The Curse of the Old Mansion: An Unsolved Mystery is a spine-chilling novel that will leave you breathless with suspense.Nestled in the heart of the countryside lies an old mansion, abandoned and shrouded in mystery. Its dark history and supernatural powers have been the source of local folklore for generations, but few have dared to venture inside its walls.When a group of amateur sleuths stumble upon the mansion, they are determined to uncover its secrets and put an end to the curse that has held it captive for so long.As they delve deeper into the mansion's dark past, they begin to unravel a web of mystery and intrigue. Ghostly apparitions haunt the hallways, and the mansion's garden holds the key to a series of gruesome murders that have gone unsolved for years.As the group uncovers more clues, they begin to realize that the curse is far more powerful than they ever imagined. The mansion's supernatural powers are as real as they are dangerous, and breaking the curse will require more than just solving a few puzzles.The group must confront their deepest fears and unravel the enigma of the curse if they are to break its hold on the mansion and its inhabitants. But the closer they get to the truth, the more perilous their journey becomes.Will they be able to break the curse, or will they become its next victims? The Curse of the Old Mansion: An Unsolved Mystery is a gripping tale of supernatural suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.
The Demon Within: A Tale of Possession is a bone-chilling horror novel that takes readers on a journey into the world of the supernatural. When Katie, a young exorcist, is called upon to help a family whose daughter is possessed by a demon, she knows that she's in for a challenge.As she delves deeper into the case, she discovers that this is no ordinary demon. It's a malevolent entity that has been wreaking havoc on the family for months, and it's growing stronger with each passing day.Katie must face her fears and use all of her knowledge and expertise to banish the demon once and for all. But as she delves deeper into the case, she discovers that there are darker forces at work. Forces that threaten to consume her and those around her.As she battles the demon and the darkness that surrounds it, Katie realizes that there are malevolent entities out there that are beyond human comprehension. And that the demon she's facing may just be the beginning.With heart-pounding action, spine-tingling suspense, and unforgettable characters, The Demon Within: A Tale of Possession is a horror novel that will leave readers on the edge of their seats. Perfect for fans of horror novels, this book will keep readers up all night and leave them begging for more.
Instant rapport with the audience. They are smiling, leaning forward, ready to listen.Fear stops people from public speaking. Everyone wants to be liked, but the pressure gets in the way. So we avoid it.In a speech, presentation, webinar or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove we are interesting and valuable. How can we capture our audience s attention immediately? By mastering our first 20 seconds.We can forget about fancy tricks, jokes and manipulation. By using any of the three major openings in this book, we can confidently start our speeches and presentations without fear.Our obligation is to get our audience to hear, believe, and want to be there. After that the rest is easy.Mark Davis is a public speaking coach and keynote speaker for business conferences, in addition to conducting public speaking workshops. Tom "Big Al" Schreiter speaks to network marketing groups around the world.
SEVEN SHOESOn a summer's morning, seven healthy and successful people hike in darkness to the summit of Norway's Pulpit Rock, a cliff outthrust 2,000 feet above the scenic Lysefjord. As the rising sun inflames cliffs on the opposite side of the fjord, they join hands, walk to the edge and leap together into the void.Dr. Elizabeth Barrett Browne, world-renowned expert in suicide, follows the digital breadcrumbs to the mastermind behind these deaths -- the goddess Freyja, a wickedly clever woman or man who hides behind a convincing, full-motion digital persona on the dark web to lure people into conversation, winnow out the vulnerable, and prey on their psyches with a deadly mixture of hallucinogens and perverted psychotherapy.The closer Elizabeth gets to unmasking Freyja, the deeper Freyja gets into Elizabeth's own life and secrets ... a woman haunted by family suicide, desperately worried about the well-being of her college-age son, and fearful that one day she, too, might succumb to the ledge.
Tujuh rahasia tersebut adalah: - Cerita rahasia - "Rasa penasaran dan tak tertahankan." (Anda sudah membaca bab tersebut.) - Cerita Lucu - "Menceritakannya dengan humor dan membuatnya mudah diingat." - Cerita masa lalu dan sekarang - "Ketika Saya Muda." - Cerita orang lain - "Cerita pribadi dan cerita orang lain."" - Cerita Emosional - "Ciptakan respon emosional." - Sebelum dan Sesudah - "Transformasi." - Kisah Penjualan - "Testimonial, rujukan, ulasan dan kekuatan pihak ketiga." Buku ini tidak membahas keseluruhan topik berbicara di depan umum. Hanya saja berfokus membantu Anda menjadi lebih baik dalam menciptakan dan bercerita. Storytelling secrets are strategic ways to create stories we can retell for maximum impact. This book isn't going to cover the entire subject of public speaking; it will focus on helping you become better at creating and telling stories. The seven secrets are: -Secret stories - "Curiosity and irresistibility" -Funny stories - "Telling it with humor and making it memorable" -Past and present stories - "When I was Young" -Other people's stories - "Personal stories and the stories of others" -Emotional stories - "Create an emotional response" -Before and after stories - "Transformation" -Sales stories - "Testimonials, referrals, reviews, and the power of the third party"
Anxiety disorders and relationships can often seem like a recipe for disaster, but it does not have to be. By taking up pursuits of passion, such as writing, one can fight back for control in their lives and having a loving relationship with another.Inside this book is a series of stories about love, about how it feels to love someone while living with an anxiety disorder, about humor, and about finding some sort of peace amidst the chaos withinAnxiety is not, and should not, be in control of our love life. Although it may seem impossible, one can rise above and find that which we all search for... love.
Te gusta ver pel culas? Lees novelas? Ambas usan historias en todas sus variaciones. Nosotros le contamos historias a nuestros amigos, a nuestras familias, a nuestros prospectos y a nuestros clientes. Incluso las contamos a desconocidos en el avi n.Si aprendemos a compartir bien nuestras historias, las personas prestan atenci n. Pueden inclusive contarle nuestra historia a sus amigos y familia. Compran lo que les ofrecemos. Las mejores historias se pasan de boca en boca por que son f ciles de compartir.S lo la narrativa nos garantiza que engancharemos la atenci n de la audiencia y estar n interesados en lo que tenemos qu decir. Aprende sobre las 7 estrategias para narrar historias que las personas amar n y cada vez que hables tendr s las confianza de que est s haciendo una genial impresi n.Alrededor del mundo las personas est n tomando estas simples f rmulas para contar historias y est n obteniendo ovaciones de pie cada vez que hablan. Los vendedores est n consiguiendo ventas m s r pido y m s grandes. Est n perdiendo menos tiempo y haciendo m s dinero. Debido a que las historias que ahora cuentan se sienten m s naturales. No hay estr s memorizando largas listas de datos y cifras. S lo simples historias cortas que usan estos poderosos secretos para obtener la atenci n y tener a los escuchas hipnotizados.Puedes preparar diapositivas PowerPoint, o puedes aprender a narrar historias geniales. Pero preg ntate a ti mismo, cu ndo fue la ltima vez que una presentaci n PowerPoint te movi a la acci n? Cu l diapositiva te hizo llorar? Cu ndo viste un PowerPoint con la esperanza de que nunca terminara.El poder de la narrativa te dar una ventaja injusta en ventas, entrenamientos, al dar clases y conferencias.Mark Davis comparte los secretos para hacer que las historias que ya est s contando se hagan mucho mejores. Obtendr s mejores resultados al contar historias que tu audiencia amar .Regresa a la parte superior y ordena tu copia hoy, comienza ya a contar geniales historias.Una muy buena referencia para tejer historias que cautivan By C Cruzon October 4, 2016Format: Kindle EditionVerified PurchasePregunte con entusiasmo a cualquier grupo de edad: " Est s listo para una historia?" Dejan de inquietarse y prestan toda su atenci n Independientemente de las edades con las que trabaje, como seres humanos estamos cautivados por las historias. Recordamos lecciones debido a sus historias. Una historia puede hacer que la presentaci n de un orador sea memorable. Si usted es profesor, escritor o simplemente quiere que las personas se aferren a sus palabras, consiga este libro y apl quelo Las ideas que Mark presenta pueden ayudarlo a tejer cuentos que ingresar n a su audiencia.Utilizar Storytelling Secrets como referencia mientras escribo mis discursos con m s y mejores historias.Obtuve algunas buenas ideas tilesByAli Julia#1 HALL OF FAMETOP 10 REVIEWERon September 21, 2017Format: Kindle EditionVerified PurchaseLa premisa de este libro es que el secreto para ser un buen orador p blico es la capacidad de contar una historia bien elaborada sin importar de qu tema hable. El autor proporciona siete temas para historias: historias con historias secretas y divertidas, pasado y presente, historias de otras personas, historias emocionales, historias antes y despu s e historias de ventas (testimoniales / rese as).Proporciona ejemplos espec ficos de c mo comenzar una historia con el tema que seleccion y c mo llevar el tema que comenz a trav s de su material.Me gust que el libro sea tan espec fico, puedo ver el uso de estas sugerencias de inmediato. A pesar de que la mayor a de las veces hago presentaciones t cnicas, todav a puedo ver c mo puedo usar muchos de los temas sugeridos para animar el tema que presento. El libro es un poco repetitivo y un poco prolijo a la vez, pero obtuve una cantidad de ideas tiles, as que pens que era bueno.
Mountain bike suspension systems have been designed to improve riding performance and comfort for the cyclist. Additionally, a suspension system may reduce fatigue, energy expenditure, and enhance time trial performance. It has also been proposed, however, that using a rear suspension system on a mountain bike may be detrimental to the cyclist, causing the cyclist's energy to be dissipated via the rear suspension system. This book presents an investigation into mountain bike suspension systems and their effect on rider performance, quantifying the dynamic loads exerted on the bike frame and rider. Both the psychological and physiological effects of using a rear suspension system on cross-country cycling are also considered.
This book aims to provide a unified treatment of input/output modelling and of control for discrete-time dynamical systems subject to random disturbances. The results presented are of wide applica bility in control engineering, operations research, econometric modelling and many other areas. There are two distinct approaches to mathematical modelling of physical systems: a direct analysis of the physical mechanisms that comprise the process, or a 'black box' approach based on analysis of input/output data. The second approach is adopted here, although of course the properties ofthe models we study, which within the limits of linearity are very general, are also relevant to the behaviour of systems represented by such models, however they are arrived at. The type of system we are interested in is a discrete-time or sampled-data system where the relation between input and output is (at least approximately) linear and where additive random dis turbances are also present, so that the behaviour of the system must be investigated by statistical methods. After a preliminary chapter summarizing elements of probability and linear system theory, we introduce in Chapter 2 some general linear stochastic models, both in input/output and state-space form. Chapter 3 concerns filtering theory: estimation of the state of a dynamical system from noisy observations. As well as being an important topic in its own right, filtering theory provides the link, via the so-called innovations representation, between input/output models (as identified by data analysis) and state-space models, as required for much contemporary control theory.
Greg Combet has been at the centre of some of the biggest battles of our time—the waterfront dispute, the collapse of an airline, compensation for asbestos victims, the campaign against unfair workplace laws and then climate change. From an isolated childhood on the Minchinbury estate west of Sydney, Combet's world changed dramatically with the early death of his father, a wine-maker.Facing many challenges, he rose to lead the Australian trade union movement and become a senior minister in the Rudd and Gillard Labor governments. Along the way he has struggled with political ideology, the impact of work on his family and the relentless demands of the parliamentary life.The Fights of My Life is the story of a man who faces up to the power structures of politics, big business and the media. He now makes the case that the labour movement's work is far from done—the Labor Party and the trade unions must democratise to engage the next generation of activists to fight the good fight: to achieve a more fair and just Australia.
The Kray Twins aka Ronnie and Reggie ruled London’s Gangland underworld during the 1960s with a ruthlessness rod of iron that still shocks yet captivates young and old alike to this very day. Their calculated rise to power involved fear, extortion, violence and murder as-well as developing a cult like celebrity status, which thrived in the heart of the swinging 60s nightclub scene and beyond. Although some may say their story may have been told many times over, the crime scene locations and background in which their lives unfolded and evolved has been largely abandoned to the past. For the first time in over half a century we can finally uncover what still remains of Britain’s most notorious brothers in crime and using the original police reports, eyewitness testimony and files from the public archives we aim in this book to separate fact from fiction to present the real story behind the ‘Firm’. True crime and social historians Richard C Cobb and Mark Davis return to the Krays old stomping ground in East London and take the reader behind the scenes on a step by step journey through the avenues and alleyways of their “Manor” As the past meets the present, they uncover key locations forgotten in time and present the truth about the rise and demise of the Kray brothers. From humble East End beginnings, to becoming the Godfathers of London's underworld, to their eventual downfall culminating in life imprisonment. Cobb and Davis explore the most charismatic part of East London, uncovering a cockney culture and a personality that has never left the area, where even today the shadow of the Krays still lurk around every corner embedded in the very streets they virtually owned. The Legend is everything…
"Two leading reputation experts reveal how the internet is being used to destroy brands, reputations and even lives, and how to fight back. """""From false Wikipedia entries, to fake YouTube videos, to Facebook lynch mobs, everyone from CEOs to fashion models, journalists to politicians, restaurateurs to doctors, is open to character assassination in the burgeoning realm of digital media. Two top media experts recount vivid tales of character attacks, provide specific advice on how to counter them, and how to turn the tables on the attackers. Having spent decades preparing for and coping with these issues, Richard Torrenzano and Mark Davis share their secrets on dealing with problems at the top of today's news. Torrenzano and Davis also take a step back to look at how the past might inform our future thinking about character assassination, from the slander wars between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, to predictions on what the end of privacy will mean for civilization.
First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Narrative Research?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series.Narrative research has become a catchword in the social sciences today, promising new fields of inquiry and creative solutions to persistent problems. This book brings together ideas about narrative from a variety of contexts across the social sciences and synthesizes understandings of the field. Rather than focusing on theory, it examines how narrative research is conducted and applied. It operates as a practical introductory guide, basic enough for first-time researchers, but also as a window onto the more complex questions and difficulties that all researchers in this area face. The authors guide readers through current debates about how to obtain and analyse narrative data, about the nature of narrative, the place of the researcher, the limits of researcher interpretations, and the significance of narrative work in applied and in broader political contexts.This new edition includes updated references and a greater focus on digitality throughout. It addresses social justice and decoloniality more explicitly, centrally and consistently, drawing on examples around Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, climate change and Extinction Rebellion, and Covid and pandemic narratives.
