For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. With more than fifteen million copies sold, How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best known motivational books in history, with proven advice for achieving success in life. You ll learn: three fundamental techniques in handling people; six ways to make people like you; twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking; nine ways to change people without arousing resentment; and much, much more! ,
YA-These refreshingly upbeat stories are based on the columns written by the author, editor-in-chief of Victoria Magazine, under her pen name. While not completely autobiographical, the selections are her remembrances of family and friends who influenced her growing-up years and beyond. With the death of her mother when she was five, and her father's remarriage two years later, this bewildered child and her sister, 10 years older, became part of her stepmother's large Midwestern family. Lindemeyer's stepgrandmother, Bertha Maude Keithley, came to live with the newly created family and became the child's confidante and unfailing supporter. The woman's encouragement helped her pursue her dream of college as she struggled with summer jobs. Many of the stories center around this relationship; others focus on more distant family members. This picture of warm, caring families, told with fondness and humor and with glimpses of the creation of a fashionable magazine, will appeal to young adults, especially those
Here in a single volume are the documents, speeches and lettersthat have forged American history, accompanied by interpretationsof their significance by noted historian and broadcaster Richard D.Heffner. The book includes the complete text of the Declaration ofIndependence, the complete Constitution of the United States, theEmancipation Proclamation, FDR's ""Four Freedoms"" speech, JFK'sinaugural address, Martin Luther King's ""I Have a Dream"" speech,documents relating to 9/11 and Barack Obama's inauguraladdress.
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 andthe moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on theJapanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected byhappenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. ThePacific is the companion book to the HBO miniseries that tracks theintertwined odysseys of U.S. Marines during WWII. Hugh Ambrose is anoted historian and was a consultant on the documentary Price forPeace for which Steven Spielberg and Stephen Ambrose were theExecutive Producers.
Discover the lesser known beauty spots. Where to find the best beaches,ancient forts,plantation houses and lovely gardens. Where to fish,snorkel or go walking and sightseeing. Make sure you make the most of your dream vacation;this book shows you how.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to hundreds of millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years. It is also her chronicle of living history with Bill Clinton, a thirty-year adventure in love and politics that survives personal betrayal, relentless partisan investigations and constant public scrutiny. Hillary Rodham Clinton came of age during a time of tumultuous social and political change in America. Like many women of her generation, she grew up with choices and opportunities unknown to her mother or grandmother. She charted her own course through unexplored terrain -- responding to the changing times and her own internal compass -- and b
In this new and completely revised edition, the first reigning World Series of Poker Champion gets down and dirty about how to win big. It's not just about cards. It's about the people who hold them, so you'll need to be a master of human nature. Who better to teach you than American folk hero and gambling legend Amarillo Slim? Get his first-hand secrets on everything from counting cards to judging opponents, the laws of probability, betting, bluffing, when to drop, and when to pick up your chips and head home.
No public figure in contemporary life has elicited more polarized reactions than Hillary Rodhan Clinton.The first presidential spouse who pursued a major policy-making role,the belea-guered first lady has been a heroine and role model to her feminist allies—and,to her conservative foes,a malevolent ,power-mad shrew.Is she Bill Clinton's greatest asset,or his greatest liability? Now David Brock ,America's most controver-sial journalist,has taken on the most controversial first lady in history,producing a boldly incisive yet surprisingly sensitive portrait.The Hillary Rodham who emerges from these pages is not just a fasci-nating and unofficial leader of an activist lib-eral cohortthat was born in the social and civil unrest of the1960s and has risen tothe highest lev-els of Americna goernment .A political biography of the highet order,the Seducion of Hillary Rodham is the story of one strong-willed wonan's struggle tomaintain her personal and political intergrity in the face ofpowerfuly seductive forces
Moscow,1988.It is the twilight of the Cold War.and the KGB is at its most ruthless.In the Last three years,ten CIA operatives have been executed or neutralized.Langley has no idea how the KGB seems to be able to predict the CLA's every move,but some believe they are using an invisible electromagnetic powder that allows them to keep tabs on anyone who touches it:spy dust. 作者简介:ANTONIO MENDEZ is the former chief of disguise for the Cla recipient of the CLA's Intelligence Star of Valor and the Trailblaz Award,he is the author of a previous nonfiction work,The Mast of Disguise.JONNA MENDEZ is a twenty-seven-year veteran the CLA who served as a technical operations officer and chief The Agency,and helped design the international Spy Museum downtown Washington,D.C.,where they are founding boamembers.They live in Maryland withe their son,Jesse.Visit tlauthors at their Web site:www.themasterofdisguise,com.
In The Wildest Ride, Joe Menzer gives us a timely, comprehensive look at the dramatic, rollicking history of stock-car racing in America, exploring both its inauspicious bootlegging beginnings and the billion-dollar industry that it has become. Menzer straps the reader into the driver's seat for a run through NASCAR's history, revealing the sport's remarkable rise from rogue outfit to corporate darling. Menzer also profiles the many superstar drivers who have dominated the sport, men as unpredictable as they are fearless, including "The Intimidator," Dale Earnhardt, whose ferocious driving made him NASCAR's signature personality — and whose tragic death at the 2001 Daytona 500 was mourned by millions. Menzer expertly maneuvers through the tight corners and wide-open straightaways of NASCAR's history, examining the circuit's attempt to distance itself from its "redneck racin'" past without compromising its country roots. Simultaneously rowdy and insightful, The Wildest Ride is a thorough and unfailingly