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Professor Dick Hobbs is a leading commentator on the culture of crime and criminality. East End born and bred, he is a fascinating dichotomy of the criminal and the intellectual world, allowing him a unique insight into a subject that holds fascination for so many. When he was growing up, the East End was rocking with dock strikes, thievery and the kind of family values practiced by the Krays the Tibbs and a few dozen other outlaw clans. Violence was everywhere. Crime was an unavoidable fact of life.

A chapter from Zoom by Daniel Roberts and Fortune contributors. With Zoom, Fortune magazine extends one of its most successful franchises, 40 Under 40, to bring you original insight on the best-kept secrets of top entrepreneurs, business leaders, and rising tech stars.

You may want to start a home business and don’t know where to start or don’t know if you are ready. There are many steps in starting a home business, but you may not know where to begin. Answering these questions will allow you to begin the process of moving forward with your home business.

Change-Friendly Leadership: How to Transform Good Intentions into Great Performance is a simple affirmation that successful organizational change involves - requires, in fact - the active, willful participation of the people affected by the change. In the change approach prescribed here, the friendly factor is not just a play on words; it is the very foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts, and hopes.

Kent Peters meets a woman who seems ideal to him. She says she's engaged, but Kent discovers that the fellow is no good. How do you prove this to someone you just met? And what happens when the guy reacts violently to having his fiancée taken away from him? The Golden Legacy has blessed Kent with riches, but they may be of no use when trying to win over a girl who is loyal, even if her loyalty is misplaced.

After years working as one of the most prolific ghostwriters and authors in the world, Jonathan is finally ready to reveal his secrets for launching books on Amazon. Get the exact secrets that his coaching clients pay thousands of dollars for. This system works for every single niche and category - from romance novels to children's books, from parenting to cookbooks. Whether you have never written a book before or are about to launch your 100th novel, you are sure to find value in Breaking Orbit.

This book employs scientific evidence to examine why humans tend to make poor investment choices. Most investors continue to see their investment results harmed by the book’s two main themes: fear and greed. Fear and greed are human emotions that are as old as history, even prehistory. The bible also cites fear, greed, envy, and desire as destructive influences, so this has been going on for a long time.

Across a decade of her career as an entrepreneur, Danielle Tate learned how to transform good ideas into successful businesses. At age 25 she bootstrapped MissNowMrs and grew it into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. As a young female founder, she noticed that few business guides offered step-by-step advice to smart but inexperienced women. Elegant Entrepreneur draws on Tate's experience and on conversations with prominent entrepreneurs and top executives.

It gets lonely on the road for a professional woman like Chloe, who's always going on business trips far away from her husband. And it's even harder when you're a woman like Chloe who can't stop thinking about, or craving, hot sex with as many men as possible! During a business trip to Florida, she wanted to get with a whole bunch of men at once, and she was pleasuring herself in her hotel room thinking about it. Then she decided to go out and do something about it. But when one group of men filling all her holes just wasn't going to be enough to satisfy Chloe, she was on the hunt for yet ...

The 45 Things I Have Learnt About Life takes the listener on a journey of reflection and self-discovery. As the title implies, the author outlines 45 lessons learned and draws on examples from her personal life to drive the point home. There is no shortage of salient Bible verses we can rely on when faced with the storms life throws at us. The Krio (African) adages in this book will keep the listener thinking as these lessons are universally accepted among all cultures and cut across time.

Are you ready? Let's get to it!! I am not going to hold back. I am going to tell you my beliefs and insights on how you can take six, seven, or eight figures online. I'm going to tell you how I and others have achieved this online.

The Affinity Principle presents a formula for business success through a people-centric, mindful leadership approach. The Affinity Formula is simple: mindful leadership creates an incredible team performance, which leads to an awesome customer experience, and that yields great financial results. Grant asserts that when there is a strong focus on hiring, acclimating, and training team members, companies thrive. The right talent, doing their best work, makes management easy.

Microsoft: First Generation uncovers the range of surprising success secrets behind the upstart company that defined the Age of Information - and reveals, once and for all, exactly what makes Microsoft tick.

As any entrepreneur will tell you, building and scaling startups is no easy feat. That’s exactly how Jonathan felt while launching multiple startups throughout high school and as a student at UC Berkeley. There weren’t any resources available that provided specific advice on how to reach that coveted first million dollars in revenue. Jonathan found information in disparate chunks spread across the web or in college textbooks. The concept of “growth hacking” was also obscure, with no actual steps on how to try it.

Most first-time employees don’t know how to successfully navigate their first job opportunity. They get hired, hopefully get trained, and get a paycheck. Their first job becomes a line item on a résumé and nothing more. You need a plan to thrive at your first job. Master Your First Job is the remarkable path to get from your first day to your first promotion. In this book, you’ll learn how to build a personal brand at work, give and receive good feedback, get your first raise, get your first promotion, and use your first job to advance your career.

This concise, one-of-a-kind introductory guide cuts through all the nonsense and demystifies home health for the practicing physical therapist or physical therapy student. After listening to Launch into Home Health Physical Therapy, you will have all the tools you need to hit the ground running and earn a job in this growing and fulfilling setting! Written by a successful home health physical therapist and entrepreneur, this book offers an insider's perspective of the home health industry.

It's time to elevate your dreams, orchestrate life, and unleash your potential. By creating awareness around the vital aspect of life harmony, you'll understand that true growth and fulfillment require first tending to your inner state. Get ready to bloom as you embark on this joyous adventure together. It's time to nurture your dreams and well-being and find the motivation to fuel your personal growth. Stop trying to balance it all, put your life first, and prepare to experience the transformative power of orchestrating life-work harmony and unlock your full potential.

Just when you're starting to figure out this parent thing, wham, your leave is over. Take a deep breath, you'll get through it. The first few weeks and months as a working parent are hard, but they can be truly affirming, too. People want to see you succeed, they'll support you if you ask, and you'll find you have energy stores and resources you didn't know existed. You can make great strides forward in your career as a new parent. Succeeding as a First-Time Parent can help.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

Are you unsure how to hand over control, or how to take it? Passing Down Your Success reveals the family dynamics that can hamper intergenerational transition–and how to address them. Learn how to face difficult questions together as a family, analyze your business, and prepare for a successful transition.