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A shrewd and hilarious call to arms for the generation that fell between the cracks

Jammed in between the garish showboating of the baby boomers and the tabloid- trash stunts of the millennials, the discerning generation that gave us Yahoo! and Nirvana has been quietly and inexorably changing the face of American culture. The men and women who came of age in the era of Lollapalooza have been underrepresented for too long in pop sociology, but reporter and essayist Jeff Gordinier argues that it’s time for the slackers to rise up and take charge. Taking off from his controversial Details essay “Has Generation X Already Peaked?” Gordinier takes the reader along on an enthralling, eye-opening journey—from the expatriate garrets of Prague to the amped-up offices of dot-com San Francisco, from the muddy fields of Woodstock ’94 to the celebrity-obsessed media machine of Us Weekly—in his quest to find the essence of X. Along the way he shows how Gen X innovations in art, comedy, technology, activism, and (gasp!) business have come to define the way we live now. A proud, accomplished, and unrepentant X-er, Jeff Gordinier writes with insight and biting wit about the generation that time forgot—and makes a convincing case for Gen X as maybe, secretly, the “greatest generation” of all. Like Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and The Tipping Point, X Saves the World flips conventional wisdom on its head and expertly captures the spirit of a strange and crucial era in American society..
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Bring Your Homebased Business Back to Life!

Is your homebased business suffering from the business-killing disease of stagnation? Have you found that while you dedicate yourself 24/7 to moving your business forward, you just stay right where you are-or worse, you're beginning to fall behind?

Successful business owner Jeffrey Landers provides the defibrillator you need to jump-start your business and bring it back to life in just 100 days. This is not about a messy desk or unorganized files. This is about getting your business to operate at its true potential.

"Jeff has put together a nuts and bolts guide to getting unstuck from your dreary home office existence. Now it's up to you to get going."

-Seth Godin, co-author, Guerrilla Marketing for the Homebased Business

“Easy to read, fun to page through and packed with great advice for homebased entrepreneurs who want to make their business visions a reality. Jeff Landers can help you have a much better business.”

-W. Kenneth Yancey Jr., CEO of SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business

"Jeff Landers treats a serious subject with humor, style and wisdom. If you have a home office, his cure is just what the home office doctor ordered."

-Jay Conrad Levinson, “The Father of Guerrilla Marketing”

Right now it may seem like the disease has no cure, but there is hope-and you're holding it.

Learn how to:

• Identify your business goals
• Grow your business using your expertise-become a Nexpert
• Create time to focus on high revenue items
• Expand your business with a real or virtual office space
• Successfully market your business using proven tactics and strategies provided
• Use manageable tasks to turn your daydreams into realities

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  A portion of your purchase will be donated to SCORE,NAWBO and select entrepreneurial associations

  The Top 10 Signs You Have a Home Office From Hell

  Sign #10: “I want to hire an assistant but we'd have to share a chair.”

  If your business is expanding faster than you have the office furniture for or you are meeting with your clients in the hallway, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #9: "My husband thinks I need to get a real job."

  If your husband or wife thinks you spend your entire day chatting with the neighbors, or your mother-in-law is convinced you are running a drug cartel out of your living room, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #8: “My friends think that working at home means I never miss Days of Our Lives.”

  If you are like Rodney Dangerfield and you “don't get no respect” because your friends think you catch every episode of Dr. Phil and sleep until noon, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #7: “Starbucks is starting to encroach on my profits.”

  If you are conducting all your big meetings in the Science Fiction section of Barnes and Noble or you are working on your sixth Grande Frappuccino, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #6: “I realized today at 4 p.m. that I was still wearing pajamas.”

  If your idea of networking is talking to the cat and you haven't been in a shower or out of the house in over a week, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #5: “I could die here and no one would ever know.”

  If you worry that it might be the smell that finally gets people to inquire about your business, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #4: “Why did God invent Oprah? How are we supposed to work when Oprah is on?”

  If you are overwhelmed by the urge to climb back into bed or regularly feel a deep longing to do several loads of laundry in the middle of the business day, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #3: “No, the baby doesn't go in the playpen. Important papers go in there so the baby can't get at them.”

  If you find yourself picking Cheerios out of your laptop, chasing the kids around the kitchen while conference-calling Stuttgart, and wiping peanut butter off your client's work, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #2: I feel like I live at the office… wait! I do!

  If your workday ends two minutes before you drop into bed or you are taking 4 a.m. phone calls from sleepless clients, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  And last but not least…

  Sign #1: “Since you're home all day anyway, I need a favor…”

  If you are picking up your wife's laundry, driving your friend to the airport, or running errands for your neighbors in the middle of your workday, then you have a Home Office From Hell..
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A resource for any health care professional working with new mothers and infants, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants provides information and strategies needed to assist normal infant feeding. Taking a deliberately multidisciplinary approach, the author draws on varied clinical experiences and empirical evidence to help consolidate information in a complete, usable framework for breastfeeding evaluation and support. This books provides instructors with an advanced, broad knowledge of breastfeeding knowledge required for selecting the right level of intervention for supporting and improving sucking skills in healthy infants and those with anatomical variations, developmental respiratory issues, pre-maturity, and mild neurological deficits..
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Step-by-step guidance helps parents wean children from a potentially damaging habit..
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In this fourth installment of his acclaimed Rants series, bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning talk-show host, and wisecracking analyst for ABC's Monday Night Football Dennis Miller makes hamburger meat out of society's most sacred cows as only he can, with the kinds of allusions that require high SAT scores -- or at least a smart crib sheet.

This time around, Miller takes on child stars with rap sheets, women with bigger muscles than his own, herbs you don't smoke, God, and football. As always, nothing is out-of-bounds.

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A sweet and fun remedy for young readers reluctant to give up their best thumb.

Jake is an expert at doing things with his best thumb. He can walk the dog, watch TV, even ride his bike. Jake and his thumb are happy together until kindergarten begins and the class bully teases Jake, calling him “thumb sucker.” Jake doesn’t want to give up his habit, but with some help from a new classmate and the realization that everyone—even bullies—sometimes need a little extra help to feel brave, Jake might finally be ready to try. Quirky illustrations and a charming story will have readers cheering for winsome Jake and his best thumb..
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It's a horror-movie extravaganza in this companion to Brent Hartinger's Geography Club! Two books in one recount the stories of best friends Min and Russel who sign up to be extras on the set of a zombie film – then learn that there's nothing scarier than high school romance!

Read one story, flip the book over, and read the other! In Attack of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies, Russel must choose between his long-distance boyfriend and a close-to-home ex who wants to get back together. In Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies, Min struggles to accept her cheerleader girlfriend's decision to stay in the closet.

Russel and Min's separate stories affect each other in surprising ways – but you'll have to read both books to find out how!

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