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Eleventh Hour CISSP®: Study Guide, Third Edition, provides readers with a study guide on the most current version of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional exam. This book is streamlined to include only core certification information and is presented for ease of last-minute studying. Main objectives of the exam are covered concisely with key concepts highlighted. This new edition is aligned to cover all material in the most current version of the exam’s Common Body of Knowledge.

While most of us have grown up being taught that the letter “I” has no place in the word “team,” teams are wholly made up of individual advantages that contribute to the collective power of the group. In Individual Influence, authors Brian and Mary Smith go far beyond this axiom, making a persuasive case that even a company or team of individual players is still an “Individual” at its core—expressing the collective influence of all those who play a role in it. Thus, there is not just one “I” in team, but many.

Author Steve Samblis spent years searching the world for the most successful people on the planet. He got to know them and asked them each this question: "What was the one most crucial habit in your life that has made the most significant impact on your success?" He then took these 100 habits and put them into a work called 1 Habit.

We are influenced by every person and interaction we have, and, in turn, we influence everyone and everything around us. We all have a choice about what to do with our influence: Will we leave a negative impact on others or use our influence to become a shining beacon of positivity? Smith and Griffin upskill listeners with tools to stay humble, lead themselves and the people around them well, and create opportunities to expand their influence in new and exciting ways.

In November of 2017, Cort Davies was given just three years to live. He was diagnosed with stage 4 malignant paraganglioma, one of the rarest forms of cancer on the planet. After seven surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, and experimental drugs, he felt like he was at the end of the road but something changed him one night as he laid in a hospital bed. He realized that his prognosis was simply a haunting opinion, and the true cause of his suffering was fear and the stress of the unknowns.

Not all leaders have fancy titles or high-paying jobs. Every human has the power to influence, and, therefore, is primed to be a leader. By coming to terms with our ability to affect others with our energies, words, and actions, we begin to grow in claiming this responsibility instead of remaining blind. Smith and Griffin continue the “I” in Team series journey by helping all humans (all leaders) consider how they will build themselves and others with the power of influence. Through real-life stories and summarized key takeaways, the authors promote out-of-the-box learning.

The Reiving Rogue, book two in the Hadrian's Wall time-travel trilogy, follows Ashlynn's sister, Jacklyn James, as she searches for answers to her sister's disappearance and finds herself transported back in time to the Anglo-Scottish border when reiving bands of men ran the countryside. Will Jacklyn find her sister, or will she, too, be lost to the tides of time?

After helping over 18,000 CEOs, entrepreneurs, managers, and employees worldwide, Dr. Brian Smith and his daughter, Mary Smith, share their knowledge of being a great leader in their second book of The I in Team Series. Individual Advantages: Be the “I” in Team emphasizes that one’s greatest responsibility is their influence. Building on the lessons taught in the first book, Be the “I” in Team aims to guide current and aspiring leaders towards being a positive influence on their teams.

It has never been more apparent just how volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) the world is. With all the adversity and challenge we face in today’s world, leaders need to cultivate more inner resilience and learn to lead in a new way. Through exhilarating, relatable, and entertaining stories about motorcycle racing and leadership, Unshakeable Influence explores and examines what mastering the inner game of leadership is, what it looks like, and how it enables leaders and organizations to not only tolerate VUCA, but truly thrive through VUCA.

Everything I Know About Life I Learned from James Bond by John Flynn and Bob Blackwood is a light-hearted but thoroughly researched look into the world of James Bond. For the adolescent male growing up in the 1950's and 1960's, 007 was everything that young men were not. This audiobook provides witty and insightful aphorisms about everyday things, ranging from girls to food and drink, cars to clothing and style, and life lessons to fun facts about culture and civilization, as reflected through the prism of James Bond, the world’s most stylish and cultured secret agent.

Hollywood screenwriter and television producer Craig Titley (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scooby-Doo, Cheaper by the Dozen, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Star Wars: The Clone Wars) has, for the first time, put together a collection of 24 essays written as part of his PhD program in Mythological Studies.

This is an inspirational story of heartbreak, struggle, and relentless parental support for Mike Gibbens, who was born with cerebral palsy. Battling a school system that separated their son from his neighborhood friends while facing financial difficulties from high medical costs, Mike's parents vowed to find a way to improve the situation. As they searched for solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems in a world that wasn't prepared to accept people with disabilities, Ron and Faye Gibbens were instrumental in founding a support group - North Dakota Association for the Disabled.

The cool thing, though, is we can instill in ourselves good habits. Even better, we can change bad habits (aka unHabits) into good habits. In this book, you will find stories from women action takers who are on a mission to make a significant impact on this planet by sharing their habits and unHabits to help you place one foot in front of the other when you need it most.

Do you have dreams of leaving your 9-to-5 job? Is your blog struggling to make the kind of money you dream about? Would you also like to know the secret strategies to maximize your blog’s earning potential? There are literally millions of blogs around on the Internet today. Some of them are fantastic and well written and generate tons of money 24 hours a day. Some, sadly, do not! If you want your blog to be in the category of blogs that earn money for you even while you sleep, then this book is for you.

After the death of her husband William, Lynda James goes in search of her lost daughters.
Ashlynn, an historian and archaeologist, disappeared while on a dig at Hadrian's Wall. Jacklyn, a free spirited journalist, went to the wall to search for her missing sister. Instead of finding Ashlynn, Jacklyn also disappears. Now, Lynda has come to the wall in search of her missing daughters. With the help of a mysterious taxi driver named John Graham, Lynda searches the length and breadth of Hadrian's Wall and the countryside beyond.

This book covers my leadership experience spanning the past 30 years and what I have learned to build and grow high-performing teams. As a busy executive myself, I understand and appreciate getting to the point quickly. This book was written to be a simple and concise guide intended for quick listening, with actionable content. Leadership is a journey and a series of experiments to learn what works and what doesn't for you as a leader and the people and teams that you lead.

This audiobook contains all three titles in the Hadrian's Wall time-travel trilogy: All Roads Lead to Rome, The Reiving Rogue, and Where the Truth Lies.

One Habit for a Thriving Home Office is for anyone who wants to avoid traffic, a long commute, reduce their carbon footprint, save time, minimize interruptions in their workday, have more control over their schedule, focus on priorities and make significant contributions to their business, company, clients or the world. Anyone can work from home, but if you want to have a thriving home office, this book is for you. This is a collection of best practices from Happy Achievers who productively work from home, having a positive impact and influence on those they serve.

Your life is the expression of the programs that have been instilled in you since birth. The good, bad, and the ugly is all captured like a tape recorder from the subconscious region of the mind. The subconscious is incapable of independent actions but works through the power of suggestion. Our mental personality is also composed of the conscious mind, which is our wishes and desires.

This audiobook is an educational manual that promotes the notion that creativity is possible in all human endeavors. Whether a person is an engineer, a business entrepreneur, an educator, an artist, or a writer, the ability to create is always available.