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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Personal Finance in Your 40's & 50's
by Susan Shelly Sarah FisherDeveloping and maintaining personal finance doesn&’t end by middle age! With The Complete Idiot&’s Guide® to Personal Finance in Your 40s & 50s learn: • Quick and easy ways to learn with the information exists• Idiot-proof steps to understanding how the information affects you• Comprehensive coverage of the consequences of the information
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Persuasion: Win People Over with Effective Communications Skills
by Steve Booth-ButterfieldGet your way . . . the smart way. Persuasion is the art of changing the way people think, feel, and act through the use of language. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Persuasion provides strategies for the readers to master the art of persuasion in a positive manner. By using time-honored tools of communication, body language, and psychology, readers can use persuasion to do good things like convince kids to eat their veggies, women to get annual mammograms, and couples to communicate without arguing.• A practical book based on sound academics to help communications and psychology majors as well as businesspeople, salespeople, performers, teachers, and parents• Tips and tactics for writers and public speakers
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Power Words: The Right Words for Successful Negotiation and Persuasion
by Scott SnairAt a loss for words The gift of understanding power words and phrases will allow readers to set themselves apart, be more assertive, and impress and inspire others. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Power Words also discusses how to develop and encourage clear-headed attention between parties, proactive listening techniques, genuine interest, and open-mindedness. Engaging in the craft of utilizing power words and phrases makes readers more important-and more influential.• Word power books continue to be popular• Provides practical, step–by–step advice for learning the words and phrases that will make all the difference when arguing a point
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychic Intuition, 3rd Edition: Tap into Your Natural Psychic Abilities to Achieve Your Life Goals
by LaVonne Carlson-Finnerty Lynn RobinsonEveryone is pyschic. And that includes you!We all have an inner voice that tells us important things we have no other way of knowing. A select few have learned how to tune in to that voice. You can use your natural intuition and its wisdom to avoid disaster, heal bodies and minds, and make contact with other minds and spirits. Lynn A. Robinson, M.Ed., will give you the exercises needed to hone your inner voice.The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Psychic Intuition, Third Edition uses a hands-on approach to psychic development for beginners, taking you from a basic introduction of various psychic abilities to using your own psychic powers to solve your own problems. Also learn how to perform psychic readings for others. Topics covered include: • Discovering what psychic intuition is and what a psychic can tell someone about themselves. • Assessing your current psychic abilities. • Trusting your instincts and developing psychic awareness. • Learning about the mind-body connection and how to use psychic power to heal yourself and others. • Hypnosis, visions, dreams, and telepathy: exploring what can be learned from altered states of consciousness. • Knowing things before they happen. • Recalling past-life experiences. • Seeing, hearing, feeling, and knowing messages that others do not perceive. • Learning how use the tools of the psychic trade and how to give a psychic reading. Get the things you really want in life by combining all you have learned about intuition!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reading Body Language: Everything You Need to Understand What People Aren’t Saying
by Susan ConstantineUsing both photos and line art, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Reading Body Language reveals and explains the visual tells to be found in faces, eyes, and lips; the positions of hands, arms, and legs; stances; gestures; the uses of everyday objects; and more. Additionally, strategies to elicit body language are detailed as well.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Defense
by Chris HarrisThis book guides the reader to adopt various self-defense techniques for different challenging unsafe situations.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Live a Simpler, Less Dependent Lifestyle—Without Feeling Deprived
by Jerome D. BelangerHow to be green, save green, grow greens-even turn a thumb green Self-sufficient living can mean a healthier life, a way to protect the earth, or a way to save money. This guide helps readers find their perfect degree of self reliance in the areas of food, shelter, energy, clothing, and more. For both the urban and rural dweller, it covers gardening, cooking from scratch, preserving food, raising livestock, keeping chickens, generating or supplementing energy, essential tools and equipment, foraging for wild foods, hunting, fishing, and trapping. • Saving money in today's economy and self-sufficiency go hand-in-hand • For the growing number of eco-friends considering self-sufficiency • Existing books focus on either rural or urban self-sufficiency, but this covers both
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Self-Testing Your Personality
by Arlene UhlIt really is all about you! Everyone loves taking personality tests. Presented in an easy-to-read format, this collection of entertaining and insightful self-scoring quizzes lets readers explore different aspects of their personalities with tests, such as &“Am I a Risktaker?&”; &“Am I in the Right Career?&”; &“My Flirtation IQ&”; and &“Am I a Spender or a Saver?&” • Personality tests are hot—a Google search for &“online personality tests&” produces over 3,150,000 hits • Personality tests are a staple in magazines, such as Cosmo, Glamour, and Men&’s Health as well as online sites.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Solar Power for Your Home, 3rd Edition
by Dan Ramsey David HughesAll the power you need is already there This third edition helps readers understand the basics of solar (photovoltaic) power and explore whether it makes sense for them, what their options are, and what's involved with installing various on– and off–grid systems. • Solar power is a $3 billion industry, and it's poised to grow to $39 billion by 2014 • By 2011, the United States will surpass Germany as the largest market for solar power products
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Stretching Your Dollar: Creative Ways to Live Well and Still Save Money
by Shannon M. MediskyAn online expert and home economist gathers hundreds of practical and surprising tips Everyone is being squeezed these days by the faltering economy, but nobody wants to give up the things that add to quality of life. Much more than just common sense warmed over, this handy guide will take them through the doldrums of the current economy, helping them budget and set priorities, while still enjoying their lives. • Hundreds of tips on stretching the dollar—without the no–brainers like "clip coupons" • The few businesses thriving during the downturn are bargain and budget oriented • Does not require a lifestyle makeover
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Study Skills: Boost Your GPA with Time- and Brain-Saving Strategies
by Randall S. HansenStudy smarter, not harder! Every high school and college student would love to know how to get the highest grades with the least amount of effort. This book gives students a guiding philosophy for every class, every time, laying the foundation for lifelong learning. With the wisdom gained from these tips, success stories from other students, and mini-assessments, they&’ll be empowered to succeed in class preparation, reading comprehension, exam-taking, and more. • No one method fits every student, so included are many tried-and-true methods. • Useful for every subject, from foreign languages to mathematics, from high school through college and beyond.• Helps students find their particular learning styles.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Success as a Professional Speaker
by Thomas A. LiskGet the gift of gab. In this guide, readers will find indispensable information on how to pursue public speaking as a full- or part-time career. Written by a 30-year veteran public speaker and bureau chief, this book shares details, advice, and insider tips on how to prosper in this highly competitive and lucrative field. Expert author in a rapidly growing field Contains inside tips on every aspect of speaking professionally Clear and practical information about how to set up a professional speaker's business and promote it Suggestions for extra goods and services for additional revenue Features event planning and organizing strategies and instructive anecdotes from the field
The Complete Idiot's Guide to T'ai Chi & QiGong Illustrated, Fourth Edition
by Bill Douglas Angela Wong DouglasHeal yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually with the ultimate guide to T'ai Chi and QiGong for beginners!T'ai Chi — a martial art used for health, meditation, and self-defense — and QiGong — a large variety of physical and mental training methods based on Chinese philosophy — are widely recognized to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. T'ai Chi has demonstrated its health benefits by being linked with everything from slowing the aging process and increasing balance and flexibility to lowering stress levels and enhancing the body's natural healing powers. In this fourth edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to T'ai Chi & QiGong, the authors have streamlined the book, giving it a clearer how-to focus. Nearly 150 video clips complement the 300 helpful illustrations in the book by demonstrating a complete T'ai Chi exercise — all exclusively available to readers on the authors' website.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Toltec Wisdom
by Sheri A. RosenthalOpen the mind to new possibilities.Born out of the ancient Toltec society in the central valley of Mexico, this advanced philosophy incorporates the knowledge of science, art, and the spirit to form a perfect model of transcendence. Toltecs believed humans live in a world of dreams that can lead to self-love and respect—the keys to personal freedom. With this guide, readers can explore the knowledge of the Toltecs, taking charge of their lives and becoming fully aware for the first time. • Foreword from don Miguel Ruiz, the master of Toltec wisdom and author of The Four Agreements. • Filled with practical tools that readers can employ immediately. • This is the perfect introduction to the subject. • Rosenthal is a Toltec Mentor trained by Ruiz himself.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Working Less, Earning More
by Jeff CohenA down-to-earth resource for a more-for-me life. Through practical information from an author who works about three days a week, The Complete Idiot&’s Guide® to Working Less, Earning More will help readers get more time and more money by learning how to: • Think about the modern-day work ethic in a new way. • Set income-focused goals—and achieve them. • Build—and maintain—powerful relationships and networks. • Round out skill sets to be more marketable. • Maximize technology to minimize time spent on minutia. • Avoid time-wasters and efficiency traps.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel, 2nd Edition: Make Your Dream of Writing a Novel Come True
by Tom MonteleoneA completely updated guide for first-time novelists Completely revised to include new interviews with best-selling authors; more detailed information on writing genre fiction from paranormal romance to cozy mysteries; and everything a writer needs to know about self-publishing and ebooks to get started. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Writing a Novel, Second Edition, is an indispensable reference on how to write and publish a first novel. • Expert author with over thirty published novels • Includes interviews with new best-selling novelists • Features new material on writing genre fiction and self-publishing
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Akashic Record: Tap into the Timeless Wisdom of the Universe
by Colin Andrews Dr. Synthia AndrewsThe universal consciousness is an open book to those willing to explore it The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Akashic leads readers on a journey into their personal past, present, and future, learning the fundamentals of the Akasha-a Hindu word variously translated as sky or space-and howto use the Record to explore their hidden past, heal old wounds, live an authentic life in the present and affect the future. • Explores cutting edge aspects of Body/Mind/Spirit-universal consciousness, synchronicity, energy fields, and more • How to decode the Akashic Record through meditation, visualization, and lucid dreaming techniques that anyone can learn
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Resume, 5th Edition: Give Your Resume a Professional Makeover—and Stand Out from the Pack
by Susan IrelandResumé: revamped for the times, technology, and the recession . . . The recession has made finding a job harder than ever. Everything now takes place online, and a resumé's preparation is different than even a few years ago. This new edition has changed with the times, focusing on what's most important in an electronic resumé. Full of successful resumé samples and cover letters, the book also focuses on the key words and phrases that will bring readers' resumés to the top of the HR pile. • More than 100 samples of real-life resumés and cover letters, many of them new • Founded in real-life experience without the rigid resume-writing rules of other guides • Ideal for all job seekers, from new grads to the laid off worker, new mothers to senior citizens
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Power of the Enneagram
by Karen K. Brees Herb PearceEmpower yourself through through self discovery - uncover your personality type, become your best self, and learn about other personality types to improve your relationshipsIn this &‘personality guide&’, Author Laura Miltenberger covers the nine enneagram personality types. Each archetype is distinct and influences a person&’s traits, how they work, reach goals, and relate to others. Let the pages of this enneagram workbook take you on a journey of self-discovery. The book will help you: • Identify your enneagram type • Learn about the defining characteristics of each type • Find out how your personality traits can influence your daily habits and interactions • Discover how to embrace the strengths of your type and overcome your weaknesses • Improve your relationships by deepening your understanding of others Discover your personalityUnlock your potential and become your best self with this personality psychology book. This book offers a deeper understanding of the complexity of your personality. By working through the personality book, you&’ll discover your strengths and weaknesses and quickly identify ways to reach your highest potential. Enneagram archetypes are determined by a personality assessment and then each type is analyzed by their strengths and weaknesses. Through illustrations and simple explanations, the author offers guidance on how to use this knowledge for self-awareness and personal growth. This book will keep you engaged and ready to implement what you&’ve learned in no time!
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Psychology of Happiness
by Arlene UhlLearn the secrets of happiness. You&’re no idiot, of course. You know how difficult to see the bright side of things when life seems to be a rut, much less in the face of adversity. But when you nurture a positive attitude, you also nurture your ability to find happiness in the moment—even if it doesn&’t live up to your perfect expectations. The Complete Idiot&’s Guide® to the Psychology of Happiness offers insights into human nature and techniques that will help you regain the sense of joy. In this Complete Idiot&’s Guide®, you get:• The power of optimism and humor to enhance your outlook. • The blissful benefits of engaging in playful behavior and artistic expression.• The importance of nurturing positive relationships among friends and family.• The power of exercise and meditation to simulate joyful chemical reactions within the body.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Right Words for Any Occasion
by Marylou Ambrose Veronica DeislerYour thoughts are worth more than a penny. You&’re no idiot, of course. You know words possess tremendous power. But expressing your feelings during special events or difficult situation requires more than a clichéd greeting-card sentiments. The Complete Idiot&’s Guide® to the Right Words for Any Occasion shows you exactly how to spell it out—in your own words. In this Complete Idiot&’s Guide®, you get: • Over 250 sample notes for the moments that touch people&’s lives, from wedding and anniversaries to birthdays and graduations. • Inspiration quotes to help you add just the right sentiment when you can&’t find your own words. • Guidance on what to say—and what not to say—during hard times. • Great ways to share your special message with people of all ages and faiths.
The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Creating Your Own Wordpress.Com Blog
by Clinton BonnerLearn how to create your own Wordpress.com blog with this helpful guide! The Complete Idiot&’s Mini Guide to Creating Your Own Wordpress.com Blog gives user-friendly, step-by-step directions for building a successful blog. Topics covered include how to coding a blog theme, publishing posts, as well as installing additional beneficial applications.
The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Project Goals for Project Managers
by G. Michael CampbellTo make any project successful, you need a plan--and a goal!Even a good idea can be a bad one if its goals and scope are not clearly defined before you start. But help is on the way! In The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Project Goals for Project Managers you will learn how to set strong and clear goals and execute them to perfection! In this guide you you learn:*Why specific goals are important to project success.*The six criteria of all good project goals.*The steps for establishing project goals.*How to choose a project scope that matches the project goals.*How to create a statement of work (SOW) that establishes clear expectations among all project stakeholders.
The Complete Idiot's Mini Guide to Robert's Rules Scripts for Meetings
by Nancy SylvesterThe whens, hows and whys of keeping order.Robert's Rules have long been the ultimate guide for running meetings and outlining procedures. The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Robert's Rules Scripts for Meetings, teaches readers everything from the ladder of motions to how to use Robert's Rules for any size or type of meeting or political caucus.This book includes sample minutes, a sample agenda, and scripts for every type of meeting situations.
The Complete Job-Search Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Get the Job You Really Want
by Howard FiglerNow in its third edition, Howard Figler's classic The Complete Job-Search Handbook puts you in the driver's seat, on the road to where the jobs really are. Figler's unique program has been revised and updated to let you not only decide what your ideal job may be, but also discover exactly where that job is. The program has been expanded to describe thirty lifetime job-hunting skills, as well as Twenty Lessons from the Front, a list of potential pitfalls for job seekers to be aware of. This third edition enables you to:- Determine what your true work and life values are- Pinpoint the job skills you already possess, even those you aren't aware of- Find jobs when there seem to be none- Learn how to be at your best in job interviews- Utilize a professional career counselor's advice to troubleshoot potential problemsFigler writes for all stages of career development, with action plans for the first-time job seeker, the professional looking for a change, the suddenly laid-off, and the person returning to the workforce after a long absence. Howard Figler knows the right job is out there, and with clarity, humor, and reassuring good sense, he shows you how to find it.