Author: Herbert Wagemaker
Publisher: Ponte Vedra Publishing
Keywords: depression, truth, surprising
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 1997-06
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0965499626
ISBN-13: 9780965499620

Author: Jonathon Edwards
Publisher: Sovereign Grace Publishers Inc.
Keywords: conversions, surprising, narrative
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2000-12-27
List price: $23.99
ISBN-10: 1589600215
ISBN-13: 9781589600218

Author: Anne M. Obarski
Publisher: Word Association
Keywords: shoppers, mystery, secrets, surprising
Number of Pages: 85
Published: 2003-12-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1932205888
ISBN-13: 9781932205886

Are your employees attracting customers or driving them away? How would your business fare if a mystery shopper came snooping today? Corporate leaders, front line managers, and hourly employees will find insights in this book that can positively affect productivity, customer relations, and bottom-line profits. • What are the three worst wordsan employee can say to a customer? • What is the alternative to "voice mail jail" and why is it important that you know? • What is the difference between efficientand fast service?

Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Keywords: motivates, truth, surprising, drive
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-12-29
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1594488843
ISBN-13: 9781594488849

Forget everything you thought you knew about how to motivate people--at work, at school, at home. It’s wrong. As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does--and how that affect

Author: Daniel H. Pink
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: motivates, truth, surprising, drive
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2011-04-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1594484805
ISBN-13: 9781594484803

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm- shattering new way to think about motivation. Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money-the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink in Drive. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home-is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human moti

Author: Don L. Wulffson
Publisher: Puffin
Keywords: stories, inventions, surprising, popsicle, invented, kid
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0141302046
ISBN-13: 9780141302041

Did you know that the ice cream sundae was invented because of a law forbidding the sale of ice cream on Sundays? Or that the first motorcycle was really just a tricycle with a motor? Would you believe that Mickey Mouse started out as a rabbit? Arranged in alphabetical order with anecdotal, fun-to-read text, this fascinating book is packed with the stories behind these— and over 100 more— inventions. "[An] entertaining volume of trivia." — Kirkus Reviews

Author: Tina Cassidy
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: history, surprising, birth
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2007-09-10
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802143245
ISBN-13: 9780802143242

“Well-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)”—Entertainment Weekly“Wonderful. Packed full of information, a brilliant mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science.” —Kate Mosse, author of theNew York Timesbest seller,Labyrinth“Birth is a power-packed book. . . . A lively, engaging, and often witty read, a quirky, eye-opening account of one of life’s most elemental experiences.” —The Boston GlobePublished to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy’s smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in fi