at Condé Nast, Nicholas Coleridge has witnessed it all. From the anxieties of the Princess of Wales to the blazing fury of Mohamed Al-Fayed, his story is also the story of the people who populate the glamorous world of glossy magazines. With relish and astonishing candour, he offers the inside scoop on Tina Brown and Anna Wintour, David Bowie and Philip Green, Kate Moss and Beyonce and a surreal weekend away with Bob Geldof and William Hague.

A vibrant, illustrated guide to blazing a unique and fulfilling creative path, from the Stanford d.school. Humans have always been creative hustlers—problem solvers who seek to live beyond the limits suggested by society. Yet we live in a world where the place you were born, the amount of...

What are the habits of successful people? The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has captivated readers for 25 years. It has transformed the lives of Presidents and CEOs, educators, parents, and students - in short, millions of people of all ages and occupations have benefited from Dr. Covey's book. And, it can transform you.

There is blank paper in the back for additional reasons of your own.The first draft of this book was written by a group of people at a well-known treatment center in California. It was then revised and expanded by a second group working with the editors at New World Library. "It is our heartfelt wish," it states in the introduction, "that this little book may help you become healthy, happy, fulfilled in life - and clean and sober."

Summit OS: A Fable is a fast-paced business parable designed for growth-minded owners and CEOs of 15–100 employee privately held companies who want to scale without losing control, profitability, or peace of mind. At the center of this story, is a company on the brink of failure—facing stalled growth, wavering trust, and a leadership team under pressure. Guided by a seasoned business coach, they discover the Summit OS business operating system, a proven framework that brings clarity, accountability, and focus back to the business.

Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly need to make well-informed decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and corporations amass enormous databases on each of us.

A practical guide to overcoming the challenges of creative work, including where to start, how to give or get feedback, when to change direction, and how to stand up for what matters, from Stanford University's world-renowned d.school. The everyday moments of creative work can be rife with fear...

The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized - and undeniably eclectic - repository of art that ranges from one of the nation's best Rodin collections to one of the world's largest assemblage of chess sets. Dancer, Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania is the story of the four widely disparate people whose lives intertwined in such a way as to lay the foundation for the museum.

Duryodhana was a man of strong character and integrity.Duhsshasana was respectful, generous and kind towards women.Shakuni was a simple man who loved his subjects unconditionally.Dhana Nanda, Aurangzeb and Hitler possessed admirable leadership traits.'Duryodhanization' refers to the birth and...

Administración del tiempoMás que cualquier otra habilidad en tu carrera, la capacidad de manejar el tiempo determinará tu éxito o fracaso. Es una simple ecuación. En cuanto mejor uses tu tiempo, conseguirás más y más grandes serán tus recompensas. Esta práctica guía de bolsillo revela...

This book is targeted at public libraries, library and information professionals, and public institutions that desire to help their patrons navigate their careers and improve their job-seeking outcomes. Improving the job-seeking outcomes for patrons should be a top priority for public libraries especially after a pandemic, to put job seekers back into the workforce by ensuring that patrons have the capability to improve their assets in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitudes they possess in order to gain employment.

Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, in this hilarious chapter book series. J.D. is a barber battle champion. He's graduated from home haircuts to having a regular chair at the neighborhood shop, Hart and Son, and he's making enough money to...

People who love art, are fascinated by archaeology, or are history buffs may have considered the idea of working in a museum. But experience as a museum visitor reveals only the public-facing side of the museum, and not its complex, dynamic internal structure. So You Want to Work in A Museum? helps to demystify museums as institutions and to prepare prospective museum staff to explore the field further.

Part biography, part business how-to, and fully empowering, this book is the perfect gift for future entrepenuers...because you're never too young to dream BIG! With colorful portraits, fun interviews and DIY tips, Girls Who Run the World features the success stories of 31 leading ladies today...

Former Wall Street Journal technology reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane delves deep inside Apple in the two years since Steve Jobs’s death, revealing the tensions and challenges CEO Tim Cook and his team face as they try to sustain Jobs’s vision and keep the company moving forward. Steve Jobs's...

While a lot of business owners bury their head in the sand and ignore reviews, especially bad ones, Adrian took a different approach. Locked in the poorly written sentences and scathing critique he saw diamonds. Through Adrian's book business owners will learn to look at themselves first, to find out exactly why they are avoiding negative criticisms of their business. With Adrian leading the way, you will learn how to see your guests as more than just bad reviews in waiting.

In today’s complex and challenging world, we often find ourselves facing problems for which there seem to be no answers. In this practical and inspirational book, songwriter and author David Friedman explores the idea that there are always answers, and they often come in ways we don’t expect, if only we are willing to be open to the possibilities.

We all want to have that “superpower,” the power to control our own destiny, to be independent, strong, and to kick ass at accomplishing our goals and achieving our dreams. But many of us feel as if we could never attain it. We feel as if a tragedy, an event, or another person have robbed us of our abilities and left us hopeless, struggling to regain control and becoming the person we used to be. We watch other people grow into their super-selves and quietly whisper the words, “I wish....” Well, it’s time to change that.

Successful businessman and best-selling author Andrew Griffiths has a simple but effective message to share: it's time to stop analysing our lives and time to start living. Andrew defines 'The Me Myth' as the limiting belief that the world revolves around me. In short chapters he gives advice on how to shift the focus away from me and start living a better life through simple actions like mastering empathy, giving generously, inspiring people and having fun. The message is simple, but profound.