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The Growth Juice Book was written to help companies realize continuous growth of sales and profits. The book starts with concepts, frameworks and practical planning perspectives that provide the base needed by any firm desiring to get on a consistent growth path. All materials presented here have been time tested through the author's growth planning consulting for scores of major firms. The second section is based on the common sense notion that sales and profit growth are achieved one profitable sale at a time. Enter Solution Selling® -- an ultra-effective selling system used for training more than a million sales professionals in large and small companies around the globe. Here the book provides a hands-on view of all the details of the Solution Selling® process. Social media is fully integrated into the coverage of Solution Selling. The final section of the book overlays the Solution Selling® process with a sales management system that enables the conversion of one profitable sale at a time into consistent, long term sales and profit growth. Combining the planning perspectives detailed in the first section with the Solution Selling® process and sales management system yields an effective formula for achieving the goals of continuous sales and profit growth. The book is fast moving and easy to read as it features many (70) short, single concept chapters, highlighted by dozens of cartoons exemplifying principles as they are presented. To build and maintain interest, the various components of the Solution Selling® process and sales management system are presented in an actual selling scenario that includes many fun characters introduced along the way to provide a lively, entertaining story-line.

The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy written by English dramatist John Webster in 1612–1613. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then later to a larger audience at The Globe, in 1613–1614.Published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred between 1508 and 1513 surrounding Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (d. 1511), whose father, Enrico d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. As in the play, she secretly married Antonio Beccadelli di Bologna after the death of her first husband Alfonso I Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi.The play begins as a love story, when the Duchess marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers undertake their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca. The complexity of some of the play's characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, and Webster's poetic language, have led many critics to consider The Duchess of Malfi among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama.

Biscuit bandits are the scourge of Indian railways. After offering drugged biscuits to passengers they make off with jewellery, money – even children’s toys. When Mani the train mouse, whose home is one of India’s major stations, witnesses an attack he resolves to bring the bandits down. But how can a small mouse hope to fight against what he discovers to be a well-organized national network? And will he or the Indian police finally bring the gang to justice?

The fact that Captain Nathaniel Isaac Smith has been dead for more than a hundred and fifty years doesn’t mean he isn’t real to his great-great-grandson, Nathan Williams. Captain Nathaniel commanded a sailing ship in the 1850s and Nathan’s great-grandmother told him tales of the Captain’s adventures at sea for as long as Nathan could remember. She also told him that the Captain lived in an old sea chest in her attic and appeared when something important happened in the family.Nathan was finishing sixth grade when his great-grandmother died. In her will, she gave him a letter and the key to the Captain’s sea chest. In her letter, she told him that he was the first male heir of the captain and since he could hear the sea in his heart, he’d be able to open the chest.Nathan’s father is the executor of the estate and starts an inventory of Great-grandmother’s things. While he takes the inventory, he won’t let Nathan into the attic where he could try his key to open the chest. To his utter dismay, Nathan discovers that once the inventory is complete, Great-grandmother’s things would be sold at an auction, including the Captain’s chest. Nathan couldn’t allow his link to the Captain and the sea be sold to a stranger.One night, he and Michelle, a neighbor girl, sneak into the attic and take the chest to Michelle’s workshop next door. They open the chest and among the Captain’s things, they find six pieces of scrimshaw, one of which might be priceless ‘Susan’ scrimshaw.Nathan’s great-uncle Bill steals the chest and when Nathan tries to stop the theft he’s inadvertently kidnapped. Nathan manages to escape from the back of his great-uncle Bill’s truck with the chest, but is seriously injured in the process. He was unconscious for hours and when he wakes, he finds himself lost in a national forest in Maine. Search parties are looking for him but when he calls his parents on his cell phone, he has no idea where he is and the weather is turning cold and rainy, threatening Nathan’s survival.Nathan hears a voice and sees the Captain standing about ten feet away. Nathan asks the Captain for help, but the Captain tells Nathan that he has to rely on his imagination and use what he has at hand to help himself. This gives Nathan the idea of using the things in the Captain’s chest to build a shelter from the rain and the Captain’s sextant to give the searchers his latitude to help in his rescue. The Captain disappears as the searchers close in on Nathan’s position.Nathan’s head injury requires surgery and as he recovers, he and Michelle convince his relatives that the Captain’s things, including the valuable scrimshaw should be donated to a museum. He is happy that his family history won’t be lost, but he’s left with the problem of deciding if the Captain is real or not. Captain Nathan’s Treasure Chest is the story of a boy’s discovery of the ties connecting him and his family to the sea and defending and preserving that heritage for future generations.

In a little north Indian village next to India’s famous Grand Trunk Road an airborne visitor who has flown over the mighty Himalayan mountain range finally comes to a halt. His arrival has been tracked by Indian radar, but no alarms sound. Indeed, when his appearance is reported to the President of India himself he seems to be pleased. It is as if some secret plan is being put into operation.It is not long though before one of India’s foremost investigative reporters is on the case, trying to discover why part of Delhi’s main station has been cordoned off and is being guarded by the Black Cats, India’s elite commandoes.And then begins an event-filled journey to India’s southern tip, where the mythical visitor leaves a group of children with uplifting thoughts on their future, the natural world, and their fellow beings.

The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Duchess of Malfi) is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then later to a larger audience at The Globe, in 1613–14. Published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred between about 1508 and 1513. The Duchess was Giovanna d'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi (d. 1511), whose father, Enrico d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. As in the play, she secretly married Antonio Beccadelli di Bologna after the death of her first husband Alfonso I Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi. The play begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers undertake their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. Jacobean drama continued the trend of stage violence and horror set by Elizabethan tragedy, under the influence of Seneca. The complexity of some of the play's characters, particularly Bosola and the Duchess, and Webster's poetic language, ensure that The Duchess of Malfi is considered among the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama.

"The Duchess of Malfi" was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611. It is based on a story in Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," translated from the Italian novelist, Bandello; and it is entirely possible that it has a foundation in fact. In any case, it portrays with a terrible vividness one side of the court life of the Italian Renaissance; and its picture of the fierce quest of pleasure, the recklessness of crime, and the worldliness of the great princes of the Church finds only too ready corroboration in the annals of the time.'...them. Could I be one of their flattering panders, I would hang on their ears like a horseleech, till I were full, and then drop off. I pray, leave me. Who would rely upon these miserable dependencies, in expectation to be advanc'd to-morrow? What creature ever fed worse than hoping Tantalus? Nor ever died any man more fearfully than he that hoped for a pardon. There are rewards for hawks and dogs when they have done us service; but for a soldier that hazards his limbs in a battle, nothing but a kind of geometry is his last supportation.DELIO. Geometry?BOSOLA. Ay, to hang in a fair pair of slings, take his latter swing in the world upon an honourable pair of crutches, from hospital to hospital. Fare ye well, sir: and yet do not you scorn us; for places in the court are but like beds in the hospital, where this man's head lies at that man's foot, and so lower and lower. [Exit.]DELIO. I knew this fellow seven years in the galleys For a notorious murder; and 'twas thought The cardinal ...'About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention ha

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More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi is here presented in an accessible and thoroughly up-to-date edition. Based on the Revels Plays text, the notes have been augmented to cast further light both on Webster's amazing dialogue and on the stage action. An entirely new introduction sets the tragedy in the context of pre-Civil War England and gives a revealing view of its imagery and dramatic action. From its well-documented early performances to the two productions seen in the West End of London in the 1995-96 season, a stage history gives an account of the play in performance. Students, actors, directors and theatre-goers will all find here a reappraisal of Webster's artistry in the greatest age of English theatre, which highlights why it has lived on stage with renewed force in the last decades of the twentieth century.

The Duchess of Malfi (originally published as The Tragedy of the Dutchesse of Malfy) is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14. Published in 1623, the play is loosely based on events that occurred between about 1508 and 1513, recounted in William Painter's The Palace of Pleasure (1567). The Duchess was Giovanna d'Aragona, whose father, Arrigo d'Aragona, Marquis of Gerace, was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand I of Naples. Her husbands were Alfonso Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, and (as in the play) Antonio Bologna.