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Jack Canfield, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® franchise and coauthor of The Success Principles, and Dave Andrews, a recovery expert, join forces to present a revolutionary program to help you cut back or quit drinking entirely--in the privacy of your own h... More

In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations: concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your own forest garden. Along the way they present case studies and examples, as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable "plant matrix" that lists hundre... More

Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that mak... More

Take a Shot! is the incredible true story of how three unlikely partners—world-famous fitness icon Jake Steinfeld, former Princeton University lacrosse star Dave Morrow, and son of a TV preacher Tim Robertson—broke all the rules and beat all the odds to create Major League Lacrosse. This book will t... More

People often associate effective leadership with certain leadership attributes, but leadership capability must be put to appropriate, purposeful use. This chapter describes the perils of developing leadership attributes only, without connecting these attributes to results.... More

Ultimately, the results-based leader succeeds because the next generation of leaders exceeds the results of the current generation. This chapter provides leaders with a road map for building a deep leadership bench and suggests innovative ways to invest development dollars most effectively to upgrad... More

This chapter addresses how any person currently in a leadership position can modify his or her leadership behavior to better focus on results and take charge of his or her own leadership development to become a more effective results-based leader.... More

Results-based leaders must demonstrate an ability to make decisions and act in ways that build investor confidence. This chapter offers suggestions to leaders in publicly traded firms for increasing shareholder value.... More

If a firm's customers don't appreciate or value what the firm offers, customer results will fall short. This chapter explores ways to create customer results through firm equity, demonstrating how to maintain a distinctive relationship with customers while remaining profitable.... More

Leaders can and should deliver organization results and help others develop the skills they need to make that happen. This chapter addresses the questions: Do I have the right organization? and What can I do to ensure my organization has the capabilities required to achieve results?... More

Leaders achieve employee results when human capital increases over time and consistently meets the needs of the organization. This chapter focuses on how to build employee capability and commitment to achieve desired results in this important stakeholder area.... More

This chapter outlines the reliable criteria leaders need to consistently pay attention to in order to attain their short- and long-term objectives, along with a set of tools to make sure that leadership attributes translate into the right results.... More

America's single bloodiest day was at the Battle of Antietam, and Michigan played a prominent role. Discover the state's connections to the Lost Order, one of the Civil War's greatest mysteries. Explore George A. Custer's role as a staff officer in combat. Mourn the extraordinary losses Michiganders... More

Save on patent drafting by doing it yourself! If you're trying to patent your invention, you know need a drawing to complete your USPTO application. Professional patent drafters charge per sheet for their patent drawing services and it can cost you hundreds of dollars. But with How to Make Patent D... More

When Millennials Rule offers an optimistic story about how the generation that grew up through 9/11 and the Great Recession will rise above these setbacks to unify around common-sense solutions and take back America's future. China has swallowed our jobs. Social security is going bankrupt. Radic... More

Presenting U.S. history as contested interpretations of compelling problems, this text offers a clear set of principles and strategies, together with case studies and "Mystery Packets" of documentary materials from key periods in American history, that teachers can use with their students to promote... More

Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to classroom... More

A terrorist attack on the water supply has left the city quarantined and inhabited by the City People, the mindless living dead who rule the urban night. Plagued by nightmares and wracked with guilt for having left his best friend behind, Jett realizes things may not be exactly as they appear. ... More

Banish belly fast, lose weight, and build lean muscle with simple at-home workouts designed specifically for men and women who don't like to go to the gym.Using the basic diet principles and easy workout strategies found in the bestselling The Belly Off! Diet, this new book offers beginners an ultra... More

<P>The tragic collision between civilization and nature in the Gulf of Mexico becomes a uniquely American story in this environmental epic. <P>When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as Ame... More

An important collection of 10 essays on the almost totally neglected subject of the freedman in North and South American slave societies.... More

Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state. Framed throughout as ‘gerontological hygeine’, this book examines contemporary regimes, strategies and treatment protocols deployed throughout Austra... More

Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have cel... More

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Although the Mycenaean civilization of the Greek Bronze Age was identified 150 years ago, its origins remain obscure. Jack L. Davis, codirector of excavations at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos, takes readers on a... More

The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama. They chart the ri... More