Search Results: Non-fiction from Trolls Treasure

New Jersey: Prentiss Hall, 1993. Fourth edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. How the fashion business works, from the inside, from concept to consumer. "The fashion business entails buying supplies, creating and developing a new product, and marketing the product. The fashion business includes all of the processes involved with producing raw materials, apparel, and accessories and the retail stores that sell fashion merchandise to the public." Book is in very good condition with only mild edge wear and rubbing. Surface shows smudging. No dust jacket.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001. Fourth edition. Trade Paperback. Fine. Here's what people are saying about the material in INFLUENCE: Science and Practice:“This marvelous book explains in clear, practical language the ways in which we become persuaded. It offers excellent insights for those who sell, but even more importantly for all of us who negotiate and buy.” —ROGER FISHER, Director, Harvard Negotiation Project“For marketers, it is among the most important books written in the last 10 years.” —JOURNAL OF MARKETING RESEARCH“The best sales tip I ever got was encouragement to read INFLUENCE by Dr. Robert Cialdini. It was so profound and insightful, I read it three times in a row.” —GREG RENKER, President, Guthy-Renker“It would be marvelous reading for students taking Social Psychology.” —DAVID MYERS, Hope College“The book is tremendously entertaining and very popular with students.… Read More

Glen Burnie, MD: Windmill Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Inscribed to recipient and signed by the author on the half title page and signed by Josh on the opposite page with a paw print. Book is fine. Dust jacket is good, but has three small closed tears.

New York: Atheneum, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good +. Includes color photographs of the adventure. "The upper Yangtze River is the dragon, a beautiful and savage beast.... The authors tell firsthand what its like to pit your nerve and skill against a primal force of nature." -- from the jacket flap. Publishers Weekly -- "From the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau at more than 17,000 feet above sea level, the Yangtze sweeps nearly 4000 miles to the East China Sea near Shanghai. Its source, in a remote and sparsely populated area, was discovered in 1985; few travelers had seen the upper river in one of the last unexplored regions on Earth. Bangs and Kallen, coauthors of Rivergods , wanted to be the first Americans to raft the uncharted "Great Bend'' section of the upper Yangtze. They lost out to Ken Warren and his Sino-USA Expedition; in addition, two Chinese groups planned to run the river from its headwaters… Read More

New York: MJF Books, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Marvin Bileck. The author "thought he wanted to concentrate on New York itself, describing a series of walks around the city. But what emerged was the story of his own boyhood encounters with it, starting from Brownsville, the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood of his birth, then stretching out to alluring, mysterious Manhattan and from there to the world. Book is in fine condition with a tiny bump on the back cover's bottom edge. Dust jacket is fine, unclipped.

Yosemite National Park, Ca: Yosemite Association, 1989. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 289 pp. with bibliography and index. B&W illustrations. The author traces the history of Yosemite in terms of the people who lived and visited there like Grizzly Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir. Photographs by Carelton E. Watkins. Book is near fine. Slight curl to a few pages at top front corner, slight edge wear to bottom corner and a slight discoloration to the bottom edge.