Reading Non-Fiction

Category: Buyer’s Guides

  • Best of Pastor’s Ponderings: 40 Reflections for Your Spiritual Journey by Steve Wilmot

    Best of Pastor’s Ponderings: 40 Reflections for Your Spiritual Journey by Steve Wilmot

    Best of Pastor’s Ponderings: 40 Reflections for Your Spiritual Journey by Steve Wilmot

    “You have a future regardless of your past.”

    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

    “Every person God ever used had a past he or she was ashamed of, but that didn’t matter to God. It didn’t tie his hands. Just because you have a dark past doesn’t mean God will toss you into the garbage heap as worthless. Far from it. Every saint has a past that Jesus Christ changed.”

    “But it’s equally true that every sinner has a future. Look at Apostle Paul, for example.”

    We all need reminders along the way and the lines above are a sample of those you’ll find in this book. It’s tough to trek the path of your spiritual journey. If you try to do it alone, it’s near-impossible.

    This book will be a valuable companion through the difficulties and trials, victories and defeats, gains and losses pilgrims encounter on their pilgrimage toward Home. It will encourage you and inspire you to finish your spiritual journey strong.

    (more…)

  • SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    Every year, millions of managers sit down with their staff, to set objectives for the coming year. Every year, the vast majority of those millions of managers dread the prospective of having to sit down with their staff, to set objectives. If this sounds like you, then meet your new best friend – SMART Objective Setting for Managers.

    This book unpacks the 4 main challenges that most managers grapple with, when setting objectives:
    – Defining the desired outcomes of performance
    – Diagnosing team members’ individual starting points
    – Defining tangible objectives for “soft” behavioural performance issues (e.g., poor communication or influencing others)
    – Understanding what goes wrong during the communication of agreeing objectives

    As you read through the book, your understanding of SMART, developing performance and communication builds up, culminating in Chapter 8. This chapter explores how to identify soft performance issues and how to diagnose what the real underlying issue is and provides a framework to design an objective that will deliver real performance improvement.

    Reviews on Amazon rave about how easy-to-read and concise the book is while providing a whole new way to look at objective setting.

    (more…)

  • Eternity: I want you here with Me. -God by Terri Buckingham

    Eternity: I want you here with Me. -God by Terri Buckingham

    Eternity: I want you here with Me. -God by Terri Buckingham

    In this book, Terri Buckingham explores the concepts of time and eternity from a Biblical perspective. This book is God’s invitation to us to spend Eternity in heaven with Him when time is no more. The book also deals with how to best use the time we have left, because everything we do on earth effects eternity.

    (more…)

  • Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    Mayhem 337: Memoir of a Combat Advisor in Afghanistan by Chad Rickard

    Late in 2008 Chad Rickard deployed as a member of a U.S. Army Combat Advisor team to the highly contested Khost Province of Eastern Afghanistan. As a senior infantry advisor, Rickard embedded with the Afghan Army and spent nine months slugging it out with Haqqani Taliban along the Pakistan border region in a deadly battle for control of Spera District. His riveting memoir brings recognition and honor to the Combat Advisor legacy that is but a footnote in U.S. military history.

    In “Mayhem 337” Rickard powerfully recounts his experiences during periods of intense combat. He graphically describes fighting alongside Afghan Soldiers and U.S. Army Special Operations Forces from the streets of Khost City to the mountainous regions against numerically superior enemy forces.

    (more…)

  • Man…F@#K!: The Honest Reality of Entrepreneurship by Rod Marchand

    Man…F@#K!: The Honest Reality of Entrepreneurship by Rod Marchand

    Man…F@#k! is an honest and personal story about one man’s journey through life and business. Starting with the humble beginnings of a small family business, to now an international and global brand, you can experience all the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial experience. No matter what life throws at you, when all you can think is Man…F@#k!, be inspired that no matter what you can succeed if you just believe in yourself and pushing forward. Life isn’t about “winning or losing” it’s about “winning and learning”. So, if you are in a corporate job, managing a company, or thinking about starting something new, this book will give you a real inside look at some of the challenges you might expect along the way, but also inspire you to reach your full potential and success!

    (more…)

  • Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story by Sybrina Durant

    Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story by Sybrina Durant

    Cleo Can Tie A Bow: A Rabbit and Fox Story by Sybrina Durant

    Cleo can tie a bow. She learned what she knows from a rabbit and a fox. They can teach your child how to tie a bow, too. This fun picture book is intended to be a family bonding parent-child activity. It’s a great way to learn to tie shoe laces.

    (more…)

  • SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    SMART Objective Setting for Managers by Irial O'Farrell

    If you manage teams, what frustrates you the most? If you’re like most managers I’ve met, chances are it’s the way “Johnny communicates his ideas” or the way “Chrissy keeps asking you to talk to the other team, rather than just doing it herself” or how “Jamie keeps asking the same questions over and over!”. Developing these “soft” performance issues are very challenging. It can feel uncomfortable to raise the topic and many managers fear the conversation will go wrong. The 4 main struggles managers have with objective setting are:

    1. Defining the desired outcomes of performance
    2. Diagnosing team members’ individual starting points
    3. Defining tangible objectives for “soft” behavioural performance issues
    4. Understanding what can go wrong in the communication process, when agreeing objectives

    SMART Objective Setting for Managers unpacks each of these challenges, culminating in a chapter dedicated to understanding how to diagnose and design objectives that address the “softer” performance issues. Being endlessly practical when it comes to the “how”, the book also provides a roadmap for preparing for and conducting objective setting meetings.

    Told through stories and examples, feedback from readers include “I thought I already knew how to do this but I’ve learnt so much from this book”, “very easy to read and understand the learning points”, and “managers and employees should read this book”.

    So if reducing your frustration while increasing your team’s motivation and engagement sounds like a good outcome for you, buy this book today and start finding out how to design and agree SMART objectives that will make a difference.

    (more…)

  • The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady

    The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady

    The Heart of a Hussar by Griffin Brady

    Exploiting Muscovy’s Time of Troubles, Poland has invaded the chaotic country. Twenty-two-year-old Jacek Dąbrowski is an honorable, ferocious warrior in a company of winged hussars—an unrivaled, lethal cavalry. When his lieutenant dies in battle, Jacek is promoted to replace him, against the wishes of his superior, Mateusz, who now has more reason to eliminate him.

    Jacek dedicates his life to gaining the king’s recognition and manor lands of his own. Consequently, he closely guards his heart, avoiding lasting romantic entanglements. Unscathed on the battlefield, undefeated in tournaments, and adored by women eager to share his bed, Jacek has never lost at anything he sets out to conquer. So when he charges toward his goals, he believes nothing stands in his way.

    Upon his return from battle, Jacek deviates from his ordinarily unemotional mindset and rescues enemy siblings, fifteen-year-old Oliwia and her younger brother, Filip, from their devastated Muscovite village. His act of mercy sets into motion unstoppable consequences that ripple through his well-ordered life for years to come—and causes him to irretrievably lose his heart.

    Oliwia has her own single-minded drive: to protect her young brother. Her determination and self-sacrifice lead her to adopt a new country, a new religion, and a new way of life. But it’s not the first time the resilient beauty has had to remake herself, for she is not what she appears to be.

    As Jacek battles the Muscovites and Tatars threatening Poland’s borders for months at a time, Oliwia is groomed for a purpose concealed from her. All the while, Mateusz’s treachery and a mysterious enemy looming on the horizon threaten to destroy everything Jacek holds dear.

    (more…)

  • Reflekt by Kaden James

    Reflekt by Kaden James

    Reflekt by Kaden James

    “Honest and enlightening quotes and poems that allow you to reflect on your life and how important it is to live life to the fullest. What’s amazing is the space Kaden gives you to respond to after each poem, story or quote in any way you choose.”

    Author & Wellness Life Coach Kaden James shares poetic thoughts for readers to reflect on.
    It’s a unique, but helpful artistic approach into self-care and learning to have self-love within the journey to happy and successful life. By reading the poems it will open your heart and mind to learn what is most important in to living a full life.

    (more…)

  • Success Reinvention by Dr. Harvey Castro, MD

    Success Reinvention by Dr. Harvey Castro, MD

    Success Reinvention by Dr. Harvey Castro, MD

    “Fantastic book by a real person who had to achieve success without it being handed to him. He acknowledges the wonderful blessing he had of a determined mother and their faith in the Lord to shape his life. This book can help you get on, or back on track, will help you find what’s important to you, and hopefully leave a legacy you will be proud of”…
    ~Dr Barry Ungerleider
    Emergency Physician & Inventor / Developer – Healthcare Products For Human Safety (USA)

    ‘Success Reinvention’ will take you behind the scenes of one of the foremost thought leaders of our time. As an innovative entrepreneur, brilliant medical physician and visionary leader, Dr. Castro’s recipe for success will allow you to break through even the most difficult obstacles and set backs in life. When you read this book and take action, you will find that your dreams manifest into reality, and your success is always in your control to invent and reinvent at every stage of your life.

    (more…)