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The three tales in this audiobook are adapted from stories told by the peasants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are drawn from some books I found in shops when I visited the former USSR in 1988 as part of a citizen diplomacy group. I was intrigued by these folktales, since my paternal grandmother lived for some time in Odessa in the Ukraine. Also, I found these stories share a common theme - the poor peasant is able to succeed despite obstacles against an unfair ruler.

WOMEN IN PRISON: GETTING LOCKED UP, BEING A MOTHER OR IN A MINORITY GROUP, AND GETTING OUT is the first in a series of books about women in prison; their relationships with partners, children, and parents; everyday life in prison; the experience of women from minority groups; and the reentry process. It also provides recommendations on how to improve prison conditions and what prisons can do to better prepare women to adjust to life after prison and have a better life. It includes some information about women in jails, too. The chapters in this first book in the series includes the ...

Trump Is Nuts! features Trump as many kinds of nuts, such as cashew nuts, almond nuts, pistachio nuts, and of course, mixed-up nuts as well as nut cases and nuthouses. And just like there have been Trump Steaks and Trump Vodka, maybe a line of Trump Nuts will be next. Each illustration is combined with satiric copy describing how Trump is this kind of nut. An audio companion to the print book.

THE SCAM GAME is one of a series of card games and communication games that are designed to be both entertaining and stimulate discussion about these topics. They can be played just for fun at a party or to have a serious discussion. The games are based on books and films about scams, prisons, crime, success, current trends, history, and other topics.

THE AI EXPERIENCE is one of a series of card games and communication games that are designed to be both entertaining and stimulate discussion about these topics. They can be played just for fun at a party or to have a serious discussion. The games are based on books and films about scams, crime, success, current trends, history, and other topics.

Do you want to build your business? Get more customers or clients? Have better relationships in the workplace? The Dog Type system can help you have more success in your business or the workplace, since it helps you adapt your approach to the style of whoever you are dealing or working with. There are four basic Dog Types in a system that builds on other personality type systems - Myers-Briggs, DISC, and the red-yellow-blue-green color profile.

Once upon a time, people wrote fables featuring untrustworthy ravens, wicked wolves, insincere monkeys, and power-hungry lions. Told repeatedly through generations and spread throughout the world, classic stories abound in which noble heroes and heroines matched wits with these typically treacherous beasts. But what's that you say? You feel as though you're surrounded by just these sorts of characters at work? Well, you're not alone.

REAL OR FAKE? WORLD TRAVELER: CHINA, INDIA, AND JAPAN is a card game in which players learn facts about the China, India, and Japan that a tour guide might tell a tourist, and other players have to tell whether that information is true or false. Players get points if correct, and when the game ends, the player with the most points wins.

Feelings of anger are pervasive, since it is often comes from fear or confronting an obstacle to a goal. While it often has negative consequences, such as problems in a relationship or at work and escalating conflicts, at other times, it can fuel creative and positive change in oneself, in one's relationship, and in society as a whole. So a good strategy is to control and manage that anger by acting from choice and wisdom. For anger can contribute to one's survival and success when used effectively.

The Basic Guide to Turning Your Interviews, Articles, Presentations, and Exhibits Into a Video provides a step-by-step guide to creating videos from your interviews, articles, blogs, presentations, and other written material to gain more visibility and authority. The videos help to draw attention to whatever you are doing and help viewers want to learn more about you and your work. Once you create these videos, you can promote them in various ways.

What's Your Personality Type features a new approach to understanding yourself and others. You can use it to better communicate with others, improve your relationships in your personal life and at work, increase your business, and just have fun. It’s based on knowing the types of dogs you and others like the most and least. You can use this system both for personal growth and self-development and in business to better deal with customers, clients, and co-workers and build a more effective team.

10 Ways to Use Speaking to Get Clients and Make Sales describes different ways to create and promote different types of speaking programs, from doing local talks and keynote speeches to creating audio and video recording of talks and getting paid. The book is targeted at authors, consultants, and small business owners.

The Vision Board Book provides a way to create your vision board in a book, in which you envision what you want and decide what action steps to take to get it. But instead of creating your vision on a large board, usually about 24"x36," you create it in an 8.5"x11" book. Perhaps think of this book like a visual journal or diary in which you record your hopes and dreams and later look back from time to time. But now you have a separate book which you can focus on each day and use to keep track of how you are doing, as well as motivate you to go after and make real what you want.

How Coyote Brought Winter into the World is an adaptation of a Native American folktale told by the Zuni. In the story, Coyote brings winter by letting the sun escape from a box he steals from an Indian village during a dance celebration. Can he get it back with Eagle’s help, and what will happen if he doesn’t get it?

10 Ways to Analyze Your Own Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats describes how you can do your own SWOT analysis, a tool used by organizations and corporations to make decisions on improving the organization and its products and services to increase sales and profits. You can also use a SWOT analysis to improve yourself, your performance, and your work. It features 10 tips on how to do this to become a better you. The goal is to build on your strengths, overcome key weaknesses, take advantage of opportunities, and confront or avoid any threats.

Top Tips for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety features quotes showing the many ways you can confront and overcome your fear and anxiety. It includes these topics: The danger of fear, conquering and overcoming fear, having courage, do it anyway, understanding your fears, changing your mindset, and techniques for overcoming your fears.

How to Write, Publish, and Promote Your Website, Blogs, and Books introduces a company that can help you with all types of writing and publishing - from books and scripts to blogs and website copy.

REAL OR FAKE? WORLD TRAVELER: SPAIN AND PORTUGAL is a game in which players hear facts about these countries that a tour guide might tell a tourist, and have to tell whether that information is true or false. You’ll also learn some amazing facts about the customs and traditions in Spain and Portugal as you play the game. For 2 to 8 players, age 12 to adult. It’s one of a series of games in a book by ALB Games: albgames.net.

10 Keys for Doing Your Own Film Distribution describes the many advantages of doing your own distribution when you haven’t found a distributor, or to help you find a distributor. It also provides an overview of the many different platforms for distributing your film, from contacting retail channels, to setting up your own showings and selling off your website.

The Neanderthals Return combines the beginnings of three separate books in the return of the Neanderthal series - The Neanderthals Are Back, The New World Neanderthals: The Rise of the Force, and The Rise of the Gang. These will ultimately be three separate books with 10 or more additional chapters in each book. Each chapter features a complete episode as in a TV series, featuring a group of Neanderthals, and each book builds on the previous book in the series.