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When was the last time you took a course to make yourself more marketable, and found yourself wondering just what in the world you were doing? Or watched "square peg" employees dropped into "round hole" positions only to fail miserably as revenues tumbled? There's a lesson to be learned in... Animals, Inc.

This audiobook tells the story of how Alexander Graham Bell came up with the telephone, and how his invention changed the way people communicate.

The General Theory of the Translation Company condenses decades of combined experience in an easily digestible and entertaining format. Just like this back-of-the-book-summary, it does not provide all the answers. It teaches us how to ask better questions and to have more meaningful conversations about language services.

It’s the summer of 1964 in Ocean City and the region seethes in racial unrest. The Vietnam War escalates. The Beatles lead the British Invasion in the takeover of rock-and-roll. It is the Age of Aquarius, and against this backdrop, Tom Delaney loses his college scholarship just a year before graduation. With no money or family to fall back on, he hopes to find work at a thriving beachfront to avoid the draft and salvage his dreams. Delaney soon encounters new friends who vie for his talents and will dramatically alter his future. Wendy Morrison, a beautiful surfer girl, want his heart, ...

Morgan and Devon Gregson Bennett are an interracial creative power couple living happily enough in Brooklyn until a freak accident leaves a little girl orphaned in Los Angeles. Setting aside reservations about the price motherhood will exact on their marriage and careers, Morgan and Devon agree to adopt Vabeh, a bi-racial ethnic-hair-products heiress. Vabeh touches down in New York, wearing last season’s fur and on a mission to quickly distinguish herself from the other bold-faced names at her new school, the tony School for Spoiled Kids.

Over 150 interactive, engaging, and challenging math riddles for kids. Help your child become a MASTER at multiplication and division! Bring math to the kitchen when cooking breakfast, lunch, and dessert or eating fruits, vegetables, and meats in our Food Theme version. Discover a gigantic collection of food and cooking related riddles.

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She’d been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season.

The Benefits of Coaching are Priceless! The Power of Coaching is for you if you are ready to achieve total success in your personal and professional development. You will read stories from 12 business and life coaches who have successfully facilitated transformations and growth for others and their own lives. Their stories will give you hope and key strategies to create a life filled with purpose, passion, and prosperity. Authors share their definition of coaching and testimonies of transformations they use to support others to take charge of their business and life journey. This book ...

Return to Eden is an exploration of one man's and one country's journey from the devastation of war through recovery and healing, then to creativity. Smallwood's reflections on his military and film experiences have appeared in magazines, but this is the first recorded collection of essays.

SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist - and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her only a cryptic note and instructions to destroy it. Her mom has gone to bed, and she's not getting up.

Parents know that sleep is vital for children but often don’t know how to help their school-aged child sleep independently without the stalling, arguments, and emotional turmoil. Banish Bedtime Battles presents a straightforward plan to do just that. With expert guidance, parents can help their child develop critical coping skills essential to increasing confidence and competence at bedtime (and beyond!). Armed with the powerful strategies presented in this book, parents will be ready to use their personalized six-week plan to solve their child’s nighttime struggles.

In 1959, a church in Pierce's Crossing, GA, burned to the ground, killing a civil rights leaders and his wife. No one has ever come to justice for this arson of an historic church, bult by freed slaves. Who did it? Why and how was it covered up? Are the killers still alive? Sixty years later, Scott Wallace, editor of the town newspaper, is approached by the new pastor of the church to write articles about the commemoration of the crime. She also wants the investigation opened. Scott and his staff become investigators and characters in this drama to bring justice to the community.

Having conducted over 100 hours of interviews with 60 British women aged 16-25, Nancy Tucker - the author of The Time In Between, an ‘astonishingly good’ (Sunday Times) memoir of a life consumed by eating disorders – explores what it’s like to suffer from serious mental illness as a young woman. With raw honesty, sensitivity and humour, That Was When People Started to Worry examines real experiences of anxiety, self-harm, borderline personality disorder, OCD, binge eating disorder, PTSD and dissociative identity disorder. Giving a voice to those like Abby who can’t speak out themselves, Tucker presents a unique window into the day-to-day trials of living with an unwell mind.

According to The National Academy of Sciences, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent. On top of that, it can result in thousands of dollars in private tutoring and extra resources. Learning doesn’t have to be difficult and boring. It can be fun. Audiobook learning is perfect for kids who are always on the move. These math practice sessions can be listened to in bed, in the car, on the couch, or even at the park.

Audiobooks are revolutionizing the education system. Find out how you and your child can be a part of that too! The “modern” education system. It hasn't changed much since it started back in 1837. The same rules apply. Whether your child pays attention to the teacher or not, it's up to them. The problem here is, even if the child tries to pay attention, many find it difficult to learn this way. According to The National Academy of Sciences, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent.

Over 150 interactive, engaging, and challenging math riddles for kids. Help your child become a master at addition and subtraction! Bring math to the kitchen when cooking breakfast, lunch, and dessert; or eating fruits, vegetables, and meats in our Food Theme version.

The "modern" education system. It hasn't changed much since it started back in 1837. The problem here is, many kids find it hard to learn using this old model. According to The National Academy of Sciences, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent. On top of that, it can result in thousands of dollars in private tutoring and extra resources. In Fun Math for Kids, you'll be given techniques that benefit all four primary types of learners: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic.

At a time when heroes are too rare, C. Vivian Stringer sets a shining example. She has time and again shown character, fortitude, and heart, both on and off the hardwood, and in the face of unbearable loss. In Standing Tall, she shares her remarkable life story, inspiring us to find this fortitude within ourselves.

The Rhineland was where Adolf Hitler sowed the seeds for the Second World War when he remilitarized it in breach of the Treaty of Versailles in 1936, and by late 1944 the Rhine provided the last major obstacle to the advancing Allied armies that were threatening the Fatherland itself. In this new history of this vital campaign, respected military historian Anthony Tucker-Jones describes the race against time as the Germans fought to stave off the inevitable.

An eyewitness account to an event that changed history Nerdy innocent Patty is desperate to escape the confines of a conservative upbringing, but when she enrolls at Kent State University can she survive the upheaval of the Seventies Vietnam War era? When she narrowly escapes the bullets fired at students on May 4, 1970, she resolves to dedicate her life to her new husband and her unborn child. Is it too late when she realizes she’s put herself in even greater danger? In a stunning parallel to our own times, Surviving: A Kent State Memoir, explores the coming of age of a young adult. In ...