Chris Murray

Unlock the 7 rules of success passed down through generations, originating from a secret and ancient organisation, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club. Often described as the most elite and important in all of Victorian London, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club was a place where the like-minded shared their wisdom, secrets and methods. Follow Barnabas Kreuz and his nephew Simeon, a young man who quickly discovers how 7 secret rules can become the foundation to unlimited success and a considerable fortune. This book will change your life. Read it, recommend it to friends - just make sure you keep it hidden from your competition.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club (UK Edition)

"This Book Will Help You Close More Deals, Advance Your Career and Build Your Income." JEB BLOUNT - Bestselling Author of Fanatical Prospecting and People Buy You There are 4 distinct steps to every business transaction employed by all successful salespeople - and it's the understanding and execution of those 4 steps that separates the elite from the rest of the pack. Why do we all find it so difficult to recall more than one or two occasions when we felt that we were treated exceptionally by the salesperson who dealt with us? Is it that the majority of those salespeople knew the four steps but chose not to make use of them? Or maybe common (sales) sense isn't quite as common as many people like to pretend it is. If that's the case, then it's probably time for this information to be broken down, simplified and re-explained - so that it can be implemented effectively by all those who find themselves at the frontline. If you want genuine sales and business success that (as an added bonus) leads to satisfied customers who would happily recommend you and then come back for more - then you really need to read this book

Selling with Ease

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club (Us Edition)

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Brings together summaries of seventeen essential marketing classics in a single volume and includes Purple Cow by Seth Godin, Relationship Marketing by Regis McKenna, and The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell. 20,000 first printing.

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Prominent figures select their personal choice of books with subjects ranging from the history of fashion to quantum physics, from psychoanalysis to cyberspace and from medieval history to mythology and religion. Contributors include Malcom Bradbury, Miles Kingston and patrick Moore.

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Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.

Key Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century

For 22 years, Chris Murray was a winchman on search and rescue helicopters, and was involved in the rescue of many people from the seas and mountains around the north of Scotland and further afield. Here, he details his exploits from his early days as a Royal Navy diver in the elite Faslane diving team, his subsequent spell as a civilian diver working offshore for various companies, and finally his career spent hanging from a wire in stormy seas and snowstorms, risking his life to aid fishing vessels in distress.

Winchman

To Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tragedy was not solely a literary mode, but a philosophy to interpret the history that unfolded around him. Tragic Coleridge explores the tragic vision of existence that Coleridge derived from Classical drama, Shakespeare, Milton and contemporary German thought. Coleridge viewed the hardships of the Romantic period, like the catastrophes of Greek tragedy, as stages in a process of humanity’s overall purification. Offering new readings of canonical poems, as well as neglected plays and critical works, Chris Murray elaborates Coleridge’s tragic vision in relation to a range of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle to George Steiner and Raymond Williams. He draws comparisons with the works of Blake, the Shelleys, and Keats to explore the factors that shaped Coleridge’s conception of tragedy, including the origins of sacrifice, developments in Classical scholarship, theories of inspiration and the author’s quest for civic status. With cycles of catastrophe and catharsis everywhere in his works, Coleridge depicted the world as a site of tragic purgation, and wrote himself into it as an embattled sage qualified to mediate the vicissitudes of his age.

Tragic Coleridge

Kim Murray

Kim Waters

The bestselling Illuminations is born again in this opulently presented mini-edition of India's sacred masterpiece, the Bhagavad Gita. Essential verses from the Gita come to life with new relevancy for the reader in a new, very personal format.

Illuminations from the Bhagavad-Gita

This indispensable guide to classics of marketing strategy, summarizing the lessons of seventeen of the most influential titles in the field. The featured books include: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore The Popcorn Report by Faith Popcorn The Anatomy of Buzz by Emanuel Rosen Purple Cow by Seth Godin Relationship Marketing by Regis McKenna Don't Think Pink by Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned Renovate Before you Innovate by Sergio Zyman The Marketing Gurus distils thousands of pages on branding, promotion, publicity, advertising and more into easily digestible summaries, revealing the wisdom that made them into classics.

El siglo XX ha sido un gran periodo para la teoría estética. Al facilitar el acceso al corpus teórico, importante aunque a veces impenetrable, este libro constituirá una valiosa ayuda tanto para los estudiantes como para sus profesores, pues se trata de una guía única y autorizada de las respuestas modernas a las artes visuales. Escrita por expertos internacionales, las entradas abarcan figuras clave que representan un amplio abanico de disciplinas y enfoques que reflejan la amplitud del estudio del arte moderno. Entre éstas cabe citar a Adorno, Bourdieu, Bryson, Danto, Derrida, Freud, Gombrich, Kristeva, Panofsky, Sontag, Wittgenstein o Wölfflin. Los ensayos, escritos con un estilo accesible y ordenados alfabéticamente, presentan un análisis de las ideas y la influencia de cada autor o autora, así como una breve biografía, un listado de obras clave y una útil reseña de lecturas para quien quiera profundizar en la materia. Este libro constituye un recurso de incalculable valor para todas aquellas personas que se interesan por la estética, la historia del arte o la cultura visual.

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Pensadores clave sobre el arte

Alfred Wertheimer

Collects the black-and-white photographs taken in 1956 by a photographer hired by RCA Victor to capture the movements of their new rising star, providing images that are spontaneous and unrehearsed.

New York to Memphis

Elvis at 21

Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there were a great many in Britain and that they were often used as a way to comment on the relationship between Britain and America. Sometimes they emulated the style of American comics, but they also frequently became sites of resistance to perceived American political and cultural hegemony, drawing upon satire and parody as a means of critique. Murray illustrates that the superhero genre is a blend of several influences, and that in British comics these influences were quite different from those in America, resulting in some contrasting approaches to the figure of the superhero. He identifies the origins of the superhero and supervillain in nineteenth-century popular culture such as the penny dreadfuls and boys' weeklies and in science fiction writing of the 1920s and 1930s. He traces the emergence of British superheroes in the 1940s, the advent of "fake" American comics, and the reformatting of reprinted material. Murray then chronicles the British Invasion of the 1980s and the pivotal roles in American superhero comics and film production held by British artists today. This book will challenge views about British superheroes and the comics creators who fashioned them. Murray brings to light a gallery of such comics heroes as the Amazing Mr X, Powerman, Streamline, Captain Zenith, Electroman, Mr Apollo, Masterman, Captain Universe, Marvelman, Kelly's Eye, Steel Claw, the Purple Hood, Captain Britain, Supercats, Bananaman, Paradax, Jack Staff, and SuperBob. He reminds us of the significance of many such creators and artists as Len Fullerton, Jock McCail, Jack Glass, Denis Gifford, Bob Monkhouse, Dennis M. Reader, Mick Anglo, Brendan McCarthy, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Dave Gibbons, and Mark Millar.

The British Superhero

Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers have turned to classics to provide interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to inform their understanding. This volume reveals key insights into British cosmopolitanism, which sought its bearings in the ancient past in encounters with Qing Dynasty China.

Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938

China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome

A martial-arts master escapes from a prison camp in wartime China and flees to Malaya. His hopes for a quiet life are dashed when he saves a bus driver from a lynch mob. The master agrees to impart his secrets to five disciples. Although the organisation they found becomes internationally renowned, the arts are almost entirely lost as the initiates succumb to internal squabbling and greed. New in Singapore, Chris Murray tracks down Chan See-meng, favourite disciple of the great Chee Kim Thong. Through dusty Malaysian villages and Shaolin Temple in China, the adventure that begins with gruelling practice on Chan's rooftop leads Chris in the footsteps of the masters. As he becomes absorbed in the esoteric depths of Five Ancestors Fist, he investigates the journey of Zen martial-arts from ancient temples to modern gymnasia. Can these traditions survive in modernity? An intimate memoir with historical scope, Crippled Immortals unites a cast of legendary heroes and slack-jawed monks, Indian yogi and Tibetan lamas, bluffers, gangsters, and champions who have been touched by Old Man Chee's arts. The practitioner's path to enlightenment is always arduous, often hilarious, and sometimes heart-breaking. True adepts talk with their fists, but the strength that endures lies in the bond between master and disciple.

Crippled Immortals

Elizabeth Rogers

Jeffrey W. Smith

This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term ‘Golden Age’ typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, as many nostalgic sentiments are not idealised, and may indeed be dark, ironic or self-aware. There are, of course, many other ways to characterise the relationship between the Golden Age and nostalgia, and the tension between the two can produce myths and romantic idylls, or, in religious terms, images of pre-lapsarian innocence, or dogmas relating to values associated with childhood. The Golden Age is also often used to refer to specific, respected periods of cultural production in all kinds of literature and visual media. Indeed, nearly every period, genre, nation, and cultural form has some kind of mythic, often illusory, Golden Age against which it is defined, and in which nostalgia often plays a part. This collection interrogates the notion of the Golden Age and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image. It will interest scholars working on the subject of the Golden Age/nostalgia, particularly in English literature, film studies, comics studies, history, and the fine arts.

Nostalgia in Word and Image

The Golden Age

Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War: Forgotten Fronts is a collection of chapters dealing with various overlooked aspects of the Second World War. The aim is to give greater depth and context to the war by introducing new stories about regions of the world and elements of the war rarely considered. These chapters represent new discussions on previously undeveloped narratives that help to expand our understanding of the interconnectedness of the war. It also provides an expanded view of the war as a mosaic of overlapping conflicts rather than a two-sided affair between massive alliance structures. The Second World War saw revolutions, civil wars, social upheaval, subversion, and major geopolitical policy shifts that do not fit neatly into the Allied vs. Axis 1939–1945 paradigm. This aim is to connect the unseen dots from around the globe that influenced the big turning points we think we know well but have really only a superficial understanding of and in so doing shed new light on the scope and influence of the war.

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