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Personal presence is difficult to define but easy to recognize. People with presence carry themselves in a way that turns heads. When they talk, people listen. When they ask, people answer.

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

Using a wealth of real-world examples, this breakthrough book offers a new freedom-based management paradigm that radically improves every aspect of business-from how we hire, compensate and motiva

Are you feeling less engaged, less committed and more skeptical at work? Do you find yourself isolated? Or are you caught in the middle of co-workers’ interpersonal conflicts?

Defenders of massive multinational chains like Wal-Mart and Fortune 500 big business argue that, like it or not, there is no alternative.

Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom.

This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft.

Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952.

This richly illustrated Inuktitut book makes the story of Uumasuusivissuaq accessible to Inuit everywhere.

Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use

The poems in this book brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, these verses give voice to our deepest intuitions.

Walt Whitman experienced first-hand the ravages of the Civil War as a volunteer nurse in the hospitals of Washington DC.

Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, this is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

The poetry of Nikki Giovanni has spurred movements, turned hearts and informed generations.

This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry, revealing the range and depth of Cohen's work.