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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD GLOBALLY'One of the most important books you'll ever read' –Steven D. Levitt, bestselling author of Freakonomics‘Jam packed with things you will wish you had known before. I devoured the audiobook and instantly bought a hard copy to keep on my desk' –Dr Julie Smith, bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me T...

When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland.Hill was nineteen, it was 1973 and, with his head fed by Vietnam, Zappa, Kerouac, Vonnegut, Watergate and Coronation Street, he spent six months on various lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of un...

Tom Potts was fooling with a gun (Such follies should not be), When—bang! the pesky thing went off Most unexpectedly! Tom didn’t know ’twas loaded, and It scared him ’most to death—He tumbled flat upon the floor And fairly gasped for breath. The bullet smashed a fine French clock (The clock had just struck three), Then made a hole clean through the wall, As you can plainly see.

What Makes You a Good Sales Manager? Is Your Team Selling or Order Taking? Give Yourself a Competitive Edge and Create Explosive Sales Growth with the Techniques You Will learn from this Business Book. Large organisations spend huge amounts of money trying to increase the competitiveness of their selling activity. The money is mainly spent on Sales Automation, CRM programmes, extensive training courses and recruitment to replace people. However one key area that is neglected is the role an...

The Best Day is Today: A Practical Guide to Stop Waiting and Start LivingOverview: Are you constantly waiting for the "perfect time" to start your business, get in shape, or finally write that book? The Best Day is Today is a powerful wake-up call designed to help you break free from the paralysis of preparation and step into immediate action. We often tell ourselves stories about why now isn't the right time, but while we wait for ideal c...

Are Your Sales Team Working Efficiently? Are they Doing the Right Things in the Right Way at the Right Time? Discovering the Full Potential of Your Team Will Empower You to Smash Every Target! Selling and Buying has been around since the start of mankind so it should be simple and we should be good at it, right? Well one thing is for sure being good at selling is critical to your business – whether you are a long established and successful company or an ambitious “start” up, you need to se...

The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown, packed full of glorious illustrations.Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own young son Brightbill the gosling. Life on the island is perfect, until a dying seal washes ashore and warns of dangerous, cloud...

The Procurement Compendium is a collection of short articles relating to procurement and supply chain management, first published online via Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum websites. They aim to inform, provoke, occasionally educate and sometimes even amuse. Although procurement is the broad theme, topics range from Machiavelli's thinking on change management to 'licensing the procurement profession' the James Bond way; from the reasons for David Cameron's EU negotiation failure to wh...

THE VELVET CURTAINA Memoir of Strength, Survival, and GraceBOOK DESCRIPTIONIn the heart of Paris, behind a curtain of deep burgundy velvet, lies a world that few dare to enter and even fewer truly understand. The Velvet Curtain is not merely an establishment it is a threshold between the ordinary and the extraordinary, between the secrets we keep and the truths we reveal.This is the story of Vivienne Laurent.Born into poverty in the shadow of Montmart...

Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself to his own violent end at the hands of his neighbours. His son Lucius investigates the killing which has come to obsess him.In this bold new rendering of the Watson trilogy Matthiessen has deepened the insights and motivations of his characters, consolida...

Batavia is the greatest story in Australia�s history. The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle of good vs evil, the derring-do of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, ship-wreck, love, lust, blood-lust, petty fascist dictatorship, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, natural nobility, survival, retribution, rescue, first contact with native peoples and so much more...

Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen...