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  Accidental Tourist

  Mukesh Kumar

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  Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.[2] The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure and not less than 24 hours, business and other purposes".[3] Tourism can be domestic (within the traveller's own country) or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country's balance of payments.

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  Surrendering to Wholeness

  Jerry Wennstrom, Marilyn Strong

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  At the age of twenty-nine, Jerry Wennstrom changed the course of his life in a way that brought answers to life's "big" questions and more. He was a successful New York City artist when he began to sense that something much larger and more important was stirring, waiting to emerge in his life.  What he discovered was a path to understanding and wholeness that brings the ancient teachings into the context of our modern world.

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  Financial Autonomy - The money...

  Paul Benson

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  Financial Autonomy, by financial planning expert Paul Benson, is about money. But, unlike most money books, it’s not focused on making you the richest person in your street, or worse, the richest person in the cemetery. Instead, the focus of this book is on gaining choice. 
  Divided into parts dedicated to cash flow, investing in stocks, investing in property and self-employment and side hustles, the book starts with the reader -- YOU! What are your goals and aspirations? What does financial autonomy mean to you? Then the author shows you how to make a plan and follow it with the ultimate destination being the freedom to choose the lifestyle you desire. 
  "A clear, sensible and straightforward guide to take control of your money and put you on the path to financial independence." 
  Stephen Miles, Investment Editor, SMH and The Age 
  "Paul outlines three distinct — but possibly overlapping — strategies to build wealth and freedom. Or choice. Or independence." 
  Nick Lope, The Side Hustle Show 
  "I would highly recommend Financial Autonomy to anyone looking to explore their options, in regaining control over their financial life." 
  Kate Campbell, How to Money

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  Life in the Time of Oil - A...

  Lori Leonard

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  “[A] tale of imperial hubris, rough and tumble politics, and the duplicity of what passes as corporate social responsibility . . . important and compelling.” —Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley 
   
  Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project—a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. 
   
  Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effects of oil as development.

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  The People Equation - Why...

  Deborah Perry Piscione, PhD...

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  This book teaches leaders how to focus on people development rather than product development. Innovation comes from people, not products or technology. Deborah Piscione's twelve-step process is a comprehensive guide to success for leaders that shows them how to harness the creative energy in their organization, thereby bringing better products to market. 
   
   
  For too long, companies and their leadership teams focused primarily on their products or services. Leaders are deeply dialed in to the minutiae of their companies' operations. But veteran Silicon Valley consultant Deborah Perry Piscione says investments in new technologies or operations do not create innovations-people do. For innovation to happen, organizations need to be people-centric. In this breakthrough book she shows how, by following her People Equation, every organization can develop a mindset, an organizational structure, and a product development process that will maximize creativity and innovation. 
   
  Using examples from her consulting work and from her research into successful business practices, Piscione shows how to create a culture where risk taking is rewarded, mavericks are encouraged, collaboration between highly competent people is nurtured, and, when experiments and new initiatives are proposed, the response is to ask how rather than question why. This requires upending the usual organizational pyramid, giving more decision-making power to frontline workers and less to the C-level executives traditionally at the top. Once this is all in place, you can take advantage of Piscione's twelve-step Improvisational Innovation process for bringing new products and services to market. This is a comprehensive guide to harnessing the creative energy in every organization.

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  Negotiations

  IntroBooks Team

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  Negotiation can be termed as a result-oriented discussion or conversation between two or more people with the purpose being reaching a mutually-beneficial conclusion. In most instances, the result benefits all parties, but there are times some or single member of that party carries the day. With negotiation skill, one can easily resolve differences among the participants in that discussion to achieve a beneficial outcome for the groups and individuals involved in the negotiation process. Not everyone has what it takes to negotiate beneficially; some skills are required to do this successfully. Be that as it may, virtually everyone can learn these skills. Individuals working with marketing and sales portfolio will benefit a lot from negotiation skills. It is normal for each of the customers to insist on having his or her way, but a good negotiator knows how to find a common meeting ground between the customer and the company he or she is representing. The skilful negotiator can find a mutually advantageous position for all the parties involved. 

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