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In The Revenge of Anguished English, Lederer leaves his listeners limp with laughter at how the innocent, the negligent, and the pompous mangle our beloved language. America’s most widely read anguished English expert exhibits 28 different kinds of super-duper bloopers, from student essays to headline howlers to political blunders.

In this book, I explore the origins of colorism and share with you my personal journey navigating through skin tone bias. Some of the information in this book will surprise you and I believe the history of skin tone bias is fascinating.

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott comes a fast paced thriller that will leave you wondering how far you'll go to forget the worst moment in your life. Everyone has a memory they'd like to forget. For federal witness Miles Kendrick, it's the shootout that left his best friend...

Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world's greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette's watch, the "160" worth an estimated $40 million in today's dollars. Perhaps the most sought after personal technology device of the last 200 years, the timepiece, designed by the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, is the launching point for a thrilling and fluidly woven set of narratives that are, in part, forbidden love story, historical document, and police procedural.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been converted into apartments. But only half of it is completed because of the bad economy. Ben Clausen, an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville, is moving in because the rent is so cheap. There’s a reason why. Waverly Hills is still haunted.

A powerful Neville Goddard teaching on inner renewal, not as theory, but as lived experience. In Resurrection: A Confession Of Faith, Neville reframes resurrection as a real shift in consciousness that you can feel and know within yourself. It is about waking up to a deeper identity, letting the old self fall away, and living from a new level of faith. This is one of Neville’s more spiritual works, written with clarity, conviction, and a sense of purpose that stays with you.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Bella’s Gift details the peaks and valleys, the joys and sufferings, and the incredible value of life with a special needs child. In a world that often measures worth according to usefulness, Bella’s story is a reminder that our real value lies in our capacity to...

In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism.

Listening to sales affirmations can be a powerful tool for boosting your sales income potential and transforming your mindset. Affirmations are positive, intentional statements designed to help you overcome self-doubt, build confidence, and stay focused on your goals. In sales, where resilience and optimism are key, these affirmations can reinforce a success-oriented attitude, helping you to handle challenges, connect with clients authentically, and close deals with confidence.

Feeling stuck and unsure of yourself? Tired of the constant self-doubt and insecurity holding you back from living your best life? Time to end that negative self-sabotage and open up a world of limitless creativity and personal growth.

The Electoral College that governs America has been with us since 1804, when Thomas Jefferson's supporters redesigned it for his re-election. The Jeffersonians were motivated by the principle of majority rule. Gone were the days when a president would be elected by acclamation, as George Washington had been. Instead, given the emergence of intense two-party competition, the Jeffersonians wanted to make sure that the Electoral College awarded the presidency to the candidate of the majority, rather than minority, party. 

Entrepreneurship is messy, uncertain, complex, and risky. It's virtually impossible to devise a recipe for success when developing a new venture. But it need not be. In The Principles of Entrepreneurial Progress, business school professor and entrepreneur Greg Fisher breaks entrepreneurship down into twelve concrete, actionable, easy-to-understand principles. These principles can be applied across a diverse range of entrepreneurial endeavors, ranging from high-growth, venture-capital-funded, technology ventures to self-funded, slower-growth, more lifestyle-oriented new business enterprises.

Uncover the Truth is filled with examples from many cases from Mike's career and the public eye. Learn the invaluable skills of detecting deception from someone who's been using them during his over 30-year career in law enforcement. Learn when people are truthfully deceptive and uncover the truth!

This audiobook contains 45 selected passages from the Book of Mormon, chosen for their focus on the core doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Each passage is prefaced by a brief introduction, identifying the circumstances of the sermon, prophecy, or vision. The selected passage is then read by one of seven narrators - men and women of a variety of ages.

As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep. In Can I Have your Attention?, Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunities to "improve productivity", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs.

Innovate Like Edison presents Edison's world-changing innovation methods as a cohesive, practical, and immediately applicable system. Based on three years of research, Innovate Like Edison offers listeners an in-depth view of Edison's comprehensive innovation approach - an analysis which has never previously been documented.

Everything we know about how planets form and how life arises suggests that human civilization on Earth should not be unique. We ought to see abundant evidence of extraterrestrial activity - but we don't. Where is everybody? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, science and technology writer Wade Roush examines one of the great unsolved problems in science: Is there life, intelligent or otherwise, on other planets?

"A lightning bolt of a literary debut." ---Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winner "Enchanting and so neatly planed they feel made by time, these stories mark the debut of a writer to watch." ---John Freeman, Literary Hub Last One Out Shut Off the Lights is an evocative portrait of the last-chance...

Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions - and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s governor, in fighting off the British. The charismatic Lafayette, hungry for glory, could not have seemed more different from Jefferson, the reserved statesman.

A comprehensive look into eliminating tinnitus for good! Tinnitus is the name for a persistent ringing in one or both ears. It is not a disease in and of itself, but a particular symptom that could have multiple causes. It is characterized by a persistent high-pitched noise which doesn't correspond to an external sound. Tinnitus can be an annoying symptom to experience. If you're experiencing tinnitus, you are not alone. At least one in five adults between the ages of 55 and 65 experience tinnitus symptoms.