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Don’t let opportunities pass you by! Learn to listen and your world will open up- offering you a lot more fulfilling career and personal life. Poor listening can create misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and frustration that could be avoided; effective listening means enhanced professionalism, greater job satisfaction, and improved personal relations. Paperback.
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Solution Training is a psychological concept training individuals to deal with common everyday problems. This volumne presents a structured approach that teaches, step-by-step, how to identify a specific problem, how to then consider various alternative courses of action and how to follow through to solve the problem at hand.
Beginning where See You at the Top left off, Steps to the Top expands the message of that classic work on self-development. Focusing on seven keys to personal improvement, each with specific action steps for today, Steps to the Top can guide the goal-oriented reader to higher levels of success.
In Straight Talk, Robert Maidment offers a fresh look at the most common pitfalls of communication, examining the conscious and unconscious ways we confuse, mislead, and frustrate one another. He invites readers to master the art of capable communications by thinking, talking, listening, and writing straight. Paperback.
Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Kevin Hogan explains how to communicate interpersonally, talk to yourself, and transcend physical experience into the realm of idea and thought.
Story time in the library had just come to an end when Max spies something amazing on one of the bookcases. It’s a large, speckled egg that with a loud CRACK breaks to reveal a small dragon. But the dragon doesn’t stay small for very long because he has a real appetite for books. Max tells his mom, the librarian, and even a policeman, but will anyone believe him before the dragon gobbles up the library?
“If you want to get the results that a winner gets, you must first think like a winner thinks!” This is Dr. Walter Doyle Staples’ premise in his new guide for everyone who wants to be successful and “win” at life.
Something wicked this way comes; in this case it’s high schooler Jack Barrett’s father, whose inherent drive for perfection has spiraled into a raging obsession ever since he began working for the mysterious Eden Corporation. When his father forcibly relocates the family to Paradise, a village that is literally owned by Eden’s enigmatic CEO, Jack uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the lives of everyone he loves. Hardcover.
Something wicked this way comes; in this case it’s high schooler Jack Barrett’s father, whose inherent drive for perfection has spiraled into a raging obsession ever since he began working for the mysterious Eden Corporation. When his father forcibly relocates the family to Paradise, a village that is literally owned by Eden’s enigmatic CEO, Jack uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the lives of everyone he loves. Paperback.
Three of the coolest dinosaurs this side of the La Brea tar pits outsmart a carnivorous T-Rex in this wry adaptation of The Three Little Pigs that not only entertains children, but also teaches them that sometimes a bully will get his comeuppance. Hardcover.
Utilizing well-researched techniques of self-hypnosis, you can overcome your fears, lose weight or stop smoking, raise your self-esteem, significantly lessen the pain of childbirth, and strengthen your most important relationships. Through the Open Door: Secrets of Self-Hypnosis shows you how to use self-hypnosis to make big and lasting changes in your life by unlocking the secrets of your unconscious mind. Hardcover.
In 1870, the famous gambler and gunslinger Wyatt Earp began his career in a small town known as Lamar, Missouri. The Ozark Mountains town was also the birthplace of the thirty-third president, Harry S Truman, in 1884. Reba Earp Young’s book Truman’s Birthplace details the lives and rituals of her hometown in the early part of the twentieth century. Paperback.
In this insightful and thought-provoking book, Robert Maidment, one of America’s foremost communication specialists, teaches readers how to expand their listening skills.
The key to success, happiness, and financial security lies in the power of the human mind and the human will. Mike Hernacki asserts that you are in charge of your own future, and he provides inspiring stories which prove that with the willingness and intention to succeed, you can achieve all your life goals.
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In The Warlord’s Alarm, Chuan and Jing Jing are worried they won’t be able to wake the warlord before the sun rises. They are traveling to the emperor’s palace, and they can only sleep four hours before resuming their journey in order to arrive as the emperor’s gates open. There are no clocks at the inn where they are staying, so they must create their own alarm clock. Displaying the ingenuity shown in the previous six Warlord’s Series books, Chuan and Jing Jing turn their water bag into an alarm clock and awaken in time to rouse the warlord.
Often used by teachers of the primary grades to illustrate the powerful concept of “base ten,” various types of counting frames appeared in China during the Middle Ages. The Warlord’s Beads is a valuable tool for introducing young readers to the wonder of numbers as well as the beauty and mystery of ancient China. Hardcover.
Clever Chuan makes his third appearance, this time as an artist’s apprentice for the warlord, in this story about the compass. When some strangers feel they have been cheated in the market, Chuan serves as interpreter in the dispute, and for his trouble, both he and the artist are kidnapped and, together with the strangers, are taken through the desert. Hardcover.