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This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Financial success, Carnegie believed, is due 15 percent to professional knowledge and 85 percent to “the ability to express ideas, to assume leadership, and to arouse enthusiasm among people.” He teaches these skills through underlying principles of dealing with people so that they feel important and appreciated. He also emphasizes fundamental techniques for handling people without making them feel manipulated. Carnegie says you can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view and “arousing in the other person an eager want.” You learn how to make people like you, win people over to your way of thinking, and change people without causing offense or arousing resentment. For instance, “let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers,” and “talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.” Carnegie illustrates his points with anecdotes of historical figures, leaders of the business world, and everyday folks. –Joan Price

Product Description

YOU CAN GO AFTER THE JOB YOU WANT…AND GET IT! YOU CAN TAKE THE JOB YOU HAVE…AND IMPROVE IT! YOU CAN TAKE ANY SITUATION YOU’RE IN…AND MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU!

For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.

Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn:

* THREE FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES IN HANDLING PEOPLE
* THE SIX WAYS TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE YOU
* THE TWELVE WAYS TO WIN PEOPLE TO YOUR WAY OF THINKING
* THE NINE WAYS TO CHANGE PEOPLE WITHOUT AROUSING RESENTMENT

Could be the best book on sales ever written February 7, 2009
valdek (new york new york usa)
Reads like a best selling novel. Sound advise with real life examples.Even though the book was wriiten a long time ago , its like the honeymooners,timeless.The advise Dale Carnegie gives will always be relevant.

Changed my life February 1, 2009
Matthew Pluznick
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I read a chapter here and a chapter there for the last month. Before I knew it I was successfully applying the techniques to all aspects of my life. I have already had so much success from this.

A book you’ll read again and again… January 29, 2009
Eric Slay (Orange County, CA)
This is quite possibly the best self-help book ever written. I have read my share of this genre and yet this is the one I always come back to. Simple and effective in it’s instruction, the book does a great job in setting you back on the right course. I have read this book three times, and I’m sure I will continue to revisit it.

A Classic! January 24, 2009
Tom Post
This is one of the original sales books, and reading it was a ground-breaking experience for me many years ago.

It’s still a book that I keep handy and re-read from time to time, so I recommend it to anyone who wants to experience more success and fulfillment in their lives!

Tom Post
www.TotalSalesPro.com

Author
Total Sales Pro Training: How You Can Earn Huge Paychecks Selling Ideas, Products or Anything Else

“Do well by doing good” (Ben Franklin) January 24, 2009
Queen_Anne_Drizzle (Seattle, WA)
For many years I had falsely judged this book by its title which suggested that it aimed to deceive people in order to influence and befriend them. Can you teach manners, compassion or kindness to adults? After numerous recommendations I gave in and decided to read the book and am very happy to have overcome my initial bias. This book does not merely teach readers how to make friends and influence them. More importantly it is an examination of human nature and the virtues of doing good. There is an anecdote in the book where the author complements a bored postal worker on his hair. Someone asks him what the author hoped to gain from the postal worker. The answer was nothing concrete but to make the worker feel good about himself. What was implied is that the author gained also by knowing that he was making the worker happy. A win-win situation. Carnegie, through many anecdotes makes a convincing case for good behavior.

Many of the author’s advice are incredibly simple such as “listen”, “don’t criticize”, and “smile”. One does not need obvious training to understand these advice but yet as one reflects on what goes on in the real world these deceptively simple tasks are not so easy. This book will help you perform these strategies better by first convincing you of their benefits and second by teaching you how. As the author recommends, readers will maximize the benefit from this book by intermittently reviewing it. Ben Franklin was always trying new ways to improve himself – this book will help readers tremendously with self-improvement. Whether you are interested in improved relations with co-workers, spouses, children or parents, this book will be invaluable.

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The Kindle Cookbook provides stey-by-step recipes to do everything the Kindle User’s Guide doesn’t tell you about–for free. Learn the Kindle’s hidden secrets and follow clear, convenient instructions to unlock them. The Kindle Cookbook’s handy reference format will make this one book that is always loaded on your Kindle! – What the Kindle Manual Doesn’t Tell You – Computers and SD Cards – File Formats – Copy Protection – Access 1000,000+ Free Books – Email, Instant Messaging and News – Send And Receive Email From Your Kindle-Using Any Email Address! – Browse RSS Feeds Using Google Reader – Using Google Calendar – 34,000+ Free Daily News Feeds You Can Download To Your Kindle–Automatically! – Instant Messaging with Yahoo Messenger – Searching the Dictionary, Wikipedia and the Internet – Look Up Any Word In The Dictionary – Look Up Anything in Wikipedia-The Easy Way – Search the Web – Search the Kindle Store – Navigation, Bookmarks, Clippings and Notes – Automatic Page Turning – Text Justification – Printing, Images and Illustrations – Save An Image of Your Kindle’s Screen – Print Pages From An Ebook – How to Zoom Those Tiny Little Illustrations – Picture Viewer – Converting Files to Kindle Format – Convert Multiple Documents and Download to Your Kindle – Converting PDF Files – Converting Microsoft .LIT Files – Converting Sony .LRF Files – Convert Anything That Can Be Printed On Your Computer – Audio Books on the Kindle – Playing MP3 Audio Books on the Kindle – Playing iTunes Audio Books on the Kindle – Converting AAC, M4A and M4B Audio Books for the Kindle – Free Audio Books – Playing Music on the Kindle – Kindle Internet User’s Groups – KindleCookbook.com – Amazon’s Digital Text Platform – Kindle Blogs – KindleFeeder – Feedbooks News Stand – GPS On Your Kindle! – Minesweeper – Display the Time

worth it??????? February 8, 2009
Brian Jagde (Patchogue, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

couple of good tips… book would have been better if it was just 10 pages… too much detail

the kindle cookbook by david emberson February 5, 2009
Jim (California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

i loved this book. i use it so often, to refine my searches for “how to” do things beyond the basics. indispensible’

Of Questionable Utility January 28, 2009
DB (Mt. Vernon, WA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

If you have any technological aptitude, skip this book. It contains very little useful information, and you can find it all for free on the internets anyway. For example, looking up a word “the easy way” involves opening up the search function and typing it in. Then, when the results page comes up, you scroll down to “Dictionary” or “Wikipedia”. Wow, what a terribly obvious thing to do.

Download this immediately January 19, 2009
Claire D. Provencher (New Hampshire, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

About an hour after I got my kindle, I was still fumbling around trying to find FREE books. I read the directions that came with the Kindle, and there was not much information. Luckily I came upon the Cookbook and an hour later I was a kindle expert! For all the griping some people do regarding the Kindle’s limitations, it far exceeded my expectations. Being able to view weather, news and even send and receive gmail was a nice surprise. I am madly in love with my Kindle and The Cookbook played a big role in the relationship.

Great tool and great support for those of us who are a little slow when it comes to the Kindle. January 11, 2009
Lamplighter (Springfield MO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The Kindle Cookbook: How To Do Everything the Manual Doesn’t Tell You

First, let me thank you for such a fast reply!

I should explain that I am a little dense regarding this technology, but when I saw that your reply talked about a recipe I thought this must be spam. It soon dawned on me that I was getting a reply for which I had sent in a question re: the Kindle Cookbook . Recipe – cookbook.Duh!

Your instructions were crystal clear and it worked like a charm. Thank you for the great book and for your fast reply.

The book is well worth the price. It is the 3rd manual I have referred to and it is the best by far.

Sincerely,

R L

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Harmony Singing By Ear: A step by step approach for learning how to sing harmonies above and below a melody. Three CDs totaling three 1/2 hours of instructional narrative, fully produced music tracks and guide vocals. One, two or more singers can learn two and three-part harmony singing. Vocal coach Susan Anders has successfully used these methods for over twenty years with pop, R&B, folk, rock and country singers.Harmony Singing By Ear uses two complementary methods to teach singers how to harmonize by ear. After reviewing some music theory basics, instructional sections walk you through how to find the upper and lower harmony parts for eight songs. Those same harmonies are sung on fully produced music tracks. On these tracks the vocal parts are panned to different speakers–singers can pan to one speaker and just hear their part, pan to the middle and hear both parts, or pan to the other speaker to practice with one or two other parts. In this way, beginning harmonizers can control how much or how little of the other voices they hear, making it easier to stay on their part. More confident harmonizers can sing without the guide vocals. Singers who simply want to learn and sing the harmony parts can skip the instructional tracks, go right to the music tracks, and pan their speakers to the right to learn the harmony part for each song.

Though much of Harmony Singing By Ear focuses on the how-tos of parallel harmonizing above and below a melody, singers will also learn about call-response, blue note, chromatic and block chord harmonies. Music tracks without vocals are also included so singers can practice their parts “without the training wheels”. Plus, there’s a supplementary section of exercises to build one’s harmonizing skills. The songs range in style from pop to R&B to folk to modern rock to jazz.

Effective, Well Organized January 6, 2009
R. D. (USA)
This is very easy to follow and understand. Anybody interested in harmony singing should benefit from this

Awesome job. Exactly what I was looking for. October 22, 2008
Myriam Balthazar (CARIBBEAN, F.W.I Martinique)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Received the pack 3 days ago; People stare at me singing in traffic jams!
Harmony, something I had wished to be able to master, for years; here I am now!
If you intend to improve your singing abilities harmonizing with others, buy this pack.
Will put you in tracks within a few hours.

Great teacher! October 4, 2008
A reader (San Diego, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is a great way to learn about and practice harmony singing. I have always had a fascination with how good harmonies make a song so much better, and wanted to learn how to do it without spending a ton of money, or trying to get other singers who were just as clueless to practice with me.

The author clearly lays out how to approach hearing the harmonies and some basic theory. The most valuable part is the practice songs, of which there are many on this 3 CD set. Being able to pan the balance to either side to hear the main vocal or the harmony vocal, and practice along with it is a great way to develop your ear and “feel” for the right pitch. It also makes commuting unbelievably fun!

Harmony singing February 18, 2008
William J. Devore (hayward, ca USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I like the songs on this CD and enjoy playing it while working in the kitchen for vocal practice. I would compare the approach on the CD to learning a language conversationally–there is only a little theory and you learn by copying. It’s good as far as it goes, but I’d like to get more theory.

Brought the joy of harmony singing to my life! November 11, 2007
Karena Jane
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

If you are a frustrated, wannabe harmony singer who is tired of hearing other people harmonize with what appears to be no effort, this CD will change your life. Other instructional CDs and books might have better graphic design or slick cover art, but this CD actually delivers.

Here’s the key (no pun intended): listen to all of the included CDs, but listen to the first CD over and over and over again until it sinks in. I kept this CD in my car and would sing along with it every time I drove somewhere — even to the grocery store. Then, I might put it away for a month or two…and pull it out and start all over again. I don’t have a lick of musical training, but Susan’s gentle, common sense approach is perfect for a beginner. After listening to Susan’s CD multiple times, I moved on to regular music CDs that already had harmony backup singers. I listened to their parts, learned them as best I could and sang along. Eventually, I got to a point where I never even bothered to really “learn” the melody. I would just listen for the harmony. Finally, I reached my goal of being able to find the harmony (on my own) and sing along with my better half, Ben Bedford, who writes beautiful Americana/folk songs.

What started out as a strong desire to simply to sing along in the living room has evolved into so much more. In fact, with assistance from Nashville singer-songwriter, Sally Barris, I sang harmony on Ben’s most recent CD. [...] I sing harmony on the songs “Harley Albright” and “Virginia Girls.” His CD was recorded in Nashville a year ago — and I feel like I am even more prepared for the next one! I’ve also started singing live with him when he performs — something I didn’t think I would ever feel comfortable doing.

Thanks for putting out a great product!