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Are you tired of wasting your time and energy worrying all the time? Do you see the irrationality of constant worrying, but you can't seem to stop doing it? Are you ready to learn how to deal with anxiety and depression without taking drugs? This audiobook will walk you through precisely why, how, and what you need to do to stop worrying and start living your life. Though stress is an inseparable part of our lives, we can easily manage it using simple strategies and techniques. All we need is the willingness to learn these techniques and the ability to take action.

This book serves as a guide. It dives into the process of raising a venture capital fund, the how-tos, the unique language of the limited partner (LP) world, secrets of how LPs think about fund diligence and alignment, the best practices in fundraising, what works, and how you can best prepare for success.

There are lots of books about how to invest in venture capital. There are few books focused on what it takes to set up the behind-the-scenes business to position you for being a successful venture capitalist. To be a successful venture capitalist, you must set up a strong foundation for your business, including setting up your venture capital fund. This book provides you the fundamentals to quickly and easily set up your venture capital business. It provides a step-by-step process for launching your venture capital fund from Day 0.

This remarkable book, originally published in the 19th century, contains extended selections from the original writings and journals of those remarkable men who traveled across the globe and forever changed our understanding of the world.

In 1962, Avram wrote Beer Like Water, which was part of a book of Davidson’s true short stories titled Crimes & Chaos. In this audiobook, in Avram’s typical fashion, he plays with the setting such that it’s a bit more special than reality. Beer! Beer! Beer! exists at the intersection of magical realism (just a hint) and historical fiction, with the streets of Yokums representing the Yonkers of his youth in the 1920s and 1930s much in the way that the British Hidalgo of Limekiller! parallels Belize.

Long ago, a strange hermit built a secret mansion in the woods. Now, three boys have to discover his secret before something precious is destroyed forever. Hiram Crandon was odd; everyone in town believed that he practiced dark magic out in the forest. They gossiped about him, feared him, and tormented him until he disappeared forever. But he was hiding something...something that the wicked Mayor Hocek will stop at nothing to take for himself.

Four boys prepare for the adventure of a lifetime on their first time at sleep-away camp. Unfortunately for them, they don’t realize how big an adventure they’re getting into. And none of them could have prepared for it.

Sometimes, Christmas can be scarier than Halloween. Siblings Hannah and Jack are new in town. But their problems are much bigger than just adjusting to a new home and making friends at school. After an unpleasant encounter with a Santa collecting charitable donations, creepy things seem to happen everywhere they go. It looks like someone put Hannah and Jack on their naughty list. Getting some coal is the least of their worries. Someone pretending to be Santa is trying to scare them. And maybe more.

Micromanagement is a killer. Surveys indicate that 79 percent of workers believe that they have been micromanaged, with 71 percent reporting that it has interfered with their ability to perform their job. Here's the solution: Flip the Pyramid shows you how to supercharge the efficiency of your organization, creating a powerful tribal culture that not only engages, aligns, and empowers the talents of every last employee, but ultimately transcends the company itself to fully engage your customers.

In this collection of stories from 1959 to 1961, Avram treats us to pieces on maritime tragedies, Prohibition-era gangsters, forgotten Americans, the Triangle Shirt Co. tragedy, and the Crimean Light Brigade blunder. He also has an intriguing theory about Jack the Ripper.

When 10-year-old Richard moved to Salem, Massachusetts, he thought the worst thing he’d have to worry about would be fitting in at his new school. Instead, he was faced with a haunting that threatened to consume him completely. The only choice he thought would save him and his family was running away…but when it turns out that there’s no running or hiding from evil, it feels like he’s been driven into a corner.

Avram Davidson's six Jack Limekiller stories create a rich and colorful world where the magical and inexplicable coexist with the outboard motor and the escalation of the American war in Vietnam. British Hidalgo is "a place that you can put your arms around" - welcoming and friendly to the visitor, but uncanny beings dwell in the bush and roam along its coast.

Though stress is an inseparable part of our lives, we can easily manage it using simple strategies and techniques. All we need is the willingness to learn these techniques and the ability to take action. Effective stress management is critical to your physical, psychological, and emotional health. It's vital to your overall well-being. This book will show you how to start managing your issues and get relief immediately.

Grey dedicated his life to working as a bounty hunter for BeneCorp, seeking out those with special powers who could be a danger to everyone if they are not controlled. But when Grey watches the corporation execute his brother Ashe for betrayal, Grey begins to question everything he thought he knew.

Fostering Energy builds upon the idea that energy surrounds everything on Earth, from puppies to people to pizza. Interactions between these vessels create a transaction of energy, and the result can be either good or bad. Those carrying negativity in their self-worth, emotions, and thoughts also carry negative energy that taints everything they touch. The importance of caring for energy is beyond understated, and Fostering Energy brings light to the significance of the subject matter.

Ten-year-old Richard expects many things when he leaves New York to move in with his newly remarried dad in his new home in Salem, Massachusetts. The one thing he does not account for is awakening an ancient evil in the house that will stop at nothing to get to him. Now, Richard has a choice to make: What is he willing to do to outlast the evil from the attic when no one is willing to believe he is being haunted?

Like Malamud and Jackson, Avram Davidson brought a unique level of charm, wit, and intrigue to the short story form. Collected here for the first time are his remarkable mystery tales, including the 1815 investigations of New York's Chief Constable; a sinister lesson in New England thrift; New Amsterdam river pirates versus the KGB; treachery in nursing home; and expatriates who will kill for a little peace and quiet.

Avram Davidson was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies - tales of strange Mitteleurpoas, of magic in Victorian England, and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire", "Traveller from an Antique Land", and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach".