Everyone has something important to say. Unfortunately, most do not know how to communicate effectively to cut through the chatter, get their message across and make a sustained impact. This original and powerful book will help readers overcome this problem by exploring three (+one) simple, practical steps to take any message and make it memorable and lasting. Based on the latest research in brain science, the method (the 3R-Axiom) is proven in the real world and will change your mindset a...

Sales success begins with yourself.You can't sell without listening to your customers—and yourself. In Listen to Sell, sales coaches Mike Esterday and Derek Roberts draw on their decades of industry experience to reveal the conversations, mindset, and skillset needed to amplify your sales confidence and bring purpose back to your customer relationships.As executives at the Nashville-based Integrity Solutions, Esterday and Roberts have crafted a pro...

This title was first published in 2001. Explaining and defending a Heideggarian account of the self and our knowledge of the world, this book addresses the fundamental issues of selfhood and the elemental question of what it means to be human. The author vcritically examines theories of the self derived from two distinct schools of thought: Descartes, Hume, Kant, Sartre and Stirner representing a tradition which has dominated Western philosophy since Descartes; Heidegger and Laing represen...

Primarily as a solution to overpopulation, human minds and bodies are distinct entities where 'bods' are governed by artificial intelligence, playing host to multiple human minds. A bod narrowly misses destruction by the authoritarian state after its emergent behaviour is discovered by the software developer responsible for its development. Agents of the state mistake the plan of a group of activist minds, who desire a single body each, for the growing number of bods with emergent behaviou...

Sales success begins with yourself.You can’t sell without listening to your customers—and yourself. In Listen to Sell, sales coaches Mike Esterday and Derek Roberts draw on their decades of industry experience to reveal the conversations, mindset, and skillset needed to amplify your sales confidence and bring purpose back to your customer relationships.As executives at the Nashville-based Integrity Solutions, Esterday and Roberts have crafted a proprietary ...

"No Respite Involving Pizza" involves a man named Ben whose day off isn't going exactly as planned. In hopes of having a nice relaxing day with some cheap pizza, he calls around, but it seems luck might not be on his side. Read how he copes with his hunger while preserving his wish."Matt: Succeeded but Unfinished" Meet a man on a mission of peril and duty. Delivery isn't just a job to this company and their workers as readers meet Matt during one of these deliveries and journey wit...

This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: the sounds of language, grammar, semantics, language change, psycholinguistics: the sounds of...

Two teens embark on a quest to become one of six sent on a mission to colonize Jupiter's moon in this action-packed YA novel set in the near future.A must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian."A breathtakingly real look at love, loss, and the dangers of space, The Final Six skyrockets into twists and turns I nev...

I was driving down a nearly deserted road. It was a shortcut I often took to get home from town. I'm not sure it was any shorter, but it was definitely quieter. A lot fewer cars came this way. Perhaps it was because most of the houses weren't out this direction. Maybe it was even because of the cemetery.I actually liked going by the cemetery. This was one of those older ones that had character, not just a bunch of the same plaques over and over. Some of these graves had statues of a...

Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always easy to follow. This collection of essays deepens but also challenges our understanding of the wo...

Powerful phrases for effective communication in every management situationThe latest addition to the bestselling Perfect Phrases series, Perfect Phrases for Managers and Supervisors is an indispensable tool for novice to mid-level managers and frontline supervisors. Corporate communications guru Meryl Runion coaches readers in the six fundamentals of effective delivery, including "Be Short, Specific, Targeted," and "Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say, an...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is considered by most philosophers - even those who do not share his views - to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century. His contributions to the philosophy of language, mind, meaning and psychology - as well as to logic, mathematics and epistemology - permanently altered the philosophical landscape, and his Tractatus Logico Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations continue to be studied in philosophy departments aroun...