Berlitz Publishing

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Presents over eight thousand Portuguese words and phrases organized by theme to use in common situations, along with a simplified pronunciation guide and bilingual dictionary.

Portuguese - Berlitz Phrase Book and Dictionary

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Anita Higman

Hillary McMullen

90 Encouraging Devotions for Women

Let God's Grace Renew Your Heart Here is a delightful women's devotional that reminds Christian women of all ages that God provides daily doses of grace to His beloved daughters. Thoughtful readings will speak to your heart, and lovely prayers, memorable quotations, and scripture passages add to the rich spiritual depth of the book. It's the perfect book to give as a gift or for personal quiet time.

Daily Grace for Daily Life

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Janna Seagull

Tantalizing Tales of Steamy Self-Discovery

Spiritual Hottie's Diary

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Dave Barry

An irreverent alternate perspective on recent world events features whimsical commentary on such topics as the 2000 election, the non-finding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci. Reprint.

Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)

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James K. Galbraith

How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

Now available in paperback, this timely book challenges the cult of the free market that has dominated all political and economic discussion since the Reagan revolution. Even many liberals have felt the need to genuflect before the altar of free markets, but in The Predator State, progressive economist James K. Galbraith suggests that, under the Bush administration, conservatives have clearly abandoned the Reagan dogma and replaced it with crony capitalism. Tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and such schemes as privatizing Social Security would divert the national treasury into private hands and give rise to "The Predator State." The real economy, Galbraith argues, has never been entirely free of government support. Indeed, he says, much of our prosperity over the decades has been the result of a mix of private enterprise and public institutions, dating back to the New Deal. While conservatives have paid lip service to free markets as the solution to everything from health care to global warming, it is clear from the current banking and Wall Street upheavals that a lack of federal regulation has led to disaster. With witty insight, Galbraith makes it clear that we live in the age of predation. He sounds the warning bell, but also points the way to a more prosperous and progressive future.

The Predator State

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Mike Bechtle

Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. How to Communicate with Confidence is a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works in any situation--and works for any personality type. Highlighting the art of give and take and stressing the importance of listening, this book gives confidence to those who hesitate to strike up a conversation. Author Mike Bechtle shows readers that they don't have to have a stockpile of great stories to tell in order to make good conversation. Instead, he encourages an "explorer" mind-set and gives readers the tools they need to talk to anyone, anytime, anywhere.

How to Communicate with Confidence

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Howard Watson

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The 50 Most Significant People Explored in Words and Maps

A guide to 50 of the most notorious or heroic individuals in history. It features a chronological collection of the good, the bad and the ugly from ancient times until today.

Atlas of History's Greatest Heroes and Villains

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Italian Cooking Heritage

Celebrating Two Hundred Years 1800-2000

The White House: Celebrating Two Hundred Years brings to life the celebrations held during the year 2000, which began with the re-enactment of the arrival of the first White House occupant, President John Adams, and continued with educational programs and historic additions to the White House collection. The book features in-depth coverage of the 200th Anniversary Dinner held at the White House on November 9, 2000, at which the guests of President and Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton included seven former presidents and first ladies¿Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson, President and Mrs. Gerald Ford, President and Mrs. Jimmy Carter, and President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush. Photographs capture the menu, music, table service, and guests. The text includes dinner remarks by First Lady Hillary Clinton, President Gerald R. Ford, President Jimmy Carter, President George H. W. Bush, President William J. Clinton, and an interview excerpt with President Ronald W. Reagan.

The White House

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

People Who Changed the World

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Presidents of America

Amy C. Edmondson

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Business & Economics

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth

Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy

The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent--but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. 

This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.

 * Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
 * Create a culture where it's "safe" to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
 * Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today's knowledge economy
 * Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization

Shed the "yes-men" approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organization helps you bring about this most critical transformation.

The Fearless Organization

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David M. Smick

Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy

A founder of the acclaimed quarterly The International Economy explains the economic problems behind the credit and mortgage issues of the past two years, identifying hidden connections between key events and the global economy. Reprint.

The World Is Curved

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Rhonda Byrne

Argues that The Secret, a way of thinking, has been found in oral traditions throughout history and that by understanding it and using it in every aspect of life, money, health, and happiness will follow.

The Secret

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David Wessel

Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic

“Whatever it takes” That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression. Brilliant but temperamentally cautious, Bernanke researched and wrote about the causes of the Depression during his career as an academic. Then when thrust into a role as one of the most important people in the world, he was compelled to boldness by circumstances he never anticipated. The president of the United States can respond instantly to a missile attack with America’s military might, but he cannot respond to a financial crisis with real money unless Congress acts. The Fed chairman can. Bernanke did. Under his leadership the Fed spearheaded the biggest government intervention in more than half a century and effectively became the fourth branch of government, with no direct accountability to the nation’s voters. Believing that the economic catastrophe of the 1930s was largely the fault of a sluggish and wrongheaded Federal Reserve, Bernanke was determined not to repeat that epic mistake. In this penetrating look inside the most powerful economic institution in the world, David Wessel illuminates its opaque and undemocratic inner workings, while revealing how the Bernanke Fed led the desperate effort to prevent the world’s financial engine from grinding to a halt. In piecing together the fullest, most authoritative, and alarming picture yet of this decisive moment in our nation’s history, In Fed We Trust answers the most critical questions. Among them: • What did Bernanke and his team at the Fed know–and what took them by surprise? Which of their actions stretched–or even ripped through–the Fed’s legal authority? Which chilling numbers and indicators made them feel they had no choice? • What were they thinking at pivotal moments during the race to sell Bear Stearns, the unsuccessful quest to save Lehman Brothers, and the virtual nationalization of AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac? What were they saying to one another when, as Bernanke put it to Wessel: “We came very close to Depression 2.0”? • How well did Bernanke, former treasury secretary Hank Paulson, and then New York Fed president Tim Geithner perform under intense pressure? • How did the crisis prompt a reappraisal of the once-impregnable reputation of Alan Greenspan? In Fed We Trust is a breathtaking and singularly perceptive look at a historic episode in American and global economic history.

In FED We Trust

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Webster’s Thesaurus of the English Language 

Salman Rushdie

A Memoir

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
San Francisco Chronicle * Newsweek/The Daily Beast * The Seattle Times * The Economist * Kansas City Star * BookPage

On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being "against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran."
 
So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced underground, moving from house to house, with the constant presence of an armed police protection team. He was asked to choose an alias that the police could call him by. He thought of writers he loved and combinations of their names; then it came to him: Conrad and Chekhov--Joseph Anton.
 
How do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one of the crucial battles, in our time, for freedom of speech. He talks about the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds he formed with his protectors; of his struggle for support and understanding from governments, intelligence chiefs, publishers, journalists, and fellow writers; and of how he regained his freedom.
 
It is a book of exceptional frankness and honesty, compelling, provocative, moving, and of vital importance. Because what happened to Salman Rushdie was the first act of a drama that is still unfolding somewhere in the world every day.

Praise for Joseph Anton
 
"A harrowing, deeply felt and revealing document: an autobiographical mirror of the big, philosophical preoccupations that have animated Mr. Rushdie's work throughout his career."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
 
"A splendid book, the finest . . . memoir to cross my desk in many a year."--Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
 
"Thoughtful and astute . . . an important book."--USA Today
 
"Compelling, affecting . . . demonstrates Mr. Rushdie's ability as a stylist and storytelle. . . . [He] reacted with great bravery and even heroism."--The Wall Street Journal
 
"Gripping, moving and entertaining . . . nothing like it has ever been written."--The Independent (UK)
 
"A thriller, an epic, a political essay, a love story, an ode to liberty."--Le Point (France)
 
"Action-packed . . . in a literary class by itself . . . Like Isherwood, Rushdie's eye is a camera lens --firmly placed in one perspective and never out of focus."--Los Angeles Review of Books
 
"Unflinchingly honest . . . an engrossing, exciting, revealing and often shocking book."--de Volkskrant (The Netherlands)
 
"One of the best memoirs you may ever read."--DNA (India)
 
"Extraordinary . . . Joseph Anton beautifully modulates between . . . moments of accidental hilarity, and the higher purpose Rushdie saw in opposing--at all costs--any curtailment on a writer's freedom."--The Boston Globe

Joseph Anton

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Marc Roche

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Write Emails, Business Letters and Business Reports. Includes 100+ Business Letters

Business English Business English Writing Masterclass: How to Communicate Effectively & Communicate with Confidence: How to Write Emails, Business Letters & Business Reports provides a structured framework under which business students, business professionals, entrepreneurs and other professionals can significantly improve their writing skills. You will be taken through the main vocabulary and grammar structures in business writing, and you'll be allowed to practise them through highly targeted activities, which aim to develop, not only your Business English skills, but also your confidence and overall competence within business settings. The last section of this book, contains an amazing selection of business email and letter templates to guide you through writing letters, reports and many other documents. It will be an invaluable resource for your studies and career in business.

Business English Writing: Advanced Masterclass- How to Communicate Effectively and Communicate with Confidence

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Michelle McKinney Hammond

Joel Brooks

The Unspoken Rules of Finding Lasting Love

What You Don't Know about Yourself Will Hinder You.
What You Don't Know about Men Will Hurt You.
What You Don't Know about Relationships Will Cost You.

Why does the modern-day search for romance so often end in disappointment, especially for women? Is it something we do? Something we don't do? Are we missing important information about the opposite sex--or about ourselves? Is there something wrong with us that we long so desperately for "til death do us part"?nbsp;nbsp;

Sadly, many women today see their ongoing singleness as a weakness or lack of worth. In truth, our dreams go unfulfilled not because we do not deserve for them to come true, but often because of wrong assumptions--assumptions that can easily be corrected.

Drawing on both male and female perspectives, this book deals with the hard issues and questions you and other women ponder as you consider how to obtain lasting love. What Women Don't Know (and Men Don't Tell You) will help you adjust your desires, redefine what you are attracted to, set your values in order, and determine your goals--freeing you at last to pursue the loving relationship you desire.

What Women Don't Know (and Men Don't Tell You)

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The complete guide to surviving and thriving during organizational change

Employee’s Survival Guide to change 

George Fuller

Supervisors Portable Answer Book

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Carla A. Harris

Proven Strategies for Success from a Wall Street Vet

Outlines specific advice as gleaned by the author throughout her successful Wall Street career, in a guide for business professionals that makes recommendations for navigating the day-to-day complexities of the workplace. 25,000 first printing.

Expect to Win

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Jeff Hiatt

How to Implement Successful Change in Our Personal Luces and Professional Career

Why do some changes fail while others succeed? How can you make sense of the many tools and approaches for managing change? How can you lead change successfully, both in your personal life and professional career? After more than 14 years of research with corporate change, the ADKAR model has emerged as a holistic approach that brings together the collection of change management work into a simple, results oriented model. This model ties together all aspects of change management including readiness assessments, sponsorship, communications, coaching, training and resistance management. All of these activities are placed into a framework that is oriented on the required phases for realizing change with individuals and the organization. The ADKAR perspective can help you develop a "new lens" through which to observe and influence change. You may be working for change in your public school system or in a small city council. You may be sponsoring change in your department at work. You may be observing large changes that are being attempted at the highest levels of government or you may be leading an enterprise-wide change initiative. The perspective enabled by the ADKAR model allows you to view change in a new way. You can begin to see the barrier points and understand the levers that can move your changes forward. ADKAR allows you to understand why some changes succeed while others fail. Most importantly, ADKAR can help your changes be a success. Based on research with more than 1100 companies from 59 countries, ADKAR is a simple and holistic way to manage change.

ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government  and Our Community 

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Beverly Kaye

Julie Winkle Giulioni

Career Conversations Employees Want

* By the coauthor of the bestselling Love 'Em or Lose 'Em (more than 550,000 copies sold) and Love It, Don't Leave It (more than 100,000 copies sold)* Shows managers how conversation can make career development both more effective and a whole lot easier* Filled with practical tips, exercises, and advice to help managers get started immediately Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. Nevertheless, it's frequently back-burnered. When asked why, managers say the number one reason is that they just don't have time-for the meetings, the forms, the administrative hoops.But there's a better way. And it's surprisingly simple: frequent short conversations with employees about their career goals and options integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business. Kaye and Giulioni identify three broad types of conversations that have the power to motivate employees more deeply than any well-intentioned development event or process. These conversations will increase employees' awareness of their strengths, weaknesses, and interests; point out where their organization and their industry are headed; and help them pull all of that together to design their own up-to-the-minute, personalized career paths. Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go is filled with practical tips, guidelines, and templates, as well as nearly a hundred suggested conversation questions.Illuminated with stories, quotes, and the perspectives of real managers and employees, this book proves that careers are best developed one conversation at a time.

Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go

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Olga Economist

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