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You've done the work—your small business is a huge success and you're ready for the next step. But amplifying your business into a self-sustaining, exponentially profitable entity requires its own set of skills. With Grow Your Business, you'll learn the modern strategies for taking your burgeoning venture up a notch, all while avoiding the common pitfalls of expansion. 

McDonald shows that perceptions of compassion in candidates for public office are based on the number and intensity of commonalities that bind citizens to political leaders. Commonalities can come in many forms, such as a shared experience, a shared emotion, or a shared identity. Compassion may be universal, such as when candidates convey empathy to all individuals who are struggling. Or compassion may be exclusionary, such as when candidates express a preference for some groups over others.

Updated to reflect modern realities in the drastically changed property market, Investing in Fixer-Uppers, Revised Edition gives you the most timely, accessible guide to finding great opportunities—and profiting handsomely—in today's market. Written with the hands-on, real-life expertise of seasoned investor-educators with more than 250 properties between them, Investing in Fixer-Uppers provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for adding value to a rundown house or apartment and profiting tens of thousands of dollars—without waiting for appreciation.

Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy offers a nuanced assessment of the thirty-fifth president, whose legacy and impact people continue to debate to this day. Stephen F. Knott examines Kennedy through the lens of five critical issues: his interpretation of presidential power, his approach to civil rights, and his foreign policy toward Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam. Knott also explores JFK's assassination and the evolving interpretations of his presidency, both highly politicized subject matters. What emerges is a president as complex as the author's shifting views about him.

A successful lawyer, Perry March married the beautiful daughter of one of the most powerful attorneys in Nashville. Through his wife Janet, Perry won a position in his father-in-law's firm and joined the city's social elite. They seemed to have the good life. But in 1996, when Janet vanished, police dug into Perry's past, turning up strange stories of sexual obsession, unfaithfulness, and vicious arguments with Janet. When they suspected that one of those fights ended in murder, Perry skipped town with his children. Janet's father would not let Perry escape so easily.

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.

When supernatural monsters crawl out of the dark and soldiers aren't enough, you send in the Blood Witch. When that's not enough, you're in trouble. Ages ago, the Earth was cut off from other mythical realms in order to protect it from the depredations of the Asgardians. Now, a portal discovered in the Pacific Northwest is seen by a mysterious group as an opportunity to reverse that ancient act. Aided by a sometimes helpful - but always irreverent - spirit familiar, Jack leaves the comfort of home to stop that from happening.

Equally broke and futureless 28-year-old James Brooke, a graduate architect, coffee-addict, and self-described average nobody, has returned to his small hometown in West Ohio. Torn between his fanciful dreams and the need to pay off bills, he struggles to find his own identity while facing a harder than ever reality. But living under his father’s rooftop while keeping his head in the clouds soon turns out to be a bad combination, and the mounting student debt forces him to settle for any job he can find.

In School Rethink 2.0, editors Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn, and Juliet Squire gather leaders immersed in the nuts-and-bolts work of educational reinvention to present ten promising education improvements and ways to implement them. Contributors explain what it takes to reinvent schooling...

USA: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture takes you on a tour of the core influences and ideals that have shaped this great country and have driven the behavior and attitudes found on Main Street and in the workplace. It looks at Americans at work, at home, and at play, and provides the visitor with an up-to-date cultural road map of this dynamic, multifaceted society.

Javier Jimenez is on a glide path to college while his brother, Alex, has done a 180 and is heading for trouble. Neither, however, have any idea what's coming their way when George Jones sets in motion his plan for their neighborhood. It's a cataclysmic vision of urban renewal replete with manmade disasters, civil unrest, and a tsunami of ambitious Zoomers.

Logan Gruver doesn't mean to commit the first murder in history. But now, he has introduced violence millennia early, escalating humanity's destruction, and is about to go on trial for the first time-travel murder ever.

Detective Casey Ryken has navigated many difficult cases in the troubled town of Havensburg. With a dropping clearance rate and crime on the rise, officials with the police department begin collaboration with a scientist to resurrect victims of violent crimes to help solve their own murders. For Casey, this radical approach is filled with ethical dilemmas, especially after the unresolved murder of his own daughter.