Download or read book Swindlers Hucksters and Snake Oil Salesman written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Truth About Lies written by Aja Raden and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do you believe what you believe? You’ve been lied to. Probably a lot. We’re always stunned when we realize we’ve been deceived. We can’t believe we were fooled: What was I thinking? How could I have believed that? We always wonder why we believed the lie. But have you ever wondered why you believe the truth? People tell you the truth all the time, and you believe them; and if, at some later point, you’re confronted with evidence that the story you believed was indeed true, you never wonder why you believed it in the first place. In this incisive and insightful taxonomy of lies and liars, New York Times bestselling author Aja Raden makes the surprising claim that maybe you should. Buttressed by history, psychology, and science, The Truth About Lies is both an eye-opening primer on con-artistry—from pyramid schemes to shell games, forgery to hoaxes—and also a telescopic view of society through the mechanics of belief: why we lie, why we believe, and how, if at all, the acts differ. Through wild tales of cons and marks, Raden examines not only how lies actually work, but also why they work, from the evolutionary function of deception to what it reveals about our own. In her previous book, Stoned, Raden asked, “What makes a thing valuable?” In The Truth About Lies, she asks “What makes a thing real?” With cutting wit and a deft touch, Raden untangles the relationship of truth to lie, belief to faith, and deception to propaganda. The Truth About Lies will change everything you thought you knew about what you know, and whether you ever really know it.

Download or read book Death of the Snake Oil Salesman written by Bernard J. Jones and published by Faris Digital Solutions. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think that Selling is telling. Telling everyone how great the product is. This was the Snake Oil Salesman’s special skill. He could talk for hours. He didn’t even take a breath! It was all about what he wanted. And all he wanted was your money. There is a slight problem with this model. It doesn’t work. The Snake Oil Salesman is a thing of the past. Dead. There is a better way. Long live the Sales Partner! This satirical yet practical account of personal sales encounters offers an array of techniques for: • Rationalising success and failure • Improving your self-confidence • Focusing on your client’s interests • Seeing selling as a problem-solving exercise • Quantifying and reporting client issues • Proposing solutions that have a high chance of success Selling isn’t telling. It’s about partnering with your clients to build trust and help them achieve their objectives.

Download or read book Wonderland Creek written by Lynn Austin and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily-ever-after librarian Alice Ripley unexpectedly finds herself in a real-life adventure filled with mystery and romance in the 1930's as she serves rural communities.

Download or read book Business Bliss written by Tobi McNeil and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tobi McNeil has been associated with small business ventures since she was fourteen-years-old working with her entrepreneurial family. Through the years, she has witnessed various degrees of commercial success and failure. In her work as a college instructor and a business advisor, she has learned that start-up costs can ruin your business venture before it becomes operational. Packed with powerful stories of small business owners, McNeil presents diverse situations encountered by people starting their own small business. She lays out vital tools to help ensure the successful implementation and operation of a new small business, including: business and personal research; education; financial requirements; effective ways to promote your business; great ways to keep costs at a minimum; hiring employees; and tax obligations. Let Business Bliss? Ignorance: Liability or Bliss guide you through situations your business will encounter, minimizing problems and ensuring success.

Download or read book Snake Oil written by Reverend Becca Stevens and published by Jericho Books. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the world of snake oils, you have to see the world a little differently. Where others see poverty, you see riches; where others see weeds, you see flowers; where others see sickness, you see openness." Becca Stevens calls herself a "snake oil seller": She takes natural oils, mixes them with a good story, sells them in an open market and believes they help to heal the world. Becca is the founder of Thistle Farms, one of the most successful examples in the US of a social enterprise whose mission is the work force. She is also the founder of its residential program, Magdalene. The women of Magdalene/Thistle Farms have survived prostitution, trafficking and addiction, and the natural body care products they manufacture-balms, soaps, and lotions-aid in their own healing as well as that of the people who buy them. The book weaves together the beginnings of the enterprise with individual stories from Becca's own journey as well as 20 women in the community. In Snake Oil, Becca tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father's death as a child. Wise and reflective, Snake Oil offers an empowering narrative as well as a selection of recipes for healing remedies that readers can make themselves.

Download or read book When Someone Asks for Help written by Everett L. Worthington Jr. and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-09-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have a problem. . . . Could you help me?" Ever hear this plea over lunch or late at night in a dormitory? Someone has come to us for help. "Who, me?" we blurt out and then frantically think, "What can I say? How can I help?" Everett Worthington guides us as we respond to just situations. First he explains what Christian helping really is, what causes problems and how they can be solved. Then he takes us step by step through the five stages of counseling, from understanding what's going on to helping people work through their problems. Throughout, he describes the delicate dynamics of moving into a helping relationship, providing aid, then moving back into the give-and-take of friendship. Here is a book to help Christians put love into action through bearing other people's burdens.

Download or read book 7 Years in Peru written by Greg Ruppert and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chance to play it forward with a story of awakening and rebirth that takes place in the dark Jungles of Peru. A man, Greg Ruppert, filled with pain, fear and despair, is led away from deaths door to a land filled with laughter, light and freedom. He goes on a real-life adventure making the discovery of a lifetime by following a jungle mans hand book that is filled with the treasures of truth and knowledge. This is not another book about one more cancer survivor, but rather a Indiana Jones-like jungle expedition, where a man is taken away to Neverland by a real-life Peter Pan and given the adventure of a life time. Following his shamans mystical Ayahuasca trail to a paradise filled with energy and light, Gregs reaches into the darkness to find a power of unimaginable life force that exists within each one of us. From the concrete Jungles of LA to the dark green Jungles of Peru. A journey though time and space.

Download or read book Bookkeeping For Dummies written by Veechi Curtis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created especially for the Australian customer! Take the stress out of bookkeeping with easy-to-follow advice from the experts Do you have trouble balancing the books for your small business every month? Or are you a professional bookkeeper wishing to hone your skills? Whatever your bookkeeping needs, this practical guide to the ins and outs of business transactions will help you ensure that the numbers add up every time. Follow the bookkeeping cycle -- make the end of the month hassle-free by recording transactions properly Translate the financial lingo -- know your assets from your equity and don't get depressed about depreciation Prepare financial reports -- understand how a business is doing by analysing Profit Use accounting software -- throw out the shoebox of receipts and discover a new world of technology Stay on the right side of the law -- tick all the boxes, from registering a business to paying employees correctly Get qualified -- succeed in Certificate IV Bookkeeping with lots of tips and info for your core units Crack the GST code -- keep the tax wolves from the door by calculating GST correctly Tame the bookkeeping tiger -- understand accruals, general journals, inventory management and more

Download or read book David McWilliams Follow the Money written by David McWilliams and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pope's Children are turning 30 and in the four years since David McWilliams introduced us to the generation that could have had it all, the Pope's Children have been betrayed. This book is about real people and how good people can be broken by bad economics. But it doesn't have to be like this. There is a way out. We catch up with old friends, Breakfast Roll Man and Miss Pencil Skirt, and meet new characters like the Merchant of Ennis, Shylock and the Godfather. We have late night tea with Brian Lenihan and cross swords with Seanie Fitzpatrick. We learn why the average drug dealer on the side of the street has more in common with the banker than either would care to mention, as we follow the money – in both rackets – from its source at the very top right down to the `buy now, pay later' deals at rock bottom. Why should we trust the people who got us into this mess in the first place? They were wrong then and they are wrong now. The politicians, bankers and developers think they can hand us the bill and walk away from the carnage. They want us to follow a route that will make things worse for the ordinary man on the street while saving the bankers at the top of the tree, insisting that there is no other way. But there is an obvious alternative which has been adopted by every economy that has successfully emerged from this type of crisis. Follow the Money is an optimistic and uplifting book about that alternative, which is well within our grasp if only we'd wake up and seize it. `If you want a dry economic tome, this is not the book for you. However, for analysis of post-boom Ireland, how we got here and the issues we now face, it makes a lot of serious points in an entertaining and provocative way' Sunday Business Post `This is a vivid, witty and provocative book' Richard Bruton, Irish Independent

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-10 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Download or read book The Second Coming of Steve Jobs written by Alan Deutschman and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2001-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred controversy within industry and media circles around the country.

Download or read book Anatomy of an Apple The Lessons Steve Taught Us written by Ben Klaiber and published by BookBaby. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve Jobs weathered the deepest betrayals, endured relentless public humiliations and was pushed to the brink of bankruptcy. When he returned to the company he had co-founded, he was welcomed home by an Apple that was just as battered and bruised as he was, and on the brink of the abyss. How these two entities, Steve the man, and Apple the company, healed each other, is well worth learning. Ninety days from bankruptcy, Apple welcomed home its founder in 1996. In less than a decade, Steve accomplished the impossible - Apple was now a trillion dollar juggernaut. Their domain included Music, Books, SmartPhones, Tablets, Laptops and more. Within these pages are the often overlooked, misunderstood or misrepresented lessons that made it all possible and you won't find them anywhere else. Grab your copy of Anatomy of an Apple - The Lessons Steve Taught Us today!

Download or read book Metaphors of Brexit written by Jonathan Charteris-Black and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions? These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual language used in relation to Brexit by the different parties involved. By drawing on a range of data sources and types of communication, and presenting them as 'frames' through which individuals can attempt to understand the world, the author provides the first book-length examination of the metaphors of Brexit. This book takes a detailed look at the rhetorical language behind one of the major political events of the era, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics and political science, as well as anyone with a special interest in metaphor, rhetoric, Brexit, or political communication more broadly.

Download or read book Ford and the American Dream written by Clifton Lambreth and published by Mary Calia. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of real-life financial difficulties faced by the Ford Motor Company.