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 Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-- That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, by Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter (Contributor)
Personal-finance author and lecturer Robert Kiyosaki developed his unique economic perspective through exposure to a pair of disparate influences: his own highly educated but fiscally unstable father, and the multimillionaire eighth-grade dropout father of his closest friend.
 Conquer the Crash: You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Depression, by Robert R. Prechter Jr.
Robert Prechter explains why he thinks the boom times are behind us. Based on his interpretation of the Elliott Wave principle (an idea premised on the notion that mass investor psychology is what really drives markets), Prechter believes that the U.S. economy is about to enter into a deflationary depression that few investors are prepared to deal with.
 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck (Contributor)
Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; actually getting things done never seems quite as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the ultimate difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to execute.
 Jack: Straight from the Gut, Jack Welch, John A. Byrne
Beginning with Welch's childhood in Salem, Massachusetts, the book quickly progresses from his first job in GE's plastics division to his ambitious rise up the GE corporate ladder, which culminated in 1981. What comes across most in this autobiography is Welch's passion for business as well as his remarkable directness and intolerance of what he calls "superficial congeniality"--a dislike that would help earn him the nickname "Neutron Jack."
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 Winning in Business With Enterprise Project Management, Paul C. Dinsmore
Managing Organizations By Projects (MOBP) shows readers how to use the powerful tools of project management on a whole new, enterprise-wide level and make project management an organizational creed, using it to plan and take care of daily business, not simply accomplish one project. Companies that do so will generate more organizational synergy ... add speed to on- going processes ... increase productivity ... ensure their own survival and prosperity, and more.
 Digital Darwinism : 7 Breakthrough Business Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy, Evan I. Schwartz
Provides an unprecedented look inside the highly competitive world of e-commerce, and distills seven critical strategies that Web-based businesses need to follow in order to survive in what is fast becoming a multi-trillion- dollar online marketplace.
 Wealth of Nations (Great Minds Series), Adam Smith
No book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic. Written over a ten year period, this work was first published in 1776 and is a classic statement of economic liberalism.
 The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, by Thomas L. Friedman
In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman offers an engrossinb look at the new international system that is transforming world affairs today. With vivid stories drawn from his extensive travels, he dramatized the tension between the globalization system and the ancient forces fo culture, geography, tradition, and community.
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 Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference, by Mark Edmundson
Edmundson, professor of English at the University of Virginia, has written a brightly illuminated memoir about his teacher, the remarkable Frank Lears, who specialized in unsettling the settled high-school student during the larger cultural disorders of the late sixties.
|  Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6: A Companion Volume to Guiding Readers and Writers, by Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas
More than 6,000 leveled titles for grades 2-6 are featured, including both fiction and nonfiction-as well as popular series books and short story collections-and genres as diverse as realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, traditional literature, biography, and information books on a variety of content topics. Books are organized by title, by level of difficulty, and by genre to assist teachers not only in providing a range of quality texts in guided reading, but also in making recommendations for independent reading.
|  Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom, by Judy Herr, Yvonne R. Larson, Yvonne Libby-Larson
This text focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes hundreds of activities that make education interesting and challenging for young children. You'll get 67 themes with goals, concepts, vocabulary words, music, finger plays, experiences in mathematics, art, and cooking, resources and much more. An introduction helps teachers use the book more effectively, including discussion of how to use the thematic approach, suggestions for writing parent letters, and criteria for selecting children's books.
|  Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Child-Centered Curriculum, by Debbie Curtis, Margie Carter (Contributor), Deb Curtis
Learn how to make theme plans, establish times for observation and play, set up schedules, materials, space, and more. Each chapter contains an insightful and touching story by teachers as well as charts, assessment tools, resource lists, and practice sheets. Youll discover activities for both you and the children, and at the same time, chart your own thinking as you consider new possibilities for your curriculum planning.
|  The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, by Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school; one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Through a language-intensive process that organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind, your child will receive the complete education that today's overcrowded schools are often unable to provide.
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
Mark C. Baker
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A major scientific breakthrough into the common elements of all languages, which give us a deeper insight than ever before into how the mind works. Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought.
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How to Learn Any Language
Barry J. Farber
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Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents here will have readers speaking, reading, and writing and enjoying any foreign language in a surprisingly short time.
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The Oxford Spanish Dictionary
Beatriz Galimberti Jarman (Editor), Roy Russell (Editor), Beatriz Galimberti Jarman (Editor), Carol Styles Carvajal (Editor)
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A complete Spanish dictionary, presenting the English-speaker with thousands of words, phrases and examples from the Spanish language, taken from the Bank of Spanish. Includes coverage of 24 regional versions of Spanish, as well as helpful in-text boxes which offer clarifying information. Covers the general, scientific, literary, and technical terms in Spanish and English.
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Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary
Marie-Helene Correard (Editor), Valerie Grundy (Editor), Jean- Benoit Ormal-Grenon (Editor)
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A complete French-English, English-French dictionary, compiled entirely from the statistical evidence of language databanks. Features more than 360,000 words and phrases, and 550,000 translations. Includes an insert with an offer for a free electronic pop-up dictionary, with downloading and installation instructions.
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Collins German-English English-German Dictionary
Peter Terrell (Editor)
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Presents over 195,000 entries and translations and the most complete guide to grammar offered in a German dictionary and incorporates all the recent German spelling reforms. Includes thousands of contemporary technical, political, and business terms. Softcover. Unabridged edition. DLC: German language--Dictionaries--English.
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 What Is Ancient Philosophy?, by Pierre Hadot, Michael Chase (Translator)
Pierre Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all tended toward one goal: to provide a means for achieving happiness in this life, by transforming the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world.
|  The Power of Myth, by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (Contributor), Betty Sue Flowers (Editor)
Among his many gifts, Joseph Campbell's most impressive was the unique ability to take a contemporary situation, such as the murder and funeral of President John F. Kennedy, and help us understand its impact in the context of ancient mythology. Herein lies the power of The Power of Myth, showing how humans are apt to create and live out the themes of mythology.
|  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, by Robert M. Pirsig
In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
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 Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide to Paris, by Mike Gerrard
Part of the Eyewitness Travel Top 10 series. Whether on business or vacation, take the work out of planning any trip with DK's Top 10 Travel Guides. Building on the success of the Eyewitness Travel Guides, DK has created a new series that makes finding the best every destination has to offer even easier than before. Whether searching for the finest cuisine or cheapest places to eat, the most luxurious hotels or best deals on places to stay, the coolest family destination or hottest nightspot, the Top 10 format allows travelers to use the insights of experts to make the most of their vacation. Accompanied by a companion website, readers can share their experiences and vote for their own personal Top 10s.
|  The Art of Travel, by Alain de Botton
Aside from love, few activities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so. In The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton explores what the point of travel might be and modestly suggests how we can learn to be a little happier in our travels.
|  Roller Coasters: A Thrill-Seekers Guide to the Ultimate Scream Machines, by Robert Coker
Thril seeking knows no limits - and roller coaster rides are a major food group for the thrill seeker's diet. From fifteenth century Russian slides to the original Coney Island Cyclone to modern day steel gigacoasters like Cedar Point's Millennium Force, this breath-taking guide offers a wild ride through the evolution of roller coasters, bringing you up close to the world's scariest gravity-defying feats of fun. With more than 100 awe-inspiring images of the world's most terrifying ride, as well as coverage of nearly 200 roller coasters - including wooden wonders, steel breaking giga-coasters, Roller Coasters is a comprehensive guide to world of heart pounding, hair raising acton.
|  The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2003, by Bob Sehlinger
The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2003 is the Bible of Disney, with objective ratings for each ride and suggested itineraries that help readers beat the lines. Every attraction rated and ranked for each age group, based on interviews and surveys of more than 19,500 patrons.
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