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  Mail Carriers at Work

  Karen Latchana Kenney

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  The Meet Your Community Workers illustrated nonfiction book Mail Carriers at Work teaches young readers about the education, tasks, tools, and role in society of mail carriers. Easy-to-read text combines with colorful illustrations to provide entertainment and facts for even the youngest audience. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades PreK-4.

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  The Brain Health Book - Using...

  John Randolph Ph.D.

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  Concerns about memory and other thinking skills are common, particularly in middle age and beyond. Due to worries about declining brain health, some seek out dubious products or supplements purportedly designed to improve memory and other cognitive abilities.Fortunately, scientific research has uncovered a clear-cut set of evidence-based activities and lifestyle choices that are inexpensive or free and known to promote brain and cognitive functioning. John Randolph translates this science in an engaging and accessible way, including the brain-boosting effects of exercise, social activity, mental stimulation, task management strategies, nutrition, and positive self-care.Interwoven with lessons from neuroscience, positive psychology, social and clinical psychology, and habit-formation research are powerful self-coaching exercises designed to help listeners incorporate lifestyle changes that promote brain health.

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  Summary and Analysis of The...

  Worth Books

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  So much to read, so little time? Get a brief overview of the Japanese KonMari method of organizing and take control of your life.   Japanese cleaning consultant and New York Times–bestselling author Marie Kondo is known for the revolutionary method of organization detailed in her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, which has helped millions create and keep tidy homes. With chapter-by-chapter breakdowns, this summary explains the key points of her book, including:  How a calm, comfortable home can ease your mindWhy a “little-by-little” approach doesn’t workHow to identify items that “spark joy” and dispose of those that don’tHow to declutter your home by category  Complete with historical context, important quotes, fascinating trivia, a glossary of terms, and other features, this summary and analysis of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up is intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.

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  Niching Up

  Chris Dreyer

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  Chris Dreyer didn’t begin his professional journey thinking he would establish one of the most successful SEO agencies in the country. In fact, he studied history in college and landed his first job as a detention room supervisor for a local high school (this wasn’t part of the plan, either). When his Google query, “how to make money online,” directed him to digital marketing courses, Chris found his calling. Soon his own sites ranked number one for “double chin,” “stained concrete,” and “acai fruit.” The rest, as they say, is history.Now, Rankings.io hits the top of industry lists year after year as an SEO agency for personal injury lawyers. The company is one of the best for a simple reason: Chris has found his niche. In Niching Up, Chris reveals the path to enduring notoriety and long-term profitability by way of a streamlined, specialized market focus. He debunks the myths associated with selecting a specific target and shares his stories of making it big by reducing his prospects. Sometimes success is about having the right mindset. Through Chris’s personal stories of lessons learned and how he’s learned them, you’ll realize that good opportunities come to those who simplify.

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  Empire of Sand - How Britain...

  Walter Reid

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  “A story of how empires rattle along until their sheer scale makes them nonsensical . . . [Reid’s] very capable prose just begs to be read” (The Scotsman).   At the end of the First World War, Britain, and to a much lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who lived there. Frontiers were devised and alien dynasties imposed on the populations as arbitrarily as in medieval times. From the outset, the project was destined to fail.   Conflicting and ambiguous promises had been made to the Arabs during the war but were not honored. Brief hopes for Arab unity were dashed, and a harsh belief in western perfidy persists to the present day. Britain was quick to see the riches promised by the black pools of oil that lay on the ground around Baghdad. When France, too, grasped their importance, bitter differences opened up and the area became the focus of a return to traditional enmity. The wartime allies came close to blows and then drifted apart, leaving a vacuum of which Hitler took advantage.   Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain’s role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nationns control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.

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  Managing Your Own Learning

  James R. Davis, Adelaide B. Davis

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  This guide for independent learning and workplace training presents seven powerful strategies for staying ahead in today’s knowledge-based economy.   These days, perpetual learning is an essential professional skill and a vital part of any business. It’s important to have effective learning strategies that work for you and your team. This practical guide offers a comprehensive approach to creating a focused philosophy of learning, choosing the best approach to planning programs and activities, and developing appropriate systems for assessing results.   The authors cover seven powerful training strategies: Behavioral, Cognitive, Inquiry, Mental Models, Group Dynamics, Virtual Reality, and Holistic. They provide a detailed description of each, including the learning theory behind it, its strengths and weaknesses, practical examples of the strategy in action, and side-by-side comparisons showing its appropriate uses. Based on well-researched theories of learning, this book is rich in examples from more than sixty-five worldwide business leaders—including Eastman Kodak, Motorola, SHARP, United Airlines, Norsk Hydro, ABB Atom, Boeing, TELEBRAS, and the U.S. Air Force.

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