Most Popular Books by Steve Martin

Mirabelle, vendedora de guantes en unos grandes almacenes de Los Ángeles, es una mujer tímida e introvertida que no suele dar el primer paso y prefiere la soledad al esfuerzo de enfrentarse a sus fantasmas.

Do you love animals and dream of working with them when you grow up? If the answer is yes, then this book is for you! In this entertaining and informative book, children who love animals can find out all about the future careers they can choose from. From being a zoo vet, a police dog handler, a marine biologist, a guide dog trainer, to a pet photographer and many more, this book will take you through a day in the life of 25 animal workers, showing you how each job unfolds on a typical working day. You''ll learn what it takes to get the job, what duties and tasks are involved, and discover a world of opportunities. Turn the pages and find out the best part of a pet vet''s day and what really bugs an entomologist... HINT: it involves insects flying up their nose! With a variety of careers covered, from jobs in science, the police, charity and many more, this book is sure to inspire children''s ambitions and get them excited for their futures. Aimed at animal loving readers aged 7 and older the illustrated narrative approach tells the story of each career and helps introduce children to the world of work in a playful, engaging way. When they''ve finished reading, children will have gained an overview of each of the featured jobs and will have discovered that you can turn a passion, an interest or a hobby into a rewarding career. If readers want to know more about the opportunities ahead they can check out That''s a Job? I Like Sport, or That''s a Job? I Like being Outdoors and discover even more of the world''s coolest jobs.

This handy 180-page book offers a great overview of QuickTime Pro, including a fundamental explanation of video encoding and an invaluable look-up guide of video codecs and the QuickTime Pro interface. Includes step-by-step tutorials for the five things people do most with QuickTime Pro: Capturing, editing, using different video tracks, exporting, and scripting QuickTime Pro actions with Automator. Available for both Windows and Mac, QuickTime 6 was downloaded more than 350 million times. Moreover 98% of those downloads were from PC users, at a rate of over 10 million per month. QuickTime Pro is now available and can be downloaded for $29.99.

Most of us are only too aware that, whatever roles we have in today''s fast-moving world, much of our success lies in getting others to say ''Yes'' to our requests. What many people might not be aware of, though, is the vast amount of research that has been conducted on the influence process. What factors cause one person to say ''Yes'' to the request of another? Yes! is full of practical tips based on recent academic research that shows how the psychology of persuasion can provide valuable insights for anyone interested in improving their ability to persuade others - whether in the workplace, at home or even on the internet. It combines the counter-intuition of Freakonomics with the popularising of Does Anything Eats Wasps? For each mini-chapter contains a mystery which is solved in a way that provides food for thought for anyone looking to be more persuasive, and for anyone interested in how the world works.

The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fair and Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.

A fun-packed activity book filled with cars, buses, trucks, monster trucks, and so much more. This book is bursting with puzzles, quizzes, and drawing activities. All you need to complete the activities are a pen and some coloring pencils, so it''s perfect for on-the-go—you can travel with it anywhere! There are almost 40 original activities to be completed inside, including: Design a poster for a monster truck rally Complete a color-by-numbers Sketch a super-cool sports car Play spot-the-difference in a mechanic''s garage Solve a lorry park sudoku Find the way home in a road maze The perfect companion for a long and short journeys and road trip holidays, this book will keep you busy for hours! In the Car Activity Book is a fun gift for all young readers who love cars and vehicles.

From the authors of the international bestseller Yes!This travel-sized handbook will become your go-to key for ensuring that the world says ''yes'' to you, your ideas and your requests. We all want to hear ''yes''. ''Yes'' connects us to the world, and carries us into the future. So why do we find it so hard to get others to agree? And how can we improve our chances?The Little Book of Yes contains 21 short essays that outline a range of effective persuasion strategies, each proven to increase the chances that someone will agree to your request. That someone could be a friend, a colleague, a partner, a lover, a manager, a sibling, a parent, even a stranger. The timeless principles and practical lessons in this collection can be used to tackle a variety of everyday challenges, from repairing a soured relationship to negotiating a higher fee for your work, from convincing a dithering friend to take action, to building your social network and personal brand. Full of wisdom from the leaders in influence, with carefully curated advice, this little book is essential reading for any freelancer, manager, entrepreneur, parent or person who wants more from their world.

This is the essential book for daredevil kids everywhere looking for adventure.

Long journeys can be dull, but with On the Train Activity Book, the time will roll on by! This fun and engaging fill-in book for readers aged 6+ is packed with a variety of interesting activities, including puzzles, mazes, quizzes, dot-to-dots and drawing tasks. Fully integrated text and illustrations mean that each spread is bright, vibrant, and begging to be completed. As readers work through the activities, they’ll learn some interesting train facts along the way. How fast do Japanese bullet trains go? Where in the world does The Ghan train operate? And what’s a funicular railway? Brimming with creative activities and entertaining games, On the Train Activity Book will compliment any train journey.

Since its publication in 2007, Yes! has shown how small changes can make a big difference to everyone''s powers of persuasion - both at work and at home. Every day, we face the challenge of persuading others to do what we want. But what makes people say ''yes'' to our requests? Based on decades of research into the psychology of persuasion, this book reveals many remarkable insights that will help you be more persuasive both at work and at home. Co-written by the world''s most quoted expert on influence, Professor Robert Cialdini, Yes! contains dozens of tips that you wouldn''t want to miss out on - all of them scientifically proven to boost your powers of persuasion.This special tenth Anniversary edition features ten new chapters of updated research and fresh secrets of persuasion. You will find out how to stop your listeners getting bored, what you can do on your commute to increase your influence, and why being second place is worse than being third. Whether you want someone to promote you, take their medicine, reduce their carbon footprint or even give you their vote, Yes! shows how small changes in your approach can have a dramatic effect on your success.

Follow up book to the extremely successful 30 DAYS HAS SEPTEMBER: COOL WAYS TO REMEMBER STUFF. More cool ways to remember stuff! From acronyms to rhyming lists, this book makes remembering facts a breeze. Full of spelling, punctuation, and grammar memory tips, ways to improve vocabulary, geography hints, and much more!

My account of my time in the Territorial army

Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America''s most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl''s engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent. This volume, an expanded edition of "Eric Fischl 1970-2000," is the most comprehensive examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the full scope of Fischl''s career: the formative work of the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial "Sleepwalker" and "Bad Boy"; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings, Fischl has turned to multipiece cycles: "The Bed, The Chair" series, starting with "The Philosopher''s Chair"; canvases inspired by trips to Italy and India; and the paintings Fischl terms them "narrative fictions" of the "Krefeld Project." These engrossing images have been accomplished with a mastery that has been compared to that of Caravaggio. The introduction, by philosopher and critic Arthur C. Danto, offers a perceptive study of Fischl''s work over the course of four decades. Commentary drawn from interviews with the artist, conducted by noted writer Robert Enright, accompanies the paintings. Finally, a witty and personal afterword by Steve Martin, best known as a gifted comic actor and author, but also an astute collector of modern art, discusses "Barbeque," a famed Fischl painting from his private collection."

A celebrated memoir by one of the Australia''s most decorated WWI soldiers, Lt Joe Maxwell VC, MC & Bar, DCM. Joe also features in THE LOST DIGGERS, and his pageturner of a memoir is reissued as a classic companion piece. A classic World War I memoir by Lt Joe Maxwell, one of the Australia''s most decorated WWI diggers. This is his colourful eyewitness account of the role of 18th Battalion AIF in Gallipoli and the Western Front. After serving at Gallipoli, Maxwell, together with so many other Aussie diggers, was transferred to the Western Front. In just twelve months during 1917-1918 he was commissioned and awarded the DCM, Military Cross and Bar, and VC. This vivid and gripping memoir is a unique record of life as a World War One digger: Joe was in most of the major battles of the Western Front and graphically describes the action he saw, as well as the notorious larrikinism -and romantic adventures-of the off-duty diggers. With a new Afterword detailing Maxwell''s life after repatriation back to Australia, this is an edition to be treasured.

The letting industry is booming. With most properties too expensive for people to get on the housing ladder, a dearth of lending instruments, the need for a flexible and transient workforce, high divorce rates, and an increase in immigrants coming to the UK, more and more people are looking for rental accommodation. The requirement for professional letting and managing agents is high. Providing you have some business acumen and determination, you can run a successful lettings business without any specific prior knowledge. This book will provide much of the information you will need, and shows you how and where to get additional information, training and resources. The book provides a complete guide to starting and running your own residential letting agency even if you have no previous knowledge of the industry. It will also provide valuable information for anyone buying into a lettings franchise, or for people already working in the industry. Contents: Acknowlegements; Preface; 1. Background to the property letting and Management Business; 2. Where do I start?; 3. Setting up the Business; 4. Marketing; 5. Business Finance; 6. Staffing your Business; 7. Customer service and Exceeding Customer''s Expectations; 8. Business Legal Requirements; 9. Complying with the Latest Letting Regulations and Legislation; 10. The Letting Process; 11. The Property Management Process; 12. Client Accounting Procedures; 13. Additional Income Sources; 14. The Next Step - Expanding and Diversifying; Index

Un retrato del submundo hedonista de la escena artística de Nueva York de los últimos veinte años. Capaz de cautivar con naturalidad a las personas que la rodean, Lacey Yeager irrumpe en la escena artística neoyorquina como becaria lista y divertida de Sotheby''s. Con encanto, ambición y unas tácticas cuestionables y vagamente ilegales, pasa de catalogar pinturas en sótanos polvorientos a triunfar en el laberíntico y secretista mundo del arte. Su conocimiento acerca del arte, y especialmente de los coleccionistas de arte, crece rápidamente a medida que aumenta la lista de hombres que encandila y destruye sin remedio. Su trayectoria en las altas esferas de la vida social de la ciudad reflejará las vertiginosas alturas y, también, los profundos abismos que alcanzó el mundo del arte en los años noventa en Nueva York. Reseñas: «Un objeto de belleza es una historia del arte bajo la apariencia de una historia de amor.» Joyce Carol Oates «Este libro hace un trabajo maravillosamente nostálgico al capturar aquel "Nueva York fresco y limpio" -y tan lleno de dinero fresco, jóvenes hermosos y promesas al estilo gran Gatsby- que facilita el ascenso de Lacey.» The New York Times

¡AUMENTA TU FUERZA DE VOLUNTAD Y TU AUTODISCIPLINA! "¡Seguir las instrucciones y practicar los ejercicios de este libro cambiará tu vida!". (Tracy B.) ¿Tienes problemas de autocontrol? ¿Te falta concentración para avanzar en la vida y alcanzar tus sueños? ¿Envidias constantemente lo motivados que están tus compañeros? ¡No eres el único! Si quieres: - Fortalecer tu fuerza de voluntad y autocontrol - Dominarte y crear hábitos productivos - Aumentar la productividad y desarrollar la fortaleza mental Entonces "Autodisciplina" del renombrado experto Steve Martin es lo que necesita para convertir sus sueños en realidad. Steve sabe que la autodisciplina ayuda a perfeccionar su capacidad para resistir cualquier tentación, mejorar la concentración y aumentar la concentración para hacer las cosas. En esta guía esclarecedora, usted podrá: - Desarrollar una mentalidad orientada al éxito y vivir con un propósito - Alcanzar sus objetivos mediante el desarrollo de la fortaleza mental, la mejora del enfoque y el fortalecimiento de la concentración. - Formar buenos hábitos y romper con los malos mientras fortalece su fuerza de voluntad. - Fomentará mejores relaciones y conseguirá todo lo que se proponga en la vida - Alcance la excelencia física cumpliendo eficazmente su dieta y rutinas de entrenamiento. - Ser valiente ante los retos y la incertidumbre - Aprenda consejos prácticos de autodisciplina de espartanos y Navy Seals. ¡Y mucho más! ¿Me ayudará este libro? *Sí, por supuesto. Este es un libro de lo más práctico que te entrena para obtener resultados. Verás mejoras, incluso si pones en práctica sólo un pequeño porcentaje de los consejos que encontrarás en este libro. Los resultados reales requieren acción e implicación, no sólo lectura. ¿En qué se diferencia este libro de otros? *Lo que hace que este libro sea realmente único son los siguientes hechos: Ha sido escrito en un lenguaje sencillo que todo el mundo puede entender. Es un libro muy práctico que enseña cómo obtener resultados reales y proporciona instrucciones paso a paso. Es el producto de mi experiencia práctica de muchos años con la autodisciplina. Este libro enseña técnicas y ejercicios sencillos y poderosos. En pocos minutos a partir de ahora, usted puede comenzar a leer un libro inusual, que le mostrará métodos y ejercicios altamente eficaces para desarrollar una fuerte fuerza de voluntad y autodisciplina. ¿A qué espera? u003eu003e ¡COMPRA ESTE LIBRO AHORA Y EMPIEZA TU NUEVA VIDA!u200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200b

“Você está com dificuldade para conquistar as pessoas no trabalho ou na vida pessoal? Então este pequeno guia prático pode ser a ferramenta que você está procurando. Os conselhos simples e breves são fáceis de assimilar e podem ser implementados em todas as áreas da sua vida.” – The Jackal Descubra como aplicar os princípios da persuasão em diversas situações e, assim, fazer mais amigos, convencer os indecisos, melhorar sua autoconfiança e mudar a maneira como as pessoas o enxergam. Todos nós queremos ouvir um “sim”. Essa palavra tão pequena abre as portas para o mundo e nosso futuro. Os 21 breves capítulos deste livro descrevem atitudes testadas e comprovadas para aumentar as chances de que os outros comprem nossas ideias ou atendam nossos pedidos. Seus princípios e lições práticas podem ser usados para lidar com diversos desafios, como recuperar um relacionamento, negociar um aumento ou convencer um amigo. Além disso, ouvir um “sim” satisfaz uma de nossas motivações mais básicas: a necessidade de conexão com os outros. Apresentando ótimos conselhos, este pequeno livro traz grandes ensinamentos para quem deseja obter mais oportunidades na vida.

Not only can this book lead you to happiness, it can save lives. Over the past few years, three of Steve Martin''s friends lost teenage children to suicide. Then, when a fourth friend''s fifteen-year-old daughter took her own life, he realized he knew something that might have prevented all four suicides-if only he''d shared it. This book is the result. You don''t have to have suicidal thoughts, suffer from depression, or even just have the blahs for "You Can Be Happy, No Joke" to be a must-read, game-changer. No matter how down in the dumps, or how successful you are, you most certainly will benefit. In simple, everyday terms Steve explains why suicide is not worth two-seconds consideration and how to jettison whatever issues trouble you and replace them with a happy and fulfilling life. Perhaps most amazing, there''s just one thing you need to know and one thing you need to do, and he reveals both within the first 500 words.

Découvrez qu''un simple changement dans le choix de vos mots et le moment où vous les exprimez peut augmenter le résultat positif de vos requêtes ; l''importance et l''impact positif de la touche personnelle ; comment faire la meilleure impression lorsque vous êtes comparé à d''autres. Nous voulons tous entendre davantage de « oui dans notre vie quotidienne. Ce mot nous connecte aux autres et nous ouvre des portes. C''est un feu vert pour accéder au succès et au bonheur. Pourtant, il n''est pas facile à obtenir des autres. Du moins pour ceux qui ignorent certains aspects du processus de persuasion. Cet ouvrage comporte 21 chapitres courts et pratiques. Chacun expose une méthode pour augmenter les chances que votre interlocuteur accepte votre demande. Ces principes intemporels peuvent être utilisés pour relever divers défis : découvrez comment assainir une relation dégradée, demander l''aide d''un voisin, négocier un meilleur salaire ou encore convaincre un ami hésitant de prendre part à la construction de votre réseau social... Plein de sagesse et de conseils efficaces rédigés par les spécialistes de l''influence, ce petit livre est un compagnon essentiel pour qui veut davantage aller de l''avant au quotidien.

Daniel Cambridge es un tipo singular. Posee grandes dotes para el cálculo y las matemáticas, y está convencido de tener una personalidad irresistible; tanto que no se atreve a mostrarla.

El Método Que Está a Punto De Aprender Puede Funcionar Extremadamente Rápido Para Erradicar Viejos Hábitos De Procrastinación Y Aumentar Sin Esfuerzo Su Productividad Y Éxito… ¿Le falta concentración para avanzar en la vida y alcanzar sus sueños? ¿Eres propenso a procrastinar y acabas saboteando tus posibilidades de sobresalir en tu carrera? ¿Siente que nunca tiene tiempo suficiente para hacer todo lo que necesita y desea? No está solo. Usted y muchos otros tienen grandes objetivos que siempre parecen poco realistas porque no han dominado adecuadamente el arte de la Gestión del Tiempo y la Autodisciplina. La gestión del tiempo y la autodisciplina marcan la diferencia entre el fracaso y el éxito. La gestión del tiempo y la autodisciplina pueden hacer triunfar o fracasar una dieta, un proyecto de trabajo o una tarea escolar. La gestión del tiempo y la autodisciplina son lo que necesitas para dar lo mejor de ti mismo y alcanzar tu máximo potencial en todo lo que hagas. Si aún no dominas estas habilidades fundamentales para la vida, puedes obtener ayuda del experto Steve Martin. Su exitoso libro "Gestión del tiempo y autodisciplina" es justo lo que necesitas si: - Quiere aumentar su productividad sin sobrecargarse. - Quiere resistir todas las tentaciones que le frenan - Desea mejorar su atención y concentración para seguir rindiendo al máximo. Este libro le proporciona las mejores estrategias que necesita para: - Desarrollar una mentalidad orientada hacia tu éxito y tus intenciones futuras - Desarrollar una fortaleza mental envidiable - Desarrollar buenos hábitos y acabar con los que te frenan - Superar el miedo y las dudas sobre ti mismo y convertirte en un maestro en la persecución y consecución de tus sueños. Y mucho más... Aunque siempre hayas sentido que no puedes lograr más, ¡eso está a punto de cambiar! Con estrategias probadas para dominar tu tiempo y aumentar tu productividad, tú también puedes desarrollar una fuerza de voluntad y un autodominio que te ayudarán a alcanzar tus objetivos más rápidamente. Desplácese hacia arriba, consiga este libro y ¡empiece su nueva vida!

Daniel is 30, 38 or 27, depending on how he feels that day. His life is rich and full, provided he never leaves his Santa Monica apartment. Outside are eight inch curbs, a neighbour''s murder and three women, whom he wants to know much better. The murder TV reconstruction may jeopardise his chances of winning the Most Average American Competition, which he''s already entered twice. Will this neurotic ever break free?

Livro de estréia do ator Steve Martin, um dos mais talentosos comediantes americanos. No enredo, a balconista do título é Mirabelle, funcionária de uma elegante loja de departamentos de Los Angeles. Aos 27 anos, é uma mulher sozinha. Em seu caminho aparecem Jeremy, jovem atrapalhado no trato com mulheres, e Ray Porter, homem maduro e rico, que deseja uma relação mais flexível do que ela gostaria.