Your Space Flight Manual: Pre-flight Briefing for the Trip of a Lifetime

Engineering & Transportation

Collins, Patrick

Ashford, David

Transportation

Headline Book Publishing

Written by a CIA officer who spent his career planning and implementing security programs for Americans stationed abroad, this is a comprehensive guide to reducing your vulnerability to terrorism. Improve the odds against you with tactics that have been put to the test in some of the most dangerous areas of the world.

Living in Troubled Lands: Beating the Terrorist Threat Overseas

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Paladin Pr

Living in Troubled Lands: The Complete Guide to Personal Security Abroad

Negotiate to Win!: Talking Your Way to What You Want

Negotiation is not just a process, it’s an attitudeone that we all can learn. Patrick Collins, an internationally recognized expert on the subject, offers an original, comprehensive guide to maximizing negotiation skills, whether in a one-on-one encounter or a larger, more formal negotiating session. Collins explains what negotiation is and isn’t (negotiation is not confrontation”) and discusses ways to overcome the fear of negotiation, strategies for gaining the upper hand by manipulating the environment, and tactics tailored to negotiation type. What he offers is much more than just a guide to magic words” or a collection of case studies; Collins provides a hard-working handbook on assessing situations and pinpointing the appropriate techniques for any given circumstance. There’s great real-life advice, including details on how to negotiate at restaurants and hotels. The tips are often surprisingly, almost shockingly simple and logicalsuch as the suggestion to get in line behind a belligerent customer to boost your own chances for success. Readers will come away with a set of guerrilla negotiating” tactics, and a better understanding of: when to continue talking and when to walk away how to identify words that sabotage your best efforts how to identify cultural customs that will smooth the process how to bluff for maximum effectiveness Each chapter concludes with key thoughts” that summarize the main lessons in the preceding pages. Viewing negotiation as both science and art, Collins will help executives, managers, and almost anyone master the skills to have the upper hand in any situation.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Sterling

Goosebumps, butterflies in the stomach, and pure cold fear: for most people, public speaking ranks high on the list of nerve-wracking activities. Will they be able to make their thoughts clear? Will they impress their audienceor bore, even alienate them? Help is on the way, with this comprehensive guide to improved communication skills for talks big and small. Speak with Power and Confidence offers tips on everything from preparing for a speech to sitting down for a job review to addressing a courtroom or the media. Speak with Power and Confidence reveals the all-important secrets of gaining absolute control of their image, their message, and their audiencewhether it’s one person or a thousand. Learn how to: grab listeners’ attention instantly deliver presentations that help close a sale gain the upper hand in any negotiation convey a positive, professional image in job interviews There’s specific advice for a wide variety of situations, and trusted tips for both verbal and non-verbal communication. When originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1998 (as Say It With Power and Confidence), this was named one of the best business books of the year by Executive Summaries. A decade later, it remains the unsurpassed guide to honing your confidence in speech.

Speak with Power and Confidence: Tested Ideas for Becoming a More Powerful Communicator

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Negotiation is not just a process, it's an attitude-and one that we all can learn. Internationally recognized expert Patrick Collins presents an original, comprehensive guide to maximizing negotiation skills. Readers will learn how to overcome the fear of negotiation, assess situations, and apply the appropriate strategy. Illuminating techniques include: how to manipulate the environment and when to bluff or confront.

Union Square & Co.

There was once a time, not so long ago, where our sporting heroes were treated with veneration. Players were players and their watchers were passive. Heroes lived on pedestals - they weren't public property. This book explores the many ways this dynamic has changed over the years. From the Barmy Army's loud but loyal support of the England cricket team to the jeers that greeted our returning footballers after the World Cup, the relationship between athlete and fan is now quite dramatically different. With his usual gentle wit and subtle intelligence, renowned sports writer Patrick Collins records one year spent observing a range of different sports and their many and varied fans. From a county cricket match at Canterbury - a place that resists change - to a corporate box at Wembley - watch them eat! see them drink! - from dog racing to swimming galas, this is a wonderful and humorous look at the world of sports - and the fans who make it all possible.

Among the Fans: From the Ashes to the arrows, a year of watching the watchers (Wisden Sports Writing)

Biographies & Memoirs

A&C Black

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDAfter nearly half a century in the world's press boxes, Patrick Collins did a remarkable thing. He took his eye off the ball, stepped away from his colleagues, and joined the throng: the people who pay the money. For a year, he relished sharing the experiences of the varied crowds at sporting events great and small: England's always hopeful, always frustrated, football supporters; the panama-hatted brigade at county cricket; the sodden, delirious golf-lovers at the Ryder Cup; and the hey-look-at-me darts fans. And he penetrates strange, semi-private subcultures like point-to-point and speedway. The result is original, wonderfully readable and very funny.

Sports & Outdoors

The monetary instability experienced in recent years imposes enormous costs worldwide and has led to calls for a reset of the international monetary system. To avoid the problem arising again, the value of money must once again be defined in terms of some real commodity or commodities, as it has been for most of history. However, making currencies convertible into gold once again would be no panacea. A better alternative, first proposed in the 19th century and advocated in the 20th century, is for money to be made convertible into a range of commodities other than gold. Stabilizing Currency and Preserving Economic Sovereignty Using the Grondona System discusses how a sustainable basis for sovereign national money systems can be simply achieved by implementing the "Grondona System," whereby the value of currency is stabilized by making it conditionally convertible into a range of primary commodities. Covering a range of topics such as economic growth, fiat money, and digital currencies, this book is ideal for policymakers, economists, investors, academicians, researchers, instructors, and students.

Stabilizing Currency and Preserving Economic Sovereignty Using the Grondona System (Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics)

Economics

Business Science Reference

Stabilizing Currency and Preserving Economic Sovereignty Using the Grondona System

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