The Three Monsters That Destroy Your Career

This book highlights the three key habits that need to be developed - or managed - in order for you to have a successful career. The tips in this book helps you go inside the mind of your boss and understand what he thinks This book offers you opportunities to create value for your boss with a leader mindset. All this can come to fruition by simply identifying and destroying three common but deadly habits that prevent you from becoming the best that you can be in your job. These habits are the Three Monsters – Fear, Ignorance and Pride. Don’t just be another worker on the assembly line of life when you can become an extraordinary talent on your way to building a successful career from Day One in your first job. You start that journey with learning to destroy these Three Monsters.

One of the New York Post's Top 10 Career Books of 2012 and a Booklist Top 10 Business Book DO YOU WORK WITH A MEAN GIRL? A woman’s field guide to the new frontier of professional development—working with other women Women-to-women relationships in the workplace are . . . complicated. When they’re good, they’re great. But when they’re bad, they can ruin your day, your week—even your year. Packed with proven advice from two of today’s leading experts in workplace relationships, this one-of-a-kind guide gives women the tools they need to navigate difficult situations unique to women-to-women relationships—whether with a boss, a colleague, a client, or an employee. Have you dealt with a woman in the workplace who: “Accidentally” excludes you from important meetings? Seems intent on taking you down professionally? Gossips about you with other coworkers? Makes you look bad by missing deadlines? Forms a “pack” of mean girls to make your life miserable? Mean Girls at Work isn’t just about surviving difficult situations. It’s about transforming a toxic relationship into one that benefits and supports both of you. This book is also for women who engage in mean behavior . . . but don’t know it. After all, who hasn’t gossiped about a female coworker? Who hasn’t rolled her eyes in the presence of a woman she doesn’t like? Who hasn’t scanned another woman head to toe—which is just a nonverbal way of saying, “You’ve just been judged”? The authors provide invaluable advice to the more subtle ways of being mean—even if they’re not intended. With a workforce composed of a higher percentage of women than ever, workplace dynamics have changed. Crowley and Elster cover every conceivable scenario, providing critical advice on how to rise above the fray and move forward professionally. Mean Girls at Work is your map to dodging the mines and moving forward in today’s transformed workplace. Praise for Mean Girls at Work “An invaluable suit of armor for surviving nine to five!” —Leil Lowndes, bestselling author of How to Talk to Anyone “If you think the emotional cruelty of comedies like Mean Girls and Heathers doesn’t exist in the real world workplace, think again. In Mean Girls at Work, Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster valuably chronicle female vs. female predators and offer solid defensive strategies.” —Ann Kreamer, author of It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace “Whether you are in your twenties and just starting your professional career, your midcareer forties, when you are supposed to have figured it out already, or a woman in her fifties or sixties who’s seen it all—this book is a must-read. . . . The authors have finally given women the tools and the sound advice necessary to deal with . . . conflicts that keep us all from succeeding. . . . Carry this book with you to work every day!” —Carolyn Cassin, President, Michigan Women’s Foundation “A must-read for women of all ages in today’s workforce. This book offers what we all need to develop the capacities to endure this ever-changing workplace. We know it is all about relationships and you need the skills outlined in this book to survive and thrive when the Mean Girls attack.” —Kim Harrington, Coordinator, Professional Development and Training, Office of Human Resources, California State University, Sacramento

Just as there was no man on earth like Job, there is no book on earth like the book of Job. In this new commentary, biblical scholar Michael Brown brings Job to life for the twenty-first-century reader, exploring the raw spirituality of Job, his extraordinary faith, his friends’ theological errors, the mysteries of God’s speeches, and the unique answers to the problem of suffering offered in the book of Job. Undergirded by solid Hebrew scholarship but written with clarity for all serious students of Scripture, the commentary provides an important introduction to the study of Job, a new translation, a series of theological reflections, and additional exegetical essays providing in-depth discussion of key passages. Additional topics covered in the theological reflections include: • Challenging God as an Act of Faith • How Would Job Comfort a Sufferer? • Who Was the Satan? • Job and Jesus • Job and the New Atheists

In Reading the Bible with Horror, Brandon R. Grafius takes the reader on a whirlwind tour through the dark corners of the Hebrew Bible. Along the way, he stops to place the monstrous Leviathan in conversation with contemporary monster theory, uses Derrida to help explore the ghosts that haunt the biblical landscape, and reads the House of David as a haunted house. Conversations arise between unexpected sources, such as the Pentateuch legal texts dealing with female sexuality and Carrie. Throughout the book, Grafius asks how the Hebrew Bible can be both sacred text and tome of fright, and he explores the numerous ways in which the worlds of religion and horror share uncomfortable spaces.

The NASB Minister's Bible is the perfect "on-the-go" Bible to equip pastors, counselors, pastoral caregivers, lay teachers-everyone active in Christian service. Pairing the ultra-precise New American Standard Bible text with a rich array of unique resources, it helps them meet the challenges of everyday ministry opportunities as well as manage its stresses. Features include a practical guide to visitation; sample services for weddings, funerals, and baptisms; a step-by-step plan of salvation; quick-find scripture references to answer tough questions; and more. Ministry helps were previously published in The NIV Pastor's Bible and have now been thoroughly updated. This is the Bible that ministers are asking for! The only NASB Bible targeted specifically to ordained as well as lay ministers Sturdy sewn binding will give years of hard-wearing service Slimmer size in beautiful genuine leather binding is easy to carry anywhere Field-tested ministry helps meet the unique needs of pastors and other ministers Step-by-step plan of salvation and quick-find scripture references to answer tough questions Cross-references Concordance Black letter text Two ribbon markers.

"The Bible to take with you-- wherever your ministry takes you!" The NASB Minister's Bible is the perfect "on-the-go" Bible to equip pastors, counselors, pastoral caregivers, lay teachers--everyone active in Christian service. Pairing the ultra-precise New American Standard Bible text with a rich array of unique resources, it helps them meet the challenges of everyday ministry opportunities as well as manage its stresses. Features include a practical guide to visitation; sample services for weddings, funerals, and baptisms; a step-by-step plan of salvation; quick-find scripture references to answer tough questions; and more. Ministry helps were previously published in The NIV Pastor's Bible and have now been thoroughly updated. This is the Bible that ministers are asking for! - The only NASB Bible targeted specifically to ordained as well as lay ministers - Sturdy sewn binding will give years of hard-wearing service - Slimmer size in beautiful genuine leather binding is easy to carry anywhere - Field-tested ministry helps meet the unique needs of pastors and other ministers - Step-by-step plan of salvation and quick-find scripture references to answer tough questions - Updated 1995 edition of the NASB translation - Cross-references - Concordance - Black letter text - One ribbon marker

This book, "traces the evolution of mythic symbols in American popular culture as shown in movies and on TV from 1939-1999."--dust jacket.

Runaways in southern Japan are stripping the flesh from their victims, and only a disgraced former detective can stop the spreading madness in this dark and thrilling sequel to The Drowning God. It’s been three years since security guard Tohru Takuda and his reluctant band of monster hunters defeated the Kappa of the Naga River. Now, a mysterious artifact is driving innocents in Southern Japan to flay their friends alive, and the grisly murders turn Takuda’s world upside down. Disheartened and impoverished, he struggles to lead his rag-tag team to find the artifact before it poisons the entire nation. Takuda is caught between the police, the bloodthirsty murderers, and forces conspiring to harness the artifact’s horrible powers. And all the while, he must watch his back, because the most dangerous killer may be lurking among his own men…