You have watched skilled communicators move rooms, close deals, and change minds, and you have wondered whether you could learn the same craft without becoming someone nobody trusts twice. The techniques in these pages have been whispered about in sales training, abused by manipulators, and kept from the public. They are called forbidden because they are usually taught with the conscience and the context stripped away. This book puts 38 of the most effective psychological levers on a table...

In a scorched, post-pandemic world where ash-laden skies and haunting ruins testify to mankind's hubris, two souls find solace and strength in an unlikely alliance. Orius Ferlin, a former medic scarred by loss and regret, and Leira Monden, a fierce scavenger shaped by betrayal and survival, embark on an arduous journey across desolate, toxic landscapes. Their quest: an ancient vault hidden beneath a ruined biotech campus rumored to hold the key to humanity's redemption.As toxic sto...

Published to rave reviews, this is the never-before-told story of two brilliant young Canadians who became unlikely soldiers. Ken Macalister was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Frank Pickersgill was a doctoral student in classics at l’Université de Paris. Together, they volunteered for the British SOE and soon found themselves being trained to kill. On June 15, 1943, with false identities, they parachuted into the Rhone Valley, but there were double agents within the Resistance; too soon Macal...

If you walk to the back of a major warehouse club, you will find a massive, perfectly roasted rotisserie chicken selling for roughly five dollars. Mathematically, accounting for inflation, labor, and transport, the store loses money on every single bird they sell. Yet, they refuse to raise the price, intentionally absorbing millions in annual losses. This roasted chicken is the most perfect, edible example of the "Loss Leader" strategy. Why would a billion-dollar corporation intentionally ...

This book are the memoirs of Frank S. Iriam, Sgt. sniper, scout and, observer attached to the First Canadian Division which was attached to the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force. These writing are of significant Historical Value as well as a very vivid description of most of the major battles of the Great War. There are no holds barred descriptions of the good and bad qualities of the various commanders he served under throughout the war as well as a good description of a scouts duties...

From the author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a story that is "Diabolical! Filled with twists, turns, crosses and double-crosses...a harrowing international thriller" —Lisa GardnerRobin Monarch is a man with a complicated, secret past and a very grim future. Currently locked up in the USDB—the military supermax prison known as Leavenworth—the CIA offers Monarch one shot at freedom and a pardon. All he has to do is steal something from a highly secure position at ground ze...

December 20, 1943. Two Canadian infantry battalions and a tank regiment stand poised on the outskirts of a small Italian port town. They expect to take Ortona quickly. But the German 1st Parachute Division has other ideas. For reasons unknown, Hitler has ordered Ortona held to the last man. Houses, churches and other buildings are dynamited, clogging the streets with rubble. Germans with machine guns lie in ambush. Snipers slip from one rooftop to another. The Canadians seem to have walked...

“[A] gossipy, but surprisingly deep, look at the women who help and sometimes overshadow their powerful husbands.” — USA TodayFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making group biography of the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama.One of the most underestimated—and...

It’s 1942 and Hitler’s armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the world’s first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy.1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into Norway in a bid to put Nazi Germany on the defensive, Winston Churchill is intrigued. But Britain, fighting for its life, c...

"To Dave, the war was now personal. It had robbedhim of a love he might never find again. It had hushed a voice he would never hear again. It had turned his dream into a nightmare, and confirmed his belief that there's no road back to anything."In the summer of 1943, Dave Wagoner, a small town doctor from Mississippi, is thrust into the middle of World War II as an Army medic on the European front. This poignant story follows Dave through loves, losses, trials and tribulatio...

An extraordinary, newly discovered account from an ordinary Canadian on the ground in the crucial battles of the First World War.What was it like to be a field gunner in the Great War?Drawing on the unpublished letters and diary of field gunner Lt. Bert Sargent and his fellow soldiers, Thunder in the Skies takes the reader from enlistment in late 1914, through training camp, to the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele, the Hundred Days Offensive, and h...

A jogger running in a field near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario stumbles across a near-mummified skeleton. The remains are studied at a hospital morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady"). They discover that the victim was female, non-Caucasian. But who was she?Award-winning journalist and author Jon Wells delivers a gripping, CSI-style story tha...