Product Description: First published in 1988, this book contains edited and revised papers presented at the first World Congress of Science and Football. Held under the auspices of the International Council of Sport, Science, and Physical Education, the Congress was a unique gathering of international scientists researching into football and practitioners professionally involved in the many football codes...read more

Product Description: Four young people graduate from one of America’s finest universities NYU. They have been more than friends during their freshman years but for the class 2008 graduation brings the shock of reality as they face the real world. The NYU graduates decide to go their different ways unaware of the tragedies that will befall them in their pursuit of wealth and fame in the real world of materialism and man’s inhumanity to man...read more

Film production veteran Tom Reilly has worked on the sets of critically praised films and commercial blockbusters for more than three decades?including seventeen years alongside director Woody Allen. In The Big Picture, he explores the art and the craft of filmmaking from the vantage point of someone actually running the movie set. Using examples unlike any of those in other books on film, Reilly exposes not only the power and the personalities, but the secrets of the pros.  He shares the insights he gleaned while working with more than sixty Oscar-winning professionals?from Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Vanessa Redgrave to Sydney Pollack, Sven Nykvist, and Barbra Streisand.             In these fifty entertaining, illuminating short essays, Reilly invites you to join him on the film set. What is it like to shoot a love scene? How do you do a full body burn? What is it like to film in the Everglades or in a morgue? What is blocking or matching, and how long should a script be? How do you decide when to build a set? Why is the color palette so critical?  Is night shooting worth the suffering?            The Big Picture delivers the surprising answers to these and other fascinating questions about what it takes to make a feature film, offering a glimpse into what it’s like when the lights are bright, the camera is rolling, and the moviemakers are calling the shots.

Product Description: This controversial study of Cromwell's notorious Irish campaign is published on the 350th anniversary of Cromwell's death. The author's unique opinions are shaped by his home town of Drogheda, the site of one of Cromwell's most notorious alleged massacres.

Product Description: Helen Baker, a young vivacious divorcee is brutally murdered. Ted, the ex husband, a Vietnam War hero, is cohabiting with a beautiful young air hostess nine years his junior. There is bad blood between father and son, Chris, who's life has been torn apart by the embarrassing divorce and the unhappiness and insecurity of his beloved mother...read more

Product Description: This book is irreverent, blunt, stimulating and provocative with a blend of cynicism, unique wit and severe doses of blasphemy. The theory is advanced that, when it comes to God and religion, to question is the answer. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This edited collection brings together the latest research into the range of sports known as football.With contributions by a large number of the leading international researchers in the field, the book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in football, and to raise the awareness of the value of a scientific approach to the various football codes...read more

Product Description: The dominant theme throughout this book is that you can thrive in tough times. Reilly begins with background information: "Since 1854 we've had 32 recessions, each lasting about 1-1/2 years, and the average expansion of three years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Crush Price Objections offers the reader immediate relief from the most frustrating and persistent objections that salespeople hear. Customer price objections are the number one profit piranha companies face. And 80% of salespeople discount their goods and services unnecessarily. This book teaches salespeople how to persist when buyers resist.

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Product Description: Customer service must be more than a department . . . it's an attitude where everyone feels and acts accountable for creating satisfied customers. This simple, yet powerful book shows the reader how they can make a difference for the customer with their perfomance.