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Monteagle Stearns has served as a U.S. diplomat for over thirty years, including three years as ambassador to the Ivory Coast and four years as ambassador to Greece. He is now retired. Stearns has also held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, at the Council on Foreign Relations, and at Harvard University. He is the author of Entangled Allies.
In this discerning book, Monteagle Stearns, a former career diplomat and...
2) Small Talk: A Beginner's Guide to Breaking the Ice, Talking to Strangers, and Turning Acquaintanc
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Small Talk is a beginner's guide to breaking the ice, talking to strangers, and turning acquaintances into friends. Tons of opportunities lie in the hands of people you've never met. Let's strike up a conversation with a stranger and see where the dialogue takes us! Every strong social bond started off with small talk. In This Book, You Will Learn:• The #1 intent of small talk.• How to easily break the ice with strangers.• 2 Unique frameworks...
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Small Talk is a beginner's guide to breaking the ice, talking to strangers, and turning acquaintances into friends. Tons of opportunities lie in the hands of people you've never met. Let's strike up a conversation with a stranger and see where the dialogue takes us! Every strong social bond started off with small talk.
In This Book, You Will Learn:
• The #1 intent of small talk.
• How to easily break the ice with strangers.
• 2 Unique...
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Mandala Tree Press
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[2023]
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"If you were 99 years old and on your deathbed and were given a chance to come back to today, what would you do right now? Since 2015, Yes Theory have catapulted onto the internet with their philosophy of getting out of their comfort zones and turning strangers into friends, growing into a YouTube channel with more than 8.5 million subscribers. In this rollercoaster ride of a memoir, Matt Dahlia, one of Yes Theory's four original founders, shares...
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"In our modern world, the importance of online safety can't be overstated. Designed for the youngest readers, this helpful guide will teach kids how they can stay safe online. They'll learn how they can take precautions and take responsibility as a member of the online community. Filled with relatable examples, which are paired with bright photographs, the text is both informative and reader friendly. This book is a must-have for any young people...
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Stranger danger comes with big teeth in this cautionary fairy tale. The beloved story is a howling good time-the better to keep kids' attention!
Make sure you don't stop and talk to strangers! The classic story of Little Red Riding Hood has been retold with simple, rhythmic sentences for beginning readers and wiggly toddlers. Discover Fairy Tales are familiar stories with cute illustrations, perfect for the touchscreen generation.
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Strangers and trust are two words that should never go together.
From a tender age, we learn not to talk to strangers or trust those we do not know.
You never know whether their intentions are good or bad...
A stranger may sweet-talk you, but some of them lie.
A stranger can break your heart - some can even destroy your life or lead you to destroy your own.
Trust is very important, so read on and you will understand.
Take your time, relax and...
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a food truck. Alone and missing her best friend, Paige wants to find someone special, but she has two problems: she has trouble talking to strangers and everyone she loves leaves. So she focuses on the one other thing that makes her happy-her art.After years of trying to meet his dad's expectations, Mac chooses to follow a dream. He orders a truck and hires an online designer to create graphics for his new...
9) Say It Like It Matters When It Matters: Communicating with Power, Effectiveness, and Authenticity
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YOUR SUCCESS AND HAPPINESS IN LIFE.
WILL BE PARTIALLY DETERMINED BY YOUR ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS.
In this powerful book, professional speaker Jeff Joiner covers practical, simple, life-changing strategies to help you:
Eliminate your fear of public speaking
Deliver presentations that inspire and influence others
Sell more with WAY less effort and time
Create raving fans who love what you do and tell others
Have more confidence...
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Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking on online. When Stevie's social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster caretaker, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn't sure what that term means and looks it up. Stevie, together with his younger brother and sister, have been brought up by their grandparents as their mother is in prison. But the grandparents can no longer cope with Stevie's behavior so they...
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In Never in a Hurry the poet Naomi Shihab Nye resist the American inclination to "leave toward places when we barely had time enough to get there." Instead she travels the world at an observant pace, talking to strangers and introducing readers to an endearing assemblage of eccentric neighbors, Filipina faith healers, dry-cleaning proprietors, and other quirky characters.
A Palestinian-American who lives in a Mexican-American neighborhood, Nye speaks...
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I wrote this book with patients afflicted with panic-related mental disorders, often desperate for professional help, who project the responsibility of their state onto other people, and who see professionals as subjects who often they try to take advantage of this state of theirs to keep patients connected to them by guaranteeing them permanent material benefits that turn out to be anything but ethical. The book is therefore aimed at patients and...
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Whoever said, Don't talk to strangers? Burne hid behind a tree. He wanted to talk to the handsome man picking flowers at the edge of the forest, but he'd only flub it if he tried-he'd stumble over his words and blush bright red. And now the man is gone. He tries to continue on to the village, but the same thing happens as always: his hands start shaking and panic wells up inside him. What if he runs into the bullies who tormented him in the King's...
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Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and a bit of a grump. That suits them just fine. They don't have any friends, and that's fine, because they have siblings. And if their siblings have all grown away from them to start their own lives, then that's fine, too. Really.But then Avari meets a lost alien in the Elder Grove, and that is not fine. Everyone is telling Avari that this alien is their responsibility...
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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in his essay, Chigozie Obioma gives new meaning to the true complexities of heritage, culture and identity. Powerful, lyrical and entirely unforgettable,...
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To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from 24 of its writers, a more accurate picture comes into view, and in his essay, Ike Anya examines how his perception of Nigeria, his being Nigerian and the meaning of the national anthem have changed over the...
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8 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Flirt, How to Start a Conversation, How to Talk to People, How to Ask Questions, How to Be Funny, How to Influence People, How to Attract Men and How to Attract Women!
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How to Flirt: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Flirting, Seduction and Sexual Tension Whilst Dating Today
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How to Start a Conversation: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master First Impressions,...
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When you hear the word "criminal", what comes to mind? A cold-blooded killer? A professional burglar? Perhaps someone peddling drugs? People who indulge in illegal activities everyday. But sometimes it's just regular Joes like you and me. Men and women who do honest work, staying within the limits of the law, until one day they can't take it anymore and they commit a crime. But what is it that makes them crack? Was there something devious always lurking...
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"One dark evening on New York City's Upper West Side, two strangers meet by chance. Over drinks, Amanda and Wendy realize they have much in common, especially loneliness and an intense desire for revenge against the men who destroyed their families. As they talk into the night, they come up with the perfect plan: if you kill for me, I'll kill for you. In another part of the city, Ruth is home alone when the beautiful brownstone she shares with her...
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Why does a woman go to the Middle East alone?Why would a mainstream, fairly sane woman travel on her own through the Middle East - through Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt - when she is not a journalist, not rescuing any children and not on an archaeological trek?With an interest in alternate travel and ancient history, she ignores pulped opinion and terrorist hype and goes to find the 'truth'. She sketches an itinerary, grabs her...
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