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"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special self is nothing". In Donald Worster's magisterial biography, John Muir's "special self" is fully explored as is his extraordinary ability, then and now, to get others to see the sacred beauty of the natural world.

Billionaire businessman named as "One of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs of the Last 100 Years" by the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Allbusiness.com, and Apple Computer talks about his successes, failures, and about the role of passion in his life.

For the first time ever, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Forbes' Richest Self-Made Woman Liz Elting shares her story on how she cofounded and grew TransPerfect, the billion-dollar translation and language solutions company that began as a dream in an NYU dorm room. In Dream Big and Win, Elting divulges practical and inspiring tips you can implement immediately, teaching why success is not solely about attaining and wielding power.

"LOVE YOUR PASSION" is the passionate and moving story of Noel Turner from New Zealand, becoming a global entrepreneur of TURNER New Zealand and a network visionary CEO of FREZZOR.

Michael E. Gerber is the author of 13 business books, including the best seller The E-Myth Revisited. His revolutionary perspective has become the gold standard for small business development throughout the world, making him what INC magazine calls “The World’s #1 Small Business Guru” and one of BusinessWeek’s best-selling authors of past decades.

Les Brown is a top motivational speaker, speech coach, and best-selling author, as well as a loving father and grandfather, whose passion is empowering youth and helping them have a larger vision for their lives. His straight-from-the-heart, high-energy, passionate message motivates and engages all audiences to step into their greatness, providing them with the motivation to take the next step toward living their dreams.

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, Guerrilla Marketing, plus 24 other business books. In this interview, he discusses the nature of passion and how it drives him. There have been 14 million Guerrilla Marketing books sold worldwide, and many university MBA programs offer a course in Guerrilla Marketing. This has become the best-known marketing brand in history.

Joe Vitale is one of the featured teachers in the hit movie The Secret and an all-round marketing genius. In a world which overdoses daily on advertising and marketing messages, you have to know how to stand out and make your message so compelling that every other message pales into insignificance.

Thomas J. Stanley was so inspired by his grandparents 63-year marriage that he decided to take a 75-day road-trip across the U.S. to speak to more than 300 so-called ‘Marriage Masters’ – people who have enjoyed incredible, long-lasting marriages – to find out what the secrets are to sustaining long-lasting, happy unions. "Getting relationships right", whether within the sphere of marriage or outside, is a prerequisite to success for any serious entrepreneur.

The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.