The Big Five for Life
A book that opened my eyes and inspired me in every sense.' Leisure Magazine'Recommended book of the month' Dale Carnegie TrainingThe life-changing story which has sold over a million copies and spent an astounding two hundred and fourteen weeks as the #1 Bestselling Personal Development and Leadership book in Europe. When a young protege learns his friend and mentor is dying he comes back to spend the final months of his life with him. Through their profound and inspiring discussions we learn the importance of embracing who we really are and the factors that truly determine a successful life.Told in the context of what it means to be a great leader this story will forever enhance the way you look at your purpose in life. Because as the protege learns were all leaders. Even if the only person were leading is ourself. The principles in this book such as The Big Five for Life and Museum Day Morning have left an indelible impression on the minds of readers around the world.Its a story which will lift you in countless ways and transform your understanding of what really mattersto you.
Cracking the Coding Interview 6th Edition: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions (Cracking the Interview & Career)
I am not a recruiter. I am a software engineer. And as such I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. I've been through thisas a candidate and as an interviewer.Cracking the Coding Interview 6th Edition is here to help you through this process teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your very best. I've coached and interviewed hundreds of software engineers. The result is this book.Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question discover how to break down a problem into manageable chunks develop techniques to unstick yourself when stuck learn (or re-learn) core computer science concepts and practice on 189 interview questions and solutions.These interview questions are real; they are not pulled out of computer science textbooks. They reflect whats truly being asked at the top companies so that you can be as prepared as possible.WHAT'S INSIDE?189 programming interview questions ranging from the basics to the trickiest algorithm problems.A walk-through of how to derive each solution so that you can learn how to get there yourself.Hints on how to solve each of the 189 questions just like what you would get in a real interview.Five proven strategies to tackle algorithm questions so that you can solve questions you havent seen.Extensive coverage of essential topics such as big O time data structures and core algorithms.A behind the scenes look at how top companies like Google and Facebook hire developers.Techniques to prepare for and ace the soft side of the interview: behavioral questions.For interviewers and companies: details on what makes a good interview question and hiring process.
Japanese From Zero! 1: Proven Methods to Learn Japanese with integrated Workbook and Online Support: Proven Techniques to Learn Japanese for Students and Professionals
Japanese From Zero! is an innovative and integrated approach to learning Japanese developed by professional Japanese interpreter George Trombley and co-writer Yukari Takenaka. The lessons and techniques used in this series have been taught successfully for over ten years in classrooms throughout the world.Using up-to-date and easy-to-grasp grammar Japanese From Zero! is the perfect course for current students of Japanese as well as absolute beginners. In Book 1 of the Japanese From Zero! series readers are taught new grammar concepts over 800 new words and expressions and also learn the hiragana writing system. Features of Book 1: * Integrated Workbook with Answer Key * Over 800 New Words and Expressions * Learn to Read and Write Hiragana * Easy-to-Understand Example Dialogues * Culture Points about Japan * Bilingual Glossaries with Kana and Romaji...and much more!
Unscripted: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship
What If Life Wasnt About Paying Bills Working FOR a weekend and Then Dying? Recapture what is yours and make a revolutionary repossession of life-and-libertys reins through the pursuit of UNSCRIPTED ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Paradigm shift? Heck the paradigm doesnt need a damn shiftit needs to be thrown-out altogether.Rewrite lifes dream-killing script. Ditch the job flick Wall-Street the bird and escape the insanity of trading your life away for a paycheck and an elderly promise called retirement. UNSCRIPT today and lead lifeinstead of life leading you.
Coaching Habit: Say Less Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever
Coaching is an essential skill for leaders. But for most busy overworked managers coaching employees is done badly or not at all. They&;re just too busy and it&;s too hard to change. But what if managers could coach their people in 10 minutes or less? In Michael Bungay Stanier&;s The Coaching Habit coaching becomes a regular informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Coaching is an art and it&;s far easier said than done. It takes courage to ask a question rather than offer up advice provide an answer or unleash a solution. Giving another person the opportunity to find their own way make their own mistakes and create their own wisdom is both brave and vulnerable. It can also mean unlearning our &;fix it&; habits. In this practical and inspiring book Michael shares seven transformative questions that can make a difference in how we lead and support. And he guides us through the tricky part - how to take this new information and turn it into habits and a daily practice. &;&;Brené Brown author of Rising Strong and Daring Greatly Drawing on years of experience training more than 10000 busy managers from around the globe in practical everyday coaching skills Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples&; potential. He unpacks seven essential coaching questions to demonstrate how&;by saying less and asking more&;you can develop coaching methods that produce great results. &; Get straight to the point in any conversation with The Kickstart Question &; Stay on track during any interaction with The AWE Question &; Save hours of time for yourself with The Lazy Question and hours of time for others with The Strategic Question &; Get to the heart of any interpersonal or external challenge with The Focus Question and The Foundation Question &; Finally ensure others find your coaching as beneficial as you do with The Learning Question A fresh innovative take on the traditional how-to manual the book combines insider information with research based in neuroscience and behavioural economics together with interactive training tools to turn practical advice into practiced habits. Dynamic question-and-answer sections help identify old habits and kick-start new behaviour making sure you get the most out of all seven chapters. Witty and conversational The Coaching Habit takes your work&;and your workplace&;from good to great.
Wildlife Wong and the Sun Bear
When Wildlife Wong meets Damai (which sounds like dam eye) she is a tiny sun bear cub with an uncertain future. Her mother has been killed by poachers. She is scared and alone. Wildlife Wong becomes her new mum. He teaches her to climb trees and dig for food. Before long she joins a gang of new sun bear friends at the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre. Life is much betterbut Will Damai ever be a free sun bear again? After the story learn interesting facts about sun bears and their rainforest home and conduct experiments to become a scientist just like Wildlife Wong!
Beatles for Sale on Parlophone Records
Beatles For Sale on Parlophone Records covers all of the singles albums and extended play discs issued by the Beatles in the U.K. from 1962 through 1970. Each record is given a separate chapter which tells the stories behind how the songs appearing on the disc were written and recorded. The chapters also detail how the records were marketed and contain sales and chart information. The book has chapters on the history of EMI and Parlophone Records how records are mastered and manufactured how EMI contracted with other record companies to press Beatles singles and albums to help meet demand British radio and record charts in the sixties and other record-related topics. The book has over 700 illustrations all in either color or original black and white.
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime
** NOW AN INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER Translated and Published Worldwide In Over 25 LanguagesHas the financial plan of mediocrity and survival become your plan for wealth? That sounds something like this:Graduate from college get a good job save 10% of your paycheck buy a used car cancel the movie channels quit buying expensive Starbucks coffee save and penny-pinch for decades trust your life-savings to Wall Street and one day when you are oh say 65 years old you can retire rich.Since you were old enough to hold a job you've been hoodwinked into believing that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market the stock market and the job market. This soul-sucking dream-stealing dogma is known as the 'The Slowlane' - a risky financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair.Accept the Slowlane as your financial roadmap and your financial future will blow carelessly asunder on a sailboat of HOPE: HOPE you can get a job and keep it HOPE the stock market doesn't tank HOPE for a robust economy HOPE HOPE and HOPE. Do you really want HOPE as the centerpiece for your family's financial plan?Drive the Slowlane and you will discover your life deteriorate into a miserable exhibition about what you cannot do versus what you can. For those who refuse the lifetime subscription to mediocrity there's an expressway to extraordinary wealth capable of burning a trail to financial freedom faster than any road out there. And shockingly this road has nothing to do with jobs 401(k)s indexed-funds or a lifestyle of miserly living in a tiny house. Just some of what you will learn:Why jobs 401(k)s indexed-funds and 40-years of mindless frugality will never make you rich young.Why most entrepreneurs fail and how to immediately put the odds in your favor.The real law of wealth: Leverage this and wealth has no choice but to be magnetized to you.The leading cause of poorness: Change this and you change everything.How the rich really get rich - and no it has nothing to do with a paycheck or a 401K match.The indisputable mathematics of wealth: how you and any 'Joe Schmo' can tap into real wealth real fast.Why the guru's sacred deities - compound interest and indexed fund investing - are impotent wealth accelerators.Why popular guru platitudes like 'do what you love' and 'follow your passion' will most likely keep you poor not rich.And 250+ more poverty-busting distinctions...NEWSFLASH! Your mainstream financial guru who's on 500 radio stations and lives in a $10000000 mansion isn't rich because he religiously follows his own advice-- he's rich because he's sold it to enough fools who believe it... in other words he's driving The Millionaire Fastlane.Demand more. Demand the truth. Change lanes and find your explosive wealth accelerator. Hit the Fastlane crack the code to wealth and educate yourself on living rich for a lifetime.
Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix (Food Heroes)
Chef Roy Choi calls himself a street cook.He wants outsiders low-riderskids teens shufflers and skateboardersto have food cooked with care with lovewith sohn maash.'Sohn maash' is the flavors in our fingertips. It is the love and cooking talent that Korean mothers and grandmothers mix into their handmade foods. For Chef Roy Choi food means love. It also means culture not only of Korea where he was born but the many cultures that make up the streets of Los Angeles where he was raised. So remixing food from the streets just like good musicand serving it up from a truckis true to L.A. food culture. People smiled and talked as they waited in line. Won't you join him as he makes good food smiles?Jacqueline Briggs Martin author of the Caldecott Medal winner Snowflake Bentley as well as Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table and Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious continues her Food Heroes series with Chef Roy Choi on people who change what and how we eat. Together with food ethnographer June Jo Lee and internationally renowned graffiti artist Man One they bring an exuberant celebration of street food and street art.
The My Little Pony G1 Collector's Inventory: An Unofficial Full Color Illustrated Collector's Price Guide to the First Generation of Mlp Including All
Finally the guide that fans of Hasbro's My Little Pony have waited for is here! With large full color photos of every pony playset and accessory released in the US in the 1980s and 1990s this unofficial guide to the first generation of My Little Pony (commonly called MLP G1) from Summer Hayes provides everything a collector or collectibles seller needs to identify these toys and their accessories understand their value or build a collection. In addition to large photographs of each item this illustrated price guide contains detailed checklists to help collectors or sellers identify and reunite each pony in their collection with the accessories that they were originally packed with including brushes ribbons stickers and more. With in-depth coverage of playsets Pony Wear stickers mail orders and other exclusive ponies as well as differences and variations in ponies and accessories The My Little Pony G1 Collector's Inventory is the ultimate MLP resource. Collectors will also enjoy helpful sections on hard to find pony sets such as Petite Ponies Dream Beauties Li'l Litters and stuffed plush. Whether you are a collector looking for a reliable price guide an easy way to identify your ponies and keep track of accessories an eBay or other collectibles seller looking for help valuing these items or just someone looking for the chance to remember these beloved toys from your childhood you will find this to be the most comprehensive and complete guide to MLP available anywhere. With a foreword from Dream Valley's Kim Shriner.
