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I Heart My In-Laws: Falling in Love with His Family--One Passive-Aggressive, Over-Indulgent, Grandkid-Craving, Streisand-Loving, Bible-Thumping In-Law at a Time
A practical, laugh-out-loud guide to adopting your man’s family—from your first date to your firstborn Girlfriends, fiancées, and wives rejoice! Here, at last, is a book you can turn to in times of stress, panic, and family vacations to the smallest cottage ever built on the island of Nantucket Mirroring the natural progression of a relationship and incorporating interviews from women just like you, this hilarious, savvy guide will help you survive your first meeting with future in-laws, from the holidays, weddings, and new babies, to the day they retire to the house next door because “it’s a great real estate investment.”
Discover a wide array of sanity-retention techniques and tips on scoring major points with each and every in-law. Learn how to sweet-talk his sister, mollify his mother, and defuse potentially explosive situations—like when your pumpkin pie gives Nana a bad case of hives. Stories range from the tragic “my father-in-law just pinched my ass and not in that sportsmanship kind of way,” to the triumphant “I’m now CEO of my grandfather-in-law’s cement company—Thanks Pupup!”
Offering handy translation charts with curse words in Persian and compliments in Cantonese, a list of gifts and how to interpret their hidden meaning, tips for reclaiming the holidays one Bastille Day at a time, and your very own set of Mother-in-Law MadLibs, I Heart My In-laws embodies the old saying, “It’s funny because it’s true.”
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Leadership Jungle -- For The Gorilla In Chief: Chest Thumping Isn't Leadership And Other Insights From Ron Heifetz
The author of this profile on Ron Heifetz (co-author of Leadership On The Line) and his thinking believes that the major message one should learn is that established leaders "are less likely to point to a new way of working than to keep pushing buttons that no longer work." The author of this e-Doc, Michael Finley, researches and writes about a host of topics relating to culture and change. Finley covers the politics of leadership as well as favorite organizational defense mechanisms to major change. He then lists a "series of prescriptions for leaders of adaptive change" gleaned from the thinking and writings of Ron Heifetz. This e-Doc is published by BrownHerron Publishing, with permission. BH SmartDocs offer global immediacy, delivering new ideas about managing and leading faster and more economically than any other form of publishing; they are sold exclusively by Amazon.com..
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Thumping the Hive: Russian Neocortical Warfare in Chechnya
This is a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A586724. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Since the 1994 Chechen war, analysts have written volumes about the evolution of -- and lessons learned from -- this ongoing conflict. Why has success eluded this Cold War superpower in subduing the small Caucasian republic? Russia has since hiccuped back and forth across the spectrum of conflict in the region and the years have provided much speculation as to why. For a decade, researchers have described Chechen terror, erosion of the Russian military, and the inconsistent resolve of the Russian population to support the Kremlin's actions. These are significant independent variables that might explain the Russian failure in 1994. However, another less tangible factor -- Richard Szafranski's paradigm of Neocortical Warfare -- may explain Russia's poor performance in the initial invasion and its improved performance in 1999. To evaluate this concept, the author examines the influences of intelligence preparation of the battlespace, public affairs, psychological operations, and battlefield communications -- prime factors in influencing combatants' perceptions -- to gauge these factors' effects on the relative Russian performances in the two invasions. He then holds the results up to the Neocortical lens to evaluate whether that concept is pertinent to the ongoing conflict in Chechnya. The paper concludes with a bibliography of 38 books, 33 journal articles, 9 papers and reports, and 7 web sites. (2 tables).
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