You know you should negotiate. You've rehearsed what to say. And then someone offers you a number and you hear yourself say "that sounds great" before your brain catches up.That's not a confidence problem. It's a nervous system problem.The Uncomfortable Conversation: Negotiation for People Who Hate Conflict is for anyone who finds salary negotiation genuinely terrifying rather than merely uncomfortable. Whether you freeze when an offer lands, accept whatever your boss says ...

This volume in the popular Ignatius Catholic Study Bible series leads readers through a penetrating study of The First and Second Books of the Maccabees using the text itself and the Church's own guidelines for understanding the Bible.Ample notes accompany each page, providing fresh insights by renowned Scripture scholars Matthew and Leeanne Thomas as well as time-tested interpretations from the Fathers of the Church. These helpful study notes provide rich historical, cult...

Written for US workers without employer pensions.Most retirement advice was written for people with pensions. If you don't have one, the standard rules -- save a million dollars, replace 80% of your income -- were built for someone else's life.The starting point here is where most people land: a 401k they may or may not be maximizing, a Social Security estimate they've never looked at closely, and a vague sense that the math might not be working in their favor. The real cal...

Most career advice is written for people who are just starting out. It talks about working hard, building skills, and showing up. But somewhere around year five or ten, a lot of people do all of that and still stop moving. The reviews stay strong. The feedback stays vague. And the promotions go to someone else.What actually happens at mid-career is different from what most career advice accounts for, and the frustration comes from applying the right advice to the wrong problem. Wor...

This book explores the influential work of Eugene Jarvis, designer of the wildly-successful arcade games Defender, Robotron: 2084, NARC, Smash TV, and Cruis'n USA, among others.Embracing a variety of genres across decades, the video games of Eugene Jarvis offer a series of design lessons in how to craft coin-operated game machines that can survive and thrive even as the arcade was disappearing from the American landscape...

In the turbulent history of colonial New England, more than two hundred powder houses were built to store gunpowder, guns and armaments. Even the spark from a metal shoe nail could ignite their contents, so they often sat in remote sections of town. These volatile storehouses played a vital role in earning and preserving American independence. It was, after all, to a powder house in Concord, Massachusetts, that the British army marched in April 1775 to seize colonists' gunpowder. The Briti...

A nation experiencing unrest and division has captivated a First Nation Person in Australia who is a member of the Stolen Generation. Desperately feels that he needs to communicate with the government through writing and to let the people know of his views and how it has affected his views on living as a First Nations Person in a Non-Indigenous world. To attempt to sway the government in making a bold decision.

Most people go their whole lives missing . . . their whole lives.John Schroeder had a normal life, complete with friends, a lovingfamily and vivid dreams. It’s only after he realizes these dreams arethe result of nightly voyages outside his own body that he sees justhow much of his life he was missing.Another dreamer named Kevin welcomes John to the astral plane. It’s aplace where simple thoughts can be manifested right before their eyes.T...

Hannah Bradley watches her father lowered into the earth, her family at her side. She tries to find some sadness for her loss, but cannot. None of her three brothers are moved either. Something was terribly wrong with their upbringing. What follows is a heart-wrenching evolution while she struggles with their past, a tumultuous present, and a desperate future. To find herself, she must journey to Alabama in search of the roots of her father's unspoken history. What she discovers forces her...

A story both poignant and fierce, we follow along with the narrator ashe retells the experiences of his friend who, like all soldiers, wentto the Middle East to fight for the rest of us. Not only are thebattles on the other side of the world terrible and relentless, butthey have a far deeper impact on the lives of those who remain athome.

Somehow, the corporate world always seems to get the best of JimFerguson. For too long, he’s been chained to his desk, trying tosurvive the daily grind.Now, he’s finally found a way to escape. But, so close to the end, itseems that his boss won’t let him go without a fight. Well, she'llget one.

Ever worked inside an empty water tower? Of course you haven’t. But,Luke has. Luke feels small and irrelevant. He worries that he’ll endup like Rick, the man who’s been there most of his life.Sitting inside the tower, looking down at the steel chasm, Luke andRick have finally figured out a way to change everything around. Lukeand Rick have a plan. Care to know what it is? Of course you do.