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Practical health guides with no extremism. Simple to follow rules to follow the habits of the happiest and healthiest people, learn to sleep soundly at night, use a food plan that will eliminate diets forever and keep you healthy for the rest of your life, and use yoga for exercise and thought mellowing, with no politics involved.

Presidential Wisdom contains instructive and inspiring quotations from every president, from George Washington through Barack Obama. Most of us know some of the more famous quotations by the most generally revered six: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., and Ronald Reagan. But don’t overlook the others, such as John Adams, James Madison, and James Monroe, who helped draft the Bill of Rights and Constitution.

The author emphasizes that the Board of Directors should start every meeting discussing the customers. What are they thinking? How is our franchise doing? What are the metrics of repeat business? Trial and similar questions. Why? Because financials are reasonably straightforward, most Board members are good at understanding them without conversation, and customers are the foundation of every organization.

This is the simplest guide to weight loss, getting your weight in balance for the long term, and living a healthy life. The author lost 40 lbs through this plan. But more importantly, as he says, he kept the weight off, the thing most of us fail to do over and over again. The plan emphasizes the overall goal of changing your food plan, not dieting which never seems to work. The plan emphasizes investing in your calories as you would in a financial plan.

Eight best-selling life skills titles: Handling Difficult People, Organize Yourself for a Better Life, Good Manners Is Making Other People Feel Better, Persuade: 54 Ways to Do So, People: 10 Habits to Influence Them, Personal Finance & Investing, Talking Cooking, and Conflict Resolution: Let It Be as You Say.

Rick Perry: Man of the Hour is about how an individual politician rose up to present an Americana approach to running for President. His trademark phrase was, "I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your lives as I can."

Here is the story of Deaver Brown and Simply Magazine facing two critical sales presentations to move forward the company. Created by serial entrepreneur Deaver Brown, this audio contains key background information and analysis, plus 16 crucial questions for students to review to make their work more productive and meaningful. This is one of the few pure sales cases offered in business and MBA programs. Versions of this story are contained in Babson, Texas, Stanford, and Harvard case studies.

Actresses are often written about, but rarely allowed to speak for themselves. This is a list of their most interesting comments about life, love, movies, men, ideas, thoughts, other film people, and more. You will be surprised as we were about who had the most interesting things to say and who didn't. A fascinating can't stop listening audiobook - and why do it anyway? You'll relisten many times and laugh at lot, as well as being inspired by their great insights.

The fourth Tom Walker mystery addresses the issues surrounding the grandchild of a grocery baron who wants to upset the anonymity of the firm and family by moving into major liberal cities such as Boston and New York, which will stir up media interest, criticism of their wealth and power, instead of quietly serving the small towns of America between Worcester, MA west to Gary, Indiana, and north to non-Detroit Michigan and south to non-Louisville, Kentucky, without controversy as they have done for over 50 years.

VC Money describes the best approach to interest VCs in your business venture and what steps to take, in what order, to gain their increasing commitment to your concept as well as to invite them in to be a trusted advisor. The 12 Steps come from the writings of many VCs about what they want to learn about prospective ventures and what are the most important answers they seek. A must-listen for any budding entrepreneur.

This audiobook focuses first on the strategic issues concerning your organization with regard to its development and what tactics are most productive regarding your office space (including home offices as well). The author points out that most organizations just "get an office" without thinking through their requirements for the people who will populate that office. Much management and employee effectiveness is lost in this way; it is also a huge waste of money and resources....

People:10 Ways to Influence Them provides strategies, approaches, and examples about how to influence people effectively. The core foundation is about respecting and understanding them, not you, and learning strategies about how to focus upon their needs and therefore make them receptive to your thoughts because you are trying to get in alignment with theirs. A classic win/win approach that works.

The third Tom Walker Mystery, after 18 and Abduct. A Patricia Highsmith style mystery where the victim is avenged, the killer killed, the blackmailer let loose, and everyone keeps moving along. The settings in Back Bay, Vermont, and Upstate New York shine. The characters capture your attention. A must read for mystery fans seeking a tough edged new author with bows to Patrica Highsmith, Agatha, Thomas Perry, Sue Grafton, and Rex Stout.

This title emphasizes the 10 rules you should follow to keep your job, make more money, and get promoted. It is focused on the employed and how they can do better to succeed and avoid being laid off or otherwise terminated. A must-read for all employees and single-organization contractors.

Purchases Orders emphasizes a missing focus in most business training and objectives: You have to get the order to get your business started and keeping it moving forward whether a small company or Apple. Getting the order is a skill and this audiobook addresses it. Critical for budding entrepreneurs and all sales people.

America was the undisputed world power in 1947, just after the War, and New York was the center, and the center of everything from the arts, business, culture, and just living. The ambitious came here to get their start and it was the age of the New Yorker, at its finest. By 1963, marked by the Kennedy Assassination, that power drifted away with the Dodgers and Giants to California and Fortune 500 companies to Texas and elsewhere. But in this period, New York was the City of Ageless Grace.

This title is laser-focused on making you sound smarter and becoming more respected by using a larger, more sophisticated vocabulary. Simply has systematically excluded words here that did meet this goal - words that are perfectly good in some contexts, but will not make you sound smarter. Included words sound appropriate in conversation, work seamlessly, and will not be interpreted as "show off" words.

Collections presents the approach that gets the most collection dollars and has the highest percentage ability to keep your late customers and get them out of the bad pay habit. Collections is about selling companies and people to pay you. Have the end in mind: they have the money; your job is to get them to send their money to you. A must listen for all business people involved in finance and collections.

Knowing the state capitals and states helps you to understand American geography and history. This audiobook lets you test yourself on the states and each capital city. The narrator says the state name and then pauses a few seconds for you to say the capital name; the second track does the reverse, letting you test yourself on the capital cites and which state they are the capital of. Track 3 lists the population of states, from the highest to the lowest. Track 4 lists the land area by state, from the highest to the lowest.

Knowing the U.S. presidents and their terms in office, and the sequence in which they served, is immensely helpful as a framework for studying and being informed about American history.