In the neon-drenched streets of Las Vegas in 2000, two detectives battle a crossbow-wielding serial killer obsessed with the supposedly cursed novel The Yellow Crown, racing to uncover why he hunts only those sharing a specific surname.Detective Emile Sauveterre loves three things in his life: working homicide in the LVMPD, his alter ego as an aspiring stand-up comic, and ignoring his older sister for the past ten years thanks to the family trauma she caused.But hi...

In January 2015, Craig Wright was facing financial ruin, with the Australian Taxation Office having uncovered a potentially criminal operation involving his raft of companies. Six months later, he was sitting pretty, having signed a bailout deal that settled his tax affairs and afforded him a dream job in England. Somehow, Wright had turned it around.In truth, Wright had accepted a ticking time bomb. The deal that saved him was predicated on one ve...

As a salesperson, your pipeline is the key to your success. No matter what changes, that remains the same. Top producers prospect--and they do it ALL THE TIME. "But how?" you ask, "In the age of the Internet, isn't cold-calling dead?" Now, in his new audiobook, sales expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates confusion about what works today. Merging new strategies with proven practices, "High-Profit Prospecting" will help you: - Find better leads and qualify them ...

For salespeople feeling stressed and disappointed that their customers don’t want to hear from them, this guide is the key to developing the mindset and habits required to reach a new level of sales success.The world of sales can be tough, so it’s easy to get discouraged when the rejections start piling up and your customers stop answering the phone. This allows the wrong thought patterns to start developing, soon you aren’t making quotas and then you begin looking...

This book teaches salespeople to rethink their approach to sales goals--so they not only sell a greater quantity but sell with the bottom line in mind.In the high-pressure quest to make a sale, acquire a contract, and beat out other bidders, sales professionals frequently resort to short-term strategies like cutting prices, offering discounts, or making other concessions. By explaining how short-term strategies are destructive to the long-term sustainability of a b...

Now in its third edition, In the News is the standard Canadian textbook on media relations, used across the country. The authors provide an introduction to media relations, grounded in both communications theory and hands-on, day-to-day experience. Whether you need to promote your issues to the nation or reach small, targeted groups, this book is your step-by-step guide. In the News is perfect for communications students; media relations practitioners in the private, public and voluntary s...

This book explains the natural mechanisms behind unexplained events like spiritual beings, other dimensions, miracles in the Bible-and even UFOs. Are these phenomena real? Are they scientifically sound? Do they obey the laws of physics-like anything else we see, hear or feel on this Earth? The surprising answer is "Yes!" These phenomena are not magic or miraculous. They are real-and supported by science!This compelling book, based on extensively footnoted research ranging from scie...

In 2011, two years after the launch of Bitcoin, its pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, quietly departed the scene. Many thought Satoshi was gone for good, but in 2016, he returned, telling a shocking story: far from leaving on his terms, he had been forced out, and now he was back to reclaim what was rightfully his.Except this wasn't Satoshi Nakamoto. This was an Australian IT security consultant called Craig Wright.And he was a complete fraud....

MtGox was the biggest Bitcoin exchange in the world when it imploded in 2014, taking almost half a billion dollars in customer funds with it.The collapse of MtGox, triggered by a perfect storm of crippling hacks and spectacular mismanagement, shocked the Bitcoin world to its core and left the fledgling cryptocurrency on the ropes. Worse, it started a battle for compensation by creditors that took over a decade to resolve, by which time the loss was...

"The author lays bare his own triumphs and failures while breaking down that elusive edge that turns great leaders into influencers." —Brad Szollose, award-winning author of Liquid LeadershipThe Brink is a method for generating leadership in an individual leader and on a team. It is based on the simple assertion that leadership is created in the face of some great challenge or obstacle to overcome, rather than in a vacuum or in comfortable places w...

Search engines and social media have changed how prospecting pipelines for salespeople are built today, but the vitality of the pipeline itself has not. The key to success for every salesperson is his pipeline of prospects.In High-Profit Prospecting, sales expert Mark Hunter shatters costly prospecting myths and eliminates confusion about what works today.Merging new strategies with proven practices that unfortunately many have given up (much to th...

Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed education at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more equitable society. Yet, by the 2010s a wave of student protests voiced demands for decolonised and affordable education. By following families and schools in Durban for nearly a decade, Mark Hunter sheds new light on South Africa's political transition and the global phenomenon of education marketisation. He rejects simple descriptions of the country's move f...