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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
John C. Maxwell
$6.00

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The author of 24 books on maximizing personal and leadership potential, John C. Maxwell believes "the difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure." In Failing Forward, he offers inspirational advice for turning the difficulties that inevitably arise in life into stepping stones that help you reach the top. Noting that star performers are often those who aggressively push forward after encountering adversity, Maxwell shows how a variety of well-known and not-so-well-known people have forged ahead despite obstacles that could have derailed them. They include: Mary Kay Ash, who founded her cosmetics firm against enormous odds when the direct-sales company she toiled in for 25 years resisted her continued corporate climb; Truett Cathy, who lost two brothers (and business partners) in an airplane crash and experienced his own serious medical problems before establishing the Chick-fil-A fast-food chain; Greg Horn, who reopened his Kentucky grocery store just 21 days after it suffered $1 million in flood damage; and Beck Weathers, who lost his nose, half of one arm, and the fingers on his other in the infamous 1996 Into Thin Air Mt. Everest tragedy, but now takes a positive message of survival and conquest to audiences around the world. --Howard Rothman

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The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (Institutions of American Democracy)
Norman J. Ornstein
$8.00

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The Broken Branch offers both a brilliant diagnosis of the cause of Congressional decline and a much-needed blueprint for change, from two experts who understand politics and revere our institutions, but believe that Congress has become deeply dysfunctional. Mann and Ornstein, two of the nation's most renowned and judicious scholars of government and politics, bring to light the historical roots of Congress's current maladies, examining 40 years of uninterrupted Democratic control of the House and the stunning midterm election victory of 1994 that propelled Republicans into the majority in both House and Senate. The byproduct of that long and grueling but ultimately successful Republican campaign, the authors reveal, was a weakened institution bitterly divided between the parties. They highlight the dramatic shift in Congress from a highly decentralized, committee-based institution into a much more regimented one in which party increasingly trumps committee. The resultant changes in the policy process--the demise of regular order, the decline of deliberation, and the weakening of our system of checks and balances--have all compromised the role of Congress in the American Constitutional system. From tax cuts to the war against Saddam Hussein to a Medicare prescription drug benefit, the Legislative process has been bent to serve immediate presidential interests and have often resulted in poorly crafted and stealthily passed laws. Strong majority leadership in Congress, the authors conclude, led not to a vigorous exertion of congressional authority but to a general passivity in the face of executive power.

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Failing At Fairness: How Our Schools Cheat Girls
David Sadker
$16.00

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Failing at Fairness, the result of two decades of research, shows how gender bias makes it impossible for girls to receive an education equal to that given to boys.

• Girls' learning problems are not identified as often as boys' are

• Boys receive more of their teachers' attention

• Girls start school testing higher in every academic subject, yet graduate from high school scoring 50 points lower than boys on the SAT

Hard-hitting and eye-opening, Failing at Fairness should be read by every parent, especially those with daughters.

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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success
John C. Maxwell
$9.35

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The difference between achievers and average people is their perception of and response to failure. Failing Forward by Dr. John C. Maxwell shows you how to make the most of your mistakes and move forward to your ultimate goal.

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Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of Genius
Hans C. Ohanian
$12.25

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Fresh insights into aspects of Einstein we don't usually consider: his mistakes and the role they played in the discovery of his theories. Although Einstein was the greatest genius of the twentieth century, many of his ground-breaking discoveries were blighted by mistakes, ranging from serious misconceptions in physics to blatant errors in mathematics. For instance, Einstein's first theoretical proof of the famous formula E = mc2 was incomplete and only approximately valid; he struggled with this problem for many years, but he never found a complete proof (better mathematicians did). In this provocative forensic biography, Hans C. Ohanian dissects this and other mistakes and places them in the context of Einstein's turbulent life and times. Einstein was often navigating in a fog of irrational and mystical inspirations, but his profound intuition about physics permitted him to reach his goal despite—and sometimes because of—the mistakes he made along the way. Einstein's uncanny ability to use his mistakes subconsciously as stepping stones toward his revolutionary theories was one hallmark of his genius.

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How to Have Fun without Failing Out: 430 Tips from a College Professor
Robert Gilbert
$1.65

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' If you're attending college--read this book before you attend another class. If you're paying for someone to attend college--buy this book AND MAKE SURE THAT PERSON READS IT!'

--Dr. Kirk Peters, Dean of Student Affairs, Tunxis Community College

GET GREAT GRADES IN COLLEGE

AND STILL HAVE A TON OF FUN ALONG THE WAY!

Congratulations--you're going to college! You have what it takes to be wildly successful. You're bright. You're eager. You're determined.

But wait. Statistics show that more than half of all college students either fail out or drop out and tragically never get their degrees.

So, what will you become in college--a superstar or a statistic ?

Open this book right now to find the simple and easy-to-follow strategies you need to graduate with honors and still have the best time of your life!

Dr. Rob Gilbert, who has been a college professor for more than twenty-seven years, has discovered the keys to having fun in college without failing out! He has seen too many students with tremendous potential take the plunge from fun to flunk. That's why he wrote this book. With these powerful, easy-to-use, student-tested tips you will enjoy a less stressful, more productive, and most memorable college experience. Absolutely, positively, guaranteed!

Some of the secrets you'll learn include:

•  Tip #35 How to get your professors to like you almost instantly

•  Tip #170 The one must-do the night before any exam

•  Tip #180 The word to say that can help you get better grades

•  Tip # 404 Fourteen words that will change your life

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America's Failing Schools
W. James Popham
$15.19

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Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their local schools have "failed". For many Americans, this was the first introduction to President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind legislation, which calls for expanded student testing, more stringent accountability requirements, and annual school-focused report cards at the state, district, and school levels. The legislation ties substantial federal funds for disadvantaged students--which many schools have already been receiving for almost four decades--to performance requirements dictated by the new legislation.
But are these report cards accurate? In America's "Failing" Schools, W. James Popham provides parents and teachers with explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them through the implications for standardized testing in particular, in language that is uncomplicated and straightforward. Popham offers definitions of the law and its key terms, explanations of what it really means when a school is labeled "failing," and concrete suggestions for what can be done in response.
Because parents with children in failing schools will now have the rare option of transferring their children to other, non-failing schools, they will need to understand why a "failing" school may actually still be a good school. Similarly, the teachers and administrators at both failing and passing schools need to know whether their school's label was truly deserved, and how to bring about the changes required by the new legislation.
Whether parent, teacher, administrator, or involved citizen, anyone concerned with the state of education in the U.S. will want to read America's "Failing" Schools.

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The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
Anthony Kronman
$20.00

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Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the law.

For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by their allegiance to a distinctive ideal of professional excellence. In the last generation, however, this ideal has failed, undermining the identity of lawyers as a group and making it unclear to those in the profession what it means for them personally to have chosen a life in the law.

A variety of factors have contributed to the declining prestige of prudence and public-spiritedness within the legal profession. Partly, Kronman asserts, it is the result of the triumph, in legal thought, of a counterideal that denigrates the importance of wisdom and character as professional virtues. Partly, it is due to an array of institutional forces, including the explosive growth of the country's leading law firms and the bureaucratization of our courts. The Lost Lawyer examines each of these developments and illuminates their common tendency to compromise the values from which the ideal of the lawyer-statesman draws strength. It is the most important critique of the American legal profession in some time, and an an enduring restatement of its ideals.

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The Six Month Fix: Adventures in Rescuing Failing Companies
Gary Sutton
$21.94

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Acclaim for The Six-Month Fix

"Finally: a turnaround guide that explains the nontrivial difference between those who work for debtors and those who work for shareholders, and gives readers a peek at why most turnaround guys should not stay for long."
–– John Carrington, Chairman and CEO, WebSense

"Too many celebrate financial victory; too few dig into business tragedy. Ultimate success comes from saving the disasters, and this book tells exactly how."
–– Craig McCaw, Chairman, Nextel

"A solid turnaround guide from one who’s been there."
–– Peter Ueberroth, Chairman, Contrarian Fund

"Hard-hitting, practical thrusts."
–– Philip Thurston, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School

"Winning basics for sports, war, or business."
–– Don Drobny, Partner, Perot Systems

"Uncommon, in-your-face thinking that resurrects business."
–– Carole Rhoades, Vice President, Seaport Ventures

"Powerful. I reread it on trips."
–– Allan Shaw, Executive Director, MS Society

"Executives must read this."
–– Martha Demski, VP and CFO, Vical

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Empowering Underachievers : How to Guide Failing Kids (8-18) to Personal Excellence
Maryann Karinch
$15.95

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In Empowering Underachievers, Dr. Spevak equips parents and teachers with the information and processes they need to engage underachievers in a transformation to become self-motivated, responsible and happy individuals. He uses easily illustrated and applied concepts he has developed, such as the Motivational Circle™, to explain how and why underachievers get stuck in emotional development and what they need to move forward. To help you increase your knowledge, gain reassurance, and apply the information, he uses examples from actual clients to illustrate how real kids manifested their problem and what they did to change. Some families have kept in touch with him through the years, so a decade or more later, he knows that the changes can last through college and launching a career.

Empowering Underachievers is written for parents, educators and anyone else who wants to be a catalyst for changing an underachiever. This book, written without psychological jargon or an academic tone, defines underachievers and their subtypes. It explains what influences motivation and why it is important to motivate an underachiever. It emphasizes the role of emotions and emotional development in motivation. There is also discussion of the interactions of attention deficit and other disorders. The second part of the book focuses on solving the problem. Approaches and effective tips to motivation are discussed as well as how to motivate each type of underachiever. This book is designed to enhance your understanding and effectiveness when dealing with your unmotivated student. There is practical problem-solving advice regarding what to do, but there is also enough theory so that you can understand the problem and use the information to generalize to the many different situations you will encounter. As individuals, each underachiever is unique, but, after more than 20 years as a psychologist, Dr. Spevak recognizes the similarities and patterns they present. All is not hopeless. Most parents of underachievers are frustrated because they have unsuccessfully tried a variety of things to motivate their underachiever. Dr. Spevak understands this frustration and explains why often-tried approaches don't work. But more importantly, he explains what can work. Readers will feel the sincerity and deep commitment Dr. Spevak brings to his work --- work that really began when he made his own transformation from a defiant underachiever in high school to a U.S. Marine and, finally, a clinical psychologist.