Have you ever wondered why some people consistently seem to have original and different ways of approaching problems, ideas or opportunities? Are you intrigued as to why some individuals see opportunities where others can't or why some companies lead, whilst others follow? This book is both an explanation and celebration of thinking differently. What Made You Think of That? is a simple, easy to understand and practical guide to unlocking your own great ideas and those great ideas lurking in the people or company around you. It provides you with a true understanding of how imagination and creativity works with loads of tips and tools and real life stories to illustrate just how easy it can be. For those of you who are leaders this book can guide you through practical steps in creating an organisation that empowers its entire staff from CEO to casual employees to think differently about every aspect of the business, thus leading to better solutions for customers or clients and ultimately greater success. In these increasingly challenging times, there has never before been a more important time for every individual and every company to be thinking differently about themselves and their business. Read What Made You Think of That? and find out how!

"We took our positions, five kneeling and five standing ... we got the order to fire. One blank and nine live rounds ... I did not have the blank." That is the voice of Deward Barnes, an unwilling but dutiful member of the firing squad that shot Harold Lodge, one of 25 Canadians executed during the First World War. In this diary we hear something that is otherwise gone forever: the authentic voice of the First World War soldier, Everyman in khaki. Fully annontated so that everyone today can understand the nuance of each entry, the Barnes diary takes us into the trenches and the firing lines of the Western Front like no other first-hand Canadian account of that terrible war can. Like any trained infantryman, Deward could tell the kick of a live round from a blank one, and that kick he bestows on us with each turn of the page.

Enjoy hours of laughter with hilarious questions for kids that get harder as the book goes on. Who will win the competition for the best answers? Who will outsmart everyone? Laugh and learn with 160+ questions designed to make kids giggle, think, and figure out who's the wittiest (and silliest) of all! Would You Rather? Made You Think! Edition provides endless hours of fun for eight- to twelve-year-olds who love a challenge--and a good laugh. Would You Rather? Made You Think! features: • Learning through play. Kids will exercise their brains with these either/or scenarios that make them think creatively, use their imagination, and pull together facts quickly. • Family time away from screens. 160+ age-appropriate questions, ranging from the mind-boggling to the totally gross. • An exciting game for competitive kids. Try to outsmart family and friends with the most creative answer. • Levels organized by difficulty. As kids complete the levels, the next questions get harder. • Lots of laughs! The questions are funny; kids can make the answers even funnier! • Perfect for road trips, camping trips, restaurants, sleepovers, and dinner conversations. • Classroom fun. These questions can be used to increase student engagement, practice reading and writing comprehension, promote critical thinking skills, and create a fun classroom environment!

Written in an accessible and informative style, this book will help readers get to grips with the complex concepts of philosophy through the ages, and match the theories to the names.

This Book is based on my life. I tell how I let my negative thinking saying and then doing defeat me. The things you think about you will be the way you live your life. I tell how I thought and the life I got because of the way I thought. A person that should have lived a positive life lived a defeated life. My attitude was always I can't do the things the Lord purposed me to do. I am not that kind of person. When you fail because you thought you couldn't what did you expect? You got what you expected. This book tells how used a massive heart attack that left me 70% disabled to turn my life around. Because of my mental disabilities, it should be impossible for me to write. With a patient persistent attitude, I showed that I can and will do the thing the Lord purposed me to do. Disabilities only have the power you give them.

With this inspiring guide, New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen encourages readers to discover a strength that pushes them forward, a power to do what they couldn’t do before. You were designed with the ability and inner strength to stretch to the next level, to stand strong and overcome the opposition, to learn new skills, to believe bigger, dream bigger, and to take on new challenges. In You Are Stronger than You Think, #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen encourages you to stand firm when the difficulty is not turning around. When the pressure mounts, when you feel overwhelmed, when the struggle looks too big, or the goal is out of reach, you have to remember that is not your destiny. You are more powerful than you think. You need to see yourself the right way and realize what’s already inside you. You were made to outlast the competition, to go further than you thought you could, and live a life beyond what limits you. As you read You Are Stronger than You Think, you will find the power to break the cycle of defeat, the courage to set a new standard for your family, the hope to conquer your fear, and the confidence to accomplish every dream. You will discover that you have more strength, more talent, more determination, and more endurance than you ever imagined. Nothing can hold you back…because You Are Stronger than You Think!

Think Before You Think is about why you do what you do. It is about: • why you are happy in one moment, miserable the next and elated in another • why the rich get richer, sick get sicker and lucky get luckier. It is about: • understanding how you live in an artificially created reality • how to exit the matrix, your mind creates by thoughts and emotions • how to find clarity, confidence, and connection in your life and business. Think Before You Think explains why: • it’s not WHAT you do • it’s not HOW you do It’s all about how you THINK and FEEL. ‘It’s not the things in your life, it’s your thinking behind the things that shapes your destiny.’ – Harish Gulati

Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio decodes baseball icon Ted Williams and finds not just a great player, but also a great man. When legendary Red Sox hitter Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002, newspapers reviewed the stats, compared him to other legends of the game, and declared him the greatest hitter who ever lived. In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent months on a profile of Ted Williams, and the result was the Esquire article that has been acclaimed ever since as one of the finest pieces of sports reporting ever written. Given special acknowledgment in The Best American Sportswriting of the Century and adapted for a coffee-table book called Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid, the original piece is now available in this special edition, with new material about Williams's later years. While his decades after Fenway Park were out of the spotlight -- the way Ted preferred it -- they were arguably his richest, as he loved and inspired his family, his fans, the players, and the game itself. This is a remembrance for the ages.

A fascinating firsthand account of life during the U.S. Civil War as told by a husband and wife through the letters they shared with one another.