Gus Lee, Diane Elliott-Lee | Jossey-Bass | 2006-03-03 | ISBN: 0787981370 | 240 pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
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Real-world examples offer practical lessons for rooting out unethical practices and behaviors by:
* Assessing them for rightness and integrity
* Addressing moral failures
* Following through with dialogue and direct action
In this guide to doing the right thing, Lee presents a self-help approach to solving hard-edged problems. The key to effective leadership, he argues, is "principled conduct under pressure"—in short, courage. While courage is hardly the one-size-fits-all magic bullet that Lee envisions, much of his advice is valuable, particularly that dealing with communication, the thorniest management issue of all.
The book is built around extended anecdotes about executives facing tough personnel decisions and having to confront their habits of "avoidant communication," and Lee's reconstructed dialogue is engaging, realistic and instructive. He also offers periodic references to his own, genuinely inspiring transition from myopic, alienated wimp to successful executive, lawyer, executive coach, consultant and bestselling novelist (China Boy, etc.). Granted, this business book has many of the problems typical of the genre: the constant invoking of the book's title, whether or not relevant to the point being made; the regular introduction of acronymed concepts and clumsy coinages; the inspirational speeches and the occasional royal we phrasing ("We now see the difference between high, medium and low core values"). But any book that offers a road map to handling unpleasant workplace conversations is welcome—even if the choices in your everyday life don't require as much courage as in Lee's scenarios.
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Monday, June 30, 2008
Courage: The Backbone of Leadership by Gus Lee, Diane Elliott-Lee
Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough by Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss
Clive Hamilton, Richard Denniss | Allen & Unwin | 2006-04-01 | ISBN: 1741146712 | 240 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
Anyone concerned about the level of their personal debt or frustrated by the rat race of aspiring to an affluent lifestyle will appreciate this critique of the effects of over-consumption. This analysis pulls no punches as it describes both the problem and what can be done to stop it. Analyzing the increasing rates of stress, depression, and obesity as possible effects of the consumption binge currently gripping the Western world, this report tracks how Australians overwork, the growing number of things thrown out, self-medicated drugs, and the real meaning of the word choice.Affluenza tracks the growth and influence of conspicuous consumption in Australia, with some side-ways glances at other nations as well. (Most notably, the US and Britain) To paraphrase the authors - "Affluenza is the buying of stuff you don't need, with money you don't have, to impress people that you don't like". The book exposes the growth and impact of "the spending disease" from about the mid 1960s to the present day. It's a fascinating, and some times chilling read.
In this slim but data packed book, you learn how mass media and marketing are targeting your household and kids, with ad campaigns, marketing strategies, and product branding to engender a sense of need and emotional attachment to material goods. Fortunately, the authors also give some practical advice as to how an average person may "down-shift" and break the cycle of dependency. Often insightful, and never preachy, this is the kind of book you buy multiple copies of and hand out to your friends.
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The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity by Russell Roberts
Russell Roberts | Princeton University Press | 2008-08-04 | ISBN: 0691135096 | 216 pages | PDF | 1 MB 
Stanford University student and Cuban American tennis prodigy Ramon Fernandez is outraged when a nearby mega-store hikes its prices the night of an earthquake. He crosses paths with provost and economics professor Ruth Lieber when he plans a campus protest against the price-gouging retailer--which is also a major donor to the university. Ruth begins a dialogue with Ramon about prices, prosperity, and innovation and their role in our daily lives. Is Ruth trying to limit the damage from Ramon's protest? Or does she have something altogether different in mind?
As Ramon is thrust into the national spotlight by events beyond the Stanford campus, he learns there's more to price hikes than meets the eye, and he is forced to reconsider everything he thought he knew. What is the source of America's high standard of living? What drives entrepreneurs and innovation? What upholds the hidden order that allows us to choose our careers and pursue our passions with so little conflict? How does economic order emerge without anyone being in charge? Ruth gives Ramon and the reader a new appreciation for how our economy works and the wondrous role that the price of everything plays in everyday life.
The Price of Everything is a captivating story about economic growth and the unseen forces that create and sustain economic harmony all around us.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
What Is Strategy? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition) by Michael E. Porter
"What Is Strategy?"
Michael E. Porter | Harvard Business Review (Feb 1, 2000) | English | PDF | 1.05MB
Today's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity, quality, and speed, managers have embraced tools such as TQM, benchmarking, and reengineering. Dramatic operational improvements have resulted, but rarely have these gains translated into sustainable profitability. And gradually, the tools have taken the place of strategy. As managers push to improve on all fronts, they move further away from viable competitive positions. Michael Porter argues that operational effectiveness, although necessary to superior performance, is not sufficient, because its techniques are easy to imitate. In contrast, the essence of strategy is choosing a unique and valuable position rooted in systems of activities that are much more difficult to match.
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Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures by Anders Hallengren
# Author:Anders Hallengren
# Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
# Number Of Pages: 266
# Publication Date: 2005-05-30
# ISBN-10: 9812560386
# ISBN-13: 9789812560384
# Format: PDF | 2.3MB
Addressing current questions about unity in diversity in a multicultural world of change, several Nobel Laureates of Literature have also focused on the difference between their identity as an author and their identity as a social being. This aspect of their creative selves makes them living in, as it were, two different and quite distinct worlds. There is a distance between them that is bridged only in the literary work, where these two worlds are intimately connected and presuppose one another.
V. S. NAIPAUL, living in England and born in Trinidad, discusses this topic in his Nobel Lecture of 2001, “Two Worlds”. His literary domain,encompassing the West Indies as well as India, Africa, America, and the Islamic countries of the East, reflects his own multicultural background,and in some of his most famous texts, the difficulty of settling down or finding a way “home” is the theme. An example is his novel The Enigma of Arrival.
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Seven Surprises for New CEOs by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, Nitin Nohria
"Seven Surprises for New CEOs"
Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, Nitin Nohria
Harvard Business Review (January 5, 2008) | English | PDF | 5.67MB
As a newly minted CEO, you may think you finally have the power to set strategy, the authority to make things happen, and full access to the finer points of your business. But if you expect the job to be as simple as that, you're in for an awakening. Even though you bear full responsibility for your company's well-being, you are a few steps removed from many of the factors that drive results. You have more power than anybody else in the corporation, but you need to use it with extreme caution. In their workshops for new CEOs, held at Harvard Business School in Boston, the authors have discovered that nothing--not even running a large business within the company--fully prepares a person to be the chief executive. The seven most common surprises are: You can't run the company. Giving orders is very costly. It is hard to know what is really going on. You are always sending a message. You are not the boss.
Pleasing shareholders is not the goal. You are still only human. These surprises carry some important and subtle lessons. First, you must learn to manage organizational context rather than focus on daily operations. Second, you must recognize that your position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the loyalty of the organization. Finally, you must remember that you are subject to a host of limitations, even though others might treat you as omnipotent. How well and how quickly you understand, accept, and confront the seven surprises will have a lot to do with your success or failure as a CEO.
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Warren Buffett Wealth: Principles and Practical Methods Used by the World's Greatest Investor by Robert P. Miles
Robert P. Miles | Wiley | 2004 | 272 pages | ISBN: 0471465119 | PDF | 1.1 MB Open your mind and prepare to learn proven investment and wealth-building methods and philosophies from the greatest investor of all time. "Australian audiences are totally captivated by the investing principles of Warren Buffett . . . convinced that these simple methods work anywhere in the world." Australia’s foremost wealth educator "Warren Buffett Wealth teaches that indeed it is possible to create a fortune without compromising your principles." Rentrop Publishing, Bonn, Germany 
The strategies and techniques of THE investment legend Warren Buffett Wealth follows the world's greatest investor from the beginning of his career, as he takes a 100-dollar investment and turns it into one of the most successful multibillion-dollar companies in the world. By carefully detailing how Buffett began his career and discussing what he learned from Benjamin Graham, this book reveals the true secrets to Buffett's success. Readers will see how Buffett reached the pinnacle of his profession by following certain key principles such as investing in old-style traditional American companies, holding the companies forever, and hiring and keeping the same managers.
–Peter Spann, Founder and CEO, Freeman Fox
–Norman Rentrop, founder and Chairman
–Bill Child, Chairman, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Benjamin Graham: The Memoirs of the Dean of Wall Street by Benjamin Graham, Seymour Chatman
#Author: Benjamin Graham, Seymour Chatman
# Hardcover: 351 pages
# Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (July 26, 1996)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0070242690
# ISBN-13: 978-0070242692
# Format: PDF | 2MB
Graham has been called the father of financial analysis, and his strategy of value investing is enthusiastically touted by no less than investor extraordinaire Warren Buffett. Graham's principles have been popularized in numerous editions of his Intelligent Investor. His Security Analysis (now Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis, 1988) is a treasure in more ways than one; copies of the 1934 first edition have sold for as much as $7,500. (Check your stacks!)
Graham died in 1976, but when he was in his 60s and 70s he had written an account of his life, called Things I Remember. Seymour Chatman, from the University of California at Berkeley, has edited Graham's reminiscences and provides a lengthy introduction to them. They focus on Graham's first 40 years and provide a highly personal look at the influences on Graham's life.
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How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett by Lawrence A. Cunningham
# Author: Lawrence A. Cunningham
# Hardcover: 267 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1st edition (January 16, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071369929
# ISBN-13: 978-0071369923
# Format: PDF | 1.67MB
How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett wraps a lifetime of investing wisdom into one highly accessible package. An intelligent guide to analyzing and valuing investment targets, it tells investors what questions to ask, what answers to expect, and how to approach any stock as a skeptical, common-sense business analyst. Above all, this fast-paced book provides investors with the tools they need to thoroughly value any business in which they might invest.
A common-sense approach to investing, this book discusses: *
Three things investors must get from a financial statement *
Valuation examples from today's top companies including GE, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney *
Why prices deviate from actual values
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The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy by Robert G. Hagstrom
# Author: Robert G. Hagstrom # Paperback: 256 pages # Publisher: Wiley; 2Rev Ed edition (January 1, 1999) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0471392642 # ISBN-13: 978-0471392644 # Format: PDF | 1.6MB
It's no secret that most mutual funds fail to beat the performance of the S&P 500. And if the pros can't beat the averages, it's not unreasonable to assume that most individual investors can't, either. Why? According to Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Portfolio, a big reason is the industry's emphasis on diversification. In the interest of minimizing risk, many investors have "become intellectually numb to its inevitable consequence: mediocre results." As a result, they wind up owning too many stocks and churn their portfolios unnecessarily (for example, the average mutual fund holds 100 stocks and turns over 80 percent of its portfolio annually). In The Warren Buffett Portfolio, Hagstrom shows how Buffett and others use the idea of focus investing to organize winning portfolios.
Unlike Hagstrom's first book, The Warren Buffett Way, which describes how the world's greatest investor selects individual companies, this book looks at the mathematics, the psychology, and the mental models necessary to build a successful portfolio.
The basic ideas: Pick no more than 10 to 15 companies with good track records and high probabilities of future success; plan to hang onto them for at least five years; and ignore predictions and the sometimes terrifying swings in market behavior. It's hard to argue with Hagstrom's approach, especially when he practices what he preaches. His fund, the Legg Mason Focus Trust, has 15 stocks, an annual turnover rate of 9 percent, and percentage annual returns in the mid-30s. For thoughtful investors and devotees of Warren Buffett, who are looking for more than the next hot stock tip, The Warren Buffett Portfolio is well-written guide. Recommended. --Harry C. Edwards
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J. K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett by Warren Boroson
# Author: Warren Boroson
# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 12, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471397741
# ISBN-13: 978-0471397748
# Format: PDF | 1MB
The most trusted name in tax!
April 15th comes once a year. But the new tax laws will change the way we save and plan our financial affairs all year-round. That's why J.K. Lasser provides a comprehensive library of smart financial planning and investing advice for all your needs-for tax season and beyond. J.K. Lasser's(TM) Your Income Tax 2002 and J.K. Lasser's(TM) Year-Round Tax Strategies 2002 give early planners a head start on understanding the new tax regulations and preparing for filing the return on April 15th. And Lasser's personal finance guides help you make the most of your money from every angle. Consider it total care for your wealth and financial well-being, 365 days a year.
"Buffett is much praised, but seldom replicated. Now with Warren Boroson's J.K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett investors have a template for both identifying fund managers who pick stocks like the master and for improving their own techniques for identifying great stock market values."-Don Phillips, Managing Director, Morningstar, Inc.
Warren Buffett's investment strategy of buying and holding good stocks at good prices has proved profitable for thousands of investors. Now, with J.K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett you will learn how to use Buffett's proven techniques to find and research value stocks just like the master. You will also meet several top mutual fund managers who subscribe to the Buffett philosophy and have become experts in their own right. Take the advice of Buffett to successfully invest on your own or let the value investment experts do it for you.
Critical coverage will help you:
* Understand and use the value investment strategies behind Buffett's phenomenally successful stock-picking career
* Identify the strategies of other value investors such as Martin J. Whitman of Third Avenue Funds, Christopher Browne of Tweedy, Browne Co., and many others
* Set Buffett-like criteria when looking to buy value stocks
J.K. Lasser-Practical Guides for All Your Financial Needs
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What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Developing a Highly Successful Company by Barnett C., Jr. Helzberg, Barnet
# Author: Barnett C., Jr. Helzberg, Barnett Helzberg
# Publisher: Wiley (2003-03-21)
# Number Of Pages: 224
# ISBN-10: 0471271144
# ISBN-13: 9780471271147
# Format: PDF | 2.3MB
Expert advice for those who want to create a solid company.
Through hard work and determination Barnett Helzberg built his small family owned business-Helzberg Diamonds-into a successful company that caught the attention of Warren Buffett. Buffett was so impressed with the business that in 1995 he decided to purchase Helzberg Diamonds through his holding company Berkshire Hathaway. Helzberg shares his thirty years of experience in running a successful business and outlines the steps needed to prosper within a challenging business environment. Through "helpful hints" and words of wisdom, Helzberg offers a proven road map for entrepreneurs and business owners looking to build a solid company that will stand the test of time. What I Learned Before I Sold to Warren Buffett is a comprehensive guide that will help readers get their businesses on the right track.
Barnett C. Helzberg Jr. (Kansas City, MO) was President of Helzberg Diamonds, Inc. from 1962 to 1995, a period during which he expanded his family-owned business to 143 stores in twenty-three states. His business practices have been a key ingredient to the success of Helzberg Diamonds.
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Harvard Business Review on Marketing
# Author:Harvard Business School Press
# Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
# Number Of Pages: 192
# Publication Date: 2002-05-07
# ISBN-10: 1578518040
# ISBN-13: 9781578518043
# Format: PDF | 2.3MB
The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading minds and landmark ideas that have established the Harvard Business Review as required reading for ambitious businesspeople in organizations around the globe.
A first-time collection of the old classics and best new thinking on marketing. The articles provide a diverse look at marketing, including global branding, one-to-one marketing, and how to manage buzz.
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The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge
# Author: Peter M. Senge
# Paperback: 424 pages
# Publisher: Doubleday Business; 1st edition (October 1, 1994)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0385260954
# ISBN-13: 978-0385260954
# Format: PDF | 3.7MB
Peter Senge, founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, experienced an epiphany while meditating one morning back in the fall of 1987. That was the day he first saw the possibilities of a "learning organization" that used "systems thinking" as the primary tenet of a revolutionary management philosophy. He advanced the concept into this primer, originally released in 1990, written for those interested in integrating his philosophy into their corporate culture.
The Fifth Discipline has turned many readers into true believers; it remains the ideal introduction to Senge's carefully integrated corporate framework, which is structured around "personal mastery," "mental models," "shared vision," and "team learning." Using ideas that originate in fields from science to spirituality, Senge explains why the learning organization matters, provides an unvarnished summary of his management principals, offers some basic tools for practicing it, and shows what it's like to operate under this system. The book's concepts remain stimulating and relevant as ever. --Howard Rothman
A director at MIT's Sloan School, Senge here proposes the "systems thinking" method to help a corporation to become a "learning organization," one that integrates at all personnel levels indifferently related company functions (sales, product design, etc.) to "expand the ability to produce." He describes requisite disciplines, of which systems-thinking is the fifth. Others include "personal mastery" of one's capacities and "team learning" through group discussion of individual objectives and problems. Employees and managers are also encouraged to examine together their often negative perceptions or "mental models" of company people and procedures. The text is esoteric and flavored with terms like "recontextualized rationality," but the book should help inventory-addled retailers whom the author cites as unaware of their customers' desire for quality. Macmillan Book Clubs selection.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade by Richard Laermer
# Author: Richard Laermer
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill
# Number Of Pages: 256
# Publication Date: 2008-03-18
# ISBN-10: 0071497277
# ISBN-13: 9780071497275
# Format: PDF | 1MB
In this fast and furious time machine of a book, Richard Laermer shows you how to use-and in some cases abuse-the trends of the next decade (or two) that really matter. As an author with a functional crystal ball, a veteran marketing innovator, and media master, Laermer foresees a fabulous future-if you start planning for it today.
Sometimes you see a business evolve and think, “I wish I'd thought of that.” With his trademark razor-sharp style, Laermer reveals the most functional forecasting secrets of professional trendspotters. Divided into nine categories, with more than 72 “short-short” chapters and dozens of outrageous sidebars, this captivating book shows you the ways to:
- Read the signs
- Influence the trends
- Embrace new and reject stodgy
- Anticipate change
- Ask experts the right questions
- Seek out visionaries and snub fakers
- Separate the trends from fads
- Use technology-for everything
- Cash in on being ahead of the competition!
2011: Trendspotting for the Next Decade is packed with eye-popping predictions (and realities) on how you'll live, work, play, buy, sell, talk, text, laugh, and more. You'll discover how miniscule attention spans will increase a need for velocity...how to work while you're sleeping...how to wash off mediocrity...and why today's communication devices will become obsolete. With 2011you'll learn how to participate in change instead of trailing it.
Laermer calls trends as he sees 'em-from what's dead to what's sensational to what's novel and what's next. If you're looking for surprising observations, shocking statistics, sublime insights, and wholesome food for thought--read this book.
Because this is your life...in 2011.
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The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties by Steve Berges
# Author: Steve Berges
# Paperback: 240 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (November 14, 2003)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471463310
# ISBN-13: 978-0471463313
# Format: PDF | 2MB
Fix and flip single-family houses for quick profit––and long-term prosperity
The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties offers proven, straightforward guidance for anyone interested in flipping properties for quick profits. This comprehensive guide to flipping will help any real estate investor design a detailed plan for achieving their financial goals as quickly as possible. Steve Berges, creator of the value play strategy, shows you step by step how to flip properties and lock in profits. With in-depth explanations of every aspect of the art of flipping––from finding properties and closing the deal, to repairing houses and reselling at the best price––this book is the ultimate resource for novice investors and real estate pros alike.
The Complete Guide to Flipping Properties includes:
- Time-tested strategies for flipping
- Ten proven methods for locating great properties
- Property valuation methods––and which one is right for you
- Financial analysis and modeling techniques
- How to create value and maximize your profits
- Seven steps of successful negotiation
- How to close the deal
- Foolproof exit strategies for getting rid of properties
- How to assemble a winning team of professionals
- Three keys to maximizing your potential as a real estate investor
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Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking by Darrell L. Bock
Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking 达芬奇密码的疑问
# Author:Darrell L. Bock
# Page Count: 239 pages
# Publisher: Walker Large Print; Lrg edition (September 6, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1594151520
# ISBN-13: 978-1594151521
# Format: PDF | 12.13MB
Many who have read the New York Times bestseller The Da Vinci Code have questions that arise from seven codes-expressed or implied-in Dan Brown's book. In Breaking the Da Vinci Code: Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking, Darrell Bock, Ph.D., responds to the novelist's claims using central ancient texts and answers the following questions:
Who was Mary Magdalene?
Was Jesus Married?
Would Jesus Being Single be Un-Jewish?
Do the So-Called Secret Gnostic Gospels Help Us Understand Jesus?
What Is the Remaining Relevance of The Da Vinci Code?
Darrell Bock's research uncovers the origins of these codes by focusing on the 325 years immediately following the birth of Christ, for the claims of The Da Vinci Code rise or fall on the basis of things emerging from this period. Breaking the Da Vinci Code, now available in trade paper, distinguishes fictitious entertainment from historical elements of the Christian faith. For by seeing these differences, one can break the Da Vinci code.
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Vicodin Pain Killer Addiction
Vicodin Pain Killer Addiction
English | PDF | 2 Pages
Vicodin is a trademarked brand of narcotic analgesics (painkillers) containing hydrocodone and paracetamol (acetaminophen or, more-completely, para-acetylaminophenol). It is usually found in tablet form with either the names "Vicodin", "Vicodin ES", or "Vicodin HP" imprinted on one side. Analgesics with the same chemical composition and a similar physical appearance are found under many other trade names, including Anexsia, Anolor DH5, Bancap HC, Dolacet, Hydro, Lorcet, Lortab, Norco, T-Gesic, and Vadunk. The hydrocodone/paracetamol drug formula is also available under generic brands. The paracetamol in the formula increases the effects of the hydrocodone in relieving pain but also discourages drug abuse since the doses needed for recreation would have toxic amounts of paracetamol. Oral hydrocodone is considered 1.5 times as potent as oral morphine, though the equianalgesic dose varies between patients.
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Ideas from Change Your Brain: Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen
# Author: Daniel G. Amen
# Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (December 31, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0812929985
# ISBN-13: 978-0812929980
# Format: PDF | 2 Pages summary
In this age of do-it-yourself health care (heck, if the doctor only sees you for 10 minutes each visit, what other options are there?), Change Your Brain, Change Your Life fits in perfectly. Filled with "brain prescriptions" (among them cognitive exercises and nutritional advice) that are geared toward readers who've experienced anxiety, depression, impulsiveness, excessive anger or worry, and obsessive behavior, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life milks the mind-body connection for all it's worth.
Written by a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has also authored a book on attention deficit disorder, Change Your Brain contains dozens of brain scans of patients with various neurological problems, from caffeine, nicotine, and heroin addiction to manic-depression to epilepsy. These scans, often showing large gaps in neurological activity or areas of extreme overactivity, are downright frightening to look at, and Dr. Amen should know better than to resort to such scare tactics. But he should also be commended for advocating natural remedies, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, self-hypnosis, and biofeedback for treating disorders that are so frequently dealt with by prescription only.
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Investment Guarantees: Modeling and Risk Management for Equity-linked Life Insurance by Mary Hardy
Mary Hardy | Wiley | 2003-02-14 | ISBN: 0471392901 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.3 MB
Due to the convergence of financial and insurance markets, new forms of investment guarantees are emerging which require financial service professionals to become savvier in modeling and risk management. With chapters that discuss stock return models, dynamic hedging, risk measures, Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation, and much more, this one-stop reference contains the valuable insights and proven techniques that will allow readers to better understand the theory and practice of investment guarantees and equity-linked insurance policies.
Mary Hardy, PhD (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an Associate of the Society of Actuaries, where she is a frequent speaker. Her research covers topics in life insurance solvency and risk management, with particular emphasis on equity-linked insurance. Hardy is an Associate Editor of the North American Actuarial Journal and the ASTIN Bulletin and is a Deputy Editor of the British Actuarial Journal.
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CliffsNotes Understanding Health Insurance by Darlene Brill
# Author: Darlene Brill
# Paperback: 120 pages
# Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (September 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0764585142
# ISBN-13: 978-0764585142
# Format: PDF | 9.75MB
Not all health plans are created equal! To figure out what the best policy is for you and your family, turn to this guide and learn the finer points of the insurance maze. Know your needs and your choices, and you can start saving money now.
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cPanel User Guide and Tutorial by A. Pedersen
A. Pedersen | Packt Publishing (February 25, 2006)| ISBN 1904811922 | PDF | 2006 year | 208 pages | 5.36 MB
If you have web hosting requirements beyond the most basic, you should look for a host that offers cPanel. cPanel gives you tight control over every aspect of your web site, email accounts, and domain names.cPanel is the leading control panel for managing your hosted web account.
Using cPanel you can install popular web scripts, manage FTP and email accounts, control your site's security, and much more. But once you've got a web site with cPanel support, how do you go about using it? While the documentation included with cPanel may provide a quick reference, to really get the most from it you need a more detailed, systematic tutorial. Read this book to find out exactly how to get the most from cPanel in all aspects of your web site management: web, email, FTP, security, domains, back ups, and more.
Reading this book, you will: . Learn how to find hosts that offer cPanel with their web hosting packages . Discover how to access your cPanel account in several different ways, even behind a firewall . Familiarize yourself with the standard cPanel layout so you can find what you are looking for quickly . Discover what the information you see on the main cPanel interface means and how to use it to keep track of what is happening with your hosting account . Create, manage and remove FTP accounts so you (or your web master) can upload, access and remove files from your website . Set up, manage and learn how to access e-mail accounts, including e-mail aliases (forwarding), web mail access, e-mail quotas, mail filtering, spam blocking and mailing lists . Create, manage and delete databases from within cPanel . Learn how to protect and control access to information on your web site using the tools that cPanel provides . Monitor site traffic using web stats . Discover how to create an effective backup strategy using cPanel's web site backup and restore features . Explore some advanced tools that cPanel offers to help manage your web site . Learn basic techniques to keep your web site safe from hackers and learn what to do if the worst happens . Examine some common third-party add-ons and themes that your host may choose to offer . Discover a wealth of external tools that make the aspiring web master's job easier Approach . An easy to follow, practical guide with abundant screenshots along with clear instruction and explanation. . Covers how to use cPanel, and also offers crucial advice on making the most of the application and avoiding common web master pitfalls. . Carefully arranged to act as a step-by-step tutorial and a handy desktop reference Who this book is written for . Anybody who has a web hosting account that provides cPanel, and who wants to get the most from this very powerful tool.
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Digital Video for Dummies by Keith Underdahl
Keith Underdahl | Wiley Publishing, Inc. 3rd Edition | English language | ISBN: 0764541145 | PDF | 411 pages | 11.6 Mb 
If marketing folks want to breathe new life into an existing technology, the method du jour is to tack "digital" onto the name. Today we have digital cable, digital cell phones, digital fuel injection, and now, digital video. But unlike some other technologies that have recently earned the digital prefix, digital video isn’t just a minor improvement over the old way of doing things. Digital video is a revolution that is changing the way we think about and use moving pictures.
Regular folks have had the capability to record their own video for many years now. Affordable film movie cameras have been available since the 1950s, and video cameras that record directly onto videotape have been with us for over two decades. But after you recorded some video or film with one of these old cameras, you couldn’t do much else with it. You could show your movies to friends and family in raw, unedited form, but there was no confusing your rough home movie with a professional Hollywood production.
Digital camcorders provide a slight quality improvement over older camcorders, but the real advantage of digital video is that you can now easily edit your video on a computer. I don’t have to tell you how far computer technology has progressed over the last few years, and you know that modern Macs and PCs can now do some pretty amazing things. In a matter of seconds, you can import video from your digital camcorder into your computer, cut out the scenes you don’t want, add some special effects, and then instantly send your movies to friends over the Internet - or burn them to a DVD. The capability to easily edit your own movies adds a whole new level of creativity that was - just five years ago - the exclusive realm of broadcast and movie professionals.
In a culture so accustomed to and influenced by video images, it’s actually kind of surprising that personal moviemaking hasn’t burgeoned sooner. Video is the art of our time, and now - at last - you have the power to use this art for your own expression. What will you draw on your digital-video canvas?
Why This Book?
Digital video is a big, highly technical subject, so you need a guide to help you understand and use this technology. But you don’t need a big book that is so highly technical that it just gathers dust on your bookshelf. You need easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for the most important tasks, and you need tips and tricks to make your movies more successful. You need Digital Video For Dummies, Third Edition.
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Videomaker, July 2008
Videomaker, July 2008
Pages: 76 | Videomaker (07/2008) | PDF | 12.84MB
* Editing Software: Buyer's Guide.
* Reviewed:
- JVC Everio GZ-MG330
- Canon Vixia HF10
* Plus:
- Fix It Post
- Publicity & Marketing
- Shooting Fireworks
* Film look tutorial
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China (DK Eyewitness Books) by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Hugh Sebag-Montefiore | DK CHILDREN | 2007-06-25 | ISBN: 0756629764 |72 pages | PDF | 44.5 MB
In these 4 all-new titles-each with its own clip-art CD and wall chart-DK shines its Eyewitness spotlight on vital topics from the past, present, and future. While Mesopotamia explore the cradle of civilization and Great Scientists reveals the minds that shaped the modern world, China investigates the present-day culture of the most populous country on the planet, and Oil takes a look at the controversial substance responsible for the beginning-and, if we're not careful, the end of life as we know it today.
Minnesota Educator magazine
"Eye-popping...It's a text, but also a trip educators, students and parents can enjoy taking together."
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"The [Eyewitness] books are breathtaking...You'll have so much fun poring over them that you'll hardly know you're learning."
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The Volcano Adventure Guide by Rosaly Lopes
Rosaly Lopes | Cambridge University Press | 2005-02-07 | ISBN: 0521554535 | 362 pages | PDF | 28 MB 
This guide contains vital information for anyone wishing to visit, explore, and photograph active volcanoes safely and enjoyably. Following an introduction that discusses eruption styles of different types of volcanoes and how to prepare for an exploratory trip that avoids volcanic dangers, the book presents guidelines to visiting 42 different volcanoes around the world. It is filled with practical information that includes tour itineraries, maps, transportation details, and warnings of possible non-volcanic dangers. Three appendices direct the reader to a wealth of further volcano resources in a volume that will fascinate amateur enthusiasts and professional volcanologists alike. Rosaly Lopes is a planetary geology and volcanology specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. In addition to her curatorial and research work, she has lectured extensively in England and Brazil and written numerous popular science articles. She received a Latinas in Science Award from the Comision Feminil Mexicana Nacional in 1991 and since 1992, has been a co-organizer of the United Nations/European Space Agency/The Planetary Society yearly conferences on Basic Science for the Benefit of Developing Countries.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Roger Bruns
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
Roger Bruns | Greenwood Press | 2006-06-30 | ISBN: 0313336865 | 184 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the civil rights movement. The story and historical context will be eye-opening for students and a good refresher for others who are too young to have remembered the events. In a gripping narrative style, the biography traces the young Martin, the son and grandson of formidable preachers, to his calling as a minister too, but one who would take on the entrenched racism of the South, and North, through a nonviolent movement that changed the course of American history. King's story is compelling, starting from his early nurtured family life in an insular community of blacks in Atlanta. His education at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University and courtship of Coretta Scott lead into the early days of the civil rights movement and King's leadership role in the major marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins that took place, mainly in the South.
Critical insight into the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations is given as King negotiates with the presidents for equal rights for blacks. The violent reactions against and hatred of many whites for those seeking racial justice are still shocking today. Against the backdrop of beatings, killings, bombings, threats, and imprisoning, King is portrayed as driven to lift up all Americans, even if it meant martyrdom.
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The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting by John Leslie Livingstone, Theodore Grossman
# Author: John Leslie Livingstone, Theodore Grossman
# Hardcover: 704 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 3rd edition (October 19, 2001)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471061859
# ISBN-13: 978-0471061854
# Format: PDF | 3.5MB
In today's business environment, a knowledge of finance and skills in budgeting and financial planning are more important than ever before. Totally updated and revised, this highly anticipated Third Edition provides new information on five such key topics as interpreting financial statements; information technology in finance; planning capital expenditures; information technology and your firm; business valuation, and much more. Top experts in each field explain the basics of cost-volume analysis, forecasts, and budgets, and reveal how to create a winning business plan. Ideal reading for any manager or executive who needs a "refresher course" in finance.
Les Livingstone, PhD, MBA, CPA (West Palm Beach, FL), runs a national consulting firm which specializes in complex business research and expert testimony in large commercial lawsuits. He was chairman of the Division of Accounting and Law at Babson College.
Theodore Grossman (Wellesley, MA) is a senior member of the faculty of Babson College with an appointment in information technology and accounting.
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100 Winning Resumes For $100000 Jobs, Resumes for the 50 Job Hunter with Sample Cover Letters ...
These books are extensive, but well labeled. Start reading at the beginning, and every subject points you to the chapter with more information on that subject. Kind of like hyperlinks. That way you can look through at the major headings and pick and choose what you don't already know.
I took a prioritized approach, because I was in a little bit of a hurry. I took the resume section, picked a format based on my experience, then wrote a draft. From there, I went back and picked through the writing sections to make sure that I was on the right track. If you've read the examples, and the "before and after" sections, you'll probably have a good idea already what the big picture is. From then I went on to the section on cover letters and online job searching.
There are sections on virtually every subject of resume and cover letter writing, gathering references, job searching and interview preparation. Everything that you really need to get started, or just touch up on what you already know is well organized and labeled so that you can use it immediately. It's just what I was looking for, so that I wouldn't have to waste time reading the "full story" on each subject.
After following the advice in this book and sending out about 20 copies of my resume online, I had about 10 replies in the first week, and about 6 requests for interviews already.
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The Economist, June 28 2008 (PDF+Audio)
The Economist, June 28 2008 (PDF+MP3)
《经济学人》杂志 2008年6月28号
PDF+MP3 | English | 162MB
Microsoft: The meaning of Bill Gates
As his reign at Microsoft comes to an end, so does the era he dominated.
Zimbabwe: How to get him out
By forcing the opposition to abandon the election, Robert Mugabe has undermined his position.
Israel and Iran: It's later than you think
Israel is threatening to attack Iran's nuclear sites. This may not be a bluff.
Inflation: The importance of being in earnest
The Fed and the Bank of England are likely to have to raise rates to retain their credibility.
Microfinance: Doing good by doing very nicely indeed
In support of profiting from the poor.
Education reform: Top of the class
How to learn the right lessons from other countries' schools.
Industrial biotechnology: Better living through chemurgy
Efforts to replace oil-based chemicals with renewable alternatives are taking off.
Capital inflows to China: Hot and bothered
Despite strict capital controls, China is being flooded by the biggest wave of speculative capital ever to hit an emerging economy.
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The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People by James O'Loughlin
The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People
沃伦·巴菲特传/真正的资本管理者巴菲特
# Author: James O'Loughlin
# Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
# Number Of Pages: 275
# Publication Date: 2004-04-25
# ISBN-10: 1857883322
# ISBN-13: 9781857883329
# Format:PDF | 1.7MB
Book buyers and Buffett admirers alike, have praised The Real Warren Buffett for its compelling insights into how
the second richest man in America achieved his astounding success.
At the death of writing this book, and before settling on its final version, I handed the manuscript to a good friend of mine for one last sanity check. David Crowther, the man with the quickest brain I know,duly digested the work and downloaded his observations, one of which was the realization: “My God, Jim. Buffett just knows it all.”
And that’s precisely why I wrote this book. In my career as a fund manager and equity strategist, the more I read of the theory of investment and the more I progressed to learn about the challenges facing managements in the creation of value in organizational theory, complexity theory, behavioral psychology,whatever—the more Buffett’s insights into these disciplines leapt out at me from his letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway.
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Friday, June 27, 2008
Steven Spielberg: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Kathi Jackson
Steven Spielberg: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)
Kathi Jackson | Greenwood Press | 2007-03-30 | ISBN: 0313337969 | 176 pages | PDF | 1.5MB
Steven Spielberg is hailed as one of the most influential and commercially successful film directors in motion picture history. Through his role in developing, directing, and driving the special effects of many of the biggest blockbusters in movie history, includingJaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and Minority Report, Spielberg changed the way movies are made and left an indelible mark on popular culture. This biography traces his rise from shooting films as a shy young boy with the family's 8 mm camera to his first unpaid job at Universal Studios, to the rise of DreamWorks, the studio Spielberg founded and quickly turned into a filmmaking powerhouse. While Spielberg's best work may lie ahead, this biography puts his legendary career and work to date into perspective by offering analysis and commentary from fans and critics alike. Whether about an alien lost in suburbia or the battles of World War II, Spielberg has directed and produced many of the most talked about movies of the past 30 years. Students interested in the history of film and the filmmaking industry will find this biography endlessly fascinating. A timeline of significant events, a bibliography of print and electronic resources, and photographs round out this biography.
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U.S.News & World Report, July 7 2008
U.S.News & World Report, July 7 2008
English | PDF | 21.8 MB
The Real American Revolution
The latest scholarship on the war for independence casts new light on some well-told tales, including why patriots really fought -- it wasn't always for the cause of liberty -- and what turned a famous war hero into an infamous traitor.
Running Mate Roulette
Picking a vice presidential candidate is a test of leadership and a balancing act.
The New Food Superpower
As commodity prices skyrocket, Brazil steps up agricultural production to feed the world.
In God They Trust
Rather than buy health insurance, many Christians prefer to rely on one another.
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American Photo, July/August 2008
American Photo, July/August 2008
English | PDF | 19.7MB
Editor's Choice 2008
Annual buyers guide to the best new photography products and imaging tools.
Pro D-SLR of the Year
The Nikon D3.
Advanced D-SLRs of the Year
The Canon EOS 40D and the Olympus E-3
Inside Photography
Announcing the Best Wedding Photographers of the Year, 2008.
Art, Inspiration, Adventure
There are more photo workshops now than ever before, offering adventure, inspiration, and hands-on learning. Here are the 2008 picks of the very best, plus closeups with three of the country's finest photo mentors.
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Redefining Competition in Health Care by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
"Redefining Competition in Health Care"
Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg
Harvard Business Review (January 5, 2008) | English | PDF | 6.49MB
The U.S. health care system is in bad shape. Medical services are restricted or rationed, many patients receive poor care, and high rates of preventable medical error persist. There are wide and inexplicable differences in costs and quality among providers and across geographic areas. In well-functioning, competitive markets, such outcomes would be inconceivable. In health care, these results are intolerable. Competition in health care needs to change, say the authors. It currently operates at the wrong level. Payers, health plans, providers, physicians, and others in the system wrangle over the wrong things, in the wrong locations, and at the wrong times. System participants divide value instead of creating it. (And in some instances, they destroy it.) They shift costs onto one another, restrict access to care, stifle innovation, and hoard information--all without truly benefiting patients. This form of zero-sum competition must be replaced by competition at the level of preventing, diagnosing, and treating individual conditions and diseases. Among the authors' well-researched recommendations for reform: Standardized information about individual diseases and treatments should be collected and disseminated widely so patients can make informed choices about their care. Payers, providers, and health plans should establish transparent billing and pricing mechanisms to reduce cost shifting, confusion, pricing discrimination, and other inefficiencies in the system. And health care providers should be experts in certain conditions and treatments rather than try to be all things to all people. U.S. employers can also play a big role in reform by changing how they manage their health benefits.
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The Mathematics of Banking and Finance by Dennis Cox, Michael Cox
# Author: Dennis Cox, Michael Cox
# Hardcover: 310 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (May 23, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047001489X
# ISBN-13: 978-0470014899
# Format: PDF | 1.9MB
The world of business has changed significantly in recent years. Why? Because business has increasingly made more use of the probability, statistical methods and analytic techniques in areas where they previously were not used at all.
You may feel rather uncomfortable about all of this. Perhaps you gave up mathematics, wondering what the relevance of the subject really was. Others may just need to be reminded what some of the techniques actually mean.
Mathematics of Banking takes the type of techniques that you may come across in the developing world of banking, including operational risk, and explains when the techniques could be used and what if any limitations there are to these techniques.
The book offers an intermediate guide to the various techniques used in the industry, and a consideration of how each one should be approached. Written in a practical style, it will enable readers to quickly appreciate the purpose of the techniques and, through illustrations, see how they can be applied in practice. Coverage is extensive and includes techniques such as VaR analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, extreme value theory, variance and many other important models.
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Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by Lois Kelly
# Author: Lois Kelly
# Hardcover: 240 pages
# Publisher: AMACOM (March 26, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0814473830
# ISBN-13: 978-0814473832
# Format: PDF | 1.8MB
Selected as one of Library Journal's Best Business Books for 2007
Tied for the Gold Medal in the first annual Axiom Business Awards, sponsored by Inc. Magazine.
It's official: the old marketing model is dead, and word of mouth is king. But while a lot of attention has been paid to the mechanics of creating buzz, only the savviest of marketers have learned to focus on crafting the right kind of message -- because without it, even the loudest buzz will soon die down. Beyond Buzz shows readers how to listen to customers, identify what is important to them, and then craft the kind of message that will truly resonate and spark conversation.
Filled with insightful examples of conversational marketing at work, Beyond Buzz gives readers the tools and inspiration they need to create an effective and interesting conversational theme that will engage their customers and take their marketing to a whole new level.
Without the right message in place, word of mouth marketing will never live up to its promise. This innovative and practical book shows readers how to ignite people's interest...and generate much more than buzz.[Ziddu] Download Link
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10 Minute Guide to Leadership, Second Edition by Liz O'Leary
# Author: Liz O'Leary
# Paperback: 192 pages
# Publisher: Alpha; 2 edition (July 21, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0028636112
# ISBN-13: 978-0028636115
# Format: PDF | 1.6MB
In todays fast-paced world, everyone wants simple and quick solutions to workplace issues and problems at home. These distinctive guides offer easy-to-understand, helpful information on a variety of business and personal finance topics. Each book is written by an expert in the respective field. Leading others, whether in a one-on-one situation or in groups, can be daunting. This book explains how to acquire the necessary leadership skills required for every workplace situation. In addition , this book gives key techniques for coaching effectively and resolving conflicts. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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42 Rules of Marketing: A Funny Practical Guide with the Quick and Easy Steps to Success by Laura Lowell
"Laura's insights in The 42 Rules of Marketing are invaluable. The book is an easy and fun read, and is a great reminder of many of the things that we marketers know intuitively but may have forgotten in the rush of doing our daily jobs." Brian Lawley, President, 280 Group & Silicon Valley Product Management Association "This book is full of practical reminders that help marketers stay focused on what works." Karilee Wirthlin, Founder and Managing Principal, KL Consulting, and President, Women in Consulting "It's an actionable guide for anyone looking to improve the quality of their marketing. Laura's rules have sparked ideas with me and my team and have helped us make a lot of progress. Keep it on your desk, refer to it often and tell a friend." Melissa Johnson, Director, Annual Fund, Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley 
# Author: Laura Lowell
# Paperback: 108 pages
# Publisher: Super Star Press (September 2, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0979942802
# ISBN-13: 978-0979942808
# Format: PDF | 262KB
The 42 Rules of Marketing is a compilation of ideas, theories, and practical approaches to marketing challenges the author has been collecting over the past 17 years. The idea was to create a series of helpful reminders; things that marketers know we should do, but don't always have the time or patience to do. The concept of the 42 rules is that almost anything in life can be summarized into 42 distinct ideas that capture the essence of the topic.
"These 42 Rules are gems of advice and gentle reminders that every marketer needs to hear from time to time, packaged in concise, fun-to-read nuggets. If 'marketing' is in your title, you need to have this book in your library." Chris Shipley, Co-Founder, Guidewire Group Inc., and Executive Producer of the DEMO Conference
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Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients by Jay Conrad Levinson , Michael W. McLaughlin
# Author: Jay Conrad Levinson , Michael W. McLaughlin
# Paperback: 304 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 8, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047161873X
# ISBN-13: 978-0471618737
# Format: PDF | 5.8MB
Trusted advice on successful consulting from the authors of the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series.
Consulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants is the first book to reveal how guerrilla marketing can transform today's challenges into golden opportunities for winning profitable work from the new breed of consulting clients. Packed with information, this step-by-step guide details the 12 marketing secrets every consultant should know, the anatomy of a marketing plan, Web sites, sources of free publicity, direct-mail marketing, winning proposals, and more.
Jay Conrad Levinson (San Rafael, CA) is the Chairman of the Board of Guerrilla Marketing International and the author or coauthor of more than 30 books, including the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series. Michael W. McLaughlin (Mill Valley, CA) has been a partner with Deloitte Consulting since 1994.
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Out of the Box Marketing: How to Build a Super-Profitable Business by David Abingdon
# Author: David Abingdon
# Paperback: 260 pages
# Publisher: Thorogood Publishing (October 25, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1854183125
# ISBN-13: 978-1854183125
# Format: PDF | 0.98MB
How to skyrocket your profits–this treasure trove of a book is crammed full of time-tested strategies and techniques to help you to get more customers, get more out of your customers and to keep them coming back for more. This really is the ultimate, hands-on, 'paint by numbers' guide to help you achieve rapid business success.
This book gives you countless proven, powerful and profitable ways to build your bottom-line profits faster, quicker and easier than you ever thought possible.
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Elektor Electronics Worldwide, July 2008
Elektor Electronics Worldwide, June 2008
PDF | English | 11.6MB
Elektor is a monthly magazine about all aspects of electronics, first published as "Elektuur" in the Netherlands in 1960, and now published worldwide in many languages including English, German, Dutch, French, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese (native and Brazilian) and Finnish with distribution in over 50 countries. The English language edition of Elektor was launched in 1975 and is read worldwide.
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Tips and Traps for Marketing Your Business (Tips & Traps) by Scott W. Cooper, Fritz P. Grutzner, Birk P. Cooper
# Author: Scott W. Cooper, Fritz P. Grutzner, Birk P. Cooper
# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (February 21, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071494898
# ISBN-13: 978-0071494892
# Format: PDF | 1.6MB
Win new customers—and keep them coming back
Whether you run a billion-dollar company or a mom-and-pop small business, you have to know your customers and know what they want. Written by three marketing experts, Tips & Traps for Marketing Your Business is filled with marketing best practices that show you how to win over new customers and make existing customers more profitable. You’ll also find practical and proven marketing tips and traps to help you grow your business, lessons learned from realworld experience, and tangible examples from the leading companies in business today.
* Connect with your target market
* Unlock hidden streams of profit and increase sales
* Develop and deliver a compelling story for your brand
* Effectively and profitably manage customer relationships
* Determine how much media weight is enough and how to avoid spending too much
* Attract customers to your Web site
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The ART of Trading: Combining the Science of Technical Analysis with the Art of Reality-Based Trading by Bennett A. McDowell, Lawrence G. M
# Author: Bennett A. McDowell, Lawrence G. M
# Hardcover: 296 pages
# Publisher: Wiley; Har/DVD edition (April 25, 2008)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0470187727
# ISBN-13: 978-0470187722
# Format: PDF | 5.2MB
An expert in the field of finance reveals his proven trading system.
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Chip Foto-Video Digital, Juli 2008
Chip Foto-Video Digital, Juli 2008
PDF | German | 11.5 MB
Das Computermagazin CHIP wird in 17 Ländern Europas und Asiens herausgegeben und gehört in Deutschland zu den ältesten PC-Zeitschriften. Im September 1978 erschien die erste Ausgabe. Neben allgemeinen Nachrichten rund um den Computer teilt sich das Magazin in verschiedene Ressorts auf: Hardware, Software/Praxis/Internet, Aktuell.
CHIP bedient mit seinen Artikeln fast alle Zielgruppen. Neben Einsteigern und Fortgeschrittenen sollen nach Verlagsmeinung auch Profis und IT-Entscheider auf ihre Kosten kommen.
CHIP erscheint seit Anfang 2008 im Verlag CHIP Communications GmbH, einer Tochter der CHIP Holding, die wiederum zu Hundert Prozent der Hubert Burda Media gehört. Chefredakteur ist Thomas Pyczak, der auch zusammen mit Dr. Jan-Gisbert Schultze die Geschäfte führt.
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Seven Surprises for New CEOs by Michael E. Porter
"Seven Surprises for New CEOs"
Michael E. Porter | Harvard Business Review | PDF | 5.67MB
The Seven Surprises for New CEOs were described first in the HBR of October 2004 in an article by Michael Porter, Jay Lorsch and Nitin Nohria on CEO leadership.
As a newly minted CEO, one may think to finally have the power to set strategy, the authority to make things happen, and full access to the finer points of your business. But if one expects the job to be as simple as that, you’re in for an awakening. Even though you bear full responsibility for your company’s well-being, you are a few steps removed from many of the factors that drive results. You have more power than anybody else in the corporation, but you need to use it with extreme caution.
Porter ea have discovered that nothing—not even running a large business within the company—fully prepares a person to be the chief executive. The following seven surprises are most common for new CEOs:
1. You can’t run the company (The sheer volume and intensity of external demands take many by surprise. Almost every new CEO struggles to manage the time drain of attending to shareholders, analysts, board members, industry groups, politicians, and other constituencies)
2. Giving orders is very costly (No proposal should reach the CEO for final approval unless he can ratify it with enthusiasm. Before then, everyone involved with the matter should have raised and resolved any potential deal breakers, bringing the CEO into the discussion only at strategically significant moments to obtain feedback and support)
3. It is hard to know what is really going on (Certainly, CEOs are flooded with information, but reliable information is surprisingly scarce. All information coming to the top is filtered, sometimes with good intentions, sometimes with not such good intentions)
4. You are always sending a message (A CEOs words and deeds, however small or off-the-cuff, are instantly spread and amplified, scrutinized, interpreted and sometimes drastically misinterpreted)
5. You are not the boss (Although the CEO may sit at the top of the management hierarchy, he still reports to the board of directors. At the end of the day, the board—not the CEO—is in charge)
6. Pleasing shareholders is not the goal (CEOs must recognize that, ultimately, it is only long-term value creation that matters, not today’s growth expectations or even the stock price)
7. You are still only human (CEO Should recognize he needs connections to the world outside his organization, at home and in the community, to avoid being consumed by his corporate live)
These seven surprises for new CEOs carry some important lessons:
* First, as a new CEO you must learn to manage organizational context rather than focus on daily operations.
* Second, you must recognize that your position does not confer the right to lead, nor does it guarantee the loyalty of the organization.
* Finally, you must remember that you are subject to a host of limitations, even though others might treat you as omnipotent.
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Marisa Miller in Maxim, July 2008
Marisa Miller in Maxim, July 2008
6 pics | 1900 x 2500 (Ultra HQ) | 5.8 MB
Return of the great American supermodel!
Marisa Miller is an American supermodel. She is the Swimsuit Issue cover model for the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue and a Victoria's Secret Angel.
In May 2004, she finished second in the celebrity division of the "Kelly Slater" Invitational in Fiji.
Birth name: Marisa Bertetta
Birth date: August 6, 1978
Birth location: Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
Measurements: 34D-23-35
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time by Kendall Haven
Kendall Haven “100 Greatest Science Discoveries of All Time"
Libraries Unlimited | 2007-02-28 | ISBN: 1591582652 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB 
Throughout history, science has changed lives and dramatically altered the way in which the universe is perceived. Focusing on the 100 most significant scientific events of all time--from Archimedes' discovery of the two fundamental principles underlying physics and engineering (levers and buoyancy) in 260 B.C.E. to human anatomy, Jupiter's moons, electrons, black holes, the human genome, and more--storyteller Kendall Haven has created a ready reference for those seeking information on science discoveries. Brimming with fascinating and fun facts about 100 scientific breakthroughs, this collection presents the real stories behind the history of science, at the same time offering a panoramic overview of the history of science and an introduction to some of the most important scientists in history. Grades 6 and up.
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The Strategy Gap: Leveraging Technology to Execute Winning Strategies by Michael Coveney, Brian Hartlen, Dave King, Dennis Ganster
Michael Coveney, Brian Hartlen, Dave King, Dennis Ganster | Wiley | 2003-02-14 | ISBN: 0471214507 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.8 MB
With shortened business cycles, increased competition, and rapidly changing technologies, companies need to be more nimble than ever. They must narrow the gap between strategy formulation and operation execution to guarantee success. The Strategy Gap will provide a framework that senior financial managers can use to ensure that their strategies are implemented successfully and that their corporations remain competitive. Filled with informative case studies and best practices for optimum financial processes, this valuable resource will help managers leverage information technology to successfully implement corporate strategies.
This book also shows managers how to eliminate surprises in poorly managed or unforeseen activities, while applying new approaches to financial management for faster and more accurate business modeling. Expert advice from those who have used these strategies clearly explains how to integrate planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting into one cohesive management system.
Michael Coveney is senior director of strategy management and spearheads Comshare's successful best practices consultancy, helping enterprises improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their corporate performance management processes.
Brian Hartlen is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Comshare, Incorporated, a leading provider of software that helps companies implement and execute strategy.
Dave King, PhD, is Comshare's Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer.
Dennis Ganster is Chairman, President and CEO of Comshare, Inc.
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Never Bet the Farm: How Entrepreneurs Take Risks, Make Decisionsand How You Can, Too by Anthony Iaquinto, Stephen, Jr. Spinelli
Anthony Iaquinto, Stephen, Jr. Spinelli | Jossey-Bass | 2006-03-17 | ISBN: 0787983667 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB
In Never Bet the Farm two leading entrepreneurs, Anthony Iaquinto and Stephen Spinelli, turn much of the so-called expert advice for entrepreneurs on its head. They show that by preparing for setbacks and using a framework that can help reduce risks and simplify decision making, entrepreneurs can increase their probability for success. They refute the idea that there is an ideal entrepreneurial “type,” and show that luck can be as important as a business plan in many enterprises. Above all, the authors emphasize that entrepreneurship is a career, not a one-time event, and winners are those who can keep themselves in the game. Never Bet the Farm is an easy-to-understand and attractive tool for anyone who has a business idea, but who might be wary of the risks implied in starting their own business.
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Trade Like Warren Buffett (Wiley Trading) by James Altucher
Trade Like Warren Buffett (Wiley Trading) 像沃伦·巴菲特那样交易
# Author:James Altucher
# Publisher: Wiley
# Publication Date: 2005-02-11
# Number Of Pages: 246
# ISBN-10: 0471655848
# ISBN-13: 9780471655848
# Format:PDF | 2.1MB
"Trading is notoriously tough. But Altucher's new book adds a noteworthy addition to the library on Warren Buffett. He shows a lot of Buffett that isn't readily available in the existing common literature. Definitely required reading for any serious Buffett buff."
-Kenneth L. Fisher, Forbes' "Portfolio Strategy" Columnist Founder and CEO, Fisher Investments
"Finally, someone blows apart the myth that Warren Buffett is a buy-and-hold investor. Altucher has given us an insightful and well-written commentary on how Buffett has amassed his track record, and what we can do to emulate him. He details the trade-by-trade examples. This is a must read for anyone wanting to learn about how the Master Investor works."
-John Mauldin, author, Bull's Eye Investing editor of Thoughts from the Frontline (www.2000wave.com)
While Warren Buffett is considered the "world's greatest value investor," there's another side to Buffett that is rarely talked about. Although Buffett has gained recognition for his value investing approach to the markets, the fact is that nobody-over the past fifty years-has traded and invested with a more diverse group of strategies than Buffett.
Trade Like Warren Buffett challenges the current coverage of this great investor by including details of all of Buffett's investing and trading methods, including mean reversion, commodities, bonds, arbitrage, market timing, funds, as well as Graham-Dodd. To augment the discussion of each strategy, Trade Like Warren Buffett also includes interviews with leading financial professionals, who reveal in detail how they've successfully used the same techniques.
There is no one way to sum up Warren Buffett's investment style. But if you're interested in boosting the performance of your portfolio, Trade Like Warren Buffett can show you how.
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The Law of Success In Sixteen Lessons by Napoleon Hill
# Author: Napoleon Hill
# Paperback: 356 pages
# Publisher: bnpublishing.com (October 25, 2007)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 9562915921
# ISBN-13: 978-9562915922
# Format: PDF | 7.82MB
“Whatever your mind can conceive and believe it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill
This is the unprecedented blue print for success. Anything your mind can conceive and believe- you can achieve. That is the timeless philosophy of Napoleon Hill, author of this all time motivational best seller.
Napoleon Hills’s classic teaching reveals a secret formula that has created more millionaires than any other book or success system combined. With these proven success principles, you will begin to think outside the box and make your dreams a reality. Hill’s timeless masterpiece will open your mind up to new ideas and visions that will allow you to experience a lifestyle of complete success.
This in-depth study of personal achievement will guide you to a life of peace and opulence. Are you the next millionaire in the making? Countless people desire to know the wealth-making secret to substantially increase their income.
Modeling yourself to individuals who are already successful is the easiest way to become successful! Napoleon Hill s The Law of Success in 16 Lessons , was his first masterpiece before Think and Grow Rich. With the wisdom, knowledge and challenge from Andre Carnegie, Hill organized one of the world s first books on personal achievement. Learn the covenant Laws of Success in an incredible sixteen lessons!It took Mr. Hill over twenty years to gather information on a course based on over five-hundred of the world s richest men. This classic masterpiece is the foundation for any of your life endeavors.
Listen to the sweet sound of success and let today be the first day that you THINK AND GROW RICH!
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Your First Interview by Ron Fry
# Author: Ron Fry
# Paperback: 192 pages
# Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 4 edition
# Date: (January 15, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1564145867
# ISBN-13: 978-1564145864
# Format: PDF | 1MB
This informative handbook lets a first-time job hunter know what is needed to land a job.
It shows how to find information about a company, gives examples of resumes, explains how to get an interview, discusses behavior during the interview, and suggests follow-ups. Comprehensive, thorough, and reassuring.
Whether unemployment is at a record high or record low and the country’s at war or at peace- these factors have little to do with the task at hand- the fact that the reader is facing their very first job interview and they need to get ready.
Ron Fry is the best-selling author of 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions and the brand-new edition of Your First Interview, two of the more than 40 books he has written.
He is an acknowledged authority and frequent speaker and seminar leader on a wide variety of job-search topics at schools and associations nationwide.
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Architecture in Japan by Philip Jodidio
Philip Jodidio | Taschen | 2006-05-02 | ISBN: 3822839884 | 192 pages | PDF | 94 MB 
TASCHEN's new architecture series brings a unique perspective to world architecture, highlighting architectural trends by country. Each book features 15 to 20 architects—from the firmly established to the up-and-coming—with the focus on how they have contributed to very recent architecture in the chosen nation. Entries include contact information and short biographies in addition to copiously illustrated descriptions of the architects' or firms' most significant recent projects. Crossing the globe from country to country, this new series celebrates the richly hued architectural personality of each nation featured.
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Probability and Random Processes by Geoffrey R. Grimmett, David R. Stirzaker
Geoffrey R. Grimmett, David R. Stirzaker | Oxford University Press, USA | 2001-08-02 | ISBN: 0198572220 | 608 pages | PDF | 3.5 MB
This book gives an introduction to probability and its many practical application by providing a thorough, entertaining account of basic probability and important random processes, covering a range of important topics. Emphasis is on modelling rather than abstraction and there are new sections on sampling and Markov chain Monte Carlo, renewal-reward, queueing networks, stochastic calculus, and option pricing in the Black-Scholes model for financial markets. In addition, there are almost 400 exercises and problems relevant to the material. Solutions can be found in One Thousand Exercises in Probability.
About the Author
Geoffrey Grimmett is at Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge. David Stirzaker is at Mathematical Institute, Oxford University.
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Blind Spots: Achieve Success by Seeing What You Can't See by Claudia Shelton
Claudia Shelton | Wiley | 2007-03-23 | ISBN: 0470042257 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB 
Praise for Blind Spots
"Shelton's open and candid style inspires trust among readers. Management teams and those making career choices can push their effectiveness up a notch with her skilled approach to facing blind spots and moving beyond them."
—Rick McNutt, Executive Vice President, National City Bank
"Blind Spots gives individuals a comprehensive, but very manageable, set of tools and strategies to see themselves differently. The stories of people whose lives have been changed by Shelton's principles and techniques enhance the strategies she presents. This is a compelling book with the power to improve lives dramatically."
—Eleta A. Jones, PhD, LPC, Assistant Director, Center for Professional Development, University of Hartford
"Shelton's approach to identifying blind spots goes to the heart of effective leadership. Such interest arose from this work that requests poured in for not only follow-on training regarding Blind Spots, but also for developmental coaching. Six months later, people are still talking about Blind Spots."
—Jack Bergquist, Vice President, Kaman Aerospace
"When I recognized my blind spots that made me underestimate my entrepreneurial strengths, I was able to move forward to launch a successful company. This book is a must for building resilience to face the challenges of a start-up."
—Marilyn Nemarich, entrepreneur and owner, Marilyn's Pies
"This book can teach you how to see inside yourself. As I was reading it, I kept thinking of the song On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Learning about your blind spots leads to clear sight, which can create possibilities for innovation and growth."
—Jane Hunt, Assistant Vice President for Executive Development, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.
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Alan Greenspan: The Oracle Behind The Curtain by E. Ray Canterbery
E. Ray Canterbery | World Scientific Publishing Company | 2006-02-16 | ISBN: 9812566066 | 193 pages | PDF | 2.3 MB
This thought-provoking new title, by the highly acclaimed author of Wall Street Capitalism and A Brief History of Economics, provides a much-needed counterbalance to the mythical distortions of Alan Greenspan. Canterbery exposes Greenspan’s fundamentalist market ideology as overwhelming rationality in the making of economic policy. He depicts a Fed selfishly guarding its political independence, even as Greenspan has his way in virtually every major economic and social policy affecting the global economy since the Ford Administration.
This book reveals the hidden nodes of power that give the Fed vast authority over the global economy. It also explains why it is so important not only to understand those powers, but also to appreciate why they are resistant to moderation.
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How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets by Andy Kessler
Andy Kessler | Collins | 2005-06-01 | ISBN: 0060840978 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them.
Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. This book connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today.
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Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever by Roger Gould
Roger Gould |Wiley | 2007-04-27 | ISBN: 0470044853 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB 
Emotional eating is by far the most common cause of weight gain. As you'll learn in Shrink Yourself, all the diets, exercise regimens, and surgical procedures in the world will not free you from this vicious cycle. Why? Because they don't address your reasons for overeating.
Shrink Yourself, a supportive, unique, and ground-breaking guide written by a world-renowned therapist who has helped thousands of people lose weight and keep it off, gets to the heart of the problem. Shrink Yourself gives you the equivalent of eight expensive sessions with the best weight-loss therapist in the world for the price of a single book.
Yo-yo dieting is an endless cycle. You diet and lose weight. Then you eat "comfort food" - that piece of cake, huge bowl of ice cream, or enormous bag of potato chips you devour to smother your feelings of fear, anxiety, stress, anger, boredom, loneliness, frustration, or so many other feelings. The comfort doesn't last long. Soon you feel guilty for breaking your diet, so you displace the guilt with another helping. Before long, you're unpacking your fat clothes again and berating yourself for your lack of willpower. Then, warily, you contemplate the next diet.
With Shrink Yourself, renowned psychiatrist and emotional eating expert Dr. Roger Gould offers the first step-by-step analysis of the connection between eating and emotion. Dr. Gould explains why the connection is so powerful and shows you how to break the emotional eating cycle, shed all your excess pounds, and keep them off for good. Based on Dr. Gould's unique method and his work involving more than twenty thousand people, this revolutionary eight-session program reveals that your uncontrollable hunger is connected to feelings of powerlessness in your life. You'll discover the five layers of powerlessness and you'll learn how to recognize and cope with each of them by:
Conquering the feeling phobia
Waking up from the food trance
Challenging your self-doubts
Defeating your defeatism
Creating real safety
Dealing positively with anger
And more
Food may be a relatively inexpensive "over-the-counter tranquilizer," but its side effects can be devastating. So before you rush to try the next fad diet or start binge eating after a stressful day, ask yourself, "Is this the way I want to live?" Then read Shrink Yourself and learn how to take control of your emotions to slim down permanently? without ever counting calories again. You can truly shrink yourself.
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A Course in Microeconomic Theory by David M. Kreps
David M. Kreps | Princeton University Press | 1990-02-21 | ISBN: 0691042640 | 863 pages | Djvu | 10.7 MB 
David M. Kreps has developed a text in microeconomics that is both challenging and "user-friendly." The work is designed for the first-year graduate microeconomic theory course and is accessible to advanced undergraduates as well. Placing unusual emphasis on modern noncooperative game theory, it provides the student and instructor with a unified treatment of modern microeconomic theory--one that stresses the behavior of the individual actor (consumer or firm) in various institutional settings. The author has taken special pains to explore the fundamental assumptions of the theories and techniques studied, pointing out both strengths and weaknesses.
The book begins with an exposition of the standard models of choice and the market, with extra attention paid to choice under uncertainty and dynamic choice.
General and partial equilibrium approaches are blended, so that the student sees these approaches as points along a continuum. The work then turns to more modern developments. Readers are introduced to noncooperative game theory and shown how to model games and determine solution concepts. Models with incomplete information, the folk theorem and reputation, and bilateral bargaining are covered in depth. Information economics is explored next. A closing discussion concerns firms as organizations and gives readers a taste of transaction-cost economics.
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Up Your Business!: 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization by Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson | Wiley | 2007-03-09 | ISBN: 0470068566 | 320 pages | PDF | 1.3 MB 
Praise for the first edition of Up Your Business!
"Dave Anderson has hit another home run! Up Your Business! is an invaluable, highly readable guide that should be on the desk—and in the mind—of anyone demanding top-level performance from themselves and others."
—James Strock, author, Reagan on Leadership and Theodore Roosevelt on Leadership
"Up Your Business! is a powerful blueprint for companies looking to take their business to the next level. It is one of the most powerful books on business and leadership I have ever read and will be a major component of Saga Communications' leadership training."
—Warren Lada, Senior Vice President, Saga Communications, Inc.
"Once again, Dave Anderson puts it all together in a way that almost makes you think he's been looking over your shoulder all these years. Chapter two alone, 'Abolish Corporate Welfare: Create a Culture of Merit,' is worth the time it takes to read the entire book."
—Mike Roscoe, founder and President, Horizon Communications
"Finally . . . a business book that gets to the heart of what matters and creates usable templates that could help any business thrive."
—Roxanne Emmerich, author, Thank God It's Monday!
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Talking Science by Adam Hart-Davis
Adam Hart-Davis | Wiley | 2004-11-05 | ISBN: 0470093021 | 290 pages | PDF | 13.3 MB "...As well as being stimulating and awe-inspiring, the transcripts are packed with humour and insight..." (South Coast Magazine, February 2005) "...this wonderfully accessible book brings to life today's most intriguing scientific discoveries, debates and personalities." (Focus, Number 154, 2005) 
Adam Hart Davis has interviewed some of the most influential scientists and thinkers of our time. In this fascinating insight into modern science he presents the stories behind the science, the difficulties behind the discoveries and the future of the findings, as explained by the people themselves.
Adam Hart Davis talks with:-
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK)
Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK)
Colleen Cavanaugh (Harvard, US)
Richard Dawkins (Oxford, UK)
Loren Graham (MIT, US)
Richard Gregory (Bristol, UK)
Eric Lander (MIT, US)
Lord May of Oxford (UK)
John Maynard Smith (Sussex, UK)
Rosalind Picard (MIT, US)
Peter Raven (St Louis, US)
Sir Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK)
Eugenie Scott (Oakland, US)
Lewis Wolpert (UCL, UK)
"...a good book for anyone who wants to see how real science is done..." (Focus magazine, No.148, March 2005)
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Law of Attraction: The Science of Attracting More of What You Want and Less of What You Don't by Michael J. Losier
Michael J. Losier | Wellness Central | 2007-06-11 | ISBN: 0446199745 | 142 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
This neuro-linguistic programming expert is only moderately cocky about the control he says we can have when we focus on what we want instead of what we dont. He says too many people get stuck in negative thinking, punish themselves with low expectations, and surround themselves with losers instead of achievers. Our predominant vibe, positive or negative, is how the universe will respond to us. The words we choose give energy to this vibration, one way or the other. Hugh Gallaghers alluring interpretation gives this material weight. His restrained performance adds vocal emphasis exactly where its needed and conveys the core meaning with the perfect amount of gravitas. Printable worksheets allow listeners to create more effective word statements for their problems.
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The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders by Warren Blank
Warren Blank | AMACOM | 2001-05-21 | ISBN: 0814406467 | 272 pages | PDF | 1.5 MB
This book identifies the skill set that causes others to see people as natural born leaders, helps readers assess their current level of these skills, and coaches readers to master their weak areas. Readers will learn:
* Foundation skills, including self-awareness and the ability to establish rapport
* Direction skills, including the ability to set a course and develop others as leaders
* Willing follower skills, including the ability to influence others and create a motivating environment.
John G. Rice, President & CEO, GE Power Systems
"Warren Blank has presented practical suggestions for developing personal leadership characteristics essential at every organizational level and stage of life."
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The 2R Manager: When to Relate, When to Require, and How to Do Both Effectively by Peter E. Friedes
Peter E. Friedes | Jossey-Bass | 2002-07-15 | ISBN: 078795893X | 218 pages | PDF | 1 MB
The 2R Manager will make you a better manager---immediately. It offers specific advice tailored to each individual's current management style. You will take some self-surveys, see the results, and learn the impact you now have on those you manage. Youll learn what changes you must make and how to make them.
Managers have naturally either a Relating or a Requiring style. Those who naturally require are weaker at relating---sometimes much weaker---and vice versa. The best managers possess the ability to do both well and know when to choose one over the other. Most managers miss opportunities. Some try to be their employee's friend when they need to be setting priorities and deadlines. Others, thinking they have the answers, miss getting new ideas and destroy their employees motivation. Having the ability to relate and require is fundamental for effective managing.
Whether you want to improve how you now manage people or create a management-training alternative that can help reduce time and costs, you will find what you're looking for in The 2R Manager.
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Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century by Nigel Cameron, M. Ellen Mitchell
# Author: Nigel Cameron, M. Ellen Mitchell
# Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
# Number Of Pages: 488
# Publication Date: 2007-08-15
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470084197
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470084199
# Binding: Hardcover | PDF | 2.61MB
An authoritative examination of the present and potential impact of nanoscale science and technology on modern life
Because truly transformative technologies have far-reaching consequences, they always generate controversy. Establishing an effective process for identifying and understanding the broad implications of nanotechnology will advance its acceptance and success, impact the decisions of policymakers and regulatory agencies, and facilitate the development of judicious policy approaches to new technology options.
Nanoscale: Issues and Perspectives for the Nano Century addresses the emerging ethical, legal, policy, business, and social issues. A compilation of provocative treatises, this reference:
Covers an area of increasing research and fundingOrganizes topics in four sections: Policy and Perspectives; Nano Law and Regulation; Nanomedicine, Ethics, and the Human Condition; and Nano and Society: The NELSI Imperative Presents differing perspectives, with views from nanotechnology's most ardent supporters as well as its most vocal critics includes contributions from professionals in a variety of industries and disciplines, including science, law, ethics, business, health and safety, government regulation, and policy. This is a core reference for professionals dealing with nanotechnology, including scientists from academia and industry, policy makers, ethicists and social scientists, safety and risk assessment professionals, investors, and others. It is also an excellent text for students in fields that involve nanotechnology.
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Roadmap of Scanning Probe Microscopy (NanoScience and Technology) by S. Morita
# Author: S. Morita
# Publisher: Springer
# Number Of Pages: 201
# Publication Date: 2006-11-16
# ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540343148
# ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540343141
# Binding: Hardcover | PDF | 5.1MB
Scanning tunneling microscopy - with its applications that span not only atomic resolution but also scanning tunneling spectroscopy, atom/molecule manipulation and nanostructuring, and inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy - has achieved remarkable progress and become the key technology for surface science. Besides, atomic force microscopy is also rapidly developing and achieving remarkable progress and accomplishments such as true atomic resolution, atom/molecule identification, manipulation and nanostructuring. This book that predicts the future development for all of scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Such forecasts may help to determine the course ultimately to be taken and to accelerate research and development on nanotechnology and nanoscience, as well as all SPM-related fields in future.
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The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale | Vermilion (1990-05-21) | 320 Pages | English | ISBN-10: 0749307153 ISBN-13: 9780749307158 | PDF | 1.03MB
THIS BOOK is WRITTEN to suggest techniques and to give examples which demonstrate that you do not need to be defeated by anything, that you can have peace of mind,improved health, and a never-ceasing flow of energy. In short, that your life can be full of joy and satisfaction. Of this I have no doubt at all for I have watched countless persons learn and apply a system of simple procedures that has brought about the foregoing benefits in their lives. These assertions, which may appear extravagant, are based on bona-fide demonstrations in actual human experience.
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Reader's Digest, June 2008 美国读者文摘杂志
Reader's Digest, June 2008 美国读者文摘杂志
English | PDF | 22.6MB
Reader's Digest is a monthly general interest family magazine. Although its circulation has declined in recent years, the Audit Bureau of Circulation says Reader's Digest is still the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States, with a circulation of over 10 million copies in the United States, and a readership of 38 million as measured by Mediamark Research (MRI).
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2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Reviews: Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases That Really Get Results by Paul Falcone
Paul Falcone | AMACOM (2005-06-10 ) | 224 Pages | English | ISBN-10: 0814472826 ISBN-13 : 9780814472828 | PDF | 2.53MB
No managerial or administrative task is as universally dreaded as the performance review. Supervisors may know the points they need to get across, but putting them on paper is another matter. This book puts the the right words at their fingertips, with ready-to-use phrases and words, action items, and descriptions that managers, supervisors, and HR professionals can use to evaluate performance, prepare development plans, and address performance problems.
2600 Phrases for Effective Performance Appraisals covers the 25 most commonly rated factors, including productivity, time management, decision making, and teamwork, as well as specific roles such as customer service, finance, sales, and more. The book provides hundreds of phrases to use in performance improvement plans, plus an appendix of helpful individual words.
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Circuit Cellar, July 2008
Circuit Cellar, July 2008
English | 100 pages | PDF | 14.22 MB
Circuit Cellar is the only publication that provides intensive, exploratory articles about hardware and software methods for embedded-control systems. The sophisticated professionals in this rapidly growing market demand new tools and information to develop unique solutions to their application problems. Circuit Cellar provides these professionals with insightful analysis of emerging technologies and concepts, enabling them to be better equipped to make long-term forecasts and purchasing decisions-decisions that not only affect the direction of their own enterprises but also shape future technologies.
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TIME Magazine June 16, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 24
TIME Magazine June 16, 2008 Vol. 171 No. 24
DOC (MS Word) + PDF + MP3 | English | 3.7 + 1.2 + 18.4 MB
America's Medicated Army - As wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have stretched the U.S. military to the breaking point, the Pentagon has quietly okayed the use of antidepressants by stressed-out troops. A TIME investigation reveals combat's heavy toll on their mental health
Who Will Rule The New Internet? - Apple, Google and Facebook all want to build the next great platform. Inside the struggle for Web supremacy
Computer Literacy Tests: Are You Human? - Websites often ask you to decipher a few wiggly letters. They're trying to find out if you're human or spamware
Will the Oil Bubble Burst? - After making billions on rising energy prices, a big investor cashes in. Why that signals cheaper times
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Architectural Digest, June 2008
Architectural Digest, June 2008 
English | PDF | 23.8 MB
Ted Turner
On His Armendaris Ranch Wild Animal Preserve, the Media Magnate Builds a Lodge in Tune with the Land.
Invoking an Ideal
Romanticized Forms Pay Homage to Southern Architectural Traditions in a Historic Landscape.
Deer Cabin Reverie
On the Wooded Shore of Flathead Lake, a One-Room Hideaway Celebrates Authentic Camp Living.
Seaside Sanctuary
A Cluster of Cottages on Martha's Vineyard Defines Simplicity and Charm.
Inner Directed
Modern Pieces Bring a Former Barn into the 21st Century.
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies by Bryan Caplan
Bryan Caplan | Princeton University Press | 2007-04-16 | ISBN: 0691129428 | 280 pages | PDF | 2.4 MB
The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobbying, but the popular misconceptions, irrational beliefs, and personal biases held by ordinary voters. This is economist Bryan Caplan's sobering assessment in this provocative and eye-opening book. Caplan argues that voters continually elect politicians who either share their biases or else pretend to, resulting in bad policies winning again and again by popular demand.
Boldly calling into question our most basic assumptions about American politics, Caplan contends that democracy fails precisely because it does what voters want. Through an analysis of Americans' voting behavior and opinions on a range of economic issues, he makes the convincing case that noneconomists suffer from four prevailing biases: they underestimate the wisdom of the market mechanism, distrust foreigners, undervalue the benefits of conserving labor, and pessimistically believe the economy is going from bad to worse. Caplan lays out several bold ways to make democratic government work better--for example, urging economic educators to focus on correcting popular misconceptions and recommending that democracies do less and let markets take up the slack.
The Myth of the Rational Voter takes an unflinching look at how people who vote under the influence of false beliefs ultimately end up with government that delivers lousy results. With the upcoming presidential election season drawing nearer, this thought-provoking book is sure to spark a long-overdue reappraisal of our elective system.
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The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
Richard Koch | Currency | 1999-10-19 | ISBN: 0385491743 | 288 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
In 1897, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, in his study of the patterns of wealth and income, observed that the distribution of wealth was predictably unbalanced. He first discovered this pattern in 19th-century England and found it to be the same for every country and time period he studied. Over the years, Pareto's observation has become known as the 80/20 principle.
Now in 1998, Richard Koch takes a fresh look at the 80/20 principle and finds that the basic imbalance observed by Pareto 100 years ago can be found in almost every aspect of modern life. Whether you're investing in stocks, analyzing company sales, or looking at the performance of a Web site, you'll find that it's usually 20 percent that produces 80 percent of the total result. This means 80 percent of what you do may not count for much. Koch helps you to identify that 20 percent and shows you how you can get more out of your business, and life, for less.
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The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
"The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy"
Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
Harvard Business Review, December 2002 | English | PDF | 3.17MBWhen it comes to philanthropy, executives increasingly see themselves as caught between critics demanding ever higher levels of "corporate social responsibility" and investors applying pressure to maximize short-term profits. Increasingly, philanthropy is used as a form of public relations or advertising, promoting a company's image through high-profile sponsorships. But there is a more truly strategic way to think about philanthropy. Corporations can use their charitable efforts to improve their competitive context--the quality of the business environment in the locations where they operate. Using philanthropy to enhance competitive context aligns social and economic goals and improves a company's long-term business prospects. Addressing context enables a company not only to give money but also leverage its capabilities and relationships in support of charitable causes. Taking this new direction requires fundamental changes in the way companies approach their contribution programs. Adopting a context-focused approach requires a far more disciplined approach than is prevalent today. But it can make a company's philanthropic activities far more effective.
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Outlook Business, 28 June 2008
Outlook Business, 28 June 2008
Popular Business & Lifestyle Magazine.
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Rich Dad's Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter | Time Warner Books (June 2000) | English | 403 Pages | ISBN-10: 0446677469 # ISBN-13: 978-0446677462 | PDF | 2.3MB
The rich are different from the rest of us, if for no other reason than U.S. tax and securities laws allow them to invest in ways that keep us from catching up to them. That's why 90 percent of all corporate shares of stock are owned by 10 percent of the people. Kiyosaki believes it's possible for anyone to move up into that 10 percent, but it takes a different view of investing than most people have: it takes a plan to be a successful investor. And a plan is more than simply buying and selling, or collecting "assets" that bring in no cash and are thus more akin to liabilities. The way most people invest, "they might as well be pushing a wheelbarrow in a circle," he writes.
A plan is "mechanical, automatic, and boring," a formula for success that has worked historically for most of those who've used it. Kiyosaki's "rich dad" (actually, the father of his best friend) tells him the simplest analogy is the game Monopoly: buy four green houses, trade them for one red hotel, and repeat until you become rich. The overall message of Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is that this is an abundant world, full of opportunity for the sophisticated investor. However, it sometimes takes a while to find this point. Much of the book is told in dialogues between young Kiyosaki and his rich dad, and these conversations can ramble.
There are rewards for the careful reader--for example, in the middle of a section on the basic rules of investing, Kiyosaki's rich dad compares investor education to toilet training: difficult at first but eventually automatic. But getting to these inspired metaphors means wading through a lot of repetitive dialogue. It's a bit ironic that someone who advocates investor discipline should show so little as a writer. But by the end of the book, even the rambling starts to make sense. By the hundredth time you read that the rich don't work for money, and that you don't need money to make money, both concepts start to make sense. It still looks difficult to apply these ideas, but Rich Dad's Guide to Investing certainly makes the case that they'll work for anyone bold and smart enough to practice them.
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Applied Macroeconometrics by Carlo A. Favero
Carlo A. Favero | Oxford University Press, USA (March 22, 2001) | English | 296 Pages | ISBN-10: 0198296851 # ISBN-13: 978-0198296850 | PDF | 2MB
Until the 1970s, there was a consensus in applied macroeconometrics, both regarding the theoretical foundation and the empirical specification of macroeconometric modelling, commonly known as the Cowles Commission approach. This is no longer the case: the Cowles Commission approach broke down in the 1970s, replaced by three prominent competing methods of empirical research: the LSE (London School of Economics) approach, the VAR approach, and the intertemporal optimization/Real Business Cycle approach. This book discusses and illustrates the empirical research strategy of these three alternative approaches by interpreting them as different proposals to solve problems observed in the Cowles Commission approach.
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Winning the Trading Game: Why 95% of Traders Lose and What You Must Do To Win by Noble DraKoln
Noble DraKoln | Wiley (2008-03-21) | English | 284 pages | ISBN-10: 0470169958 ISBN-13: 9780470169957 | PDF | 2.3MB
Winning the Trading Game will teach aspiring traders the mental discipline and practical skills used by experienced and professional traders. It explains how to master the three essential skills of trading: money management, technical analysis, and risk control. The goal is to supplant the gambler's mentality of just "picking" the right trade to a set of systems that will guide the trader through both winning and losing trades. Once the average investor is equipped with this new skill set, he or she is able to take control of futures and forex investing the same way the professionals have always done.
Praise for: Winning the Trading Game
"A wealth of trading industry experience emerges in this work. Noble DraKoln covers the essential areas of fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and trading psychology with insight, originality, and refreshing candor. Furthermore, the material is skillfully presented with a view to practical application in the markets. This book will complement every trader's library from beginner to advanced."
—Dan Blystone, Senior Analyst, TradersLog.com
"Winning the Trading Game by Noble DraKoln encapsulates years of successful trading experience by mixing heartfelt anecdotes with real-world strategies in a literary work guaranteed to provide a deeper understanding for those looking to raise their trading acumen. DraKoln's book gives traders perspective on everything from what key technical indicators to use to more qualitative aspects, including how to develop a winning mindset. This duality of instruction brings value to readers of every trading pedigree."
—John Netto, President, One Shot-One Kill Trading, LLC
"Reading Winning the Trading Game is as exciting as attending the lectures given by the author. The name Noble DraKoln is synonymous with that of a remarkable teacher who gives step-by-step direction for both beginner and professional traders. In Winning the Trading Game, Noble DraKoln shares his impressive views on futures and Forex trading with the same wit and style he uses to dazzle the audience during his speeches."
—André Malpel, trader on futures and technical analysis expert, LIST, Inc., Managing Director and founder, IAT, Inc., Technical Analysis Expo & Paris Trading Show
—Harry J. Martinez, Director of Product Sales, GenesisFT.com
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The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave: How to Recognize the Subtle Signs and Act Before It’s Too Late by Leigh Branham
Leigh Branham | AMACOM; 1 edition (January 3, 2005) | Language: English | 240 Pages | ISBN-10: 0814408516 # ISBN-13: 978-0814408513 | PDF | 1.15MB
The gaping disparity between belief and reality keeps organizations from addressing the costly problems of employee disengagement and regrettable turnover with on-target solutions.
The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave gives readers a deeper understanding of why conventional exit interviewing doesn’t work, and what organizations can do to identify, prevent, and correct the root causes of these problems.
This valuable book shows how to avoid job-person mismatches, how to align employee expectations with the realities of the position and the company, how to provide constructive feedback and coaching that breeds employee confidence, and much more.
The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave incorporates data from surveys of 19,700 employees performed by the Saratoga Institute, an internationally recognized research organization.
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Strategy As Action: Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage by Curtis M. Grimm, Hun Lee & Ken G. Smith
Curtis M. Grimm, Hun Lee & Ken G. Smith | Oxford University Press, USA (August 25, 2005) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0195161440 # ISBN-13: 978-0195161441 | PDF | 1.46MB
Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle.
For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established some market advantages, it provides an action plan for exploiting relative resources; for mature firms, it explains how to exploit market position; finally, for firms that have no decisive resource advantage, it provides an action plan based on firm co-operative reactions.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Global Corporate Capital Flows, 2008/9 to 2013/14 by KPMG
Global Corporate Capital Flows, 2008/9 to 2013/14
KPMG | English | 28 pages | PDF | 1 MB
New survey finds evidence for shift in balance of global economic power. These conclusions come from a global survey of corporate investment plans carried out by KPMG International. Corporate investment strategists from over 300 of the largest multinational companies in 15 major economies were asked where they plan to invest in the next 12 months and in five years' time.[Ziddu] Download Link
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Introduction to Econometrics by Christopher Dougherty
# Author: Christopher Dougherty
# Paperback: 368 pages
# Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition (March 25, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0198776438
# ISBN-13: 978-0198776437
# Format: PDF | 2.63MB
Introduction to Econometrics,2/e offers a step-by-step introductory guide to the core areas of econometrics. Accessible to readers with limited mathematical backgrounds, the book provides an analytical and an intuitive understanding of the classical linear regression model. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised with the inclusion of new material on specification tests, binary choice models, tobit analysis, sample selection bias, nonstationary time series, and unit root tests and cointegration.
About the Author
Christopher Dougherty is a Senior Lecturer in Economics, London School of Economics.
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Salvador Dali (Library Binding) by Tim McNeese
# Author: Tim McNeese
# 120 pages
# Publisher: Chelsea House Publications (January 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0791088375
# ISBN-13: 978-0791088371
# PDF | 1.24MB
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound.
Dalí insisted on his "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors who occupied Southern Spain for nearly 800 years (711-1492), and attributed to these origins, "my love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes."
Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. The purposefully-sought notoriety led to broad public recognition and many purchases of his works by people from all walks of life.
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101 Small Business Ideas for Under $5000 by Corey Sandler, Janice Keefe
Corey Sandler, Janice Keefe | Wiley; 1 edition (April 18, 2005) | English | 336Pages | ISBN-10: 0471692875 # ISBN-13: 978-0471692874 | PDF | 3.29MB
Cheap and easy ideas for starting a small business
101 Small Business Ideas for Under $5,000 offers practical, real-world advice for turning ideas and skills into a successful small business. The book presents great ideas for simple small businesses that readers can undertake either full-time or in their spare time and covers all the issues readers need to know -startup costs, legal issues, accounting, taxes, and everything else. Once readers decide what business is right for them, the authors provide sensible business plans for making it happen. They show wannabe entrepreneurs how to get started, find funding, and build a sales and marketing program. Legal, zoning, and insurance requirements are provided for each business idea, as well as advice on expanding the business-and the profits. Future business owners who don't know where to start will find everything they need here.
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2500 Keywords to Get You Hired by Jay A. Block, Michael Betrus
Jay A. Block, Michael Betrus | McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 19, 2002) | English | 224Pages | ISBN-10: 0071406735 ISBN-13: 978-0071406734 | PDF | 780KB
Endorsed by the Professional Association of Resume Writers
Now that 70 percent of job searches are conducted online, and resumes are processed by computers programmed to scan for keywords, knowing the right keywordsor buzzwords associated with a profession, industry, or job functionand how to use them effectively has never been a more critical job-search skill.
The most comprehensive reference of its kind, this powerful resume-writing resource gives readers instant access to 2,500 indispensable keywords germane to 300 careers in nine employment categoriesfrom business, the law, and health care, to the arts, education and mediaand shows how to use them effectively.
In 2,500 Keywords to Get You Hired, readers will find:
- Keywords for hundreds of individual careers
- A complete listing of critical keywords for each career
- Boxed examples demonstrating how keywords can be deployed strategically in a resume
- Sample resumes incorporating keywords
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Magic Words That Bring You Riches by Ted Nicholas
Ted Nicholas | Access Publishers Network (December 1998) | English | 322 Pages |ISBN-10: 1887741003 ISBN-13: 978-1887741002 | PDF | 11.7MB
Ted Nicholas is one of the greatest direct marketers of all time. Ted sold over 24.5 million dollars of the book, How To Form Your Own Corporation Without a Lawyer for Under $75, principally through direct marketing methods.
He is one of the greatest living copywriters. He earns as much as $500,000 from a single 1,000 word ad. So you see, to Ted Nicholas, words are truly magic. He has the "magic" ability to turn words into money.
The first part of this book is "magic phrases" to get what you want. Would you like to get the very best table in any restaurant? Attract a member of the opposite sex and immediately generate interest? Attract all the money you need for any business venture? Ted gives you the "magic words".
In the second half of this book, Ted shares his secrets for accomplishing marketing miracles with space ads and sales letters. Through his career, he invested over $100,000,000 in tests to find the right words and what works. Here, he reveals many of the secrets learned through those tests - saving you time and money by avoiding wasted advertising efforts.
- How to write headlines that make sales soar!
- How to create ads that bring in millions in sales.
- Today's best no cost low cost marketing strategies.
- How to get marketing rights to a hot product for as little as $250.
- How to triple the power of successful ads.
- How to write the ideal sales letter.
And much more, complete with many examples of Ted's ads and sales letters. He explains the strategies and magic phrases that he used and you can use for successful marketing.
What happened to Ted Nicholas? He is semi-retired, enjoying life in his retirement home in Switzerland.
He has been generous in showing the way for others to follow his example of achieving financial independence through direct marketing. Wise businesspeople will be sure to study the work of this great master marketer.
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MIT Sloan Magazine, Winter 2008
MIT Sloan Magazine, Winter 2008
English | 62 pages | PDF | 2.7 MB
MIT Sloan magazine, published by the Alumni Office, provides the entire MIT Sloan community with important news about the School and alumni, as well as insights into pressing issues facing alumni today — both professionally and personally. The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply chain management, information technology, and many other fields.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption by John Perkins
John Perkins | Dutton Adult (June 5, 2007) | Language: English | 384 Pages | ISBN-10: 052595015X # ISBN-13: 978-0525950158 | PDF | 1.03MB
Having made a splash with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Perkins offers similarly entertaining but disturbing accounts of the American government wreaking havoc around the world in support of American business. In Perkins's view, American presidents willingly comply with their CEO masters, distributing foreign aid to corrupt Third World leaders who keep a share and return the rest to U.S. business for major projects, leaving their nations poor and massively in debt, and requiring more loans and slavish obedience to U.S. policy. If any leader objects, the CIA destabilizes his government, by assassination if necessary. Gathering evidence is not Perkins's strong suit. Typically, a shadowy figure pulls him aside, insists on anonymity, then reveals all. Critics will rightfully accuse Perkins of dreadful journalism and a taste for conspiracy theories. Yet economists admit that loans and "expert advice" to poor nations are often harmful. Few deny that America has ruthlessly undermined uncooperative governments and supported dictators including Saddam Hussein. Perkins's assertions that the U.S. assassinated Ecuador's reformist president and connived at genocide in Timor and Sudan are not absurd, merely unproven. This book's greatest value may be to encourage a competent journalist to cover the same ground.
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Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies by Michael Duane Archer
# Author: Michael Duane Archer # Paperback: 190 pages # Publisher: Wiley; 7 edition (November 9, 2007) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0470073926 # ISBN-13: 978-0470073926 # Format: PDF | 13MB
A Highly Visual Guide To Developing A Personal Forex Trading Strategy. Getting Started In Forex Trading Strategies
"A great next step to read for the beginning trader. It contains practical advice and resources on trading FOREX that only come with experience."
-Derek Ching, President, Hawaii Forex
"We have members from over 125 countries on our Web site and plan to make Getting Started in ForexTrading Strategies a 'must read' for those looking to trade the FOREX market. It is good to see a book that emphasizes the importance of other elements, such as money management, which are crucial to master if one is to stay in this game. Well done!"
-Jay Meisler, cofounder, Global-View.com
Written in a straightforward and accessible style, Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies is a highly visual guide to foreign exchange trading that introduces you to the Codex Method-a proven process that allows you to tailor a trading strategy to your own personal preferences.
Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with a brief overview of traditional FOREX strategies. From here, author Michael Duane Archer outlines his own personal codex-as he guides you through the process of developing yours-and reveals how to use this approach to make, monitor, and exit a trade. Along the way, Archer reveals the best ways to implement your strategy and discusses the importance of consistently keeping trading records.
In his previous book, Getting Started in Currency Trading, Archer set a solid foundation for trading the currency market by illustrating how it operated. Now, with Getting Started in Forex Trading Strategies, Archer goes a step further by showing you how to cultivate a personal trading strategy that will allow you to succeed within this dynamic environment.
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Mastering the Trade (McGraw-Hill Trader's Edge) by John F. Carter
# Author: John F. Carter
# Hardcover: 388 pages
# Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (December 7, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0071459588
# ISBN-13: 978-0071459587
# Format: PDF | 7.35MB
Mastering the Trade presents you with a step-by-step, innovative approach for becoming a successful professional trader. Full-time trader and fund manager John F. Carter combines an insightful market overview with specific trading strategies and concepts, providing you with chart setups, trading methodologies, vital money management principles, essential psychological guidelines, advice on powerful hardware and software, and more.
This results-driven book sets aside timeworn basics and rehashed ideas to present and examine in detail the underlying reasons that cause prices to move. Its proven program can be used to consistently get in early on market moves, either jumping right back out when you realize you've made a mistake or hanging on for a long and profitable ride.
From valuable hardware and software to market mechanics, pivot points, position sizing, and much, much more, Mastering the Trade covers:
- The five psychological truths that you must know to transform yourself from a deer-in-the-headlights beginner into a savvy professional
- Proven set-ups, with optimal markets and a set of non-negotiable trading rules for increasing the effectiveness of each
- Exact entry, exit, and stop loss levels for the intraday trading of stocks, options, ETFs, emini futures, 30 year bonds, Forex currency markets, and more
- Seven key internals, from TICKS to 5-minute volume, that are critical for gauging pending market direction from the opening bell
- A pre-market checklist to analyze recent market behavior and calculate what you plan to do, how you plan to do it, and why
- Non-negotiable risk control techniques that protect trading capital, the most important component of a professional trading career
- Tools and techniques for stripping away the cookies, spam, and other hard drive cloggers that rob you of valuable computer speed
After spending years on various trading desks, John Carter developed an intuitive understanding of how the markets work. In Mastering the Trade, Carter gives you unlimited access to everything you need to know--which trading systems work best in specific markets, techniques for controlling losses, internal strategies for overcoming the danger of emotions--to make an exceptional living on the frontlines of professional trading.
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Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading by Alexander Elder
# Author: Alexander Elder
# Publisher: Wiley; 1st edition (April 19, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0471225347
# ISBN-13: 978-0471225348
# Format: PDF | 3MB
In Come Into My Trading Room, noted trader and author Dr. Alexander Elder returns to expand far beyond the three M's (Mind, Method, and Money) of his bestselling Trading for a Living. Shifting focus from technical analysis to the overall management of a trader's money, time, and strategy, Dr. Elder takes readers from the fundamentals to the secrets of being a successful trader--identifying new, little known indicators that can lead to huge profits.
Come Into My Trading Room educates the novice and fortifies the professional through expert advice and proven trading methodologies. This comprehensive trading guide provides a complete introduction to the essentials of successful trading; a fresh look at the three M's, including a proven, step-by-step money management strategy; and an in-depth look at organizing your trading time. Come Into My Trading Room reviews the basics of trading stocks, futures, and options as well as crucial psychological tactics for discipline and organization—with the goal of turning anyone into a complete and successful trader.
By showing traders how to combine the elements of mind, method, and money, Come Into My Trading Room gives readers the knowledge and insight to enter the market with confidence and exit with profits. Unparalleled depth and a wide range of coverage will keep all levels of traders engaged, informed, and returning to Come Into My Trading Room again and again.
Dr. Alexander Elder (New York, NY) is a professional trader, technical analysis expert, and practicing psychiatrist. He is the founder of Financial Trading Inc., providing intensive trading camps to traders all over the world. Elder's first book Trading for a Living (Wiley: 0471592242) and the companion study guide have sold over 160,000 copies.
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A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics: How to Profit Using Pivot Points, Candlesticks & Other Indicators by John L. Person
# Author: John L. Person
# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Wiley (April 21, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 047158455X
# ISBN-13: 978-0471584551
# PDF | 5MB
Are you looking for time-tested trading techniques that professional stock index and futures traders use?
Futures and options markets can be profitable arenas for both novice and experienced traders. But to come out on top, you must have a solid understanding of the markets, the technical tools used to trade them, and yourself.
After twenty-five years as abroker, trader, and educator in the futures and options field, John Person has associated with trading legends and manysuccessful traders and witnessed firsthand their strategies for success. Out of these real-time experiences, he shares the valuable insights you will find in A Complete Guide to Technical Trading Tactics. Novice and experienced alike will gain a better understanding of the mechanics of the markets and methodologies that work.
Person demonstrates multiple trading methodologies using pivot point analysis and shows you how you can implement these key calculations with other methods and indicators. To understand this approach, you don’t have to abandon your knowledge of traditional technical analysis techniques. All you have to do is be open to integrating the theories to help you confirm, validate, and identify entry and exit points when trading.
By learning how to better integrate elements of market analysis such as time and price, you’ll be ready to trade with confidence and achieve success. The proven methodologies that are discussed from the technical side include:
- Pivot points–a leading price indicator that is based on price points using different time frames
- Cycle analysis–which deals with predicting market turning points based on time
- Candle chart patterns–which are based on price relationships between the open, high, low, and close including past chart points such as old highs or lows
- Fibonacci ratio corrections and extension studies–which are based on past price points
- Mental thought processes–the last and maybe the most important aspect of trading, which will help you evaluate your psychological makeup and overcomerough spots to stay focused when trading
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Stock Trader's Almanac 2008 (Almanac Investor Series) by Jeffrey A. Hirsch
# Autohr: Jeffrey A. Hirsch # Spiral-bound: 192 pages # Publisher: Wiley; Spi edition (October 5, 2007) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0470109858 # ISBN-13: 978-0470109854 # PDF | 2MB
The Stock Trader's Almanac is a practical investment tool that has helped traders and investors forecast market trends with accuracy and confidence for over 40 years. Organized in an easy-to-access calendar format, the 2008 Edition contains historical price information on the stock market, provides monthly and daily reminders, and alerts users to seasonal opportunities and dangers. For its wealth of information and authority of its sources, the Stock Trader's Almanac stands alone as the guide to intelligent investing.
"Jeff Hirsch is following in the great tradition of his father, Yale Hirsch, with this nonpareil almanac of Wall Street data. It's a treasure for investors who want to remember the past as they plan for the future."
—Louis Rukeyser, late founding host, Wall $treet Week
"Information is key to successful investing and investors will find the Almanac a chock-a-block source of need-to-know stuff."
—Steve Forbes, President, CEO, and Editor in Chief, Forbes
"I have every issue since 1976 in my bookcase. The Stock Trader's Almanac is an invaluable resource."
—Marty Zweig, author, Martin Zweig's Winning on Wall Street
—Myron Kandel, founding financial editor, CNN
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Search Engine Advertising: Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales by Catherine Seda
Catherine Seda | New Riders Press (March 5, 2004) | English | 368 Pages | ISBN-10: 0735713995 ISBN-13: 978-0735713994 | PDF | 4MB
You don't have to have the biggest name or the most dazzling graphics to lure customers to your Web site. These days, all you really need is prominent search-engine placement. This book shows you how to get it! With searching one of the most popular Internet activities, a top spot on a major search engine virtually ensures a high volume of visitors--though converting them to buyers is another story. In these pages, top Internet marketer and strategist Catherine Seda tackles both parts of that equation. First, she outlines the strategy involved in buying the specific keyword positions that will lead users directly to the page you want. Then, she describes how you can turn poor-performing ad copy into targeted sales-getters, and how you can evaluate and correct low visitor-to-buyer conversions. Beginning marketers will find the info they need to implement a Web strategy quickly, while advanced marketers will find all kinds of tips for analyzing and improving current results.
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101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site: Filled with Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Resources to Increase Your Web Site Traffic
Susan Sweeney | Maximum Press; 4th edition (November 1, 2002) | English | 528 Pages | ISBN-10: 1885068905 ISBN-13: 978-1885068903 | PDF | 9.49MB
The key to a web site’s success is its ability to entice surfers to stop at that site, absorb what it offers, and return at a later date. This guide provides tools such as templates, checklists, and forms as well as proven techniques such as using e-mail, links, and online advertising to increase the number of initial users and repeat visitors to the web site. This resource will prove invaluable to entrepreneurs, small business owners, corporate marketing managers, and consultants seeking the skills needed to make a web site successful. This replaces 188506845X
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"This is exactly the key information I needed for my Internet marketing campaign. Ask me if I'm doing cartwheels." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog by Margaret Mason
Margaret Mason | Peachpit Press; 1 edition (August 21, 2006) | English | 144 Pages | ISBN-10: 032144972X ISBN-13: 978-0321449726 | PDF | 3MB
Tired of filling up your blog with boring posts? Take the next step and get inspired to create something unique. Author Margaret Mason shows you the way with this fun collection of inspirational ideas for your blog. Nobody Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog is a unique idea-book for bloggers seeking fun, creative inspiration. Margaret gives writers the prompts they need to describe, imagine, investigate and generate clever posts. Sample ideas include:
Writing a serial novel
Conducting unnecessary experiments
Creating your autobiography
Public eavesdropping
And much, much more
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The Complete TurtleTrader: The Legend, the Lessons, the Results by Michael W. Covel
Michael W. Covel | Collins (October 9, 2007) | Language: English | ISBN-10: 0061241709 # ISBN-13: 978-0061241703 | PDF | 2.68MB
Covel (Trend Following) revisits a famous financial trading experiment conducted by Wall Street trader Richard Dennis and extracts its lessons with mixed results. Dennis, who quickly learned how to trade after starting as a runner at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1966 at age 17, had made a reported $200 million by 1983. To settle an argument with fellow trader William Eckhardt about whether trading ability was innate or could be taught, he put an ad in the Wall Street Journal offering to teach candidates how to trade in two weeks, and then backed them with his own money. Of the thousands of people who who applied, 23 turtles were accepted. Their trading made $100 million for Dennis, leading some to become highly successful traders in their own right. Having tracked down most of the people involved, Covel describes the turtle training, including rules for entering and exiting trades as well as Dennis and Eckhardt's personal lessons, and speculates on why some turtles succeeded more than others. However, there are too many characters with competing interests, and many missing facts. Covel's own strong views can also get more emphasis than the voices of the principals. Still, the book is a useful training manual distilling the lessons of a fascinating experiment.
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Men's Health, May 2008
Men's Health, May 2008
English | PDF | 32.9 MB
Drive her wild
Turn your good girl bad.
Lean & strong
Master the side bridge to build killer abs and a more stable core.
The ultimate V-building workout
Carve your torso with three smashing workouts, and give Michelangelo a new model for David.
Drink beer to lose weight
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