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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. To every beautiful brown skin girl - may you always love your KINKS and CURLS - Dr. PhoenyxLove Your Hair, a children's story follow-up to Dr. Phoenyx's bestselling natural haircare book, If You Love It, It Will Grow, takes us on a journey lead by a super-cute, confident and sometimes sassy little girl named Phoenyx who loves her hair and wants every beautiful brown skin girl to love their hair too Get ready for a rollercoaster ride of playful rhymes, beautiful illustrations, sassy style, and gorgeous afro puffs that will have YOU proudly rocking your glorious kinks and curls Dedicated to empowering little brown girls, Love Your Hair is all about positivity, positive imagery and is a delightful story of hair-love and self-love that little brown girls and grown women alike will fall in love with over and over again. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life. Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind. "A superb and thrilling novel.extrodinary." -- Ian McEwan "Compelling.mesmerizing.absolutely irresistible."--New York Times "A perfect and literary puzzle, an irresistible tale anout marriage and murder, both thriling and moving." -- Scott Turow "A page-turner of a literary thriller." -- Sara Waters "Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming." -- Nelson DeMille "Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked." -- Ruth Rendell.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Fifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex-husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to their summer house in Maine. And as we read with her, we too become lost in Sheffield's thriller. As the Hastings' ordinary, civilized lives are disastrously, violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future and will change her life. Tony and Susan is a dazzling, eerie, riveting novel about fear and regret, blood and revenge, marriage and creativity. It is simply one of a kind. "A superb and thrilling novel.extrodinary." -- Ian McEwan "Compelling.mesmerizing.absolutely irresistible."--New York Times "A perfect and literary puzzle, an irresistible tale anout marriage and murder, both thriling and moving." -- Scott Turow "A page-turner of a literary thriller." -- Sara Waters "Beautifully written, perfectly paced, impressively clever, and ultimately shocking in a way you never see coming." -- Nelson DeMille "Absolutely terrifying, beautiful, and appalling. Parts of it shocked me, and I am not easily shocked." -- Ruth Rendell.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. It does not matter if you are an experienced leader or are just starting out as a new manager or entrepreneur, the techniques outlined in Unquestioned Brilliance can improve your decision making and critical thinking. The book outlines ten techniques, built from research and validated through application, designed to help leaders and their teams become better strategic thinkers. For less than the price of a single dinner at a restaurant, this book offers the same content found in executive education strategic thinking courses. Unquestioned Brilliance is best viewed as a handbook for the aspiring leader. It provides a variety of tools for leaders of teams at all levels of an organization. Techniques included in this book include: -Uncertainty Vectoring: Sort and manage environmental uncertainties to use them for strategic insight and competitive advantage. -TAP Analysis: Align team expertise and task requirements in a manner that develops teams and improves performance. -Tension Tracking: Understand and manage prevailing interests that create stress and paralyze employees within your organization. -Blind-Spot Centering: Stress test strategic initiatives to identify limiting mindsets and strategic blind-spots. -GSO Decision-Making: Diagnose a decision process with a quick heuristic for finding the missing step. -Stakeholder Mapping: Identify the key individuals and groups early enough in a process to draw on their perspectives and expertise. -HERE Snapshot: Use a quick situational assessment when executing a strategic initiative in a new environment. -Backward-Forward Flip: Learn from past industry mistakes to improve odds of success of new organization innovations. The techniques outlined in this book can help leaders and their teams begin building their strategic thinking muscles and help them to better navigate around the unquestioned brilliance trap.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Just before Christmas, 2-year-old Austin walked into the scariest place ever - the hospital. Even her mom and dad were afraid for little Austin. But when her daddy glimpsed a very special tree, he made a promise. Was Austin's miracle because of the doctors and nurses, or was it due to a special miracle that happened because of a promise and a very special tree.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Projects for Christmas gifts in this volume include: Victorian charms, a quilted chair, a fantasy tea set, a stencilled journal, a floral apron for painters, a ribbon apple, desk set, sewing boxes, cooking baskets, frames and more.

Paperback. Condition: Good. To every beautiful brown skin girl - may you always love your KINKS and CURLS - Dr. PhoenyxLove Your Hair, a children's story follow-up to Dr. Phoenyx's bestselling natural haircare book, If You Love It, It Will Grow, takes us on a journey lead by a super-cute, confident and sometimes sassy little girl named Phoenyx who loves her hair and wants every beautiful brown skin girl to love their hair too Get ready for a rollercoaster ride of playful rhymes, beautiful illustrations, sassy style, and gorgeous afro puffs that will have YOU proudly rocking your glorious kinks and curls Dedicated to empowering little brown girls, Love Your Hair is all about positivity, positive imagery and is a delightful story of hair-love and self-love that little brown girls and grown women alike will fall in love with over and over again.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. On July 20, 1995, author Terri Austin Chiles received a call at work that she had been dreading-her mother, Amanda, is dying. Amanda Fouther, a poor African American girl from Birmingham, Alabama, lived in a shack with her parents and seven siblings. Though she had very little going for her except charm, wit, and incredible good looks, she used these attributes to win a statewide beauty contest and college scholarship. This would be the first of many steps on a path filled with astonishing successes and devastating failures. But Amanda earned her doctorate degree and raised three children, including Chiles, who became a prominent Wall Street attorney. As Chiles endures a painful divorce and struggles to maintain financial stability, she makes sure that the well-being of her children is her highest priority. Drawing on everything she learned from her mother, Chiles obtains a small but affordable apartment and enrolls her children in the best school in Manhattan. Through all of life's difficulties, it is the values and lessons instilled by Chiles's mother that give her the strength to keep going. This captivating memoir includes letters and journal entries that provide a poignant tribute to Amanda's memory.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, Cycling - Philosophy for Everyone explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. As businesses move more operations to the cloud, IT leaders are expected to be the cloud contact center experts for their organizations. Selecting an enterprise-grade solution for your business needs, while straightforward, isn't a trivial task. In Blueprint for the Contact Center of the Future, Erin Wilson uses the concept of building your dream home as a metaphor to share a step-by-step approach to the selection process. From choosing a location to hiring a decorator - and everything in between - Wilson makes sure you won't miss a beat. This book provides strategic yet practical advice for anyone looking to improve their contact center. Building on a foundation of facts and furnishing stories of successful business leaders, Wilson keeps an otherwise dry topic light and readable. Anyone seeking a better understanding of the contact center or how best to weather the changes of industry and customer expectations will benefit from spending time with this guide for relevancy, resources, and results. Waidhofer, Arthur (illustrator).…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Neruda was a kind of King Midas. Everything he touched turned to poetry, says Gabriel Garc a M rquez, who also considers the Chilean Nobel laureate the greatest poet of the twentieth century, in any language. The Fragrance of Guava, 1983]. The Canto General, thought by many of Neruda's most prominent critics to be the poet's masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people. The Canto speaks of the destiny of Latin American peoples and the life of the poet himself. Without question, this is one of the most important and powerful long poems written in the modern period. Quinn Feeney Lee (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Quantitative approach: This will be one of very few books that takes a quantitative approach to bubbles and contagion in the markets Topical: Recent financial crises have led to a surge of interest in market microstructure topics and interest is likely to increase Grounded in practice: Despite a mathematical approach, the book will be very much grounded in practice and in what is happening or has happened in the markets, making it an ideal desk reference for trading practitioners and firms. Wallace, Joshua (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Orientation to Graduation (O2G) is the first GPS for college students written by a real college student in real time. Helms takes a four-year journey filled with stories and advice and packs it into a book that is not only entertaining, but down-right motivating for any college student. O2G gives students the necessary tools to Make the Most of their college experience. Whether it's swimming with great white sharks, cheering your school to victory, or studying for a major exam, Helms illustrates how college is one of the most exciting times in a young person's life. After reading O2G, students will be more than ready to dream bigger, step out of their comfort zone, and make the right choices.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. To every beautiful brown skin girl - may you always love your KINKS and CURLS - Dr. PhoenyxLove Your Hair, a children's story follow-up to Dr. Phoenyx's bestselling natural haircare book, If You Love It, It Will Grow, takes us on a journey lead by a super-cute, confident and sometimes sassy little girl named Phoenyx who loves her hair and wants every beautiful brown skin girl to love their hair too Get ready for a rollercoaster ride of playful rhymes, beautiful illustrations, sassy style, and gorgeous afro puffs that will have YOU proudly rocking your glorious kinks and curls Dedicated to empowering little brown girls, Love Your Hair is all about positivity, positive imagery and is a delightful story of hair-love and self-love that little brown girls and grown women alike will fall in love with over and over again.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It does not matter if you are an experienced leader or are just starting out as a new manager or entrepreneur, the techniques outlined in Unquestioned Brilliance can improve your decision making and critical thinking. The book outlines ten techniques, built from research and validated through application, designed to help leaders and their teams become better strategic thinkers. For less than the price of a single dinner at a restaurant, this book offers the same content found in executive education strategic thinking courses. Unquestioned Brilliance is best viewed as a handbook for the aspiring leader. It provides a variety of tools for leaders of teams at all levels of an organization. Techniques included in this book include: -Uncertainty Vectoring: Sort and manage environmental uncertainties to use them for strategic insight and competitive advantage. -TAP Analysis: Align team expertise and task requirements in a manner that develops teams and improves performance. -Tension Tracking: Understand and manage prevailing interests that create stress and paralyze employees within your organization. -Blind-Spot Centering: Stress test strategic initiatives to identify limiting mindsets and strategic blind-spots. -GSO Decision-Making: Diagnose a decision process with a quick heuristic for finding the missing step. -Stakeholder Mapping: Identify the key individuals and groups early enough in a process to draw on their perspectives and expertise. -HERE Snapshot: Use a quick situational assessment when executing a strategic initiative in a new environment. -Backward-Forward Flip: Learn from past industry mistakes to improve odds of success of new organization innovations. The techniques outlined in this book can help leaders and their teams begin building their strategic thinking muscles and help them to better navigate around the unquestioned brilliance trap.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Best friends, Burt and Mullet, just made the all-star basketball team. Every kid on the team has the new Skyscraper Pro basketball shoes and they feel like the losers of the century in their worn-out sneakers.The entrepreneurs open a lemonade stand to earn the money, but two days later, have lost all hope of striking it rich. The solution falls into their laps when their neighbor, Darcy, is grounded for stealing her mother's fancy mail-order peanut butter and offers her summer allowance to anyone who can clear her name.Suddenly, Burt and Mullet have a detective agency. Even though they know nothing about being detectives, they are confident they can catch the peanut butter thief and make the money they so desperately need to fit in.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Best friends, Burt and Mullet, just made the all-star basketball team. Every kid on the team has the new Skyscraper Pro basketball shoes and they feel like the losers of the century in their worn-out sneakers.The entrepreneurs open a lemonade stand to earn the money, but two days later, have lost all hope of striking it rich. The solution falls into their laps when their neighbor, Darcy, is grounded for stealing her mother's fancy mail-order peanut butter and offers her summer allowance to anyone who can clear her name.Suddenly, Burt and Mullet have a detective agency. Even though they know nothing about being detectives, they are confident they can catch the peanut butter thief and make the money they so desperately need to fit in. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. David Austin Clar (illustrator).

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A guide to yoga, suitable for all ages and levels of fitness, that allows some of the many benefits of yoga such as stress relief and increased energy to be enjoyed without the impossible poses.