Are you tired of the glass being half empty?Do you worry you don’t have the strength to cope when something bad happens? (And something bad always happens!)Stoicism changed the lives of its followers for the better and now it can do the same for you.The Stoics knew what made for a good man – and a good life. Four simple virtues empowered them to cope with the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, ill health, and even bereavement...

If you have been struggling with the big questions: Who am I? How can I find my purpose? How should I live my life? Stoicism has the answers.In Secrets of the Stoics, you will learn about three of the most influential ancient Stoics: Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca. You will discover the importance of Stoicism in their daily lives and how it helped them cope with the highs and lows of life, before facing death with resilience and acceptance.Along the way, you...

Darfur, Sudan. 2009. Two doctors employed by NGOs stumble across a strange metallic cylinder, which has been embedded for perhaps millions of years in desert rock. Mystified by the object, they gather four of the world’s leading experts in science and technology a computer scientist, a physicist, a biochemist, and a genetic researcher and head to London to study it thoroughly. The six have barely begun running tests on the cylinder, when they suddenly disappear telling family members not t...

Have you tried to meditate, but your thoughts are all over the place?Many of us want to meditate, but when you sit down to focus, what happens?Your mind wanders all over the place, you find yourself fidgeting, and what should be a source of peace and joy becomes just another irritation.The truth is we’re all capable of meditating, but if you don’t know how to find the right method for you, you’ll be facing an uphill battle. It’s all in the way you approach it.

Winner of the 2018 Audiobook Listeners Award for NonfictionOn May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York's JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten. Four hours and 34 minutes later, the flight ended in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. The subsequent rescue of survivors took nearly three hours and involved the Coast Guard, Navy, and Marines. This gripping account of that fateful day recounts what was...

"This is the kind of case the Board has never had to deal with - a head-on collision between the credibility of a flight crew versus the airworthiness of the aircraft." - NTSB Investigator-in-Charge Leslie Dean Kampschror.On April 4, 1979, a Boeing 727 with 82 passengers and a crew of seven rolled over and plummeted from an altitude of 39,000 feet to within seconds of crashing, were it not for the crew's actions to save the plane. The cause of the unexplained dive was the subject o...

When dealing with office politics and interpersonal conflict, how do you "show up"? If you are facing tricky situations, how well do you use tact, emotional intelligence, and forethought regarding impact to handle them?For exceptional leaders, finesse is the key. It is what they possess and how they accomplish objectives. Finesse enables them to influence, motivate, and hold people accountable as they create work environments where employees thrive.In The Finesse Factor...

Napoleon Hill's landmark Think and Grow Rich remains one of the biggest bestsellers of all time, with over twenty million copies in print and translated into more than thirty languages. Hill's philosophy of personal achievement, wealth, and empowerment created millionaires the world over.Are you ready to put the power of Napoleon Hill to work for you?In this new book, the Napoleon Hill Foundation's own executive director puts Hill's essential principles right at yo...

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge -- and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant -- a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose.But someone doesn't want the accountant found -- and wit...

If you're going to shoot Joe Kurtz, you'd better shoot to kill.Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so narrowing down the suspects isn't easy. But Kurtz knows who's at the head of his list: Angelina Farino Ferrara, the lethal beauty who leads the Farino crime family, and her mob rival, Toma Gon...

When a series of attacks against women on her beat are blown off by hardened detectives, Boston police sergeant Traci Ross launches her own investigation. Her instincts tell her something is different about the crimes. Her lieutenant believes otherwise.Soon, police departments in other large northeast cities are encountering an outbreak of similar attacks. After usual suppression tactics don’t work, a task force of detectives from the affected cities is formed in New York to tackle...

Revenge has never been served so cold.Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he's already marked by a local Mafia don.As if watching his back weren't enough work, Kurtz has also been hired by a gravely ill John Frears, whose daughter met a grisly fate at the hands of a murderer. Frears wants one thing before he dies: for Kurtz to find the fiend t...