Jacqueline Brassey

Aaron De Smet

Michiel Kruyt

A unique blend of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Consciousness Practices, as well as 50+ yes boardroom experience. 3 experts give an approach to learning and leading with awareness and choice amid challenging circumstances.

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How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World





A trio of McKinsey & Company veterans draws from a unique combination of psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness practices plus a combined 50-plus years of international board room experience to offer a unique approach to learning and leading with awareness and intentional choice, even amidst the most challenging circumstances.

As the speed of change in our increasingly complex world accelerates daily, leaders are tasked with performing outside of their familiar zones both in their personal and professional lives. This requires us to adapt. Yet, the same conditions that make adapting so important can also trigger fear, leading us to resist change and default to reactive behavior. The authors call this the "adaptability paradox": when we most need to learn and change, we stick with what we know, often in ways that stifle learning and innovation. To avoid this trap, leaders must become proactive so they can lead ahead of the curve.

Enter Deliberate Calm, a tangible guide that combines cutting-edge neuroscience, psychology, and consciousness practices, along with the authors' decades of experience working with leaders around the globe. By practicing Dual Awareness, which integrates our internal and external experiences, leaders can become fluid and respond to challenges with intentional choice instead of being limited by their old success models. With Deliberate Calm, anyone can lead and learn with awareness and choice to realize their full potential, even in times of uncertainty, complexity, and change.

Deliberate Calm

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life- distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and achievement.

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Seven Tools for Life

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life—distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world’s greatest bodybuilder. The world’s highest-paid movie star. The leader of the world’s sixth-largest economy. That these are the same person sounds like the setup to a joke, but this is no joke. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger. And this did not happen by accident. Arnold’s stratospheric success happened as part of a process. As the result of clear vision, big thinking, hard work, direct communication, resilient problem-solving, open-minded curiosity, and a commitment to giving back. All of it guided by the one lesson Arnold’s father hammered into him above all: be useful. As Arnold conquered every realm he entered, he kept his father’s adage close to his heart. Written with his uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice, Be Useful takes readers on an inspirational tour through Arnold’s tool kit for a meaningful life. He shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous; some told here for the first time ever. Too many of us struggle to disconnect from our self-pity and connect to our purpose. At an early age, Arnold forged the mental tools to build the ladder out of the poverty and narrow-mindedness of his rural Austrian hometown, tools he used to add rung after rung from there. Now he shares that wisdom with all of us. As he puts it, no one is going to come rescue you—you only have yourself. The good news, it turns out, is that you are all you need.

Be Useful

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Thomas Erikson

The four types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life). The book explains how to identify and interact with each type of person, and the sinple four-color system allows you to speedily identify a friend or coworker and adjust how you speak and share with them. Over two million copies sold!

The Four Types of Human Behavior and How to Effectively Communicate with Each in Business (and in Life)

Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answers drive you crazy? Or does your colleague's abrasive manner rub you the wrong way?

You are not alone. After a disastrous meeting with a highly successful entrepreneur, who was genuinely convinced he was 'surrounded by idiots', communication expert and bestselling author, Thomas Erikson dedicated himself to understanding how people function and why we often struggle to connect with certain types of people.

Surrounded by Idiots is an international phenomenon, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide. It offers a simple, yet ground-breaking method for assessing the personalities of people we communicate with - in and out of the office - based on four personality types (Red, Blue, Green and Yellow), and provides insights into how we can adjust the way we speak and share information.

Erikson will help you understand yourself better, hone communication and social skills, handle conflict with confidence, improve dynamics with your boss and team, and get the best out of the people you deal with and manage. He also shares simple tricks on body language, improving written communication, advice on when to back away or when to push on, and when to speak up or shut up. Packed with 'aha!' and 'oh no!' moments, Surrounded by Idiots will help you understand and communicate with those around you, even people you currently think are beyond all comprehension.

And with a bit of luck you can also be confident that the idiot out there isn't you!

Surrounded by Idiots

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Daphne du Maurier

Young Philip Ashley was raised by his older cousin Ambrose to be his heir. They are extremely close, until Ambrose goes to Florence and meets and marries a woman named Rachel. In a short time, Ambrose is dead, and Philip receives a letter from his uncle of his suspicion that Rachel is poisoning him. Thus, Philip sets out to find out the circumstances around his cousin’s death, just as his cousin’s wife arrives.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin! -From the first page...the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca.- -The New York Times From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall. Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned Philip as his own son, has died in Rome. Philip, the heir to Ambrose's beautiful English estate, is crushed that the man he loved died far from home. He is also suspicious. While in Italy, Ambrose fell in love with Rachel, a beautiful English and Italian woman. But the final, brief letters Ambrose wrote hint that his love had turned to paranoia and fear. Now Rachel has arrived at Philip's newly inherited estate. Could this exquisite woman, who seems to genuinely share Philip's grief at Ambrose's death, really be as cruel as Philip imagined? Or is she the kind, passionate woman with whom Ambrose fell in love? Philip struggles to answer this question, knowing Ambrose's estate, and his own future, will be destroyed if his answer is wrong. Bonus Reading Group Guide Included Praise for Daphne du Maurier -Miss du Maurier is... a storyteller whose sole aim is to bewitch and beguile. And in My Cousin Rachel she does both, with Rebecca looking fondly over her shoulder.- -- New York Times -Double-distilled readers' delight.- -- Manchester Guardian

My Cousin Rachel

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Carl Sagan

Ann Druyan

A book of understanding evolution over time and our Ancestors and where we came from. A wonderfully wrote eye-opening book.

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A Search for Who We Are

Investigates the origins of human life on Earth, reconstructing the links in the evolutionary chain from the primordial soup to early hominid ancestors

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

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Clay Jacobsen

Interview with the Devil exposes the evil that lurks behind Muslim extremists and the dangers we as society face. A rollercoaster of action.

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A Christian Journalist, a Muslim Extremist, a Formula for Terror

A Christian journalist, a muslim extremist, a formula for terror.

Interview with the Devil

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John Grisham

Friday Night Lights meets Prom Night is this Novel about an almost Al Bundy like rememberance of days long gone and memories remembered at their Coaches burial that wake up monsters who shouldn't have been brought to light.

A Novel

Story of high school All - American Neely Crenshaw and relationships on the team and with the coach Eddie Rake. When Coach Rakes "boys" come home to bury him, sitting in the bleachers, Neely knows he must forgive his coach and himself to finally move on with his life.

Bleachers

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Peter Spiegelman

A Private eye finds himself in a web of corruption. From the halls of high finance to the dark underworld of organized crime. A master of Wall Streets finance goes missing. Now John March P.I. mist uncover the rats neat of family strife, business betrayal, and the fact he is not the only one searching for Mr. High Finance Gregory Danes. When March's own family gets caught in the web will he be able to solve the mystery before something far more sinister intrudes on his life? Find out in this suspense thriller of dark lies and knowledge-filled manipulation.

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In this masterful follow-up to Peter Spiegelman’s stunning debut Black Maps, private investigator John March finds himself drawn into a web of corruption that extends from the halls of high finance to the dark underworld of organized crime. Gregory Danes, a Wall Street analyst has gone missing, and his ex-wife, a fashionable painter, calls March to track him down. She just wants him to sign her alimony checks, but as March soon discovers, she’s not the only one looking for him. Danes was once an industry hot shot, but has lost his touch. His biggest gains lately, it seems, had been in enemies–including a few members of the Russian mob. When March receives a threat upon his own family, he realizes Danes had been involved in something far more dangerous than insider trading.

Death's Little Helpers

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A book written by bird lovers from their home in State College. Jim a Professor of Wildlife Ecology at Penn state, where research and teaching focuses on habitat needs of nongame and game birds. His wife Lillian is a geologist at Penn State Materials Research Lab. She brings her expertise in science and education in her writings about scientific subjects for non-scientists, and the place of science in society. Refer to pictures, but the book is in emmaculant condition.

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Science

Published by the State Game Commission 

Birds of Pennsylvania 

Barbara Hambly

Dazzling glimpse behind the scenes of a revolution and the marriages tested- the gift that linked the remarkable first ladies behind the American Presidency. Stories of Martha Washingtoon, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madision exceptional women linked into an enthralling novel of lore and American history.

A Novel of the Founding Mothers

When Martha Dandridge Custis marries her second husband, George, she never suspects that the soft-spoken Virginia planter is destined to command the founding of a nation--or that she is to be Lady Washington, the woman at the first President's side. Only a select inner circle of women will know the cost of sharing a beloved man with history . . . and each will draw strength from the unique treasure given to them by a doomed queen.
Seeing farm and family through each harsh New England season, Abigail Adams is sustained only by the fervent reunions stolen between John's journeys abroad. She will face the terror of an ocean crossing to join her husband in France--and write her own page in history. And there she will cross paths with kings, commoners--and young Sally Hemings.
Just as Sally had grown from a clever child to a beautiful woman, so had her relationship with Thomas Jefferson grown from a friendship between slave and master to one entangled in the complexities of black and white, decorum and desire. It is a relationship that will leave Sally to face an agonizingly wrenching choice.
Dolley Madison, too, must live with the repercussions of a forbidden love affair--although she will confront even greater trials as a President's wife. But Dolley will become one of the best-loved ladies of the White House--and leave an extraordinary legacy of her own.
A lushly written novel that traces the marriages tested by the demands of love and loyalty, Patriot Hearts offers readers a dazzling glimpse behind the scenes of a revolution, from adversity and treachery to teatime strategies, as four magnificent women shape a nation's future.

Patriot Hearts

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Theodore Bouloukos

John Berendt

Born Benjamin Edward Knox, Brenda Dale Knox or The Lady Chablis ( Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) tells her story in her own words. The ups the downs, the good and evil.

The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah

The personal story of the famous drag queen from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil describes an abuse-marked childhood, character development, rise to stardom, and secrets of survival.

Hiding My Candy

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This book or series is to preseby the best in contemporary critical opinion on major authors, a twentieth century perspective on the changing status in an era of revaluation.

A Collection of Critical Essays

Twentieth Century News F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michelle McKinney Hammond

Tamaras life and faith are sprialling out of control. Corrine has uncovered her husband's shocking secret, Jada is caught in a web of unscrupulous acts, and Jamilah is trying with good intentions to save her student. Can they find their way back to faith? Is God listening to their plight? Find out with this Michelle McKinney Hammond Novel author of The Last Ten Percent 

Hammond explores the heartache that can come when women try to play God in their own lives. This riveting novel with intersecting story lines reminds readers that God is loving, all-knowing, merciful, and the One completely in control.

Playing God

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Thomas Keneally

Novel based on the true story of a German war profiteer and prison camp Direktor Oskar Schindler. A man who helped save more Jews from the unspeakable death of the gas chamber. More than any other single person in World War 2. International Bestseller. 

Recreates the remarkable activities and courage of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic German industrialist who gambled everything to save as many Jews as possible from the Nazi death camps

Schindler's List

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Uwem Akpan

Oprah's 2009 Book Club Selection. A story of living in extreme poverty in Africa. Multiple stories told by the children who lived through them. A young brother and sister try to survive with an Uncle who is going to sell them into slavery. A muslim boy and his faith traverse a treacherous ride across Nigeria. A very eye opening and humbling read.

A collection of tales about modern African children in crisis includes "An Ex-Mas Feast," in which an eight-year-old child shares in his family's sacrifices to obtain enough food and enable his education.

Say You're One of Them

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Babe Walker

A rich, white girl got everyday problems! Now she's written her memoir to overcome her hurdles. Crazy hilariousness and out of this world self entitlement! The will not to laugh is enormous! Try it out for yourself! This book gets a great laugh.

“I now have a girl crush on Babe Walker! Laugh-out-loud, pee-in-your-Cosabellas funny.” --Tori Spelling, author of Uncharted TerriTori “White Girl Problems makes me laugh a lot, and cry a little. It’s about time someone drew our attention to the devastating reality: White girl problems are all around us . . . absolutely hysterical.” --Susan Sarandon “Babe Walker will be your new best friend and worst enemy. I loved it!” --Emma Roberts Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab—that's what happens when you spend $246,893.50 in one afternoon at Barneys. Now she's decided to write her memoir, revealing the gut-wrenching hurdles she's had to overcome in order to be perfect in every way, every day. Hurdles such as: - I hate my horse. - Every job I've ever had is the worst job I've ever had. - He's not a doctor, a lawyer, or a prince. - I’ll eat anything, as long as it’s gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, low-fat, low-calorie, sugar-free, and organic. In an Adderall-induced flash of inspiration, Babe Walker has managed to create one of the most enjoyable, unforgettable memoirs in years. “The epitome of the urban socialite you love to hate.” --Time magazine “A social satire in the guise of a memoirï¿1⁄2The most artful elements are the charming fashion illustrations peppered throughoutï¿1⁄2Walker’s half-million followers on Twitter and the public’s bottomless appetite for news about real-life socialites like the Kardashians prove that a large audience for this story does exist.” —Booklist

White Girl Problems

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A gorgeous story of animals in the wild. Winter pictures.

A Photographic Fantasy

Forest animals, awakened by the birds' warning that there is a stranger in the woods, set out to discover if there is danger and find, instead, a wonderful surprise.

Stranger in the Woods

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Its not always good to stand out especially if you are a shy bashful glitter dragon. The other fearful dragons tormented him.He leaves and sets out on an epic adventure.

Teased by the other dragons for his glittery scales and his unwillingness to terrorize human beings, the shy Geoffrey hopes to start a new life, encounters several wicked creatures, and rescues a princess

The Glitter Dragon

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Plankton has a robot and SpongeBob has ketchup. Who will win? This is a step 2 book of step into reading.

Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants comes to the big screen in an all-new, super-silly 3-D movie releasing in February 2015. Boys and girls 4 to 6 will love this Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring a foiled cover and two sheets of shiny stickers.
 
Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help.

Food Fight! (SpongeBob SquarePants)

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Picture Clue Reader book for children with 24 flash cards. Picture clues help children focus on the visual aspect of reading. The clues are motivating and fun. Go on an adventure with Hello Kitty and her friends into the woods for a camping trip. Will it be scary during the night?

Hello Kitty Camping Adventure 

Tommy is very excited to be getting a baby sister. When she doesn't show up for the baby shower, he gets worried. As seen in The Rugrats Movie, Tommy and his friends set out to find his new sibling and along the way get a big surprise.

Tommy is getting a new baby sister but when she doesn't come to the baby shower, he fears she may be lost.

The Rugrats Movie Tommys New Playmate

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A Scholastic childrens book. For beginning readers it shows children how to be safe and aware of pedestrians as they join Clifford the big red dog, Emily Elizabeth, and their friends on a walking adventure.

Clifford Takes a Walk

Clifford the Firehouse Dog. A Be Big! Help Others book for children.

Clifford to the rescue!Emily Elizabeth and Clifford go to visit his brother, who is a firehouse dog. When an alarm goes off, Clifford comes to the rescue -- he HELPS OTHERS by rescuing the people and putting out the fire! Featuring a full page of stickers!

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Jacqueline Brassey; Aaron De Smet; Michiel Kruyt

Deliberate Calm

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Be Useful

Thomas Erikson

Surrounded by Idiots

Daphne du Maurier

My Cousin Rachel

Carl Sagan; Ann Druyan

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Clay Jacobsen

Interview with the Devil

John Grisham

Bleachers

Peter Spiegelman

Death's Little Helpers

James S. & Lillian D. Wakeley

Birds of Pennsylvania

Barbara Hambly

Patriot Hearts

Theodore Bouloukos; John Berendt

Hiding My Candy

Edited by: Arthur Mizener

Twentieth Century News F. Scott Fitzgerald

Michelle McKinney Hammond

Playing God

Thomas Keneally

Schindler's List

Uwem Akpan

Say You're One of Them

Babe Walker

White Girl Problems

Carl R. Sams (Photographer); Jean Stoick (Photographer); Carl R. Sams (Photographer)

Stranger in the Woods

Caroline Repchuk; Colin MacLean (Illustrator); Moira MacLean (Illustrator)

The Glitter Dragon

Courtney Carbone; Dave Aikins (Illustrator)

Food Fight! (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Kris Hirschmann

Hello Kitty Camping Adventure

Luke David

The Rugrats Movie Tommys New Playmate

Norman Bridwell

Clifford Takes a Walk

Norman Bridwell (Illustrator)

Clifford the Firehouse Dog

Satoshi Kitamura

UFO Diary

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