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...

Interceptors is an exhilarating ride and front-row seat into the dangerous and harrowing work of law enforcement on America's southern border.Author Matthew Thomas pulls back the curtain and takes the reader on a rarely seen, eye-witness journey.Spanning over 29 years, Matthew's law enforcement career and immersive life in the Hispanic culture is an eye-opening, honest, and unprecedented look into the ruthless activities of dangerous cartel activit...

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...

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.

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Telecom installers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much ...

Most people go their whole lives missing . . . their whole lives. John Schroeder had a normal life, complete with friends, a loving family and vivid dreams. It’s only after he realizes these dreams are the result of nightly voyages outside his own body that he sees just how much of his life he was missing. Another dreamer named Kevin welcomes John to the astral plane. It’s a place where simple thoughts can be manifested right before their eyes....

A story both poignant and fierce, we follow along with the narrator as he retells the experiences of his friend who, like all soldiers, went to the Middle East to fight for the rest of us.  Not only are the battles on the other side of the world terrible and relentless, but they have a far deeper impact on the lives of those who remain at home.

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...

Chicago is screaming. A narcotic plague has been ravaging the city for months, crawling through the population and turning the citizens into raging addicts. Both widespread and inexpensive, the drug is no longer exclusively poisoning the dregs of society, but has traveled up the social ladder to infect the sons and daughters of Chicago’s elite. Detective Preston Burroughs has been investigating the case, but with little to go on, the number of victims continues to spiral upward. More puzzl...