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Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

Agatha Christie was born in 1890 and created the detective Hercule Poirot in her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920). She achieved wide popularity with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and produced a total of 80 novels and short story collections over six decades.

95 Habits of Healthy People is the result of extensive research in the habits and lifestyle of healthy people. The first point is they focus on satisfying themselves not other standards of health. A must listen for all interested in long term healthy and productive lifestyles.

Hiring Do-ers for Success emphasizes the importance of hiring job candidates who can get the work done, not sing around the campfire in your culture. In describing his own hiring practices, Steve Jobs once said, “We hire do-ers to get things done.” This is the NFL way as well: “You don't know how they'll do until they are on your field.” You and your company will benefit from adopting a similar hiring philosophy. Test and calibrate. Have your star employees interview candidates to see if they qualify.

Knowing the U.S. presidents and their terms in office, and the sequence in which they served, is immensely helpful as a framework for studying and being informed about American history.

Steve Jobs visited the author in the 1970s to find out what it was like to be an entrepreneur. It was still a pre-tech age with computer companies being like other corporations of the era, complete with suits and ties. Steve was the new wave; he sought out the author because his company was different than the old line companies but not what Steve imagined. The conversations were scintillating and imaginative.

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 sq km) of the French territory Louisiane in 1803. The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, parts of Minnesota, most of North Dakota, nearly all of South Dakota, northeastern New Mexico, northern Texas, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide, and Louisiana west of the Mississippi River.

Calmness is a core ingredient for happiness and a productive life. This title builds on Busy & Stressed, an earlier title, to provide 98 tips about how to calm yourself for a satisfied and useful life, not to speak of being supportive of your family, friends, and colleagues in your work place. A must have for people interested in wellness for themselves and those in their family.

The six factors in Western, and particularly American, world dominance are competition, science, property rights, medicine, consumerism, and work ethic. Learn what you need to support or oppose this accelerating trend.

This audiobook describes why and how to get stuff done, and what every employer wants. It describes how to align with your bosses and organization to get promotions and more money. It also lists the skills required and the personal issues for people seeking this career path. It provides tips, tactics, and strategies to make this work for you and avoiding pitfalls. A must listen for all workers.

The Billionaire story is one of the best stories of Danny.

Inner Life describes the six rules for a calmer, more prosperous and satisfying life by staying calm during life's challenges. Covering everything from sports (dead ball and moving-object sports), and business and professional life, as well as personal, family, and friend situations, plus romantic relationships, and wilderness and nature events. A must listen for everyone.

This audiobook describes your responsibility to be happy by avoiding negativity and negative people and provides practical advice about how to manage your personal and work life to achieve happiness and contentment from home life to interpersonal skills and far more. It is an important book to counteract modern emphasis on victimhood, blame, anger, envy, and other negative forces in society and the media.

This audiobook describes the foundation of American and Canadian government being English law and the English Constitution. It depicts how the founding fathers created checks and balances to allow the government to sustain itself through tumultuous times.

This audiobook contains succinct descriptions and insights into effective project management for you and your organization.

Four American Revolution documents: Common Sense by Thomas Paine; the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson; the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by James Madison.

Collection of American thought; Hebrews, Greeks & Romans; allegory of the cave from The Republic by Plato; and 19 great works of ancient times summaries.

Money: What Is It? deals with what money is and what the difference is between a monetary or money currency, a barter one, and a credit one. This is the place to start in economics per two experts, MIT professor Samuelson, author of Economics, and Professor Graziani, whose landmark work is the foundation for this title.

American Thought is a profound accessible book about how America got to where it is by building on 6 great documents: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, The Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, and the I Have a Dream Speech. Brings it all together in a succinct work that will deliver A's for students & knowledge for all of us.

Persuade suggests five categories of persuasion and 54 elements that will work "magically" to persuade people of your point of view - as long as you have a basic foundation of authenticity as well as truthfulness in your beliefs. The five categories are: Trust and Support, Motivation, Finances, Winners, and Technique.