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  Cold Hard Truth

  On Business, Money & Life

  by Kevin O'Leary

  From the lead Dragon on CBC's Dragons' Den --Kevin O'Leary shares invaluable secrets on entrepreneurship, business, money and his life Can you make millions just by "visualizing yourselves rich" as some business prophets suggest? Don't buy it, says Kevin O'Leary. If you want to be a successful entrepreneur and amass wealth, you're going to have to work for it. But the good news is: with the right guidance and... (more)
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  Persuasion

  A New Approach to Changing Minds

  by Arlene Dickinson

  At work, at home, and everywhere in between, we need to persuade others every day. To give us a job. To award us the account. To give us the first available appointment. Problem is, no one ever taught us how to persuade. Until now. At thirty-one, Arlene Dickinson was going nowhere, fast. Recently divorced, she had a high school diploma, no savings and no clue how she was going to feed four young... (more)
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  Applied Business Ethics, Volume 1

  POWER Living Through the Truth

  by Dr. Brian Keen

  The Truth can be known with Theanthropic Ethics, which is one of the few scientific ethical categories. Dr. Brian Keen has researched numerous ethical categories, and has found only Theanthropic Ethics understands that there is one universally applicable Truth. The Truth has practical application in every enterprise, business, or profession. Any business, enterprise, or profession operating in an ethical manner... (more)
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  Community of Grace

  An Orthodox Christian Year in Alaska

  by Mary Alice Cook

  Community of Grace is the story of one successful community, made up of the stories of the people who made it happen, and told in the context of the Orthodox worship that binds them all together. Join in the lives of the parishioners of St. John s Orthodox Cathedral in Eagle River, Alaska, as they experience the joys and sorrows, struggles and triumphs of being an intentional community dedicated to life in Christ. (more)
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  Ethical Accounting (Management Ethics)

  by Dr. Brian Keen

  The term “ethical accounting” is not an oxymoron. The most important position in any enterprise is the CFO, and making certain that one has an ethical CFO is extremely important. Entrepreneurs often attempt to do the work of a CFO by thinking that accounting is simple since it is only numbers. As long as income is more than expenses then everything is good. Entrepreneurs need to realize that good knowledge... (more)
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  The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series

  The Gospel of Luke

  Good News for the Poor

  by Lawrence R. Farley

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  The Enemy of Engagement

  Put an End to Workplace Frustration--and Get the Most from Your Employees

  by Mark Royal, Tom Agnew

  There are a lot of frustrated people in most workplaces today. We’re not talking about the incorrigible office grump or the permanent slacker. Instead, we’re referring to dedicated workers who are being prevented from achieving their peak potential by organizational obstacles. Better enabling these employees to succeed represents an untapped avenue for radically improving productivity. Packed with the... (more)
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  Everywhere Present

  Christianity in a One-Storey Universe

  by Stephen Freeman

  Have you ever referred to God as the Man upstairs ? Most Christians living in a secular society have unwittingly relegated God and all things spiritual to the second storey of the universe: a realm we cannot reach except through death. The effect of this is to banish God, along with the saints and angels, from our everyday lives. In Everywhere Present, popular blogger and podcaster Fr. Stephen Freeman makes a... (more)
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  The Search for Truth on the Path of Reason

  by Alexei I. Osipov

  Professor Alexei Osipov of the Moscow Theological Academy discusses the centrat questions of man's existence through science, philosophy, and religion.
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  Mere Christianity

  by C. S. Lewis

  THE BELOVED BESTSELLING CLASSIC OF CHRISTIAN FAITH Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis's forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books -- The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality -- Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion. Rejecting the... (more)
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  Speaking The Truth In Love: Education, Mission, And Witness In Contemporary Orthodoxy

  by Thomas Hopko

  These collected lectures were written during Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko&#39s decade as dean of St Vladimir&#39s Seminary from 1992 to 2002, and all deal with what it means for Orthodox Christians to speak and to act in a loving manner in societal and ecclesiastical settings, particularly in twentieth-century North America. Especially relevant are his remarks regarding education and spiritual formation in... (more)
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  The Orthodox Bible Study Companion Series

  The Prison Epistles

  Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon

  by Lawrence R. Farley

  From the depths of a Roman prison, words of encouragement and instruction from the great Apostle Paul were sent in a series of letters to communities throughout the Roman Empire. St. Paul may have been fettered and shackled to a series of Roman guards, but the Word he preached remained unfettered and free. This volume contains commentaries on the epistles that St. Paul wrote while in prison to the... (more)
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  The Power of the Word: In the Worshiping Church

  by John Breck

  "Fr. John Breck, an assistant professor of New Testament and Ethics at St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary (U.S.A.) provides an inestimable service to his fellow Orthodox theologians and to Christian theologians at large with his present study, a collection of articles attempting to articulate a contemporary Orthodox hermeneutics. The underlying insight which is key to the whole work is that the Word of God as found... (more)
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  First Fruits of Prayer

  A Forty-Day Journey Through the Canon of St. Andrew

  by Frederica Mathewes-Green

  Join Frederica Mathewes-Green on a guided retreat—ideal for the Lenten season—through the classic Great Canon, a wise, ancient, Orthodox text that will enrich your experience of spirituality and prayer. First Fruits of Prayer will bring readers of all denominational backgrounds into the prayer experience of first millennium Christianity through immersion in this fascinating text, a poetic hymn written in the... (more)
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  Father Seraphim Rose: His Life and Works

  by Damascene

  This epic biography of Hieromonk Seraphim Rose tells the unique story of a man who, having grown up in a typical American home in southern California, became one of the greatest teachers of Orthodox Christianity in our times, loved and revered throughout Russia and Eastern Europe. Quoting at length from his letters, journals, manuscripts, recorded lectures and published writings, this book traces Fr.... (more)
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  The Soul After Death: Contemporary "After-Death" Experiences in the Light of the Orthodox Teaching on the Afterlife

  by Seraphim Rose

  What happens to the soul when it leaves the body at death? What is its state from then until the Last Judgement? Do the numerous present-day books on life after death give any real answers to these questions, or are they only hints about a reality which even those who "return from the dead" often misunderstand? THE SOUL AFTER DEATH is a comprehensive presentation of the 2,000-year-old experience of ancient... (more)
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  Vita Patrum: The Life of the Fathers

  by St. Gregory of Tours

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  On the Mystical Life: The Ethical Discourses

  Volume 1: The Church and the Last Things

  by St. Symeon the New Theologian

  Includes index. St Symeon the New Theologian was abbot of the monastery of St Mamas in Constantinople at the turn of the eleventh century. He was also perhaps the most remarkable and certainly the most forceful advocate of the mystical experience of God in the history of the Byzantine Church. Though they were on occasion suppressed by ecclesiastical authorities wary of his fierce enthusiasm, as well as his... (more)
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  Dancing Alone: The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion

  by Frank Schaeffer

  Dancing Alone is a passionate declaration of Orthodox faith by one of the best-known converts to the Orthodox church in modern America. Schaeffer, son of famous Protestant evangelist, Francis Schaeffer, places a detailed intellectual and spiritual journey before the reader... from the heart of the Protestant churches to the heart of Orthodoxy in a breathtaking tour de force. This popular book has been read by... (more)
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  Christ the Eternal Tao

  by Damascene

  Not until now has the ancient wisdom of Lao Tzu been presented alongside the otherworldly revelation of Jesus Christ in a way that encompasses the full significance of both. Christ the Eternal Tao presents the Tao Teh Ching as a foreshadowing of what would be revealed by Christ, and Lao Tzu himself as a Far-Eastern prophet of Christ the incarnate God. Through heretofore unpublished translations and... (more)