Shock the Topline


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Too often, books intended to help advance insurance professionals' careers are thinly disguised general sales theory, containing programs and advice drawn from the latest pop psychology. Such books are rarely written by industry insiders, and while they loudly tell you what you need to do, they never tell you how. It's time to change this unhelpful dynamic. Written by award-winning retail insurance sales producer and senior industry leader David E. Estrada, Shock the Topline offers a practical, no-nonsense guide for insurance professionals who want to achieve success and generate opportunities for career advancement. Estrada focuses on three core elements vital for success: gaining perspective within the industry, increasing topline revenues, and developing leadership skills. This book is not only for producers: Estrada's penetrating insight and experience will help sales leaders, agency owners, and brokerage leaders better understand the challenges faced by their production teams. A career in insurance can be both fulfilling and rewarding. Your efforts serve the needs of others and protect the social fabric-a noble goal if ever there were one. Let Estrada help you take your career to the next level and shock your topline.




Proceedings of the Royal Society of London


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Publishes refereed research papers in all aspects of the biological sciences. As a fast track journal, it specialises in the rapid delivery of the latest research to the scientific community.




Rotating Machinery, Structural Health Monitoring, Shock and Vibration, Volume 5


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Rotating Machinery, Structural Health Monitoring, Shock and Vibration, Volume 5 Proceedings of the 29th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2011, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 35 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Rotating Machinery, Structural Health Monitoring, as well as Shock and Vibration, along with other structural engineering areas.




How to Modify Your Jeep Chassis and Suspension for Offroad Use


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Jeeps are the most popular off-road vehicle and the most common modification to them is in the chassis and suspension. This book offers a compilation of tech articles from JP magazine, the number one magazine for Jeep enthusiasts. Includes articles on tires, wheels, brakes, lift kits, shocks, springs, and chassis stiffening/bracing.




TOP LINE ACADEMIC READING AND VOCABULARY


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TOP LINE ACADEMIC Reading and Vocabulary teaches the academic reading skills that are most useful for college and university students. Building Academic Reading Skills offers reading and vocabulary activities in all units and for each reading within a unit. As today’s readers need to master a large volume of texts and vocabulary presented in different genres and disciplines, TOP LINE ACADEMIC Reading and Vocabulary is organized by a high-interest topic and features multiple readings from different academic disciplines. Each unit contains one textbook reading and one from another genre because students are increasingly reading newspaper, magazine, journal, and online articles in addition to their textbooks. The readings, while adapted to be accessible to intermediate to high-intermediate students, are not easy. However, through the systematic application of the reading skills, students will be able to understand them and apply the information they learn. Students will gain the satisfaction of having engaged and mastered challenging texts.




The I Ching


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This revised and expanded edition of Wu Wei's well-loved version of the I Ching is unparalleled in its clarity, making this the easiest-to-grasp I Ching ever published. The I Ching is a book of answers that miraculously guides us to success in every possible situation. Yet, if we are to rely with absolute certainty on the I Ching for guidance to our most vital questions, we need answers that are clear and straightforward, leaving no room for confusion or misunderstanding. Wu Wei has guided thousands of people in the use of this great book and knows precisely what you need so you can put your trust in its prophetic guidance. Wu Wei's insightful interpretations of the I Ching's sixty-four hexagrams provide perfectly clear, unambiguous direction while remaining completely true to the ancient writings. You will know exactly what action to take to avoid misfortune and achieve success. The I Ching: The Book of Answers contains everything you need to know about the I Ching and how to use it.




Measuring the Impact of Sequestration and the Drawdown on the Defense Industrial Base


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The presence of a technologically superior defense industrial base has been a foundation of U.S. strategy since 1945. While the implementation of the budget cuts in the Budget Control Act of 2011 has caused concerns for the industrial base, the resulting debate has been lacking in empirical analysis. The purpose of this research is to measure the impact of the current defense drawdown across all the tiers of the industrial base. This report analyzes prime and subprime Defense Department contract data to measures the impacts of the drawdown by sector to better understand how prime and subprime contractors have responded to this external market shock.




Ski


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The Magical I Ching


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It's one of the oldest books on Earth, and it has a message for you. The I Ching is a mystical collection of ancient wisdom, generally explained as a simple look-up-the-answer method of fortune telling. Now, J.H. Brennan reveals to Western practitioners the magical spiritual techniques behind this most ancient oracle, in The Magical I Ching. This is a unique, exciting, and easy-to-use version of the ancient oracle. Using the information in The Magical I Ching, you will be able to contact the spirit sage waiting to tell you the inner meaning of any of the six-line symbols you bring forth (the hexagrams) and how that meaning can change your life. The Magical I Ching explains the history of the I Ching and how to develop the symbols by using several different methods, including using six sticks or wands, sixty-four wands, eight coins, or the popular three-coin technique. The book analyzes each of the possible sixty-four hexagrams that form the basis of the oracle, in clear, modern language anyone can understand. That is just the beginning. The I Ching has survived for so long because of its spirituality. You'll learn how to use the book to enter astral doorways to mystic realms of reality. It will allow you to create a new framework for operations of real magic. You'll probe the deepest mysteries of Eastern esoteric thought. It even shows you ways to put your life on a new and better course. After 5,000 years, the I Ching remains one of the most popular sources of spiritual wisdom in the world. If it puzzled you in the past, you'll be able to understand it at the deepest level possible when you read The Magical I Ching.




I Ching Readings


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An indispensable companion to the classic Chinese book of wisdom known as the I Ching. I Ching Readings is the only book ever published that shares the real-life stories of people who have consulted the I Ching-their questions, the answers they received, and the events that followed. Wu Wei's informative stories show how the I Ching unerringly guides people to great success-and how misinterpreted guidance can lead lives off track. In this unique work, you will also learn how to understand and interpret answers you receive from the I Ching and, just as importantly, how to phrase your questions to obtain the best possible answers. "It is a great comfort," says Wu Wei, "to know that no matter how monumental our problem, there is a solution to it that will put us in a better situation than we were before the problem arose."