books about: essentials

books about: essentials

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Essentials

Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

New World Library, 2001

Another spiritual inspiration.
This is a wonderful companion piece to "The Power of Now". Meditation is a great stress reliever. And not worrying about where you came from or where you are going is the key to enjoying the present moment. great book.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Chris Orwig

Adobe Press, 2008

Great support tool
Experienced and intermediate Lightroom users will find this a great reference. It's an excellent support tool, topically organized, in the order of Lightroom's modules and tools. If you need help with a particular tool, like the new gradient filter, it's simple to go ...

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Christopher Hitchens

Da Capo Press, 2007

Thank You Mr. Hitchens
While I believe no philosophical idea or scientific explanation can ever put to rest the idea of god, let alone the possibility, The Portable Atheist is a brilliant collection of examples in which people have used the idea of god through religion to intimidate, ...

Essential Words for the GRE (Barron's Essential Words)

Philip Geer

Barron's Educational Series, 2007

The Best
This book is very well organized, this book will help you to learn and memorize numerous words in short period. Each unit contains 10 words with explanation and examples, after that, there are some exercises that helps to memorize the words. In just 1 week, I ...

The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most ...

Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

An extraordinary book!
I recently added this book to my cookbook collection, which numbers more than 1,000 volumes (probably more like 1200 but I'm still cataloging). It has immediately become one of my favorites (and definitely my #1 favorite in English). If you are a serious cook, love ...

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Collins Business ...

Clayton M. Christensen

Collins Business, 2003

Disrupt your competitors, not your customers!
With the Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen delivers a very powerful analysis of the role of innovation in gaining market leadership. The question raised is whether market leadership can be sustained through innovation alone. Indeed, the core of the Innovator's ...

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Collins Business Essentials)

Robert B. Cialdini

Collins Business, 2007

Everyone Should Read This
I bought this book based on a reference in Secrets of the A Game by Logan Edwards. This is a fascinating book on mass psychology and you'll be left rethinking old assumptions and filtering life through a new lens. It's that powerful. I originally purchased this ...

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)

Thomas Paine

Signet Classics, 2003

Freedom and Rights of man
I have read much on the history of our beautiful country and also of other countries as well. This book by Thomas Paine "COMMON SENSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN" is an extraordinary out line of how man should form his government and live in harmony with his fellow man ...

The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

Peter Ferdinand Drucker

Collins Business, 2006

Timeless, practical advice, immediately implementable
In this short book are some of the most trenchant, clearly-written statements on how to be an effective executive ever written. It contains some philosophical statements, more real-world examples, and most importantly, it details actions the executive can take to ...

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan

Knopf, 1992

An essential book for a beginning chef...
...I've referred to this book over the years for technique and authenticity of Italian cooking...it is a wonderful book. I agree that it is on par with Julia Child's French cookbook. I've made many of the recipes and they are fabulous....the poached shrimp, easy and ...

The World's Healthiest Foods, Essential Guide for the Healthiest Way of Eating

George Mateljan

World's Healthiest Foods, 2006

A MUST have!!
This is such a great book! Since having it I've eaten things I never thought I would enjoy but found out they taste so yummy! Everything is quick to make too!

DeMark Indicators (Bloomberg Market Essentials: Technical Analysis)

Jason Perl

Bloomberg Press, 2008

An Essential Guide to TD Indicators
I've been struggling for weeks now to recreate many of Demark's indicators for the Ninjatrader platform in C# - relying soley on the original explainations in Tom Demark's book. There are a lot of very detailed logic rules for these indicators that , if you blink, ...

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore

Collins Business, 2002

Crossing the Chasm
I've bought copies of Crossing the Chasm for two customers and one associate. I guess that means I'm impressed. Few books, IMHO, can have a profound "life altering" effect on a business. E-Myth Revisited was one. This is another. It provides a very well thought out ...

Essential Oils Desk Reference

Essential Science Pub, 2007

Lost Without This
This book is full of scientific information on the purity of essential oils and how to tell the difference between adulterated oils and pure therapeutic grade oils. It teaches the use of Young Living essential oils as following the French model of usage being that of ...

The Wine Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Oenological Knowledge

David Kamp, David Lynch

Broadway, 2008

Fun, Funny, and Useful wine guide
No surprise: David Kamp has produced the perfect pairing for his Food Snob's Dictionary, which was the much-appreciated holiday gift to all my fancy foodie friends last season. This oenological guide from an author whose specialties include food, pop culture, and humor ...