From the ground-breaking offices of Google, ' Search Inside Yourself' is a personal growth program that focuses on developing emotional intelligence through mindfulness, making its participants more productive at work & better leaders, while becoming more peaceful, happy & compassionate individuals. Famed for its innovative & unusual, yet highly successful working culture, Google is more than just a search engine. One such innovation is the' Search Inside Yourself' program, created for Google by a diverse group of individuals including a Zen Master, a CEO, a Stanford University scientist, & author Daniel Goleman, it's been a life changing program for many participants, contributing to great improvements in both their personal & professional lives. ' Search Inside Yourself' has been taught in Google since 2007 producing dramatic results. Some participants have found new meaning & fulfilment in their jobs (one person changed her mind about leaving the company after taking the course!) Some have become much better at what they do; one engineering manager discovered the importance of giving himself quality time & reduced his working hours to four days a week. After he did that, he got promoted! Some have become more effective managers, learning to listen & communicate better & bringing a calm attitude to every situation. Not surprisingly, many people found ' Search Inside Yourself' to be beneficial in their personal lives as well. Many participants found they were happier & less-stressed, their marital relationships enhanced & some even said the program helped them deal with personal crises. This book will show you how to apply the principles of ' Search Inside Yourself' to you, your business & everyday life. Whether you are a junior team member or a senior manager, a secondary school teacher or a bus driver these valuable lessons have the potential to dramatically improve your life. Written by Chade-Meng Tan, the first engineer in Google's history to leave the Engineering department & join their Peoples Ops Group, where he leads this & other personal-growth programs. It also

Includes:: a foreword by Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence & introduction from Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Wherever You Go, There You Are.

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Caleb Peck vanished in 1912, a voluntary refugee from an all-embracing Peckness of the Pecks. Sixty-one years later his half brother Daniel is still on trial, helped by his gr&-daughter Justine, a character cursed with a Peckish necessity to see every side of a question. ...

It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands

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Have hours of fun piecing together this beautiful jigsaw puzzle, especially designed to relax the mind.

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Bob the Builder & his machine team are making waves with new builds in these five exciting seaside adventures! Scoop's day-dreaming causes trouble & leads to a daring sea rescue. Scratch discovers how to be cool under pressure. The team comes to the rescue when Muck's sandcastle jeopardises their big job & Scrambler shows that the key to bravery is facing your fears. Surf's up for fun in the sun with the Can-Do Crew! ...

Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Seaside Nostalgia image!

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The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West & a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London & the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy & the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. ...

In a wild winter storm, Molly sees a desperate figure running for his life. She discovers an injured man. But who is he? & why has he come to help her? Sally Nicholls' second novel weaves legends of pagan gods & a family coping with tragedy into a haunting story of love & loss that will touch readers' hearts
- like her award-winning " Ways to Live Forever".
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In the early 1900s, in the elegant, isolated villa Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D' Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She was his muse & his mistress & the inspiration for his most stunning & original play. But the night before she was to take the stage in the leading role, Celia disappeared. Now, decades later, in a theatre on the grounds of Il Piacere, Alessandro D' Ascanio is preparing to stage the first performance of his grandfather's masterpiece. A promising young actress
- who shares Celia Sands' name, but not her blood
- has agreed to star. She is instantly drawn to the mysteries surrounding the play
- & to her compelling, compassionate employer. & even though she knows she should let the past go, in the dark in her dreams it comes back.


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