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Anthony Robbins Personal Power II The Driving Force
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Anthony Robbins Personal Power II The Driving Force
Publisher: Robbins Research International | English | 25CDs Set | MP3 | 14 x 100MB | RS.com
Have you ever said to yourself “It’s Time for me to make a change in my life” -and then not follow through? Now it’s time to make a measurable and lasting change in your life!
What’s the secret? Anthony Robbins turns personal and perfessional achievement into step-by-step process you can master and measure over the course of 30 days. And it delivers with a level of passion, power, and playfullness that makes the process not only moving, but throughly enjoyable, You’ll listen to one tape per day over the course of 30 days.
And each day, Tony will help you make a small change so you establish what you need to know and what you need to do today to move yourself foward.
Your momentum is power. You will convert your “down” time-when your traveling, commuting, excercising-into life-changing time, in a way that feels effortless because it’s fun!
Millions of people worldwide have massively improved the quality of of their lives with Anthony Robbin’s Personal Power system. They’ve made measureable differences: losing weight, increasing their incomes, vanquishing bad habits, creating magical relationships and more!
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Dale Carnegie - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Dale Carnegie - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (audiobook)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN:0671574582 | Genre: Self-Development | MP3 | 222 MB
Through Dale Carnegie’s six-million-copy bestseller recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry hobbit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today.
http://rapidshare.com/files/86403537/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86407671/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86408439/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part3.rar
Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People (audiobook)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN:0743544714 | Genre: Self-Development | MP3 | 180 MB
Financial success, as Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view and “arousing in the other person an eager want.” You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, “let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers,” and “talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks.
http://rapidshare.com/files/86413592/How_To_Win_Friends.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86418562/How_To_Win_Friends.part2.rar
Power Is Within You by Louise Hay
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Book Description
Louise Hay is now the diva of alternative healing and self-actualizing positive affirmation. But unlike some divas, Hay is warm, humble, loving, unassuming, and direct. This production contains a rewrite of some of Hay's early ideas and techniques, smoothly updated for 21st-century listeners. Even the most cynical and bitter souls would be hard-pressed to rap this collection entirely, as Hay never insists that anyone accept her teachings without question. Her transparent, personal reading in this clean, no-frills recording makes for listener comfort. In the crowded field of alternative healing audiobooks, Hay stands up to repeated plays and deserves a permanent place on your audio bookshelf.
http://rapidshare.com/files/2211406/Power_Within_You_.rar
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons
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“Dan Brown - Angels & Demons” [Audiobook]
mp3 32Kbps | 95 Mb | 7 hrs | Simon & Schuster Audio | Unabridged edition (March 22, 2004) | ISBN: 0743538277
It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller–think Katherine Neville’s The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati–dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism–is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society’s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared–only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra’s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author–there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances–readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. “Brain candy” it may be, but my! It’s tasty.
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Isaac Asimov - Foundation
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Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn’t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for “Best All-Time Series.” It’s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.
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Stephen R. Covey,”The 8th Habit”
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In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey’s classic book. The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option — survival in today’s world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it’s for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.
Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today’s new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set — in short, a whole new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit.
So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and undervalued — with little or no sense of voice or unique contribution. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul’s yearning for greatness, the organization’s imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity’s search for its “voice.” Profound, compelling, and stunningly timely, this groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age.
Covey’s new book will transform the way we think about ourselves and our purpose in life, about our organizations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.
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Steven Pinker - How The Mind Works
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How the Mind Works explains many of the imponderables of everyday life. Why does a face look more attractive with makeup? How do “Magic-Eye” 3-D stereograms work? Why do we feel that a run of heads makes the coin more likely to land tails? Why is the thought of eating worms disgusting? Why do men challenge each other to duels and murder their ex-wives? Why are children bratty? Why do fools fall in love? Why are we soothed by paintings and music? And why do puzzles like the self, free will, and consciousness leave us dizzy?
In this extraordinary book, Steven Pinker, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 bestseller The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit, clarity, and verve that earned The Language Instinct, worldwide critical acclaim and awards from major scientific societies.
Pinker explains the mind by “reverse-engineering” it—figuring out what natural selection designed it to accomplish in the environment in which we evolved. The mind, he writes, is a system of “organs of computation” that allowed our ancestors to understand and outsmart objects, animals, plants, and each other.
How the Mind Works explains many of the imponderables of everyday life. Why does a face look more attractive with makeup? How do “Magic-Eye” 3-D stereograms work? Why do we feel that a run of heads makes the coin more likely to land tails? Why is the thought of eating worms disgusting? Why do men challenge each other to duels and murder their ex-wives? Why are children bratty? Why do fools fall in love? Why are we soothed by paintings and music? And why do puzzles like the self, free will, and consciousness leave us dizzy?
This arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection. And he challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, that creativity springs from the unconscious, that nature is good and modern society corrupting, and that art and religion are expressions of our higher spiritual yearnings.
How the Mind Works presents a big picture, but it is not a personal musing; it is a grand synthesis of the most satisfying explanations of our mental life that have been proposed in cognitive science and evolutionary biology, with insights from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to economics and social psychology. It is also fascinating, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining.
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Anthony Robbins Personal Power II The Driving Force
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Anthony Robbins Personal Power II The Driving Force
Publisher: Robbins Research International | English | 25CDs Set | MP3 | 14 x 100MB | RS.com
Have you ever said to yourself “It’s Time for me to make a change in my life” -and then not follow through? Now it’s time to make a measurable and lasting change in your life!
What’s the secret? Anthony Robbins turns personal and perfessional achievement into step-by-step process you can master and measure over the course of 30 days. And it delivers with a level of passion, power, and playfullness that makes the process not only moving, but throughly enjoyable, You’ll listen to one tape per day over the course of 30 days.
And each day, Tony will help you make a small change so you establish what you need to know and what you need to do today to move yourself foward.
Your momentum is power. You will convert your “down” time-when your traveling, commuting, excercising-into life-changing time, in a way that feels effortless because it’s fun!
Millions of people worldwide have massively improved the quality of of their lives with Anthony Robbin’s Personal Power system. They’ve made measureable differences: losing weight, increasing their incomes, vanquishing bad habits, creating magical relationships and more!
http://rapidshare.com/files/75765496/Anthony_Robbins.part01.rar
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Dale Carnegie - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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Dale Carnegie - How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (audiobook)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN:0671574582 | Genre: Self-Development | MP3 | 222 MB
Through Dale Carnegie’s six-million-copy bestseller recently revised, millions of people have been helped to overcome the worry hobbit. Dale Carnegie offers a set of practical formulas you can put to work today.
http://rapidshare.com/files/86403537/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86407671/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86408439/How_To_Stop_Worrying.part3.rar
Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People
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Dale Carnegie - How To Win Friends and Influence People (audiobook)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio | ISBN:0743544714 | Genre: Self-Development | MP3 | 180 MB
Financial success, as Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view and “arousing in the other person an eager want.” You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, “let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers,” and “talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks.
http://rapidshare.com/files/86413592/How_To_Win_Friends.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/86418562/How_To_Win_Friends.part2.rar
Power Is Within You by Louise Hay
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Book Description
Louise Hay is now the diva of alternative healing and self-actualizing positive affirmation. But unlike some divas, Hay is warm, humble, loving, unassuming, and direct. This production contains a rewrite of some of Hay's early ideas and techniques, smoothly updated for 21st-century listeners. Even the most cynical and bitter souls would be hard-pressed to rap this collection entirely, as Hay never insists that anyone accept her teachings without question. Her transparent, personal reading in this clean, no-frills recording makes for listener comfort. In the crowded field of alternative healing audiobooks, Hay stands up to repeated plays and deserves a permanent place on your audio bookshelf.
http://rapidshare.com/files/2211406/Power_Within_You_.rar
Dan Brown - Angels & Demons
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“Dan Brown - Angels & Demons” [Audiobook]
mp3 32Kbps | 95 Mb | 7 hrs | Simon & Schuster Audio | Unabridged edition (March 22, 2004) | ISBN: 0743538277
It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller–think Katherine Neville’s The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati–dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism–is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society’s ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared–only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra’s daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author–there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances–readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. “Brain candy” it may be, but my! It’s tasty.
http://w14.easy-share.com/1699708986.html
http://w14.easy-share.com/1699709146.html
OR
http://rapidshare.com/files/95069959/Dan_Brown-Angels_Demons.part1.rar
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Isaac Asimov - Foundation
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Foundation marks the first of a series of tales set so far in the future that Earth is all but forgotten by humans who live throughout the galaxy. Yet all is not well with the Galactic Empire. Its vast size is crippling to it. In particular, the administrative planet, honeycombed and tunneled with offices and staff, is vulnerable to attack or breakdown. The only person willing to confront this imminent catastrophe is Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian and mathematician. Seldon can scientifically predict the future, and it doesn’t look pretty: a new Dark Age is scheduled to send humanity into barbarism in 500 years. He concocts a scheme to save the knowledge of the race in an Encyclopedia Galactica. But this project will take generations to complete, and who will take up the torch after him? The first Foundation trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation) won a Hugo Award in 1965 for “Best All-Time Series.” It’s science fiction on the grand scale; one of the classics of the field.
http://rapidshare.com/files/93595435/ISAAC_ASIMOV_-_FOUNDATION.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/93610537/ISAAC_ASIMOV_-_FOUNDATION.part2.rar
OR
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Stephen R. Covey,”The 8th Habit”
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In the more than fifteen years since its publication, the classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has become an international phenomenon with over fifteen million copies sold. Tens of millions of people in business, government, schools, and families, and, most important, as individuals have dramatically improved their lives and organizations by applying the principles of Stephen R. Covey’s classic book. The world, though, is a vastly changed place. The challenges and complexity we all face in our relationships, families, professional lives, and communities are of an entirely new order of magnitude. Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option — survival in today’s world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness. The call of this new era in human history is for greatness; it’s for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution.
Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today’s new reality requires a sea change in thinking: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set — in short, a whole new habit. The crucial challenge of our world today is this: to find our voice and inspire others to find theirs. It is what Covey calls the 8th Habit.
So many people feel frustrated, discouraged, unappreciated, and undervalued — with little or no sense of voice or unique contribution. The 8th Habit is the answer to the soul’s yearning for greatness, the organization’s imperative for significance and superior results, and humanity’s search for its “voice.” Profound, compelling, and stunningly timely, this groundbreaking new book of next-level thinking gives a clear way to finally tap the limitless value-creation promise of the Knowledge Worker Age.
Covey’s new book will transform the way we think about ourselves and our purpose in life, about our organizations, and about humankind. Just as The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People helped us focus on effectiveness, The 8th Habit shows us the way to greatness.
http://rapidshare.com/files/66426307/ebc_1567651178.rar
Steven Pinker - How The Mind Works
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How the Mind Works explains many of the imponderables of everyday life. Why does a face look more attractive with makeup? How do “Magic-Eye” 3-D stereograms work? Why do we feel that a run of heads makes the coin more likely to land tails? Why is the thought of eating worms disgusting? Why do men challenge each other to duels and murder their ex-wives? Why are children bratty? Why do fools fall in love? Why are we soothed by paintings and music? And why do puzzles like the self, free will, and consciousness leave us dizzy?
In this extraordinary book, Steven Pinker, one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists, does for the rest of the mind what he did for language in his 1994 bestseller The Language Instinct. He explains what the mind is, how it evolved, and how it allows us to see, think, feel, laugh, interact, enjoy the arts, and ponder the mysteries of life. And he does it with the wit, clarity, and verve that earned The Language Instinct, worldwide critical acclaim and awards from major scientific societies.
Pinker explains the mind by “reverse-engineering” it—figuring out what natural selection designed it to accomplish in the environment in which we evolved. The mind, he writes, is a system of “organs of computation” that allowed our ancestors to understand and outsmart objects, animals, plants, and each other.
How the Mind Works explains many of the imponderables of everyday life. Why does a face look more attractive with makeup? How do “Magic-Eye” 3-D stereograms work? Why do we feel that a run of heads makes the coin more likely to land tails? Why is the thought of eating worms disgusting? Why do men challenge each other to duels and murder their ex-wives? Why are children bratty? Why do fools fall in love? Why are we soothed by paintings and music? And why do puzzles like the self, free will, and consciousness leave us dizzy?
This arguments in the book are as bold as its title. Pinker rehabilitates unfashionable ideas, such as that the mind is a computer and that human nature was shaped by natural selection. And he challenges fashionable ones, such as that passionate emotions are irrational, that parents socialize their children, that creativity springs from the unconscious, that nature is good and modern society corrupting, and that art and religion are expressions of our higher spiritual yearnings.
How the Mind Works presents a big picture, but it is not a personal musing; it is a grand synthesis of the most satisfying explanations of our mental life that have been proposed in cognitive science and evolutionary biology, with insights from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to economics and social psychology. It is also fascinating, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining.
http://rapidshare.com/files/75765624/Steven_Pinker__How_The_Mind_Works.zip
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