Learn how to become a world-class communicator and, in doing so, become the best negotiator you can be.As one of the world's most experienced kidnap-for-ransom negotiators, Scott Walker has successfully resolved life-or-death crises, facing down gang leaders, pirates, cyberhackers, and extortionists. When he turned to help businesses with negotiation, he realized that the tools and skills he'd need were not so different from the ones he'd mastered in the high-stake...

Scott Walker's The Edge of Terror offers a gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines.As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out American military might in the Pacific. While American battleships blew up and sank in Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers approached the Philippines, soon destroying both...

Caminos tells the story of Mercedes González Conde and her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. Each of them live and love, cope with and compound their inner troubles as issues of abandonment, attachment, identity and rootlessness circle around and through them. The novel is set in the northwest Spanish province of Asturias and the eastern United States -- primarily West Virginia and Ohio -- with scenes in Mexico, Canada, Prague and Berlin.

The account executive made TV advertising sound like a great way to take your business to the next level. But your head is spinning from all the jargon. And will it really help you produce more sales? Before you sign on the dotted line find out more about ratings, TV ad costs, how to use classic TV ad techniques, types of TV spots, TV production and how to buy TV advertising like a pro.

This book explores the motivations behind American military interventions in the Post-World War II era that purported to replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones. It delves into the Forced Democracy (FD) phenomenon, focusing on its intellectual roots and previous attempts to study it in the academic literature. The author examines five American interventions that attempted to replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones—The Dominican Republic, Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Ir...

As one of the world's most experienced kidnap-for-ransom negotiators, Scott Walker has successfully resolved life-or-death crises, facing down gang leaders, pirates, cyberhackers, and extortionists. When he turned to help businesses with negotiation, he realized that the tools and skills he'd need were not so different from the ones he'd mastered in the high-stakes situations he successfully negotiated. Now he's bringing those lessons to you.In this book you will learn Walker's ess...

Love isn't always pretty, but it is always powerful.Man Down is an edgy story of raw human emotion. It pulls the reader into an unsavory world of deceit and betrayal and yet rejoices in the strength of self-sacrifice, loyalty, forgiveness and redemption. All played out against in exciting world of firefighters.Firefighter Dominick Adler is a man on the brink. Haunted by the death of a little girl—a death he blames himself for. He suffers from nightmares, depression, and pan...

Dreams in Ash is a Historical Fiction novel centered on the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 as seen through the eyes of a Chicago firefighter and his family. The novel explores the socioeconomic challenges facing Irish Immigrants in 1871, with a special focus on xenophobia and misogyny before, during, and after the fire.The long- hot summer and fall of 1871 has left Chicago a tinderbox; both literally and figuratively.Like millions of fellow Irishmen, Firefighter Shawn Collins brought his famil...

“Today, we can sound like conservatives and act like conservatives—and still win elections. Those who say we can’t don’t see what I see in Wisconsin and what my fellow governors in states all across America see. We don’t need to change our principles. What we need is more courage.”In 2011, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s chances of staying in office looked bleak. Angry protesters—furious about his collective bargaining proposal—swarmed Madison, camped in the capi...

A Concept of Right Now explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.

DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would “chop” in new rhythms, bring in local rappers to freestyle over the tracks, and slow the recording down on tape. Soon Houstonians were lining up to buy his cassettes—he could sell thousands in a single day. Fans drove around town blasting his music,...

A Concept of Right Now explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.Paradox. In everyday American life, it is a thing to be avoided. Truly difficult intellectua...