10 Secrets Every Father Should Know ...
The most important person in a young girl’s life? Her father.
That’s right—and teen health expert Dr. Meg Meeker has the data and clinical experience to prove it.
(From the Pivotal Package - Books for Families)
The Alpha Force Series by Chris Ryan - great adventure titles for boys (and girls!) - from the Kids Booklists package Action Novels
Speak to Win: How to Present with Power in Any Situation
Brian Tracy
EAN:978-0814401576
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Amacom
Published in: United States
Published: January 2008
There's nothing worse than sitting in the audience while an inept speaker stumbles through an ill-conceived business presentation-- unless, of course, you're the one floundering in the spotlight. In 101 Ways to Captivate a Business Audience, Sue Gaulke, founder of the Speaker's Training Camp, strips the mysteries from the process by showing how to prepare and present an effective address that will successfully involve your audience and deliver your message.
How to Make a Fortune from Public Speaking
Robert Anthony
EAN:978-0425113271
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Berkley (MM)
Published: December 1988
Multimillion-copy bestselling author and prominent psychologist Dr. Robert Anthony offers the secrets to breaking into this lucrative field--and guides readers to a career that can bring them national acclaim and astounding wealth! At the price it is a real bargain--despite its age.
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
Eric Weiner
Fortified with Eeyoreish fatalism—I’m already unhappy. I have nothing to lose—self-confessed grump Eric “Whiner” took a yearlong tour of a very unusual assortment of countries (sample: Holland, Qatar, Bhutan and Iceland), most of which have been chosen because they are home to some of the happiest resident populations in the world, (although a couple are chosen to present a contrast). Weiner is confronted with a few inconvenient truths. Contrary to expectations, neither greater social equality nor greater cultural diversity is associated with greater happiness. In the end, he realized happiness isn’t about economics or geography. Maybe it’s not even personal so much as relational. There are some interesting conclusions drawn about what does and doesn’t make for happiness, about the importance of democracy and wealth (so revered in the US) and how they are part of the answer but far from being the solution.
In the end, Weiner’s travel tales provide great happiness for his readers. Weiner has a lovely turn of phrase (reminiscent of Bill Bryson) and although The Geography of Bliss wasn’t as laugh-out-loud funny as I expected (more dryly amusing), it is both immensely readable and packed to the gills with fascinating nuggets of information.
If you’re looking for a definitive answer to the book’s premise, i.e., that happiness is about place, you might be disappointed. If, however, you are game for a journey about exploring that concept, Eric Weiner’s book is for you. At once intelligent and witty, Geography of Bliss takes the reader to unfamiliar places to meet strangely familiar people. That’s because the essence of what makes us happy (or unhappy) is basically the same everywhere, alloyed only by our culture and circumstances. Weiner has studied the scientific literature on happiness, too, and weaves it into his narrative, which he leavens with a steady stream of clever quips. It’s a book that will make you think and laugh on the same page. And, it might just make you happy.
The book can teach Americans some valuable lessons and I recommend it big time.
It takes a chapter or two to decide you like him, and another to realize that you like him a lot, but by the time the trip is over, you find yourself hoping that you’ll hit the road together again someday. The Geography of Bliss is a journey too good to be rare.
This book is also available from Amazon
There's a Hippopotamus on our roof eating cake
Hazel Edwards
My daddy says there's a hole in our roof. I know why there's a hole. There's a hippopotamus on our roof eating cake.' This classic story about one of the largest and most famous imaginary friends has been delighting children around the world now for 30 years.
http://bit.ly/jjjXT0 for more on the book, the trailer and fiction activities for the book
Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
After Zoe and Max's last attempt to conceive fails tragically, their marriage breaks apart. When Zoe falls in love again and considers having a family, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used. But who do they really belong to? An honest and moving story of contemporary relationships and the consequences when love and desire collide with science and the law.
More (plus the trailer) here => http://bit.ly/oREe9n
The Foundations of Computing and the Information Technology Age: A historical, sociological and philosophical enquiry
by John Thornton
EAN:978-0733988486
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson Education Australia
Publication Date: 2007
The Foundations of Computing and the Information Technology Age is a book both for undergraduate computing students and for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of technology in the modern world. Dispensing with simplistic explanations, the book first considers the evolution of the computer from the origins of number to the development of the microprocessor. It goes on to provide a theoretical explanation of computation and a practical demonstration of how a computer works. Using this as background, the text then examines the phenomenon of information technology within the broader context of modern science, culture and civilisation. In this way, the reader is drawn to consider how our technical, materialistic understandings have ignored the underlying reality from which all technology emerges: human consciousness.
RRP $80.95 Our price $26.95 => http://bit.ly/q6kPl3
I think of the paperback game as a summertime entertainment, best played in beach and lake houses and old inns, all of which tend to collect visitors’ random and abandoned books. So the weekend of the Fourth of July seems like a good time to share, review and/or clarify the rules. From here you can bend them to your will and make the game your own.
Here’s what you’ll need to play: slips of paper (index cards work well), a handful of pencils or pens and a pile of paperback books. Any sort of book will do, from a Dostoyevsky to a Jennifer Egan, and from diet guides to the Kama Sutra. But we’ve found it’s especially rewarding to use genre books: mysteries, romance novels, science fiction, pulp thrillers, westerns, the cheesier the better. If you don’t have well-thumbed mass-market paperbacks in your house, you can usually buy a pile from your library, or from a used-book store, for roughly 50 cents a pop.
The 7 Blessings is the spell-binding fable that takes place deep within the great subterranean city known as the Septropolis hewn from the bedrock beneath The Great Mountain by the legendary King Termaine to protect his beloved people from the dangers of invasion and the perils of a hostile world. Accompany Nena, Ohma, Plabius and Ishim as they embark upon their noble quest to discover the secrets of the seven blessings in hope of saving their world from the devastation and destruction at the hands of the power-hungry and ruthless rulers whose actions threaten its very survival. With so many parallels to our modern day world, the lessons that await our heroes are the same ones that our own world leaders need to grasp and implement if we are to live in harmony and peace and avoid self-annihilation and the destruction of our planet. The Seven Blessings will fascinate and entertain you as it teaches you the key principles you’ll need to live your best life. |
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