A successful career is the goal of most working people. For most people, becoming successful is the result of having a significant amount of determination and dedication. Unfortunately, many employees view their abilities, skills, or education sufficient for a "job," but insufficient to achieve real success. Why settle for just having a job when you can improve and have a successful career? This book focuses on the average worker and discusses the essential principles, practices, skills and attitudes necessary to become a valuable employee. This book addresses actions to take and things to avoid, identifies many risk and reward scenarios, offers suggestions concerning issues of importance, and is augmented with helpful personal worksheets. Success involves a mental change to think success, recognize your worth as an employee, implement a self-improvement process and develop good work habits. This book can help make those things happen.

In the late 1940s, the U.S. Department of Defense established a nuclear weapons depository in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico. For more than 40 years, Manzano Base served as a maintenance and storage site for some of the most destructive weapons ever created. Operated by the U.S. Air Force, the facility was small and obscure, with highly restricted access. Its covert mission fostered a sense of mystery, leaving the public to speculate about what really went on there. The site was decommissioned in 1992 yet its rich history continues to influence America's nuclear weapons program. This book tells the full story of Manzano and the personnel who served there. Firsthand accounts recall their experiences of nuclear weapons accidents, aircraft crashes, UFO/UAF sightings and a radiation demonstration called "tickling the tiger's tail.

A successful conclusion to finding a job or making a transition into another career begins with developing a competitive advantage. This will add strength to your skills, knowledge and experience and translates into a better position within the job market. This book is a comprehensive guide for: conducting a self-evaluation of acquired job skills, personal traits and characteristics; assessing professional and industry knowledge; developing a strong resume; learning how to effectively use personal references; and ways to strengthen interview skills. The purpose of these exercises is to Create A Competitive Advantage in the job search process. Learn how to effectively sell yourself and your talents, and the secrets of making the most of your track record.

One way to fulfill God's expectation of good stewardship is to contribute to the welfare of mankind using the gifts and talents God has given. In addition to providing an abundant life, God also gives each person the option of choice. A person can choose to be benevolent or oblivious to the needs of others. The choice is his or hers, along with the consequence of that choice. Being benevolent is a humanitarian responsibility for all people, whether or not they are a Christian. This book compares the individual benevolence obligation to Jacob Marley, the fictional character in Charles Dickens novella, A Christmas Carol. Jacob Marley's life, attitudes, characteristics, decisions, influences, and final destiny are discussed with the anticipation that, if people look closely, they may see a little of themselves reflected in this story.

"What I like about this book, among other things, is how universal its concept is. How could the concept of benevolence] be so widely held, yet so widely ignored? We all benefit from the very thing we so secretly want to avoid. This book confronts each of us in the area of that secret and gives us the freedom to do what we already know we should."

-Brian Boyles, Senior Pastor of Northside Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina