Acquiring More Profit is the long-awaited update to the real estate industry's groundbreaking and bestselling M&A book, Acquiring Profit. Many of the foundational principles outlined in the first book helped "kick-start" the M&A frenzy of the past two decades, and have been updated in this edition to reflect the current market conditions and the experience gained from participation in hundreds more actual transactions. The "win-win" concept anchoring the original process ...

This system is designed to be used in conjunction with the strategies and information presented in the complimentary book Acquiring More Profit. The system simplifies the action items needed to begin or expand your M&A initiatives.A potential seller is evaluating the potential buyer from first contact through every phase of the process. They are determining if you are the right person to not only retain all their agents but to lead them in the future. The forms and checkli...

In what N. Katherine Hayles describes as "this enormously ambitious posthumous volume," renowned scholar George Slusser offers a definitive version of the argument about the history of science fiction that he developed throughout his career: that several important ideas and texts, routinely overlooked in other critical studies, made significant contributions to the creation of modern science fiction as it developed into a truly global literature. He explores how key thinkers like René Desc...

"Probably the greatest of all French-speaking science-fiction writers [after Jules Verne] . . . I was unprepared for the power and beauty." —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostTo the short list that includes Jules Verne and H.G. Wells as founding fathers of science fiction, the name of the Belgian writer J.-H. Rosny Aîné must be added. He was the first writer to conceive, and attempt to narrate, the workings of aliens and alternate life forms. His fascinatio...