Influencing and Persuasion skillsBeing able to influence and persuade others to get them to do what you want them to do is a key skill not only in business but in life as a whole!

We only achieve real results through others and that takes effective communication skills.
In this textbook you’ll will learn the key skills and the techniques so you can win people around to your ideas, influence others on certain decisions and persuade them to take certain a certain course of action all by the way that you communicate with them!

Intertextuality (Research in Text Theory)

The structure of this book covers three successive stages which seem necessary for a comprehensive treatment of the subject-matter. Stage I deals with the foundations of intertextual theory and hence is concerned with its axioms, concepts, and methods of analysis. Stage II presents various components of an intertextual morphology which in its entirety forms a classificatory system allocating each intertextual constituent, ecriture or genre its exact structural position. Stage III highlights selected aspects of a (yet unwritten) his tory of intertextuality..

The luckiest Saint Patrick's day

The St. Patrick's Day parade is off to a very fine start.

The Leprechaun family is marching with lots of heart!

Share in their dancing, share in their fun.

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The Arsenic Century - How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work and Play

Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.
Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger).

Squires in the Slums - Settlements and Missions in Late Victorian Britain

Settlements were a distinctive aspect of late-Victorian church life in which individual philanthropic Christians were encouraged to live and work in communities amongst the poor and set an example for the underprivileged through their own actions. Often overlooked by historians, settlements are of great value in understanding the values and culture of the 19th century. Settlement missions were first conceived when Samuel Barnett, the incumbent of St Jude's, Whitechapel, in the East End of London, sought to introduce them as a major aspect of Victorian church life.