The twenty-year veteran of the Pittsburgh Pirates recounts his life, explains how he became involved in baseball, and describes memorable games and fellow players

Willie Stargell: An Autobiography

Bird, Tom

Stargell, Willie

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

Everyone has the potential to be brilliant at selling. Whether you are new to selling or want to take yourself to the next level, Brilliant Selling will give you a solid foundation of sales techniques to guarantee your success. Free from trademarked sales processes and models, you’ll read sound advice from sales professionals who know exactly what works and what doesn’t in the real world. As well as all the key selling skills, you’ll find out exactly what it takes to get the mindset and attitude of a brilliant sales person – you’ll discover you can sell anything you want and targets are always achievable. It’s easy if you know how! <ul>
<li>Plan </li> <li>Persuade </li> <li>Negotiate </li> <li>Collaborate </li> <li>Sell!</li> </ul>
Outstanding features: How to influence anyone - includes building credibility (through knowledge, personal impact, preparation, managing meetings, etc) and establishing rapport (match, pace and lead body language, voice and words, etc) Give before getting - to establish strong and long-lasting customer relationships. Truly understand what your customer wants and how to put this into practice.

Brilliant Selling: What the Best Salespeople Know, Do and Say

Business & Money

Cassell, Jeremy

Marketing & Sales

Ft Pr

The UK’s number one sales book in 2010 - this new edition will give you the lowdown on how to be a brilliant salesperson. Brilliant Selling will show you how to instantly improve your sales performance. Packed with practical tips and advice from sales professionals who know what works and what doesn’t, you will discover trade secrets that will guarantee sales success. As well as learning all the key skills, you will find out how to use your personality to perfect your technique and understand customer’s needs so that you are always one step ahead.

Brilliant Selling: What the Best Salespeople Know,do & Say (Brilliant Business)

Everything you need to know to become a first class business trainer, from working out how people learn, to finding out if you can be a trainer, through to showing you the tools and models that will allow you to be a successful educator and teacher.       The Financial Times Guide to Business Training shows you how to develop, design and deliver outstanding business training. Written by two of the UK’s leading business trainers and based on extensive research into what the best trainers say and do, this book:   · Is a single reference for anyone involved in business training whether you are newly qualified or experienced, a freelance trainer or already embedded in learning and development departments · Provides a comprehensive resource of ideas, tools and approaches · Will help you improve the quality of all aspects of your training needs, including analysis, planning and delivery · Reveals the secrets of outstanding business training so that you can improve your reputation and results · Answers commonly asked questions · Offers support on your training journey via  www.ftguidetobusinesstraining.com    

The Financial Times Guide to Business Training (Financial Times Guides)

Management & Leadership

During World War II, thousands of American servicemen were taken prisoner by the Axis powers. They were beaten and tortured; over half never reached home again. Of those who did, many never fully recovered from what they saw, what they lived through, and the feelings that so racked their lives. Almost all have or had a drinking problem. Some suffer such consistently extreme flashbacks that they are forced to use sleeping medication just to help them make it through the night. The ten interviews included in this work were chosen from dozens of contact POW accounts. Theirs are stories of hardship, pain, survival, and at times, enlightenment.
From the introduction to Mario Garbin's interview: Mario was one of the more fortunate POWs who put to use in his later life what he learned from his incarceration. At the present, he is retired from over twenty-six years of service with the Chrysler corporation. . . . Although powerful and charismatic, he still cried uncontrollably during one portion of the interview and had to pause several times to keep his composure in other portions. Hidden in the tales of these men is a message we can all relate to, making this book a must read not only for the ex-POW or World War II history buff, but for any reader who cares about life and freedom.

American POWs of World War II: Forgotten Men Tell Their Stories

History

Military

Praeger

Tells the story of Andre Dawson, baseball's eight-time All Star, the difficulties, injuries, and conflicts that followed him, and the faith and courage that led him to become one of the best-loved athletes of our time

Andre Dawson

Dawson, Andre

Children's Books

Zondervan

Hawk: An Inspiring Story of Success at the Game of Life and Baseball

Hawk takes you down to the dugout, puts you on the field for pitching duels, the hitting strategy, and the final, career-ending injury. Yet behind this ferocious competitor, his teammates knew another Andre Dawson. Hawk tells the never-before-told stories from Andre's past, like the struggles with racism, the famous "blank check" he signed to go to Chicago, how he helped fellow All Star Tim Raines get off drugs, and many more close-ups. On the diamond and off, his is a love reflected in action. A love for God first taught by his grandmother, and a love for the game.

Offering a humorous look at baseball, this biography of the great pitcher, Phil Niekro, details the glory and craziness of his baseball career and his relationships with Ted Turner, George Steinbrenner, and others

Knuckle Balls

Niekro, Phil

Sports & Outdoors

Freundlich Books

You Were Born to Be Published: Eleven Laws for Getting Your Writing Into Print Now!

Do you have a story or a message that just keeps dogging you and just won't let you go? Every time that your gaze falls upon a bestseller list, do you wonder why your name is not on it? Are friends, family members, and/or colleagues continually commenting on how much they love to read your letters? Would publication of your work land you the professional praise or tenure that you seek? If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, "You were born to be published," says author Tom Bird, founder of The Tom Bird Method T, which offers, no matter what you write, a proven system for getting your writing published. Some of the central themes to be covered in this book include: . Seeing your book in print in as little as twenty days . Learning the secrets behind getting published that other authors don't want you to know . Getting paid for your book before it is even written . Receiving offers to get your book published or represented by a top literary agent in as little as a few hours . Discovering everything you need to know about protecting your work from being stolen. Tom Bird employed all of the orthodox methods for getting published and met with nothing but frustration and failure. So he finally decided to develop his own strategy for not only writing a book quickly, easily, and enjoyably, but getting whatever it is he wrote published, The Tom Bird Method T. Six weeks after doing so, at the age of twenty-six, Tom sold his first book to, at that time, the third largest publisher in the world, for an amount equivalent to three times his yearly salary as The Assistant Director of Publicity with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Since then, Tom, who has gone onto publish fifteen other books and whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines, has shared his Eleven Laws through over 3,000 appearances at more than 100 top college and university campuses, and has helped thousands of writers in securing a publishing deal. He details in this book not only his own successes, but his methods for leading so many others to their literary dreams. As a result, you will find everything you need to know to publish whatever it is that you write. If you ever wanted to publish, for whatever reason, and/or felt that you were born to be published, this book is for you. Tom resides in Sedona, Arizona, with Tammy Kelly, their daughter Skyla, and their two dogs, five cats, and two birds. "I can't thank you enough for helping me fulfill my heart's deepest desire..."-Debra Blais, Author of Letting Your Heart Sing. "Thank you for showing me how to get published...over 200,000 books sold to date..."- Jan Larkey, Author of Flatter Your Figure, Simon & Schuster

You Were Born to Be Published: Eleven Laws Sure to Lead to Your Success

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Sojourn, Inc.

Spirited Publishing: How to Get Your Writing into Print Now

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