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An entertaining treasury of tips, hacks, and step-by-step techniques to smooth your way through the world.
How do you give a good wedding toast? How do you fix a clogged drain? How do you bowl without hurting anyone? Questions like these, some highly practical, others wildly funny-make up this engaging do-it-yourself guide. Including illustrations and diagrams and compiled from the Chicago Tribune how-to column "Life Skills," this book is, filled...
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¡No dejes que tu lenguaje corporal te juegue una mala pasada!
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para mejorar la comunicación con el lenguaje corporal, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Camuflar tu nerviosismo y transmitir una imagen de serenidad y confianza
• Descubrir los gestos que pueden ayudarte en una entrevista de trabajo o en una presentación para...
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A practical and visual guide to learn the essentials of marine knots! Every good sailor must know the basic knots, indispensable for his safety and life on board in general.
This handy little manual offers you the opportunity to master the essentials of knot-tying, with clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions.
The Nautical Knots Essential Guide focuses on 22 vital knots including:
• Bowline
• Figure Eight Knot
• Cleat Hitch
• Thief...
2924) Inspire
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The latest adventure from bestselling author Ben Fogle explores what we can learn from nature about living well and living wild. Writing during the unprecedented period of the coronavirus pandemic, Ben revisits some of his most meaningful encounters with nature, from idyllic childhood summers on Canadian lakes and his time spent castaway on a remote Hebridean island to close calls swimming with crocodiles in Botswana. Drawing on a wealth of personal...
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Seventy-four percent of Americans suffer from glossophobia, the fear of public speaking. In fact, even top professional speakers and accomplished actors experience butterflies before presenting. They never eliminate the butterflies; they just teach them how to fly in formation. How? Michael Gelb's techniques will help you clarify and shape your message so that your audience - no matter how big or small, in person or virtual - will care about it. Once...
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Here's a call to colleges and universities to consider implementing restorative practices on their campuses, ensuring fair treatment of students and staff, while minimizing institutional liability, protecting the campus community, and boosting morale. From an Associate Dean of Student Affairs who has put these models to work on his campus.
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Des clés pour mieux communiquer !
Lecteur, si vous lisez le livre dont vous êtes en train de parcourir la description, vous en deviendrez le récepteur. Et vous comprendrez vite que ça n'est pas un rle passif. Il ne s'agit pas simplement de tourner les pages. Mais de les comprendre pour en intégrer le contenu. Eh oui, il vous faudra lire.
Notre rle d'émetteur est de vous en donner le plaisir. Pour apprendre. Avec à chaque fin de page, l'envie...
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One man's quest to becoming a man that Hemingway would be proud to call un compadre.
Ben Franklin. Teddy Roosevelt. John Wayne. Babe Ruth. Ernest Hemingway. Looking to follow in the footsteps of these manly men, Frank Miniter decided to go to the places we all agree still make men. This quest led him across the world and finally to a secret fraternity of men who keep an ultimate rite of passage alive.
Following the route of the iconic "Papa" Hemingway...
2929) Domina el arte del storytelling: Las claves para atraer y persuadir a través de una buena historia
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Los secretos para lograr que tu historia deje huella
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para dominar el arte del storytelling, que te aportará la información esencial y te permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos podrás:
• Captar la atención de cualquier tipo de público para transmitir un mensaje que se quede en la memoria y que sea efectivo
• Aumentar la eficacia de tu comunicación para que el funcionamiento interno...
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Approximately 12 million Americans, or one in twenty-five, are sociopaths. But what does this statistic mean? What exactly is a sociopath? What do they do to be labeled as such? And how many people are affected by them? While everyday lying has become acceptable and even socially necessary, it is often difficult to discover when someone is manipulating you through lies or other actions. Since a sociopath has no conscience, he or she feels no remorse...
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Disaster can strike at any time with no warning. Most people aren't forward thinking enough to prepare for the worst, others simply don't have the skills needed to successfully prepare. That's where the Badass Prepper's Handbook comes in. Covering a wide variety of disaster scenarios with detailed instructions for what you need to do in each one, you'll be ready for anything in no time at all. You'll learn how to build shelters, how to store water...
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Being a homesteader today may seem difficult; the world is full of so many gadgets and conveniences, many of which most of us consider necessary to live a full and happy life. In this collection, edited and arranged by Jay Cassell, you’ll see that going off the grid, adapting to your surroundings, and depending on yourself and your land is really not as challenging as one may think. With the information and tips you learn in this book, you’ll...
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The must-read summary of Christopher Witt's book: "Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint: How to Sell Yourself and Your Ideas".
This complete summary of the ideas from Christopher Witt's book "Real Leaders Don't Do PowerPoint" shows that when leaders speak, they're not generally trying to dazzle their audience with their mastery of presentation technology. In reality, leaders speak to make a difference, to promote their vision and to change the way people...
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Grandparents often find themselves in awkward positions when it comes to having conversations with their family. Once children become "little people," they develop likes and dislikes and discover their own interests, all of which may often be at odds with the grandparent's. Even the most innocent attempt at chatting can produce such conversation-stoppers as "I dunno," "whatever!" or "who cares!" Similarly, when a grandparent tries to initiate a talk...
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Are you and your family self-reliant? Will you be able to provide for them and keep them safe? The best way to prepare for the future is not through fancy tools and gadgets-it's experience and knowledge that will best equip you to handle the unexpected. However, it doesn't matter how prepared you are for disaster, if you run out of food you will soon run out of time.
Everyone begins somewhere, especially with learning how to stock your pantry for...
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Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act; repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell; and passing marriage equality acts in eight states. How did Solmonese and HRC do it? What Solmonese...
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A foolproof guide both to lying and to detecting deception, The CIA Guide to Lying and Lie Detection will teach you how the pros can tell if and when somebody is lying.
People lie all the time. Studies show that the average American lies between six and twenty times a day. Most lies are of the "little white" variety or are meant to spare a person's feelings. But what about the big lies? What about the consequential ones? You have a right to know...
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Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working...
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Become a pro at living and thriving off the land.
Survival Skills of the Native Americans is a fascinating, practical guide to the techniques that have made the indigenous people of North America revered for their mastery of the wilderness. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes, constructing tools, and living off the land.
Learn key skills like:
Building a strong campfire
Learning to hunt and butcher your...
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