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The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
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"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
4) Shockaholic
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It's been a roller coaster few years for Carrie since her Tony- and Emmy-nominated, one-woman Broadway show and New York Times bestselling book Wishful Drinking. She not only lost her beloved father, but also managed to lose over forty pounds of unwanted flesh, not by sawing off a leg (although that did cross her zapped mind), but by doing what might be termed "wishful shrinking" all the while staying sober and sane-ish.
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linkedin.com
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2019.
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English
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Get a condensed look at the most read and written-about topics in leadership and management in this audio-only summary of the popular book by Scott Keller and Mary Meaney.
McKinsey senior partners Scott Keller and Mary Meaney examined 20 years of queries to their firm and went through Harvard Business Review articles since 1976 to identify the most important, queried, and written-about management topics in that time span. They found ?ten timeless...
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Harvard Business Review Press
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[2015]
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English
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"In the years since publication of First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, millions have had the simple but powerful realization that to get the most out of people you must build on their strengths. And yet…as Marcus Buckingham astutely points out, even though the strengths-based approach is now conventional wisdom, the tools and systems inside organizations-performance appraisals, training programs, and succession planning...
10) The Einstein effect: how the world's favorite genius got into our cars, our bathrooms, and our minds
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Sourcebooks
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English
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"Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shapeour world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online following. The Einstein Effect shows all the ways his influence...
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National Geographic
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2014.
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English
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"Consumer travel advocate Christopher Elliott gives you the inside scoop on how to travel smart in this new guide from National Geographic. Calling on practical advice accumulated from more than 20 years of experience in the field, Elliott guides you through the complexities of travel--from cruises to car rentals, travel insurance to time shares, restaurants to resorts, and airlines to agents--and arms you with all the information you need for a successful...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
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c2009
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English
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With Jane and Elizabeth away, Darcy and Bingley take on the daunting task of managing their two-year-old children. Mary Bennet returns from the Continent pregnant by an Italian student promised to the church; Darcy and Elizabeth travel to find the father, and discover previously unknown and shocking Darcy relations. By the time Darcy discovers that there's more than one sibling of questionable birth in the family, the ever-dastardly Wickham arrives...
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linkedin.com
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2015.
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English
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Prep for MTA Exam 98-364 and get a baseline understanding of the core concepts of database storage: normalization, key fields, and indexing.
Storage is a database's full-time job. Yet many IT professionals never really learn how it's done. This course is designed to change that, providing a baseline understanding of databases and their mechanics. Adam Wilbert covers normalization, a table structuring technique that reduces data redundancy; primary,...
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St. Martin's Griffi
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[2017]
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English
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Finally, a housekeeping and organizational system developed for those of us who'd describe our current living situation as a “f*cking mess” that we “really need to get around to fixing one day.” Unf*ck Your Habitat is for anyone who has been left behind by traditional aspirational systems. The ones that ignore single people with full-time jobs; people without kids but living with roommates; and people with mental illnesses or physical limitations....
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Crown Archetype
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[2018]
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English
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"Hall of Fame New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history--the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, cantankerous owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson to Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter. Ron Guidry, known as Gator...
17) The art of war
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Everyman's library volume 385
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English
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"A new translation of the ancient Chinese classic on the art of war by warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu, with new notes and introduction by translator Peter Harris. Includes the traditional commentary and a map."--Provided by publisher.
"The ancient Chinese military classic that is widely admired today by both military and business strategists--in a new translation, with new notes and commentary. For more than two thousand years, The Art of War has provided...
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2021.
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"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
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Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 5
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2023.
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English
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"In Allison Montclair's The Lady from Burma, murder once again stalks the proprietors of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau in the surprisingly dangerous landscape of post-World War II London… In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture - The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous - and never discussed - past...
20) 时间管理基础知识
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linkedin.com
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2019.
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中文(繁體)
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有效的时间管理是一项必不可少的技能。畅销书作家兼商业导师戴夫·克伦肖为时间管理和提高效率奠定了理论和实践基础。
有效的时间管理是一项必不可少的技能。畅销书作家兼商业导师戴夫·克伦肖为时间管理和提高效率奠定了理论和实践基础。学习如何在尽可能短的时间内完成更多事情,并避开阻碍良好时间管理的障碍和干扰。戴夫将主要从以下三个方面提供提高工作效率的实践策略:培养好的习惯,变得更有条理,并减少工作空间的混乱状态;专注于当前任务,不要让待办事项干扰你;制定合理的时间预算,在工作时间内完成尽可能多的任务,并专注于最高价值活动。...
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