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Making Ethical Choices, Resolving Ethical Dilemmas reflects a new approach to understanding ethics - one's own and others - based on what people actually do and say they do, rather than what they have been taught are the right and ethical things to do. The audiobook has been developed by speaking to people from various backgrounds and discovering the wide range of ethical approaches people use in making everyday choices, and deciding how to handle the ethical conflicts they encounter in their lives.

Real or Fake? Area 51 and the Aliens is a card game in which players read facts on cards about the various research, events, and conspiracies involving Area 51, a highly classified United States Air Force (USAF) facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range, and other players have to tell whether that information is true or false. Players get points if correct, and when the game ends, the player with the most points wins. You’ll also learn some intriguing facts about the research, events at the facility, and various conspiracies about aliens as you play the game.

A step-by-step guide to the unique E-R-I method of conflict resolution. It's based on dealing with the negative emotions, using the reason to understand the situation and consider alternative conflict resolution strategies, and employing the intuition to come up with alternatives and decide on the best approach.

Self-Publishing Your Book in Multiple Formats is designed to help writers take advantage of the many formats for publishing and selling books. This audiobook features an introduction to the different platforms and shows how to prepare and publish your manuscript in each format. By doing so, you can take advantage of the multiple approaches for selling your work to customers who like to consume books in different ways.

How to Find Publishers and Agents and Get Published is about how to successfully write, pitch a book, write a query letter, promote a book, and build a platform. Many of these chapters started off as answers to questions from clients or prospective clients of Publishers Agents and Films (www.publishersagentsandfilms.com), a service that connects writers to publishers and agents. Then, I began thinking about all the steps involved, from writing a book to getting published.

Increase Your Impact and Influence features different ways to share your message in multiple formats in order to reach your intended audience in the ways they prefer to get that message. This message is whatever content or communication you want to convey, and you can repackage and repurpose your message in various ways to break through the huge clutter of chatter in today’s supercharged information age. And doing so can help others hear and respond to your message.

The following three tales are adapted from stories told by the American Indians. These are three of my favorite coyote stories. They are: "The Story of Coyote, Buffalo, and the Rock", told by the Sioux, a tribe from the Northwest, where they once formed the Great Sioux Nation, in the area that later became the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, and Wyoming.

Money, Money, Money is one of a series of card games and communication games that are designed to be both entertaining and stimulate discussion about these topics. They can be played just for fun at a party or to have a serious discussion. The games are based on books and films about scams, prisons, crime, success, current trends, history, and other topics.

I Was Scammed: Don’t Be Scammed by Email, Phone, and Social Media Scams begins with a brief introduction to how the scam investigation began after a scam targeting book authors in The Big Con. Then the book focuses on the different ways that scammers use emails, phone calls, and social media posts to find victims. Some of the scams featured include inheritance, business opportunity, investment, and consignment scams. Others are winning a lottery, good news for you, help from the government, account suspended, unauthorized access, and credit card misuse scams.

I Was Scammed Books: Don’t Be Scammed by Home Sale and Rental Scams features an overview of different types of scams, followed by a brief introduction to how the scam investigation began after a scam targeting book authors in The Big Con, the audiobook discusses the different types of real estate frauds, including rental scams, moving scams, home improvement and repair scams, and real estate investment scams. Besides describing the scams, the audiobook provides tips on how to avoid becoming a victim, and what to do if you are.

I Was Scammed: Don’t Be Scammed by Identity Fraud features the different methods that scammers use to steal one’s personal identity, followed by ways to avoid such scams. The book describes the growing identity theft problem, the many data breaches that have occurred, the ways scammers use your personal information, how to protect your identity from theft, and how to repair the damage after a scam. Besides describing the scams, the book provides tips on how to avoid becoming a victim, and what to do if you are.

I Was Scammed: Don’t Be Scammed by the Latest Scams begins with a brief introduction to how the scam investigation began after a scam targeting the book authors of The Big Con. Then the book focuses on some of the latest scams, including gift card, couponing, and phone contest scams. Other scams featured are podcast, conference participation, book review, publishing, and marketing service scams. Besides describing the scams, the book provides tips on how to avoid becoming a victim, and what to do if you are one.

I Was Scammed: Don’t Be Scammed by Merchant and Customer Scams begins with a brief introduction to how the scam investigation began. Then the book focuses on the different ways that merchants defraud customers and customers take advantage of customers. Some of the scams featured include chargeback scams, fraudulent damage and nonreceipt claims, online fraud, hidden fee scams, counterfeit product sales, and more. Besides describing the scams, the book provides tips on how to avoid becoming a victim, and what to do if you are.

The Mountain of Gems tells the story of Aman, who lives with his widowed mother. When she can no longer work, he looks for work, and a rich noble invites him to search for gems. They travel through the desert on camels, and at the bottom of a mountain, the noble asks Aman to lie down on a rug that he rolls up like a big tube. After two large black birds grab the rug and drop it on the mountain top, Aman discovers gems on the ground. After the noble asks him to throw them down and he does, the noble rides off leaving Aman to die.

Top Tips for Feeling Forgiveness features quotes showing the many ways that forgiveness is a valuable quality to have and how to use it to bring more happiness into your life. The audiobook features these topics: Forgiveness and the divine, forgiveness, love, compassion, and peace, forgiveness, strength, and courage, forgiveness and letting go, moving on, and new beginnings, forgiveness, making mistakes, and acceptance, forgiveness and forgetting, forgiving others and enemies, the difficulty of forgiveness, and applying the principles of forgiveness in your life.

Top Tips for Overcoming Fear and Anxiety features quotes showing the many ways you can confront and overcome your fear and anxiety. It includes these topics: The danger of fear, conquering and overcoming fear, having courage, do it anyway, understanding your fears, changing your mindset, and techniques for overcoming your fears.

The Basic Guide to Turning Your Interviews, Articles, Presentations, and Exhibits Into a Video provides a step-by-step guide to creating videos from your interviews, articles, blogs, presentations, and other written material to gain more visibility and authority. The videos help to draw attention to whatever you are doing and help viewers want to learn more about you and your work. Once you create these videos, you can promote them in various ways.

The Survive and Thrive Guide features commentary, quotes, and techniques on how to successfully overcome any type of challenges you face. It is based on dealing with the emotional reactions that occur, which can be organized into five stages of response. They include: dealing with your feelings of anger, dealing with your fear and anxiety, tapping into your courage, finding forgiveness for others and yourself, and feeling gratitude.

10 Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Getting into Film Festivals describes how to select the festivals where you have the best chance for being selected and suggests ways to up the likelihood your film will be selected. Some of the strategies described include entering early, writing compelling letters and press releases to show how your film is aligned with the goals of the festival, and more.

10 Tips for Creating Promotional Video for Your Screening describes the different types of promotional materials to create. It discusses creating flyers, announcements, press releases, and social media posts. It describes the different places to promote your screening, including the newsletters of local organizations, trade fairs, and announcements at referral and networking groups.