Marguerite Gavin

Cheap.

Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, ...

The Key to Health, Wealth & Love provides a comprehensive view of Seton's philosophy with practical suggestions to implement her concepts. The second book, Helpful Thoughts, explores additional ideas and includes several of her beautiful poems. You will find both books stimulating and thought-provoking.

HELPFUL THOUGHTS: The author gathers her knowledge of how to achieve a larger and happier life into this volume of her work. Partial list of Contents: Cosmic Consciousness; The Six ...

A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. It shapes our goals, our attitude toward work and relationships, and how we raise our kids, ultimately predicting whether or not we will fulfill our potential. Dweck has found that everyone has one ...

Leaders have talked about the importance of corporate culture for decades, but the success of iconic companies like GE, Apple, and Google shows how culture is a strategic lever that can be utilized for driving growth, change, and innovation. In this new age of globalization, rapid technology shifts, and constant disruption, the 21st century marketplace is more volatile and uncertain than ever. To thrive, businesses need a new kind of emphasis around culture.

Sara Roberts, ...

Condemned and shunned for black magic,Rachel Morgan has three days to get tothe annual witches’ conference and clearher name, or be trapped in the demonicever-after . . . forever after.

But a witch, an elf, a living vampire, anda pixy in one car going across the country?Talk about a recipe for certain disaster, evenwithout being the targets for assassination.

For after centuries of torment, a fearsomedemon walks in the sunlight—freed at lastto slay the innocent and devour ...

The average attention span of an adult is eight seconds-eight seconds!

That is tough news for a presenter. It means you may have a room full of people, but their minds are elsewhere. You're competing with a slew of activities demanding their attention-email, texts, Facebook, YouTube, chats, and apps, in addition to thoughts about their next meeting and projects that are behind schedule.

How do you get a message across in a world like that?

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was first published in 1813. The story follows Elizabeth Bennett as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England. Elizabeth is the second oldest of five daughters of a country gentleman living in the fictional town of Meryton in Herfordshire, not far from London. Though the story's setting is uniquely turn of the 19th century, it ...

There are times in life when quitting makes sense. Maybe you need to abandon a bad investment, or ditch an old garden because you're going to move to the city. Maybe you need to rest up a bit at the end of a tough day's work so you aren't too sore tomorrow.

But when it comes to the deepest dreams of your heart's desire -no, it doesn't make sense.

Don't quit.

There is only one ...

The ART OF WAR FOR WOMEN brings the eternal wisdom of Taoist philosopher-general Sun Tzu to an underserved audience looking for strategies that will help them thrive in their careers. While more women are succeeding in business than ever before, corporate America is still very much a boys' club. This audiobook offers listeners specific strategies on how to win in the corporate world by "kicking some butt with those stilettos."

Following the format of Sun ...

For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie" and David Brooks's "bobos"-all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey's ...