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Rookie paramedic Peter Webster begins an intense affair with Sheila, a troubled young woman he pulled from a car wreck, but their love is not enough to keep them together and Peter is raising their daughter alone years later when a phone call from Sheila alters their lives.
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A roadmap for spiritual formation
In Mansions of the Heart, author R. Thomas Ashbrook, begins with his personal story of frustration and confusion, while serving as a pastor of the church. He tells of discovering a new path of spiritual transformation and offers seekers a way to move forward on their own spiritual paths.
Written for anyone who wants to develop a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God, Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step...
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"Buy bank-owned properties at fire-sale prices! Banks and lending institutions today own more than one million foreclosed properties, and two million more are in the foreclosure pipeline. Banks desperately want to get these properties off their balance sheets, but there aren't enough buyers. The result is a real estate market with buying conditions investors and homeowners may not see again in their lifetime. In recent years many bargain-hunting investors...
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Americans have died for the right to vote. Yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' greatest error--leaving the franchise to the discretion of individual states--and explains why it has triggered an unending struggle over voting rights.--
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Sales training doesn’t develop sales champions. Managers do. The secret to developing a team of high performers isn’t more training but better coaching. When managers effectively coach their people around best practices, core competencies and the inner game of coaching that develops the champion attitude, it makes your training stick. With Keith Rosens coaching methodology and proven L.E.A.D.S. Coaching Framework used by the world’s top organizations,...
8) And then the roof caved in: how Wall Street's greed and stupidity brought capitalism to its knees
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Explains the events of the previous seven years that planted the seeds for the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression beginning in 2001, when the Federal Reserve embarked on an unprecedented effort to help the economy recover from the attacks of 9/11 by sending interest rates to all time lows.
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Start with the Answer is a collection of bite-sized powerful stories and is organized around the core areas of business life. The book offers transformative insights and practical instruction to those aspiring to become high level executives and industry authorities - from the newest recruit to the seasoned executive. With this book readers will better understand the eight dimensions of business life - Preparation, Building wisdom represents both...
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The central tenet of this book is based on challenging our assumption that the individual is the starting point from which to understand human behaviour. By focusing on group behaviour, or the herd rather than the individual, Mark Earls purports that we will have the key to a better understanding of human behaviour and better business and social policy initiatives to change it. The book provides suggestions on how to harnesses this new knowledge in...
12) The 3 Power Values: How Commitment, Integrity, and Transparency Clear the Roadblocks to Performance
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Countless management gurus have written about the importance of values, doing the right thing, and creating sustainable organizations. They have shown us how to calculate the ROI of values and have persuaded leaders of the need to instill personal responsibility and a sense of mission in their organizations. Yet, management consultant David Gebler argues, we have been looking at the issue of values from the wrong direction. Managers and employees...
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Quantum theory is the most revolutionary discovery in physics since Newton. This book gives a lucid, exciting, and accessible account of the surprising and counterintuitive ideas that shape our understanding of the sub-atomic world. It does not disguise the problems of interpretation that still remain unsettled seventy-five years after the initial discoveries. Uncertainty, probabilistic physics, complementarity, the problematic character of measurement,...
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All of us know that users of the Web do not read advertisements on the websites we visit, yet the online communities are emerging as the next great media rely solely on this method to produce revenue. In The Social Network Business Plan, social network expert, David Silver presents and explains 18 cutting-edge methods to create revenue for social network websites-none of which are advertising. He also predicts the demise of seemingly successful online...
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How does the brain work? How different is a human brain from other creatures' brains? Is the human brain still evolving?
In this fascinating book, Michael O'Shea provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research, and gives a sense of how neuroscience addresses questions about the relationship between the brain and the mind. Chapters tackle subjects such as brain processes, perception, memory, motor control,...
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In THE CHURCH AWAKENING, Dr. Charles Swindoll discusses the challenges, struggles, and priorities of the church in the twenty-first century. He reveals the problems inherent in the entertainment-based postmodern church and shows how a return to biblical teaching will restore its strength and impact. Now being replaced by a feel-good message instead of what Christians need to know to stand strong in a world that's lost its way--Swindoll exposes the...
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Wall Street is an institution that some, especially today, seem to take for granted. It didn't appear one day from some biblical fairy tale. Instead, Wall Street exists as it does because of nearly two centuries of pioneering, innovation, perspiration, mistakes and scandals. Throughout Wall Street's evolution, survival of the fittest dictated which innovations would be incorporated and which mistakes would be corrected - and it was these improvements...
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The stock market crashes. Oil prices swoon. American unemployment spikes. Large brand name corporations go bankrupt. Global confidence is at an all-time low. The Government spends billions on bailouts. And the dollar goes up. The dollar is still the key reserve currency. People all over the world need some value to believe in, a commodity that is backed up with some security; a certain store of value. Since the U.S. superpower appears to be too powerful...
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This updated second edition includes all new insight into the latest developments for both Greenberg and AIG, such as the many lawsuits underway, including a criminal trial that will send five men, one still working for Greenberg, to prison. It also explores the story that led to AIG being rescued by the Fed. From meetings with spies around the world (from CIA directors to Mossad agents), presidents, leading investment figures and others, Hank Greenberg...
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It's been called the greatest upset of all time. It's been called the most memorable Olympic moment ever. It's even been called the "Miracle on Ice", the best moment in the history of American sports.
No matter which superlative is used, no one can deny that the U.S. men's hockey team defeat of the Soviet Union in the medal round of the Lake Placid Olympic Games was a defining moment for an American public that saw the game as symbolic of the Cold...