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An expert in the field of nonverbal communication explains how to interpret others' gestures and expressions and understand the nonverbal messages that they are sending to others, with explanations of specific gestures, facial cues, body positions, and body movements.

A 40-year market veteran who is widely acknowledged as a premier economic historian, J. Anthony Boeckh takes a long, hard look at the nearly 25 years of artificial prosperity the world witnessed as the 20th century gave way to the 21st. He also examines what this means moving forward. A riveting account, The Great Reflation outlines what brought the world to this mess and what it will mean for money and investing in the future. Boeckh also offers a detailed plan for overcoming challenges presented by the great worldwide financial collapse.

Personal development guru Joe Vitale is a New York Times best-selling author and a key contributor to the Secret phenomenon. Here, he presents listeners with a foolproof blueprint for breaking free from debt, lack, struggle, and fear. Vitale's simple seven-step plan will show listeners how to attract money and make it work for them immediately. Tapping into lessons learned through the Laws of Attraction and Right Action, this program is a foolproof, no-nonsense solution to anyone's personal finance quandary.

As one of the top salespeople in the world, Brian Tracy knows the ability to close the sale is the key skill required by all top sales professionals. Fortunately, closing the sale is a skill that can be learned by practicing the closing skills of the highest paid salespeople in every business. When salespeople follow a practical, proven, step-by-step process, they can get more orders, faster and easier than ever before.

In today's sales world there's no room for followers. But there's plenty of room for leaders. Competition is intense, and if you don't take a leadership role in producing results for your clients, someone else will. In Lead, Sell, or Get Out of the Way, Ron Karr outlines a repeatable process based on the powerful idea that great sellers lead relationships in the same way that great leaders sell ideas. No matter what you sell, you must communicate persuasively and effectively what it is you can offer clients. However, sales leaders do even more than that.

In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize - winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people - facing the same economic circumstances - would make different choices. This was the beginning of a 14-year collaboration - and of Identity Economics. Identity economics is a new way to understand people's decisions at work, at school, and at home.

Does your heart race when your credit-card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit away from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it. Marianna didn't start out rich, happy, and fabulous. Strapped-for-cash beginnings motivated her to strive for abundance and financial independence - goals she exceeded by age 30 as the founder of a multimillion-dollar business and one of the most respected women on Wall Street.

To connect with today's buyer, you need to stop pushing your message out and start pulling your customers in. The rules of marketing have changed, and the key to winning is to use this change to your advantage. If you've wondered how to get found in Google or why blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are important, Inbound Marketing is the audiobook for you.

Sooner or later, we all work for someone we can't stand. When that happens, some people quit, some suffer in silence, and others cope by sulking, obsessing, avoiding, or retaliating. But it's better to take control by applying the fourstep process in this book: -Detect: Am I crazy or is my boss driving me crazy? -Detach: Accept that you can't change your boss, but you can take back your power. -Depersonalize: Learn to take your supervisor's behavior less personally. -Deal: Devise a plan to get what you need, manage your boss, and move your career forward.

The authors illustrate why even good leaders can make terrible decisions--and more importantly, how this situation can be avoided.