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In 1979, the seeds of social media were sown by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, and the result of that action would give rise to a monster that would not only change the world of communication forever, but also have great impact in all our lives. In this audiobook, the author takes you back in time to where it all started: a brief history of human communication, from yelling and cave writings up to the birth of social media. He elaborates on the significant and obvious benefits of social media as well as its drawbacks.

Business Is Warfare is an audiobook which is thrilling, fascinating, and all-encompassing. It is based on how you can grow your business in the world of reality. Life is full of ups and downs, friends and foes, competitors and customers. It is an audiobook which tends to educate business personnel on how to use neuro-linguistic programming to achieve two things. These are basically to influence customers and crush your competition.

The audiobook focuses on telling you the pros and cons of intermittent fasting, what it is, and how your body can easily adapt to it. Intermittent fasting is a type of fasting where you eat your daily meal and then fast for the next 24 hours. You can have water and healthy fluid like fruit juice in the fasting, but in certain amounts. This easy way of changing your dietary plan can produce great results. The results will be different for different body types, but there are ways in which you can compensate for it.

In a story that could have come straight out of Hollywood, the golden actor rose through California politics to become California governor and eventually the 40th President. The 70-plus-year-old former actor then went on to have one of the most consequential presidencies of the 20th century, unquestionably making him one of the most influential men of the last 50 years. And his name is still as relevant in American politics today, with every politician with an R next to his or her name trying to claim Ronald Reagan’s conservative mantle.

Ultimately all businesses have one single goal - making money. People start a business because it's lucrative. People launch their startup because they want to make money - lots of money. But what happens when you step into business without understanding what it involves?

Churchill will forever be most associated with World War II, but his life was far more adventurous and complex than that, and these other aspects of the man are often overlooked and overshadowed. History for Kids: An Illustrated Biography of Winston Churchill for Children details Churchill's life and career, while humanizing the young child who was both aristocrat and hellion, and the man who overcame a speech impediment to become one of the 20th century's most dazzling orators.

You want to lose weight, and you know losing weight can make you healthier and able to move more freely... yet you don’t lose weight. Weight Loss for Middle-Aged Women explores the psychological reasons for that paradox, looks at habits that may be holding you back, and offers strategies to get your weight loss back on track.

Are you dissatisfied with your sex life? Do you feel that the sizzle and crackle is missing? This audiobook is for all those who want to know the hidden secrets of ancient wisdom and take their sexual life to an exalted level of ecstatic and explosive pleasure. This audiobook has excellent information on sex positions, with plenty of practical advice both for novice as well as experienced lovers.

Charles Manson and those who followed him called themselves a family while the rest of the world got to know them for what they truly were, a murderous cult. This cult would, over the space of a few short weeks during the late '60s, commit a series of murders that would shock the world and forever redefine the term serial killings. This audiobook will give you a brief glimpse into the crimes and personalities that define the evil cult of personality known as the Manson Family.

When people think about the Second World War, they seldom think in terms of silence and small acts. This was a war in which the industry of entire nations was rearranged to feed fighting, and it was fought on a scale in which battles could include hundreds of thousands of combatants. Whole cities and populations were destroyed, with millions of casualties occurring at places like Leningrad.

It would be impossible to sum up the life and legacy of Bill Clinton in one sentence or even one paragraph, as the former president represents many different things to many different people. Indeed, the yin and yang of Clinton’s life and career are inescapable....

History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Queen Elizabeth I chronicles the life and reign of England’s most famous queen, but it also humanizes the woman who ruled one of the world’s most powerful kingdoms in an age dominated by men. Elizabeth inherited her grandfather’s political acumen and her father’s magnificence, thus creating not just one of the most colorful courts in Europe but also one of the most effective governments in English history.

Reaching the menopausal stage in life can shake up a lot of your beliefs and assumptions in life.

In this book, you will learn to redefine yourself and be open to new things, new thinking, and new ideals. You are more than a mother and a wife. Your definition is not limited to the fact that you can bear children. They go beyond that. Thus, some women find themselves at a loss when menopause sets in.

The Founding Fathers have become so revered by Americans in the last 200 years that the "Father of the Constitution" himself is often overlooked among the rest of the pantheon. Today James Madison's legacy mostly pales in comparison to the likes of George Washington, Ben Franklin, and his closest colleague, Thomas Jefferson, but Madison's list of important accomplishments is monumental. A lifelong statesman, Madison was the youngest delegate at the Continental Congress from 1780-83, and at 36 he was one of the youngest men who headed to Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Despite his age, he was the Convention's most influential thinker, and the man most responsible for the final draft of the US Constitution. Along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, Madison was one of the most persuasive advocates for ratifying the Constitution, authoring some of the most famous Federalist Papers, and he drafted the Bill of Rights that was later added to the Constitution.

There is no shortage of professional magicians and stuntmen in the 21st century, but all of them owe something to the most famous stuntman of them all, Harry Houdini. A century after he began to thrill audiences with his patented escape acts, Houdini's name remains synonymous with seemingly miraculous escapes and getaways, and his name is instantly recognizable. With fame came skepticism, and Houdini was frequently accused of being a fake and fixing his escapes.

If you don't conquer the market, your competition will. That is a fact, and the way to conquer him is to get ahead of him in commanding social media. Numerous companies that do not adopt the way of social media are thrown into oblivion and forgotten. You don't want to be one of them. This book has all you need to know to get ahead of your competition by mastering the required tool and becoming the Social Media Jedi.

From the moment the film industry became a burgeoning business that offered actresses an opportunity to seek fame and fortune, millions of girls across America have dreamed of making it big on screen, despite the long odds against them. And yet, among the few that have catapulted to superstardom, few did it as quickly, effortlessly, or as seemingly disinterestedly as Kim Novak. An art student in her early 20s, Novak was in Los Angeles by chance and appeared as an extra in a 1954 film to earn money, only to be almost immediately discovered.

The simplest thread of success is woven with the art of communicating with your brother far and wide. That is exactly what the Internet allows you to do. It does not matter what you are selling, it does not matter if someone else is selling it as well. It also does not matter where you want to sell to, all that matters is that there is profit to be made and you can make it by selling to as many people as you can. The only way to can make that happen is when you crush it with the Internet.

One of the most powerful platforms to define the Internet as a whole is the Amazon marketplace. It is a multi-billion-dollar endeavor that has consistently created wealth for hundreds, if not thousands, of entrepreneurs. At the center of Amazon's key success factor is the FBA - Fulfilled by Amazon. It is the single most powerful concept in online retail and it represents a potential avenue for you to create your wealth and advance your business.

From the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.