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With a trillion sensors feeding data into a central computer unleashed into the world, governments, militaries, mega-corporations, dictators, and even hackers will be able to hear the heartbeat of the Earth. This is an invisible communications network enveloping everything, including your home. These Smart Dust particles, 100 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, easily penetrate human skin, enabling trackers to monitor every moment of your day.

Excellence is what we need to live differently. It combats mediocrity; drives out excuses, challenges the status quo, increases productivity, gives a personal makeover, and breeds more excellence even in an ever-changing world. This quick yet powerful book will challenge you to think about and rethink the details of your life.

Does listening daily and keeping up with a personal journal sound hard to you? It really isn’t, but at the same time, the insane benefits that it provides us in terms of productivity are simply colossal. Increasing productivity is all about taking small steps, but in the right direction, and that’s what you will find in this transformative book. Easy to follow, simple steps that anyone can follow, with fool-proof methods and tested techniques.

16 Strategies for Sales will help you understand your own innate preferences, identify sales strategies best suited for your natural abilities, and provide you with tools to work with other personality types.

Anthology of Christmas Stories is a unique collection of Christmas tales, reflections, and poems from beloved authors across the centuries and makes the perfect gift for the reader in your life. This beautiful treasury will take you back to firesides, simple gifts, and warm family moments of Christmases past as you cherish the timeless truths and joys of the season.

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.

In this book, I share my personal journey from being stuck and lost to becoming the hero of my own life. You'll also discover stories of real-life heroes who overcame impossible odds to achieve greatness.

“We’re going to have another baby. This time it’s a girl!” my wife gleefully announced. Our excitement knew no bounds, but so did our financial anxiety. With two kids already and another on the way, how could we afford daycare? Our credit card balances were mounting, and though we never missed a payment, financial freedom seemed like a distant dream. Then came the decision that changed everything: my wife would pause her career to stay home with the kids, dramatically reducing our household income.

Foundational Finance is a value packed step-by-step guide to properly position and elevate your finances, no matter what state they are currently in.

On New Year's Eve, Trotty, a poor elderly "ticket-porter" or casual messenger, is filled with gloom at the reports of crime and immorality in the newspapers, and wonders whether the working classes are simply wicked by nature. His daughter Meg and her long-time fiancé Richard arrive and announce their decision to marry next day. Trotty hides his misgivings, but their happiness is dispelled by an encounter with the pompous Alderman Cute, plus a political economist and a young gentleman with a nostalgia, all of whom make Trotty, Meg and Richard feel they hardly have a right to exist.

Christmas Stories by L. Frank Baum is a delightful compilation of enchanting tales that bring the magic of Christmas to life. This collection features three cherished stories by L. Frank Baum, the beloved author of The Wizard of Oz series: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, A Kidnapped Santa Claus, and Little Bun Rabbit.

The nefarious Overlord has made his move, and the world of Kambia trembles with fear. But where there is darkness, there is also light, and the Chosen, Empress Zalira, and the wizards of Kambia stand ready to fight. Chosen: The Two Battles by K.I. Price is a world-spanning fantasy epic that follows Zuri, Phenyo, Evrik, and Ra as they navigate two great battles with the help of new allies, including a mysterious warrior whose destiny is entwined with their own.

Tony Vlahovic is a former professional baseball player. Surviving life’s strikeouts and difficult innings, Tony’s journey to self-discovery led him to help people with disabilities live out their dreams by using his passion for baseball. Just Need An Opportunity “Let’s Play Ball” is full of heart and serves as a testament to what Tony has endured and conquered on and off of the field as a player and a person.

It is the entrepreneurial revolution. I have been around entrepreneurs and have borne witness to the way the world has changed to support their endeavors. What drives me is all of the entrepreneurs that have reached out to me over the years to get guidance and structure to pursue their idea. Some listened and provided proof of concept. This book is designed to share with you, the reader, all of the principles and concepts we have put to work for the past two decades. So come on a journey. It will not take you long but I recommend listening to the entire book in one sitting.

Discover how my interviewing journey evolved from being a recent college graduate to becoming a seasoned career professional with My Interview Secrets. If you desire to enhance your professional interviewing skills and thrive in your career, look no further. In this book, learn how adequately preparing for the interview and formulating a well-defined strategy will enable you to position yourself effectively in the constantly changing and unpredictable job market of the 21st century.

Christmas Eve is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints religious art in the church.

The Cat is an odd story about a young man who suffers a severe shock reaction to the unexpected ending of his engagement. Initially he is thrown into a deep depression which lasts several months, but then all of a sudden something snaps in his brain and he undergoes a phenomenal transformation. Not only does his depression leave him, but he becomes suddenly upbeat and sees the world in richer colours and with greater clarity.

Edward Frederic Benson was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. Benson was also known as a writer of atmospheric, oblique, and at times humorous or satirical ghost stories. Among the most significant works Edward Benson is the The Wishing Well (1929) and many more.

At the Farmhouse by Edward Frederic Benson tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is rumoured to be a witch, sets off to murder her. In his pocket is a ball of strong twine with which he will strangle her, and a box of matches with which he will set light to the farmhouse to destroy the evidence of his crime. After that he will be free... What happens when he reaches the farmhouse is gruesome, uncanny and totally unexpected.

The Thing in the Hall, is a rather macabre and strange story - retold by Mike Vendetti - of two friends living in London, one of whom tempts fate by inviting a spirit to visit without limiting what type of spirit he is inviting. As we know, there are "evil" spirits just awaiting a home or a victim.