Conquer your career crisis in style! Don't be "victimized" by job instability or a career shake-up! In this book you will learn the stories of people like you who responded successfully to abrupt or planned career-change events. 
In today's volatile working world, it is in your best interst to keep your skills transferable. These narratives depict those who have done that and came out on top. The professionals described in the book have all landed on their feet after being laid off, fired, burned-out, bored, downsized, or forced into an early retirement that was too early. 
Some of the people cleverly got rehired at their former employers or within their same industries. Others determined ways to land in a new career field or profitably apply their skills down a new occpuational avenue. Still others learned, through various methods, how they could launch a small enterprise which built on the connections, knowledge, and resources that they already possesed. You will learn about the origninal inspirations which gave them the courage, vision, and resources to act and succeed. 
The book's lessons come to the reader in an easy-to-read narrative format that describes each individual's career/work situation. This method instructs readers in a manner that is much more interesting and effective than a boring "how to" list of information. The many nuggets of wisdom can be helpful to readers from most any occupational background or situation. 
The book features people from teaching, medicine, law, corporate office, library science, broadcasting, military, executive, finance, information technology, sales, trade, clergy, and other backgrounds. Their transitions will inform and inspire readers to seek and find occupational options which can work in their own lives. 
Included in the book is the Twenty-Minute Career Tune Up which enables readers to develop a quick snapshot of their occupational strengths and interests. That tool, which is used by the author in his private career coaching summits and individual career consulting, can help direct and focus the occupational improvement efforts of most people. It uses a guided brainstorming process that forces one to "drill down" and come up with strategic yet practical goals and plans. Also included are 101+ web sites that were of strategic help to the book's subjects. 
If readers are amidst or considering a career, job, small business, or work-place transistion, Laid Off &amp; Loving It! can be a very practical tool.

Laid Off & Loving It! How People Like You Conquered a Career Crisis

Business & Money

Madsen, Paul David

Job Hunting & Careers

growmedia.com

Laid Off & Loving It for 2010 can help conquer your career crisis with help from today's revolutionary Social Media tools. You'll learn how to create your essential "TwitterVator Speech" in order to tap into the power of Social Networking. No matter what the cause of your career transition, this book gives you the inspiration and the "nuts-and-bolts" you need to rebuild, reinvent, and achieve your ultimate vocational victory! Laid Off & Loving It for 2010 offers timely solutions to today's record unemployment, underemployment, and the career fears faced by millions of professionals.

Laid Off & Loving It for 2010: Rebuilding Your Career or Small Business with Social Media's Help

Do Men Grieve All Wrong? 
Men may feel that culture limits the way they should grieve the death of their loved ones. Men Grieve, Too addresses that issue in a hands-on way, offering practical tools to help them as they experience the trauma of loss.\nIncluded in the book are tools that enable grieving men to be more self-aware during this painful time. Rather than discussing phases or stages, Men Grieve, Too helps men identify and measure how they are individually reacting to their loss. The result may be small steps toward peace of mind for men in mourning.

Men Grieve, Too: Tools to Help Men Rebuild After the Death of a Loved One

Parenting & Relationships

In 2010, The Great Melting Pot is melting down! In the spirit of Orwell's "1984," this novel is an exciting political thriller and commentary on society itself. Despite terrorists, militias, kidnappings, assassinations, behind-the-scenes suspense, and historic tie-ins, the story manages to integrate an adventurous long-term romance between a deserving couple who we can all relate to. AND this novel is especially piognant for today's immigration debate! A timely page-turner which is more appropriate now than at the time it was published. The novel inspires and entertains by helping us really look at our changing nation.

Uncle Juan's Cabin: -- A Novel --

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hemming, Peter M.

Thrillers & Suspense

One life, one century. Sixty-five years after the bombing of Dresden and twenty years after the unification of Germany, Angela Thompson paints a vivid and passionate picture of her mother, Elfriede Richter (1920-1999), in her book "Blackout: A Woman's Struggle for Survival in Twentieth Century Germany." She captures the reader from the very first page as the story of her family's fight for survival unfolds after Hitler's rise to power, followed by World War II, the catastrophic bombing of Dresden, the emergence of two German states and the family's eventual escape to West Germany before the building of the Berlin Wall. In her search for understanding and universal truths, Angela Thompson presents a hauntingly personal insight into the heroic struggles of a woman who not only fights for survival but strives for dignity in her married life and the slowly emerging new German society after World War II.

Blackout

ANGELA THOMPSON

History