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The Perfect Hire
Brief Summary
The Perfect Hire: A Tactical Guide to Hiring, Developing, and Retaining Top Sales Talent
Be it time, money, opportunities lost—the cost of finding and hiring a new sales person is significant. Expert sales strategist Kathy Graham-Leviss takes the woes out of recruiting sales people and introduces a research-based, five-step formula for hiring, developing, and retaining top sales talent.
ISBN:9781599184210
Author:Katherine Graham-Leviss
Brilliant Pitch
Brief Summary
Brilliant Pitch: What to Know, Do and Say to Make the Perfect Pitch.
In business, there is a moment when everyone has to make a pitch when the consequences of failure are too painful to even contemplate.
This book will equip people to tackle pitch situations (however tough), improve their own skills and, importantly, leave them enthused about the idea of pitching.
ISBN:9780273725114
Author:Shaun Varga
50 Genetics Ideas
Brief Summary
In recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for otherwise incurable diseases. But these advances are also generating controversy, particularly surrounding issues such as cloning and designer babies.
In 50 Genetics Ideas, Mark Henderson distils the central ideas of genetics in a series of clear and concise essays. Beginning with the theory of evolution, and covering such topics as the genome and how nature and nurture work together, he not only illuminates the role of genes in shaping our behavior and sexuality, but also the very latest, cutting-edge developments in gene therapy and artificial life.
Accessible and informative, 50 Genetics Ideas is a timely introduction to this young and ground-breaking strand of science.
ISBN:9781847246714
Author:Mark Henderson
Scribbling the Cat
Brief Summary
When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scribbled the cat, he told her.
Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange friendship with the man she calls K, a white African and veteran of the Rhodesian War.
A man of contradictions, K is battle-scarred and work-weathered, a born-again Christian and given to weeping for the failure of his romantic life and the burden of his memories. Driven by K's these memories of the war, they decide to enter the heart of darkness in the most literal way, by travelling from Zambia through Zimbabwe and Mozambique to visit the scenes of the war and to meet other veterans. The result is a remarkably unbiased and unsentimental glimpse of life in Africa.
ISBN:9780330433990
Author:Alexandra Fuller
Find Peace With Tai Chi
Brief Summary
Find Peace with Tai Chi: Teach Yourself: A beginner's guide to the ideas and essential principles of Tai Chi
This is the perfect introduction for beginners who want to learn the essential principles behind Tai Chi without overcomplicated instructions or confusing detail.
You will learn the basic ideas and get into the Tai Chi way of thinking before picking up the 'form' and exercises through a series of simple illustrations designed for all abilities, leaving you with the perfect antidote to the stresses of 21st-century life.
ISBN:B004G5Z2GC
Author:Robert Parry
Ake The Years of Childhood
Brief Summary
A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka.
"Aké: The Years of Childhood" gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Aké. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions.
His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view.
A classic of African autobiography, "Aké" is also a transcendently timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood.
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ISBN:9780679725404
Author:Wole Soyinka
Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
Brief Summary
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
We All Need Mentors. Here Are More than 100 of the World’s Best.
When facing life’s questions, who do you turn to for advice? We all need mentors, particularly when the odds seem stacked against us. To find his own, four-time #1 best-selling author Tim Ferriss tracked down more than 100 eclectic experts to help him, and you, navigate life. Through short, action-packed profiles, he shares their secrets for success, happiness, meaning, and more. No matter the challenge or opportunity, something in these pages can help.
You will learn:
• The three books legendary investor Ray Dalio recommends most often
• Lessons and tips from elite athletes like Maria Sharapova, Kelly Slater, Dara Torres, Tony Hawk, Dan Gable, and more
• How and why Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz says no to most incoming requests
• The mental models of poker phenoms Daniel Negreanu, Annie Duke, Fedor Holz, and Liv Boeree
• The meditation and mindfulness practices of David Lynch, Jimmy Fallon, Sharon Salzberg, Rick Rubin, Richa Chadha, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and others
• The high-school loss that motivated actor Terry Crews for life . . . and how you can use the lesson
• Why TED curator Chris Anderson thinks "pursue your passion” is terrible advice
• Why renowned designer Debbie Millman believes in therapy but not in work-life balance
• How Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens went from repeated rejections to global mega-bestseller
• The new beliefs, behaviors, and habits that have most helped cryptocurrency icons (founders of Ethereum, Zcash, etc.) in the last five years
• Why Arianna Huffington recommends that you regularly scramble apps on your phone
• The "bar complex” exercise that keeps country star Tim McGraw young
• Why bestselling author Steven Pressfield believes college students should drive trucks and become cowboys
• Why comedian Patton Oswalt wishes at least one catastrophic failure on anyone in the arts
• Astrophysicist Janna Levin’s unique reframe that helps her see obstacles as opportunities
• Why actor Ben Stiller likes to dunk his head in a bucket of ice in the morning
• Why Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston’s cheat sheet for his younger self would include a tennis ball, a circle, and the number 30,000.
Other mentors include Neil Gaiman, Ashton Kutcher, Dita Von Teese, Marc Benioff, Evan Williams, Brandon Stanton, Esther Perel, Darren Aronofsky, Steve Aoki, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Stephanie McMahon, Craig Newmark, Gretchen Rubin, Bear Grylls, Laura Walker, Mr. Money Mustache (Pete Adeney), Linda Rottenberg, Jesse Williams, and many more.
Complete Mandarin Chinese Teach Yourself
Brief Summary
Complete Mandarin Chinese: A Teach Yourself Guide provides you with a clear and comprehensive approach to Mandarin Chinese, so you can progress quickly from the basics to understanding, speaking, and writing Mandarin Chinese with confidence.
Within each of the thematic chapters, important language structures are introduced through life-like dialogues. You'll learn grammar in a gradual manner so you won't be overwhelmed by this tricky subject. Exercises accompany the texts and reinforce learning in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
This program also features current cultural information boxes that reflect recent changes in society.
The accompanying audio CDs include audio exercises--performed by native speakers--that reinforce communicative skills
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ISBN:9780340958940
Author:Elizabeth Scurfield
Teach yourself Kalenjin 2CDs
Brief Summary
This new English-Kalenjin book is easy to use for all beginners. It covers a wide range of categorized vocabulary and expressions compiled by language experts and recorded by native speakers to help the learner capture the correct pronunciation in Kalenjin.
Learners will quickly build their vocabulary and develop their communication skills through constant use of simplified dialogues that facilitate quick learning.
This book also touches on some Kalenjin cultural aspects that one needs for every day communication.
ISBN:2010133000766
Author:Ann Patrick
Teach Yourself Complete French
Brief Summary
Do you want to develop a solid understanding of French and communicate confidently with others?
Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete French will equip you with the skills you need to use French in a variety of settings and situations, developing your cultural awareness along the way.
What will I achieve by the end of the course?
By the end of Complete French you will have a solid intermediate-level* grounding in the four key skills - reading, writing, speaking and listening - and be able to communicate with confidence and accuracy.
Is this course for me?
If you want to move confidently from beginner to intermediate level, this is the course for you. It's perfect for the self-study learner, with a one-to-one tutor, or for the beginner classroom. It can also be used as a refresher course.
What do I get?
• 25 learning units plus verbs reference and word glossary and revision section
• Discovery Method - figure out rules and patterns to make the language stick
• Teaches the key skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking
• Learn to learn - tips and skills on how to be a better language learner
• Culture notes - learn about the people and places of France
• Outcomes-based learning - focus your studies with clear aims
• Authentic listening activities - everyday conversations give you a flavour of real spoken French
• Test Yourself - see and track your own progress
*Complete French maps from A1 Beginner to B1/B2 Upper Intermediate level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) and Novice Low to Advanced Low level proficiency of ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) guidelines.
This pack includes a full-color book and two CDs of audio material. This title can also be used in conjunction with the French Teach Yourself Languages Online course
ISBN:9781444177299
Author:Gaelle Graham
Make Yourself Unforgettable
Brief Summary
Make Yourself Unforgettable: How to Become the Person Everyone Remembers and No One Can Resist
From one of the most trusted and bestselling brands in business training, Make Yourself Unforgettable reveals how to develop and embody unforgettable qualities so you can become the effective and desirable colleague and friend possible.
Learn how to develop and embody the ten essential elements of being unforgettable!
What does it really mean to have class? How do you distinguish yourself from the crowd and become a successful leader? When should intuition guide your business decisions? The answers to these and other important questions can be found in this dynamic and inspiring guidebook for anyone looking to lead a life of greater meaning and influence.
In Make Yourself Unforgettable you can learn the secrets to making a positive, lasting impression, including:
• The six steps to managing communication problems
• The four unexpected stumbling blocks to ethical behavior and how to avoid them
• A new way to understand and exude confidence
• Techniques for building resiliency and preventing fear
• The five key social skills that identify someone as a class act
Once you discover how you can naturally and effortlessly distinguish yourself, you’ll quickly find people in all areas of life responding to you more positively and generously than ever before.
ISBN:9781439188224
Author:Dale Carnegie
Learning from Experience
Brief Summary
Learning from Experience: How to Succeed in Life
Here is an inspirational book presenting the secrets for success in life, Dr Mulwa, through sharing his own experiences and the book home:'
You only live once. Therefore, do everything you set for yourself to do with the utmost commitment. Don’t live life on a probation basis or as a rehearsal.
ISBN:9789966085467
Author:Francis W.Mulwa
You Can If You Think You Can
Brief Summary
'This book is produced out of an enthusiastic belief in people and a desire to encourage them to take charge of their lives. If difficulties and problems are ganging up on you and your confidence is shaky, it is hoped that this book may make you realize that you can indeed handle whatever comes and handle it well. ‘Norman Vincent Peale from his Letter to the reader.
Its Always Too Soon to quit
Everyone has problems at some point in their lives. They occur every day in business, family and personal life. Sometimes they seem insurmountable, or there are just too many of them for us to feel able to cope. This book will give you hope -and practical strategies to face the future with confidence.
You Can If You Think You Can shows you how to develop self-trust and motivation, how to forget fear and build calmness, how to recognize problems as challenges and how to tap all your inner resources to live your life to the full.
ISBN:9780749310776
Author:Norman Vincent Peale
The Happiness Equation
Brief Summary
The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything
What’s the formula for a happy life?
Neil Pasricha is a Harvard MBA, a Walmart executive, a New York Times–bestselling author, and a husband and dad. After selling more than a million copies of his Book of Awesome series, he now shifts his focus from observation to application.
In The Happiness Equation, Pasricha illustrates how to want nothing, do anything, and have everything. If that sounds like a contradiction, you simply haven’t unlocked the 9 Secrets to Happiness.
Each secret takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. Pasricha then goes a step further by providing step-by-step guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles that illustrate exactly how to apply each secret to live a happier life today.
Controversial? Maybe. Counterintuitive? Definitely.
The Happiness Equation will teach you such principles as:
• Why success doesn’t lead to happiness
• How to make more money than a Harvard MBA
• Why multitasking is a myth
• How eliminating options leads to more choice
The Happiness Equation is a book that will change how you think about everything—your time, your career, your relationships, your family, and, ultimately, of course, your happiness.
ISBN:9780399169472
Author:Neil Pasricha
Your Souls Compass
Brief Summary
Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance?
Why am I here? What does a life worth living look like?
What is the higher intelligence trying to express through me?
In this time of global change and uncertainty, of spiritual indirection, Americans are asking these age-old questions with renewed curiosity. There’s a thirst for meaning and purpose—a dawning realization that happiness isn’t a commodity that can be bought with a gold card. Fulfillment and joy arise naturally from creative and compassionate action-- from the understanding that all life is interconnected and guided by a higher intelligence.
Our personal choices make a difference, and when they are spiritually inspired even the smallest action serves a larger whole.
Sacred texts ranging from the Torah to the New Testament, the Tao Te Ching to the Buddhist scriptures, the Vedantas to the Koran, speak of making life-enhancing choices where a force greater than the individual flows through us and informs our thoughts and actions. In this book we’ll focus on the three classic aspects of living such a spiritually guided life:
• Alignment: maintaining a direct and personal connection to the Source of our Being;
• Discernment: distinguishing the movement of Spirit in our lives from our own wants, fears and social conditioning; and
• Action: making our best, most inspired contribution to the evolution of life.
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ISBN:9781401907778
Author:Joan Z. Borysenko
The Economist Book of isms
Brief Summary
The Economist Book of isms: From Abolitionism to Zoroastrianism
Concise and informative explanations of the "isms" that have shaped our history and continue to shape our world. Entries include:
• Absurdism, Altruism, Atheism, Bohemianism, Buddhism,
• Capitalism, Colonialism, Cubism, Darwinism, Deism, Determinism, Epicureanism, Fanaticism, Feminism, Freeganism, Globalism, Hedonism, Historicism,
• Humanitarianism, Imperialism, Institutionalism, Islamism, Isolationism, Jingoism, Keynesianism, Libertarianism, Localism, Maoism, Militarism, Modernism, Multiculturalism,
• Neo-conservatism, Nihilism, Optimism, Orientalism, Paganism, Pan-Africanism,
• Post structuralism, Quietism, Racism, Rastafarianism, Realism, Republicanism, Romanticism, Sikhism, Stoicism, Structuralism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Taoism, Thatcherism, Unionism, Utilitarianism, Veganism, White Nationalism, Zionism, Zoratrianism
ISBN:9781846682988
Author:John Andrews
Chocolate decadent and delicious
Brief Summary
Chocolate; decadent and delicious homemade treats (Love Food)
Enjoy the ultimate feel-good food, chocolate! From the first bite of a melt-in-the-mouth chocolate torte to the last slurp of a chocolate ice cream, it's a taste that many of us just can't get enough of.
Now chocoholics everywhere can indulge their passion for tempting treats with Chocolate.
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ISBN:9781445487601
Author:Parragon Books and Love Food Editors
The Good Girl
Brief Summary
The Number One bestselling author is back with a dark, compelling and controversial novel of one family's darkest secrets.
Fallen in love?
Yet for straight-A student Romy, Ailsa's teenage daughter, there's no escaping the intense attraction she feels towards their youngest son, Jay.
Trusted a stranger?
So when Jay tells Romy his darkest secret, she only wants to help.
Destroyed your family?
But Romy's actions could be the catalyst that tears her world apart...
ISBN:9780718181277
Author:Fiona Neill
Reality Check
Brief Summary
Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, out-managing, and out-marketing Your Competition
More uncommon common sense from the bestselling author of The Art of the Start.
In Silicon Valley slang, a "bozo explosion” is what causes a lean, mean, fighting machine of a company to slide into mediocrity. As Guy Kawasaki puts it, "If the two most popular words in your company are partner and strategic, and partner has become a verb, and strategic is used to describe decisions and activities that don’t make sense” . . . it’s time for a reality check.
For nearly three decades, Kawasaki has earned a stellar reputation as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit. His 2004 bestseller, The Art of the Start, has become the most acclaimed bible for small business. And his blog is consistently one of the fifty most popular in the world.
Now, Kawasaki has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in handy book form. From competition to customer service, innovation to marketing, he shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking to commonsense practices. He explains, for instance:
• How to get a standing ovation
• The art of schmoozing
• How to create a community
• The top ten lies of entrepreneurs
• Everything you wanted to know about getting a job in Silicon Valley but didn’t know who to ask
Provocative, useful, and very funny, this "no bull shiitake” book will show you why readers around the world love Guy Kawasaki.
ISBN:9781591842231
Author:Guy Kawasaki
Unhappy Valley Conflict in Kenya and ...
Brief Summary
Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya & Africa, Book 2: Violence & Ethnicity (Eastern African Studies) (Book II)
This long-awaited book is a considerable revision in the understanding of the history of colonial Kenya and, more widely, colonialism in Africa. There is a substantial amount of new work and this is interlocked with shared areas of concern that the authors have been exploring since 1976.
The authors investigate major themes. These include the conquest origins and subsequent development of the colonial state, the contradictory social forces that articulated African societies to European capitalism, and the creation of new political communities and changing meanings of ethnicity in Africa, in the context of social differentiation and class formation. There is substantial new work on the problems of Mau Mau and of wealth, poverty and civic virtue in Kikuyu political thought.
The authors make a fresh contribution to a deeper historical understanding of the development of contemporary Kenyan society and, in particular, of the British and Kukuyu origins of Mau Mau and the emergency of the 1950s.
They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about development, explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist Marxist theory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa.
Book Two on Violence and Ethnicity gives new insights into popular consciousness, into revolutionary change and into the subtle realities of ethnicity; it will be of particular value to readers of Ngugi.
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ISBN:9780821410257
Author:Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale
