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Film School

The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series

By: Steve Boman

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Film School

The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series

By: Steve Boman

One L meets You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again In this comic and moving and completely true tale, Film School reveals what life is like at the elite school that trained Hollywood's biggest names. When Midwestern journalist Steve Boman applied to the University of Southern California's vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, the world's oldest and most prestigious film school, he had more than a few strikes against him: His wife was recovering from thyroid cancer. His beloved sister had just died of leukemia. He lost his job. He had three young children. He was in his late 30s…. And he had no experience in filmmaking. As Boman navigates his way through USC's arduous three-year graduate production program, he finds that his films fall flat, he's threatened with being kicked out of the program and he becomes the old guy no one wants to work with. Defeated, he quits and moves back to the Midwest to be with his family. After he is urged by his wife to reapply, he miraculously gets in for a second time...only to have a stroke on the first day of classes. But instead of doing the easy thing – running away again -- Boman throws caution to the wind and embraces the challenge. He slowly becomes a gray-haired Golden Boy at USC with films that sparkle. And then he does the impossible: While still in school, for a class project, he dreams up a television series that CBS catches wind of and develops into THREE RIVERS, a primetime Sunday night show. This story of challenge and triumph—and what it takes to make it in the world's most famous film school—is a must-read for anyone aspiring to become a Hollywood great or anyone just looking for a good story.

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Film School

The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series to CBS

By: Steve Boman

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Film School

The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series to CBS

By: Steve Boman

Film School reveals what life is like at the elite school that trained Hollywood's biggest names. When Midwestern journalist Steve Boman applied to the University of Southern California's vaunted School of Cinematic Arts, the world's oldest and most prestigious film school, he had more than a few strikes against him: His wife was recovering from thyroid cancer. His beloved sister had just died of leukemia. He lost his job. He had three young children. He was in his late 30s ... And he had no experience in filmmaking. As Boman navigates his way through USC's arduous three-year graduate production program, he finds that his films fall flat, he's threatened with being kicked out of the program and he becomes the old guy no one wants to work with. Defeated, he quits and moves back to the Midwest to be with his family. After he is urged by his wife to reapply, he miraculously gets in for a second time ... only to have a stroke on the first day of classes. But instead of doing the easy thing - running away again -- Boman throws caution to the wind and embraces the challenge. He slowly becomes a gray-haired Golden Boy at USC with films that sparkle. And then he does the impossible: While still in school, for a class project, he dreams up a television series that CBS catches wind of and develops into THREE RIVERS, a primetime Sunday night show. This story of challenge and triumph-and what it takes to make it in the world's most famous film school-is a must-read for anyone aspiring to become a Hollywood great or anyone just looking for a good story.

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Film School

The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series

By: Steve Boman

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The True Story of a Midwestern Family Man Who Went to the World's Most Famous Film School, Fell Flat on His Face, Had a Stroke, and Sold a Television Series

By: Steve Boman

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BenBella Books

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1936661055

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Tulsa Movie Theaters

By: Steve Clem, Maggie Brown, and the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum

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Tulsa Movie Theaters

By: Steve Clem, Maggie Brown, and the Tulsa Historical Society and Museum

Going to the movies has always been special. Tulsa's first theater opened in 1906 with a lineup of silent reels and live vaudeville entertainment. During the next two decades, dozens of movie houses opened downtown, including the Big Four: the Ritz, Orpheum, Majestic, and Rialto. As Tulsa grew, neighborhood theaters, including the Brook, Delman, and Will Rogers, became favorites. Drive-in theaters soon followed around the city boundaries. In 1965, Tulsa's first multiplex--the Boman Twin--opened. Tulsans experienced blockbuster films at these theaters with multiple screens and increasingly smaller auditoriums. Tulsa also hosted star-studded movie premieres. Among them were The Outsiders and the 1949 premiere of Tulsa, featuring the biggest parade and crowd in Tulsa's history. Perhaps the most well-known theater--the Dreamland on Black Wall Street--was destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Although it was rebuilt, images of the Dreamland in ruins are iconic.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467106852

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Beyond Performance Management

Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance

By: Jeremy Hope,Steve Player

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Beyond Performance Management

Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business Performance

By: Jeremy Hope,Steve Player

There’s a bewildering array of management tools out there. And they all promise to help you excel at the toughest parts of your job: defining your organization’s strategic direction, managing customers and costs, and boosting workforce performance. But just 30 percent of these tools deliver as intended. Why? As Jeremy Hope and Steve Player reveal in Beyond Performance Management, while many tools are sound in theory, they’re misused by most organizations. For example, executives buy and implement a tool without first asking, “What problem are we trying to solve?” And they use tools to command and control frontline teams, not empower them—a serious and costly mistake. In this eminently useful, clear-eyed book, the authors critically review dozens of well-known management tools—from mission statements, balanced scorecards, and rolling forecasts to key performance indicators, Six Sigma, and performance appraisals. They explain how to select the right tools for your organization, how to implement them correctly, and how to extract maximum value from each. Brimming with rigorous analysis and solid advice, Beyond Performance Management helps you swiftly gauge the value of each management tool, as well as navigate the increasingly crowded field of offerings—so the tools you select deliver fully on their promise.

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Harvard Business Press

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1422142264

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Selling Air Power

Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II

By: Steve Call

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Selling Air Power

Military Aviation and American Popular Culture After World War II

By: Steve Call

In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro-air power article appearing in general interest magazines. Public fascination with flight helped create and sustain exaggerated expectations for air power in the minds of both its official proponents and the American public. Articles in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, and Life trumpeted the secure future assured by American air superiority. Military figures like Henry H. "Hap" Arnold and Curtis E. LeMay, radio-television personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, cartoon figures like Steve Canyon, and actors like Jimmy Stewart played key roles in the unfolding campaign. Movies like Twelve O'Clock High!, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, and A Gathering of Eagles projected onto the public imagination vivid images confirming what was coming to be the accepted wisdom: that America's safety against the Soviet threat could best be guaranteed by air power, coupled with nuclear capability. But as the Cold War continued and the specter of the mushroom cloud grew more prominent in American minds, another, more sinister interpretation began to take hold. Call chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after World War II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr. Strangelove. Call's careful analysis goes beyond the public relations campaigns to probe the intellectual climate that shaped them and gave them power. Selling Air Power adds a critical layer of understanding to studies in military and aviation history, as well as American popular culture.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440917

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Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach, MD,Warren D. Lo, MD,Geoffrey L. Heyer, MD

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Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach, MD,Warren D. Lo, MD,Geoffrey L. Heyer, MD

Rev. ed. of: Pediatric cerebrovascular disorders / E.S. Roach, Anthony R. Riela; with a foreword by Roger N. Rosenberg; chapters by Susan T. Iannaccone and Jeffrey Perlman. 1995. 2nd ed.

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Demos Medical Publishing

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1933864737

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Clinical Exercise

A Case-based Approach

By: Melainie Cameron,Steve Selig,Dennis Hemphill

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Clinical Exercise

A Case-based Approach

By: Melainie Cameron,Steve Selig,Dennis Hemphill

Provides a case-based approach to clinical exercise practice for students and therapists delivering exercise as therapy and is the first text of its kind focusing on clinical exercise service delivery. Cameron, Australian Catholic University; Selig & Hemphill, Victoria University, Australia.

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Elsevier Australia

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0729539415

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Teach What You Know

A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring

By: Steve Trautman

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Teach What You Know

A Practical Leader's Guide to Knowledge Transfer Using Peer Mentoring

By: Steve Trautman

Breakthrough Knowledge Transfer Techniques for Every Professional! No matter where you work there are people with experience teaching people who need to learn. Everyone is part of this exchange yet few people know how to do it well. Now, there’s a comprehensive how-to manual for effective knowledge transfer: Teach What You Know. Steve Trautman introduces simple, practical mentoring techniques he created for engineers at Microsoft, and has proven in many diverse organizations ranging from Nike to Boeing. This is real-world, get-it done advice, organized into a framework you can use no matter what you need to teach. Trautman provides common-sense tools to successfully pass along years or even decades of experiences: easy-to- use checklists, sample training plans, lists of questions, step-by-step procedures, and a start-to finish case study. Teach What You Know will help you orient new employees, support transitions to new assignments and promotions, prepare for employee retirements, build teams, roll out new technologies, and even move forward after reorganizations and mergers.

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Pearson Education

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0132797372

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Linear Algebra with Applications

, published by Manipal Universal Press

By: Steve Kirkland

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Linear Algebra with Applications

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By: Steve Kirkland

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Manipal Universal Press

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9382460209

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Raising Boys in the 21st Century

How to help our boys become open-hearted, kind and strong men

By: Steve Biddulph

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Raising Boys in the 21st Century

How to help our boys become open-hearted, kind and strong men

By: Steve Biddulph

The most popular book ever about raising boys is back, significantly updated to help raise sons in a world that offers gender equality, respect and a whole new kind of man, but is still haunted by toxic masculinity. You’ll find cutting-edge science about the ‘physical fours’, the ‘emotional eights’ and how puberty can be turned into a positive time, along with hundreds of other practical tips for raising a son. No two boys are alike, and you have to get to know our own unique boy. The idea that ‘if we understand them, we can help them’ is what has made this book so well loved and trusted in over a million homes. As one of Australia’s best-known psychologists for almost 30 years, Steve has introduced a generation of fathers into hands-on engagement with kids, and helped thousands of mothers gain confidence in their ability to raise sons well. He has worked with schools in 17 countries, and 130,000 parents have heard his unforgettable live talks. ‘Biddulph is electrifying’ -Telegraph ‘Biddulph is a spellbinder’ – 60 Minutes

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Simon and Schuster

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0648226735

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9780648226734

MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

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MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES

By: STEVE ESOMBA, Dr.

I can say with absolute certainty that, everybody enjoys watching movies, cinema, films and television. But few, if any, know how a film is made: a film has inbuilt special effects or 'tricks'to make it appealing to audiences. MOVING CAMERAS AND LIVING MOVIES reveals to you ALL about films & Filmmaking; it is a hard and tasking enterprise involving tens of thousands of workers and millions of investment dollars. After reading MOVING CAMERAS...your love for movies will triple. Movie technicians and camera gurus have a license to mould, alter, and manipulate the screen to produce or induce rain, sunlight, snow, fire, or fly any object in space in defiance of gravity or even cause 'accidents'or 'raise' the dead to life. Learn the fascinating, exciting world of film, actresses, actors, fashion, and fictional entities.

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Lulu.com

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1291351574

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9781291351576

The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation

By: Steve Moyise

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The Old Testament in the Book of Revelation

By: Steve Moyise

This book explores the relationship between the new context that John provides for his allusions and their context in the Old Testament. For example, did John choose texts to meet the needs of the recipients or did his meditation on the scriptures give him a unique insight into their situation? Ramsay held that local knowledge led to John's choice of texts whereas Beale believed that Revelation is a midrash on Daniel. Both are one-sided, as a study of John's use of Ezekiel shows. John based a number of his incidents on Ezekiel, in much the same order. Nevertheless, there are also major discontinuities, such as his denial of the very thing-the temple-that Ezekiel 40-48 is all about. To do justice to John's use of the Old Testament requires an interactive model, which involves the use of scripture at Qumran and the concept of intertextuality. Moyise shows John to be a master of combining and juxtaposing images.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567588637

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9780567588630

Get Seen

Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business

By: Steve Garfield

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Get Seen

Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business

By: Steve Garfield

The era of online video has arrived—now make it work for your business In the last year, the world of online video exploded. Hollywood got into the game, professional actors and writers joined in, and independent producers looked to find their niche. Now, companies are wide awake to the opportunities for product and brand promotion as well as customer engagement. So how do you want to fit into the new online video universe? The must-have guide, Get Seen by Steve Garfield, the "Paul Revere of video blogging," offers a quick and complete toolkit to get you up to speed on the latest that online video and related media have to offer. Examines success stories of how companies have used online video Presents a series of plans and tools that businesses can follow as they expand onto the social web Provides clear step by step directions on how to record, edit, and export videos, where to post them, how to build a community around their content, and what to do to increase views by making it go viral If you're ready to take full advantage of online video's many benefits, Get Seen is the one resource you need.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470525460

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9780470525463

Christianity & Western Thought

A History of Philosophers, Ideas & Movements

By: Colin Brown,Steve Wilkens,Alan G. Padgett

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Christianity & Western Thought

A History of Philosophers, Ideas & Movements

By: Colin Brown,Steve Wilkens,Alan G. Padgett

From Socrates and the Sophists to Kant, from Augustine to Aquinas and the Reformers, Colin Brown traces the turbulent, often tension-filled, always fascinating story of the thinkers, ideas and movements that have shaped our intellectual landscape. Is philosophy the "handmaiden of faith" or "the doctrine of demons"? Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief?Brown writes, "This book is about the changes in preconceptions, world views and paradigms that have affected the ways in which people have thought about religion in general and Christianity in particular in the Western world. . . . It is a historical sketch, written to help students--and anyone else who might be interested--to get a better grasp of the love-hate relationship between philosophy and faith that has gone on for close to two thousand years."Students, pastors and thoughtful Christians will benefit from this rich resource. The first in a proposed three-volume work, Brown's easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down introduction to Christianity and Western thought focuses on developments from the ancient world to the Age of Enlightenment.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830817522

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9780830817528

Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach,Kerstin Bettermann,Jose Biller

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Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders

By: E. Steve Roach,Kerstin Bettermann,Jose Biller

Toole's Cerebrovascular Disorders was the first modern book devoted to care of the stroke, originally published more than 40 years ago. This is a completely revised and updated sixth edition of the highly respected standard for stroke diagnosis and treatment. Dr James Toole has stayed on as a consultant for the text, and Drs E. Steve Roach, Kerstin Bettermann, and Jose Biller have reworked Dr Toole's book to include chapters on genetics, pregnancy-related stroke, and acute treatments. The practical focus of the book has not changed, retaining its emphasis on bedside diagnosis and treatment. Easily accessible both for stroke specialists and residents, the sixth edition has been modernized to keep pace with the rapid expansion of knowledge in stroke care and includes evidence-based recommendations, the latest technology and imaging, and risk factors. The text is supplemented with more than 200 images, many in color.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521866227

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9780521866224

Hidden Southwest

The Adventurer's Guide

By: Carolyn Scarborough,Steve Cohen

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Hidden Southwest

The Adventurer's Guide

By: Carolyn Scarborough,Steve Cohen

Large expanses of the Southwest remain virtually untouched by tourists. The new edition of Hidden Southwest is the only book that uncovers them all. Encompassing all of Arizona and New Mexico plus southern Utah and Colorado, this is a must-read for visitors and arm-chair tourists. 41 line drawings and maps.

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1569750041

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9781569750049

Don't Go to Jail!

Saul Goodman's Guide to Keeping the Cuffs Off

By: Saul Goodman,Steve Huff

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Don't Go to Jail!

Saul Goodman's Guide to Keeping the Cuffs Off

By: Saul Goodman,Steve Huff

Tie-in with AMC's much anticipated Breaking Bad spin-off, Better Call Saul!"--

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Macmillan

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1250078873

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9781250078872

Back to Sanity

Healing the Madness of Our Minds

By: Steve Taylor

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Back to Sanity

Healing the Madness of Our Minds

By: Steve Taylor

Have you ever thought that there might be something wrong with human beings, even that we might be slightly insane? Why is it that so many human beings are filled with a restless discontent, and an insatiable desire for material goods, status and power? Why is it that human history has been filled with endless conflict, oppression and inequality? In this ground-breaking and inspiring book, Steve Taylor shows that we do suffer from a psychological disorder, which he refers to as humania, or ego-madness. This disorder is so close to us that we don't realize it's there, but it's the root cause of all our dysfunctional behaviour, both as individuals and as a species. Back to Sanity explains the characteristics of humania, where it stems from and how it leads to the madness of materialism, status-seeking, warfare, inequality and other symptoms of our insanity. But equally importantly, Back to Sanity shows how we can heal this mental disorder and allow the fleeting moments of harmony that we all experience from time to time to become our permanent state of being.

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Hay House, Inc

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1848508751

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9781848508750

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

By: Steve Maraboli

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Life, the Truth, and Being Free

By: Steve Maraboli

This is a special anniversary edition of the book that introduced the world to the wisdom of Steve Maraboli. Originally published in 1999 as a compilation of his earliest works and quotes, Life, the Truth, and Being Free, has since grown to become a bestselling global sensation. Some of the pieces from this book have been individually published around the world in more than 20 languages. Today, Steve Maraboli has written several bestsellers and has been referred to as, "The most quoted man alive." This is the book that started it all. It's a must-read celebration of timeless wisdom, poetry, and the empowered mind. Reviews - "Radio star, Steve Maraboli's book, Life, the Truth, and Being Free, is a masterpiece of wisdom."- James Redfield, author of The Celestine Prophecy "In this book, Steve shares the brilliant ideas and empowering philosophies that have gained him international recognition as a leader in personal development. He lays out a practical guide to living your true beauty and potential." - Kristine Carlson, author of Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Women "Steve Maraboli has done it again! No one journeys through the mucky water of life with such vibrancy for living as Steve. After reading this book, you will be ready to choose happiness and glide towards achieving all that you want in life. Steve shows us a masterful and magnificent way to have joy be second nature to us." - Dr. Pat Baccili, host of The Dr. Pat Show "Finally! No more having to quote Steve Maraboli from memory. This is pure inspiration and excitement, start to finish, Maraboli-style!" - Mary Anne Radmacher, Author - Artist "Steve Maraboli is one of the great positive influences of our time. His book is filled with inspirational gems of spiritual wisdom, practical advice, and the poetry of our humanity."- John Welshons, One Soul, One Heart, One Love

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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1496086244

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Sham

How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

By: Steve Salerno

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Sham

How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

By: Steve Salerno

Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the “empowering” message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help’s “Recovery” movement. SHAM also reveals: • How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over—without ever helping them • The inside story on the most notorious gurus—from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray • How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, “executive coaches,” and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale • How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything—from drug abuse to “sex addiction” to shoplifting—a dysfunction or disease • How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good • How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools • How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done. Also available as an eBook

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Crown

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0307238652

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9780307238658

We Can't Help It-- We're Men [videorecording]

By: Smith, Dave,Rick Green,Steve Smith,Acorn Media (Firm)

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We Can't Help It-- We're Men [videorecording]

By: Smith, Dave,Rick Green,Steve Smith,Acorn Media (Firm)

Red hopes to lead us "to a better understanding between the various sexes." Red, his techno-geek nephew Harold, and all the guys from Possum Lodge are there to shed light on the one thing they are really good at - being men.

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Silver Spring, MD : Acorn Media

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1569387567

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9781569387566

The Pineapple Theory: The Theory is Out There

By: Steve Mathieu

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The Pineapple Theory: The Theory is Out There

By: Steve Mathieu

In this edition - The Theory is out there! - it is the external environment trying to reach the inside of pineapple, and the inside of the pineapple trying to reach the outside. Daily, the inner sweetness is under attack. The pineapple shell does not rest. The pineapple shell, it is crucial to understand what it is - why we have it - how to protect it - and how to use it to not deprive yourself and everyone else of your inner sweetness.

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Pineapple Theory

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1777411343

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The Pineapple Theory - Never Lose Yourself, Never Forget Yourself

By: Steve Pineapple Mathieu

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The Pineapple Theory - Never Lose Yourself, Never Forget Yourself

By: Steve Pineapple Mathieu

Throughout Earth timeline, several Mythologies took birth and still lives today. Mythologies providing perspectives to understand life and humans emotionally better. Remove the illusions of their storytelling and their raw concept can be seen. Their raw concept is their purpose: Assist humans to live happily, together. To live happily together starts within each one of us because positive emotions within is positive emotions around. Life is positive & negatives forces requiring balance, a philosophy trackable since the 14th century B.C. Adding a pineapple to people's life is like adding a pineapple on their foundation. Keep it standing tall and in-balance on the foundation. Life's negative forces are strong, influenced by poor corporate leadership, the emotional fishermen thinking for themselves, and how most of society chooses to act & speak from their own thoughts without ownership because the majority seeks around instead of within. Per The Pineapple Theory, all becomes emotional illusions with life & time. In the emotional illusions of life & time, your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a child and adult that became/influences your beliefs about who you are. All can trick you emotionally and if you don't take time to pause in your mind, define as your temple, resulting of losing yourself, and forgetting yourself. "The Japanese say we have three faces: - The first we show to the world. - The second we show to our close friends and family. - The third, we never show anyone. It is the truest reflection of who we are. Under your inner foundation, there are root, and they are YOU. What if by returning to yourself you would become yourself, with one face? After all, the roots of a pineapple plant show us one pineapple! Don't wait for life to change you because life, is the one waiting for you to change. Never lose yourself, never forget yourself, return to yourself with The Pineapple Theory.

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Sham

How the Gurus of the Self-help Movement Make Us Helpless

By: Steve Salerno

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How the Gurus of the Self-help Movement Make Us Helpless

By: Steve Salerno

SHAM - Self-Help and Actualisation Movement. To many it's a godsend, to others it's a joke. Journalist Steve Salerno, who has worked for over 24 years in lifestyle journalism knows from the inside the quirks and tricks of the self-help industry.....In SHAM he exposes the hucksters at the heart of the self-help industry. Even those suspicious or critical of the self-help industry tend to think it's relatively benign, Salerno argues that the idea of victimization peddled by the self-help gurus has blurred notions of personal responsibility, while the idea of empowerment teaches that simply believing we can do something is more important than developing the skills we need to succeed.....Going deep inside the self-help movement to expose the most famous gurus, from Anthony Robbins to John Gray, to Dr Phil and Oprah, Salerno reveals the costs the self-help phenomenon is exacting from the world and why we spend billions every year to get the latest book/video/seminar/diet program from SHAM artists, most of whom have only dubious qualifications and who provide little real help..... No other book has gone deep inside the self-help industry to expose what it is all about and how it works (or doesn't). While many may think self-help is harmless if ineffective, Salerno reveals for the first time that we all suffer because the self-help movement has taken such an all-persuasive hold of our hearts and minds.

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Supersense

Unlock the Extraordinary Power of Your Own Intuition

By: Steve Biddulph

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Supersense

Unlock the Extraordinary Power of Your Own Intuition

By: Steve Biddulph

*Previously published as Fully Human* A mother of small children trusts her 'gut feelings' and it saves her life. A young dad is able to grieve for his lost baby - using a song. What if there were parts of our minds that we never use but if awakened could make us so much happier, connected and alive? In Supersense, Steve Biddulph draws on deeply personal stories from his own life, as well as those of his clients, from the frontiers of thinking about how the brain works with the body and the wisdom of the 'wild creature' inside all of us. From the cutting edge, where therapy meets neuroscience, Steve Biddulph expores the new concept of 'supersense' - the feelings beneath our feelings - which can guide us to a more awake and free wau of living every minute of our lives. Using the Four-Storey Mansion framework, a way of using your mind that can be taught to a five-year-old, Steve Biddulph shows how even the most damaged adults can find happiness and peace. At the peak of a lifetime's work, one of the world's best-known psychotherapists and educators shows how you can be more alive, more connected, more fully human. From the bestselling author of Raising Boys.

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Reward Yourself with the Freedom of a Pineapple

Thought Provocative Philosophy to Cultivate More Inner Peace, Love, and Pineapples! (The Pineapple Theory)

By: Steve Pineapple Mathieu

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Reward Yourself with the Freedom of a Pineapple

Thought Provocative Philosophy to Cultivate More Inner Peace, Love, and Pineapples! (The Pineapple Theory)

By: Steve Pineapple Mathieu

Imagine not waking up angry, upset, and without feeling caged with negative thoughts. Imagine living authentically to your true-self, with good balance, and more "pineHapply" to savor more Truth - Freedom - Peace - and Love with yourself influencing everything else. In life, you will always harvest what you planted. We truly live on a wicked planet we did not ask for with 8 billion humans with a large portion emotionally and blindly making living much more complicated than what it truly is. It is best practice to pray for an easy life, but truth be told, pray to endure a difficult life. Though, it won't give you magic. Your prayer is a self-calling to do something about it. How long will you wait before you demand the best of yourself? Don't wait for life to change you because life, is the one waiting for you to change. What if reading this book can inspire you thought provocative self-reflecting tools of The Pineapple Theory with the purpose of living, within, with more Truth - Freedom - Peace - and Love with several fresh and sweet pineapples for a much fruitful experience? The pineapple fruit serves as an analogy, metaphor, and symbol of positivity making one reading experience much more fruitful. It fulfills the following purpose: Theoretically, what if adding a pineapple to people's life, leadership, and business recipes can assist living more "pineHapply," together? Be positively curious and learn more about The Pineapple Theory at: https: //thepineappletheory.ca/

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