Andrew Carnegie, whose lifetime spanned the era from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the First World War was America's first modern titan. In this magnificent biography, celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life this period of unprecedented transition-a time of self-made millionaires, scabs, strikes, and a new kind of philanthropy-through the fascinating rags-to-riches story of one of our most iconic business legends.

The Scottish-born son of a failed weaver and a mother who supported the family by binding shoes, Andrew Carnegie is the embodiment of the American dream. In his rise from a job as a bobbin boy in a cotton factory to being the richest man in the world, he was single-minded, relentless and a major player in some of the most violent and notorious labor strikes of the time. The prototype of today's billionaire, he was a visionary in the way he earned his money and in the way he gave it away.

Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his fortune and how he tried to pull the world back from a war he predicted. Brimming with new material, personal letters, diaries, prenuptial agreements, letters to and from presidents and prime ministers, Nasaw plumbs the core of this fascinating man, fixing him in his place as one of the most compelling, elusive and multifaceted personalities of the twentieth century.

"…brilliantly illuminates Carnegies's mad gathering of riches and then giving a great fortune away. Carnegie's children are certainly Bill Gates and Warren Buffet!"
   - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

"…the authoritative volume on Andrew Carnegie that we have long awaited."
   - Ron Chernow

A Thinking Person's Guide to Popular Psychology

We would all like to know the secrets of human nature - who we are, how we think, and what we do. In a journey that spans 50 books, hundreds of ideas, and over a century in time, 50 Psychology Classics explores important contemporary writings such as Gladwell's Blink and Seligman's Authentic Happiness as well as wisdom from key figures in psychology's development.

EXPLORE the work of some of the greatest thinkers in psychology: ALFRED ADLER · ALBERT ELLIS · MILTON ERICKSON · ERIK ERIKSON · VICTOR FRANKL · ANNA FREUD · SIGMUND FREUD · HARRY HARLOW · KAREN HORNEY· WILLIAM JAMES · CARL JUNG · ALFRED KINSEY · MELANIE KLEIN · RD LAING · ABRAHAM MASLOW · STANLEY MILGRAM · IVAN PAVLOV · FRITZ PERLS · JEAN PIAGET · CARL ROGERS · BF SKINNER.

GAIN insights into the scientific research of leading contemporary psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists: Authentic Happiness · The Blank Slate · Emotional Blackmail · Feeling Good · The Female Brain · Frames of Mind · The Origins of Everyday Moods · The Paradox of Choice · Phantoms in the Brain · Stumbling on Happiness · Working with Emotional Intelligence

DISCOVER why we think and act the way we do through the landmark bestsellers of psychology: Blink · Difficult Conversations · Games People Play · The Gift of Fear · I'm OK - You're OK · Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · Lateral Thinking · The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat · Passages · People Skills · The Psychology of Self-Esteem · The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

With insightful commentaries on each classic, biographical information on the authors, plus a guide to further key titles, 50 PSYCHOLOGY CLASSICS provides a unique overview of this fascinating subject.

"Butler-Bowdon writes with infectious enthusiasm…he is a true scholar of this type of literature."
USA Today

Bestselling author and renowned marketer, Joe Vitale reveals the most powerful secret of effective persuasion the world has ever known!

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Combining the basics of marketing with cutting-edge concepts in mind control, Vitale shows how salespeople can put customers in a special mental state in which they are more suggestible and pliant. During this "buying trance" the salesperson can help frame and position the way the customer perceives the product, leading to more sales.

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JOIN MORE THAN A MILLION PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THE LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

The Leadership Challenge has become one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. Now, with the publication of the fourth edition of their landmark book and for the first time on Audio, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner celebrate twenty-five years of leadership excellence.

The Leadership Challenge-the most trusted source on becoming a better leader-has been thoroughly updated and revised for a new generation of leaders living and working in a global environment. Building on the knowledge base of the previous books, this fourth edition is grounded in research and presents extensive interviews with a diverse group of leaders at all levels in a wide variety of organizations from around the world. The authors emphasize that the fundamentals of leadership are not a fad. While the context of leadership has changed dramatically, the content of leadership has endured the test of time.

With scores of new case studies and a timeless and inspiring message, The Leadership Challenge is a "personal coach in a book", guiding listeners through the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®. When leaders understand that leadership is a relationship and they begin to engage in the Five Practices- Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart-they are better able to embark on a lifetime of success and significance.

A Step by Step Approach to Excellence!
From boardrooms to locker rooms, classrooms to living rooms, Dr. Denis Waitley is the master in building self-leadership and excellence in teams and individuals. He has counseled Apollo Astronauts, Fortune 500 executives, small business owners and entrepreneurs, Superbowl champions, Olympic athletes, members of the U.S Armed Forces, and World Leaders.

One of the most sought after speakers and productivity consultants in the world today, Waitley inspires, informs, and entertains with cutting-edge content, ageless wisdom, and original, high-impact anecdotes.

Now is the time for you to realize your potential and win big in business. It's easy if you follow his life changing step-by-step approach to professional and personal excellence:

• Riding the Wave of Change
• Strategies for Success
• Taking Your Innovation Inventory
• Becoming Your Own Trend-Spotter
• Putting Aside Prejudices
• Working With Your Ideas
• Using Your Intuition
• Discerning Opportunities in Change
• Taking Risks to Win
• Teaming Up with Talent
• Staying on the Crest

"Denis Waitley cares about you and wants you to win!"
    - Ken Blanchard, Ph.D, co-author The One-Minute Manager

There's a new breed of leaders whose great achievements seem almost predestined. These new leaders are communicators. They get ahead because they connect.

These men and women get their messages across effectively, powerfully, persuasively and memorably. They know that magnetism is just another word for confidence. And that charisma is something to be learned.

Using real-life examples of these "high impact" communicators in action, top expert Bert Decker gives you a step by step lesson in effective communication:

• Breakthrough techniques for reaching a listener's First Brain….the part of the brain which decides if a speaker is believable or not
• 4 Principles of visualization
• 6 Voice-strengthening exercises
• The function and importance of "grokking"
• Why one can't let comfort be a guide
• The vital function humor plays in the communications process
• How to make eye contact, posture, and gestures work.
• How to utilize the awesome power of video cybernetics

Build charisma, credibility and trust. The persuasive force of the New Communicators can be yours!

"The Decker Method is a must for anyone who truly wants to succeed."
    - Charles Schwab

"Bert Decker makes communicating come alive!"
    - Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., Co-Author, The One Minute Manager

From the most trusted voice on transition, the updated National Bestselling edition of the classic guide to dealing with the human side of organizational change.

The business world is a place of constant change, with stories of mergers, layoffs, bankruptcy, and restructuring appearing in the news every day. No matter the scale, when these kinds of changes hit the workplace, the literal, situational shifts are often not as difficult for employees and managers to work through as the psychological transitions that accompany them. Indeed, organizational transitions effect people; it is always people who have to embrace a new situation and carry out the corresponding change.

What You Do Away From The Bargaining Table Can Make - Or Break - Your Most Important Deals.

Stuck in a "win-win versus win-lose" mind-set, most negotiators focus on the face-to-face process at the table. In 3-D Negotiation, David Lax and James Sebenius urge bargainers to look beyond tactics at the table. Persuasive tactics are only the "first dimension" of the authors' pathbreaking approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers. Through moves in the "second dimension"-deal design-3-D Negotiators know how to unlock economic and noneconomic value by systematically envisioning and creatively structuring agreements.

But what really sets the 3-D approach apart, is its "third dimension": setup. Before showing up at a bargaining session, 3-D Negotiators "set the table" by arranging the most promising possible situation-laying the groundwork for adroit tactical interplay later. Acting away from the table, the bargainers ensure that the right parties have been approached in the right sequence, to deal with the right issues, engaging the right set of interests, at the right table, at the right time, under the right expectations, and facing the right no-deal options. This new arsenal of moves away from the table often exerts the greatest impact on the negotiated outcome.

"For the reader who seeks to understand happiness, my advice is Begin with Haidt."
   - MARTIN E. P. SELIGMAN, author of Authentic Happiness

This is a book about ten Great Ideas. Each chapter is an attempt to savor one idea that has been discovered by several of the world's civilizations-to question it in light of what we now know from scientific research, and to extract from it the lessons that still apply to our modern lives.

"Enjoyable, important, and eminently readable."
   - MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, author of Flow

"A wonderful and nuanced book that provides deep insight into some of the most important questions in life."
   - DAVID M. BUSS, author of The Evolution of Desire

"A sparkling investigation into the psychology of life and happiness."
   - DANIEL WEGNER, author of The Illusion of Conscious Will

"Every page of this book provides gems of insight about the good life and where to look for it."
   - WILLIAM DAMON, author of The Moral Child

WHY ARE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SO VERY DIFFERENT?
WHAT MAKES US LIVE, BUY, EVEN LOVE AS WE DO?
THE ANSWERS ARE IN THE CODES.

Internationally revered cultural anthropologist and marketing expert Clotaire Rapaille reveals for the first time the techniques he has used to improve profitability and practices for dozens of Fortune 100 companies. His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on the way every human being acts and lives around the world.

Rapaille's breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of Codes as we grow up within our culture. These Culture Codes invisibly shape how we behave in our personal lives, even when we are completely unaware of our motives. We can learn to crack these Codes and achieve new understanding of why we do the things we do. He has used the Culture Code to help Chrysler build the PT Cruiser-the most successful American car launch in recent memory, helped Procter & Gamble design its ad campaign for Folger's coffee, one of the longest-lasting and most successful campaigns in the annals of advertising., he's helped GE, AT&T, Boeing, Honda, Kellogg, and L'Oreal improve their bottom line at home and abroad. And now, in this fascinating audio book he uses it to reveal why Americans act distinctly like Americans and what makes us different from the world around us.

Understanding the Codes gives us unprecedented freedom over our lives. It lets us do business in dramatically new ways. And it finally explains why people around the world really are different and reveals the hidden clues to understanding us all.

The bestselling author of The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels, which has become the business bible for accelerating leaders' transitions into new roles, now zeroes in on the most critical skill that transitioning leaders must master in order to create momentum and secure early wins. That skill? Negotiation.

In Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating, Watkins draws from extensive research and practical consulting work to reveal four fundamental objectives that should guide new leaders in their negotiations with key constituencies inside and outside their organizations. This audio book provides potent guidelines for:

• Creating maximum value in negotiation with critical stakeholders
• Capturing a fair share of that value
• Building relationships
• Preserving one's reputation

Watkins also presents hands-on strategies that help any new leader become a world-class negotiator, including:

• Matching one's negotiation strategy to the situation
• Influencing key counterparts' viewpoints
• Shaping the structure of negotiations in one's favor
• Organizing to improve

This revolutionary primer on prosperity consciousness has been enriching millions since it was first published in 1910 and was in fact, the inspiration for The Secret.

The way to prosperity is no longer a mystery. You too can prosper from the "exact science" of achieving financial success as you learn to:

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Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin

The Way to Wealth, originally a preface to the 1758 edition of Franklin's beloved Poor Richard's Almanack, presents a brief fable of a local wise man, Father Abraham, quoting Poor Richard to an eager crowd. In this inspiring tale, Franklin steps out of the past and shares with you his famed maxims about wealth, knowledge, virtue and all other elements of business success.

As Michelle Singletary wrote in a column about The book, " At just 30 pages, this pocket- size book takes less than an hour to read but will give you a lifetime of financial wisdom- that is if you' re wise enough to follow the advice."

The simple way to achieve personal and business success!

Simpleo.logy is that cutting edge speed-learning psychology which governs success or failure in every endeavor. It provides the explanation for those who succeed in life…because consciously or unconsciously they have been following these 5 laws, and those who face failure have been breaking at least one of these laws on a regular basis.

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Ever notice how many people do all the right things but yet get the wrong results? The secret isn’t in what we are doing, but in what we are being. Building on the phenomenal success of his two-time #1 Amazon bestselling e-book Spiritual Marketing, Vitale combines time honored practices of spiritual self-discovery with proven marketing principles into an extraordinary how-to manual for happy living both in and out of business.

• Step One: The Springboard
• Step Two: Dare Something Worthy
• Step Three: The Missing Secret
• Step Four: Nevillize Your Goal
• Step Five: The Ultimate Secret

With quiet humor and tender encouragement, Joe Vitale shows listeners how easy it is to let themselves love, heal, prosper and grow. They will discover how to look at their life goals and those of others, in a new, positive and energizing way.

Bestselling author and marketing guru Joe Vitale offers insights and life lessons for achieving success.

In the simple, straightforward tone of an instructional manual, this audio book offers big wisdom and little-known secrets for living a better life. Packed with life lessons most listeners will wish they’d learned earlier, Life’s Missing Instruction Manual uses humor and anecdote to present practical steps listeners can use to take control of their lives, overcome any obstacle, and find fulfillment. Each simple lesson is explained and brought into focus with real-life examples and includes practical steps on putting those lessons to work every day. Full of uncommon wisdom and lighthearted humor, this book will help the listener develop confidence, create a plan for success, get ahead at work, build rapport with others, develop time-management skills, and find wealth and happiness.

• Take chances that lead to success
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• Be themselves and like it
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• Work as a team
• Create their own blueprint for success
• Believe in themselves
• Lead a good and moral life
• Accept their mistakes and move on
• Define success for themselves

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The successor to positive thinking, Optimal Thinking is the mental tool you need to achieve your ultimate life. This revolutionary, life-optimizing audio program shows you just how simple it is to sweep past the ordinary and even the extraordinary into the world of the highest and best. You will never settle for second best again!

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This unique audio-CD program contains 4 CDs (approx. 4 hours) of superlative, universal, timeless information to optimize your personal life and career. 2 CD's have been excerpted from the first 9 days of the 100-day Optimal Thinking Audio-CD Program for Permanent Results 1 CD contains Optimal Questions to optimize your personal and business success 1 CD contains Optimal Affirmations to prepare you to optimize your personal and business success