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In the last 25 years, I have taken over many failing businesses, and each time I took it as a challenge to see if I could improve that business. I am happy to report that my success rate is around 85 percent. I take a time tested step-by-step marketing approach and make sure every step is followed and completed - some of which I have shared through my blog and podcast, but I have decided to summarize them all in this book, so they are easy to find under one roof, so to speak.

Night photography and astrophotography can be two of the most frustrating subgenres of landscape. They're very technical, math based, and have a lot of steps. While this can put a lot of people off, I'm here to break it down for you. Planning is absolutely key, and I'll walk you through every step you need to make your shoot successful.

Do you want to learn to turn food scraps into valuable compost? Do you believe in taking responsibility for the waste we create? People all over the world are turning their food scraps into nutrient-rich worm compost through starting their own worm bin. This book contains everything you need to get started worm composting in one easy-to-listen-to book. Topics include what type of worms to buy, how to construct a bin, maintaining the right environment, and how to foster a thriving worm herd.

In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to withdraw your hand, protecting you from injury. That kind of pain, Cervero explains, is actually good for us; it acts as an alarm that warns us of danger and keeps us away from harm. But nt all pain is good for you. There is another kind of pain that is more like a curse: chronic pain that is not related to injury. This is the kind of pain that fills pain clinics and makes life miserable.

It's time for you to learn the most advanced skills for becoming a life coach in a basic fundamental way. Having the power to help someone overcome any challenge is very rewarding, and it makes you look at the world in a completely different way. Becoming a life coach puts you in a position of massive opportunities. I have put together a book that goes over everything you need to know to become a life coach and lifestyle strategist.

By now, everyone knows that bad data extorts an enormous toll, adding huge (though often hidden) costs and making it more difficult to make good decisions and leverage advanced analyses. While the problems are pervasive and insidious, they are also solvable! As Tom Redman "the Data Doc" explains in Getting in Front on Data, the secret lies in getting the right people in the right roles to "get in front" of the management and social issues that lead to bad data in the first place.

The practice of Reiki to heal yourself and restore your well-being may be the biggest secret Western conventional health care is keeping from you. With The Reiki Beginner’s Bible, you will embark on an inner journey that will take you back to the state of peace, joy, and happiness you were born to inhabit.

My name is Julie Hoffman. I am a 44-year-old mother of two. I was an A/R supervisor for an oil company for 21 long years until the day they outsourced my job, and I suddenly found myself unemployed. I was devastated, heartbroken and felt betrayed all at the same time. I had $18,632 in my company retirement account, and they paid me two weeks of salary as a severance payment.

Showdown Trail was first published in Giant Western magazine in winter 1948 under Louis L'Amour's Jim Mayo pseudonym. Years later, when L'Amour was first starting out as a paperback novelist, it was rewritten as The Tall Stranger. One of the earliest L'Amour westerns to be adapted for the movies, the film version starred Joel McCrea, Virginia Mayo, and Michael Ansara.

Blockchain technology presents an alternative to corrupt and centralized institutions, as well as costly and inefficient middlemen. Whether you’re looking to use it to improve your business, invest in cryptocurrencies, or just learn for curiosity’s sake, this book will help answer your questions and show you why there is so much buzz about blockchain.

Impress people with the smart dog tricks your dog can do! Want your dog to balance items on his or her nose? Play dead? Sit pretty? With this dog training book, your dog will become an expert through clicker training. These dog tricks challenge your pooch through dog training to become smarter, become more obedient and bond with you! Want to use impressive dog tricks to connect with your pooch and wow your friends? Buy this dog training book today and start improving your dog's IQ right away!

Catalyze collaboration, drive innovation, transform your organization - with Boundary Spanning Leadership, you can put it all together! We live in a world of vast collaborative potential. Yet all too often, powerful boundaries create barriers that can splinter groups. And this can lead to uninspiring results. To transform borders into frontiers in today's global, multistakeholder organizations, you need Boundary Spanning Leadership.

The biggest challenge in process improvement and cultural transformation isn't identifying the problems. It's execution: implementing and sustaining the solutions. Blue-Collar Kaizen is a resource for anyone in any position who is, or will be, leading a team through process improvement and change. This book will help you take the lead in creating a meaningful, and sustainable kaizen culture one kaizen team at a time. Learn to engage, empower, and encourage your team for long term buy-in and sustained gains.

This book is truly a summary of a few episodes of my podcast show. You may ask why would I publish it as a book, well after writing the first book How to Start, Run and Grow a Gas Station Business Successfully and starting my podcast, I have realized some people want fast and quick answers to six very common questions, they don't want to listen to a book that includes everything under the sun about the gas station business.

Know what's causing application development waste so you can turn the tide. This is the audiobook your systems integrator and your application software vendor don't want you to hear. Enterprise IT (information technology) is a $3.8 trillion-per-year industry worldwide. Most of it is waste. However, the waste is hard to see, after being so marbled through all the products, processes, and guiding principles. That is what this audiobook is about. We must see, understand, and agree about the problem before we can take coordinated action to address it.

Integrating Hadoop leverages the discipline of data integration and applies it to the Hadoop open-source software framework for storing data on clusters of commodity hardware. It is packed with the need-to-know for managers, architects, designers, and developers responsible for populating Hadoop in the enterprise, allowing you to harness big data.

Why do some people want to erase themselves completely from the Internet? I used to wonder about the same till I found the reason and had to do it myself. I am sure if you are considering this book, you too have a reason, but going through this process, I have learned a few valuable lessons. This book is all about those lessons, so you don't have to learn on the go as I had to. Instead, you can use this book as a guide and just follow the step by step process and see yourself disappear from the big World Wide Web.

How would you like to grow your own organic fruits, herbs, and vegetables? With hydroponics, you can! Hydroponics is the art of growing fruits and vegetables without soil. If you are into homesteading, hydroponics is the way to go. If you apply what you learn in Hydroponics 101, your life will never be the same!

Pablo Escobar was a mama’s boy who cherished his family and sang in the shower, yet he bombed a passenger plane and formed a death squad that used genital electrocution. Most Escobar biographies only provide a few pieces of the puzzle, but this action-packed audiobook reveals everything about the king of cocaine.

Have you always been enamored with fashion photography? Well, did you know there's much more to it than just putting a model in some clothes? If you did, you've probably felt daunted about trying to pull off your own shoot. Don't worry...this book will introduce you to the world of fashion photography and make it much easier for you to do a shoot successfully.