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Abraham Lincoln is one of the most fascinating figures of our history, for a wide variety of reasons. He represents the summation of those leadership and personal qualities that had helped to mold a nation. Lincoln stood for all that was right, honest, and self-evident. As a boy, his heroes were the Founding Fathers, and he studied the history of that young nation that was so devoted to human rights.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, led an unusual but meaningful life. Through his lifetime, he sold millions of albums and his songs can be heard almost everywhere. Moreover, almost everyone knows at least one of his songs. Although there is no doubt that he is indeed extremely successful, he did not achieve it instantly. In fact, he also experienced struggles and obstacles along the way. Fortunately, he was able to overcome all of it, and his determination to be an outstanding artist never faded.

One of the most popular diets of all time, the South Beach Diet involves keeping a healthy balance between fats and good carbs. The diet is based on the glycemic index. It involves cutting down on bad carbs and thus improving the metabolization of the food you eat as well as enhancing your insulin resistance. Both factors combine to help you lose weight in a healthy manner.

Folk wisdom varies from region to region, and the Ozark Mountain variety was, and still is, peculiar and very special to the residents of this grand range. For the most part, early Ozarkers, though scattered, were bound together by common geography, religion, ethnic background, language, customs, dress, architecture, and even hardship. Wisdom as it related to survival and just getting by was accumulated and freely shared among these isolated residents.

Dana Sibilsky suggests that blogging has moved from a pastime to profession for many people. The sheer amount of effort required to create and maintain a profitable blog these days has caused many people to make it a full-time job, but the bar of entry is staggering. Tricks of the trade have transformed this hobby into something akin to marketing; a combination art form and science requiring intense study and insight. Sibilsky boils down blogging into terms that anyone can understand.

There is clearly an epidemic of narcissism - a contagion of sorts - that is occurring across the globe. Narcissism is generally handed down from one generation to the next. It is said that nearly one in four people has narcissistic tendencies. It is likely that the number of narcissists will only continue to increase. Many people wonder why or how the narcissist seems to have two distinct personalities.

A minor league hockey player is left to contemplate his future after suffering a devastating injury on the ice.

In Street Smart Selling: How to Be a Sales Superstar, CEO and best-selling author Dan Milstein lays out a detailed set of guidelines that will be useful for ambitious salespeople, beginners, or established professionals who wish to become sales superstars. Milstein learned hard lessons working his way to the pinnacle of the sales profession. In his new book, he reaches out to help aspiring salespeople work their way up to join him at the top.

There are many things that occur during a child or adolescent's life that may lead to OCPD and perfectionistic behavior that paralyzes a person's ability to adapt to change and social circumstances. This audiobook covers the different causes, as well as covering the things that may be improved on in an OCPDer's life to encourage resiliency, self-confident, and the ability to relinquish some of the control that they need over others in order to survive.

With cloud services, small businesses reap the benefits of not having to deploy physical infrastructure like file and email servers, storage systems, or shrink-wrapped software. This book will show that it's not a stretch to say that aside from a locally installed desktop operating system and browser (or increasingly, from a single mobile device), a lot of today's small business technology needs can be fulfilled almost completely with cloud-based offerings.

Scotland Fun Facts is part of the Kid Kongo Travel the World series. Discover how Scotland came to be, the clans system, and where to visit. This is great for book reports and class projects, for ages six and up.

In this book you'll learn five simple ways to stop procrastinating and boost your productivity. Don't let yourself fall into the same cycles again and again. Liberate yourself with these productivity hacks, and make time to do the things you really enjoy doing.

I wrote this book for one reason and one reason only: to wake up everybody who is serious about scaling up their e-commerce business by using SEO. This book contains the introduction to my six-step e-commerce SEO formula that I've developed to help e-commerce businesses become more successful and make more money. This formula is backed up by my 20-plus years of online marketing experience and over 10 years of in-depth concentration on e-commerce SEO.

This audiobook seeks to provide you with the deficiencies that can occur between a neurotypical child and a parent who has Asperger syndrome or who falls on the autism spectrum. We hope to educate adult children who grew up with an aspie as to why they might be experiencing Complex-PTSD, who may have felt alienated as children, and who are largely confused in their world. This audiobook also seeks to educate those who may mentor or work with an NT child who was born into an aspie family or who has constant exposure to aspies.

This book shows retirees how to generate lifelong income by making the most efficient use of their total financial picture—what we call Holistic Planning. Think of it as a user’s guide to a 21st-century retirement plan, offering a blueprint to help you navigate the 5Ws of managing and preserving your wealth. These five critical areas are essential for anyone seeking financial security in retirement and beyond.

Discover the necessary tools for couples, husbands in particular, to love the way that God intended! Men have often been portrayed in a negative light when it comes to their commitment and ability to love their spouses. However, this is an inaccurate representation, as men are fully capable of being deeply and genuinely devoted to their wives. LOVE, GUARANTEED! provides husbands and wives with the knowledge of how to properly exercise love in their marriages.

Being present at the bedside—EVEN AT THE MOMENT OF DEATH—can become an experience embedded in the minds and souls of family members for generations. It is a deeply emotional time, one of relief and sadness. Anyone who has taken that final journey with a loved one will never forget those moments. Dr. Edward Creagan has dedicated his life to death. And now this esteemed medical doctor examines death, not only from a medical standpoint, but from an acutely emotional perspective as events beyond our control unfold.

In PurposeDrivers: Keys to Unlock the Power and Meaning in Your Unique Personality, Ken shows how your unique combination of traits is encoded with a purpose just waiting to be unleashed. Based upon a simple question, “What makes you unique?”, ten years of research revealed six drivers of personality and one defining word that encapsulates who we truly are. When we started out a decade ago, we understood Brand, Passion, Experience, Knowledge, Skill and Talent as traits to observe, passive dimensions.

If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the future looks scary and uncertain. What treatment options are there? What will your quality of life be? How do you talk to your family about your diagnosis? What are the financial implications? If you find yourself with more questions than answers then you need Living with Pancreatic Cancer.

My grandmother used to say, "You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a lawyer." The same can be said of financial advisors today. If you're a wealthy business owner or an ultra-high-net-worth individual, this book is your wake-up call. For too long, the wealth management industry has failed to deliver the comprehensive, coordinated services that successful entrepreneurs and their families truly need.