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In your career and work, finances, and indeed all areas of life, experience the transformative power of a key relationship—the friendship you have with yourself. In a world obsessed with building self-esteem—doing activities to improve our reputation with ourselves—our sense of well-being hinges on performance, the whims of good luck and positive outcomes. But when we don’t measure up to our own tough standards, things don’t go our way or life falls apart, we are called to access a deeper source of resilience, that of self-worth.

In The Opinionated Middle Ground, John Scott Cowan delves into the perpetual identity crisis of the middle ground, a space defined by uncontrollable opposing viewpoints. Despite its uncertainty, the middle ground is crucial for productive human discourse, fostering civility and social cohesion. Drawing from extensive experience in labor relations, scientific research, and leading large organizations, John Scott Cowan shares practical techniques to steer conversations towards collaborative problem-solving.

Through his deeply relatable stories and his witty and disarming voice, John Wang offers a bold, moving, insightful, and practical guide. Big Asian Energy aims to teach listeners to identify their authentic strengths and values, and to finally break through societal barriers.

There’s so much more to investing in property than having a double-digit property portfolio. Whether you’re a home buyer, a beginner or a seasoned investor, Sort Your Property Out will revolutionise the way you think about property. When it comes to building lifelong financial security, property investing is about being creative and being prepared. In Sort Your Property Out, you’ll learn exactly what you need to know – and what you need to do – to buy well in today’s markets around Australia.

Based on more than a decade of archival research and interviews with dozens of surviving friends and colleagues of Rustin's, Lost Prophet is a triumph. Rustin emerges as a hero of the black freedom struggle and a singularly important figure in the lost gay history of the mid-20th century. John D'Emilio's compelling narrative rescues a forgotten figure and brings alive a time of great hope and great tragedy in the not-so-distant past.

È il 1997 e qualcuno sta massacrando giovani donne nella contea di Burdon, in Arkansas. Ma nessuno nello Sporco Sud vuole ammetterlo. In una cella di prigione dell’Arkansas siede un ex detective della polizia di New York, affranto dal dolore. Sta piangendo la morte di sua moglie e sua figlia e cerca invano il loro assassino. Ossessionato dall’idea di vendicare la famiglia, la sua vita sta per prendere una piega sconvolgente. La nuova alba di una coscienza, la nascita di un cacciatore, la trasformazione di Charlie Parker.

Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s most cunning chemist. As head of the infamous MKULTRA project, he oversaw an assortment of dangerous—even deadly—experiments. Among them: dosing unwitting strangers with mind-bending drugs, torturing mental patients through sensory deprivation, and steering the movements of animals via electrodes implanted into their brains. His goal was to develop methods of mind control that could turn someone into a real-life “Manchurian candidate.”

Willie Ryan returns to his home town in 'the great central plain of Ireland' after escaping from the asylum where he was committed, and unvisited, by his devout Catholic family for twenty-five years. The pretext for his incarceration was an attack on his sister-in-law; the real reason, an affair with a hedonistic young man who introduced him to art, literature and music.

Sometimes managing a sales team feels like trying to manage chaos, and in a way it is—there are so many unpredictable influences at work in sales. In Nuts and Bolts of Sales Management, John Treace, mining decades of executive sales experience gained from successful business turnarounds, provides managers with proven strategies to build a high-performing sales team that will consistently produce desired results.

For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.

A Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John E. Mack, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than 60 cases he has investigated, and examines the implications for our identity as a species. Mack's Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens is a fascinating investigation of real-world alien encounters, and explores how extraterrestrial encounters affected the way people regarded the world—including heightening their sense of spirituality and their environmental concern.

Do you want your audience to remember, repeat and respond to your speeches? Make your speeches sound like music to their ears. After all, speeches are meant to be listened to, not read. More importantly, speeches are meant to be remembered and move people to take action. What’s more pleasant to the ear than music? What’s easier to remember than music? What can move people the way music does?

The world’s first and probably last anti-running, anti-prepping fat man has survived the zombie apocalypse against all odds. He’s eaten his way through all the chocolate he could find and still been more than a match for the army of un-dead taking over the world. Along with his demented beagle Doug and ‘not sure if real’ friend Bob, Jim escaped Australia by the skin of his teeth and set up shop on ‘Jim Island’. But island life was not all it was cracked up to be and a quest to find other survivors and more curry draws them back into the thick of battle.

Chase is finally coming to understand just what being Prince Chase means, and what becoming emperor of the Solarian Empire will mean as well. He's getting better at the job every day. Now if only he could just bring himself to tell Captain Witner and the other members of the command staff that he really is a prince and not the fraud they all believe he is.

The reticulated python is the largest and most dangerous of the giant constrictors – documented to swallow humans whole. But people still keep them as exotic pets. Frank has raised Buffy from a hatchling. She measures over twenty-four-feet and more than three-hundred pounds. She is Frank's pride-and-joy. She is also his secret – a black-market purchase, kept illegally – unbeknownst to his neighbors, who might fear for their pets... or their kids.

Israel's Restoration Is Near is a book that gives a breakdown of all prophetic events beginning with John the Baptist and ending with America. It shows how the United States, although not directly referenced in Scripture, is God's end-time nation that is being used to usher in the ultimate salvation of Israel. It describes the prophetic calendar used throughout history and explains how God uses the 490-year period to usher in new events throughout history.

Embarking from England as part of Commodore Anson’s expedition to the Pacific, HMS Wager was wrecked on a desert island to the southward of Chiloe. Following the wreck, the crew suffered dreadful privations from famine and descended into mutinous factionalism, theft, and murder. This account by young midshipman John Byron describes the events of the wreck and mutiny. It also narrates his journey home in company with Captain Cheap and a small group of loyal officers and seamen.

To gain control of our weight, we need to address the issues of weight and shape from a different perspective to that of counting calories and fad diets. We need to use the natural resources that we have. We are able to control our body shapes rather than provoking the responses that work against them. By working with our inherent systems, we can encourage weight loss in the medium to longer term.

IS IT FAITH OR RELIGION? Targeting the mature Christian in easy to understand language, the book explores the difference between faith alone in Christ alone, and those elements of church religion that have been hoisted onto the backs of believers. One travesty after another has been committed in the name of the religious church throughout 2000 years of its history. Many of what we think of today as essential parts of the Christian Church are not scriptural at all, and worse, may have pagan origins.

This is the story of an individual, not yet a man, placed within the confines of duty, honor and doubt. It is a familiar tale reflecting the communal burden each older generation so frequently imposes on their children. Aging yet failed wisdom unable, perhaps unwilling to protect their young. A summation in understanding that decisions made within the boundaries of national interest have very real, often horrific, human consequences.