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"Conversation Skills" is a comprehensive guide to improving your communication skills and mastering the art of conversation. Through practical tips and exercises, this book teaches you how to engage and connect with others, build trust and rapport, and handle difficult conversations with grace and confidence.
Some key topics covered in this book include:
• The foundations of good conversation, including active listening, effective body language,...
62) Equinox
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With Drayton out of the picture, Eliza's main priority is protecting her sister. To do so, she embarks on a mission to find out the source of Daisy's power, even if it means some painful revelations.
Jack has never had it easy, but a visit to Project Equinox blows his world apart. As he struggles with what he has learnt he must make the hardest decision of his life.
With new players in town, as well as some familiar faces, Jack and Eliza have to...
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A step by step guide and building instruction book for the DIY farmer and homesteddar, includes detailed drawings and plans for transforming a basic pen into several uses including the pigtiller, pasture raised egg layer, broiler, turkey, goat, sheep, and rabbitat. A handy dog kennel and cold frame makes this one of the most versatile pieces of equipment on your homestead. Other low tech solutions include pallet construction, verticle growing sling...
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Homer Hudelson spent 30 years in the San Francisco Police Department and experienced some extraordinary events firsthand, such as the Dan White Riots, the SF State Civil Rights Demonstrations, and the search for the Zodiac killer. In addition to his role as a police officer, primarily on a motorcycle in the Traffic Division (and eventually a sergeant and lieutenant), Homer shares trials and tribulations from his childhood in the Outer Sunset of what...
66) Buddhism for Beginners: How Buddhist Teachings Bring Happiness, Mindfulness, Peacefulness, Energy, a
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You may be surprised to hear that there is a strong link between Buddhism and true happiness. InBuddhist teachings the central theme is based upon happiness. This religion encourages its followers to show love, kindness and compassion, which in turn provides a happy and positive feeling. Unfortunately we are only human, and therefore we are not capable of being happy twenty four hours a day for the rest of our lives. However, we can try to remain...
67) Bird of Fire
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Theophilus (Theo) Parks is headed for superstardom when he receives a piece of "fan" mail from someone who is hell-bent on making sure he never gets there. He questions the intentions of everyone around him, including his close circle of friends. He eventually tucks his anonymous admirer into the back corner of his mind and continues full speed ahead on his journey to fortune and fame. That is, of course, until his biggest fan starts making good on...
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What People Are Saying About This Book Before April 1, 2002 and the First Edition, these six comments had been made by people who had been reading bits, parts and the whole manuscript. Excellent book. Maybe even a great one. Mark Wright, Salesman Couldnt put it down. Gary Hanus, Farmer Excellent. Excellent. Less Harper, Farrier at Prairie Meadows Excellent. Excellent book. Mrs. Dean Eslinger, Housewife It is a good family story. It is easy to read...
69) Alliance
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They. Are. Here.
Just when things had settled down, the reappearance of Drayton has set everyone on edge, especially as he came with a fierce warning of the Greys.
The harder Eliza and Jack try to keep things on an even keel, the faster they seem to spiral out of control. And then, events take a horrifying turn no one saw coming.
Their only chance is, to join forces with past enemies, but can the alliance last long enough, to defeat the Greys?
Only...
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The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide Second Edition addresses the desperate need in the parent community for more easily accessible and accurate information about infant reflux, its causes and management. It is the essential book for any family with an unsettled baby, who has colic, reflux, and food intolerances or allergies including CMPA.
The Baby Reflux Lady's Survival Guide offers information on the causes of reflux, strategies for management...
71) How to Live in the Woods: Expert Advice on Planning, Outfitting, and Managing a Camping Expedition
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"You may take to the woods to dodge the sheriff or hunt buried treasure, for all I care; my interest is in your preparation for the excursion," declares Homer Halsted, author of this compact guide to camping. With Halsted as your advisor, you'll have everything you need for a successful expedition, whether it's an overnight hike or an extended outing that involves travel by canoe or even dog sled.
Halsted outlines all the essentials, from preparing...
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This is a summary of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. Meditations is essentially a scrapbook of thoughts written over a 19-year period, it's not ordered and it repeats itself frequently as ideas reoccurred to the author at different times. For this reason, it can be hard for a casual reader to extract the myriad messages contained within. This summary helps in that by interpreting Meditations and reducing it from around 50,000 words down to 4,400. While...
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The definitive collection of rare, secret, and arcane tarot knowledge
The Tarot: The Original Teachings Revealed is the ultimate guide to the untold mysteries and lost knowledge of the tarot. This single volume includes eight full books along with excerpts from several more, all from tarot masters of the 19th and 20th century. Many of these critical texts have been forgotten, fallen out of print, or are impossible to acquire. The Tarot reintroduces...
74) A Macat Analysis of David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
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American lawyer-turned-sociologist David Riesman published his first book, The Lonely Crowd, in 1950. Aimed at academics, it nonetheless gained a large popular audience. In it, Riesman explores the links between social character-the ways in which members of a society are similar to one another-and social structures. He argues that as the United States became predominantly consumer-driven, rather than production-driven-particularly after World War...
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Stop worrying about taking notes, losing track of what you've learned or working out what to learn next. This course guides you through the Mandarin language step by step.
Each new question adds a tiny building block to what you already know rather than introducing entirely new sentences and telling you to memorize them. Instead you can intuitively build up an understanding of the language through incremental logical steps.
Each word introduced...
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After World War II ended in 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States began a decades-long confrontation that would become known as the Cold War. American foreign policy focused on "containment"-preventing the communist USSR from gaining more ground-and many people looked at the geographical and political implications of this policy. Others, meanwhile, explored American domestic life in that same period. But historian Elaine Tyler May became the...
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In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet...
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Amid the numerous challenges the United States faces, possibly the greatest of all is overcoming the tremendous swamp of corruption that lines the streets and chambers of Washington D.C.
With pointed wisdom, army veteran Homer W. Worrell, author of Culture Shock, writes this incredibly important book that exposes the mechanics of political lobbying. When officials are elected, their continued success depends on their relationships with wealthy donors....