Jeff Weiss
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2016
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English
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Forget about the hard bargain.
Whether you're discussing the terms of a high-stakes deal, forming a key partnership, asking for a raise, or planning a family event, negotiating can be stressful. One person makes a demand, the other concedes a point. In the end, you settle on a subpar solution in the middle-if you come to any agreement at all.
But these discussions don't need to be win-or-lose situations. Written by negotiation expert Jeff Weiss,...
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2013
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English
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Hip hop icons and rap innovators, the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur continue to influence, define, and change the genre years after their deaths. Despite the controversies surrounding the murders of Tupac and Biggie, ultimately it's their art that remains their biggest legacy. The music of Biggie Smalls and 2Pac has inspired the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye, Eminem, Dr. Dre, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross and more. The legacies of Tupac Shakur and Christopher...
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2025.
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English
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"A frenetic, gonzo account of Britney Spears's historic rise and equally tragic fall told by an iconoclastic music journalist. America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while...
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Publication Date
2016
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English
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The Muse d'Orsay; Paris, France. Among those partaking of the exhibit, an artist, an art collector and art critic, stroll through the museum, embracing the paintings that provide their inspiration, recognition, and position in French society.In a moment of creativity and levity, one of the men sees a way to rob the museum. However, with so much to lose, the idea is dismissed as ludicrous.They leave and separate. But when their lives fall apart due...
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2019
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English
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In the year 2133, Cyborgs run the world and humans are relegated to the lowest tasks. The prime directive of the Cyborgs is to protect the Earth, not man. People pollute and waste precious resources, and need creature comforts are being slowly eliminated.As a new generation of Cyborgs advance to the next level of competence, a commensurate number of human beings are eliminated until only a few are left to try to reestablish man's dominion.The human,...
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2016
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English
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This book is not simply about racetrack betting. It is about regaining control of your life. There is no such thing as a "career job" anymore. The average person has 6 jobs during their lifetime. When a person is let go, the average salary at their new position is 67% of their old salary.Companies today want more than your time. They want you to consider your job over your health and the welfare of your family. After all, there are a dozen more people...
8) Web War One
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2019
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English
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The U.S. is being subjected to a cyber attack. The country's infrastructure is crumbling. Air, rail, gas and electric services have ground to a halt. With banks unable to operate, ATMs out of money and store shelves bare of food, people are starting to loot and commit even more serious crimes. The U.S. is just days away from anarchy.A wealthy industrialist in China, Lee Han, has turned on hidden "logic bombs", which have broken all internet connections...
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2016
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When the Arab Spring revolutions began in Tunisia and Egypt in January of 2011, the Western media sang the praises of the coming of democracy, pluralism, and capitalism. They, and the American government, ignored the clear signs that the winners in the overthrow of monarchies and dictatorships would be pro-sharia, Islamists, radical Jihadists. Less than three years later, the Middle East and Africa was in flames. Every change has brought bloody violence,...
10) The Order
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2019
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English
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A series of suspicious suicides draws co-protagonist Paul Decker and co-protagonist, Washington Star reporter, Rebecca Novak, together to investigate. What starts out as a local issue morphs into a conspiracy of such magnitude as to pit them against a group that wants nothing more than to establish a new world order: one government, one military, one currency, one education system.The group, known as "The Order", is headed by a man said to be 115...
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2016
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English
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There are currently two hundred thousand North Korean citizens held in prison camps, where they are beaten, starved and executed, while the government squanders the nation's resources on weapons and luxuries for the ruling elite.Kim Tong-ung is fighting an internal battle with his military advisors who seek to placate Kim and limit his ability to provoke a war that will leave North Korea a dust bowl where only cockroaches survive.The United States...
12) The Euro Option
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2016
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English
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Fact:A few days before 9/11, a number of unidentified people invested heavily in the stocks of American and Untied Airlines and Transamerica Insurance. They bought "put options" in the belief that the stocks would drop in price. After the attack, those individuals made $22.7 million dollars. No one was ever investigated or brought to justice.Fast forward to the present:A brilliant economist, antagonist Willem Coetzee, has been fired and disgraced...
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2016
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English
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The CERN* Laboratory, near Geneva, runs the Large Hadron Collider**: the greatest scientific instrument ever built by man.There are many questions and concerns as to what will be discovered. And now inexplicable things are occurring at CERN. Three researchers are missing: disappeared without a trace. Men of sound mind have seen apparitions.The Collider has brought forth an entity from another dimension that offers answers to the great remaining scientific...
14) The Death Zone
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2019
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English
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The remnants of ISIS have been planning a series of great strikes against the infidels. Working with limited resources, men and money, they are devising multiple operations that, if successful, may kill millions, possibly hundreds of millions of people guilty of nothing more that worshiping a different god.President James P. Hardessy enlists the help of protagonist Paul Decker to track down the Marburg virus that has been transported to Kathmandu,...
15) We the People
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2016
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English
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It has been six years since the constitution was suspended. People are required to have chips implanted in their arms in order to make any legal purchases. Cameras and listening devices are hard wired into homes and apartments. The jails, run by private contractors, are in every major city. Always full, new facilities continually under construction.All copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights have been deleted or shredded. It is illegal to possess...
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2016
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English
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A new American President has been elected on a wave of fear: fear of war with an emerging China and re-emerging Russia, and the old wars on terror and drugs.The government's greatest concern is not al Qaeda, ISIS, Iran, China or Russia; rather, it is deemed to be American citizens who might rise up and attempt to overthrow an increasingly totalitarian government.There are those who know the wars are trumped up and an excuse for spying on U.S. citizens...
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2016
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English
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The newest scientific field of study is synthetic biology: the implanting of the DNA of one organism into another life form. Already this has led to miraculous cures.However, there is a dark side as well. A brilliant geneticist, Jonah Devlin, CEO of Evolution Industries has infused Neanderthal DNA into the Marburg virus. And, using his desalinated water and lab-grown meat as a conduit for the virus, he will infect the entire population. People will...
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2016
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The briefcase, AKA the football, containing the go codes for the U.S. nuclear arsenal is carried by military aides who always accompany the President and Vice-President.Paul Decker, distant husband, estranged father, alcoholic, has been pulled from active duty to state-side assignment: aide to the vice-president. A position he hopes to ride out till his retirement.In a strike on Washington, a terrorist group known as "Black Bear" gets away with the...
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2019
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English
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Since the time of Galileo Galiliei five hundred years ago, man has searched the heavens for an answer to the question, "Are we alone?"With the start of the SETI Project in 1984, man took the first serious step to find extraterrestrial life.Finally, in the year 2067 A.D., comes a response. Planet 6 in the Ceti-Alpha star system, in the Aquarius Constellation of the Milky Way Galaxy has sent a message. However, it is a symbols-based language.A team...
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2016
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English
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The drug wars have left 160,000 dead in the past six years. But the war is no closer to an end..Each time the Mexican police make some headway, the cartels gain more sophisticated arms and tactics. While the federales vastly outnumber them, the cartels seem to anticipate their every move.Into that maelstrom walks Paul Decker and his new family. Paul has retired from the CIA and desires no more than to raise his family, regain his peace of mind, and...




