"If you believe it's time to put principles above parties, character above campaign promises, and "Common Sense" above all -- then I ask you to read this book...." In any era, great Americans inspire us to reach our full potential. They know with conviction what they believe within themselves. They understand that all actions have consequences. ...
In this guide for business and personal life, several business trainers offer help in negotiating those "important" conversations that have a high-anxiety factor. They offer a seven-point program to help one negotiate the pitfalls and acquire skills and confidence in interpersonal relations.
Faster weight loss, a unique metabolism-revving exercise program, new science, fresh meal plans and recipes, compelling success stories, and much more! Six years ago, renowned Miami cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston set out to change the way people eat with "The South Beach Diet". The book soared to the top of bestseller lists across the nation and ...
A series of interviews that Bill Moyers conducted with Joseph Campbell near the end of the scholar's life. They range across his writings and serve as a summing up. Each chapter has a focus on one aspect of myth as reflected in Campbell's writings and each conversation brings out the idea that myths go across time and are present in modern, ...
PHARMACOLOGY AND THE NURSING PROCESS contains everything a nursing student needs to know about pharmacology. It breaks down massive amounts of information into easy-to-learn sections. Fifty-four chapters are presented in ten units organized by body system. And a unique section, Study Skills Tips, presents proven study skills and time management ...
Completely revised and updated, the fourth edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers. Including is detailed information on using computers for research and writing and on citing electronic publications.
This biographical study of George Washington, the founding father who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," reexamines the personal and public sides of the man who set this nation on its course and became its first president. Joseph Ellis draws on voluminous research, and especially on the archives in the ...
This compelling account of two major engagements in Vietnam's la Drang Valley in November 1965 is written by the man who commanded the battalion that was involved and by a war correspondent who was there. Both spent years interviewing soldiers who made it through and families of those lost in battle.
The art of ?healing with the hands??known as bioenergetic healing, auric healing, reiki, and polarity work?is somewhat controversial even among some meditation practitioners. By focusing on her own experiences and successes in the field as a physicist and psychotherapist, Brennan removes a lot of doubt and misunderstanding beginners may have about ...
With three million copies sold over nine editions, "The Enjoyment of Music" is the best-selling music appreciation text of all time. Spanning the Middle Ages through the twenty-first century, the text offers a thorough introduction to the elements of music, a broad overview of the history of musical styles, and fascinating cultural contexts and ...
Steinbeck tells the classic story of three days in the lives of two migrant workers, Lennie Small and George Milton. Lennie, a simple-minded giant who doesn't know his own strength, wants only to settle down with his friend on a small farm where he will be allowed to feed the animals. When he inadvertently kills first a puppy, then a woman--the ...
Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work and offers fresh, new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate.
With 348 short chapters covering every essential aspect of Jewish history and life--from the Torah to modern American Jewish culture--this invaluable reference is a comprehensive yet thoroughly accessible resource on the fundamentals of Judaism.
The authors of the "New York Times" bestseller "Crucial Conversations" show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing bad behaviour. You can discover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home now available in this ...
This group portrait of the Founding Fathers emphasizes the sometimes intense associations and rivalries among Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr, Adams, Franklin, Madison, and Washington.The author examines six defining moments when the personal and the political collided, and shows how their distinctive styles and visions forged a new nation. A New York ...
The author of the "New York Times" Notable Book "Blood-Dark Track" delivers a mesmerizing novel about a man trying to make his way in an America of shattered hopes and values, and the unlikely occurrences that pull him back into an authentic, passionately engaged life.
This popular text is designed to give you a broad understanding about the social work profession and the role that the profession plays in the social welfare system. The authors demonstrate that there are many reasons why social problems occur. You'll explore the history, values, economic, political and cultural factors that surround these issues, ...
Renowned and respected, THE RIVERSIDE READER is a collection of expository essays arranged by rhetorical modes--narration and description, process analysis, comparison and contrast, division and classification, definition, cause and effect, and persuasion and argument--with a final thematic unit illustrating all of the modes. The readings ...
From a member of the six-time Grammy Award-winning music group The Oak Ridge Boys comes a true story of life, love, war and, finally, peace. "G.I. Joe & Lillie" tells of a young man and woman who each escapes the harsh realities of home by volunteering to serve their country. How they meet, fall in love, and make it through life's triumphs and ...
Forget those early morning groans while clobbering through a bucket of range balls. Practice, in golf, of the mental game--the discipline, the focus--is the most important thing golfers can do to improve their game on their way to a scratch handicap. This Zen primer applies Buddhist techniques to the links, written by a practicing golfer and ...
One of the original creators of the Halo game trilogy explores humanity's first contact with the Covenant--a chance encounter on the far-flung colony-world Harvest. The story unfolds from the perspective of Sergeant Avery as mankind begins an epic struggle for its very existence.
Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ...
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