What Does God Know About Business?: Making the right decisions in tough times. (Paperback)

What Does God Know About Business?: Making the right decisions in tough times. (Paperback)
By Nico Van Der Merwe

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What does God know about business? is the autobiographical account of a successful South African businessman's conversion, and of his steadfast determination to involve God in all aspects of his business and his personal life. This moving testimony explores the ways in which each of us can bring God into our everyday lives, and touches on such deeply personal and spiritual issues as integrity, adversity, the fear of failure, lust, materialism, pride, debt-free living and burnout. It provides practical guidelines on how to counteract some of these "red lights on the dashboard of life", and is supported by the author's own inspiring experiences of God's influence in his life. Whether you are tired of spiritual mediocrity or are just looking for down-to-earth answers to some of life's many challenges, What does God know about business? will motivate and energize you. This story of one man's journey with God will encourage you to develop the kind of faith that puts God at the centre of your life, both at home and in the workplace. Read more

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Newspaper Readings (Paperback)

Newspaper Readings (Paperback)
By Zhiping Zhou

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This book is a newspaper reader for the American student who has completed one and a half to two years of modern Chinese. The fourteen selections included in the reader show how the U.S. was depicted in commentaries and essays in The People's Daily from 1990 through 1991. Covering the education crisis, social injustice, human rights violations, and racial discrimination, the articles are generally critical of, and even hostile to, American society as a whole: their controversial nature will elicit student interest and classroom participation.

Each selection is presented in both traditional and simplified characters, with a copy of the actual newspaper article and a cartoon included: each is also accompanied by a vocabulary glossary, sentence patterns annotated in English, and suggested discussion topics. In addition to the fourteen glossed selections, eight unglossed essays are included for use as supplementary reading materials.

Audio and video materials are available for use with this text. For further information, contact the Chinese Linguistics Project, 231 Palmer Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 08544. (609-258-4269). Read more

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Building Wealth with $50, The 50 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy without a Broker (Kindle Edition)

Building Wealth with $50, The 50 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy without a Broker (Kindle Edition)
By Mkemo London

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There is a lot of information on television and the internet about investing and let’s face it, most of it is confusing to the average person. Building Wealth with $50 is written for the independent investor looking for a little straight forward information about investing in stocks. We have all been taught that the stock market is risky and you need thousands of dollars and a financial advisor to invest. Where can an investor turn to buy stocks with smaller dollar amounts? Direct Stock Purchase Plans (DSPPs); that is buying stocks directly without a broker using small dollar amounts. These investment plans are designed to help all investors maximized every dollar. Now, $50 doesn’t sound like enough money to start an investment or wealth building plan and most financial advisors would tell you that at least $2,000 is needed. But consider this, $50 invested at 6% every month over 30 years is over $50,000. Investing small amounts can quickly add up over time.

This book will provide detailed information about Direct Stock Purchase Plans (DSPPs), explain stock investing and discuss why it is not as difficult as the experts in the media would have you believe.

In this book you will learn to.........

• Invest in companies in the Dow 30 and S&P 500 like McDonalds, Nike and Target with Direct Stock Purchase Plans (DSPPs).

• Invest with little to NO fees or commissions.

• Invest in Real Estate without owning property, with stock in a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

• Build wealth over time with small amounts.


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America's Service Meltdown: Restoring Service Excellence in the Age of the Customer (Hardcover)

America's Service Meltdown: Restoring Service Excellence in the Age of the Customer (Hardcover)
By Raul Pupo

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What distinguishes America's Service Meltdown: Restoring Service Excellence in the Age of the Customer is its striking originality and applicability to businesses of nearly every type and size. Based on the author's extensive personal and professional experience, the book offers a straightforward, no nonsense model that clearly explains how to organize the modern enterprise for the delivery of service excellence.

Customer-oriented companies can operate more effectively, Raul Pupo argues, by focusing on the critical success factors of service: leadership that unequivocally believes they are in business to serve the customer; a business-planning process centered around the customer; an organizational ethic of service up and down the ranks; and an empowered, motivated, and competent frontline organization. Readers will discover what it takes to serve customers superbly, how excellent customer service profoundly improves profitability, and how to identify the biggest obstacles to good service. Most importantly, they will be rewarded with concrete instructions that will enable them to deliver topnotch customer service every step of the way.

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Speaking PowerPoint: The New Language of Business (Paperback)

Speaking PowerPoint: The New Language of Business (Paperback)
By Bruce R. Gabrielle

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You use PowerPoint at work to create strategic plans, executive briefings, research reports and other boardroom-style slides. But could your slides be clearer, more convincing and built in half the time? You bet!

Learn a new method for business managers who want to use PowerPoint at work to drive strategy. The Mindworks Presentation Method is based on 40 years of research in brain science, instructional design and information design and will help you to

• Eliminate time wasters and complete PowerPoint decks three times faster
• Enhance your credibility by creating visually pleasing slides using simple graphic design rules
• Make complex slides easier to understand and avoid "Death by PowerPoint" forever
• Make audiences more likely to agree with you by applying the proven principles of master persuaders

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Internet Marketing for Landscaping Businesses: Advertising your Landscape Business or Lawn Care Service Online Using Google, Facebook, YouTube, Angie's ... Click-by-Click Guide Book for a Landscaper! (Paperback)

Internet Marketing for Landscaping Businesses: Advertising your Landscape Business or Lawn Care Service Online Using Google, Facebook, YouTube, Angie's ... Click-by-Click Guide Book for a Landscaper! (Paperback)
By Nick Holliday

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Internet Marketing for Landscapers will show you how your business can profit from the revolution in local internet marketing that is happening right now. This book doesn't hide behind platitudes and boilerplate marketing talk. It is supremely practical and gets down in the trenches with you to show you how to strengthen your business's bottom line. One click at a time. Read more

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The Best of Business Card Design 6 (No. 6) (Paperback)

The Best of Business Card Design 6 (No. 6) (Paperback)
By Blackcoffee Design Inc

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This edition of Rockport's best-selling Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. The "go-to" sourcebook for business card design inspiration, this volume contains no text, aside from design credits, which allows for pages packed with business cards, highlighting front, back, special elements, and materials used. An unrivaled resource, Best of Business Card Design 6 provides professional designers, corporate executives and in-house marketing departments with essential identity and branding insight for all types of clients.

What are the trends in business card design? This book provides the answers and highlights cards printed with special techniques, such as die-cutting, embossing, foil stamping, and much more; cards printed on unique substrates; and those that are simply downright unusual and memorable. Read more

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Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Paperback)

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Paperback)
By Ori Brafman

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A fascinating journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making, Sway will change the way you think about the way you think.

Why is it so difficult to sell a plummeting stock or end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone “important”? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there’s danger involved? In Sway, renowned organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer all these questions and more.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from the fields of social psychology, behavioral economics, and organizational behavior, Sway reveals dynamic forces that influence every aspect of our personal and business lives, including loss aversion (our tendency to go to great lengths to avoid perceived losses), the diagnosis bias (our inability to reevaluate our initial diagnosis of a person or situation), and the “chameleon effect” (our tendency to take on characteristics that have been arbitrarily assigned to us).

Sway introduces us to the Harvard Business School professor who got his students to pay $204 for a $20 bill, the head of airline safety whose disregard for his years of training led to the transformation of an entire industry, and the football coach who turned conventional strategy on its head to lead his team to victory. We also learn the curse of the NBA draft, discover why interviews are a terrible way to gauge future job performance, and go inside a session with the Supreme Court to see how the world’s most powerful justices avoid the dangers of group dynamics.

Every once in a while, a book comes along that not only challenges our views of the world but changes the way we think. In Sway, Ori and Rom Brafman not only uncover rational explanations for a wide variety of irrational behaviors but also point readers toward ways to avoid succumbing to their pull. Read more

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Employment Law (5th Edition) (Hardcover)

Employment Law (5th Edition) (Hardcover)
By John Jude Moran

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Moran approaches employment law with a focus on discrimination and employment regulation, presenting the principles of law in a logical succession and illustrating those principles with engaging real-world applications.

Employment Relationship; Selection; Testing; Privacy, Theft, and Whistle-Blowing; Termination; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Civil Rights Act; Affirmative Action; Racial Discrimination; Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Family Leave and Pregnancy Discrimination; Sexual Orientation; Religious Discrimination; National Origin Discrimination; Age Discrimination; Disability Discrimination; Unions and Collective Bargaining Agreements; Wage and Hour Regulation; Occupational Safety and Health Introduction; Workers’ Compensation; Employee Benefits   

For corporate attorneys and human resource associates.

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Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life (Hardcover)

Artistry Unleashed: A Guide to Pursuing Great Performance in Work and Life (Hardcover)
By Hilary Austen

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Artistry Unleashed is about working and living at the edge of what you know and beyond. Surprise, uncertainty, ambiguity, intensity, and change are all disruptive forces that we often avoid or fear. Yet they are the essential origin of both creativity and great performance.

Imagine if you could make effective progress with no clear plan or destination in view; if you could achieve excellence without sacrificing creativity; if you could invest passion even as you apply reason and intelligence.

Learn how artistry, when allowed to escape studio walls, can help painters, CEOs, athletes, scientists, chefs, and you to achieve these powerful capabilities. Artistry Unleashed provides original and practical tools to transform what we think about artistry's role in professions, in organizations, in education, and, most importantly, in everyday life.

Artistry Unleashed reveals the unique features of artistic work in any field: enigmatic problems; qualitative intelligence; cognitive emotions; downstream and upstream learning; and your personal knowledge system.

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Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (Leading at a Higher Level) (Hardcover)

Lead with LUV: A Different Way to Create Real Success (Leading at a Higher Level) (Hardcover)
By Ken Blanchard

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For decades, Southwest has been the airline industry’s shining performer: the company of choice for travelers, employers, and investors alike. Why? Southwest’s leaders know how to lead with love. As Southwest’s President, Colleen Barrett proved that leading with love is the non-stop route to outstanding business performance. Lead with LUV  is an extraordinary, wide-ranging conversation between Barrett and Ken Blanchard, the legendary author of The One Minute Manager. Together, they reveal why leading with love is the most powerful way to lead, how to make it work wherever you are, and how it can help you achieve truly amazing results.

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Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Hardcover)

Attention! This Book Will Make You Money: How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue (Hardcover)
By Jim F. Kukral

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Drive Web traffic and take your business into the future

In todays social Web marketplace, attention equals revenue. When you direct more attention online to your brand or business, you drive more long-term revenue. Regardless of who you are or how small your business is, you can have a huge impact using free Internet tools...provided you understand and correctly apply the latest techniques.

Attention! gives you an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. In three parts, you'll discover everything you need to know to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere, including

• The tools, techniques and tricks to get attention online and turn that attention into profit
• The theory behind the importance of making your mark on the Internet
• How other businesses and individuals made money from online marketing

Whether you're just starting your business, just moving it online, or already established and looking to take your business to the next level, Attention! is the key to success. Read more

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Essentials of Contemporary Management (Paperback)

Essentials of Contemporary Management (Paperback)
By Jennifer M. George

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Jones/George, Essentials of Contemporary Management is the concise edition of the market bestselling textbook by the same author team. Jones and George are dedicated to the challenge of “Making It Real” for students. The authors present management in a way that makes its relevance obvious even to students who might lack exposure to a “real-life” management context. This is accomplished thru a diverse set of examples, and the unique, and most popular feature of the text, the “Manager as a Person” Chapter 2. This chapter discusses managers as real people with their own personalities, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and problems and this theme is carried thru the remaining chapters. This text also discusses the importance of management competencies--the specific set of skills, abilities, and experiences that gives one manager the ability to perform at a higher level than another in a specific context. The themes of diversity, ethics, globalization, and information technology are integrated throughout. Read more

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The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance (Audio CD)

The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance (Audio CD)
By Tony Schwartz

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The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.

Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The Way We're Working Isn't Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we're both more satisfied and more productive—on the job and off.

By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we're neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we're at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs.

Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead they should seek systematically to meet their four core needs so they're freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day.

Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working. At the individual level, he explains how we can build specific rituals into our daily schedules to balance intense effort with regular renewal; offset emotionally draining experiences with practices that fuel resilience; move between a narrow focus on urgent demands and more strategic, creative thinking; and balance a short-term focus on immediate results with a values-driven commitment to serving the greater good. At the organizational level, he outlines new policies, practices, and cultural messages that Schwartz's client companies have adopted.

The Way We're Working Isn't Working offers individuals, leaders, and organizations a highly practical, proven set of strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands we all face in an increasingly complex world. Read more

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Live Better, Spend Less, and Save More: Spending and Saving: How to Get Credit and Your Money to Work for You (Paperback)

Live Better, Spend Less, and Save More: Spending and Saving: How to Get Credit and Your Money to Work for You (Paperback)
By William C. Haeberle

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Live Better, Spend Less, and Save More - Spending and Saving: How to Get Credit and Your Money to Work for You is about what works for real people in the real world. Too much of the financial advice available today is simply not workable for most people in the real world. I have included in this book what I have found works for people, and left out what I have found does not work for people. For example, you will not see a budget in this book. A budget is one of the most common items of financial advice. Use a budget you are told. The problem is most people cannot sustain the use of a budget for any length of time. In public speaking, I ask people how many of them use a budget. The number of people using a budget is small. Why? Because a budget is about limiting spending and most people do not like the limiting concept. Instead I have developed tools that are not based on limitation. My tools are focused on getting you what you want and less of what you do not want. Read more

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Rework (Kindle Edition)

Rework (Kindle Edition)
By Jason Fried

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Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Read it and you'll know why plans are actually harmful, why you don't need outside investors, and why you're better off ignoring the competition. The truth is, you need less than you think. You don't need to be a workaholic. You don't need to staff up. You don't need to waste time on paperwork or meetings. You don't even need an office. Those are all just excuses. 

What you really need to do is stop talking and start working. This book shows you the way. You'll learn how to be more productive, how to get exposure without breaking the bank, and tons more counterintuitive ideas that will inspire and provoke you.

With its straightforward language and easy-is-better approach, Rework is the perfect playbook for anyone who’s ever dreamed of doing it on their own. Hardcore entrepreneurs, small-business owners, people stuck in day jobs they hate, victims of "downsizing," and artists who don’t want to starve anymore will all find valuable guidance in these pages.


From the Hardcover edition.Amazon Exclusive: Seth Godin Reviews Rework

Seth Godin is the author of Linchpin, Tribes, The Dip, Purple Cow, All Marketers Are Liars, and Permission Marketing, as well as other international bestsellers. He is consistently one of the 25 most widely read bloggers in the English language. Read his exclusive Amazon guest review of Rework:

This book will make you uncomfortable.

Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable.

That's a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do.

Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they've demonstrated that the regular way isn't necessarily the right way. They just don't say it, they do it. And they do it better than just about anyone has any right to expect.

This book is short, fast, sharp and ready to make a difference. It takes no prisoners, spares no quarter, and gives you no place to hide, all at the same time.

There, my review is almost as long as the first chapter of the book. I can't imagine what possible excuse you can dream up for not buying this book for every single person you work with, right now.

Stop reading the review. Buy the book.--Seth Godin

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The Six-Figure Second Income: How To Start and Grow A Successful Online Business Without Quitting Your Day Job (Hardcover)

The Six-Figure Second Income: How To Start and Grow A Successful Online Business Without Quitting Your Day Job (Hardcover)
By David Lindahl

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Proven methods for building an online income stream

You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.

The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.

In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they spent.

If you're tired of the gimmicks and skepticism that anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype, no-nonsense advice you need.

Proven methods for building an online income stream

You don't have to quit your current job, or already have piles of money, or be 24 years old, or riding a booming economy, in order to start a successful online business.

The Six-Figure Second Income explains how to start or grow a business even when you think you have plenty of strikes against you.

In the course of building an eight-figure real estate information marketing business, David Lindahl and Jonathan Rozek tested dozens of tools and techniques. This book is centered around principles they derived from all the tests they ran, tools they used, and money they spent.

If you're tired of the gimmicks and skepticism that anyone can really succeed online, this book will give you the no-hype, no-nonsense advice you need.

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Think back to some great advice you received about something in your life. Let's just say for a moment that you had multiple job offers and “Bob” was urging you to go accept his. Now let's think how Bob might deliver that advice. If he were a typical internet marketer, this is how Bob would sound:

“I’ve got a closely-guarded secret that other big employers don’t want you to know about!!!!!”

“Oh, what’s that?”

“Well you just gotta accept our Chicago offer!!!!!! Why, the moment you say ‘Yes’ to our offer, you’re life’s gonna change! Trust me! I mean, it’s an absolute dream job! We’ll pay you so much money that you’ll tell us to stop. Plus, about the work—there won’t be any. Just show up and we’ll pay you….But you gotta decide right now because this offer won’t last long!!!!”

If Bob talked like that to you, we’re pretty sure that you’d slowly back away from old Bob and find an excuse to leave.

Why is it, then that so many internet marketers talk like Bob? They breathlessly talk about how they’re finally going to reveal the true secret to making mountains of cash from the Internet…how it’s “push-button easy” to set up sites in minutes that will crush your competitors and make you a bloody fortune with no work, no money, and no risk.

If you’re the kind of person who gets all excited by the Internet Bobs, and you’re looking for a true Silver Bullet to be revealed at last—don’t bother buying this book. Take your money and buy a fantasy movie through Amazon’s DVD department. They have lots of ‘em.

Our book, Six Figure Second Income, is much more like the solid advice you would get from a trusted friend. We’ll tell you the truth as we know it, and that means the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. We’ll tell you that success takes a certain amount of work, but that there are some handy shortcuts you can take to minimize that work and expense. We’ll tell you:

• How to follow a simple, straightforward path to finding your first product to sell online

• How to get a perfectly good website for just a few bucks or even for free—with no gimmicks, no spammy stuff, and no ads on your site •

• Exactly where to look for people who will buy your product

• How to create a relationship with your customers so they pay you again and again

This book is about clearing away the barriers that may have prevented you from making money online. It’s also about showing you the tested and proven tools you can use to start that income stream while you still have a day job.

No gimmicks and no fakery to seduce you. Just straight talk about what works. If that sounds like a breath of fresh air, then we invite you to get 232 pages of it in our book.

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Blood Debt (Kindle Edition)

Blood Debt (Kindle Edition)
By Ronald James Yoo

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When Mark Devore’s plane explodes high over the South China Sea, his grieving widow, Catherine Devore inherits control of his company, Devore Technologies. Distraught over his death, she secludes herself in Italy unaware that her husband’s death was the opening move in a takeover attempt orchestrated by Bill Caine, a ruthless Wall Street banker with political ambitions.

In the ensuing Presidential race, Caine is backing his long time friend, US Senator Jim Belcor who is favored to win. But, his candidacy is hostage to a shadowy Chinese government agency that knows Belcor and Caine murdered an enlisted man during a drug smuggling incident in the last days of the Vietnam War. By winning control of Devore Tech, Caine hopes to placate the Chinese and secure their silence by giving them Devore Technologies’ revolutionary code-breaking technology.

Catherine learns of the threat to her company and determined to avenge her husband’s death, returns to the States to wage a personal war and take down Bill Caine.

BLOOD DEBT is a story of betrayal and revenge set in high-ceilinged Senate offices, New York’s paneled boardrooms, and ultimately, the Oval Office itself. This political thriller in the tradition of David Baldacci will appeal to readers who like international intrigue, unforgettable characters and heart stopping plot turns.
Really strong excerpt. The nod to the current political climate was interesting. All of the characters were well developed as they were introduced and the excerpt provided an introduction to what promises to be a strong story. Well done.Blood Debt is an intriguing read! Total absorbed, I enjoyed this skillful author's prose from beginning to end. Read more

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India's 1.2 Billion Customers -- How to capture the world's most exciting new marketplace (Kindle Edition)

India's 1.2 Billion Customers -- How to capture the world's most exciting new marketplace (Kindle Edition)
By Kejda Gjermani

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Over the past decade India has captured the attention of the greatest consumer companies in the world. But despite their aggressive efforts, most of them have yet to find or secure a comfortable place in India’s market. After years dedicated to establishing market share, their positions remain vulnerable: They launch products and pull back, change their branding, or see their positions undermined by local rivals. Why?

Conventional wisdom derived from experience in the developed world does not apply to India. When orthodox business practices fail, new ones must be rebuild from the ground up, specifically tailored to India’s markets.

This book explains the unique challenges posed by India and how to overcome them. The undertaking should be worth the while of anyone interested in acquiring 1.2 billion new customers. Read more

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The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (Hardcover)

The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money (Hardcover)
By J. Bradford De Long

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At the end of World War II, the United States had all the money—and all the power. Now, America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent power follows money. In The End of Influence, renowned economic analysts Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong explore the grave consequences this loss will have for America’s place in the world.

America, Cohen and DeLong argue, will no longer be the world’s hyperpower. It will no longer wield soft cultural power or dictate a monolithic foreign policy. More damaging, though, is the blow to the world’s ability to innovate economically, financially, and politically. Cohen and DeLong also explore American’s complicated relationship with China, the misunderstood role of sovereign wealth funds, and the return of state-led capitalism.

An essential read for anyone interested in how global economics and finance interact with national policy, The End of Influence explains the far-reaching and potentially long-lasting but little-noted consequences of our great fiscal crisis. Read more

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Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 (CD-ROM)

Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 (CD-ROM)
By Sage Software

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Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 helps you work more easily and efficiently with robust core accounting and added features like job costing, time and billing, in-depth inventory capabilities, and analysis tools. Its multi-user option* helps improve productivity while providing screen-level security and a clear audit trail. Save time with simplified dashboards, management centers, integration with Microsoft Excel *, and comparative budgeting. The Internal Accounting Review* helps you track errors and deter fraud. Available with more than 100 customizable business reports and financial statements. Achieve better business results through accurate accounting and business controls with Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011.Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 helps you work more easily and efficiently with robust core accounting and added features like job costing, time and billing, in-depth inventory capabilities, and analysis tools. Its multi-user option* helps improve productivity while providing screen-level security and a clear audit trail. Save time with simplified dashboards, management centers, integration with Microsoft Excel*, and comparative budgeting. The Internal Accounting Review* helps you track errors and deter fraud. Available with more than 100 customizable business reports and financial statements. Achieve better business results through accurate accounting and business controls with Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011.

Additional Product Features

• Business Status Center Dashboard
• Manage depreciation for up to 200 fixed assets*
• Streamlined service billing
• Job status indicators
• Enhanced assemblies reporting
• Support for Terminal Services*
• Create and track shipping with UPS integration*

Who's It For?
Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 is designed for owners and managers of service- or product-oriented small businesses who need robust accounting functionality plus in-depth analysis. It offers user-friendly tools, multiple Help options, and advanced capabilities, including 100+ customizable business reports, time and billing, job costing, advanced inventory, and audit trails. Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 makes it easy to upgrade your accounting system to meet the needs of your expanding business. It has a multi-user option* for improved productivity.

Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting 2011 enables fast start-up, check writing, invoicing, purchasing, bank reconciliation, project tracking, in-depth inventory, payroll*, time and billing, audit trails, screen-level security, and more. It’s ideal for people who want to achieve better business results through accurate accounting and business controls. All first-time Sage Peachtree customers receive 30 days of free support*, 30 days of free online training*, and a no-risk, 60-day, money-back guarantee, which guarantees satisfaction or refund of purchase price less any rebates paid. In the event you need a more robust solution to handle such needs as company consolidation, compensation management and advanced budgeting, please consider Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting 2011.

Why Choose a Sage Peachtree Solution?
If you view accounting as a tool that can help you make better decisions rather than just a necessary chore, Sage Peachtree is the perfect choice. Sage Peachtree is designed for people like you who are dedicated to getting the numbers right, so you can truly understand how your business is performing. Sage Peachtree is an easy-to-use solution based on real, double-entry accounting principles with module- or screen-level security, audit trails, and automatic accounting checks. You get the accuracy and control you need to improve results.

(*See www.peachtree.com/disclosures for details.)

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New and Improved Features for 2011

Setup Advisor helps new and veteran users discover better ways to use Sage Peachtree with step-by-step advice on how to create and maintain records.

Streamlined Service Billing helps service-based businesses save time and prevent delayed or lost revenue by quickly generating multiple invoices for unbilled time and expenses.

Job Status Indicators help users keep their jobs on track with an at-a-glance view that lets them quickly sort or filter jobs based on customizable status types such as "on schedule," "delayed," or "at risk."

Inventory and Services Management Center lets users quickly track and evaluate inventory items and services to make more informed purchasing and sales decisions.

Enhanced Assemblies Reporting helps you understand your assembly items at a glance so you can better manage assembly costs and meet customer delivery goals.

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New Feature Screenshots

Get step-by-step advice on how to create and maintain records. Click to enlarge.	Quickly generate multiple invoices for unbilled time and expenses. Click to enlarge.	Set up a virtually unlimited number of custom job statuses. Click to enlarge.
The color-coded “stoplight signals” make it easy to visually see which jobs you need to focus on. Click to enlarge.	Easily sort and filter by Job Status on the Job List. Click to enlarge.	A customizable dashboard provides at-a-glance inventory and services information. Click to enlarge.

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Sage Peachtree 2011 Product Family Feature Comparison Chart

	Sage Peachtree First Accounting	Sage Peachtree Pro Accounting	Sage Peachtree Complete Accounting	Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting
Standard Accounting
Easy start-up and 30 days of free training1	X	X	X	X
Print checks, pay bills and track purchases	X	X	X	X
Invoice for sales, receive payments and print collection letters	X	X	X	X
Basic accounting with ledgers, registers and financial statements	X	X	X	X
Professional, customizable reports	35+	80+	100+	125+
Improve communications by e-mailing reports and financial statements2	X	X	X	X
Purchase and track items for sale	X	X	X	X
Track and bill for services and labor	X	X	X	X
Electronically reconcile bank statements3	X	X	X	X
Protect critical data with user security	Module	Module	Screen	Screen
Conversion from QuickBooks 2008-2010, Basic through Enterprise4		X	X	X
Business Management Tools
Do-it-yourself and fully managed payroll solutions5		X	X	X
Build inventory assemblies and track customer back orders		X	X	X
Average, LIFO and FIFO inventory costing methods		X	X	X
Built-in checks for common accounting errors6		X	X	X
Create marketing flyers and newsletters with Microsoft Word integration7		X	X	X
Use quotes and sales orders to manage sales		X	X	X
Manage relationships with customer contact information and history		X	X	X
Get paid faster by e-mailing invoices2		X	X	X
Flexible reporting with Microsoft Excel integration8		X	X	X
Control cash flow, payments, and collections with analysis tools		X	X	X
Limit fraud exposure with PCI-DSS compliance for credit cards9			X	X
Electronic bill payment through Sage Peachtree Bill Pay10			X	X
Create and track shipping with UPS integration11			X	X
Advanced Accounting
Sync customer information with Microsoft Outlook contacts2			X	X
Maintain accountability with audit trail reporting			X	X
Manage depreciation for up to 200 fixed assets12			X	X
Control job revenue and expenses at the phase and cost code level			X	X
Premium Features
Create multiple budgets based on departments and cost centers				X
Consolidate multiple companies for financial reporting				X
Design and share insightful reports with Crystal Reports 2008				X
Print financial statements by organizational department				X
Help increase job profitability with change order processing				X
Track serialized inventory				X
Open and edit Sage Peachtree 2011 client company files, except Sage Peachtree Quantum				Premium--Accountants' Edition
Create customized inventory, job and customer dashboard views				Premium--Accountants' Edition
Restore client backups				Premium--Accountants' Edition
Print construction industry-specific operational reports				Premium for Construction
Automatically apply labor burden at the company or job level				Premium for Construction
Progress billing based on percent of contract, completion or proposal				Premium for Construction
Automated retainage management13 for customer and vendor bills				Premium for Construction
Subcontractor and vendor insurance tracking for compliance				Premium for Construction
Print assembly planning and pick list reports				Premium for Distribution
Analyze inventory sales and purchasing trends				Premium for Distribution
Order and sell using vendor part numbers				Premium for Distribution
Offer quantity price breaks to customers				Premium for Distribution
Create custom units and measures for bulk sales and purchases				Premium for Distribution, Manufacturing
Purchase and sell items in bulk or in multi-pack units				Premium for Distribution, Manufacturing
Advanced bill of materials management				Premium for Manufacturing
Apply automatic price discounts based on custom price levels				Premium for Manufacturing
Manage the assembly build process with work tickets				Premium for Manufacturing
Print manufacturing industry-specific operational reports				Premium for Manufacturing
Print a donor and grantor receipt report				Premium for Nonprofits
Create fundraising letters with a Microsoft Word template				Premium for Nonprofits
Print collections letters for member and pledge fees outstanding				Premium for Nonprofits
Accept new donors with a welcome letter template				Premium for Nonprofits
Produce accurate nonprofit-specific reports				Premium for Nonprofits
Set up quickly with nonprofit-specific chart of accounts				Premium for Nonprofits

Disclaimers (for table):

1. New customers receive 30 days of free on-line training upon signing up with Sage University. Must sign up within 6 months of product registration.
2. Requires Microsoft Outlook 2002, 2003 or 2007; Outlook Express 5 or 6; other MAPI compliant email programs.
3. Internet access required. Your bank may charge a fee to download statements.
4. Versions 2008 - 2010. Excludes conversion of QuickBooks individual payroll transactions. For additional information on conversion limitations, please visit www.peachtree.com/qb.
5. Compliant tax forms and tax tables require a subscription to Sage Peachtree Simple Payroll. For details see www.peachtreepayroll.com or call 877-231-3761.
6. The Internal Accounting Review is not intended to uncover all questionable transactions. Sage Software is not liable or responsible for any fines or penalties that may result from errors in your company accounting records.
7. Requires Microsoft Word 2002, 2003, or 2007.
8. Requires Microsoft Excel 2002, 2003, or 2007.
9. Includes Sage Exchange, which is certified to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). Requires Internet access.
10. Subject to approval and to Sage terms of service. Additional fees, internet access and checking account required.
11. UPS functionality is subject to UPS terms and conditions. Internet access required.
12. Regulatory compliance requires paid subscription. Additional fees apply for more than 200 assets.
13. Retainage is available only in companies using accrual based accounting.
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