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Every president started out as a kid! Forget the legends, tall tales, and historic achievements - before they were presidents, the future leaders of the United States had regular-kid problems just like you. John F. Kennedy hated his big brother. Lyndon Johnson pulled pranks in class. Barack Obama was bothered by bullies. And Bill Clinton was crazy clumsy (he once broke his leg jumping rope). Kid Presidents tells all of their stories and more in these hilarious biographies. History has never been this much fun!

Forget the gold medals, the championships, and the undefeated seasons. When all-star athletes were growing up, they had regular-kid problems just like you. Baseball legend Babe Ruth was such a troublemaker that his family sent him to reform school. Race-car champion Danica Patrick fended off bullies who told her “girls can’t drive”. And football superstar Peyton Manning was forced to dance the tango in his school play.

At the same time that we are trying to enjoy our life, we are also constantly worrying about it. We worry about our careers, our social lives, our health and finances; we worry about everything that is happening in our lives, and in the world around us. Sometimes, these worries seem to overshadow our joys in life. This audiobook is about learning to love your life - exactly the way that it is at this moment. This audiobook is about teaching you to be satisfied with your life, to enjoy it by changing some simple and basic habits!

The half-mad explorer Dante Caruso swears he’s found a fabled Russian relic called the Amber Room, and he’s attracting the wrong kind of attention. A ruthless team of Ukrainian relic hunters called R24 has kidnapped him and his family; they want to know where the Amber Room is - and they’ll spill blood to find it. Nobody knows treasure hunting like Guy Bodie and his crew. But abduction is the last thing they expect.

Most small-business marketing sucks, and if you are willing to be honest, you probably do not have a reliable marketing system that dependably delivers new and returning customers or clients. Most business owners are floundering when it comes to advertising and marketing because they have never been exposed to the fundamentals of direct response marketing. Many small-business owners and solopreneurs struggle as they repeatedly make the same mistakes. They are working harder at the wrong things, which traps them in the same discouraging situations.

Filled with catchall research, American Hemp examines what this new domestic crop can be used for, what makes it a superior product, and what made it illegal in the first place; the book also delves into the many health and medical benefits of the plant. Hobbs weighs in on how hemp can improve existing industries, from farming to energy to 3D printing, plus how it can make a serious impact on climate change by removing toxins from the soil and by decreasing our dependence on plastics and fossil fuels.

In Eye of the Irmacane, author Jeremy Croston gives his firsthand look at the days leading up to the storm and then surviving the storm itself from Altamonte Springs, Florida. In an attempt to give listeners as much information as possible, real conversations with his wife and co-workers are included as they discuss the best options possible. Blending his trademark humor with a very real look at the dangers a storm of Irma’s magnitude possesses, Jeremy brings you into the Eye of the Irmacane without ever having to leave the safety of your preferred listening method.

My underlying thesis here is incredibly simple: Great leaders decide what they want. They take the time to determine what great looks like, and then they devise a process to get there. The chapters in this book contain various tools and techniques to help you put this idea into effect and to drive home my central premise, the idea that I hope every listener takes away from this book: "You get what you settle for if you don't know what you want."

In marketing, one brand is always trying to outwit, out-advertise, and outspend its competitors, often costing millions of dollars to build their brand equity or brand value. It’s because the better we recognize a brand, the better we relate to that brand, the higher the value that brand has in our minds, and the safer we feel purchasing that brand. The higher the brand value in the minds of the consumers, the more those prospects will purchase that brand, generating greater revenues for that brand company. Brand value is in the mind of the customer.

This three-part audiobook is about everything you will ever want to know about spam. In Part I, I look at all of the different kinds of "unsolicited commercial messages" and how our tolerances for each vastly differs from total acceptance to $50,000 fines for the same type of message. In Part II, Gary Thuerk, the Father of Email, tells his story how the world's first spam email message was sent. Part III of the audiobook delivers the actual email message itself, the very first spam message. And there's even a section in here that will explain how spam became know as...spam!

During the 30+ years of my career, I’ve built 14 companies. Some were mushroom-cloud failures, while others were very successful. Throughout this process, some of my decisions led to success and others led to the mushroom clouds. I analyzed and questioned those decisions to determine what would have taken me down a different path.

I discovered fusion marketing as a result of constantly being asked in interviews, “So, what comes after social media?” I would think to myself, “Social media has change the way the world markets, sells, and communicates forever. And, it has caused us to change at speeds we have never seen before with technology”, and you want to know what’s next? I decided to take that question on as a personal challenge.

In 2002, acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan’s groundbreaking book LAbyrinth ignited a firestorm with its startling disclosures about corruption in the LAPD. It told the story of Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective, who uncovered a cabal of “gangsta cops” tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious rap label, Death Row Records, and allegedly to the murders of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. Over 20 years later, no one has been held accountable for their killings.

Breakthroughs in genetics present us with a promise and a predicament. The promise is that we will soon be able to treat and prevent a host of debilitating diseases. The predicament is that our newfound genetic knowledge may enable us to manipulate our nature - to enhance our genetic traits and those of our children. Although most people find at least some forms of genetic engineering disquieting, it is not easy to articulate why.

We exist as a tiny fragment of an immensely larger interlocking whole in which all of the parts are interconnected and depend upon each other for survival. Life, an interrelated interdependent phenomenon, has behavioral demands. These demands can be summarized in seven words. These seven words have the power to change life as we know it: The way we govern. The laws we enact. The way we do business. The way we treat employees, our environment, each other, and ourselves. When we follow these seven words, our lives change. As many of our lives change, our world changes.

This book is all about spreading positivity and promotion of self-love. And let's be frank, I'm not an expert, or a master at self-love. Think of this book as friendly advice - you can take it or leave it! No hurt feelings here. I don't think anyone truly is an expert of self-love. But let's talk about it. Let's work at it and fail, then try again. Let's have enough self-love to love others. Let's be courageous enough to practice self-reflection and true honesty with ourselves.

Innovative thinking is very popular right now - and for good reason. Corporate America is beginning to realize the importance of innovative thinking and how it allows us to be leaders in world technology by being more creative and competitive. Innovative thinking is more than retaining or growing market share; it’s about creating new products and services, discovering new markets for existing products and services, and improving existing products and services, which all result in greater revenues.

You can't turn on the television these days without the term erectile dysfunction, ED, or of late, PD (Peyronies Disease) being hurled out at you with the purpose of selling drugs or advice about getting back in the ball game or re-achieving your erection, men. Us guys know how important it is to connect with your loved one through intimacy and 99 times out of 100, this requires a male penile erection for the satisfaction of both the male himself, and his partner.

As one of the NYPD’s most trusted “tin badges” - retired detectives brought in to solve cases that are beyond the reach of the everyday force - Tank Rizzo has faced off against some of the city’s toughest criminals without breaking a sweat. To tackle a case involving a dangerous kingpin known as Gonzo, Tank turns to his best friend and ex-partner, Pearl; a former mobster living out a seemingly quiet retirement as the owner of Tank’s favorite Italian restaurant; and a team of expert misfits he would trust with his life. But Gonzo won't hesitate to make it personal.

At the age of 61, Sydney Greenstreet made one of the most memorable debuts in classic cinema as the mysterious Kaspar Gutman in The Maltese Falcon (1941). His performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination. Born in England, Greenstreet had enjoyed a 40-year stage career which encompassed everything from Shakespeare to musical comedy and some of the most acclaimed plays of the 1930s. His film career lasted a mere eight years but included the timeless Casablanca (1942) and saw him teamed to great effect with the inimitable Peter Lorre.