Dramatically grow your client base following pragmatic and insightful advice by bestselling author Doug Fletcher How to Win Client Business When You Don't Know Where to Start: A Rainmaking Guide for Consulting and Professional Services serves as an invaluable and indispensable guide for everyone in the business of selling professional and consulting services. Author Doug Fletcher dives deeply into the five skills required to "make it rain" Create Your Personal Brand Identity Demonstrate Your Professional Expertise Build Your Professional Ecosystem Develop Trust-Based Relationships Practice Everyday Success Habits How to Win Client Business When You Don't Know Where to Start provides a masterclass in teaching the practical techniques and concrete strategies that professional services providers were never taught in school or on the job. Pragmatic lessons take the place of the vaguely defined principles found in competing books to turn readers from sales novices into rainmakers. Written by the same celebrated author who brought readers the best-selling book How Clients Buy, How to Win Client Business When You Don't Know Where to Start is perfect for any professional services provider or consultant who seeks to dramatically increase their book of business.

Reaching Net Zero: What It Takes to Solve the Global Climate Crisis addresses the imminent need to fully understand the causes, effects, and evidence of global warming; due to the large amount of climate disinformation and complexity of much of the available valid science, this book addresses the science of global warming in a concise, readable manner while providing an in-depth reference for readers who want more details or to study the sources of information. This book also investigates potential practical next steps of interest to concerned scientists, engineers, and citizens, with an aim to further discuss and achieve the eventual Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 'Net Zero' goals. Solving the problem of reaching net zero requires educating others to support the changes that must occur and to provide the possible solutions required. This is a necessary read for academics in climate and environmental science, and specialists such as those in earth science or environmental studies, covering the science, technology, economics, politics, international, and other issues involved in doing something about global warming. It is also important for those interested in global warming and anyone involved in decision-making processes and legislation that deal with reduction in carbon footprints.

A 22-Essay Collection of the Issues. Our choice has never been so crystal clear and so vital. We have reached another defining moment in our country's history. Our future depends on the re-election of President Obama. Do we really want to go back to the years of W. or do we want someone who has and will move us forward into a progressive future. The other side wants to again battle all the fights of the past, and turn back the clock on all that has been gained....We must all work to spread the word.... My 22-essay collection of my perspective.... I am in no way naive enough to believe that this election will be a referendum on the policies of the other party; this election will be an assessment of the policies and vision of President Obama. It is this very reason that I have written these 22 essays illustrating from my perspective why I believe President Obama must be re-elected and given an opportunity to guide us into the future. In the pages to follow I will describe in some detail how I have arrived at my conclusion. I will discuss President Obama as a person, look at his domestic policies and achievements, his foreign policies and achievements, and finally I will provide my opinion on the policies of the other party in more detail.

Although I relish the fact that I am black, through my life experiences, I have concluded that this does not make me African American. As a result, I realized that being black should not be synonymous with being African American. This continued pairing has allowed the slave masters of the Confederate South to continue and define our identity. If we do not proclaim our individuality and group distinctiveness, no black person can ever be seen for their character. In addition our society will not be able to solve the problems which persist in any particular community. Specifically, the African American community because of their history suffers from issues which are unique to them and have not been experienced by other immigrant groups. In order to confront and overcome these issues we must first realize that there is no black culture just like there is no white culture. There is clearly a culture unique to each group of black immigrants, as there are issues unique to every white migrant group. African Americans have a culture grown out of slavery, and we must examine the consequences which resulted from the oppression and perpetual discrimination which followed. It is only then will we be able to truly diagnose the problems and arrive at possible solutions. Hence, America will never be able to truly see people strictly for their character if they continue to group us all solely by our color...

Along Minnesota's rugged north shore of Lake Superior, some call Swift River the spirit of the wilderness. Others call him a murderer. James Youngest, a young newspaperman from Philadelphia visiting the Minnesota wilderness, knows the truth. He also knows there are people who will stop at nothing to prevent the truth from being told. James Youngest, coerced by his own conscience, assists the elderly Indian through Minnesota's harsh north woods in order to evade his pursuers. A breathtaking chase begins and Swift River and James Youngest race toward a place the Indian calls the Two Falls, a place where Swift River assures he will never be found.

Who is Swift River? James Youngest met him when he was eleven years old during his only prior visit to the north shore. Swift River had saved young James' life from a near drowning incident, but immediately after saving him, he vanished into the woods. Now, twelve years later, their paths cross again and it is James Youngest's turn to save Swift River. During their desperate race, Swift River reveals to James Youngest his extraordinary past and his life as a Mandan. "The Last Race" finishes with a compelling revelation and climax.

Two teenage boys are lost in Minnesota's rugged Boundary Waters wilderness area. While struggling to survive, they're sucked into the plots of two so-called fiction novels that one of the boys has read. Every direction they turn leads them deeper into the wilderness and into the extraordinary secrets and dangers encompassing the books' plots. Perilously tangled up in mystery, magic and suspense, the boys weave their way toward the books' mystical island of Olyqua where they must face the ultimate conflict between the forces of good and evil. Is it real? That's the plaguing question as supernatural events get in their way and unknown forces try to stop them.

Attachment in Intellectual and Developmental Disability: A Clinician s Guide to Practice and Research is the first book to explore the clinical difficulties associated with attachment relationships in people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. * Draws together knowledge from disparate sources in a definitive new resource for clinicians working in this area * A growing body of evidence-based approaches in this area are underpinned by attachment theory, including direct intervention and the use of attachment theory to understand interactions and relationships * Presents and integrates cutting-edge models and approaches that have previously been available only to specialists * Written by mainstream practitioners who are active in clinical work and research; focused on real-world applications, with illustrative case examples throughout