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Here are the secrets from Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo to getting and keeping the job you want. Do you have a good career, a mediocre career, or a great career? How do you know? And just how do you create a great career? Whether you're looking for a job or want to make the job you already have more meaningful, this audio is for you. Your job will be a great job because you are the one doing it! You'll make a great contribution rather than...
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The must-read summary of Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo's book: "Great Work Great Career: How to Create Your Ultimate Job and Make an Extraordinary Contribution".
This complete summary of the ideas from Stephen R. Covey and Jennifer Colosimo's book "Great Work Great Career" shows that now is the perfect time to be creating a great career for yourself — even if you're currently unemployed. As the economy moves from the Industrial Era into...
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An enthralling celebration of Queen, their music, and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and convention to become one of history's most beloved entertainers. Following Queen's meteoric rise, their revolutionary sound and Freddie's solo career, the film also chronicles the band's reunion, and one of the greatest performances in rock history.
5) Cómo construir la carrera de su vida: consiga un empleo excepcional y desarrolle todo su potencial
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"Consiga un empleo excepcional y desarrolle todo su potencial. ¿Tiene una buena carrera, una carrera mediocre o una carrera grandiosa? ¿Cómo lo sabe? ¿Y cómo se construye la carrera de sus sueños? Ya sea que esté buscando trabajo o bien que quiera pasar de su empleo actual a uno mucho más gratificante y trascendente, este libro es para usted."--Amazon.com.
"In one economic earthquake after another, it s hard to keep your footing. Still,...
6) The Post
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This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the...
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This book gives readers a close look at what its like to work as a chemist. Readers will come to understand STEM concepts through a career focus as they learn about how chemists use science, technology, engineering, and math every day. This book covers chemistry basics, while explaining the different tools chemists use. Readers can also explore several careers in chemistry and learn how to land one. Accessible and engaging text is paired with color...
8) Stan & Ollie
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One of the world's great comedy teams set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shine through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. The tour becomes a hit, but Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the specter of Laurel and Hardy's past.
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Publisher's description: In this long-awaited first volume of a planned trilogy, the most acclaimed and revered living Nobel laureate begins to tell us the story of his life. Like all his work, Living to Tell the Tale is a magnificent piece of writing. It spans Gabriel García Márquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. It has...
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Over the course of his life, Henri Nouwen wrote thousands of letters to friends, acquaintances, parishioners, students, and readers of his work all around the world. He corresponded in English, Dutch, German, French, and Spanish, and took great care to store and archive the letters decade after decade. He believed that a thoughtful letter written in love could truly change someone's life. Many people looked to Nouwen as a long distance spiritual advisor....
11) All about Eve
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One night, Margo Channing entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington. But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo's life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders's acid-tongued critic, as stepping-stones to stardom. The multiple-Oscar-winning film is the most deliciously entertaining film ever made about the...
12) The good liar
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Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
13) Submission
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Ted Swenson is a struggling author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college. He is discontent in his marriage to Sherrie, drinks too much, dislikes his colleagues and is uninspired by his students. That is until the charming student, Angela, shows up in class. Ted begins focusing on nurturing her career, but it's only time before lines are crossed and it becomes unclear whether Ted is predator or prey and Angela is victim or victimizer....
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"The Little Prince is revered around the world. Two hundred million copies have been sold in 270 languages; it is the fourth best-selling book of all time. Part of its allure is that is seems incredibly wise but so simple it is read as a work for children. Yet its meaning is elusive, and its place amid the writings of an adventurer and war hero acclaimed for dramatic bestsellers like Night Flight and Flight to Arras is mysterious. In this elegant,...
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Go for the goal with this text, which examines fascinating female sports heroes who've proved to the world that gender is no barrier to athletic success. Readers will delight in learning about the lives of Mia Hamm, Wilma Rudolph, and the Williams sisters, as well as other important women who've broken barriers in sports. Readers will be inspired to pursue a career in athletics after learning about how others have achieved success in spite of great...
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Mexico is mourning. The Divo de Juárez has departed but his music remains alive, throbbing in the hearts of millions of admirers of several generations. Juan Gabriel gave voice to our feelings with unforgettable songs that now are part of our identity as Mexicans. Singer, composer, producer and showman, Alberto Aguilera forged a brilliant career in which he ventured into all genres: from vernacular to pop. In his career he worked with great personalities...
17) Molly
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Molly: La verdadera historia del asombroso perro que rescata a los gatos cuenta la conmovedora historia del equipo de hombres y perros detrás de la Agencia de Detectives de Mascotas del Reino Unido: cómo Colin, que necesita una nueva oportunidad de vida, rescata a Molly, la perra. y cómo Molly, a su vez, rescata a muchas más queridas mascotas perdidas. Como veterano de la Royal Navy y oficial de policía desde hace mucho tiempo, Colin Butcher...
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Who helps Beethoven, Einstein, and Lincoln in their brain-locked hours of need? Who unleashes a steady stream of film sendups, cultural spoofs and gags? Who puts the bop in the bop-shoo-bop? Well, two out of three isn't bad, and making things even better in Season 1 are friends who are fiendish, feathered, furred, and frazzled.
19) Norte
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Esta es una historia de tres destinos separados por el tiempo y el espacio pero interconectados por la violencia, el desarraigo, la creacion y la locura; tres vidas extraviadas en el cruce de mundos y fronteras que caracteriza a nuestra epoca. En un pequeno pueblo del norte de Mexico, Jesus deja el colegio y se une a una pandilla. Para impresionar a sus nuevos companeros apunala a una prostituta, iniciando asi una carrera criminal que le llevara a...
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"With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart pits the formidable Philadelphia socialite...