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The Wise Guide to Winning Grants

by Waddy Thompson

The Wise Guide to Winning Grants provides complete instruction in the research and writing techniques that lead to winning grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies, as well as major gifts from individuals. The process is described step-by-step with numerous real-life examples in an easy-to-read conversational style. You’ll learn how to make your proposals stand out from the crowd and avoid common mistakes. Whether you work in social services, health, the arts, youth servi... more

Pee On It and Walk Away: How to Stay Stress-Free Among Difficult People. Life Lessons from Superdog Abby

by Roger Ziegler

Superdog Abby, the world's "Zen-est" pooch, shares sassy secrets for staying stress-free in any insanity. Simple, fun, effective pictures and tips for living happier and stress-free anytime, anywhere. Much funnier, and cheaper, than therapy. It's stress management, dog style when you learn how to "Pee On It And Walk Away!"

Integrity - Integrity: In Times Like These?

by Frank Wilson

Can an honest manager be successful in business? Yes and this book will show you how this can be done. It includes many case studies – and all are true, taken from his business experience in much of the world. Short, precise and straight to the point, these pages are designed to use the managers time effectively. All managers are expendable. This book will show you how to be an effective manager with integrity.

My Tree of Life as an Appraiser of American Indian Art

by Dr. Leona Zastrow

This book explores the appraising of American Indian items from pottery to jewelry to textiles to paintings and other items and provides information about the artists, their history and culture. Many photos are in the book. References are provided so that readers can continue researching and learning about American Indian art and its history.

Samaritan Leadership: Leading with compassion

by Wonder Jonamu

Let's face it, leadership theories, fads or frameworks that have worked before are found wanting in the context of contemporary leadership practice. Navigating the leadership journey successfully has become even more daunting for every leader. Frankly, the leadership game has changed and thus a new game plan and more enduring leadership architecture have become necessary. The hard-nosed taskmaster leadership style just won't work anymore. In his breakthrough leadership book, Wonder Jonamu makes ... more

One Survivor's Guide for Beating Depression and Thriving Thereafter: Simple, Practical, Step-by-Step Remedies for the Illness o

by Nima Fard

The quintessential guide on how to beat depression. This personal and motivating guide for battling depression follows one survivor’s intimate journey through the illness while imparting the essential steps readers can take to start feeling better. As the narrative of this first person account unfolds, it compels, educates, and guides readers towards forming the necessary habits for overcoming depression. Its holistic approach uncovers many keys, practices, and secrets that can lead to a healthi... more

Aphorisms, Adages & Advice for the Children I Never Had

by Len Tomaka

To soon old, too late smart. Over the course of my life, I have happened upon sayings that apply to specific situations in our lives. Actually, they relate powerful lessons. Over time, I jotted down many of these real-world insights and also began to compile a list of my personal experiences that I expected to pass along to my children. But I was married for thirteen years then divorced. We were not blessed with children. So I passed these sayings along to pipe fitter apprentices who worked w... more

The Underdog Curse

by Dr. Don MacDonald

Everyone loves an underdog, but what happens when you stay stuck in that mindset? It can become a curse that causes you to sabotage your own success, be brought down by old habits and held back from genuine happiness. After spending most of his life trying to kick his own underdog curse, chiropractor and success coach Dr. Don MacDonald now spends most of his time trying to help others with the cure to this purpose-destroying pattern. It’s time to stop being focused on what other people think... more

Koan Kreativity: Using Ancient Wisdom to Inspire Modern Creativity

by Tim Ljunggren

Presented as either a riddle or tale, the koan is instrumental to the Zen student’s path to enlightenment; by opening and freeing the mind from both outer and inner restrictions, the “empty mind” of the Zen student is more open to insight and realization that could be achieved in no other way. As artists, we, too, need the benefit of an “empty mind.” Our own creative insights and realizations become more tangible and workable when we clear away the clutter of fear, negativity, apathy, and all... more

EARN THAT VOTE: Practical Help From The Gut To Win An Election

by Michael Gold

MICHAEL GOLD is a photographer and author, whose photographs have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Esquire, Opera News, National Lampoon, American Express, BMW, IBM, SONY and more. Besides "EARN THAT VOTE: Practical Help From The Gut To Win An Election," he is also the co-author, along with Professor Fred Mayo of NYU, of “Modern American Manners: Dining Etiquette for Hosts and Guests,” published by Skyhorse Publishing that will be available April 4th, 2017, all over the country.... more

Drink, Drank, Drunk

by Bill Stokes

Thirty-eight years ago I wrote a “Drink, Drank, Drunk,” series of six articles for the Milwaukee Journal in which I used my personal experience with booze along with pointing out the stranglehold the beer/booze industry has in formulating our absurd collective relationship with alcohol. Incredibly, a recent review of those articles leads to the inevitable and unfortunate conclusion that with only minor changes for updating statistics they could have been written yesterday. Never in my many ye... more

ASHLEY ON THE CROSS ROADS OF LIFE

by Munir Ahmad

Teaching College: The Ultimate Guide to Lecturing, Presenting, and Engaging Students

by Norman Eng

“Teaching College” aims to help new instructors engage students more effectively, through strategies and approaches Dr. Eng learned as a K-12 teacher and as an advertiser. These include “the marketer’s mindset” to understanding the needs of the target audience as well as the “You, Y’all, We” approach to lesson planning. “Teaching College” walks you through the planning & execution of your course step-by-step, backed by the latest research in education, psychology, communication, and business.

ReVivement: Having a Life After Making a Living

by Gloria Dunn-Violin

Change the word and change your mind by transforming retirement into revivement™ and, have your best life now! Gloria Dunn-Violin has coined this new word and a new philosophy for your second half of life in her hot off the press book called Revivement: Having a Life After Making a Living. She suggests with fervor that anyone over 50 is ready to have a rebirth, and to renew and revitalize a life that has been waiting for this auspicious time. This book is a good friend for anyone contemplatin... more

Working World Mentor: A Comprehensive Guide for Students and Young Adults

by Robert Jastremski

Advice is perishable. Often we hear some good advice but it’s for a situation not in play for months or years, so you forget the advice. Working World Mentor contains 80 standalone what/why/how, insightful topics, covering student concerns, job capture, workplace reality, communications, and professional development winning advice. A chapter on balancing work and enjoying life is included.. This book covers how to achieve desired goals with minimum stress. The author lived a remarkab... more

Innovator's High

by Robert Gerlach

"Creative work in companies is like going fishing, but with a gun pointed to your head telling you to hurry up or you are out!" – Robert Gerlach

Innovator’s High provides new insights on creativity, such as: the #1 reason why people have their best ideas on the job, how to transform negative feelings into creative power and why great artists never steal. What’s more? Creativity coach Robert Gerlach reveals an unknown secret behind the innovators Leonardo da V... more

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