From the New York Times best-selling author of Clinton Cash comes an explosive new political expose!
Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends
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How to Set a Table: Inspiration, Ideas, and Etiquette for Hosting Friends and Family
This hip, fabric-covered guide includes creative ways to style a table–whether for a sit-down dinner, cocktail party, brunch buffet, picnic in the park, and other fun get-togethers
Whether you live in a small apartment or sprawling suburban kitchen, How to Set a Table features stylish, modern ideas for welcoming family and friends in your home. This gift book, wrapped in a pretty, printed fabric, serves as a practical step-by-step guide to entertaining–with extra information on etiquette, place setting basics, centerpieces, mixing and matching, essential glassware, and napkin folds. With unexpected ideas for using all the great tableware you can find at flea markets, chain stores, or around the house, How to Set a Table updates a classic topic for a new generation of hosts.
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The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology
100% scientific and proven ways to make friends quickly, turn enemies into friends, gain trust, and be flat-out likable.
Some of the most interesting, shocking, and counterintuitive scientific conclusions to simply make people want to be around you.
In The Science of Likability, you’ll get all that and more. I’ve taken 27 seminal scientific and psychological studies and broken them down, so you can use their findings to your advantage. Every piece of advice in this book to increase your social standing and likability factor is 100% backed by in-depth, peer-reviewed research.
Learn how subconsciously to make yourself seem likable, trustworthy, and intelligent.
You can get a new haircut and wardrobe, and you even learn funny jokes. But likability is something more. It’s subconscious, and it’s the small signs that signal our brains to let their guards down and embrace others. Learn what common sense and intuition doesn’t teach you.
Analysis and insight from the best in the business.
From Freud, to Cialdini, to Pavlov, to Schachter, to Goleman, these studies are insightful, analytical, sometimes surprising, but most importantly, effective and actionable. Pair that with the insight and human intelligence factor of best-selling author and social skills coach Patrick King, and you have a guide that can be listened to equally for education, as for helpful, real advice.
Small and subtle actions, big results:
– Chapter 1. How to Improve People’s Moods.
Chapter 2. How to Turn Enemies into Friends.
Chapter 6. How to Gain Trust and Credibility.
Chapter 7. How to Work Well With Others.
Understand what makes people tick.
– Chapter 8. How to be More Endearing.
Chapter 10. How to Lead Anyone.
Chapter 11. How to Avoid Being Judged.
Chapter 13. How to be Funny and Charismatic.
Being likable unlocks the doors to everything you want in life.
A better career? You better believe that the people with the most promotions and highest salaries aren’t just the most qualified. Better love life? Being likable keeps you a potential date to anyone you want. Better relationships and friendships? Not only that, but you open the door to people wanting to be friends with you. Likability is the hidden force that makes people appear to be lucky in life, and receive more opportunities than they know what to do with.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
«How to Win Friends and Influence People» one of Carnegie’s most famous books. Despite the fact that the book was first published in 1936, and today it is a lively response in the hearts of readers of different nationalities. And this is not surprising. Yes, the world around us is changing at an astonishing rate, but the main thing remains the same. We all aspire to be happy and Dale Carnegie books a lot of help in this. The book “How to Win Friends …” is written as a collection of practical tips, situations and stories from real life of students, friends and family of the author, so easily finds an echo in the hearts of readers of different countries. The book teaches readers to believe in their own strength, to get rid of the different systems, master the art of communication and, ultimately, yourself put their own lives at a higher quality level.This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view and “arousing in the other person an eager want.” You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, “let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers,” and “talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. –Joan Price
How to Win Friends & Influence People (Revised)
How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic book by Dale Carnegie with a pretty self-explanatory title. I read this book recently, and was surprised to find that it epitomized a lot of the wisdom I had already picked up from a variety of other sources.
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Friends Wanting Benefits (Friends with Benefits)
When two very different couples, one who’s just getting started and one who’s apparently just getting finished, meet on a cruise, the better halves become fast friends. While Victoria Wilde is sexually adventurous and getting back on track in her quest of living life to the fullest, Jillian Grayson is reserved and struggling to hold on to a nearly 20-year marriage that’s hanging on by a thread. But when Victoria offers Jillian advice on how to get the spark back between the sheets…things don’t exactly go as planned. With a misunderstanding of international significance, all hell breaks loose in paradise. Can Victoria repair the damage that has been done? Will she truly help Jillian save her marriage? Find out in Friends Wanting Benefits―a standalone prequel to the Friends with Benefits series.
True and Constant Friends: Love and Inspiration from Our Grandmothers, Mothers, and Friends
Kelley Paul, wife of Senator Rand Paul, celebrates lifelong friendships in a beautifully illustrated book about the female bond. When Kelley Paul arrived on the Rhodes College campus in 1981, she immediately bonded with six women. Three decades of intimate friendship later, Kelley celebrates these relationships and the women who inspired them all. She tells their stories and those of their grandmothers, mothers and sisters, providing a microcosm of women raising families and building lives in 20th- and 21st-century America. The extraordinary lives of Kelley’s and her friends’ role models-from the Southern matriarch to the poor Irish immigrant-are honored in this lovely book which offers oral history along with classic poetry, art, and photography. Throughout, Kelley explores the universal themes of hardship, determination, commitment, family, independence, optimism, friendship and love-and illuminates the power of the female bond that enriches all our lives.
Inspirational Picture Quotes about Friendship: Best Friends Forever: Motivational, Cute, True, Happy and Funny Friendship Quotations (Jumpstart Life Series) (Volume 3)
Friendship Quotes: Inspirational picture quotes about friendship and friends Gabi Rupp, creator of leanjumpstart.com shares an extraordinary collection of her favorite and most insightful friendship quotes from around the world and throughout history. It is a great addition to your own personal library but will make a wonderful gift too. As one of a series of Picture Quotes books it is written for the lover of visually appealing positive quotes. Enjoy insightful, inspirational, funny and famous quotes on friends and friendship. It will bring to mind a lifetime of memories, shared experiences and push you to be a better version of you. Inspirational picture quotes about friendship and best friends is an easy read detailing the collective life wisdom of the author: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. ~C. S. Lewis Vibrant Pictures Brilliant color photos grace each page, stimulating the reader further in working on its friendships. The Inspirational Picture Quotes about Friendship is a perfect book to carry in your pocket for daily affirmations and uplifting sayings, sure to make each day a little brighter. A gift book for many occasions … long-time friend, acquaintance or office friend A great one-size-fits-all book that invites you to embark on a journey to find friendship within yourself, motivating you to listen to your heart. With their eclectic mixture of human understanding, and sometimes just plain fun, these are gifts that people want to give and love to receive. This heart-warming collection of some of the most uplifting friendship quotes from around the world is the perfect gift for many occasions: • Anniversary • Birthday • Christmas • Congratulation • Farewell & Goodbye • Friendship Day • Graduation • Holiday • Retirement • Support Looking for the right words to say? Find a quote for most any recipient and express your best wishes using this compilation of the most popular friendship quotes. Inspiring Friendship Quotes from people throughout history Filled with thoughtful quotes about friends and friendship from people throughout history, you will read the wisdom of known historical and modern figures such as: • Anaïs Nin • Emma Bunton • Aristotle • Cicero • Epicurus • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche • George Washington The paperback version comes with space for your own dedication or greetings to your gift book, so that you can create an even more personal and thoughtfully sensitive gift. Pick up your copy of Inspirational Picture Quotes about Friendship today and tell a friend how much you care! AFTER YOUR PURCHASE PLEASE LOOK UP OUR OTHER TITLES YOU MIGHT LIKE: * Inspirational Picture Quotes about Happiness * Inspirational Picture Quotes about Love
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
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But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow—and not just Elliott’s words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton’s and Elliott’s unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
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Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre’s best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.
From the Hardcover edition.