Why is it that some people consistently seem to get more done than others? The answer is that they know how to set specific, achievable goals for themselves...and then follow through on them.This revised and updated edition of Goal Setting features worksheets, quizzes, and other practical tools, giving you powerful techniques you can use to set a goal, make a plan, and acquire the resources and power necessary to achieve your objective.The book sho...

The Story of a Special Day:August 27!The special occasion gift they'll never throw away — a whole book for the price of a premium card! The story of a special day......What happened in history?...Who was born?...Who died?What happened on *your* special day?From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this ebook makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift — o...

The Story of a Special Day:January 17!The special occasion gift they'll never throw away — a whole book for the price of a premium card! The story of a special day......What happened in history?...Who was born?...Who died?What happened on *your* special day?From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this ebook makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift — ...

This book defines nine fundamental types of difficult people and gives you a complete system for opening lines of communication, resolving differences, and avoiding office headaches.Mastering the ability to handle difficult people and disruptive behaviors has always been a critical career skill. You can do something positive about difficult people in your workplace, and this invaluable resource will show you how to remake your own attitude and behavior. You, not th...

Just as Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front showed readers an alternate Europe in which Hitler had been killed, thereby radically changing the course of World War II, Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson bring us the Battle of Midway with a very different outcome.The Allies are wildly out maneuvered and sent home in disgrace. Back in the States things are looking rather grim as the ultra-secret Manhattan Project runs into snafus that greatly delay the final productio...

Shakespeare: A Playgoer's & Reader's Guide is your essential companion to all Shakespeare's extant works (as well as those known to be lost). Two of our most eminent Shakespeare scholars guide us through his sonnets, his poems, and his plays, providing the reader with detailed scene-by-scene plot synopses, cast lists, notes on the texts and sources, discussions of artistic features, and accounts of significant productions on stage and screen. Derived from the acclaimed Oxford ...

The Story of a Special Day: March 2March 2 is Texas Independence Day... the day King Kong premiered... The day Wilt Chamberlain scored his 100 point game... The day Lucky Lady II flew around the world without stopping... The birthday of Dr. Seuss, Daniel "James Bond" Craig, Desi Arnaz, and Mikhail Gorbachev... The day authors Philip K. Dick and D. H. Lawrence passed awayJust a few of the many reasons why March 2 is a very special day!...

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, r...

Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions...

In this instructive guide to time management, author Michael Dobson provides tips, techniques, and commonsense advice that will give anyone better agency over his or her time and significantly increase productivity. Real-World Time Management does this by offering readers valuable tips on how to: set priorities; stay on track; keep a closed-door policy; avoid interrupters; and reduce stress. You’ll also learn how to handle distractions, stop procrastinating, delegate tasks, deal with meeti...

Nothing is impossible if you have unlimited time, resources, and flexible objectives. Project managers never find themselves in such a situation. Our projects are impossible if they can’t be done within the constraints…but sometimes there’s a way around even the most challenging barrier.What can you do when the situation looks hopeless? In this exciting journey through history, you’ll learn how the greatest leaders and project managers of the past took on impossible challenges…and ...

The purpose of this book is to honor the scholarly legacy of Charles R. Forker with a series of essays that address the problem of literary influence in original ways and from a variety of perspectives. The emphasis throughout is on the sort of careful, exhaustive, evidence-based scholarship to which Forker dedicated his entire professional life. Although wide-ranging and various by design, the essays in this book never lose sight of three discrete yet overlapping areas of literary inquiry...