The American Neptune, Pictorial Supplement VII : A Selection of Marine Paintings By Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804

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The American Neptune, Pictorial Supplement VII : A Selection of Marine Paintings By Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804 - 1865
American Neptune
Manufacturer: Salem : American Neptune 1965
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ASIN: B000KHWCFY

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American Paintings From the Masco Corporation [Sotheby's NY, 3 Dec. 1998, Sale 7230]

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Lots 68-139; 152 pgs. There is a nasty little dog in a Victorian carriage by James Wyeth; Archibald Willard 's Spirit of '76; a beautiful tropical landscape by Albert Bierstadt; ship "Star Light" by Fitz Hugh Lane; James Peale 's watermelon still life -- and more of the very best American Paintings.

Paintings and Drawings By Fitz Hugh Lane : Preserved in the Collections of the Cape Ann Historical Association Gloucester, Massachusetts

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Paintings and Drawings By Fitz Hugh Lane : Preserved in the Collections of the Cape Ann Historical Association Gloucester, Massachusetts
Fitz Hugh Lane , and John Wilmerding
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Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane
John Wilmerding
Manufacturer: NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHI
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ASIN: B000OKF0UQ

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Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane
John Wilmerding
Manufacturer: Harry N Abrams
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Revelations Of Gloucester: Charles Olson, Fitz Hugh Lane, And Writing Of The Place (Literary and Cultural Theory, V. 14)

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Revelations Of Gloucester: Charles Olson, Fitz Hugh Lane, And Writing Of The Place (Literary and Cultural Theory, V. 14)
Tadeusz Sawek
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A SELECTION OF MARINE PAINTINGS BY FITZ HUGH LANE 1804-1865 - AMERICAN NEPTUNE PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT VII

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A SELECTION OF MARINE PAINTINGS BY FITZ HUGH LANE 1804-1865 - AMERICAN NEPTUNE PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT VII
Author Unknown
Manufacturer: American Neptune
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THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT VII : A Selection of Marine Paintings By Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865

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THE AMERICAN NEPTUNE PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT VII : A Selection of Marine Paintings By Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865
American Neptune Editors
Manufacturer: Peabody Museum Salem 1965
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ASIN: B000R4RBGU

Fitz Hugh Lane, Gloucester artist, 1804-1865

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Fitz Hugh Lane, Gloucester artist, 1804-1865
Gene E McCormick
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art]
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Paintings and Drawings By Fitz Hugh Lane

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Paintings and Drawings By Fitz Hugh Lane

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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000I9MV46

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What is love? What does it look like? Visionaire, the highly respected--and highly-sought after--fashion and art publication, featuring the work of some of the world's most prominent artists and image makers, offers Visionaire 38 Love in collaboration with Tiffany & Co. For this issue Visionaire returns to its roots with a hand-crafted volume depicting romantic love, love for life, love for all things beautiful, love for work, love for family, love for friends, what we do for love, and what we do with love. Images and tokens of love, including a special inclusion designed by Elsa Peretti, will be inserted into authentic vintage hard-cover novels, making each copy of this 4,000-run limited edition a unique work.

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What is LOVE?.......2004-01-03

Well, love is many things to many different people and in this issue Visionaire asks "what is LOVE" to the various contributors.

The concept itself is fairly original which I like. Every issue is a real vintage book (obscure romance novels, all having something to do with love) with the work tipped in various pages throughout. Mine seems to be a novel from the 70's about a love triangle set in some college town. The book itself comes in a felt bag with a pendant/bookmark designed by Elsa Peretti that should be worth the price alone. Then the whole thing is in a Tiffany blue box.

I would have given this issue 5 stars, but there are some production problems that I find too troubling to justify the cost. For one thing, I find that a lot of the pictures are falling out of my issue, the glue that was used (or maybe it's a chemical reaction to the old pages that they didn't foresee) to stick the pictures into the book isn't holding. I'm just ending up with the loose pictures with yellow marks (the glue) loose in the book instead of them being stuck onto the pages of the book.

Another problem has to do with the box the book comes in. It's falling apart, again, perhaps due to the glue that was used. It's hard to describe without a picture of the inside, but there's another box half glued to the inside to create a clamshell effect, but it's gotten loose to reveal that the glue holding it together is no better than that rubber cement type of adhesive that holds samples in magazines. Once it came off, you can't stick it back on.

All in all, buy this issue if you are an avid collector, but be wary of the possiblility of something this expensive falling apart on you... which may not be a bad thing if you want to read the novel underneath the art. Perhaps they meant for it to fall apart, is it a comment on how love can be fleeting? Who knows! ; )

Finally a new issue!.......2002-09-13

They've kept us waiting for a very long time but now they're back with a new issue! Number 38: Love is the book of the season! Every fan of Visionaire should really buy this issue. Don't be suprised if this issue sells out very quickly. The book comes in a great blue Tiffany box and is really suprising! When you open the box there's a tiffany blue sleeperbag with inside a very old book. Around the outside is a silk string with a silver heart attached to it. This very exclusive heart is designed by Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. and can be worn as a necklace. When you open the book music starts playing. And then the journey begins. The journey to find out what Love really is........

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A Great Collection.......2007-03-10

Eisner was a genius. The Spirit Archives are a great collectors series. If anyone wants to see where comic books came from, this is certainly a place they want to stop and see. But to comprehend the Spirit you will have to read a TON of volumes. The Spirit volume: 1 is a fun and exciting book and i can't wait to start volume: 2.

So racist that it is unpalatable.......2007-02-26

I bought this book because I am a huge fan of comic art and this series is considered to be a groundbreaking classic. However, I found it to be so incredibly racist that I was literally embarrassed to be reading it. I realize that there were different standards in the 40's, but this is completely over the top. In addition, I later researched the series more thoroughly and found that Eisner never really came to terms with his own racism later in life. I will admit that the art is great and groundbreaking--but the level of bigotry and sexism in the book canceled out any artistic merit for me.

There are two Spirits just as there are two, really more, James Bonds........2005-08-22

I had read the Spirit in the late forties when it origianlly came out. Recently I have had the pleasure of buying from Amazon and reading Volumes 12-16. These are supposed to represent the best work of Will Eisner. However, to talk about the later books and contrast them with those by Eisner before he went into the army is unfair. I have just read the first two volumes and liked them much better than some of the other reviewers. The original Spirt seems more edgy, more dangerous like The Batman. Those after the war are a bit light hearted. I like them all and want to make an observation. I am a James Bond fan, especially of the first two Bond stars. Sean Connery's original Bond is the most edgy, hardest to predict, and despite the one liners he has a mission you would be afraid to cross. Roger Moore's Bond is more like the Spirit after the war years. More light hearted, even a little campy at times. There is enough enjoyment in the character of The Spirit that I will likely try some of the archives during the war years as done by other artists and writers. After all, Superman and Batman have had many different writers and artists, most very very good. So this is something I need to judge for myself.

very influential and still entertaining hero.......2004-11-13

The Spirit Archives contains reprints of Will Eisner's early Spirit comics. I was pleasantly surprised by the comic. The Spirit is really reporter Denny Colt, who everyone believes to have been killed, but is really alive and now hiding in the local cemmetary and emerging to fight crime. The Spirit is the kind of hero I prefer. He uses judo or whatever kind of fighting technique would work as well as Mac Gyver like on the spot gadgets to fight crime. He doesn't have super powers. So he's kind of like a normal guy, except for he is extremely talented.

Things I liked about The Spirit: The crazy villains. There is a new one almost every episode, and they range from an ape with a human brain to a lovesick clown. The Black Queen is also nice. She is kind of like an evil master-mind who also dresses in evil villain costumes and runs around personally doing evil and looking hot. Also the comics are nice because the plots vary a whole lot from episode to episode.

Things I didn't like: The editing is really tight. Because The Spirit came out once a week on 7 pages and they tried to fit a whole story into those seven pages, things are really crammed in there.

Also included are a couple of brief introductions. One is a general history of the comic. The other is an introduction buy comic book writer Alan Moore, which discussed the impact of The Spirit on the genre of comics and on the young Alan Moore. These extras were interesting for me, because I hadn't heard of the comic before checking this out from the library. The Spirit is in print because it was influential on the whole comics medium. And it is still fun to read. I recommend checking out one of the books in The Spirit Archives series and if you like it then there is certainly plenty more.

Not The Best Place To Start.......2003-11-09

The Spirit Archives Vol. 1 isn't bad... when compared to other Archive volumes from the era, it actually quite good. It's just that it's not particularly good for The Spirit. The story-telling is certainly competent enough, but the strip really hasn't found its voice. Still, it's good fun watching the various pieces of the strip fall into place: the supporting characters, the splash pages, Eisner's developing technique, etc.

If you're looking to sample The Spirit to see what all the fuss is about, you might want to skip this one. The book's charms are much more evident in Vol. 2-4... and Eisner really wouldn't hit his stride until he returned to the book with Vol. 12.

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"When the postwar economic boom fostered such prosperity that easy credit allowed even hourly workers to plunge themselves hopelessly into debt, a brand-new car became an attainable dream for millions in the 1950s. And soon came dream cars to further stimulate their automotive saliva glands. By mid-decade, every American carmaker was parading its glittering glimpses of four-wheeled futurism before a dazzled public -- flights of styling fancy and functional wonderment blaring 'Headed for your driveway soon!' while mumbling, sotto voce, 'Don't hold us to it.' "

So begins Bruce McCall's tongue-in-cheek history of Detroit's dream car era. From the author of the cult classic Zany Afternoons comes perhaps the sharpest, funniest, most original overview of Fifties culture -- and Fifties cars -- yet published. The Last Dream-o-Rama is a surrealistic satire, not just of the dream car phenomenon but of the conformist and materialistic value system that produced it. From the Quizfire 5000 Jackpot to the Nixoneer Squelchchoramic to the Bongo Beatnik Ferlinghetti TurboHipster, McCall's lavish illustrations and the antic text memorably restore the world of America in the Fifties in all its glitzy grandeur.

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Unique Vision.......2007-05-09

Bruce McCall sees things in a completely unique way. Here, he extended many of the "Bulgemobile" drawings he did for the old National Lampoon magazine thirty years ago into a complete treatment of the American mobile dream factory of the 1940s and 1950s. It is truly funny and quite touching.

My favorite is the big american car with a waterfall flowing down the trunk...a "waterfall grille" was a feature of many American custom and dream machines of the era. Great stuff!

McCall's Genius Wearing Thin.......2003-06-09

The brilliant satirist and illustrator who gave us a billion terrific and memorable laughs in the pages of National Lampoon and "Zany Afternoons" is now, it seems, on autopilot. Bruce McCall hasn't lost his edge in the technical department, but this anti-paean to the 1950s reads less like a parody of car advertisements and more like a screed against the Evil Consumption Tendencies Of Straitlaced Anti-Communist Americans And Their Depletion Of Natural Resources, Curse Them! It is not, in a word, funny. On the flip side, if you're not familiar with his brilliant "Zany Afternoons" and don't feel like being gouged by the vultures who are charging $250 + for a good-condition copy, then this is a fair sampling of McCall's stuff. To get a real glimpse into his rapier wit, check out http://www.jamesgoodmangallery.com/mccall/pages/exhibframez.html for a gallery of his pieces shown about four years ago in New York. If the taste and style of the '50s and '60s are not your cup of tea and you want to see some hilarious spoofs, check out James Lileks and "The Gallery of Regrettable Food." But don't waste your money on this latest, weak offering from McCall.

Hilarious satire and superb drawings.......2002-03-29

Bruce McCall's "The Last Dream-O-Rama" is a wickedly clever satire of the 1950's dream car phenomena.

If you've seen McCall's "Bulgemobile" advertisements from the 1970's vintage National Lampoon magazine, you already know he's a gifted artist with a droll sense of humor about automotive excesses. He has a talent for writing that comes close to real advertisements but just pushes it a little bit further such as "Fireblast! Twice the car you'll ever need - and that goes double for the new four-door FunTop!"

In this colorful book, after some pages spoofing dream car shows ("It's un-American to miss the Cavalcade of Chrome"), the bulk of the book has delightful full-page drawings of outrageous concept cars. Each has a half page history on the facing page.

One is the "Silver Sabre Patriomatic Funfighter, 1957" which looks only slightly more like a jet airplane than Pontiac's actual Firebird dream cars. Another is the "Armageddon Mk1, 1958" for the fallout shelter crowd. And there are many, many more with great variety. A few may be too silly for some tastes, but they are all wonderfully drawn.

The book wraps up with "Name Your Own Dream Car - the Detroit Way" and finally "Dream Cars Around the World" with yet more drawings and descriptions.

This book is a satisfying satirical, or perhaps all too true, look into the fifties and a great value even if you're only going to look at the drawings.

Not as zany as Zany........2002-01-28

I always looked for Bruce McCall's brilliant work in the National Lampoon and loved the reprinted work in 'Zany Afternoons' (I bought two copies, just in case) and it confirmed that here was an unusual humorist, as good with a paint brush or typewriter.

This latest book though I found a bit disappointing. The material does not really stretch to 128 pages, lots of these (especially the text ones) have far too much white space and the illustrations I found lacking in detail. In 'Zany Afternoons' there are three hilarious parodies of Detroit car brochures, 1934, 1946 and 1958 Bulgemobiles, all have paintings of fantasy cars with backgrounds full of detail, it is this detail that I found missing in so many of the paintings in 'Dream-O-Rama'

Still, the text is very funny and if you are new to Mr McCall's work try and get 'Zany Afternoons' and 'Sit!', he wrote the wonderful words to accompany the dog paintings of Thierry Poncelet.

A fun ride through imagination.......2001-12-14

I really liked this book. As someone who has always been critical of the schlock the automakers enjoy forcing upon the American people (can you really tell me the difference between a Camry and an Escort - come on), I enjoyed this artist's take on what would have happened if designers in the 50s had been allowed to have carte blanche at the drawing board, creating vehicles based on all the fads and crazes of the day. While not practical in the least, the cars all had an enjoyable retro-futuristic feel to them that made me think of a cross between the Jetsons and I Love Lucy. The illustrations are rich and wonderful, in that vibrant palette of hipster 50s pastels so commonly used in the Eisenhower era. The captions and comments from the author/artist are clever. My favorite cars are the Orbitronic Minus-Zero Saucersnatcher 1956 (p.47), which has room for a Roswell space alien friend in the back, and the Panavista FilmFlyte Visionaire 1955 (p.35), that brings the experience of a drive-in movie to a drive down the freeway. This would be a great conversation piece for the coffee table, or a nice addition to any library for car buffs or fans of the fabulous 1950s.

Book Description

The end of the 1970s was a turning point for science fiction and horror films. Star Wars, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Halloween set the standard for many years to come. In 1979, a new film would blend these genres together into an SF/horror film that would cross genres, and feature a villain that audiences and critics would find far scarier than Michael Myers or Jason and Pamela Voorhees. Beautiful Monsters is the story of the Alien and Predator film franchises. Each film is chronicled through analysis and extensive background information, and the themes and influences examined through articles. In addition all the spin-off books, comics and computer games are detailed. This is your one-stop guide for everything relating to two of cinema's most popular and enduring creations who finally met in the 2004 film Alien vs Predator.

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I havent even bought this book, I want to, and will!.......2007-07-27

This looks like a Freakin' awesome book. I love both of those movie franchises and even AVP. it should be the perfect companion to the unltimate avp fan.

A book that falls short mainly due to an overly biassed writer........2006-01-09

I've just finished reading this book, and I have to say there were moments where I found some interesting information that I haven't heard before, but I also found that there was twice as many times where I read something and basically felt like smacking the writer due to the sometimes biassed and sometimes irrellevent information given.

I am a huge fan of the film franchizes, but I know where some movies fall short and where some don't. This guy gives all the movies incredibly high ratings, even after he ridicules them. He gives his opinions on why some things were good and why things were bad, but he presents it as if his opinion is generally accepted fact. Furthermore, some of the facts he produces are simply irrellivent and possibly completely off the mark. He states how "Situation A" that happens in a movie is remeniscient of things that happen in 8 more movies that are completely unconnected to the series and states that they all served as inspiration by the film makers. He also states what he feels the themes the movies presents, but he goes on huge tangents on the different ways they can be interpreted and then states that the film makers were brilliant for writing it for those groups of people. Isn't it possible that the film makers wrote a good story and then people just interpreted it differently then what they'd originally envisioned?

The writer also seems to have forgotten small bits of information that were actually of interest. He puts the budget in for maybe three out of the 7 movies. He buts bios out for everyone in the main cast and crew, and just happens to forget the director of Predator...things like that.

In closing, if you love the franchises as much as I do, don't waste your time on this book. Although it has a few new anecdotes and information on unused plot lines, most of its info can be obtained by the DVD Special Editions or by checking out IMDB.com which are full of great information that you can get from the film makers and crew themselves without getting this third party's opinions in the way.

The book I was waiting for........2005-08-10

This is probably the single-most informative book there is on the AvP universe. It dissects each of the movies in extreme detail, talking about its trivia, its goofs, its questionable science, the actual production, even gives short biographies on the actors and top crew members, then it stretches out to delve into the comics and novels! It's all intuitively organized by sections then chapters, and its obligatory index page is all but unused because anything you can ever want to know, you can flip through the book and find within 15 seconds. This is saying a lot, considering it's 266 pages without a single picture.

The best way I could describe this book is, it's all the best behind-the-scenes specials, essays, and reviews all condensed into a single source. If you're a fan of any or all of these franchises, this book is indispensable.

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Johann Sebastian Bach His Life Art and Work
Johann Nikolaus Forkel
Manufacturer: Vienna House
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Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work
Johann Sebastian] Forkel, Johann Nikolaus; Terry, Charles Sanford, Translator [Bach
Manufacturer: Constable and Company
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This book has become my bible.

A Great Starter for Crafters Who Don't Know Where to Begin

How to Show & Sell Your Crafts: The Crafter's Complete Guide on How to Display Work at Shows and Make Profitable Sales
Kathryn Caputo , and Kathryn Capulo
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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ASIN: 1558704477

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Thorough, well presented, and easy to read, this volume is a terrific guide to many aspects of selling your crafts at shows. The first section covers market research, setting prices, handling publicity, and building a stronger public image of yourself as a crafter. The second section explains how to achieve effective craft-show displays, as well as commercial displays for products that are placed in retail shops. Section three explores salesmanship: what to do at craft shows to increase sales, how to interact properly and effectively with customers, and how to close a sale. Throughout the book, charts, lists, diagrams, and worksheets provide further help and enable you to evaluate specific aspects of your own situation, such as ideal customer profiles, price comparison studies, and effectiveness of your current display. How to Show & Sell Your Crafts is a very user-friendly guide for anyone pursuing the craft-show path.

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This book has become my bible........2004-05-19

This is by far the best book I've seen yet about how to succeed in the craft business. Caputo is a very good writer. This book is easy reading, so I was actually able to read it cover to cover (and enjoy it!).

It covers everything from market research, to show displays, to salesmanship. Very thorough and extremely helpful. My business is doing a lot better due to this book. If you are in the craft business, I'd highly recommend that you read this one!

A Great Starter for Crafters Who Don't Know Where to Begin.......2000-03-28

As someone who is just starting out in the craft business, I can affirm that this book is a wonderful guide. If you are like me, you have always loved crafts, and most likely would never have started your own business if the product had been anything else. The business and marketing side can be scary to someone who has never done it before, not to mention more than a little confusing. I highly recommend this book as a follow up to Kathryn's other book, How to Start Making Money With Your Crafts, and as a precursor to some of the longer and more involved craft business books out there.

In her first book, Kathryn helps you develop and focus your product line. In this one, she takes your finished product and helps you market and support it. I found the chapters on market research, display construction, and salesmanship the most helpful of all. With pictures of real displays and selling environments on almost every page, the reader cannot help but come away with a bounty of ideas and plans for their own display.

Besides being informative, this book is easy to read and gives multiple real-life experiences in order to better connect to the reader. Both this and Kathryn's other book have really broken down the craft world for me, making it feel much clearer and giving me a real sense of control over my own success.

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Must reading for all sales people

Influence Agreement

Good but not 5 stars

A profound and proactive sales success book!

This is Powerfull Stuff!

Zero Resistance Selling
Maxwell Maltz
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Press
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The inspiration for Zero-Resistance Selling is psycho-cybernetics guru Maxwell Maltz. Although Maltz died in 1975, the book is written in Maltz's voice by five sales and psycho-cybernetics experts: Dan S. Kennedy, William T. Brooks, Matt Oechsli, and Jeff Paul and Pamela Yellen. The book outlines a self-improvement program designed to help sales professionals overcome low self-esteem using Maltz's own techniques for reprogramming the subconscious mind. Coauthor Kennedy writes that the goal of Zero-Resistance Selling is to create "a new kind of selling experience, free of all the resistance and obstacles manufactured inside the mind, and free of the resistance served up by prospects who sense insecurity on the part of the salesperson."

Book Description

What's the single biggest obstacle salespeople face? Resistance.

In Zero-Resistance Selling, five of the most respected sales authorities in America have joined together to prepare the first and only customized application of Psycho-Cybernetics to overcome all types of sales resistance.

Any sales representative or sales management professional can use Maxwell Maltz's high-powered battery of mental training exercises to enhance selling ability and get immediate results. Topics include conquering call reluctance, creating your own zero-resistance selling environment, anticipating and eliminating stalls and objections, selling effectively even when you're in over your head, converting stress into power and zooming out of selling slumps. Once learned, these durable techniques will last through a lifetime of professional selling.

Lifting the art of sales to a whole new level, Zero-Resistance Selling is destined to take its place alongside How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich and other perennials as an all-time sales classic.

Customer Reviews:

Must reading for all sales people.......2005-12-22

The late Maxwell Maltz certaintly created a mind revolution over 45 years ago. Little did we know how much the mind plays in all areas of success. Having read the original version of Psycho Cybernetics, I already was applying many of Maltz's principles. When I saw this new book I WAS INTRIQUED BUT DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD HELP. Boy, was I wrong.

If you are in sales, you will find this book will reveal all you need to create the right mindset, overcome call reluctance, beat customer objections and look into the minds of your prospects. You will overcome stalls and break through sales platteus. Get out of slumps and set new records.

As Maltz told us in his first ground breaking book over 45 years ago, it's all possible through the self image. Change the self image and you change the area of the possible. So many of us have imbedded negative thoughts and thought patterns. You can't do it with PMA alone. Maltz's techniques work. And in Zero Resistance Selling, you get the best of Maltz along with four other sales experts. This book is a winner.

Read this along with Psycho-Cybernetics. Do the exercises and you'll get some results.

Influence Agreement.......2004-07-10

Zero Resistance Selling is a process that must be honed, just as you would hone your public speaking skills, or any other skills that are part of your self-definition.

And to master your sells closure, that is, being influential, even in the most adversarial situations, here are 10 tenets to follow:

1. Show No Fear
This does not mean avoid or deny it. Recognize it, process it, and choose to breath your way to being confident. See fear as you inner self telling you that you are about to stretch your self-definition, in the face of others, and that there will be resistance. Read, "Fear of Flying," by Erica Jong.

2. Believe in the Value of What You Are Selling
It's not the sell that you are after. It's the benefits that you are bringing to your buyer. It is also the ability to be influential. Read "People Power," by Donna Fisher.

3. Use Your Errors To Your Advantage
Remember, a mistake is not your entire identity - it's a sign of where you can enhance your inner self-image.

4. Use Power Phrases
An example is, "Here's how we'll get started." Read "Verbal Judo," by George Thompson, Ph.D.

5. Desire to Close Sales Means More Than Anything Else
You don't have to like the person. You are there to influence change in that person's life.

6. Take Objections as "No Big Deal"
The stronger the objection, the more your prospect is giving you, about him or her. Use this to compassionately respond to his or her needs. Stay in the moment. Take your time. And show your prospect that he or she matters. Read, "Honoring the Self," by Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D.

7. Recognize Your Prospect's Resistance as Helpful For the Sell
When you see, feel and hear that resistance, you know if this is a serious prospect. And if this is a serious prospect, their resistance tells you the questions that you must answer, for them to buy what you are sellng.

8. Deflect Negative Influences
If you invest your valuable time around people with bad attitudes, you will adopt this in your attitude, and it will reflect in your sells calls. Surround yourself amongst people who are free to be negative in a positive way, who also are optimistic. (Pointing out, and processing realities allows room for change). Read, "Unlimited Power," by Tony Robbins.

9. Be Competitive, yet Stress-Free
Read "Mastery," by George Leonard.

10. Celebrate Your Success
Think back, before your sells calls, of times when you have sold ideas, services, or products. Create a movie in your mind, of what happened before, during and after these successes. See this vividly. Identify as many details as possible. Then use this as an anchor, each time you prepare to make sells calls. Remembering these movies in your mind will condition you to be success now. Read, "Pyscho-Cybernetics," by Maxwell Maltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.

Good but not 5 stars.......2004-01-25

This Book is for you if you don't have self confidence. The only thing that the book said was to have confidence when you sell, and picture the sale "in the theatre of your mind" before you actually sell. I wish I read this book at the public library, maybe it's worth browsing and reading, it's a quick read, but not really worth keeping in your library unless of course you need a confidence boost

A profound and proactive sales success book!.......2001-04-23

Although Maxwell Maltz is listed as the first author (he passed away in 1975), I know that Dan Kennedy has played a huge role in writing this book and making it happen. Dan Kennedy is currently President of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation and has been one of my success mentors for years. His wisdom is easy to follow - but more than that it is right on! I started out as an engineer and a very timid salesman. Dan Kennedy is has helped to change that. Because of him I know myself better, which has helped me to better serve others in my business. I guarantee that if you read this book you will be a changed person - it's that incredible.

Kennedy covers all of the proactive bases: smart thinking, system thinking, futuristic thinking, and positive thinking. If you are truly seeking the kind of success and abundance that makes your life 100% livable - you must read this book. Many of his ideas are found in SUCCESS BOUND, another book built on learning how to live a proactively life that is God centered and fulfilling.

Everything that I have put into practice that Dan Kennedy has recommended in his books has worked. He has brought me success by focusing on what is important in selling and using my God given talents and my thinking ability to be a better salesman. Nearly every bit of our success starts in our minds including sales success. This book makes it very clear as to how to think in the right way so that your success is assured.

You will find that this exciting book becomes a part of you. Don't hold back - let it happen. In fact, I plan on spending 10 to 15 minutes every morning for the next several days focusing my thoughts on the truths of this book, thereby allowing them to seep deep into my subconscious mind. If you do this too I guarantee God's wisdom will most assuredly bring you the success and abundance you deserve.

Enjoy this book and your new proactive and successful life!

This is Powerfull Stuff!.......2000-07-20

What do you get when you put Dan S. Kennedy--the all-time, number one, best salesman and marketer in the world, and Maxwell Maltz--the world's leading innovator of self-image building, and blend them together--well, you guessed it...one powerfull piece of work. Invaluable to anyone needing to learn the inner game of selling, and by this I mean, one must master their inner self (Maltz) before they can master thier salesmanship and certainly bestow their conquering effects of marketing (Kennedy) on the world. Worth the read, very easy, flowing and has readily available and practical exercises for training your mind...to SELL! Top 10 sales book, on my list. Steve Adele

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Zero Resistance Selling : (direct Marketing
Dan S. Kennedy, Maxwell, Md. Maltz, Maxwell Maltz
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OIMRFO

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