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This is the second in this series of Core Words. After learning the first 100, this audiobook has the core 500 words used in the SATs and GREs over the last 50 years. This audio book is best used after the Core 100 words are mastered so as not to intimidate the student.

Learn how to act in your best interest as a witness, deponent, defendant, or plaintiff in only 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

Make your financial statements work for you. This audiobook includes 11 sections, covering such topics as balance sheets, cash flow, and income statements.

A short audiobook on how to recycle and save money. Featured tracks includ:

1. Recycling & Saving: Family & Office
2. Food, Liquids, Meals & Food Shopping
3. Composting
4. Furniture, Objects & Other Shopping
5. Reading & Communication
6. Bills, Banking & Mail
7. Cars, Driving & Travel
8. Home Office and at Work
9. Children
10. Community
11. Take Notice of Your Results & Celebrate!

638 Canadian Words & 23 Phrases extends the Sound Smarter and Be More Respected series into Canada. Over 500 of these uniquely Canadian words do not appear in standard Word and Open Office dictionaries. Listening to these words you get a flavor for the brevity and wit of Canadians. In fact, as the author comments, no other variety of English has such a strong sense of humor and wit.

An early 20th century American story written in the Theodore Dreiser style of each word and chapter building on the previous ones, telling the saga of evangelical religion & people with irony throughout.

Seen through the eyes of a French Catholic missionary, Death Comes for the Archbishop is a tale about the development of the 19th-century American Southwest as the Indians and Spanish deal with each other and the arriving Americans.

A singer is popular with the German people but not particularly good at singing. Kafka uses the story to illustrate Germanic beliefs, tight fistedness, strong work effort, and battles with neighbors. Remarkable insights as always from Kafka.

Prenuptial agreements explode many myths on the subject. Sam Margulies, expert and mediator of over 4,000 divorces, points out how prenups cause distrust in the beginning of a relationship and how most elements in a prenup are already settled in law. He suggests ways to get the same results in a cooperative manner. A must listen for anyone contemplating a prenup.

Mark Twain's marvelous short work relating how to tell a story - an American story that is humorous, not comic as the British or witty as the French. The work also includes four marvelous but little-known essays: "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy", and "The Invalid's Story". Canadian listeners will particularly enjoy "Mental Telegraphy", set in Quebec.

The most astute and sensitive observer of Indian life, as told by himself as insider later brought into the White world by his father.

Five best-selling vocabulary test, job, and life preparation titles combined for deeper learning through variety and repetition. Here are 100 and 300 core SAT and GRE words - 100 and 300 words to sound smarter and be more accepted in the workplace and in all of your activities, as well as in your career development. Few things impress as much as a good word in the right spot. The last is a complete vocabulary with 1,500 words. All have been-best sellers on Audible.com and elsewhere.

Entrepreneurship is more popular than ever: courses are full, policymakers emphasize new ventures, managers yearn to go off on their own. Would-be founders often misplace their energies, however. Believing in a "big money" model of entrepreneurship, they spend a lot of time trying to attract investors instead of using wits and hustle to get their ideas off the ground.

Learn what it takes to start your own business and launch your dream in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

In an age of credit cards, when there is so much to buy and so much that can easily be bought, how do you teach your children about money? Learn how in 60 minutes of conversation and instruction.

"To Be Read at Dusk" is one of Dickens better ghost/phantasm stories, complete with disappearances and people lost forever through other worldly influences or death. A story within a story told by couriers, go-betweens in the age of Dickens.

This classic collection includes Hemingway’s best short stories: "Indian Camp", "My Old Man", and "Big Two Hearted River", and less appreciated ones such as "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot".

The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed.

The best career advice one can obtain is to listen to A Message to Garcia along with Hubbard's insights in his Apologia, his insights and quotations, the introduction relating to the meaning of this legendary work, and the Message itself. Also excellent advice for those hiring: seek out those who will Just Do It as Lt. Rowan did, with no back talk, questions, or delay. If the job candidate can't, don't hire them; if the organization doesn't want this talent, don't work for them.

Hiring Do-ers for Success emphasizes the importance of hiring job candidates who can get the work done, not sing around the campfire in your culture. In describing his own hiring practices, Steve Jobs once said, “We hire do-ers to get things done.” This is the NFL way as well: “You don't know how they'll do until they are on your field.” You and your company will benefit from adopting a similar hiring philosophy. Test and calibrate. Have your star employees interview candidates to see if they qualify.