Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 When dealing with a resistant boss, it's important to be clear about what you want. If you want X, be upfront about that. Make it clear that you understand that your boss may have different information or a different perspective than you. #2 If you're worried about your performance, ask your boss for more insight. Say something like, I'm concerned about the feedback...

"'I haven’t changed my diet or exercise habits and yet the scale keeps moving in the wrong direction. What’s going on?!' Time and again, this is the question Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s patients asked. At first, a practicing OB/GYN, she’d dutifully advise what she’d been taught in medical school: eat less and work out more. But that standard advice didn’t solve the problem because back then she—and so many other doctors—hadn’t taken...

"ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder and ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, are prevalent in society today, afflicting about 4.4% of the adult population, which is over 13 million Americans. Four out of every five adults do not even know they are ADD, and while it is often difficult to differentiate adults with true ADD from adults who are merely forgetful and disorganized, Organizing Solutions for People with ADD outlines new organizing...

"Gliding over the treacherous Green in a shaky aircraft that she has no idea how to land, Violet Bates is still in shock. The harrowing events of the previous night play over in her mind as she asks herself question after questions...When Violet manages to reach the toxic ground alive, she has landed in a world of unimaginable danger..." (From back cover).

"The suspenseful story of a woman with terminal cancer who is the sole survivor of a plane crash, and the young NTSB agent who is sent to investigate"--Provided by publisher.

Horace has received an almost impossible homework assignment at King Arthur's School for Trainee Knights--he has to kill a dragon, which is even more difficult because his father is one.

Ghost Dogs, Dion O'Reilly's fine first poetry collection, will haunt you the way art should. Bristling with pain, wit, desire, and tenderness, these poems investigate not only "the daily harms" of an abusive childhood, but the deep solace non-human animals can offer. In vivid, sensual detail, O'Reilly conjures her companions: mastiffs with "sad, sagging faces," a beloved chestnut mare's "glowing coat," a green parrot who has managed to "fill a space...

The Amazon is a vast laboratory for sustainable experiments that are revealing new relationships among human beings, corporations, and the natural heritage crucial for life on the planet. This is where the guidelines are being drawn up for a new global economic model: the green economy. With an astonishing soundtrack and cinematography, Eternal Amazon presents a critical analysis of how the world’s largest tropical rainforest is understood and utilized.....

Kevin Mallaghan, aka Mally, has returned from Vietnam to job frustration manning a shovel at a Boston construction site. Introduced to Noles Dermody, head of a Boston gang, Mally's penchant for planning and discipline allow him to thrive. But an unintentional murder sets him running from the vengeance of a Mafia Don, who has put a price on Mally's head for his capture. Without a plan, Mally ends up at a religious commune in rural Colorado. Jenny...

Sora's Weight Loss "Management" Program as taught in a workbook format teaches you how to use two simple eat and stop yourself techniques, so that now you can become forever thin and healthy and all without having to diet. We all know that diets don't work because it's all about what you can't have which leaves you always wanting more of the food that you "really" want or more of the food that's on the diet. As a result of this, your diet keeps you...