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Comeback Moms
How to Leave Work, Raise Children, and Restart Your Career Even if You Haven't Had a Job in Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
What happens when an educated professional wants to become a stay-at-home mom but not end her career forever?
Here is a book for the millions of moms who want to do what's best for their families and for themselves. Monica Samuels and J.C. Conklin show what to do when you’re ready to leave...
The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back
Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
Have you ever wondered why some people seem to rise effortlessly to the top, while others are stuck in the same job year after year? Have you ever felt you are falling short of your career potential? Have you wondered if some of the things you do–or don’t do–at work might be hamstringing your...
Teacher Geek
Because life's too short for worksheets
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
What can you do with a pack of marshmallows and some tinfoil? Create innovative, engaging learning opportunities; if you embrace the teacher geek mentality. What was your best lesson like? Rachel Jones thinks that her best lessons have happened when she's been brave enough to wonder, 'What might happen...
Faith and Fortune
The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Lately the headlines have delivered dispiriting news about wrongdoing and scandal in business. But behind the headlines lies a surprising, untold story: Corporate America is changing for the better. Faith and Fortune tells the stories of the extraordinary people who are leading the way and the admirable...
How We Compete
What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make it in Today's Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
"Impressive... This is an evidence-based bottom-up account of the realities of globalisation. It is more varied, more subtle, and more substantial than many of the popular works available on the subject." -- Financial Times
Based on a five-year study by the MIT Industrial Performance Center,...
The Underground Culinary Tour
How the New Metrics of Today's Top Restaurants Are Transforming How America Eats
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The Underground Culinary Tour is a high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data.
Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and...
What Were They Thinking?
Marketing Lessons You Can Learn from Products That Flopped
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Those ignorant of the mistakes of the past are bound to lose a lot of money. That's why Bob McMath founded the New Products Showcase and Learning Center--a "Smithsonian for Stinkers," Business Week dubbed it. There, executives from top corporations pay huge amounts of money to rummage through some...
Seven Steps to Sold
The Secrets to Selling Your Home for Big Bucks . . . Fast!
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Real estate experts Donna and Shannon Freeman don’t pull any punches. Whether it’s on HGTV’s shows Designed to Sell and Secrets That Sell or with their own clients, this mother-daughter team’s straight-talking approach helps home sellers do what it takes to close a successful sale. Often hilarious...
Unraveled
The True Story of a Woman Who Dared to Become a Different Kind of Mother
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
As a twelve-year-old girl, Maria Housden’s vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.
Unraveled is Housden’s riveting and thoughtful story of how, after the death of her young daughter,...
Aha!
10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
"Aha! is a joyful, upbeat survey of ideas for enhancing creativity. Jordan Ayan's enthusiasm is hard to resist, and every reader will find personally suitable strategies. Aha! is an inspiring yet practical guidebook for freeing the creative spirit."
--Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right...
Why Do I Keep Doing This!!?
End bad habits, negativity and stress with self-hypnosis and NLP
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
What prevents people from doing what they sincerely want to do?You can come up with all sorts of explanations ranging from childhood trauma to geneti, to personality types, but what it really boils down to is the fact that most people simply aren't skilled in managing their minds.When we try to break...
Setting Limits in the Classroom, Revised
How to Move Beyond the Dance of Discipline in Today's Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Disruptive behavior, power struggles, lack of motivation, attention deficit disorder—at times the list of obstacles to teaching seems endless. That’s why thousands of teachers and child-care providers have turned to the solutions in Setting Limits in the Classroom. This fully updated and expanded...
by Noel Capon
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
The way far too many people at far too many companies think about and execute marketing was born in an era when suppliers-the companies generating products and services-were in the catbird seat. That world is long dead, and customers now occupy that position. In this relentlessly globalizing economy,...
The Wall Street Journal. Complete Retirement Guidebook
How to Plan It, Live It and Enjoy It
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
As you think about retirement, you’ve got facts to face, planning to do, decisions to make and numbers to crunch. With the experts at The Wall Street Journal to guide you, you’ll learn how to tailor a financial plan for the lifestyle you want.
• Answers your biggest question—How big...