生活裡無處不需要談判，懂一點談判，為自己多贏點好處。從王牌律師的問題錦囊學習如何探聽資訊、打破僵局、建立優勢，讓對方更有可能聽你的。─問題，是策略性的進攻，也是攻擊性的防守─問對問題，協商先贏一半作者從多年律師執業與培訓經驗中深刻體悟，聰明的人不一定會談判；而懂協商的人往往在財務和工作上更勝一籌，在生活上也比較吃得開。例如，一般人習慣開門見山地問：「你們是否有更優惠的費率方案？」而懂協商的人更常用「請問如果要解約該找哪一位？」來開場，也更有機會為自己省下每月的電信費用。因為：當你是一家企業的長期顧客，企業很清楚與重視長期顧客的價值，通常設有專員負責留住這樣的顧客，他們有權限提供優惠。當聽到一個超乎預算的價格，一般人直覺反應：價格沒得談嗎？而對方幾乎都會順著話回答：沒有。懂協商的人則會改成這麼問：議價空間有多少？

Everything is all fun and games until living on the "wild" side becomes the rule instead of the exception. It's good to be bad... within reason, of course. And in this case? It's very, very good.

"A clear-eyed, no-nonsense approach to navigating negotiations. Babitsky and Mangraviti distill Machiavelli into a negotiation algorithm." —Robert Burton, author of On Being CertainNegotiating is an art. It's complicated. To become an exceptional negotiator traditionally requires years of experience in negotiations. But that doesn't mean that most people can't quickly and easily learn proven negotiating skills and techniques if someone sh...

The readers, the fans, the reviewers all weighed in over the first year of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. Five issues, almost 100 stories. They raved about some stories, liked others, and found some eye-opening, shall we say?And editor Dean Wesley Smith kept track.So now, as promised in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine's first Kickstarter campaign, here come the favorites, the stories the readers and reviewers loved from the first full year (plus Issue Zero,

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangent Onl...

Magic stories, by their very nature, create fictional worlds. Take a story with magic and twist it in a way that makes it a Pulphouse story, and you get fiction that sometimes shocks, sometimes challenges, and sometimes breaks your heart.From flying underwear trying to save the world to Mouse Riders trying to save their own world. From a made-up fantasy world to a magical cartoon character exploring his cartoon world. From a romance bound by two guns to a lawyer who represents the ...

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous Visions was ...

Magic stories, by their very nature, create fictional worlds. Take a story with magic and twist it in a way that makes it a Pulphouse story, and you get fiction that sometimes shocks, sometimes challenges, and sometimes breaks your heart.From flying underwear trying to save the world to Mouse Riders trying to save their own world. From a made-up fantasy world to a magical cartoon character exploring his cartoon world. From a romance bound by two guns to a lawyer who represents the ...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up seventeen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangen...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark short-story collection that put th...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up fifteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading."—Tangent...

James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united Great Britain. His ableness as a monarch, it has been argued, stemmed largely from his Scottish upbringing. This book is the first in-depth scholarly study of those formative years.It tries to understand exactly when in James' 'long apprenticeship' he seized political power and retraces the incremental steps he took along the way. It also poses new answers to key...