Tom Ritchey

Alan Axelrod

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Break Through to Better Work Relationships and Results by Discovering Your DiSC Behavioral Style

Often when people feel stuck, they try to change something about themselves. Authors Ritchey and Axelrod suggest that instead they should learn to see situations in new ways and create new options for themselves and others. That process begins with DiSC, an assessment tool that reveals what style one typically uses: Dominance (direct and decisive), Influence (optimistic and outgoing), Supportive (sympathetic and accommodating), and Conscientious (concerned and correct). This book teaches readers how to recognize their own style and its implications, how to read the style of others, and how to choose the most effective style (or combination of styles) for any situation. I’m Stuck, You’re Stuck will help readers better understand why they and other people do the things they do in difficult situations and learn to respond to these situations mindfully, respectfully, and effectively.

I'm Stuck, You're Stuck

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Susan Bixler

Lisa Scherver Dugan

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Business & Economics

How to Project Confidence, Competence and Credibility at Work

Put Your Best Self Forward In a world where change is constant, building business relationships quickly is key. Professional presence can help you stand out in the crowd of e-mails, voicemails, business meetings, and social occasions. It offers a personal style that projects your competence, credibility, and confidence—whether you are in person or in cyberspace. 5 Steps to Professional Presence offers a proven system that has been used by over 1,500 corporations since 1980. Step One: Make a powerful first impression using the essential components that convey trust, rapport, and connection. Step Two: Use nonverbal communication to maintain the first impression and create a lasting one. Step Three: Master high tech communication—e-mail, voicemail, and wireless—where the first impression usually begins. Step Four: Avoid no-win business situations with grace and savvy. Step Five: Develop the social skills you need to make the most of corporate outings, business meals and parties, and networking events.

5 Steps to Professional Presence

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Eckhart Tolle

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Contends that humanity has an unprecedented opportunity to shift from its dangerous, ego-based state of consciousness to a saner, more loving existence, and offers practical advice on how to promote kindness and freedom.

A New Earth

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Seth Linder

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The world's imagination was gripped on March 17th, 2010, when the spectacular Sydney Opera House was bathed in shades of green. The Global Greening to celebrate St Patrick's Day has spread every year since then, with many of the world's most famous buildings and iconic sites light up in shades of green. The London Eye, Niagara Falls, Rome's Colosseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Moulin Rouge, the Gateway of India and many dozens of others have joined the fun. The greening has extended to the Pyramids of Giza, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, and the Great Wall of China and Rio's Christ the Redeemer statue of the new Seven Wonders of the World. Over 300 landmarks in 50 countries have already signed up to the greening and the numbers continue to grow. Behind each individual greening lies a network of stories and connections. They reveal both the global reach of the Irish diaspora and the world's view of Irishness as an empowering attitude to life to be shared by all. This unique worldwide celebration is now an established part of Ireland's National Day for Irish people at home and abroad: Tourism Ireland, and a network of influential Irish people worldwide, has made this happen. The Greenings celebrates and explores this phenomenon.

Ireland's Greening of the World

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Donna Brazile

The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Explosive... A blistering tell-all."---Washington Post

"People should sit up, take notes and change things."---Ace Smith, Los Angeles Times

"Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid."---The Guardian

From Donna Brazile, former DNC chair and legendary political operative, an explosive and revealing new look at the 2016 election: the first insider account of the Russian hacking of the DNC and the missteps by the Clinton campaign and Obama administration that enabled a Trump victory.

In the fallout of the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee--and as chaos threatened to consume the party's convention--Democrats turned to a familiar figure to right the ship: Donna Brazile. Known to millions from her frequent TV appearances, she was no stranger to high stakes and dirty opponents, and the longtime Democratic strategist had a reputation in Washington as a one-stop shop for fixing sticky problems.

What Brazile found at the DNC was unlike anything she had experienced before--and much worse than is commonly known. The party was beset by infighting, scandal, and hubris, while reeling from a brazen and wholly unprecedented attempt by a foreign power to influence the presidential election. Plus, its candidate, Hillary Clinton, faced an opponent who broke every rule in the political playbook.

Packed with never-before-reported revelations about what went down in 2016, Hacks is equal parts campaign thriller, memoir, and roadmap for the future. With Democrats now in the wilderness after this historic defeat, Hacks argues that staying silent about what went wrong helps no one. Only by laying bare the missteps, miscalculations, and crimes of 2016, Brazile contends, will Americans be able to salvage their democracy.

Hacks

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Jodie Langel

David Wienir

Jason Alexander

Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top

Countering the misperceptions about Broadway performers leading glamorous lives, the words of more than 150 Broadway stars provide unprecedented insight into their struggle for stardom. With an introduction by Jason Alexander and candid interviews with today's most celebrated Broadway stars, this book offers stories to entertain and astonish theater lovers, as well as serve as a sobering reality check for those considering careers on the stage. This book shares firsthand accounts of professional actors' difficult yet fulfilling journeys to Broadway: moving to New York, finding survival jobs, auditioning, landing roles, avoiding pitfalls, forging a family life, and much more. Interviews Include These Award-Winning Actors: * Jason Alexander * Daisy Eagan * Heather Headley * Wilson Heredia * Randy Graff * Donna McKechnie * Donna Murphy * John Rubinstein * Lea Salonga * Scott Wise * Chita Rivera

Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

Making It on Broadway

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Roger L. Martin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking

If you want to be as successful as Jack Welch, Larry Bossidy, or Michael Dell, read their autobiographical advice books, right? Wrong, says Roger Martin in The Opposable Mind. Though following best practice can help in some ways, it also poses a danger: By emulating what a great leader did in a particular situation, you'll likely be terribly disappointed with your own results. Why? Your situation is different.

Instead of focusing on what exceptional leaders do, we need to understand and emulate how they think. Successful businesspeople engage in what Martin calls integrative thinking creatively resolving the tension in opposing models by forming entirely new and superior ones. Drawing on stories of leaders as diverse as AG Lafley of Procter & Gamble, Meg Whitman of eBay, Victoria Hale of the Institute for One World Health, and Nandan Nilekani of Infosys, Martin shows how integrative thinkers are relentlessly diagnosing and synthesizing by asking probing questions including: What are the causal relationships at work here? and What are the implied trade-offs?

Martin also presents a model for strengthening your integrative thinking skills by drawing on different kinds of knowledge including conceptual and experiential knowledge.

Integrative thinking can be learned, and The Opposable Mind helps you master this vital skill.

The Opposable Mind

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Build Your Vision from the Ground Up

Take your career to the next level, realize your greatest dreams, and embrace your God-given talents with this practical game plan for your professional and personal life. Too often we remain in jobs that stifle our souls and leave us on the runway of opportunity with the engine of our deepest passion stalled, watching others make their personal vision a reality and build a legacy for their children. But it's never too late to get your dreams off the ground -- God sees great things in your future! If you long to amplify your unique abilities, if you strive to balance personal fulfillment and professional satisfaction, if you dream of fulfilling God's destiny for you, then you are ready to Soar! In Soar! T.D. Jakes reveals how to transform your own unique vision into a powerful contribution to the world. Blending a CEO's practical business acumen with a life coach's dynamic inspiration, Soar! will stir your imagination into action, challenge you to embrace your God-given purpose, and align your character and creativity with your career. Bridging both the corporate and nonprofit worlds, Soar! is a practical and easy-to-follow flight plan for launching the entrepreneurial drive inside of you. You'll learn how to adopt the mindset of people who don't wait to see what will happen but strategically build the wings that will take them to new heights. So buckle your seat belt and prepare for liftoff -- you have been cleared to fly beyond your fears, to absolutely soar!

Soar!

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Las Vegas was the Mob's greatest venture and most spectacular success, and through 40 years of frenzy, murder, deceit, scams, and skimming, the FBI listened on phone taps and did virtually nothing to stop the fun. This is the truth about the Mob's control of the casinos in Vegas like you've never heard it before, from start to finish. Two of the nation's most powerful crime family bosses went to prison in the 1930's: Al Capone and Lucky Luciano. Frank Nitti took over the Chicago Outfit, while Frank Costello ran things for the Luciano Family. Both men were influenced by their bosses from prison, and both sent enough gangsters into the streets to influence loan sharking, extortion, union control, and drug sales. Bugsy Siegel worked for both groups, handling a string of murders and opening up gaming on the west coast, and that included Las Vegas, an oasis of sin in the middle of the desert - and it was legal. Most of it. The FBI watched as the Mob took control of casino after casino, killed off the competition, and stole enough money to bribe their way to respectability back home. By the 1950's, nearly every major crime family had a stake in a Las Vegas casino. Some did better than others. Casino owners watched-over their profits while competing crime families eyed each other's success like jealous lovers. Murder often followed.

Vegas and the Mob

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English

Andrea Lunsford’s research shows that students today are writing more than ever. Some skills, especially in social writing, come easily to many students. But concepts such as making effective choices for academic work and understanding the conventions of formal written English may be more difficult to grasp. EasyWriter, Fifth Edition, can help. Whether you’re looking for an affordable way to focus your writing classroom on rhetorical choices, or just a pocket-sized quick reference that your students can use on the go, you’ll find what you need in EasyWriter. And the handy little print book is just the beginning: EasyWriter now includes integrated media components—LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, video prompts, multimodal student writing, and more—to take advantage of what the Web can do.

EasyWriter

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A Writer's Reference

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Ser como el rio que fluye

A Novel

FROM EMMY-NOMINATED AUTHOR FOR VICE NEWS PIECE "NATIONAL ANTHEM PROTESTS ARE SPREADING TO HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TEAMS"

"Loopy, hilarious, neo-noir novel... an extremely smart, funny debut, with moments of haunting beauty." --Boston Globe

Exceedingly unique, pulsing with vigor and heart, and loaded with fierce, fresh language, The Dead Do Not Improve confirms Jay Caspian Kang as a true American original. When struggling writer Philip Kim is dragged into a complex mystery after his neighbor is murdered, Sid Finch, a homicide detective bitter about everything except his gorgeous wife, and his phlegmatic, pockmarked partner, Jim Kim, land the case. Philip becomes the baffled focus of an elaborate, violent scheme that seems tied to his neighbor's murder, and the cops think he might be involved. With an intelligent narrative voice that that moves effortlessly between hilarity, satire, poignancy, and madcap digressions, Kang has written a trippy, self-aware novel obsessed with the Virginia Tech massacre, surfing, and identity.  

Now with Extra Libris material, including an essay from Jay Caspian Kang

The Dead Do Not Improve

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A specially produced paperback edition -- with flaps -- of the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, that has sold more than six million copies in hardcover Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife -- and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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How the World Became Modern

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Non-Fiction

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius--a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.

The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare and even Thomas Jefferson.

The Swerve

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A U.S. release of an internationally best-selling title by the author of The Alchemist follows Paulo's world-spanning effort to achieve spiritual renewal and human connection, a journey during which he reconnects with a woman from an earlier life while transcending time and space.

Aleph

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The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

The Never Girls from the Mist

Only Amber Brown can handle going to a new grade without her best friend with such honesty, humor, and heart. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+

Amber Brown isn't entirely ready for fourth grade. She has her pens, pencils, new clothes, and new shoes. But the one thing she doesn't have is her best friend, Justin Daniels. Justin has moved away, leaving Amber utterly best friend-less. Amber knows Justin can't be replaced, but she is on the lookout for a new friend. Brandi seems a likely choice, but does Brandi want to choose Amber in return? Will Amber Brown go fourth, and go forth, with a new best friend?

Along with the ups and downs of shared custody, the Amber Brown chapter books are beloved for tackling relatable dilemmas with thoughtfulness, humor, and plenty of puns.

Amber Brown Goes Fourth

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Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures

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The Map to Everywhere 

Breaking up is hard to do--so why not pay someone to do it for you?

Twelve-year-old Quentin never asked to be the Heartbreak Messenger. It just kind of happened, and he can't let a golden opportunity pass him by. The valuable communication service he offers is simple: He delivers breakup messages. For a small fee, he will deliver that message toyour soon-to-be ex. If you order the deluxe package, he'll even throw in some flowers and a box of chocolates. You know . . . to soften the blow.

At first, Quentin's entrepreneurial brainchild is surprisingly successful, which is great, because he suspects his mom, who works as a car mechanic, is worried about money. But as he interacts with clients, message recipients, and his best friend, Abigail, it doesn't take long for him to wonder if his own heart will remain intact. InThe Heartbreak Messenger by Alexander Vance, Quentin discovers that the game of love and the emotions that go with it are as complicated as they come--even for an almost-innocent bystander.

The Heartbreak Messenger

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When the Queen casts a spell that goes horribly wrong and makes all the adults in the kingdom vanish, Princess Katrina is left on her own. What's a fairy tale princess to go? Save the kingdom, of course! Join Katrina and her friends Red Riding Hood, Snow White, and Prince Maximilian on a tale of adventure and friendship as they travel to distant lands and face dangerous foes to save their kingdoms. That is, or course, if they can foil the plans to Katrina's stepsister, Evaline, who thinks being the new queen wouldn't be so bad. Katrina and her friends - along with their animal companions - will stop at nothing to save their families and show everyone that princesses can save the world.

Just Princesses

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When Clark Kent and his friends, Bruce and Diana, are invited to Camp Evergreen, their initial fun with new and old friends is thrown into chaos by disappearing campers and rumors of monster sightings.

Secret Hero Society

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Tom Ritchey; Alan Axelrod

I'm Stuck, You're Stuck

Susan Bixler; Lisa Scherver Dugan

5 Steps to Professional Presence

Eckhart Tolle

A New Earth

Seth Linder

Ireland's Greening of the World

Donna Brazile

Hacks

Jodie Langel; David Wienir; Jason Alexander

Making It on Broadway

Roger L. Martin

The Opposable Mind

T. D. Jakes

Soar!

Al W. Moe

Vegas and the Mob

Andrea A. Lunsford

EasyWriter

Diana T. Hacker

A Writer's Reference

Paulo Coehlo

Ser como el rio que fluye

Jay Caspian Kang

The Dead Do Not Improve

Mitch Albom

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve

Paulo Coelho

Aleph

Joyce Hansen

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

Kiki Thorpe

The Never Girls from the Mist

Paula Danziger

Amber Brown Goes Fourth

Jackson Pierce

Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures

Carrie Ryan and John Parke Davis

The Map to Everywhere

Alexander Vance

The Heartbreak Messenger

Silber Dragon Books (Created by); Crystal Velasquez; Manuel Preitano (Artist)

Just Princesses

Derek Fridolfs; Dustin Nguyen (Illustrator); DC Comics, Inc Staff (Contribution by)

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