Irwin

Get Wired For Success shows professionals how to wire their brain for success in business and life with neuroscience-made-easy. When Dr. Rod Irwin purchased his business for over a quarter of a million dollars, he soon discovered it was making a loss. With no training in business management, he plunged on, but eight years later he was over one million dollars in debt. It nearly killed him-crippling anxiety, mind-numbing insomnia, even a near death...

The first book to give Metallica's lyrics the care and contemplation they deserve. More than 40-years since their formation, and 125 million albums later, Metallica is as relevant as ever. Much has been written about the band, but The Meaning of Metallica is the first book to focus exclusively on their lyrics. Their mighty guitar riffs and pounding drums are legendary, but Metallica's words match the intensity of their tunes. Lead singer James Hetfield...

The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt. Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities-having the girls over for coffee, tidying the house, making dinner-it becomes increasingly clear that her sanity is unraveling at an alarming rate. Irwin is at his creative best here, as he describes Marcia's...

Neither a cautionary tale nor a polemic, Men as Friends is about a variety of male friendships and a variety of men. A "coming-of-old-age story," it speaks to an audience of men who love or have loved other men but are too embarrassed to say so, opening the reader to the deep sadness of loss as well as the joy of its acknowledgment.

Having one's prayers answered is a lot easier than most people think. When you open yourself to God in prayer, you will find it is similar to turning on a radio. The only difference is that it is two-way. You have to tune into a frequency on which you can hear God as well as speak to Him. But before you can broadcast to God, you must make of yourself a well-functioning receiver so that you can hear His message. How to Get Your Prayers Answered will...

This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children's author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, the Yaller Blossom o' the Forest, Sam Patch's Last Leap, Paul Bunyan, John Henry and Joe Magarac the Steel Man. Illustrated throughout by Al Schmidt.

What causes a leader to fail? What can we learn from those who have fallen? How do we avoid failure of our own? These are just a few of the questions answered in Derailed: 5 Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership, a book for leaders and aspiring leaders of all levels by Tim Irwin, Ph.D. Derailed chronicles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs, the factors that drove their downfalls, and the lessons that we can learn to stay on track...

Nowhere has there been a discussion of the confusion necessarily generated by the rapidity of the change or of the agony created in the lives of many whose attitudes, expectations, and even success depended on the continuance of now abolished institutions. Historians have ignored the settled conditions of most samurai and instead concentrated on the study of the minority of activist samurai leaders who, with the backing of only a few Han (feudal domains)...

My brother thinks the water in Kissing Springs has a way of bringing out the romance. He might be right. After the day I've had, I only need one thing. A night with a woman like our bartender with the pink hair. But things aren't exactly as they seem. When Miss Sexy Pink Hair invites me in, I'm suddenly saving the day like the hero I never was before. ​Later, when she seeks me out to thank me properly, she has her way with me. I'm not complaining....

This real-life inspired, yet fictional, young adult and adult fable focuses on a young Inyupiaq (Northern Native Alaskan) who was born into a troubled home when the U. S. was just beginning its involvement with her rural arctic village. The text, interwoven with Emily Dickinson inspired poetry, is comprised of vivid descriptions of Alaskan tundra, intense and whimsical dialogue between varied dynamic characters, and action-filled, intelligent, and...