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Carol Hoorn Fraser, MFA, RCA (1930-1991) was a beautiful and unique American-born artist, who received a humanistic art education at the University of Minnesota, took first prizes in shows at the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and lived for thirty years in Nova Scotia with her...

Two thousand years ago, Japan and Korea began a long-standing history of cultural contact. For the Koreans, this meant an invasion in the 1590s spawning four centuries of bitter contempt for Japanese society. The Japanese, however, were culturally enriched, gathering as spoils of war the traditions of...

Amid the armed conflict and broken treaty signings of nineteenth-century America, the highly successful horse culture of the plains, the Sioux Indians clutched to their way of life. Composed of three major groups and spread over six states, the Sioux represent a community divided. Much of their traditional...

If you always wanted to easily speak of the cuff this little book is for you.Thousands of DESCUBRIS' workshop participants have successfully implemented the techniques in this book. You too can learn to give a great impromptu speech without preparation.Those moments when you get called upon to say...

Sales Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive how-to guide ever written on the subject of selling. This 678 page volume covers all areas of selling in depth and gives specific detail about how to execute. It also covers areas which are not included in any other sales books such as: • Intricate subtleties...

New York Times Bestseller! Are you working too many hours for too few clients? Does it seem that you do more paperwork than peoplework?Will you spend more hours on the road than in front of people this year?Whether your agency is big or small, if you answered yes to any of those questions, you need more...

Today's college students face a difficult decision: how to choose the right college major. With so many choices, and a major job shortage across the country, it is hard to know which majors will help a college graduate find a job and build a lucrative career. This book provides valuable data on the...

Have you ever listened to a really great speaker give a presentation? With no effort at all they can take a crowd who is listless and bored, grab their interest and then at the end, be overrun with people trying to take advantage of their offer or buy their product? How can one person manage to be so...

Management, career and life tips presented as basic, relevant, thoughtful and fun messages. Because most people have a verse, slogan, tidbit, motto or quote to live by, these can be used as personal mission statements. Hopefully, readers will think, laugh, pass them along, make a screensaver, tweet or put them in fancy frames next to the work mission statements they don't understand.

In their newly updated book Cashing In on a Second Home in Mexico - How to Buy, Rent and Profit from Property South of the Border, authors Tom Kelly and Mitch Creekmore guide readers on topics like safely holding property in Mexico's restricted zone, how to research property for purchase, and navigating...

A chat over coffee describing what happened to the banking world in Australia and some tid-bits on how to beat the banks by understanding how they work. In the main I wrote this book to expose how banks went from a customer service industry to that of a sales industry. Would you like fries with that?

This book is about taking charge of your career, and avoiding a line of least resistance. It's over twenty years since people first started to be told by employers, 'it's up to you to manage your own career.' That's precisely what most of us have done - or have we? Too many people...

Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the...

With 50mm lenses and available light, John Fraser took these classic humanist photos in Minneapolis, New York, London, Nova Scotia, Provence, starting in 1957.In the tradition of Cartier-Bresson, there's no cropping. What you see is what was there—street interactions caught lightning fast,...