Steven Roberts
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Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional endeavors.
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The Architect of Excellence is a groundbreaking approach to the art of personal growth and modern leadership expressed through a unique method of story telling and lessons of contextual and interactive learning. Through the process of identifying and relating to atypical professional behavior types and styles, you will begin to consciously identify the way in which individuals are able to transform and align with one another through modeling key behaviors,...
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Friends. Fun. Romance. Drama. Danger. Tragedy. High School.
High School Writing Project 2.0 features short stories written by high school students about teenage characters. The stories in this edition touch on a variety of subjects including teenage suicide, mental illness, superstition, romance, and ESP.
Short stories included in the anthology:
Everything To Live For by Steven Roberts - When a distraught high school senior decides to end his...
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New York Times bestselling author Steven V. Roberts follows the stories of thirteen immigrant families in From Every End of This Earth, a poignant and eye-opening look at immigration in America today. He captures the voices of those living the promise of a new land-and the difficulties of starting over among strangers whose suspicions increasingly outweigh their open-armed acceptance. As the political debate rages on, Roberts sheds light on the enormous...
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From Steven V. Roberts comes My Fathers' Houses, a memoir of growing up in Bayonne, New Jersey, an immigrant community in the shadow of the Statue if Liberty, and the story of how his father and his grandfather's dreams–and their own passion for writing and ideas–influenced Steven's future, and inspired him to seek his fortune in New York City, the media capital of the world.
This is a story of a town and a time and a boy who grew up there,...
6) Football Financial Planning: Using the Gridiron to Understand Insurance, Investments, And Banking
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The world of finance, with all its products and terms, can be confusing and intimidating. With so many options and complications, procrastination and wrong decisions are too often the result. In Football Financial Planning, Steven C. Roberts brilliantly uses football as a metaphor to help you understand the players (products) that will help you put a winning game plan together. Readers will learn: Which financial products are essential to a strong...
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Monsters of many types have long been the focus of rumors and folktales around the world. People tell stories about dragons in many cultures, and tales from the European Middle Ages speak of these giant lizards stealing livestock and fighting knights. Vampires of various sorts are also said to live in the midst of humans, existing for centuries. The chupacabra, also known as the "goat sucker," is a legendary creature of the Americas. It's a vampire-like...
9) Bigfoot!
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Discusses the Bigfoot legend, the many people who claimed to have seen the ape man, and the theories people have used to explain Bigfoot.
10) Dragons!
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Discusses the tale of the Lindworm of Klagenfurt, a medieval story about a dragon that terrorized the Austrian town of Klagenfurt until it was killed by four men.
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Born to a noble family, Coronado still had to make his own fortune. Going on a quest, he crisscrossed the southwestern United States in search of the "seven cities of gold." Although he never found the cities, he was the first European to see the Grand Canyon and a multitude of other natural wonders.
12) John Cabot
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John Cabot, an Italian navigator who sailed for Britain, was the first European to set foot on North America since the Vikings. Follow Cabot on his explorations to Newfoundland and back, until he puzzlingly doesn't return from his third voyage.
13) Vampires!
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Discusses the case of Arnold Paole, an eighteenth century man from Serbia who was allegedly a vampire and whose vampirism is responsible for a famous Austrian report written by Johannes Fluckinger.
14) The undead!
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Dorothy and Robert, who love to watch scary movies, visit their grandfather's farm, where Grandpa entertains them with legends from many lands about vampires and zombies.
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After thirty years together, Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know how to write about it. In From This Day Forward, Cokie and Steve weave their personal stories of matrimony into a wider reflection on the state of marriage in American today. Here they write with the same conversational style that catapulted Cokie's We Are Our Mother's Daughters to the top of the New York...
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How do you create your own definition of success - and reach your unique potential?
Building a fulfilling life and career can be a daunting challenge. It takes courage and hard work. Too often, we charge down a path leading to "success" as defined by those around us - and ultimately, are left feeling dissatisfied.
Each of us is unique and brings distinctive skills and qualities to any situation. So why is it that most of us fail to spend sufficient...
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"What makes a leader? Can you really learn to lead? You might think that leaders need to be born with the right skills or personality attributes. Perhaps you believe you don't have the right experience or that you need to hold an important job to be a leader. Maybe you believe you need permission to lead. As Harvard Business School professor and business executive Robert Steven Kaplan explains in this powerful new book, leadership is accessible to...
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Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers-and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization's effectiveness.
In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, leadership expert Robert Kaplan presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems,...





