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Light your fire: Stop searching and stressing about your exam and oral interview. Let this audiobook be your preparation guide as you start a new career as a professional firefighter.

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants.

Are you tired of "how to publish books" that are full of fluff and no real information? I was, too. I determined to jump in and learn for myself - and that's exactly what I did. I started with my first book, How to Work from Home and Make Money, and then quickly published three more. I was looking for the topic of my fifth book when it hit me - why not share what I've learned with the people who still haven't made the leap and published their own book?

The Fieldbook is an intensely pragmatic guide. It shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked. The stories here show that companies, businesses, schools, agencies, and even communities can undo their “learning issues” and achieve superior performance. If ever a work gave meaning to the phrase hands-on, this is it.

It's Monday. Time to hit the pause button on your personality and get ready for the next meeting because, for the next five days, we'll be speaking the language of business. And, from bloated jargon and monotonous memos to syrupy slogans and deadly dull presentations, the official language of business is bull. The second we get to work, we join the masses who trade the wit and warmth of their voices for a corporate stamp of approval and the comfort of conformity.

Have you always wanted to put your thoughts and feelings into the form of musical lyrics but couldn't quite make the transition? If so, then How to Write Lyrics for Beginners in 24 Hours or Less: A Detailed Guide is the book you have been waiting for. Inside you will find everything you need to walk you through the lyrics-writing process to ensure you go from novice to maestro in no time flat.

The law of attraction has a myth to be dispelled—it simply doesn’t work without the right action. However, when you get this right, your life can truly be magical! A Year of Massive Abundance provides exactly what you need to understand so you can implement the law of attraction the right way with the right action, steps, and positive affirmations that will help keep you on the right track. Anyone can gain massive transformation with this audiobook, whether you’re just starting your positive transition or have been applying the law of attraction for a while now.

No hype or jargon—become adept at asking good questions about the data and obtaining answers to add significant business value to analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). We start by exploring fundamental topics, such as how data relates to your pain points, where to find the data, the skillsets involved in data work, and the two main data methodologies. Next, we cover high-level matters regarding data, expanding the scope of data initiatives and elaborating on the bigger picture of data work. Learn how to enrich your data assets, what professionals and technologies you’ll need to ...

Doctors don't "implement medicine," they practice medicine. Lawyers don't "implement cases," they practice law. Shouldn't Lean facilitators, consultants, managers, and the like, also "practice Lean?" When most of us start with Lean, the practices and principles are new. We might struggle to make change happen. I know I did. Our initial clumsy efforts hopefully turn into proficiency and mastery over time. We shift from "doing Lean" to "being Lean" and teaching others how to be Lean.

You want to write a nonfiction book that matters. Book readers love and rave about a book they underline, dog-ear, and highlight. How do you do that, when you’ve never written a book like that before, when you aren’t sure what content to include in a nonfiction book, or how to organize it? And when you’re not sure if your idea is worth pursuing in the first place? At the heart of the answers to all these questions is a craft created by A. J. Harper, ghostwriter and editor for some of the foremost thought leaders of our time.

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters.

This is the book I wish I had when I got started in game design. And while it's loaded with tons of information on how to make games and get them published, the overall goal is transformation. Over the last 6 years, I've brought 15 games to market, and I have dozens more on the way. I've run 18 successful crowdfunding campaigns and generated over $1 million in sales.

A trio of McKinsey & Company veterans draws from a unique combination of psychology, neuroscience, and consciousness practices plus a combined 50-plus years of international board room experience to offer a unique approach to learning and leading with awareness and intentional choice, even amidst the most challenging circumstances.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your Series 6 exam. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to succeed on the test. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized chapters. There are quizzes and key takeaways sections following each chapter to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

Find out how to make small talk like a pro, deal with emergencies confidently, travel situations, and a whole lot more. You’ll find more than 1000 valuable English expressions and phrases that are used in everyday life situations by Native English speakers. Get your copy of 1001 English Expressions and Phrases to improve your English quickly and easily.

Introducing Michigan Real Estate License Exam AudioLearn: A Complete Audio Review for the Real Estate License Examination in Michigan! Developed by experienced real estate professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a valuable tool when preparing for your real estate license examination in Michigan. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you need to know to pass your examination.

In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this audiobook unpacks the ways in which the world has been - and continues to be - remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design.

The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of 35, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world", he strove to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sector - and succeeded spectacularly.

You’ll find out how to make Quickbooks a financial driver for your company, not just a bookkeeping tool. This book describes how you can avoid getting too detailed with your accounts and sub-accounts - and remember to reconcile them. You’ll find out how to easily calculate sales tax, make loan payments, and manage your payroll taxes in a flash!

This book distils the most important principles of an MBA into an accessible, informative, and easily digestible guide. It covers the curriculum taught in all the top business schools around the world, including economics, strategy, and marketing, with real-life examples to show the theory in practice.