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Author
Publisher
Algora Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Examining the impact of foreign aid, trade policies, study-abroad programs, religion, entertainment, the media and other forms of foreign influence on Kenya and other under-developed African nations, the author finds that initiatives billed as "assistance" in many cases serve instead to keep in place the colonial status of dependency"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind comes an exploration of the power of selling, which each of us does every day--whether we know it or not. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine Americans works in sales. More than fifteen million people earn their keep by convincing someone else to make a purchase. But dig deeper and a startling truth emerges: Yes, one in nine Americans works in sales--but so do the...
Author
Series
Anthropological horizons volume 18
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examines the art of effective persuasion to argue that its secret lies in a key moment before messages are delivered, sharing strategies for how to psychologically prepare one's listeners to render them most receptive.
Social psychologist Robert Cialdini shines a light on peak persuasion and reveals that the secret doesn't lie in the message itself, but in the key moment before the message is delivered. What separates average persuaders from extraordinarily...
Author
Series
AGARDograph volume no. 13
Publisher
Published for and on behalf of the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, by Pergamon Press
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English