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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Today's Deals

There are now only two days left on these KSO Deals:
More free books with additional formats available, several of which are showing up on iTunes, this time around, and both of last night's UK Kindle freebies are now free in the US:

Principle-Centered Leadership ($1.99), by Stephen R. Covey, is the Kindle Deal of the Day.
Book Description
How do we as individuals and organizations survive and thrive amid tremendous change? Why are efforts to improve falling so short in real results despite the millions of dollars in time, capital, and human effort being spent on them? How do we unleash the creativity, talent, and energy within ourselves and others in the midst of pressure? Is it realistic to believe that balance among personal, family, and professional life is possible?

From the Publisher
The Eternal Drive for Excellence No matter what level of success we have achieved, none of us can be content to stay where we are. Within all of us lies an innate desire for progress in every aspect of our lives. In order to harness and utilize this internal drive in ourselves and those around us, we must learn to center our lives according to a set of certain basic principles Stephen R. Covey, author of the runaway bestseller The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, tells us how to apply these principles to the problems we face every day---and how to meet the goals of all strong business leaders: quality, productivity, profitability, and win-win relationships. According to Covey, ineffective people try to manage their time around priorities, often losing sight of the fundamental character and skill development necessary for effective leadership. Here he draws on 25 years of consulting and teaching to provide new methods and practices that will improve our managerial, interpersonal and organizational lives. Using the same insightful and sensitive style that made The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People a #1 national audio bestseller, Principle-Centered Leadership provides the keys to life-long learning---each one unlocking the doors to personal fulfillment and professional success.

Have a Little Faith: A True Story ($3.50 Kindle, B&N), by Mitch Albom, is the Nook Daily Find (and price matched at Amazon). This was supposed to be the deal (or, at least was promoted as the deal) over the weekend, but the price never changed.
Book Description
What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together?

In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds--two men, two faiths, two communities--that will inspire readers everywhere.

Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy.

Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor--a reformed drug dealer and convict--who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof.

Moving between their worlds, Christian and Jewish, African-American and white, impoverished and well-to-do, Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival: the older, suburban rabbi embracing it as death approaches; the younger, inner-city pastor relying on it to keep himself and his church afloat.

As America struggles with hard times and people turn more to their beliefs, Albom and the two men of God explore issues that perplex modern man: how to endure when difficult things happen; what heaven is; intermarriage; forgiveness; doubting God; and the importance of faith in trying times. Although the texts, prayers, and histories are different, Albom begins to recognize a striking unity between the two worlds--and indeed, between beliefs everywhere.

In the end, as the rabbi nears death and a harsh winter threatens the pastor's wobbly church, Albom sadly fulfills the rabbi's last request and writes the eulogy. And he finally understands what both men had been teaching all along: the profound comfort of believing in something bigger than yourself.

Have a Little Faith is a book about a life's purpose; about losing belief and finding it again; about the divine spark inside us all. It is one man's journey, but it is everyone's story.

Ten percent of the profits from this book will go to charity, including The Hole In The Roof Foundation, which helps refurbish places of worship that aid the homeless.

Free Book (nook/iBooks) - Axel the Truck: Rocky Road

Axel the Truck: Rocky Road, by J. D. Riley and Brandon Dorman (Illustrator), is free from Barnes & Noble and on iTunes. It's an app more than a "book", so only works on NookColor and iThings.
Book Description
Axel the Truck has big wheels, and he loves to drive fast. A trip to the mountains includes some monster hills and bumpy roads! Features read-to-me audio, perfect for sharing.
Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble. (NOOK Color and NOOK Kids for iPad only)
Get the free ebook from iTunes.

NOOKstudy's How to Land an Internship

NOOKstudy's How to Land an Internship: 25 Tips, by SparkNotes, is free from Barnes & Noble. Might come in handy for the student or new grad at your house (and an internship can lead to a paid position or resume experience that lands one later).

While you are there, you can still pick up NOOKstudy's Lining Up a Semester Abroad: 25 Tips for free, also. Both titles are from Sterling Publishing, which is owned by B&N, so only available on the nook.

Free Book (nook) - Business Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid

Business Strategies for the Bottom of the Pyramid ($55.19 Kindle), a collection of business books by Stuart L. Hart, Eric Kacou and Ted London, is free from Barnes & Noble. Those of you that just click on everything beware, this one is NOT free on Kindle (but you can report the lower price and maybe it will be). It's also entirely free that it wasn't supposed to be free at B&N, but my order for it went thru with no problems.
Book Description
3 extraordinary eBooks show how to build “bottom of the pyramid” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and profitable!

Three remarkable eBooks help you overcome the pitfalls of “bottom of the pyramid” business, learn from the pioneers’ successes and failures, and build “BoP” businesses that are sustainable, scalable, and consistently profitable! In Entrepreneurial Solutions for Prosperity in BoP Markets: Strategies for Business and Economic Transformation, Eric Kacou shows how to escape the “survival trap” that keeps many BoP businesses small, inefficient, and unprofitable. Drawing on his unique on-the-ground experience in Africa’s most challenging business environments, Kacou identifies new business models, operational techniques, and leadership approaches that can help BoP businesses grow rapidly and successfully. In Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid: New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, Ted London and Stuart L. Hart share proven, “on-the-ground” insights for building “Base of the Pyramid” businesses that really are sustainable and green, really will help alleviate social ills, and really can scale. Finally, in Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World, Third Edition, Hart offers an up-to-the-minute primer on sustainable business for today’s executives, practical insights into what’s working and what isn’t, and expert insights for crafting and executing your company’s optimal sustainability strategy.

From world-renowned leaders in successful bottom-of-the-pyramid business innovation.
Get the free ebook from Barnes & Noble.

Free Book (ADE-PDF) - Is It Good for the Jews?

Is It Good for the Jews?: More Stories from the Old Country and the New ($9.90 Kindle), by Adam Biro and Catherine Tihanyi, is this month's free book from The University of Chicago Press.
Book Description
“Jewish stories,” writes Adam Biro, “resemble every people’s stories.” Yet at the same time there is no better way to understand the soul, history, millennial suffering, or, crucially, the joys of the Jewish people than through such tales—“There’s nothing,” writes Biro, “more revelatory of the Jewish being.”

With Is It Good for the Jews? Biro offers a sequel to his acclaimed collection of stories Two Jews on a Train. Through twenty-nine tales—some new, some old, but all finely wrought and rich in humor—Biro spins stories of characters coping with the vicissitudes and reverses of daily life, while simultaneously painting a poignant portrait of a world of unassimilated Jewish life that has largely been lost to the years. From rabbis competing to see who is the most humble, to the father who uses suicide threats to pressure his children into visiting, to three men berated by the Almighty himself for playing poker, Biro populates his stories with memorable characters and absurd—yet familiar—situations, all related with a dry wit and spry prose style redolent of the long tradition of Jewish storytelling.

A collection simultaneously of foibles and fables, adversity and affection, Is It Good for the Jews? reminds us that if in the beginning was the word, then we can surely be forgiven for expecting a punch line to follow one of these days.
Sign up for the free book from the University of Chicago. You'll need to enter your email address, then check your email for the link to download the book. Mine arrived within seconds -- you get a .ACSM file, which, when opened, will load the PDF book inside of Adobe ADE. This is a DRM'd PDF and is not compatible with the Kindle.