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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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Dale Carnegie
In this 1936 self-help classic, Dale Carnegie presents maxims, techniques, and profiles in success designed to enhance both professional and personal relationships. He highlights the psychology behind behavior patterns, and encourages readers to use their understanding to improve their public speaking skills and their self-esteem.
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Prince
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Niccolo Machiavelli
In his most famous work, THE PRINCE (Il Principe), Machiavelli described the ideal prince and encouraged the people of Italy to imagine what it might be like if such a person led a unified Italy. Written in 1513 and published posthumously in 1532, THE PRINCE has been interpreted both as a genuine handbook for potential rulers and as a satirical ...
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving in
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Roger Fisher, William Ury, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
First published in 1981, this business classic offers five steps that can be used in business, school, relationships, and life in general to help resolve difficult situations. The goal is a win-win for both sides based on mutual advantage and basic principles. To achieve that, we need to get past our emotions and back off from polarized positions. ...
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Bach
This best-selling allegory about the life of an iconoclastic seagull was made into a 1973 film with a soundtrack by Neil Diamond.
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Ishmael
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Daniel Quinn
A man and a gorilla set out on an intellectual adventure and in the process define what it means to be a human being.
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Green Eggs and Ham
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Dr Seuss
Sam-I-am mounts a determined campaign to convince another Seuss character to eat a plate of green eggs and ham in this timeless classic.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
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Anne Fadiman (Preface by)
The author tells the story of the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees in California whose epileptic baby daughter, Lia, is taken in hand by the Western medical establishment. The Lees believe that Lia's condition is caused by spirits called dabs, who had caught her and made her fall down. Her doctors want to treat her condition with sophisticated ...
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Fahrenheit 451: The Temperature at Which Book Paper Catches Fire, and Burns
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Ray Bradbury
In this classic of dystopian science fiction, censorship is so prevalent that "firemen" are entrusted with the task of burning books to keep the citizenry away from anything that might cause dissent. Suicides are commonplace, and people drug themselves with pills, thrills, and the meaningless programming that pours from four-wall television. Guy ...
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Cat's Cradle
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness.
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Phantom Tollbooth
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Norton Juster
A war between words and numbers sets the stage for this classic fantasy novel, which author Norton Juster says he created in order to help readers uncover "the joy of discovering that learning can be fun." One day a disaffected boy named Milo receives a mysterious gift of a turnpike tollbooth--through which he is able to enter the magical world of ...
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Anatomy-Coloring Book
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Wynn Kapit, Lawrence M Elson, PH.D.
This coloring book for adults and students is a popular standard in both art and health sections of bookstores. THE ANATOMY COLORING BOOK offers a unique, hands-on approach to understanding the human body's structure and systems through coloring activities. An ideal companion for students of yoga, massage, reflexology, and other body-oriented ...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems & Drawings
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Shel Silverstein
By the early 1970s, the outlandish, outrageous Shel Silverstein was already a prolific folksinger/songwriter, cartoonist, and author of a widely known, much discussed classic children's book, THE GIVING TREE. His popular 1973 album, FREAKIN' AT THE FREAKERS BALL, with Dr. Hook and the Medicine Band, contained a song about Sarah Cynthia Sylvia ...
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Emotional Intelligence
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Daniel P Goleman, Ph.D.
Author Daniel Goleman uses vivid examples of emotional intelligence in order to delineate the critical role it plays in relationships, work, even our physical well-being. What emerges is a crucial new way to talk about being smart--one that accounts for the other forces at work when a person of high IQ appears to be stymied, while someone of ...
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The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
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Tim O'Brien
Since its first publication in 1979, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled testament to the men who served in Vietnam--a classic work that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul.
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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Anne Lamott
From the writer of the best-selling OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS comes this timely tract on the art of writing--an anecdotal, frank step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage a writer's life. Offers advice on getting started, character, plot, dialogue, writer's block, writing groups, publication, and more.
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Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Dr. Stephen R Covey
This bestseller in the self-help and management fields offers a new paradigm for personal and professional success. Covey advises building from the inside out and offers strategies for moving from dependence to independence and then to interdependence.
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On the Road
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Jack Kerouac
Sal Paradise, a young writer, travels from New York to Los Angeles with his friend Dean Moriarty, and an assorted hodgepodge of women, bohemians, and others. Rich descriptions of characters, places and music show Kerouac's exuberance and his love of the freedom of the road. Revolutionary not only in subject matter but also in style, this book ...
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How to Read a Book
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Mortimer Jerome Adler, Patrick Cullen (Read by)
Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's classic guide to enlightened reading. On everything from poetry and plays to science and philosophy, Adler and Van Doren teach general readers how to analyze a text, to appreciate its method and bias, and to come away with a full understanding of the author's point.
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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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Harold J McGee
Harold McGee's perennially helpful and fascinating tome (nearly 1000 pages long) delves deeply into its subject from a variety of angles. He explains how to tell if a fish is fresh, what the difference is between eating raw and cooked garlic, the story of French sauces vs. English ones, why stock is called "stock," and what exactly is wasabi (and ...
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Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. (Read by)
The founder of the Stress Reduction Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center explains how to use "mindfulness"--moment-to-moment awareness--to cope with both illness and the everyday tensions encountered in life.
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Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law
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Norm Goldstein (Editor)
Providing facts and references for reporters and defining usage, spelling, and grammar for editors, this is "the bible of the newspaper industry" ("American Bookseller"), now updated to keep pace with world events. The Associated Press is the nation's largest news agency, and more people write for AP than for any newspaper i the world.
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God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy
A pair of twins in Kerala, India--Rahel and her brother, Estha--struggle to maintain a life in the midst of the wreckage of their family. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1997.
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Dune
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Frank Herbert
The first volume of a series co-written by Frank Herbert's son, examining the prehistory of the legendary planet of Arrakis, more commonly known as Dune.
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Leading Change
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John P Kotter
Sometimes the greatest innovations don't take root. LEADING CHANGE suggests that a good innovation is one that alters not only the way we see things, but also the way we do things. Offering up an eight-step plan to help with that behavioral shift, this guide to business development and growth contends that the businesses that succeed are the ones ...
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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
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Martin E P Seligman, Ph.D. (Introduction by)
People everywhere are looking for a reason to believe--in themselves, in their world--and Learned Optimism offered enough answers to vault it onto bestseller lists everywhere. An even larger audience of pessimists who need to change their lives awaits this trade paperback edition.
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