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10 Conversations You Must Have with Your Son: Preparing Your Son for a Happy and Successful Life Paperback – October 11, 2016
By Tim Hawkes
Internationally recognized expert on raising and educating boys, Dr. Tim Hawkes shows parents of tween and teen boys how to approach difficult but important conversations.
Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son but often they put them off–or worse, don’t have them at all–because they simply don’t know where to start. In Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son, Dr. Hawkes provides parents with the essential information you need to negotiate your way through what can often be very difficult territory about the why, what, and how of ten key topics: love, identity, values, leadership, achievement, sex, money, health, living together, and resilience.
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1501 Ways to Reward Employees By Bob Nelson Ph.D.
By Bob Nelson Ph.D.
Today more than ever, businesses need fresh ideas to nurture talent and retain employees—enter 1,501 Ways to Reward Employees, thoroughly revised, updated, and even more chockablock with ideas than 1,001 Ways to Reward Employees, the groundbreaking national bestseller.
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
By Kevin Kelly
“A quintessential work of technological futurism.” – James Surowiecki, strategy + business, “Best Business Books 2017 – Innovation”
From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological imperatives that will shape the next thirty years and transform our lives.
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
By Dacher Keltner
A revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most influence over others and the result is power as a force for good in the world.
Power is ubiquitous—but totally misunderstood. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Dr. Dacher Keltner presents the very idea of power in a whole new light, demonstrating not just how it is a force for good in the world, but how—via compassion and selflessness—it is attainable for each and every one of us.
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Soul of a Democrat: The Seven Core Ideals That Made Our Party – And Our Country – Great
By Thomas B. Reston (Author)
In 2016 the Democratic Party lost control of every branch of government. Countless explanations and excuses have been offered, but in this heartfelt, evocative book longtime Democratic activist Thomas B. Reston illuminates the true cause: the Party has lost its soul. In Reston’s view the Party has abandoned any unifying idealistic message. Instead of crafting policies and platforms that appeal to the nation as a whole, Democrats target specific blocs of voters –and change their talking points accordingly.
This divisive approach will not end well for Democrats, or the country as a whole. If they want to remain competitive on the national stage, Reston argues, Democrats need a coherent, blunt set of American ideals. The good news is, they already have one.
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No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
By Reza Aslan
A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A finalist for the Guardian First Book Award
In No god but God, internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the faith—in all its beauty and complexity. This updated edition addresses the events of the past decade, analyzing how they have influenced Islam’s position in modern culture.
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Fit for Life By Harvey Diamond
By Harvey Diamond
It’s the program that shatters all the myths: FIT FOR LIFE the international bestseller that explains how to change both your figure and your life. Nutritional specialist Harvey and Marilyn Diamond explain how you can eat more kinds of food than you ever ate before without counting calories…and still lose weight! The natural body cycles, permanent weight-loss plan that proves it’s not only what you eat, but also when and how, FIT FOR LIFE is the perfect solution for those who want to look and feel their best. Join the millions of Americans who are FIT FOR LIFE and begin your transformation with:
- The vital principles that bring you permanent weight loss and high energy
- The FIT FOR LIFE secrets of timing and food combining that work with your natural body cycles
- A 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, and exercise
- Delicious recipes and more.
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What I Told My Daughter By Nina Tassler
In What I Told My Daughter By Nina Tassler, a powerful, diverse group of women reflect on the best advice and counsel they have given their daughters either by example, throughout their lives, or in character-building, teachable moments between parent and child.
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The Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling’s recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.
- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks; UK ed. edition (10 Mar. 2016)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1408864622
- ISBN-13: 978-1408864623
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 2.2 x 13 cm
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Poems in the Manner of…
By David Lehman
Poems in the Manner Of is an illuminating journey through centuries of writers who continue to influence new work today, including that of respected poet and series editor of The Best American Poetry David Lehman. “Very few writers can actually shape how you see the world. David Lehman is such a writer,” says Robert Olen Butler. Now the Best American Poetry series editor and New School writing professor channels, translates, and imagines a collection of “poems in the manner of” Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, Rilke, William Carlos Williams, and more.
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Borderless Economics By Robert Guest
By Robert Guest
A century ago, migrants often crossed an ocean and never saw their homelands again. Today, they call – or Skype – home the moment their flight has landed, and that’s just the beginning. Thanks to cheap travel and easy communication, immigrants everywhere stay in intimate contact with their native countries, creating powerful cross-border networks.
- Paperback: 258 pages
- Publisher: Griffin; Reprint edition (26 Feb. 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0230342019
- ISBN-13: 978-0230342019
- Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.7 x 23.5 cm