Despite a well-paying job, the author had managed to spend everything he had earned in the five years after college. The meeting with the mortgage officer was his financial epiphany. He finally got serious about managing and investing his money. Now in his early 50s, the author is debt free, owns a house free and clear, and has built a retirement portfolio that will comfortably sustain him and his wife in the coming years. This book will help people avoid the financial mistakes the author made the first few years after college.In a breezy, humorous, and conversational style, it describes a common-sense approach to spending, saving, investing, and managing your money to build wealth over time. If you are looking to get a grip on managing your money, From Ramen to Riches is for you! Silver medal winner in the 2011 Living Now Book Awards. Finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

    Apple Cider Vinegar (AVC) is natural solution for allergies, weight loss, boosting your immune system, and more! It's even a recommended part of heath programs such as the Raw Food Diet and the Paleo Diet!In this Apple Cider Vinegar Handbook, you'll learn: How to Make Apple Cider Vinegar  The Many Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar  How to Incorporate Apple Cider Vinegar Into Your Diet  How to Lose Weight Effectively with Apple Cider Vinegar  Apple Cider Vinegar Recipes  ...and much more! Plus there's a FREE BONUS at the beginning of the book!Take the first step towards improving your health with Apple Cider Vinegar by clicking the "buy now" button above!

    Volcanoes. Sharks. Quicksand. Terrorists. The pilot of the plane blacks out and it's up to you to land the jet. What do you do? The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook is here to help: jam-packed with how-to, hands-on, step-by-step, illustrated instructions on everything you need to know FAST-from defusing a bomb to delivering a baby in the back of a cab. Providing frightening and funny real information in the best-selling tradition of the Paranoid's Pocket Guide and Hypochondriac's Handbook, this indispensable, indestructible pocket-sized guide is the definitive handbook for those times when life takes a sudden turn for the worse. The essential companion for a perilous age. Because you never know...

    Hadoop allowed small and medium sized companies to store huge amounts of data on cheap commodity servers in racks. The introduction of Big Data has allowed businesses to make decisions based on quantifiable analysis. Hadoop is now implemented in major organizations such as Amazon, IBM, Cloudera, and Dell to name a few. This book introduces you to Hadoop and to concepts such as ‘MapReduce’, ‘Rack Awareness’, ‘Yarn’ and ‘HDFS Federation’, which will help you get acquainted with the technology.

    Jennifer Rao, a Chemical Engineer by trade, has been baking for over 20 years. She owns and operates her own cake decorating business, Around the World in 80 Cakes and regularly posts recipes and how-to videos on her website, http://www.80cakes.com. In "How to Bake", Jennifer has compiled all that she has learned while walking you through every step of the cake baking process. Some of the topics she dives into include: how to bake a cake without a dome, understanding the different types of flour, why weighing ingredients is better than measuring by volume, what each step of the batter mixing process means and how it is important as well as many other helpful topics. It also includes Jennifer’s recipes for basic yellow cake and American buttercream frosting. The appendix contains an extensive Reference section with recommendations for kitchen tools, ingredients, and other helpful baking books.

    With over fifteen years of success in the laughter business, he’s figured out how to harness the power of humor to change minds, persuade people, and influence decisions. Now, in this one-of-a-kind book, the king of corporate roasts and presentation humor shares his foolproof method for identifying ways to punch up presentations and engage audiences of all stripes. Drawing from years of experience crafting his own entertaining presentations—and working with seriously funny people—Chiles provides step-by-step instructions for learning how to successfully inject public speaking with humor to further your influence, expand your business, and build you career. He teaches readers to distinguish between comedy and humor, and provides examples from his own experiences to illustrate his methods. No matter your profession, your experience—or lack thereof—or the content you’re working with, Your Presentation Is a Joke can help. So whether you’re a seasoned public speaker or are scared stiff about a looming presentation, take the time to learn how to captivate minds by tickling funny bones.

    Slow cooking offers the best of both worlds -- hearty, healthy meals with minimal effort. The slow cooker, or "Crock Pot" as it is commonly referred to, is well known for its delectable pot roasts and savory stews, but what is less known is that it is capable of so much more. Enter bestselling author John Chatham's latest creation, The Slow Cooker Cookbook, which features 87 recipes that will put your slow cooker to use from breakfast to dessert. The Slow Cooker Cookbook helps eliminate that dreadful feeling of coming home from work tired and wondering what's for dinner. If you own a slow cooker you already know that it's the easiest appliance to operate in the kitchen. But it takes too long you say. Well, that's the point. A slow cooker allows you to throw some ingredients in the pot, safely walk away and get on with your life while it does the work. This cookbook offers recipes for all the traditional comfort food favorites like pot roast, beef stew, pulled pork, BBQ baby back ribs, old fashioned meatloaf, butternut squash soup and even mac 'n cheese. Imagine your home filled with the spicy aromas of Tandoori Chicken, Chicken Ranchero Enchiladas or Braised Asian Beef. Dozens of international recipes feature meals you never dreamed of actually making yourself. And with the slow cooker doing all the work you will feel as though you are dining out. Sounds appealing, but you don't eat meat? The Slow Cooker Cookbook dedicates an entire chapter of recipes to fish and seafood, and is filled with numerous hearty vegetable dishes like White Bean and Rosemary Soup, Eggplant Parmesan and Vegetarian Cassoulet. And if slaving over the stove is your passion then most likely you're not the baking type. Let the slow cooker make dessert. From fruit crumbles and cobblers to hot fudge cake there's virtually no recipe that this cookbook doesn't offer. ASK THE SLOW COOKER COOKBOOK, "WHAT'S FOR DINNER?" 87 delicious slow cooker recipes covering every meal from breakfast to dessert Bonus sections include: "Guide to Entertaining" and "Basics of a Slow Cooker Pantry" Written by bestselling author John Chatham, creator of The Paleo Diet Solution Cookbook, Paleo Slow Cooker and The Mediterranean Diet Simple, healthy, time-saving recipes for the food lover on the go The Slow Cooker Cookbook is an easy step-by-step guide to enjoying hearty, healthy meals without any of the hassle.

    Sometimes you try and it’s just so boring and impenetrable that you can’t get through it. And then, even worse, sometimes you’re asked to take a test or write a paper about it. If that sounds familiar, then BookHacker was designed for you.BookHacker summaries strip away all the subtlety and stuffiness of literature’s classic works (100% “thou”-free guaranteed) and get right to the point. Taking away all the guess work, BookHacker presents the book's warm gooey center in a concise, logical and entertaining way. Just because literary classics can be dry and boring doesn't mean understanding them has to be.In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, BookHacker gets to the essence of what’s going down in Depression-era Maycomb, Alabama. Told through the eyes of Scout Finch, whose youthful idealism is being chipped away by the evils of her small, Southern town, BookHacker walks you through a fight for justice her father Atticus cannot win. It's his unerring dedication to protecting the innocent (and his badass sniper skills) that gives her hope."I'm not going to lie--I used this to get out of having to read the book for class and it worked" Steven, 10th grade

“BookHacker gave me exact details and plotting, EXACTLY everything I needed to get through a dry, tough book” Rebecca, college freshman 

“This was surprisingly cool and honest. Would I want my teachers to know I used it? No, but that's why it's worth buying." Andrew, 12th gradeBOOKHACKER BREAKDOWN:1. Executive Summary - This is the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How in 60 seconds or less.2. Plot - We do the reading so you don’t have to. The essential plot points of the story.3. Scenes - Every great story has a number of number of important moments that are crucial (read: "testable") to its understanding. These are those.4. Characters - If you can’t figure out what this section is about, you should probably be coloring.5. Analysis - Themes, symbolism, and all manner of insufferable literary nonsense.6. Quotes - All the intimacy of the book with none of the commitment.7. Popular Culture - Books have a way of finding their place in the cultural consciousness. You might want to know about that.8. Extras - Media, links and leftovers.

    Dinner provides an opportunity to gather and refresh while spending time together around the table enjoying a meal.The author has collected and tested the book’s 100 recipes of main dishes, sides and desserts from years of experience cooking for a large family. Whether you’re feeding a family on a budget or need ideas on menu planning, this cookbook is the perfect companion for the busy, working cook.Hearty home-cooking using basic ingredients, plenty of fresh vegetables (and don’t forget the bacon) you will return to these recipes again and again when planning dinners for your family or entertaining for company.

    Twenty years of pay stubs. All the trophies your child ever won. It's difficult to love your home when every inch is packed with possessions. The Clutter Cure gives you the power to toss the things that are holding you back from living a full life and finally having a beautiful home--one that's more than a giant container for your stuff. In three steps, you'll learn to:Understand your compulsion to hold on to thingsBuy fewer but better quality itemsEnvision and create rooms that make you comfortable and happyTake action by donating, discarding, or selling your stuff

    Filled with hundreds of ways to simplify nearly every college situation, this guide tells you just what to do when your professor assigns you a twenty-page paper or you run out of clean dishes in your dorm room (chip bag bowl, anyone?).So stop making college harder than it should be! With these everyday hacks, you'll breeze through each semester as you finish assignments and tasks quicker than ever before!

    Quotes selected and arraigned for specific real life circumstances. Table of contents: Honesty and TruthKarmaEthics and MoralityIntegrityCharacterConscienceFairnessPrinciples & ValuesTrust BetrayalHuman NatureAnger and BitternessA Call to ActionDesireDoing what is inside you: ConfidencePersistence and PerseveranceTrying and SucceedingNurture your thoughtsWorkBe Inspired and MotivatedSocratesPlatoAristotleNietzscheGandhiCiceroEinsteinCamusConfucius

     - The daily cleaning routine will have your home company-ready in just minutes a day - Easy-to-follow cleaning plans guide you through purging clutter and deep-cleaning every room in your home - Work at your own pace and fit a deep-cleaning and thorough organizing into YOUR schedule - Step-by-step instructions and helpful flowcharts will show you how PLUS you'll get recipes for 10 of my homemade cleaning mixes so you can make your own cleansers using ingredients you may already have in your kitchen. Here are just a few: - Bathroom disinfectant spray - Soft scrubbing cleanser - Glass and window cleaner - Furniture polish AND MORE! When you're finished the Monthly Cleaning Routine will show you how to keep your home just as clean and organized in less time than you're probably spending now!

    Add to this the frustration of using incomplete systems that are supposed to help you, and the stress levels just shoot up. - Get rid of 'stuff', eliminate stress and simplify every area of your life. - Give you the satisfaction and freedom of feeling that you have every aspect of your life, both professional and personal, under control - Frees up your time and mental resources - Helps you to get everything on your to-do list done in an almost effortless wayAs you read these words, you realise that it makes so much sense to have a proven integrated system to make your work and personal life easier.Consider this to be your exclusive invitation to never feeling overwhelmed again. The system described in this book will enable you to have the peace of mind of being highly organized, even if you're not.

    Slender Slow Cooker CookbookLow Calorie Recipes for Slow Cooking under 200, 300 and 400 calories.This book is for you if: You're looking for easy low calorie slow cooker recipes, which keep an eye on your calorie intake.You're looking for a slow cooker cookbook thats full of flavour.You don’t want to spend all your time in the kitchen.  The slow cooker recipes are easy to put together in the morning, leaving you free to come home to a delicious meal in the evening.Including the following low calorie slow cooker recipes, and many many more: Pork Chops with Apricot.Potato & Sweetcorn Casserole.Lamb Korma.Lamb with Pears and Potatoes.Sausage Casserole.Slow Cooker Beef.Vegetable Goulash.Vegetable Stew & Dumplings.Lancashire Hotpot.Happy Slow Cooking!