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IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 13
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How do we think without thinking, seem to make choices in an instant--in the blink of an eye--that actually aren't as simple as they seem? Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept? Why do some people follow their instincts and win, while others end up stumbling into error? And why are the best decisions often those that are impossible to explain to others? Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology,...
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"Emotions play a powerful role in financial behavior, often making us our own worst enemies. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely teams up with financial comedian Jeff Kreisler to reveal the emotional forces working against us and how we can counteract them." ---- back cover
5) Four seconds: all the time you need to stop counter-productive habits and get the results you want
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"How can we be most effective and productive in a world that moves too fast and demands so much of us? In [this book], Peter Bregman shows that the answer is to pause for as few as four seconds--the length of a deep breath--to replace bad habits and reactions with more productive behaviors ... Bregman reveals some of our most common counter-productive tendencies and describes counter-intuitive strategies for acting more intentionally, including: why...
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Perform various data analysis using statistical functions, filters and histograms! Learn all about pivot tables and pivot charts! Use the Solver and Goal Seek to find optimum results! Perform sales forecasting and various predictions using Excel's built-in functions!
Most of you probably know how to use Excel. How many can handle the above functions and features mentioned? This is the book for you if you want to learn the advanced Excel functions.
This...
8) How to Make Collaboration Work: Powerful Ways to Build Consensus, Solve Problems, and Make Decisions
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Every day we work with others to solve problems and make decisions, but the experience is often stressful, frustrating, and inefficient. In How to Make Collaboration Work, David Straus, a pioneer in the field of group problem solving, introduces five principles of collaboration that have been proven successful time and again in nearly every conceivable setting. Straus draws on his thirty years of personal and professional experience to show how these...
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In my job as substitute teacher and teacher of after-school, I help the children with their homework's. One of the most difficult homeworks for first, second, and third graders is to write short stories using high-frequency words.
The teachers give them the words, and they must write the stories using that words. This book is a collection of some of these short stories. It will also a pleasure to read of benefit for the young students and teachers....
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The reason for this book
After reading this book, my desire is that someone finds a viable reason to live. I hope that my thoughts can prompt another person to abandon thoughts of suicide. Furthermore, the principles I have inspired to share with the world are not just a prescription for preventing suicide. I strongly hope that those who read it will be inspired enough to then find ways in which to bring meaning into the lives of other people around...
11) Little Ms. Monda
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Within the innermost part of Little Ms. Monda's well-being, feelings of doubt and failure set in. But the stakes are raised when Little Ms. Monda is forced to choose between self-love and loyalty to her family and friends, and pursuing her life with self-worth and value, and recognizing the hurts and issues of other people's opinions.
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THINK! You do this every day!
Watching FOX news, they inform the public what is going on in America. By telling the truth,
they investigated this story.
The outrageous price of college tuition versus knowledge. The students have learned when it
comes to reciting history knowledge. Plus what they know. The end result is, they are LACKING
KNOWLEDGE. The military now has to educate the new recruits because this knowledge should have
been taught in high...
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The author's purpose in writing this book is to give physicians, physical therapists, parents, and caregivers of young infants who are showing characteristics of Cerebral Palsy a protocol that can prevent Cerebral Palsy, in many cases, as the infant gets older. This protocol has been used effectively for over twenty years in the author's Pediatric Physical Therapy practice. The protocol is called Normalization Through Neuroplastic Manipulation (NTNM)....
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The role of the school principal has become more complexed and demanding in recent years. Where once, the site administrator was viewed as no more than a building manager, the numerous tasks of the principal can now range from monitoring daily attendance of the students and staff, to mediating and advocating for at-risk students and their families. Few would disagree, for example, that at least part of the reason administrative vacancies are growing...
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During a "show and tell" presentation by one of their classmates, two children hear about a trip to a space camp. They learn about budgets and how to manage with what they have. There is a teaching on the merits of forgiveness and how to accept forgiveness and learn humility when they make a mistake. They learn that if they want to buy something, they need to earn the money. Working with their extended families, they gain insights about rocket building...
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There is only one known planet Earth with many living and nonliving communities depending on it for their existence. Humans are just a small fraction in a big network we call the web of life. This is home to amazingly diverse and mixed forms of life, shaping an ecological community we understand as the planet Earth. Like other members of this web of life, humans have certain responsibilities to contribute to the sustainable working conditions of these...
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The Christian family should be the very foundation for our faith. It is the starting place to begin to apply the Word of God to our lives. Psalm 46 states that God is our refuge and strength, and a very, present help in trouble. Did you know that God set the home in place to be a refuge, to renew our strength when we are weary? It should be, a place we can go, when we are in trouble, to find help for our problems. Does your home represent a haven...
18) Photographic Memory Mastery: Learn Powerful Techniques to Boost your Memory Instantly & Remember
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If you want to discover powerful Photographic Memory strategies today to help you develop Photographic Memory skills to help you read more and remember important details for academic or career success, keep reading...
Have you ever asked -
- what is photographic memory?
- can photographic memory be learned?
- can photographic memory be acquired?
… but finding it difficult to get the information you seek in order to understand photographic memory...
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Cómo ganar amigos e influir en las personas, El poder del ahora, Inteligencia emocional, Tus zonas erróneas, Gente tóxica, El arte de no amargarse la vida... un tsunami de manuales nos inunda. Ya no estamos solos, un libro puede salvarnos. Hecho añicos el sujeto social, se imponen las terapias de autoayuda, funcionales a la ideología consumista imperante. ¿Cómo combatirlas?
La motivación, la creatividad, la capacidad comunicativa, el éxito...
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The author, a former school superintendent, state administrator, school administrator and classroom teacher, asserts that the academic achievement gap does not have to persist. Fortune links his research on high-performing, high minority schools with other studies of traditional and charter schools cited in his book, that reach the same conclusion--African American can achieve. Fortune was co-author of Leadership on Purpose, author of Bridging the...
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