Free Book - 7 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful Peopl (K)

7 Bad Habits of Unsuccessful Peopl, by Sydney Finkelstein, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
Talented leaders can be brought low by their own success. Self-confidence slides into over-confidence. Good press leads to prideful thinking. Obstinacy, fanaticism, and feelings of invincibility push a competent leader into a hubristic fog. In this brief eBook, Sydney Finkelstein, a Dartmouth professor who has studied bad decisions and business failures for more than 15 years, tells how to avoid the seven bad habits of unsuccessful people.

Free Book - Wired to Care (K/N)

Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, by Dev Patnaik, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble (careful ordering from your device, as there is also a full price edition).

Book Description
In this essential and illuminating book, top business strategist Dev Patnaik tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other people. When people inside a company develop a shared sense of what’s going on in the world, they see new opportunities faster than their competitors. They have the courage to take a risk on something new. And they have the gut-level certitude to stick with an idea that doesn’t take off right away. People are "Wired to Care," and many of the world’s best organizations are, too.

In pursuit of this idea, Patnaik takes readers inside big companies like IBM, Target, and Intel to see widespread empathy in action. But he also goes to farmers' markets and a conference on world religions. He dives deep into the catacombs of the human brain to find the biological sources of empathy. And he spends time on both sides of the political aisle, with James Carville, the Ragin’ Cajun, and John McCain, a national hero, to show how empathy can give you the acuity to cut through a morass of contradictory information.

Wired to Care is a compelling tale of the power that people have to see the world through each other’s eyes, told with passion for the possibilities that lie ahead if leaders learn to stop worrying about their own problems and start caring about the world around them. As Patnaik notes, in addition to its considerable economic benefits, increasing empathy for the people you serve can have a personal impact, as well: It just might help you to have a better day at work.

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Free Book - Absolutely Organize Your Family (K/N/E)

Absolutely Organize Your Family: Simple Solutions to Control Clutter, Schedules & Spaces, by Debbie Lillard, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and Sony.

Book Description
Struggle Less and Savor More

Managing a family is no easy task. There are school projects to supervise, a constant deluge of laundry and toys to deal with, and after-school activities to drive to every night. It makes you wish you had an instruction manual to help you keep it all together—well, now you do!

Absolutely Organize Your Family is full of practical and effective solutions for all of your family’s organizational challenges. Debbie Lillard, professional organizer, mother of three and author of the popular book Absolutely Organized, offers all new “Absolutes of Organizing Your Family” tips to help you gain and maintain order in three key areas of your family life: Schedules, belongings and spaces. Inside you’ll find:

• Solutions for overcrowded and out-of-control schedules
• Advice on establishing morning, evening, and bedtime routines
• Strategies for organizing toys, collections, artwork, photographs, and more
• Ways to keep closets and dressers in order even in the midst of growth spurts
• Help for your child’s schoolbag, desk, and locker
• Methods of keeping bedrooms organized
• Ideas for creating a homework area to improve study habits.

Spend less time struggling to keep up and more time savoring everyday moments with your family. Start your family’s organizational makeover today.

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Free Book - Unfriend Yourself (K/N/E)

Update: 1/3/12 Now free from Barnes & Noble and Sony.

Unfriend Yourself, by Kyle Tennant, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Moody.

Book Description
We are all connected. To each other, to our devices, to our networks, to everything... The world of social media has turned the rest of our worlds upside down.

Can you disconnect for three days to assess the situation in your own life' This short book is split into three sections to help you DETOX, DISCERN, and DECIDE what role Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and all the rest can and should have in your life. Unfriend Yourself will help you think critically, biblically, and practically from a Christian perspective about the merits and ramifications of our social media culture.

Don't worry, the world can wait; your friends won't even know you're gone-seriously, there are over half a billion of them out there. I doubt you'll be missed.

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Free Book - What's Next . . . For You? (K)

What's Next . . . For You?, by Patricia and Robert Gussin, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Oceanview Publishing.

Book Description
The incredible story of Robert and Patricia Gussin, two retirees who watched with glee as long, successful careers in science and medicine gave way to writing, publishing, and wine-making.

Much more than a memoir and anything but a how-to-start-a-business manual, this book is a clear, easy-to-understand guide to reinventing yourself from real experts-two people who did it themselves and lived to tell the glorious tale.

Through the engaging, first-person, he said/she said narrative, Robert and Patricia Gussin deliver an inspirational guide filled with advice on why it's never too late to reinvent yourself, and why doing what you love (and loving what you do) is always within reach.

A must-read tale of joyfully switching gears, changing careers, and overcoming paralysis by analysis, take the mystery out of that all-too-common question of how to get from where you are to where you want to be.

Free Book - Rules to Live By (K/N/DF)

Rules to Live By: 52 Principles for a Better Life, by Jerry White, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble (repeat) and ChristianBook, courtesy of Christian publisher NavPress.

Book Description
Determine your priorities, grow in character, and develop a Christlike outlook on life.

Taken from his years in the military, at NASA, and with The Navigators, Dr. Jerry White shares insights and wisdom to point you toward a more balanced life. His 52 guiding principles do more than just tell you what you should do--they outline the godly life you can have today.

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Free Book - Organize for a Fresh Start (K/N/E)

Update: 1/3/12 Someone at B&N finally paid attention and now the nookBook is free, while the paperback is back to full price.
Update: 1/1/12 Now free from Sony.

Organize for a Fresh Start: Embrace Your Next Chapter in Life, by Susan Fay West, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, but not as an ebook -- they've apparently mispriced the paperback and if you are a B&N member, you get free shipping, as well. Of course, I actually expect them to (a) correct the price later and have the ebook free instead and (b) not to honor the orders placed at the free price.

Book Description
Readers will find practical, step-by-step instructions for reorganizing their homes and techniques for keeping their homes organized. - Major life transitions often leave people with homes, belongings and schedules that no longer work for their lifestyles. Organize for a Fresh Start will teach readers step-by-step how to reorganize so they can hold on to what they need, let go of what they don’t, and welcome new things that will help them in the next chapters of their lives. Readers will learn how to reevaluate the function of each room in their homes and reorganize their houses for their current life circumstances. Through tips, checklists, questions and exercises, readers work through the process of managing the new activities and systems in their lives in order to more easily settle into a “new normal.”

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Free Book - Balancing the Chakras (K)

Balancing the Chakras: The Body's Energetic Channels, by Michael Solis, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of publisher Charles River Editors (Vook).

Book Description
Many of us have heard the term chakra before, but few truly understand its meaning or its potential significance. Put simply, the word chakra means "wheel of light" in Sanskrit. But that certainly won't answer the questions you are asking yourself by now.

Given the unfamiliarity most people have with these important ideas, Balancing the Chakras seeks to help guide readers of all backgrounds and experiences. Balancing the Chakras explains the chakras based on the teachings of the ancient Hindu texts. In this short guide, you will learn about the idea of the chakras, their individual characteristics, and techniques that yout can perform to help balance certain aspects of your body, mind, emotions, and personality. 7 chapters will present you with information on each of the seven central chakras, as well as advice on how to more effectively balance these energetic centers.

Free Book - Essential Rules from Richard Templar (N)

Essential Rules from Richard Templar ($19.24 Kindle), by Richard Templar, is free from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Discover the simple, easy-to-follow rules that can supercharge your career, optimize your management effectiveness, and transform your life!

In three remarkable eBooks, international best-selling author Richard Templar shares a complete, 100% practical “code” for personal success in management, work, and life! The Rules of Management, Expanded Edition covers everything from setting realistic targets to holding effective meetings; finding the right people to inspiring loyalty. You’ll learn when and how to let your people think they know more than you (even if they don't) – and recognize when they really do. Next, in The Rules of Work, Expanded Edition, Templar reveals the “secrets” of people who seem naturally great at their job: those rare individuals who always seem to say and do the right thing, get raises, get promoted – without compromising their principles, or even seeming to break a sweat. Finally, in The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition, Templar uncovers yet another vital set of secrets: the learnable attitudes and easy-to-use techniques that make some people more contented, more fulfilled, more enthusiastic about life. These are the simple, common-sense, easy-to-follow rules that happy, successful people follow: the rules that can change your life!

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Free Book - The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition (K/N)

Update: 12/26/11 Now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

The Rules of Life, Expanded Edition: A Personal Code for Living a Better, Happier, More Successful Life (Main/UK), by Richard Templar (FT Press), is a repeat freebie for UK Kindle customers and likely to be free for US customers by morning.

Book Description
The first edition of this bookbecame a global phenomenon, topping bestseller charts around the world. This new, even better, edition includes nine brand-new rules to take you further, faster. In this book, Richard Templar brings together 106 practical rules that happy, successful people follow, even if they've never thought about it. These are realistic, commonsense things you can do differently, starting today... small things that make a powerful difference. Templar offers real wisdom on telling the difference between what's important and what isn't... focusing on changes you really can make... using your intuition... learning positive lessons from your regrets... having great dreams and making practical plans... staying young... forgiving without becoming a pushover. Follow The Rules of Life. You'll feel better. You'll be a better friend, partner, and parent. And you'll leave the world a better place.

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Free Book (Kindle) - Career Progression Guide For Soldiers

Career Progression Guide For Soldiers: A Practical, Complete Guide for Getting Ahead in Today's Competitive Army, by Audie G. Lewis, is free in the Kindle store.

Book Description
This fully updated and expanded third edition is an ideal how-to book for soldiers wanting to attain rank in the service. Includes advice and proven techniques for improving duty performance and increasing promotion points, together with samples of forms and formats for applying for promotion and for appearing before promotion boards. Includes requirements for warrant officer and commissioned officer opportunities, and methods for overcoming obstacles to promotion.

About the Author
Audie G. Lewis is a product of this method. He entered the U.S. Army as a private and served as an NCO and as an officer. He currently resides in Florida.

Free Book (EPUB/nook) - Rules to Live By

Rules to Live By: 52 Principles for a Better Life ($9.99 Kindle), by Jerry White, is free from Barnes & Noble and Sony, courtesy of Christian publisher NavPress. It's likely to end up free at Amazon as well, but I don't see any price drop yet in the UK or EU stores and NavPress is usually good about hitting all the markets.

Book Description
Determine your priorities, grow in character, and develop a Christlike outlook on life.

Taken from his years in the military, at NASA, and with The Navigators, Dr. Jerry White shares insights and wisdom to point you toward a more balanced life. His 52 guiding principles do more than just tell you what you should do--they outline the godly life you can have today.

In our hectic and pressured lives, most of us long for less stumbling around and more consistency and order. At the same time, we want to be flexible and responsive to the needs of our family, friends, and coworkers. To achieve this sense of order, we rustle through self-help books, retool our schedules and priorities, and explore ideas on reinventing ourselves, our marriages, and our families.

Jerry White says he tried all these options but something else has been more helpful: From his early days at the space program in Mission Control at Cape Canaveral, he developed, pursued, and practiced a set of “rules” that have helped him respond to life without having to figure out every situation anew as it arises. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist as Jerry was. Through these fifty-two practical principles, learn how to live a more organized and successful life.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - 25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living

25 Days to Better Thinking and Better Living: A Guide for Improving Every Aspect of Your Life, by Richard W. Paul and Linda Elder, is a repeat freebie on Kindle and newly free from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of FT Press.

Book Description
You are what you think! Take control of your thinking...and start living life to the fullest! In just 25 days, you can discover how to cut through lies, gain insight, and make smarter choices in every area of your life–from work and money to your intimate relationships. Discover how to overcome bad thinking habits caused by self-delusion or out-of-control emotions...clarify what you really want...recognize what you don’t know. Ask the right questions...resist brainwashing, manipulation, and hypocrisy...Avoid worrying, conformism, and blame!

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Free Book (Kindle/nook) - Five Minutes on Mondays

Update: 12/19/11 Now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work (US/UK), by Alan Lurie, is a repeat freebie the Kindle store. So far, it is free for for UK customers only, but I expect it to be free for US customers and from Barnes & Noble sometime tomorrow morning.

Book Description
Imagine the leaders of one of New York City’s top real-estate firms coming together every Monday morning to hear…the moral and spiritual thoughts of a Rabbi.

Imagine them returning, week after week…coming to eagerly anticipate those five minutes as a moment of uncommon peace in the world’s most brutally competitive environment.

Wouldn’t you like to be a fly on the wall? To hear the paths Alan Lurie traced for his listeners, how he helped them bring together their spiritual and business lives, the sacred and the profane? Five Minutes on Mondays compiles these talks for the first time, sharing Lurie’s deep and profound inspiration on the challenges we all face—at work, and in life.

Lurie draws on millennia of philosophy, theology, and science to help us answer our deepest questions, comfort our deepest yearnings, and become better people—more connected to each other, and to the Greater Purpose.

Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Smart Women Know When to Say No

Update: 12/18/11 Now free from ChristianBook.
Update: 12/18/11 Now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Smart Women Know When to Say No (US/UK), by Dr. Kevin Leman, is free in the UK Kindle store, should be free in the US tomorrow. It's likely to also end up free at Barnes & Noble tomorrow, as well, but I don't expect it to stay free for more than about one day in any store.

Book Description
Many women try too hard to be nice. It's a way of life for many who live in a culture that expects them to be the ones who "keep everyone happy." But what happens when keeping everyone else happy drains your own happiness?

This book by bestselling author Dr. Kevin Leman shows how women who find themselves manipulated by impassivity, guilt, or abusive behavior can learn to assert themselves while maintaining their "pleasing" personalities.

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Free Book (Kindle) - You Are What You Think

You Are What You Think, by David Stoop, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell. I don't expect it to be free more than one or two days and I don't see an EPUB version in any of the usual stores.

Book Description
"Attitude is everything." It's what makes the difference between those who succeed and those who fail. And it's easy to see-in other people. It's not as easy to recognize when our own attitude needs adjustment, or to know how to change it.

In You Are What You Think, David Stoop shows readers how to use self-talk to make positive changes in their attitudes and beliefs. Self-talk can be private speech, thoughts, or external speech, all of which shape emotions and behavior for good or bad. This popular book, previously published as Self-Talk, will help readers overcome stress, guilt, depression, anxiety, and anger; release the power of faith; choose healthy, positive thoughts; and more.

Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Believe You Can

Update: Now free from Sony and ChristianBook.

Believe You Can--The Power of a Positive Attitude, by John Mason, is free in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell.

Book Description
Dare to be you and great things will happen!

You were created to make a difference. You were created to live a unique and unlimited life. No one else is you, and no one else could be you.

So what holds you back from being all that God meant you to be? It's buying into the lie that you can't, won't, or shouldn't achieve your dreams.

John Mason, the bestselling author of An Enemy Called Average and You Can Do It--Even if Others Say You Can't, calls you to embrace a positive attitude so that you can reach your potential. His encouraging, challenging, and motivating nuggets of truth fill every page.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People

Update: 12/13/11 No longer free anywhere, it seems. Typical of Revell, the free status is only for about two days, even if an invidual store (like Sony) doesn't join in until the morning of the last day.
Update: 12/13/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: 12/12/11 As expected, now free in the US Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble and ChristianBook.

Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People (Main/UK), by Elizabeth Brown, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store, courtesy of Christian publisher Revell, and should be free for US customers by morning.

Book Description
You can be positive--no matter who tries to bring you down. Unfortunately, the world is full of screwed-up people. But the good news, says Elizabeth B. Brown, is that your world no longer has to revolve around them. With brilliant insights and a keen sense of humor, this trusted author shows you how to: take back the power from the difficult people in your life respond productively when confronted remain poised and in control when everyone around you loses it win fairly in unfair battles let go of the past and live triumphantly now Dozens of real-life success stories, brief diagnostic tests, and practical tools are included to help you assess your own unique situation and gain the confidence to live successfully with screwed-up people. You can stop being the victim of others and start loving life in spite of them.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - Game Plan for Life

Update: 12/13/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: 12/12/11 Now free from ChristianBook.

Game Plan for Life, by Joe Gibbs, Jerry B. Jenkins, andTony Dungy, is free on Kindle and from Barnes & Noble, courtesy of Christian publisher Tyndale House.

Book Description
Three-time Super Bowl and NASCAR champion Joe Gibbs’s Game Plan for Life is an “average Joe’s” guide to what the Bible has to say about the 11 most-important topics for men. Topics such as: finances, relationships, living a life of purpose, finding the right vocation, physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and overcoming sin and addictions. Edited by Jerry Jenkins, and featuring contributions from Randy Alcorn, Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, Tony Evans, Chuck Colson, Josh McDowell, Don Meredith, Walt Larimore, Ron Blue, Ken Boa, and Os Guinness, Game Plan for Life shows readers how to live a balanced, God-centered, purpose-filled life, using examples of Coach Gibbs’s own storied championship careers as a backdrop. A perfect blend of sports and basic theology, Game Plan for Life is designed to bring God’s word home to sports fans of all generations.

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Free Book (Kindle/nook/EPUB) - The Misanthrope's Guide to Life

Update: 12/13/11 Now free from Sony.
Update: 12/10/11 As expected, now free for US Kindle customers. Also free from Barnes & Noble.

The Misanthrope's Guide to Life: (Go Away!) (Main/UK), by Meghan Rowland and Chris Turner-Neal, is free for UK customers in the Kindle store. I expect it to be free in the US by morning, but double check the price before one-clicking.

Book Description
Misanthrope, n.: 1.) One who hates mankind; a curmudgeon; a loner; 2.) The guy in your office who responded to your e-mail of baby photos with "D-. Passing, but not college material"; 3.) A RealistFrom The Misanthrope's Guide to LifeIn this guide, you'll learn how to get away from the pain-in-the-asses who make you seriously consider investing in a fallout shelter and making it your new home. You'll take isolated comfort in these survival strategies, including how to:- Conduct managed incoherence to get the delivery boy from the lobby to your door- Take a "French leave" in order to eat alone at work- Get ousted from your kickball league by dressing as Magnum, P.I. for every game- Get back at the jerk yapping on his cell phone by reciting the lyrics to Harry Chapin's version of "Cat's in the Cradle"- End a conversation by "Gwynething" (also known as playing the "I'm delightfully foreign" act) someone to deathThis is the survival guide you will be annoyed not to have.

Meghan Rowland, a group-therapy dropout, was the only girl in kindergarten with a John Larroquette lunchbox. Chris Turner-Neal, an only child, is a graduate of James B. Bonham Middle School, where he received an F in participation. Together, they write the award-winning comedy blog 2birds1blog.com, a collection of crass musings, investigative reporting, and sarcasm widely hailed as "the thinking man's Beavis and Butthead." Sharing an author bio is an uncomfortably intimate experience for both of them.

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