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A comprehensive blueprint for the enlightened leader The Leadership Contract is the modern leader's handbook for organizational renewal. Leaders are no longer "rulers," nor are they accidental-in today's business climate, leadership is both a trait and a specific set of skills. It's about trust, commitment, communication, and drive. This book shows you how to become the leader your organization needs. You'll go beyond adopting the habits and practices...
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Since earliest times, human beings have pondered the incomprehensible questions of the universe, life . . . and the afterlife. Where did mortal man go to join the immortal Gods? Was the immense and complex structure at Giza an Egyptian Pharaoh's portal to immortality? Or a pulsating beacon built by extraterrestrials for landing on Earth? In this second volume of his trailblazing series The Earth Chronicles, Zecharia Sitchin unveils secrets of the...
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In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquerors came to the New World in search of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold. Instead, they encountered inexplicable phenomena that have puzzled scholars and historians ever since: massive stone edifices constructed in the Earth's most inaccessible regions . . . great monuments forged with impossible skill and unknown tools . . . intricate carvings describing events and places half a world away. Who were the bearded...
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Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny-terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods-not men-ruled the Earth. In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient...
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They came to Earth thousands of years ago to usher in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. Under the guidance of these ancient visitors from the heavens, human civilisation flourished-as revolutionary advances in art, science and thought swept through the inhabited world. And they left behind magnificent monuments-baffling monoliths and awesome, towering structures that stand to this day as testaments to their...
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Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, franchising, shared national training, and advertising have earned him a place beside the men and women who have founded not only businesses, but entire empires. But even more interesting than Ray Kroc the business man is Ray Kroc the man. Not your typical self-made tycoon, Kroc was fifty-two years old when...
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A revolutionary new approach to Alzheimer's care, focusing on a patient's strengths to maintain connections with others and the world
There currently is no cure for Alzheimer's disease-though it can be treated. For the last fifteen years, John Zeisel, PhD, has spearheaded a movement to treat Alzheimer's non-pharmacologically by focusing on the mind's strengths.
I'm Still Here is a guidebook to Dr. Zeisel's treatment ideas, showing the possibility...
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In Understanding the Metaverse: A Business and Ethical Guide, expert product and customer experience strategist Nick Rosa delivers a timely exploration of what is bound to be one of the most important technologies of our time. The author explains the technology that underpins the metaverse as it exists today and that will form the basis for its rapid evolution in the future. He also describes the commercial, ethical, and sociological implications...
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The Harrowing left the world of men in ruins and gave way to a world of magic.
Five centuries of chaos have passed unchecked since the great collapse. All that remains are the aging ruins, the magical wonders, the monsters... And other things entirely. For Zander, this is normal. He's a Summoner, a scavenger for his village. An elf. Though they call themselves post-humans. The demihuman races are all that survive in the world. A world overrun by...
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Getting Gamers will show that rather than being a waste of time, video games can help us develop skills, make friends, succeed at work, form good habits, and be happy. Taking the time to learn what's happening in our heads as we play and shop allows us to approach games and gaming communities on our own terms and get more out of them.
With sales in the tens of billions of dollars each year, just about everybody is playing some kind of video game...
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In Wild Men, Wild Alaska professional hunting and fishing guide and outfitter Rocky McElveen tells the stories of his own adventures as well as those of some of his well-known clients. The book takes listeners directly into the Alaskan bush, and shares the intense challenges of a majestic wilderness that pushes a man to his limits.
12) Lord of Monsters
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Build a dungeon. Command minions. Fulfill carnal desires with sexy monster girls... Pay the price for making a deal with a daemon.
After being saved from his own execution by a deal-making daemon, Keaton is tasked with killing a dungeon lord. A straightforward task for a former assassin, but the moment Keaton's dagger plunges into the dungeon core crystal, he becomes the newest lord of The Labyrinth.
What starts as a maze of useless caverns quickly...
13) Kissed By Flames
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Can destiny overcome distrust?
Lily Harper needs protection-a lot of it. Just her rotten luck, some crazy human trafficking Lord wants her for himself. If that doesn't bite enough, Lily ends up with Birk, a dragon shifter, as her bodyguard. Her last boyfriend was a dragon and that was a total disaster. That puts Birk definitely off limits. Too bad his teal eyes, his glorious body, and his tender touch, really light her fire.
The moment Birk sets...
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A brief guide to the most important neuroscience concepts for all mental health professionals.
Louis Cozolino helps clinicians to broaden their thinking and deepen their clinical toolbox through an understanding of neuroscience, brain development, epigenetics, and the role of attachment in brain development and behavior.
The effective therapist must have knowledge of evolution and neuroanatomy, as well as the systems of our brains and how they work...
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From the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck. Not every grandmotherly type bakes cookies. What's more frightening than finding out that the kindly old ladies living across the street from you are anything but? As a child, Tim Robertson is selling cookies with his best friend Damien when they knock on the door of the house across the street from him. Two old ladies open the door and Tim never sees his best...
16) Edwina
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A terrifying, nail-biting horror story from the Queen of Scream novels Marie-Therese is about to take in another child in foster care. But Edwina is no ordinary girl, as Marie-Therese is about to discover. Stories of death and destruction follow her trail, and soon events in the small Danish town will take a decidedly macabre turn on one horrifying and endless night.
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Join Dale as he continues to grow as a Keeper. With the experiences slowly piling up around him, how will he deal with the changes to come? Is he ready for all that awaits him? His world has stepped out of its earliest stages, moving on to bigger and better things while Dale and his pantheon watch from above. See how his decisions impact the course of history, and watch as he shapes the world with the help of those around him.
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The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting...
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One shifter. One mate. No exceptions.
When dragon shifter, Declan Sinclair, was asked to travel to Earth to heal someone, he thought it would be an easy in-easy out affair. Boy had he been wrong. Not the healing part, but what happened during his one-hour visit: he met Chelsea McKinnon. The bad part? His body had exploded with need like he'd never experienced before, which was wrong on so many levels. Declan already had a mate. Sure, she'd died in...
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The CEO of Technology shows today's CIOs how to become exceptional leaders and bring value to their organization. By taking lessons from some of the world's best CEOs, you'll develop the traits and characteristics that drive legendary leadership. Interviews with top executives at leading global technology companies including Apple, Boeing, Direct TV, Facebook, Texas Instruments, and more provide deep and valuable insight into what it means to lead...