• Almanacs & Yearbooks
  
• Atlases & Maps
  
• Audiobooks
  
• Business Skills
  
• Careers
  
• Catalogs & Directories
  
• Consumer Guides
  
• Dictionaries & Thesauruses
  
• Education
  
• Encyclopedias
  
• Etiquette
  
• Foreign Languages
  
• Fun Facts
  
• Genealogy
  
• General
  
• General AAS
  
• Job Hunting
  
• Large Print
  
• Law
  
• Publishing & Books
  
• Quotations
  
• Spanish-Language Reference
  
• Study Guides
  
• Test Prep Central
  
• Words & Language
  
• Writing
  

List Price: $25.95
Price: $15.75
You Save: $10.2 (39%)

Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else

Author: Geoff Colvin
ASIN : 1591842247
Sales Rank : 135
Studio : Portfolio Hardcover
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9781591842248
ISBN : 1591842247
Number Of Pages : 224
Publication Date : December 16, 2008
Publisher : Portfolio Hardcover
Manufacturer : Portfolio Hardcover
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Portfolio Hardcover

Product Description

Expanding on a landmark cover story in Fortune, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance.

One of the most popular Fortune articles in many years was a cover story called “What It Takes to Be Great.” Geoff Colvin offered new evidence that top performers in any field--from Tiger Woods and Winston Churchill to Warren Buffett and Jack Welch--are not determined by their inborn talents. Greatness doesn’t come from DNA but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.

And not just plain old hard work, like your grandmother might have advocated, but a very specific kind of work. The key is how you practice, how you analyze the results of your progress and learn from your mistakes, that enables you to achieve greatness.

Now Colvin has expanded his article with much more scientific background and real-world examples. He shows that the skills of business—negotiating deals, evaluating financial statements, and all the rest—obey the principles that lead to greatness, so that anyone can get better at them with the right kind of effort. Even the hardest decisions and interactions can be systematically improved.

This new mind-set, combined with Colvin’s practical advice, will change the way you think about your job and career—and will inspire you to achieve more in all you do.

List Price: $19.95
Price: $13.57
You Save: $6.38 (32%)

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Author: Timothy Ferriss
ASIN : 0307353133
Sales Rank : 165
Studio : Crown
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780307353139
ISBN : 0307353133
Number Of Pages : 320
Publication Date : December 24, 2007
Release Date : December 24, 2007
Publisher : Crown
Manufacturer : Crown
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Crown

Product Description

What do you do? Tim Ferriss has trouble answering the question. Depending on when you ask this
controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:

“I race motorcycles in Europe.”
“I ski in the Andes.”
“I scuba dive in Panama.”
“I dance tango in Buenos Aires.”

He has spent more than five years learning the secrets of the New Rich, a fast-growing subculture who has abandoned the “deferred-life plan” and instead mastered the new currencies—time and mobility—to create luxury lifestyles in the here and now.

Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:

• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office

You can have it all—really.

List Price: $19.95
Price: $12.90
You Save: $7.05 (35%)

Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life

Author: Spencer Johnson
ASIN : 0399144463
Sales Rank : 126
Studio : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780399144462
ISBN : 0399144463
Number Of Pages : 96
Publication Date : December 08, 1998
Publisher : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Manufacturer : G. P. Putnam's Sons
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : G. P. Putnam's Sons

Product Description

From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers manage change quickly and prevail in changing times.

Amazon.com Review

Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found. Most of us reading the story will see the cheese as something related to our livelihoods--our jobs, our career paths, the industries we work in--although it can stand for anything, from health to relationships. The point of the story is that we have to be alert to changes in the cheese, and be prepared to go running off in search of new sources of cheese when the cheese we have runs out.

Dr. Johnson, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and many other books, presents this parable to business, church groups, schools, military organizations--anyplace where you find people who may fear or resist change. And although more analytical and skeptical readers may find the tale a little too simplistic, its beauty is that it sums up all natural history in just 94 pages: Things change. They always have changed and always will change. And while there's no single way to deal with change, the consequence of pretending change won't happen is always the same: The cheese runs out. --Lou Schuler

List Price: $30.00
Price: $19.80
You Save: $10.2 (34%)

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Authors: Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
ASIN : 0743201140
Sales Rank : 183
Studio : Free Press
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780743201148
ISBN : 0743201140
Number Of Pages : 272
Publication Date : December 29, 2001
Publisher : Free Press
Manufacturer : Free Press
Label : Free Press

Product Description

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.

Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes.

So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: for your own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization.

With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written.

Please note that the code for the Online Strengths Finder Test is found on the inside of the dust jacket.

Amazon.com Review

Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.

Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into the authors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice, places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missing from most similar tomes. "You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providing knowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. --Howard Rothman

List Price: $18.95
Price: $12.89
You Save: $6.06 (32%)

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers

Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
ASIN : 1580089305
Sales Rank : 263
Studio : Ten Speed Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781580089302
ISBN : 1580089305
Number Of Pages : 407
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Manufacturer : Ten Speed Press
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Ten Speed Press

Product Description

Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."

List Price: $24.95
Price: $16.47
You Save: $8.48 (34%)

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful

Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
ASIN : 1401301304
Sales Rank : 427
Studio : Hyperion
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9781401301309
ISBN : 1401301304
Number Of Pages : 256
Publication Date : December 09, 2007
Release Date : December 09, 2007
Publisher : Hyperion
Manufacturer : Hyperion
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Hyperion

Product Description

America’s most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder

The corporate world is filled with executives, men and women who have worked hard for years to reach the upper levels of management. They’re intelligent, skilled, and even charismatic. But only a handful of them will ever reach the pinnacle -- and as executive coach Marshall Goldsmith shows in this book, subtle nuances make all the difference. These are small "transactional flaws" performed by one person against another (as simple as not saying thank you enough), which lead to negative perceptions that can hold any executive back. Using Goldsmith’s straightforward, jargonfree advice, it’s amazingly easy behavior to change.

Executives who hire Goldsmith for one-on-one coaching pay $250,000 for the privilege. With this book, his help is available for 1/10,000th of the price.

List Price: $15.95
Price: $10.85
You Save: $5.1 (32%)

How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Author: Leil Lowndes
ASIN : 007141858X
Sales Rank : 792
Studio : McGraw-Hill
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780071418584
ISBN : 007141858X
UPC : 639785414056
Number Of Pages : 368
Publication Date : December 19, 2003
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer : McGraw-Hill
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : McGraw-Hill

Product Description

"You'll not only break the ice, you'll melt it away with your new skills."--Larry King

"The lost art of verbal communication may be revitalized by Leil Lowndes."--Harvey McKay, author of Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten

Leil Lowndes' How to Talk to Anyone offers101 time-tested hints, tips, and techniques for confidently communicating with others. A bestselling author and renowned communications consultant, Lowndes focuses on ice-breaking skills and communication techniques that are proven successful when making a positive first impression, establishing instant rapport and credibility, and more.

Packed with basic, no-nonsense advice and solid research evidence about which techniques work best in which areas, How to Talk to Anyone show readers how to:

• Make small talk not so small
• Use body language to captivate an audience
• Look like you know what you're talking about--even when you don't

List Price: $18.99
Price: $12.91
You Save: $6.08 (32%)

What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

Authors: Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
ASIN : 0061438294
Sales Rank : 992
Studio : Collins Living
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780061438295
ISBN : 0061438294
Number Of Pages : 272
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Release Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : Collins Living
Manufacturer : Collins Living
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Collins Living

Product Description

He says that's his best offer. Is it?

She says she agrees. Does she?

The interview went great—or did it?

He said he'd never do it again. But he did.

Read this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring. Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to "speed-read" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:

• The ancient survival instincts that drive body language
• Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings
• What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives
• The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments
• Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust
• Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority

Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world.

List Price: $15.00
Price: $10.20
You Save: $4.8 (32%)

The Millionaire Next Door

Authors: Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
ASIN : 0671015206
Sales Rank : 851
Studio : Pocket
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780671015206
ISBN : 0671015206
Number Of Pages : 272
Publication Date : December 01, 1998
Publisher : Pocket
Manufacturer : Pocket
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Pocket

Product Description

The incredible national bestseller that is changing people's lives -- and increasing their net worth!

CAN YOU SPOT THE MILLIONAIRE NEXT DOOR?

Who are the rich in this country?
What do they do?
Where do they shop?
What do they drive?
How do they invest?
Where did their ancestors come from?
How did they get rich?
Can I ever become one of them?

Get the answers in The Millionaire Next Door, the never-before-told story about wealth in America. You'll be surprised at what you find out....

Amazon.com Review

How can you join the ranks of America's wealthy (defined as people whose net worth is over one million dollars)? It's easy, say doctors Stanley and Danko, who have spent the last 20 years interviewing members of this elite club: you just have to follow seven simple rules. The first rule is, always live well below your means. The last rule is, choose your occupation wisely. You'll have to buy the book to find out the other five. It's only fair. The authors' conclusions are commonsensical. But, as they point out, their prescription often flies in the face of what we think wealthy people should do. There are no pop stars or athletes in this book, but plenty of wall-board manufacturers--particularly ones who take cheap, infrequent vacations! Stanley and Danko mercilessly show how wealth takes sacrifice, discipline, and hard work, qualities that are positively discouraged by our high-consumption society. "You aren't what you drive," admonish the authors. Somewhere, Benjamin Franklin is smiling.

List Price: $14.95
Price: $10.17
You Save: $4.78 (32%)

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff

Author: Peter Walsh
ASIN : 0743292650
Sales Rank : 968
Studio : Free Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780743292658
ISBN : 0743292650
Number Of Pages : 240
Publication Date : December 06, 2007
Publisher : Free Press
Manufacturer : Free Press
Availability : Usually ships in 24 hours
Label : Free Press

Product Description

When Peter Walsh, organizational guru of TLC's hit show Clean Sweep and a regular contributor to The Oprah Winfrey Show, appeared on national television shows and told people how they could reclaim their lives from the suffocating burden of their clutter, the response was overwhelming. People flooded Peter's website (www.peterwalshdesign.com) with success stories about how his book had changed their lives.

Peter's unique approach helped people everywhere learn to let go of the emotional and psychological clutter that was literally and figuratively choking the life out of their homes.

With his good humor and reassuring advice, Peter shows you how to face the really big question: What is the vision for the life you want to live? He then offers simple techniques and a step-by-step plan to assess the state of your home, prioritize your possessions, and let go of the clutter you have been holding on to that has kept you from living the life you imagine. The result is freed-up space, less stress, and more energy for living a happier, richer life every day.