Success in sales isn’t just about closing deals—it’s about mastering influence, understanding human psychology, and turning every opportunity into a profitable win.In "Sell Like an Ace, Live Like a King", John Wolfe reveals the strategies top sales professionals use to dominate their markets, build lasting client relationships, and create wealth beyond their expectations.Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this book provides actionable techniques to sharpen ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Features hiking, skiing, paddling, biking, and moreNew and substantially revised trips with all new full-color photos and maps throughoutEmphasis on traverses and loop trips for both summer and winter, always with simpler and shorter optionsOriginally published in 1972, the classic guide known as 55 Ways to the Wilderness in Southcentral Alaska has been fully updated and reinvented as Alaska Adventure 55 Ways. This robust reboot co...

In Science of Synthesis: Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions, expert authors present and discuss the best and most reliable methods currently available for the formation of new carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bonds using these reactions, highlighted with representative experimental procedures. Together, the three volumes of Cross Coupling and Heck-Type Reactions provide an extensive overview of the current state of the art in this field of central importance in mod...

"Around the World in Sixty Years: The Experiences and Wisdom of a Generation of Gentlemen from Argentina to Zimbabwe" is a non-fiction book created by retired journalist John S. Wolfe.The book comprises 101 profiles of gentlemen about 60 years of age from 65 countries across the globe. Each participant filled out a questionnaire about life at 60 -- their families, work, fears, advice, and notable events in their country in their lifetime.It is a fascinating array of profile...

Terrorism, continuing unabated in the contemporary world, is having a serious impact on the lives of people and nations. Once, only govern ments and ruling classes possessed the power to coerce large segments of the world's peoples. Today, a handful of thugs, covered and concealed by a collection of terrorist organizations, are disturbing people every where by perpetrating dramatic criminal acts-bombings, kidnappings, assassinations, etc.-on an almost daily basis, in places specifically ch...

Banking—in the U.S. and globally—has devolved into a colossal Vegas-like casino and bankers have become the ultimate “whale” gamblers. The global banking system today has an estimated $1.2 quadrillion dollars in a kind of monetary heroin called derivatives.* The figure is mind-numbing, but just to give you a sense of the size of this madness, here it is with the appropriate number of zeroes (15): $1,200,000,000,000,000. Or, it may be more entertaining if you think of it this way: If you ha...

This volume discusses the mineral resources upon which modern civiliza tion is built. Take away these minerals and humanity will rapidly return to the stone age, with its greatest concern the depletion of flint (also a mineral). It would, of course, result in about a 99% reduction in population. In other words, approximately 99% of the worlds' population is dependent on minerals for its existence. That is a pretty strong statement, but how many have even seen a travois? Without minerals, p...

Traditionally, terrorist bands operating in rural or urban areas use vio lence to cast themselves as a legitimate political force. Necklacing, plac ing an oil-soaked tire around the neck of an informer and then igniting it, and knee-capping, positioning a handgun behind the kneecap of a "tout" (a police informer) and then squeezing the trigger, are among the enforcement methods used by clandestine groups to administer "revo lutionary justice." Necklacing is used by the African National Con...

An extraordinarily insightful and thought-provoking look at how our society and culture are going to change, and change rapidly, as the price of gasoline, heating oil, and all other everyday consumer products that are derived from oil continue to escalate.Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil) continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact that would have on our lives.Of course, everybody already knows how a...

First published in 1920 'When the King Loses His Head & Other Stories' is a short story collection form the renowned Russian author Leonid Andreyev. Some of the best-known stories in the collection include 'Lazarus', an exploration of how Lazarus really felt upon returning from the grave, an interpretation of Judas's personality and motives in 'Judas Escariot' and the evocative 'Dies Irae'. With prominent religious themes and inspiration, this is a collection which explores the human condi...

This book provides the tools, the methods, and the theory to meet the challenges of contemporary data science applied to geographic problems and data. In the new world of pervasive, large, frequent, and rapid data, there are new opportunities to understand and analyze the role of geography in everyday life. Geographic Data Science with Python introduces a new way of thinking about analysis, by using geographical and computational reasoning, it shows the reader how to unlock new in...