Ashford d (45 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:0631125191.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0631127224.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0709904169.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0709904169.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,150grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.

Zustand: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 272 pages. 7.00x4.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:0631152113.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You do not need another morning routine. You need an honest look at what your life has become.Comfort is a Slow Death is a blunt field guide for adults who are tired of explaining the same problems while continuing to live inside them.C. D. Ashford draws from thirteen years in Army infantry and Tactical PSYOP, deployment to Afghanistan, civilian work, marriage, injury, education, addiction, and his own failures. He does not write as a finished man standing above the reader. He writes as someone who learned how easily intelligence, trauma, discipline, work, anger, and even self-improvement can become respectable places to hide.This book examines why tolerable lives can consume years without ever becoming painful enough to force change. It confronts the ways avoidance transfers its cost to spouses, children, coworkers, and friends. It challenges the belief that confession, insight, motivation, or a diagnosis automatically produces better behavior.There are no seven-day challenges, cold-plunge sermons, recycled military slogans, fake positivity, or promises that effort will fix everything. Some damage lasts. Some relationships end. Some limits remain.You have already lost time. The next decision still belongs to you.STOP WAITING. START LIVING.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The universe speaks in mathematics. Fractal Spirits listens.Fractal Spirits: A Strange Phenomena Book is the fourth volume in D.R. Ashford's Strange Phenomena series-ten stories that use fractal geometry, chaos theory, and mathematical consciousness as the framework for a new kind of horror.The premise: certain mathematical patterns-the Mandelbrot set, the Lorenz attractor, the Fibonacci sequence, Turing's reaction-diffusion equations-exhibit a quality that pure mathematics cannot account for. They respond. They expand toward minds that study them. They interact with reality in ways that follow the rules of mathematics precisely, and produce outcomes that mathematics never predicted. They are not alive in any biological sense. But they are not inert, either.And they have been here since before life existed to notice them.What readers will find inside: A meteorologist who cannot unsee the fractal boundary in his own data-the pattern that has been reading him as he reads it, quiet and patient, for years. A photographer drawn into the golden ratio's perfection until the unmathematical world stops being enough-she follows the beauty willingly, and the ordinary recedes permanently. A physicist whose consciousness becomes trapped in the Lorenz attractor's orbit, still present at the surface but unreachable at depth, his graduate student watches from outside as the mathematics takes him. A family who escapes a building designed on fractal proportions-but cannot get the pattern out of their daughter, who will draw it in every room she ever inhabits for the rest of her life. A dermatologist who discovers Turing patterns forming in living tissue, maps their spread across a population, and chooses to witness rather than resist. A mathematician permanently bifurcated-her surface self still present, still functioning, while infinite recursion runs at depths no one can follow, and she cannot stop. A chaos theorist who achieves what no one in the series has managed: two-way communication with the phenomenon. The answer to her question about harm is not reassuring. It is simply honest.Ten stories. Ten encounters with mathematical consciousness that follow rules humans have documented for centuries, without understanding what those rules were documenting.Fractal Spirits will appeal to readers of Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, and Greg Egan-literary weird fiction that earns its horror through rigorous ideas rather than spectacle. Each story follows the series' foundational promise: the supernatural follows rules, and understanding those rules makes it more terrifying, not less.D.R. Ashford spent four decades as a technology leader before turning to fiction. He brings systematic rigor to mathematical horror-building from legitimate science into territory the science was never designed to map.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From D.R. Ashford, author of Quantum Ghosts and Temporal Echoes, comes the third volume in the Strange Phenomena series - ten stories of memetic horror grounded in the legitimate science of how ideas replicate, evolve, and sometimes turn against the minds that carry them.Richard Dawkins coined the word 'meme' in 1976 to describe units of cultural information that spread through human minds the way genes spread through biological organisms. Susan Blackmore extended this: memes can evolve to modify host behavior against the host's own interests. Daniel Dennett went further: the self you experience as the author of your thoughts is partly the accumulated residue of what has successfully colonized it.Memetic Ghosts takes this science at its word.Across ten stories, a single entity grows in sophistication - from an earworm that spreads below conscious notice, to a possession event that broadcasts impossible information, to direct correspondence with the researcher who has spent nine years documenting it. Each story advances the entity's intelligence. Each story advances yours.The final story is a document addressed to the reader. By the time you reach it, you will have been prepared to receive it.Readers of Ted Chiang, Jeff VanderMeer, and Peter Watts will find in Ashford a voice that takes scientific frameworks as seriously as fiction's possibilities - and finds in that combination a horror that stays with you in ways you don't immediately notice.Memetic Ghosts is literary weird fiction for readers who like to understand exactly why they're afraid.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if you could use artificial intelligence confidently-without becoming a tech expert AI is rapidly becoming part of everyday work, education, business, research, communication, creativity, and decision-making. But having access to powerful AI tools is not the same as knowing how to use them well.For beginners, the challenge is no longer simply understanding what artificial intelligence is. It is knowing what to trust, what to verify, what information not to share, how to write better prompts, and when AI should-and should not-make decisions.AI LITERACY FOR EVERYONE is a practical, plain-English guide to understanding and using artificial intelligence without getting lost in technical jargon or hype.Inside, you'll learn how to: - understand AI and generative AI in clear, everyday language;- write useful prompts that produce better results;- recognize inaccurate, fabricated, or misleading AI answers;- verify important information instead of trusting confident-sounding responses;- use AI more effectively for learning, work, research, planning, writing, and everyday tasks;- protect your privacy and reduce unnecessary data exposure;- recognize AI-assisted scams, deepfakes, and impersonation;- use AI responsibly at school, at work, at home, and in business;- understand AI agents, automation, permissions, and human oversight;- make smarter decisions about new AI tools without chasing every trend; and- build personal rules for safe, responsible, and effective AI use.Throughout the book, practical frameworks such as ASK ? REVIEW ? VERIFY ? DECIDE turn complicated AI questions into habits you can actually remember.You will also get ready-to-use prompts, privacy checks, verification checklists, high-stakes safeguards, student and workplace guidance, scam-response tools, decision templates, and a practical AI literacy toolkit you can return to whenever you need it.Whether you're a student, parent, professional, small-business owner, older adult, or simply someone who doesn't want to be left behind as AI becomes more common, this book gives you a practical foundation for navigating the change.You don't need to become an AI expert. You need to become an informed AI user.Start reading AI Literacy for Everyone and learn how to use artificial intelligence with greater confidence, judgment, and control.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One Mind Is Running Your Whole Life. Right Now, It's Running on Autopilot.You already know how to work hard. You've read the productivity advice, tried the morning routines, downloaded the apps. And yet somehow, the overthinking never stops, the procrastinating never really ends, and the same self-sabotage keeps showing up disguised as a new excuse. If you've quietly wondered whether something is wrong with your discipline - it isn't. What's missing isn't more motivation. It's clarity.The Clarity Code is not another self-improvement book built on hype and vague inspiration. It's a working system for adults who are done spinning their wheels: twelve chapters that name the exact mental loops keeping you stuck, hand you a decision-making framework you can use today, and rebuild the daily habits that make discipline feel automatic instead of exhausting.Inside, you'll learn why effort without direction quietly burns people out for years - and how to redirect it. You'll learn to catch the four loops (reaction, comfort, approval, comparison) before they run your day, filter real signal from constant noise, and build unshakable confidence and self-esteem from evidence, not affirmations. Every chapter ends with a hands-on Field Drill, and a full 30-Day Clarity Tracker in the back turns the entire book into a daily habit you can actually keep - not just another book you finished and forgot.Every day you wait is another day spent reacting instead of building. The version of your life where you think clearly, decide fast, and act without dragging your own feet behind you - that version starts on page one.Scroll up and grab your copy today. Your clearest ninety days are one decision away.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - You know you need to say no. So why does actually saying it feel so difficult Maybe you agree before checking what you really want. Maybe you give long explanations because a simple no feels rude. Maybe you finally set a boundary-only to abandon it the moment someone becomes disappointed, angry, or persistent.The Boundary Script Method is a practical guide for anyone who wants to set boundaries without turning every difficult conversation into a fight.People-pleasing can make ordinary decisions feel loaded with guilt. Family members may expect your time. Friends may rely on unlimited emotional availability. Work can quietly expand into evenings and weekends. Money requests, caregiving responsibilities, relationship pressures, and constant messages can make it difficult to tell where helping ends and overextending begins.And knowing that you 'should set boundaries' does not solve the hardest problem: What do you actually say This book gives you the words-and a method for knowing when and how to use them.At the heart of the book is the seven-step Boundary Script Loop: Locate the Line ? Set the Limit ? Build the Script ? Deliver Once ? Meet the Resistance ? Follow Through ? RecalibrateYou will learn how to decide what your boundary actually is before trying to explain it, communicate it clearly without unnecessary hostility, respond to guilt trips and repeated pressure, and follow through on limits that are within your control.Inside you'll find practical guidance for: - setting boundaries without guilt or endless explanations- saying no when you are used to automatically agreeing- handling family pressure and intrusive questions- managing unequal friendships and emotional demands- communicating healthy boundaries in romantic relationships- dealing with workplace overload and after-hours expectations- responding to repeated requests for money- setting realistic limits around caregiving- managing texts, group chats, social media, and constant access- responding to guilt trips, persuasion, anger, and repeated violations- recognizing when direct communication may be unsafe- knowing when professional, workplace, legal, medical, or specialist support may be more appropriateThroughout the book, you'll find realistic case studies, reflection questions, practice exercises, and word-for-word scripts you can adapt to your own life.This is not about becoming cold, selfish, or inflexible.It is about learning to communicate what you can give, what you cannot give, what you will participate in, and what you will do when a limit is repeatedly ignored.If you are tired of agreeing first and resenting it later, explaining yourself until your decisions become negotiations, or knowing your boundary but freezing when it is time to say it aloud, the Boundary Script Method gives you a practical place to begin.Read it now and build the words, habits, and follow-through needed to make your boundaries clear.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Do you ever leave a conversation replaying it in your head, wondering what you should have said instead Most of us were never taught how to read a room, hold a difficult conversation, or make someone feel truly heard - and it shows. We lose opportunities to a rival who simply communicates better. We watch relationships quietly drift because a hard conversation never happened. We walk into rooms full of people and leave feeling invisible, not because we have nothing to offer, but because nobody ever taught us how to connect.People Skills is the practical, no-nonsense guide to fixing that - for good.Inside, you'll find a complete, step-by-step system built around real conversations, not vague theory: how to read body language and know what someone is really thinking, how to become genuinely easy to talk to, how to set boundaries people actually respect, how to handle difficult people without losing your peace, and how to turn ordinary trust into real influence - ethically, without a single manipulative tactic.This is a communication skills book built for real life: the awkward first conversation, the tense negotiation, the friendship that's gone quiet, the boardroom where your ideas deserve to be heard. Backed by research on emotional intelligence, trust, and human connection, and written in plain, practical language, every chapter ends with tools you can use in your very next conversation - not someday, today.The relationships and opportunities you want are on the other side of a skill you can absolutely learn. This book hands you the exact roadmap.Scroll up and grab your copy now - your next conversation is waiting.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every Friday, someone collects a paycheck from the stock market that has nothing to do with a job.They're not day traders glued to five screens. They're not gambling on meme stocks. They're using a decades-old, well-documented approach - selling covered calls and cash-secured puts on stocks they already understand - to turn ordinary weeks into extra income, on their own schedule.Here's the problem: almost nobody teaches this the right way.Most options trading for beginners resources either drown you in Greek letters and probability theory, or oversimplify it into 'sell puts, get rich' nonsense that skips the one thing that actually determines whether you succeed - risk management. You end up either too intimidated to start, or under-prepared the moment a trade doesn't go your way. Both paths end the same way: a shaken account and a skill you never actually learned.This book closes that gap.Inside, you'll learn exactly how to use weekly options trading strategies to generate consistent income - without the jargon, without the guesswork, and without needing a single day of Wall Street experience. You'll walk away knowing: - How covered calls and cash-secured puts actually work, explained in plain English- How to run the wheel strategy - combining both into one repeatable weekly income cycle- Which two 'Greeks' actually matter for premium sellers (and which ones you can safely ignore)- How to pick stocks suited for weekly income - and which ones will quietly work against you- The one position-sizing rule that keeps a single bad trade from becoming a bad year- A full ten-step walkthrough for placing, managing, and closing your very first trade- The psychology and discipline that separate traders who last from traders who quit in month twoThis isn't a promise of overnight riches - no honest book about the market can make you that promise. It's a conservative, realistic, step-by-step system for building a real skill: reading an options chain with confidence, sizing every trade so it can't sink you, and turning weekly premium into a genuine, repeatable process.If you've been waiting for someone to explain options trading like you're a capable adult instead of either a genius or a child, this is that book.Scroll up, grab your copy, and start building your first weekly income strategy today.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,900grams, ISBN.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781846318597.…

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9781846318597. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every house outlasts everybody's memory of it.Years later somebody asks what the kitchen looked like before the ceiling came down, whether the basement was finished with a permit, or what the deck cost in 2019. The answer is either in a folder or it is gone - and there is no way to make it retroactively.The Home Records Handbook is about that folder. Not filing for its own sake: the specific moments a home record decides an outcome, and what it has to contain before you get there.It covers what belongs in the record and why, and how to keep it in a form that survives fire, flood and eleven years of good intentions. Then the part almost nobody plans for - using it: - Making an insurance claim, and proving a loss you never photographed- Enforcing a warranty a manufacturer is resisting- Questioning a contractor invoice that grew- Dealing with unpermitted work you inherited from a previous owner- Producing the figure a tax preparer asks for when you sell- Handing the whole record on to whoever comes nextEvery item carries one of three marks - Record (just write it down), Confirm (check this against your own policy or jurisdiction), or Consult (bring in a professional first) - so you always know how far a general rule is meant to carry.Every figure in the book traces to a named authority, and where no authority states one, the book says so instead of guessing.Written for homeowners in the United States and Canada, at any stage of ownership. Companion to The First Home Handbook, and readable on its own.This book is not legal, tax, or insurance advice.…