Publication Date: January 1, 2013Written by an L. A. County homicide detective and former atheist, Cold-Case Christianity examines the claims of the New Testament using the skills and strategies of a hard-to-convince criminal investigator.?Christianity could be defined as a "cold case":?it makes a claim about an event from the distant past for which there is little forensic evidence. In Cold-Case Christianity, J. Warner Wallace uses his nationally recognized skills as a homicide detective to look at the evidence and eyewitnesses behind Christian beliefs. Including gripping stories from his career and the visual techniques he developed in the courtroom, Wallace uses illustration to examine the powerful evidence that validates the claims of Christianity.?A unique apologetic that speaks to readers' intense interest in detective stories, Cold-Case Christianity inspires readers to have confidence in Christ as it prepares them to articulate the case for Christianity.
Release date: January 2, 2013 | Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: Fancy Nancy (Book 2)
Nancy Clancy and her best friend, Bree, have love on the brain—after all, they're learning about the human heart in science class! But when the girls decide to play matchmaker, nothing works out as planned. So the big question is: Will love conquer all?
Publication Date: February 1, 2013 | Age Level: 7 and up | Series: I Survived (Book 7) The bloodiest battle in American history is under way . . .
It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone-they're marching with the army.
But then orders come through: The men are called to battle in Pennsylvania. Thomas has made it so far . . . but does he have what it takes to survive Gettysburg?
Down in New Orleans, Arelia LaRue ventures further into the world of les mysteries and comes face to face with secrets that threaten to turn her entire world upside down.
A tragically painful past is revisited... Secrets are revealed… And enemies are exposed…
In the intoxicating world of New Orleans Voodoo/Hoodoo expect the unexpected.
This is the 4th book in the Arelia LaRue Series It follows Bound Punished Possessed
Thick and chewy or crusty, super- thin bases or batter, scone or bought dough all make delicious pizzas when served with trendy toppings such as roasted vegetables, piquante peppers (PeppadewTM) and blue or goats cheeses.
Publication Date: February 1, 2013 | Series: Capstone Young Readers: Dessert Designer Turn your boring desserts into fantastic works of food art. Learn to make cupcakes into bunnies or candies into shining stars. The best part of this book is learning its OK to play with your food!
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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Capstone Young Readers (February 1, 2013)
The lastest in Kathryn Lasky's hit series - a stunning spin-off set among the wolves of Ga'hoole.
A great cold has seized the Beyond. The warmth of summer, the smell of sweet grass and the great caribou migrations are distant memories. Now the wolves know only ice, dark, snow and endless cold. The order that kept the wolf clans strong for thousands of years has broken down completely.
The wolves have only one chance for survival. They must find their way to a new land, a land of warmth and summer. But the journey will take them over a frozen sea and through thousands of miles of perilous territory. Will the wolves trust young Faolan to lead them?
Publication Date: February 1, 2013 | Age Level: 7 and up | Series: I Survived (Book 7) The bloodiest battle in American history is under way . . .
It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone-they're marching with the army.
But then orders come through: The men are called to battle in Pennsylvania. Thomas has made it so far . . . but does he have what it takes to survive Gettysburg?
Publication Date: 2013 The Kiteboarder Calendar for 2013 is a high quality 13-month wall calendar featuring a year and a month of some of the best kiteboarding images available. Keep track of your schedule and keep yourself stoked for the year!
Publication Date: January 1, 2013 Beautiful aboriginal artwork from Central Australia is showcased in this annual calendar, which includes major international holidays. The?months and days of the week are referenced in English and several European languages. Each page?features a portion of the Central Australian seasons wheel as it relates to the internationally accepted Gregorian?calendar.
?We believe that business is good because it creates value, it is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange, it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity. Free-enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most compelling ideas we humans have ever had. But we can aspire to something even greater." ?From the Conscious Capitalism Credo
In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can?and do?work most powerfully to create value for all stakeholders: including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment.
These ?Conscious Capitalism" companies include Whole Foods Market, Southwest Airlines, Costco, Google, Patagonia, The Container Store, UPS, and dozens of others. We know them; we buy their products or use their services. Now it's time to better understand how these organizations use four specific tenets?higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management?to build strong businesses and help advance capitalism further toward realizing its highest potential.
As leaders of the Conscious Capitalism movement, Mackey and Sisodia argue that aspiring leaders and business builders need to continue on this path of transformation?for the good of both business and society as a whole.
At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business grounded in a more evolved ethical consciousness, this book provides a new lens for individuals and companies looking to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future.
Release date: December 27, 2012?We're surrounded by people who are busy getting their ducks in a row, waiting for just the right moment. . . . Getting your ducks in a row is a fine thing to do. But deciding what you are going to do with that duck is a far more important issue." ?From the blog post "Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?" ? Seth Godin is famous for bestselling books such as Purple Cow and cool entrepreneurial ventures such as Squidoo and the Domino Project. But to millions of loyal readers, he's best known for the daily burst of insight he provides every morning, rain or shine, via Seth's Blog. Since he started blogging in the early 1990s, he has written more than two million words and shaped the way we think about marketing, leadership, careers, inno-vation, creativity, and more. Much of his writing is inspirational and some is incendiary. ? Collected here are six years of his best, most entertaining, and most poignant blog posts, plus a few bonus ebooks. From thoughts on how to treat your customers to telling stories and spreading ideas, Godin pushes us to think smarter, dream bigger, write better, and speak more honestly. Highlights include:
A marketing lesson from the Apocalypse
No, everything is not going to be okay
Organized bravery
Choose your customers, choose your future
Paying attention to the attention economy
Bandits and philanthropists
? Godin writes to get under our skin. He wants us to stand up and do something remarkable, outside the standards of the industrial system that raised us. ? Made for dipping into again and again, Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck? is a classic for fans both old and new.
Publication Date: February 5, 2013 The Internet is often hyped as a means to enhanced consumer power: a hypercustomized media world where individuals exercise unprecedented control over what they see and do. That is the scenario media guru Nicholas Negroponte predicted in the 1990s, with his hypothetical online newspaper The Daily Me - and it is one we experience now in daily ways. But, as media expert Joseph Turow shows, the customized media environment we inhabit today reflects diminished consumer power. Not only ads and discounts but even news and entertainment are being customized by newly powerful media agencies on the basis of data we don't know they are collecting and individualized profiles we don't know we have. Little is known about this new industry: how is this data being collected and analyzed? And how are our profiles created and used? How do you know if you have been identified as a "target" or "waste" or placed in one of the industry's finer-grained marketing niches? Are you, for example, a Socially Liberal Organic Eater, a Diabetic Individual in the Household, or Single City Struggler? And, if so, how does that affect what you see and do online? Drawing on groundbreaking research, including interviews with industry insiders, this important book shows how advertisers have come to wield such power over individuals and media outlets - and what can be done to stop it.
Product Details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (February 5, 2013)
How To Sell More Books Using A Secret Amazon Analytics Trick
You Can Increase Sales By 67% With This Proven Amazon Analytics System
If you're not using Amazon Analytics, you're wasting your advertising money and time. Learn how to:
See The Exact Number Of Visitors To Your Amazon Book Listing Page
Imagine if you had live data on the EXACT number of visitors to your Amazon book listing page! You'd be getting instant feedback on whether or not your book marketing and advertising strategies are actually working.
Calculate Your Sales Conversion Rate On Amazon
Using this data, you can calculate your sales conversion rate. Using this simple strategy, I improved my average Amazon book page conversion rate from 11.4% to 19.1% - that's a 67% sales increase with just one simple change and no extra advertising or marketing!
How To Sell More Books With KDP Select
In this book, I'll reveal my charts showing proof that using KDP Select can increase your book sales and traffic to your book page by an average of 836% over the long-term. You'll also learn why you must be in KDP Select to maximize your sales unless you can consistently get over 100 new targeted visitors to your book page through your existing marketing, advertising and author platform.
How To Know Exactly What Your Readers Like Inside Your Book
Not only will you learn the secrets to getting analytics for your Amazon book page, you'll also get detailed analytics about what your book readers are actually doing INSIDE your book! You'll know what information and parts of your book readers like most and which parts are turning off readers.
How To Calculate The Number Of Sales Needed To Get A Hot New Releases Listing
Using smart analytics and my Amazon sales data, you'll be able to calculate how many books you need to sell in 1 day or 1 week to have your new book reach the coveted and extremely valuable Hot New Releases listing in your key Amazon book categories. This strategy alone is worth the price of this book!
How To Get Your Book Into The Top 100 Free Kindle Store
Learn the secret, calculated marketing strategy that can help you get your books into the Top 100 Free Kindle store during your KDP Select free promotions. You'll learn why you should always be willing to invest up to $200 to market your books during their free promotions and why that investment will pay off BIG TIME.
Book Marketing Made Easy
If you've struggled in the past with marketing your books, you need clarity and a proven strategy that works! Stop banging your head against the wall and start making marketing decisions based on good data and intelligent marketing strategy rather than just guessing and listening to broke authors with hot marketing tips.
About The Author
Tom Corson-Knowles is the international best-selling author of The Kindle Writing Bible and The Kindle Publishing Bible, among others. Tom wrote his first book at age 19 but had no way to publish it... until February, 2012. Within 8 months, Tom was earning a full-time income as a part-time author.
Tom has taught thousands of authors like you how to sell more books using smart book marketing strategies! If I can do it, you can too!
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Release date: June 25, 2013 Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking audiobook, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory - the most advanced relationship science in existence today - can help us find and sustain love.
Attachment theory forms the basis for many best-selling books on the parent/child relationship, but there has yet to be an accessible guide to what this fascinating science has to tell us about adult romantic relationships - until now. Attachment theory owes its inception to British psychologist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby, who in the 1950s examined the tremendous impact that our early relationships with our parents or caregivers has on the people we become. Also central to attachment theory is the discovery that our need to be in a close relationship with one or more individuals is embedded in our genes.
In Attached, Levine and Heller trace how these evolutionary influences continue to shape who we are in our relationships today. According to attachment theory, every person behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways: "anxious" people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partner's ability to love them back. "Avoidant" people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. "Secure" people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving. Attached guides listeners in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mates) follow. It also offers a wealth of advice on how to navigate relationships more wisely, given a listener's attachment style and that of his or her partner. An insightful look at the science behind love.
Publication Date: June 14, 2013 Sometimes it feels as if the more we talk, the less we are heard. But in groundbreaking research, Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Robert Waldman have discovered a powerful strategy called Compassionate Communication that allows two brains to work together as one. In twelve clear steps, Compassionate Communication actually changes our brain structure — as well as the brain of the person we are talking to — in a way that helps establish a bond between people. In this unique state — free from conflict and distrust — we can communicate more effectively, listen more deeply, collaborate without effort, and succeed more quickly at any task. Using data collected from MBA students, couples in therapy, caregivers, and brain scans, Newberg and Waldman have seen again and again that Compassionate Communication can transform a difficult conversation into a deeply satisfying one, literally in a matter of a few minutes. Whether you are negotiating with your boss or your employees, arguing with your spouse, or coping with your kids, Compassionate Communication is a simple and unbeatable way to achieve a win-win dialogue to help you reach your goals. With its clear prescription and proven results, Words Can Change Your Brain will change how you think and speak to virtually everyone.
Release date: September 10, 2013From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and "one of the biggest names in popular fiction" (USA TODAY) comes a collection of personal essays as uproariously funny as the best of Tina Fey and Nora Ephron.
In her forty-something years, bestselling novelist Jennifer Weiner has gone from feeling like an outsider in her picturesque Connecticut hometown ("a Lane Bryant outtake in an Abercrombie & Fitch catalogue"), to being a Princeton graduate, to a successful newspaper reporter in Philadelphia, and, eventually, a mother, novelist, and occasional Hollywood boldfaced name.
Weiner's hilarious and insightful chronicles of her life cover everything from her bad dates to her mother coming out of the closet at age fifty-four to casting a goat in her sitcom. Jennifer pairs her trademark sharp humor with disarming candor in this, her first nonfiction work. No subject is off limits, and that includes hearing her daughter use the F-word—fat—for the first time, and learning from the police that her estranged father had died in his girlfriend's bathroom. Crazy-funny and deeply touching by turns, this collection willprove that the voice behind Jennifer Weiner's beloved novels is every bit as endearing, smart, and quirky as it is in real life.
Release date: May 7, 2013 In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children—everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four year olds ("there is no difference between a four year old eating a taco and throwing a taco on the floor"). Reminiscent of Bill Cosby's Fatherhood, Dad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.
Publication Date: January 8, 2013 Based on the Andrew Carnegie formula for money-making, The Master Key to Riches describes in step-by-step detail one of the greatest practical philosophies of success....This amazing philosophy, culled from the success experiences of hundreds of the world's most powerful and wealthy men, will show you how to succeed in any walk of life.
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Audio CD
Publisher: Think and Grow Rich on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (January 8, 2013)
Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, tackle one of the most critical topics in our work and personal lives: how to make better decisions.
???Research in psychology has revealed that our decisions are disrupted by an array of biases and irrationalities: We're overconfident. We seek out information that supports us and downplay information that doesn't. We get distracted by short-term emotions. When it comes to making choices, it seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these shortcomings doesn't fix the problem, any more than knowing that we are nearsighted helps us to see. The real question is: How can we do better?
???In Decisive, the Heaths, based on an exhaustive study of the decision-making literature, introduce a four-step process designed to counteract these biases. Written in an engaging and compulsively readable style, Decisive takes readers on an unforgettable journey, from a rock star's ingenious decision-making trick to a CEO's disastrous acquisition, to a single question that can often resolve thorny personal decisions.
???Along the way, we learn the answers to critical questions like these: How can we stop the cycle of agonizing over our decisions? How can we make group decisions without destructive politics? And how can we ensure that we don't overlook precious opportunities to change our course?
???Decisive is the Heath brothers' most powerful—and important—book yet, offering fresh strategies and practical tools enabling us to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Audio CD
Publisher: Random House Audio; Unabridged edition (March 26, 2013)
