Free Book - The Truth About Getting the Best From People (K/N)

The Truth About Getting the Best From People, by Martha I. Finney (US/UK), is a repeat freebie on Kindle and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Build a culture of engagement...one person, one interaction at a time
 
You can build and lead teams full of self-motivated, innovative contributors: people who love their jobs, believe in their mission, and perform with focus, enthusiasm, and creativity! This book reveals 49 PROVEN LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES for getting the best from every employee, every team, every organization!

• The truth about building a self-driven workforce that’s positive, committed, passionate
• The truth about what really motivates people--and what doesn’t
• The truth about leading with authenticity, clarity, consistency, and inspiration

You can build and lead teams full of self-motivated, innovative contributors: people who love their jobs, believe in their mission, and perform with focus, enthusiasm, and creativity! Top leadership consultant Martha Finney reveals 49 proven leadership principles for getting the best from every employee, every team, every organization. She shows how to build a workforce that’s positive, committed, passionate...how to really motivate people, even on a tight budget...how to lead with authenticity, clarity, consistency, and inspiration. These skills offer powerful, quantifiable business value. They are completely learnable--and this book is the fastest way to master them. It distills the world’s best thinking on getting the best from people: the truth, and nothing but the truth!

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Free Book - Pictures of the Mind (K/N)

Pictures of the Mind: What the New Neuroscience Tells Us About Who We Are (US/UK), by Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald, is a repeat freebie in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble.

Book Description
Who are we?
What’s going on inside us when we think, feel, hope, or imagine?
Can we change?
Can we become happier, smarter, healthier, more altruistic–better?
For thousands of years, people have wondered about questions like these. Now, using the latest brain scanning technologies, neuroscientists can watch your brain at work–and they’re amazed by what they’re seeing. Now, you can see it, too. Pictures of the Mind presents the images that are revolutionizing neuroscience and offers you a personal tour of the frontiers of brain research.

You’ll discover why scientists are becoming increasingly excited about your brain’s abilities to keep growing, learning, changing, and healing, all through life. You’ll follow cutting-edge researchers as they blaze new trails toward potential cures for everything from depression to dementia and brain injury to addiction. And you’ll preview what could become the greatest scientific revolution of all: the one that finally explains mind, emotion, and consciousness.

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Free Book - Market Upside Down (K/N)

Market Upside Down: How to Invest Profitably in a Shrinking Economy (US/UK), by Vinh Q. Tran, is a repeat freebie on Kindle and from Barnes & Noble

Book Description
The U.S. economic crisis of 2008 isn't over! The next bubble, explosive government debt, is brewing. At the same time, the economy can't generate growth, the treasury is exhausted, the Fed's balance sheet is over-stressed, consumers remain deep in debt, and short-term interest rates are at near-zero. Intelligent investors can't just mourn the death of easy profits: they want and need new strategies for success through history's potentially worst equity market. In Market Upside Down, Dr. Vinh Q. Tran presents those strategies. Tran begins by explaining why the U.S. financial crisis will only get worse. He then provides professional and active investors a comprehensive framework for profiting in an upside down market that could last for decades. Drawing on his market expertise, as well as experience as money manager to institutional and wealthy investors, Tran shows how to build wealth and generate return in times of crisis with a focus on what will matter most in the coming years: liquidity and risk management. Tran helps investors explore global investments and opportunities that won't depend on the troubled U.S. economy or a reinvigorated market soaring, and shows how to profit from the coming age of scarcity. Along the way, he demonstrates how to use fixed income, hedge funds, and non-traditional investments, with minimal equity risks to create a portfolio that is positioned to provide liquidity, profits and importantly to weather future crises.

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Free Book and App - The Zoo / Zoo Club (K)

Chroma Club has made both a childrens's book, The Zoo, and an Android app, Zoo Club, free today, in honor of Martin Luther King Day.

The Zoo
Based on the popular story of 3 friends and their dream to make the best zoo ever.

Zoo Club
Zoo Club is an interactive game for people who want to run a virtual zoo. Custom design your zoo, hire your zoo keepers, and take care of pandas, tigers, elephants, unicorns, dragons, dinosaurs, and many more. Earn money by doing zoo show puzzles. Join the zoo community now!

Today's Deals

Today is the last day for a number of 30% off coupons at Kobo (jan12us30, jan12row30, jan12au30, jan12uk30), along with c1auto25 (25%) and both jan13ca30 (30%) and touchlibrary (15%) expires soon.

Morgue Drawer Four ($0.99), by Jutta Profijt and Erik J. Macki (translator), is today's Kindle Deal of the Day.

Book Description
Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients--until the day one of them starts talking to him. It seems the ghost of a recently deceased (and surprisingly chatty) small-time car thief named Pascha is lingering near his lifeless body in drawer number four of Martin's morgue. He remains for one reason: his "accidental" death was, in fact, murder. Pascha is furious his case will go unsolved--to say nothing of his body's dissection upon Martin's autopsy table. But since Martin is the only person Pascha can communicate with, the ghost settles in with the good pathologist, determined to bring the truth of his death to light. Now Martin's staid life is rudely upended as he finds himself navigating Cologne's red-light district and the dark world of German car smuggling. Unless Pascha can come up with a plan--and fast--Martin will soon be joining him in the spirit world. Witty and unexpected, Morgue Drawer Four introduces a memorable (and reluctant) detective unlike any other in fiction today.

Morgue Drawer Four was shortlisted for Germany's 2010 Friedrich Glauser Prize for best crime novel.

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 ($1.84 / £1.19 UK), selected/edited by Harlan Coben, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the US edition is $8.99). This is the fifteenth annual collection in this series and well worth getting, if you read mysteries; most of the stories are by "up-and-comers", but there are a few authors you may have already read, such as Lawrence Block.

Book Description
Featuring twenty of the year's standout crime short stories handpicked by one of the world's best thriller writers, Best American Mystery Stories 2011 showcases not only the very best of the crime genre, but the best of American writing full stop. Within its pages, literary legends rub shoulders with the hottest new talent. Contributors in the past have included Lee Child, James Lee Burke, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Connelly, Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates.

Money Shot ($1.99 Kindle, B&N), by Christa Faust, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle.

Book Description
THEY THOUGHT SHE’D BE EASY. THEY THOUGHT WRONG.

It all began with the phone call asking former porn star Angel Dare to do one more movie. Before she knew it, she’d been shot and left for dead in the trunk of a car. But Angel is a survivor. And that means she’ll get to the bottom of what’s been done to her even if she has to leave a trail of bodies along the way…