Friday, February 17, 2017

iTunes Store: Top 25 Books in Nonfiction 2017-02-17

Michael Benson - Mommy Deadliest artwork Mommy Deadliest
Michael Benson
Genre: True Crime
Price: $1.99
Publish Date: December 01, 2010
Publisher: Kensington
Seller: Penguin Random House LLC

Case Featured On 20/20 Anti-Freeze For A Husband It looked like a suicide. A man's corpse on the bathroom floor--next to a half-empty glass of anti-freeze. But fingerprints on the glass belonged to the deceased's wife, Stacey Castor. And a turkey baster in the garbage had police wondering if she force-fed the toxic fluid down her husband's throat. Pills For A Daughter In desperation, Stacey concocted a devious plan. She mixed a deadly cocktail of vodka and pills, then served it to her twenty-year-old daughter Ashley. The authorities would find Ashley with a suicide note, confessing to the anti-freeze murder. But Stacey's plan backfired--because Ashley refused to die. . . A Killer For A Mother Charged with murdering her second husband--and attempting to kill her oldest daughter--Stacey Castor sparked a media frenzy. But when police dug up her first husband's grave--and found anti-freeze in his body, too--this New York housewife earned a nickname that would follow her all the way to prison. They called her "The Black Widow." And with good reason. Includes 16 Pages of Shocking Photos



Matthew Hussey - Get the Guy artwork Get the Guy
Learn Secrets of the Male Mind to Find the Man You Want and the Love You Deserve
Matthew Hussey
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $1.99
Publish Date: April 09, 2013
Publisher: Harper Wave
Seller: HarperCollins

Most dating books tell you what NOT to do. Here's a book dedicated to telling you what you CAN do. In his book, Get the Guy, Matthew Hussey—relationship expert, matchmaker, and star of the reality show Ready for Love—reveals the secrets of the male mind and the fundamentals of dating and mating for a proven, revolutionary approach to help women to find lasting love. Matthew Hussey has coached thousands of high-powered CEOs, showing them how to develop confidence and build relationships that translate into professional success. Many of Matthew’s male clients pressed him for advice on how to apply his winning strategies not to just get the job, but how to get the girl. As his reputation grew, Hussey was approached by more and more women, eager to hear what he had learned about the male perspective on love and romance. From landing a first date to establishing emotional intimacy, playful flirtation to red-hot bedroom tips, Matthew’s insightfulness, irreverence, and warmth makes Get the Guy:  Learn Secrets of the Male Mind to Find the Man You Want and the Love You Deserve a one-of-a-kind relationship guide and the handbook for every woman who wants to get the guy she’s been waiting for.



Gary D. Chapman - The 5 Love Languages artwork The 5 Love Languages
The Secret to Love that Lasts
Gary D. Chapman
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: December 11, 2014
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Seller: Moody Bible Institute (books)

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love-that's the challenge! How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands and conflicts and just plain boredom of everyday life? In the #1 New York Times bestselling book The 5 Love Languages , you'll discover the secret that has transformed millions of relationships worldwide. Whether your relationship is flourishing or failing, Dr. Gary Chapman's proven approach to showing and receiving love will help you experience deeper and richer levels of intimacy with your partner-starting today. "If we learn to meet each other's deep emotional need to feel loved, and choose to do it, the love we share will be exciting beyond anything we've ever felt." -Gary Chapman The 5 Love Languages is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships in today's world, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work. Practice the simple steps outlined in each chapter and you'll be on your way to a healthier, mutually beneficial relationship. Also includes an updated version of The 5 Love Languages ® personal profile.



Sue Johnson - Hold Me Tight artwork Hold Me Tight
Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sue Johnson
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: April 08, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Seller: Hachette Book Group

Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. In HOLD ME TIGHT, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.



J. D. Vance - Hillbilly Elegy artwork Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
Genre: Sociology
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: June 28, 2016
Publisher: Harper
Seller: HarperCollins

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.



John Gottman Ph.D. & Nan Silver - The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work artwork The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
John Gottman Ph.D. & Nan Silver
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: May 05, 2015
Publisher: Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony
Seller: Penguin Random House LLC

Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages.          This book is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Straightforward in their approach, yet profound in their effect, these principles teach partners new and startling strategies for making their marriage work. Gottman helps couples focus on each other, on paying attention to the small day-to-day moments that, strung together, make up the heart and soul of any relationship. Being thoughtful about ordinary matters provides spouses with a solid foundation for resolving conflict when it does occur and finding strategies for living with those issues that cannot be resolved.          Packed with questionnaires and exercises whose effectiveness has been proven in Dr. Gottman's workshops, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the result of Dr. John Gottman's many years of closely observing thousands of marriages. This kind of longitudinal research has never been done before. Based on his findings, he has culled seven principles essential to the success of any marriage. Maintain a love map. Foster fondness and admiration. Turn toward instead of away. Accept influence. Solve solvable conflicts. Cope with conflicts you can't resolve. Create shared meaning. Dr. Gottman's unique questionnaires and exercises will guide couples on the road to revitalizing their marriage, or making a strong one even better.



Dr. Emerson Eggerichs - Love and Respect artwork Love and Respect
The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs
Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $4.99
Publish Date: September 05, 2004
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Seller: HarperCollins

A Marriage Book with a Difference! A Revolutionary Message "I've been married 35 years and have not heard this taught.""This is the key that I have been missing.""You connected all the dots for me.""As a counselor, I have never been so excited about any material.""You're on to something huge here. A Simple Message A wife has one driving needùto feel loved. When that need is met, she is happy. A husband has one driving needùto feel respected. When that need is met, he is happy. When either of these needs isn't met, things get crazy. Love and Respect  reveals why spouses react negatively to each other, and how they can deal with such conflict quickly, easily, and biblically. A Message That Works Based on over three decades of counseling, as well as scientific and biblical research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and his wife, Sarah, have already taken the Love and Respect message across America and are changing the way couples talk to, think about, and treat each other. What do you want for your marriage? Want some peace? Want to feel close? Want to feel valued? Want to experience marriage the way God intended? Then why not try some Love and Respect.



Claudia Rowe - The Spider and the Fly artwork The Spider and the Fly
A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe
Genre: True Crime
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: January 24, 2017
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Seller: HarperCollins

“Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching. . . . A must-read.”—Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us. "Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least you’re honest, as honest as any reporter. . . . You want to go into the depths of my mind and into my past. I want a peek into yours. It is only fair, isn’t it?"—Kendall Francois In September 1998, young reporter Claudia Rowe was working as a stringer for the New York Times in Poughkeepsie, New York, when local police discovered the bodies of eight women stashed in the attic and basement of the small colonial home that Kendall Francois, a painfully polite twenty-seven-year-old community college student, shared with his parents and sister. Growing up amid the safe, bourgeois affluence of New York City, Rowe had always been secretly fascinated by the darkness, and soon became obsessed with the story and with Francois. She was consumed with the desire to understand just how a man could abduct and strangle eight women—and how a family could live for two years, seemingly unaware, in a house with the victims’ rotting corpses. She also hoped to uncover what humanity, if any, a murderer could maintain in the wake of such monstrous evil. Reaching out after Francois was arrested, Rowe and the serial killer began a dizzying four-year conversation about cruelty, compassion, and control; an unusual and provocative relationship that would eventually lead her to the abyss, forcing her to clearly see herself and her own past—and why she was drawn to danger.



Sherry Argov - Why Men Love Bitches artwork Why Men Love Bitches
From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Sherry Argov
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 01, 2002
Publisher: F+W Media
Seller: F+W Media, Inc.

Do you feel like you are too nice? Sherry Argov's Why Men Love Bitches delivers a unique perspective as to why men are attracted to a strong woman who stands up for herself. With saucy detail on every page, this no-nonsense guide reveals why a strong woman is much more desirable than a "yes woman" who routinely sacrifices herself. The author provides compelling answers to the tough questions women often ask: - Why are men so romantic in the beginning and why do they change? - Why do men take nice girls for granted? - Why does a man respect a woman when she stands up for herself? Full of advice, hilarious real-life relationship scenarios, "she says/he thinks" tables, and the author's unique "Attraction Principles," Why Men Love Bitches gives you bottom-line answers. It helps you know who you are, stand your ground, and relate to men on a whole new level. Once you've discovered the feisty attitude men find so magnetic, you'll not only increase the romantic chemistry-you'll gain your man's love and respect with far less effort.



Hetty van de Rijt & Frans Plooij - The Wonder Weeks artwork The Wonder Weeks
How to Stimulate Your Baby's Mental Development and Help Him Turn His 10 Predictable, Great, Fussy Phases Into Magical Leaps Forward
Hetty van de Rijt & Frans Plooij
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $9.99
Publish Date: November 30, 2010
Publisher: Kiddy World Publishing
Seller: Kiddy World Promotions B.V.

The book offers guidance how to ...: •  Know when and why your baby is fussy •  Help him/her (and yourself!) get through / survive the fussy phases •  Get the most out of these developmental phases The book is based on the scientific discovery of the phenomenon that all normal, healthy babies appear to be more fussy at very nearly the same ages, regression periods, and sleep less in these phases. A worldwide bestseller and sanity savior for parents around the globe.  Recommended by T. Berry Brazelton M.D., Celebrated Pediatrician and professor emeritus, Harvard Medical School, Among Others – For more information visit www.thewonderweeks.com



Ross W. Greene, PhD - The Explosive Child artwork The Explosive Child
A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Ross W. Greene, PhD
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: May 20, 2014
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Seller: HarperCollins

Screaming, swearing, crying, hitting, kicking, spitting, biting...these are some of the challenging behaviors we see in kids who are having difficulty meeting our expectations. These behaviors often leave parents feeling frustrated, angry, overwhelmed, and desperate for answers. In this fully revised and updated book, Dr. Ross Greene helps you understand why and when your child does these things and how to respond in ways that are nonpunitive, nonadversarial, humane, and effective. Dr. Greene describes how best to: Understand the factors that contribute to challenging episodes. Identify the specific situations in which challenging episodes are likely to occur. Reduce or eliminate challenging episodes by solving the problems that cause them. Solve problems collaboratively (rather than unilaterally) and proactively (rather than reactively). Help your child develop the skills to be more flexible, solve problems, and handle frustration more adaptively. Reduce hostility and antagonism between you and your child. With Dr. Greene's practical, expert guidance, you and your child will forge a new relationship based on communication and mutual respect.



Derek Thompson - Hit Makers artwork Hit Makers
The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction
Derek Thompson
Genre: Social Science
Price: $16.99
Publish Date: February 07, 2017
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Seller: Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

“This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off ." --  Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of ORIGINALS and GIVE AND TAKE Nothing “goes viral.” If you think a popular movie, song, or app came out of nowhere to become a word-of-mouth success in today’s crowded media environment, you’re missing the real story. Each blockbuster has a secret history—of power, influence, dark broadcasters, and passionate cults that turn some new products into cultural phenomena. Even the most brilliant ideas wither in obscurity if they fail to connect with the right network, and the consumers that matter most aren't the early adopters, but rather their friends, followers, and imitators -- the audience of your audience. In his groundbreaking investigation,  Atlantic  senior editor Derek Thompson uncovers the hidden psychology of why we like what we like and reveals the economics of cultural markets that invisibly shape our lives. Shattering the sentimental myths of hit-making that dominate pop culture and business, Thompson shows quality is insufficient for success, nobody has "good taste," and some of the most popular products in history were one bad break away from utter failure. It may be a new world, but there are some enduring truths to what audiences and consumers want. People love a familiar surprise: a product that is bold, yet sneakily recognizable. Every business, every artist, every person looking to promote themselves and their work wants to know what makes some works so successful while others disappear.  Hit Makers  is a magical mystery tour through the last century of pop culture blockbusters and the most valuable currency of the twenty-first century—people’s attention. From the dawn of impressionist art to the future of Facebook, from small Etsy designers to the origin of Star Wars, Derek Thompson leaves no pet rock unturned to tell the fascinating story of how culture happens and why things become popular.   In Hit Makers , Derek Thompson investigates: ·       The secret link between ESPN's sticky programming and the The Weeknd's catchy choruses ·       Why Facebook is the world’s most important modern newspaper ·       How advertising critics predicted Donald Trump ·       The 5th grader who accidentally launched "Rock Around the Clock," the biggest hit in rock and roll history ·       How Barack Obama and his speechwriters think of themselves as songwriters ·       How Disney conquered the world—but the future of hits belongs to savvy amateurs and individuals ·       The French collector who accidentally created the Impressionist canon ·       Quantitative evidence that the biggest music hits aren’t always the best ·       Why almost all Hollywood blockbusters are sequels, reboots, and adaptations ·       Why one year--1991--is responsible for the way pop music sounds today ·       Why another year --1932--created the business model of film ·       How data scientists proved that “going viral” is a myth ·       How 19th century immigration patterns explain the most heard song in the Western Hemisphere



James Patterson, John Connolly & Tim Malloy - Filthy Rich artwork Filthy Rich
A Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal that Undid Him, and All the Justice that Money Can Buy: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
James Patterson, John Connolly & Tim Malloy
Genre: True Crime
Price: $18.99
Publish Date: October 10, 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Seller: Hachette Book Group

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer. Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins to the rarefied heights of New York City's financial elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers--and for people--Epstein amassed his wealth through a combination of access and skill. But even after he had it all, Epstein wanted more. And that unceasing desire--especially a taste for young girls--resulted in his stunning fall from grace. From Epstein himself, to the girls he employed as masseuses at his home, to the cops investigating the appalling charges against him, FILTHY RICH examines all sides of a case that scandalized one of America's richest communities. An explosive true story, FILTHY RICH is a riveting account of wealth, power and the influence they bring to bear on the American justice system.



Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy artwork Wiseguy
The 25th Anniversary Edition
Nicholas Pileggi
Genre: True Crime
Price: $10.99
Publish Date: September 27, 2011
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Seller: Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Inc.

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” ( Cosmopolitan ). This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese’s film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds…with Henry Hill’s crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. Read it and experience the secret life inside the mob—from one who’s lived it.



Jason Moss & Jeffrey Kottler - The Last Victim artwork The Last Victim
A True-Life Journey into the Mind of the Serial Killer
Jason Moss & Jeffrey Kottler
Genre: True Crime
Price: $12.99
Publish Date: April 15, 2001
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Seller: Hachette Book Group

The twisted, but fascinating, mind of a serial killer is revealed with terrifying consequences in this astonishing and shocking exploration. with 20 b&w photos.



Ant Hive Media - J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis  Summary artwork J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis Summary
Ant Hive Media
Genre: Sociology
Price: $5.99
Publish Date: September 28, 2016
Publisher: Ant Hive Media
Seller: Smashwords

This is a Summary of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country. Available in a variety of formats, this summary is aimed for those who want to capture the gist of the book but don't have the current time to devour all 272 pages. You get the main summary along with all of the benefits and lessons the actual book has to offer. This summary is intended to be used with reference to the original book.



Laurence Leamer - The Lynching artwork The Lynching
The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
Laurence Leamer
Genre: Social Science
Price: $1.99
Publish Date: June 07, 2016
Publisher: William Morrow
Seller: HarperCollins

The New York Times bestselling author of The Kennedy Women chronicles the powerful and spellbinding true story of a brutal race-based killing in 1981 and subsequent trials that undid one of the most pernicious organizations in American history—the Ku Klux Klan. On a Friday night in March 1981 Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found nineteen-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone. Hays and Knowles abducted him, beat him, cut his throat, and left his body hanging from a tree branch in a racially mixed residential neighborhood. Arrested, charged, and convicted, Hays was sentenced to death—the first time in more than half a century that the state of Alabama sentenced a white man to death for killing a black man. On behalf of Michael’s grieving mother, Morris Dees, the legendary civil rights lawyer and cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, filed a civil suit against the members of the local Klan unit involved and the UKA, the largest Klan organization. Charging them with conspiracy, Dees put the Klan on trial, resulting in a verdict that would level a deadly blow to its organization. Based on numerous interviews and extensive archival research, The Lynching brings to life two dramatic trials, during which the Alabama Klan’s motives and philosophy were exposed for the evil they represent. In addition to telling a gripping and consequential story, Laurence Leamer chronicles the KKK and its activities in the second half the twentieth century, and illuminates its lingering effect on race relations in America today. The Lynching includes sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs.



Rodney Castleden - The World's Most Evil People artwork The World's Most Evil People
The Epitome of Evil
Rodney Castleden
Genre: True Crime
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: January 13, 2011
Publisher: Canary Press
Seller: Omnipress Limited

They had a choice between good and evil. They chose evil without hesitation, doubt or remorse. There are many evil people in the world. From evil tyrants who deliberately and systematically commit horrific crimes on a grand scale, killing, torturing, bombing and maiming to individuals who commit solitary acts of evil for which they will forever be condemned. Deranged and desperate, or calculating, cold-blooded and selfish, these people are the epitome of evil. Whether their crime was murder, deception or simply neglect, all those considered to be the most evil people in the world are described in detail in this book. Part One: Ancient Evil Part Two: Medieval Monarchs Part Three : Wicked Women Part Four : The Nazis Part Five : Evil by Incompetence Part Six : Modern Tyrants Part Seven : Reigns of Terror Part Eight : Mass Murderers



Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit artwork The Power of Habit
Why We Do What We do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg
Genre: Social Science
Price: $17.99
Publish Date: February 28, 2012
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Seller: Penguin Random House LLC

Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains--cue, routine, reward--we can change them, giving us the power to take control over our lives.   "We are what we repeatedly do," said Aristotle. "Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." On the most basic level, a habit is a simple neurological loop: there is a cue (my mouth feels gross), a routine (hello, Crest), and a reward (ahhh, minty fresh). Understanding this loop is the key to exercising regularly or becoming more productive at work or tapping into reserves of creativity. Marketers, too, are learning how to exploit these loops to boost sales; CEOs and coaches are using them to change how employees work and athletes compete. As this book shows, tweaking even one habit, as long as it's the right one, can have staggering effects.   In The Power of Habit , award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes readers inside labs where brain scans record habits as they flourish and die; classrooms in which students learn to boost their willpower; and boardrooms where executives dream up products that tug on our deepest habitual urges. Full of compelling narratives that will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis, Jonah Lehrer, and Chip and Dan Heath, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: our most basic actions are not the product of well-considered decision making, but of habits we often do not realize exist. By harnessing this new science, we can transform our lives.



John Gray - Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus artwork Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
Practical Guide for Improving Communication
John Gray
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $11.99
Publish Date: October 13, 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
Seller: HarperCollins

The most well-know, long-lived, and tried-and-tested relationships guide ever, the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is now available for the first time ever as an ebook. In this classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication by acknowledging the differences between their needs, desires, and behaviors. No other relationship guide on the market will give you the same level of evidence-based insight sure to help you strengthen and nurture your relationships for years to come.



William Murray - Serial Killers artwork Serial Killers
Notorious killers who lived among us
William Murray
Genre: True Crime
Price: $2.99
Publish Date: August 13, 2010
Publisher: Omnipress Limited
Seller: Omnipress Limited

Serial Killers A well-liked, respected, caring pillar of the community – or an outsider, socially inept and with a frightening appearance? Wearing many different masks, serial killers are among the most disturbing and dangerous violent criminals in existence. They are individuals who have a history of multiple murders, normally committed over a long period of time and often with periods of apparent normality in between. With their different appearances and motives serial killers are hard to identify and often much harder to understand. Yet they must be caught because the one unifying characteristic all serial killers share is their inability to feel remorse for their actions, and consequently their need to keep on killing... Some profilers believe that serial killers don’t learn from their mistakes. This book explores the greed-factor that sets in and explains how killers come to think that the more they kill and get away with it, the easier it will become.



Jennifer Stewart - Prescription for a Happy Marriage artwork Prescription for a Happy Marriage
Jennifer Stewart
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $3.99
Publish Date: November 07, 2010
Publisher: Jennifer Stewart
Seller: Smashwords

How can couples have a happy marriage in spite of the stress of our hectic lifestyle? You don't have to be a divorce statistic – you CAN have a happy marriage! The demands of modern life can destroy your marriage if you don't learn to overcome the stresses and frustrations. Learn how to make your marriage a happy one from someone who has been happily married for more than 40 years ...



Rob Alex, M.Sc. - Sexy Challenge - Butter Up Your Love artwork Sexy Challenge - Butter Up Your Love
Sacred and Sensual Experiences for Lovers - Featuring Sex Butter
Rob Alex, M.Sc.
Genre: Family & Relationships
Price: $0.99
Publish Date: August 23, 2012
Publisher: Inward Oasis
Seller: Inward Oasis

Welcome to your Sexy Challenges!   Too often couples get into a rut in their relationship.  They begin to just go through the motions and lose their passionate sensuality - they lose the physical intimacy they had early in the relationship.  Eventually, this leads to losing emotional intimacy as well.  It is quite true that some couples lose their emotional intimacy first which leads to less physical passion.  No matter how it happens this deep gap between partners is more than just troubling. Is there hope?  Can this be changed?  Yes!!  There are a number of ways a couple can rekindle the spark and become emotionally closer than perhaps they have ever been.   One of the ways to do this is through Sexy Challenges.  So, what are Sexy Challenges?  They are exciting scenarios for couples to experience new, creative, and fun ways to rekindle and enhance their passion.  Each challenge explains what the couple will need and offers suggestions of places to experience the challenge.   Not only is it time to discover your blended spirit, but it is time to reignite the fire between you or build it higher! This Sexy Challenge - Butter Up Your Love, features the wonderful product Sex Butter.  This Challenge will take the two of you to a higher place within your intimacy.  New sensations and a new fresh feeling between the two of you is what you will be enjoying.  Check out all the other great Sexy Challenges on iTunes or visit our website for more sexy fun at http://sexychallenges.com  



Robert Keller - Beyond Evil artwork Beyond Evil
Robert Keller
Genre: True Crime
Price: $5.99
Publish Date: August 18, 2016
Publisher: Robert Keller
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

20 Shocking True Crime Stories of the world’s worst child killers, including; Westley Allan Dodd: sickening pervert who tortured, stabbed and strangled three little boys to death. Tsutomu Miyazaki: deeply disturbed Japanese serial killer who practiced cannibalism and necrophilia on his young victims. Joseph Duncan III : paedophilic killer who wiped out an entire family to get to the object of his desire, an 8-year-old girl. Erno Soto: a deadly phantom who preyed on the children of Harlem and went by the terrifying sobriquet “Charlie Chop-off.” Jeanne Weber: the babysitter from Hell. Weber strangled to death 10 children left in her care. Robert Black: a remorseless child killer who sexually assaulted and murdered at least three little girls and may have killed many more. Gordon Stewart Northcott: axe murderer from the 1920’s who tortured, sexually abused and murdered young boys. Marc Dutroux: kidnapped six young girls and held them as sex slaves, eventually killing two and allowing two to starve to death. Marcelo Costa de Andrade: sex fiend and necrophile who targeted slum children in Rio de Janeiro, killing 14 in just eight months. Arthur Gary Bishop: repulsive paedophile who murdered five young boys, drowning, bludgeoning and strangling them to death. Plus 10 more horrific true crime cases….Scroll up and grab a copy.



Robert Keller - Medical Monsters artwork Medical Monsters
Robert Keller
Genre: True Crime
Price: $5.99
Publish Date: August 18, 2016
Publisher: Robert Keller
Seller: Draft2Digital, LLC

The lives and dreadful deeds of 20 horrific medical serial killers, including: Genene Jones: a truly monstrous paediatric nurse who murdered as many as 47 babies and children entrusted to her care. Glennon Engleman:a rather unconventional dentist who moonlighted as a hitman and murder-for-profit killer. Michael Swango: a deadly doctor who took genuine pleasure in poisoning his patients and colleagues. Killed at least 60 in an intercontinental murder spree. The Lainz Angels of Death: four lethal nurses who turned the geriatric ward at an Austrian hospital into their private killing field. Gwendolyn Graham & Cathy Wood: lesbian lovers who got their kicks by suffocating the elderly patients under their care. Teet Haerm: police pathologist who spent his nights hunting prostitutes in Stockholm, Sweden. Haerm actually performed autopsies on many of the women he’d killed. Orville Lynn Majors: an ICU nurse with a deep-seated hatred for his elderly patients, Majors is suspected of over 100 murders. Kimberly Saenz: addicted to prescription drugs and with her life falling apart around her, Saenz struck out at helpless patients, injecting them with bleach. Donald Harvey: dubbed the “Angel of Death,” Harvey killed at least seventy hospital patients by suffocation, poisoning, drug overdoses and other methods. Thomas Neill Cream: London's East End had barely recovered from Jack the Ripper when Dr. Cream arrived on the scene, dispensing agonizing death with his special little pills. Plus 10 more sensational true crime cases….Scroll up and grab a copy.