New Releases by Bob Thomas

This book shows you how to: *Fund your company without investing, selling stock, borrowing, or accepting venture capital. *Structure your company in a special way to take full advantage of being an entrepreneurship, delaying the inevitable bureaucracy. *Choose and implement the best sales strategy for your company''s products and/or services. *Establish a nationwide sales network consistent with your company''s growth. *Open foreign markets when the time comes, with foreknowledge of the barriers you can expect to overcome. *Use "Primary Marketing" to uncover new markets for your existing products and new product ideas for your existing market. *Use "Secondary Marketing" to explore huge market potential for your untried, newly developed RandD products. *Select partners with dovetailing skills and be assured of partnership compatibility. *Establish salary levels and/or stock ownership equity based upon each partner''s functional value to the company. *Adopt a unique profit sharing idea that is equally rewarding to your company and its employees. *Implement proven methods of assuring employee loyalty and longevity at all levels. *Choose between the advantages of going public, being acquired or holding, if and when the time comes to examine those choices. *Double the amount of stock you receive in exchange for your company should you be acquired, and protect that stock value while it is restricted. *Protect your patents, trade secrets, and your intellectual property rights. *Incorporate as many of the entrepreneurial success "secrets" as possible (chapter 16), none of which were intended to be kept secret.

The Product Specialist Handbook is a step by step look at how to become a great Product Specialist (PS). How well a PS is trained can mean the difference between the success and failure of a product that needs public acceptance. Simms and Bob Thomas offer their years of product knowledge and experience in dealing with the public in this informative handbook, which translates into a simple point by point guide that will enable you or your staff to explain and promote your product to an otherwise uninformed public, and transform them into customers.

A combined text written to cover NVQ Unit 18 ''Preparing Business Taxation Computations''. A clear text containing numerous activities and practice examinations.

Professional Sales has always been, and is, the most exciting, satisfying and lucrative career in the business world. Professional salespersons represent the most prestigious companies. This book unlocks the doors and shows the reader how, without previous sales experience, to break into that exclusive club.

The history of the Thomas family mirrors the history, struggles, and successes of America. Starting in the 1600s, my ancestors came from Europe and helped settle and build the country, fought in the battles that defined the nation, lost their jobs in the Great Depression, and then enjoyed the prosperity of 20th century America. Along the way was a soldier who fought with George Washington in Braddock''s Expedition, a veteran of Bunker Hill who may have heard the famed command "don''t fire until you see the whites of their eyes," a father and son who served on opposing sides during the Civil War, and the engineer who kept the Washington Monument running in it''s early days. This book, a family history of my parents and their ancestors, tells their stories and presents the lineage of my family.

This is a text for the AAT/NVQ accounting technician level, unit 18. It is intended specifically to prepare the students for the requirements of the examination.

This is the Rolls-Royce of the how-to and how-not-to books on entrepreneurship. It covers things that are not even touched-upon by other entrepreneur books. It takes the reader through every stage of funding (without money), partnership compatibility, unique structure, sales, marketing, patents, legal problems, selling out or going public, and much more. It is as fail-proof as anything can be.

"Anyone who has the spirit of the game in them will take this book to their heart. This book animated the game of golf for me."--Sybil Hilton, Golf Collectors Society Regional Director.

More than seventy-five years after his death, Irving Thalberg remains a legendary Hollywood figure. In this definitive biography, his legend comes to life -- from his beginnings as the "Boy Wonder of Hollywood", to the creation with Louis B. Mayer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to his tragic death at the age of thirty-seven. With his remarkable talent for developing stars and doctoring scripts, this architect of the American film created some of America''s best-loved movies: Ben-Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, Grand Hotel, Romeo and Juliet, The Good Earth, Camille. His genius has made his name a legend in the land of legends.

Roy O Disney and the Creation of an Entertainment Empire Roy and Walt Disney will go down in entertainment history as one of its all-time most successful teams. Everyone knows about Walt but what of Roy, the older brother whose stormy relationship with Walt helped build their business empire? This is a fully authorised look at the other Disney genius, featuring previously unpublished interviews, notes, letters, and photographs. It illuminates the Disney story as never before.

Drawing on the personal experience of two concerned Christian fathers who currently coach youth athletic teams, this book provides practical advice for parents, coaches, and sponsors about how they can help to make sports activities positive events.

From Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast

Harry Cohn was a self-invented tyrant who ran Columbia Studios as his personal fiefdom. Extensive interviews and research fuel Bob Thomas''s portrayal of a Broadway song plugger turned powerful player.

Traces the life and career of the influential producer, shares the impressions of those who worked with him, and surveys Warner Brothers films.

Breaking a silence of 30 years, the former Mrs. Rock Hudson tells all about her brief, poignant marriage to the all-American star--from its glamorous, lovestruck beginnings to its shattering, shocking end. "Revealing!"--The Star.

Reveals for the first time both the public and secret life of one of American''s greatest success stories.

A noted reporter of the Hollywood scene provides a candid, close-up study of the life of the great Ethel Merman, Queen of Broadway, who introduced the biggest hit songs of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, and Sondheim

Biography of dancer Fred Astaire.

A portrait of William Holden details the actor''s life, film career, and personal relationships and reveals the darker side behind the golden public image