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  Mind your business - Advice from...

  Theo Vorster

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  Mind your Business is a compilation of the success stories of prominent South African businesspeople, from entrepreneurs to chief executives of multinational business giants.
  
  
  This book is the outgrowth of South African channel kykNet's popular TV series Sakegesprek met Theo Vorster. After many inquiries from viewers, Theo decided to summarise his 38 interviews from the show in book form and to share these informative and inspiring conversations with readers. Each chapter tells the story of a business leader's personal journey to success, including the setbacks and obstacles that had to be overcome. Theo explains key principles and offers some of his own observations about his interaction with the business people. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in the success stories of business leaders and would like to apply some of the key principles in their own enterprises or careers.

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  21 Things You Forgot About Being...

  Rick Stevenson

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  Did anyone ever say to you, "Enjoy high school... those are the best years of your life!"? Remember the feeling of panic that came over you as you thought, "You're kidding. This is it?" 
  Chances are, though, you are saying the same kinds of things to your own kids. When did you drink the Kool-Aid? 
  Remembering the truth of what it's like to be a kid is vital because most of us are stuck in some phase of arrested development, thanks to something traumatic that happened do us during our youth. Do you know what that trauma was, and how it has affected who you are today? Understanding where you got stuck can free you to be the parent and adult you were meant to be. 
  Philosopher and filmmaker Dr. Rick Stevenson has conducted over 5500 in-depth, personal interviews with kids from six continents over the past two decades.

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  Benefits and Pitfalls of...

  PBS NewsHour

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  Two years ago, the U.S imported two-thirds of its oil. Now, imports are less than half of U.S. oil needs. Jeffrey Brown talks to National Resources Defense Council's Kate Sinding and the Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce about increased domestic energy production and whether economic benefits outweigh environmental concerns.

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  A Woman's Worth

  Tracy Price-Thompson

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  Tracy Price-Thompson is the author of the best-selling  Chocolate Sangria, which was chosen as a  Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club.  Gripping and soulful, A Woman’s Worth is a tale of cultural  divisions, emotional wounds, and a love that struggles  to transcend them. In Kenya, when a young American  man falls in love with the sophisticated daughter of an  African chief, their marriage is strong. But tradition will soon put their union to  the supreme test.

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  The Black Calhouns - From Civil...

  Gail Lumet Buckley

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  “A history cum memoir by Lena Horne’s daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how politics and prejudice can shape a family.” —The New Yorker   In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family from Civil War to Civil Rights.   Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, Buckley follows her family’s two branches: one that stayed in the South, and the other that settled in Brooklyn. Through the lens of her relatives’ momentous lives, Buckley examines major events throughout American history. From Atlanta during Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, to New York City during the Harlem Renaissance, and then from World War II to the Civil Rights Movement, this ambitious, brilliant family witnessed and participated in the most crucial events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining personal and national history, The Black Calhouns is a unique and vibrant portrait of six generations during dynamic times of struggle and triumph.   “The challenge of reviewing extraordinary books is that they leave one grasping for words . . . The book’s ultimate magic derives from the way the history of black America can be viewed through their story.” —The Boston Globe

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  The Unexpected President - The...

  Scott S. Greenberger

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  Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority of his fellow citizens but by his own conscience. As President James A. Garfield struggled for his life, Arthur knew better than his detractors that he failed to meet the high standard a president must uphold. 
  And yet, from the moment President Arthur took office, he proved to be not just honest but brave, going up against the very forces that had controlled him for decades. He surprised everyone—and gained many enemies—when he swept house and took on corruption, civil rights for blacks, and issues of land for Native Americans. 
  A mysterious young woman deserves much of the credit for Arthur's remarkable transformation. Julia Sand, a bedridden New Yorker, wrote Arthur nearly two dozen letters urging him to put country over party, to find "the spark of true nobility" that lay within him. At a time when women were barred from political life, Sand's letters inspired Arthur to transcend his checkered past—and changed the course of American history.

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