Discover the most effective way of giving a professional presentation and making a sale at the same time. Aimed at anyone selling products, services or skills, this book provides invaluable tips and techniques to improve your performance and achieve greater sales. Whether you are working in a large sales team, are a small business owner or an entrepreneur, discover secrets to: • More effective planning and preparation • Using words that influence • Stronger delivery • Impactful demonstrati...

Death, innocence, sacrifice and corruption The Old Curiosity Shop is vintage Dickens. Provoking an unprecedented outpouring of public grief when it was first published, it follows the story of Little Nell and her feckless grandfather. Forced to leave their magical shop of curiosities in London, they are pursued across the English countryside by the grotesquely evil dwarf Quilp. They escape but at what cost? Part tragedy, part allegory, this is Dickens at his most intense; drawing on his ow...

Here are the greatest and best-loved stories from the Old Testament of the Bible, stories which can be read as much for their human, literary and historical appeal as for their religious meaning. The selection ranges from childhood favourites like David and Goliath, to key moments in Jewish history such as the Exodus, and also includes some of the finest poetry in the Old Testament the Song of Solomon, for example. Until the invention of the printing press and the coming of the Reformation...