If your delivery of presentations is all too variable and you don't know why, don't despair - help is at hand. Learn how to get your message and your personality across with the easy-to-follow instructions in this book. The expert advice in this guide, illustrated with a host of relevant examples, will show you how to use simple techniques and disciplines to ensure successful presentations, …
Advanced Negotiation Skills in a Week is a straightforward guide to taking your negotiating to the next level, giving everything you really need to know in just seven short chapters. It identifies the key steps in the negotiations process from preparation, partnering, and influencing to trading concessions, problem solving and closing. You'll also find exercises to help you put it all into action.
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolutions against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When A…
The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of 'negative utopia' - a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on th…
Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains and the weirdest and most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print. And there at the centre, in a London swathed in eddies of fog and illuminated by gaslight, is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes and his staunch companion, Doctor Joh H. Watson. Few will be able to resist this invitation to step a…
Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence. It ends trag…
This Little Book is about those frequent times when negotiation must happen amidst volcanic social and organizational change. It is for those absolutely unsettling occasion when the mechanism that support negotiation are unclear, fragile, or completely missing-deciding which parent will have custody of a child while a divorce is underway; bargaining between workers and management during the cou…