-New York Times bestselling author Pat Croce is an entrepreneur, TV personality, and the author of The Pirate Handbook. He and author Adam Slutsky will be marketing this book through their extensive networks.-Plunder is the first book in a pirate trilogy geared toward young adults.-The content is a mix of Huck Finn and Treasure Island with historically accurate details about the time period and pirate life.

This essential guide to high seas adventure features practical pirate skills, recipes, and stories of real-life rogues.Avast, ye! For anyone who has dreamed of hitting the high seas, manning a crew, brandishing a cutlass, or burying treasure, here's The Pirate Handbook. Part how-to, part illustrated history, this detailed manual gives insight into every aspect of the pirating life: learn how to make a seaworthy raft, navigate by the stars, brew up a batch o...

Pat Croce's management and motivational expertise are world-renowned. His fresh, daring leadership philosophy launched a small physical therapy practice into a nationwide franchise and revitalized Philadelphia's famed 76ers basketball team -- stories that were relayed in his bestselling memoir, I Feel Great and You Will Too!Now, in Lead or Get off the Pot!, the irrepressible count of carpe diem offers a unique leadership prescription that turns con...

A stunning edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring an introduction by the author and insightful testimonies from soldiers.Told in the voice of Private Tommo Peaceful, the story follows twenty-four hours at the front, and captures his memories of his family and his village life – by no means as tranquil as it appeared.Full of vivid detail and engrossing atmosphere, leading to a dramatic and moving conclusion, Private Peaceful is both a compelling love stor...

After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud of the Devil’s Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests in goods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has a powerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead. A battlefield promise made to Sackett’s father threatens Genester’s inheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett is attacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate ship. Genester’s orders are for him to disappear into th...

In You, Inc. Beckwith provides practical tips, anecdotes and insights based on his 30 years of marketing and selling his advertising services. Beckwith learned early on in his career that no matter what product you're selling, the most important component of the product is you. In You, Inc.: A Field Guide to Selling Yourself, Beckwith relates tantalizing tidbits and real stories of how to harness your enthusiasm with an ability to impress your key accounts.Written in his ...

Unleash your leadership potential with this need-to-know guide, direct from the playbooks of America's most trusted leadership expert, John C. Maxwell.No matter who you are, you can lead—and lead well. That is the message?New York Times?bestselling author John C. Maxwell gives in this power-packed guidebookThe consummate leader offers a succinct and inspiring framework for enhancing the leadership abilities you already possess.In Leadership 101

Graduating from Harvard in 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. enlisted as a common sailor on a voyage around Cape Horn on the brig Pilgrim. He returned to Massachusetts two years later aboard the Alert (which left California sooner than the Pilgrim). He kept a diary throughout his sea adventures, and, after returning home, he penned an American classic, Two Years Before the Mast, first published in 1840, the same year of his admission to the bar.

Frequently cited as the number one fear among A proven, gimmick-free lesson guaranteed to business executives, public speaking doesn’t make anyone a better speaker and come naturally to most people. Pitching an idea, presenter. selling a product, or presenting a program doesn’t have to be a stomach-clenching experience to be struggled through. It can be an opportunity to relish and a chance to shine in front of a group. Whether you are selling an idea to two colleagues in a conference room...

“[An] epic series,”* the Novels of the Change by New York Times bestselling author S. M. Stirling chronicle a postapocalyptic landscape of medieval and mystical monarchies ruling and warring across a world where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology. A new alliance has been forged between the High Kingdom of Montival and the Empire of Japan, but at the cost of a lost prince...John Arminger Mackenzie wanted to be a troubadour, but fate made him the ...

What if your dream job didn’t have to stay a dream?In Quitter, bestselling author and motivational speaker Jon Acuff delivers a practical, inspiring roadmap for anyone who’s ever wondered if they were meant for more than their current 9-to-5. With humor, honesty, and hard-earned experience, Acuff shows you how to bridge the gap between your day job and your dream job—without risking everything in the process.This isn’t just a book about quitting—it...

Top Seven Knots and the Use of the WindlassJam, 2. Constrictor, 3. Non-inverting Slippery Bowline, 4. Slippery Sheet Bend, 5. Slippery Figure of 8, 6. Prusik, 7. Reef. As knots are found in families, there are a few bonus knots included. Favour the ones you find most useful. The jam knot made with 550-200-7 paracord is one of the most useful knots in creation, let along survival. To properly master all the knots and their application in this booklet requires ...