Are you wondering what the next killer app will be? Do you want to know how you can maintain and add to your value during these rapidly changing times? Are you wondering how the word love can even be used in the context of business?Instead of wondering, read this book and find out how to become a lovecat—a nice, smart person who succeeds in business and in life.How do you become a lovecat? By sharing your intangibles. By that I mean:Your knowledge: e...

Are you wondering how you can improve your relationships with your friends and family?Are you curious how to get or keep the job of your dreams?Do you want to become a more popular person?This book will show you how to do all that by raising your likeability factor—or how much other people like you.After all, life is a series of popularity contests. The choices other people make about you determine your health, wealth, and happiness. And decades of research ...

Are you just hanging in there? Have life's curveballs thrown you off balance? Do you feel as if your life is going sideways?Bestselling author, leadership coach, and former Yahoo! executive Tim Sanders knows how you feel. His father's unexpected death put him in a downward spiral for fifteen years—what he calls his "sideways years." In 1996, a photo of a dusty water tower in Texas finally got his attention. That's when he realized he needed to go home to his rock—his grandmother Bi...

Even the actions of a single person can help to change the world. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Open up this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actions have caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities. Among them:A manager who gives an employee some supportive praise, and as a result literally saves his life (page 231).A small group of bank tellers who spearhead a movement to raise millions of dollars for breast cancer, ...

When you possess a confident outlook, you perform at your highest level. When you believe in yourself, the people you rely on, and something ultimately greater than yourself, you will be able to do what you once thought was impossible.Confidence is a function of lifestyle, driven by a guiding set of principles. Listen to this audiobook and discover what Tim learned from his grandmother Billye—concepts handed down from the masters of motivation. You’ll learn how to:· Fill yo...

A comprehensive history of the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division's efforts on D-Day during World War II, plus a tour of the battlefield site at Juno Beach.By June 1944, Juno Beach was a key part of Hitler's vaunted Atlantic Wall, with no less than four major strong points along its length. German pillboxes were sited to sweep the beaches with machine gun fire and were surrounded by belts of barbed wire and mines. Leading the attack were the 3rd Canadian Division, supp...

This WWII history and battlefield guide examines the Allied push across the Rhine with maps, photos, and informative text.By late March of 1945, the advance through Europe had brought Allied forces to Hitler's doorstep. Second British Army and Ninth US Army were poised to carry out an assault crossing of the Rhine. In the British part of the operations, Field Marshal Montgomery's best assault divisions were assembled to carry out the British and Canadian part of the...

By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of the German armour having been stripped away for the Mortain Counter-Attack, hopes ran high that the Corps, reinforced with British tanks, the 51st Highland and the Polish Armoured Divisions, would repeat the success of their predecessors in ...

This WWII military history and battlefield guide examines a pivotal conflict of the Battle of Normandy—including detailed maps and illustrations.Over a month after the D-Day landings, the Allies were still confined to the Normandy peninsula. The German line was anchored by the medieval town of Caen, which the British were supposed to have occupied on D-Day. The key to capturing Caen was Hill 112, known to the Germans as Kalverienberg, or "Mount Calvary".

A comprehensive history of the Allied attack on German-occupied France during World War II, examining its planning, execution, and failure.In 1942, with the outcome of the war very much in the balance, there was a pressing need for military success on mainland Europe. Churchill ordered Admiral Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations HQ to take the war to the Germans. The Canadians were selected for the Dieppe raid, which, while a morale raiser, was a disaster. Over 3...

In Spring 1945 the outcome of the war was ritually certain but the mighty River Rhine still stood in the way of the Allies. Eisenhowers strategy was to guarantee a crossing in the Ruhr area by allocating the main effort to Montgomerys 21st Army Group. Montys task was to envelope and take out the last German war production and open the way onto the North German Plain.On the morning of 24 March 1945 the Normandy veterans of 6th British Airborne Division were to land just three to six miles i...

This WWII history and battleground guide offers a fascinating look at the vital and infamous stretch of road through the Netherlands.After the Allied victory at Normandy, Operation Market Garden was intended to cut a path to Germany through the Netherlands. Essential to the plan was a two-lane road that came to be known as Hell's Highway. This was the route that the British 3rd Guards Armored Division had to advance down rapidly to relieve the American Paratroopers ...