Kent David

At the age of sixteen, I noticed something. The ugliest and toughest thug in our high school was dating the prettiest girl in school. The prom queen, a cheer leader and the most poplar girl in class. She was even the class president. I got up the nerve to ask him, hoping he wouldn't beat me up, what his secret was because he certainly wasn't a rock star. He tensed for a moment and I thought I was done for, but then all of a sudden, he relaxed. He didn't pound on me and I guess he considered it a compliment that I had asked him for his advice so he shared his insight with me that I used to build a successful career in sales. It has stuck with me all these years. He said "the answer is always no, if you don't ask, and I just asked her." In Sales Tales," I will show you how to ask in a conversational way so that it is natural. Sales Tales will then show you how to do it in a purposeful and easy way.

Joseph Mason, an English agricultural labourer, was convicted and transported for taking part in mass protests against the introduction of threshing machines, which were threatening to destroy the livelihood of English rural workers. Joseph was unusual among labourers in being a fluent writer and a voracious reader. His manuscript, only recently discovered, is published here for the first time. In it, he vividly describes life on the frontier, his encounters with Aboriginal people, and the flora and fauna of the bush. He tells of the living and working conditions of assigned convicts, and early horticultural and farming practices. The description of his explorations along the Nepean River captures the dramatic landscape of the gorge so accurately that it could serve as a guide for the modern bushwalker. This is a fresh and unique first-person account of the convict experience-a new and invaluable addition to the primary sources of Australian colonial history.