Douglas Kennedy

Provesti prezentatsiju, posle kotoroj u vas kupjat vse, chto vy predlagaete. Zakhotjat byt pokhozhim na vas. Otdadut vse dengi za vashu ideju. Dumaete, tak mog tolko Dzhobs? Den Kennedi, predprinimatel-multimillioner i avtor bestsellera "Zhestkij menedzhment", nauchit vas sostavljat prezentatsii, kotorye ne ostavjat nikogo ravnodushnym. Vremena PowerPoint ostalis v proshlom: sejchas vam na pomosch pridut vebinary i sotsialnye seti. V svoej privychnoj beskompromissnoj manere Kennedi rasskazhet, kak ponjat, chto nuzhno konkretnoj auditorii, kak vystupat bez strakha i byt ubeditelnym. Dazhe esli vy ne sobiraetes pokorjat mir novoj biznes-ideej, umenie effektivno donosit svoi mysli vsegda vam prigoditsja. Rekomenduem!

Eto NE obychnyj uchebnik prodazh. Eta kniga ne kasaetsja morali i vysokoj filosofii. Ona otkrovenno ignoriruet modnye terminy, zhargonchik i psikhologicheskuju beliberdu, ot kotorykh, ochevidno, bez uma mnogie trenery prodazh i avtory, pishuschie o prodazhakh. I eto ne motivatsionnaja kniga. Eto prostoe, chestnoe, bezzhalostno pragmatichnoe, bez durakov izlozhenie metodov, kotorye NA SAMOM DELE pomogajut uspeshno prodavat.

Elis Berns - redaktor, rabotajuschaja nad rukopisju, posvjaschennoj teme semi i viny, kotoraja tolkaet geroinju v puchinu vospominanij. Mnogo let nazad ona ostavila svoju semju, sbegaja ot problem. No nastala pora ostanovitsja i posmotret pravde v glaza. Chtoby dvigatsja dalshe, Elis pridetsja stolknutsja s proshlym, polnym lzhi i tajn.

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, DOUGLAS KENNEDY__________________________'A pulse-racing thriller centred on hot-button debates' Daily MailBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber.When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process.A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times.__________________________'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs' OBSERVER

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for - and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

'A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity' Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies.

â??Accomplishedâ?¦a strangely mesmerising effectâ?¦absolutely excellentâ?? New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns â?? a young book editor â?? is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

Filling the void between surveys of the field with relatively light mathematical content and books with a rigorous, formal approach to stochastic integration and probabilistic ideas, Stochastic Financial Models provides a sound introduction to mathematical finance. The author takes a classical applied mathematical approach, focusing on calculations rather than seeking the greatest generality.Developed from the esteemed author’s advanced undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Cambridge, the text begins with the classical topics of utility and the mean-variance approach to portfolio choice. The remainder of the book deals with derivative pricing. The author fully explains the binomial model since it is central to understanding the pricing of derivatives by self-financing hedging portfolios. He then discusses the general discrete-time model, Brownian motion and the Black–Scholes model. The book concludes with a look at various interest-rate models. Concepts from measure-theoretic probability and solutions to the end-of-chapter exercises are provided in the appendices.By exploring the important and exciting application area of mathematical finance, this text encourages students to learn more about probability, martingales and stochastic integration. It shows how mathematical concepts, such as the Black–Scholes and Gaussian random-field models, are used in financial situations.

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Moment and Five Days comes a "completely absorbing and atmospheric" (Philip Kerr) novel about a woman whose husband disappears without a trace amidst the stunning, labyrinthine world of Morocco.Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. When he suggests a month in Morocco--where he once lived and worked, a place where the modern meets the medieval--Robin reluctantly agrees. Once immersed into the swirling, white-hot exotica of a walled city on the North African Atlantic coast, Robin finds herself acclimatizing to its wonderful strangeness. Paul is everything she wants him to be--passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here that she will finally become pregnant. But then Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry. As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape. For fans of thought-provoking page-turners such as The Talented Mr. Ripley, Douglas Kennedy's The Blue Hour is a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: What would you do if your life depended on it?

As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.

For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about.