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Tim Smith's pure approach to keeping customers loyal shows how disciplined use of the right talents can separate us in this world of mediocrity. This is one of the milestones of being a Professional Sales Rep. I would suggest it to any sales rep regardless of the industry.

This book way better than Kaizan or other Japanese book. Tim Smith the Shogun of samurai salesman!!

Tim Smith has given sales people a practical guide to establishing lasting relationships and a loyal customer base. Mr. Smith has broken the sales process down into 7 steps, which when followed, result in a powerful relationship and long term success.
Mr. Smith's approach is logical and easy to follow. Examples of how this process works are plentiful and buttress his points very well.
I found the book readable and amusing. I will strongly suggest this book to my sales colleagues who are looking to improve their sales skills.

Being a sales representitive in a competitive industry can be intimidating! Tim Smith's book Loyalty Based Selling gives you the tools to suceed from the start. Loyalty Based Selling is a quick read that avoids all the warm and fuzzes about selling and gets right into the meat of it. Tim offers a unique perspective and specific examples of whats's made him #1. Sales reps make many mistakes that could easily be avioded if they use the tools and game plan that Loyalty Based Selling offers. The book walks you through how to introduce your self to a prospective customer to celebrating the close of a big deal. This book is a must read for all sales reps.

This book is outstanding! It takes a very simple approach to communicating the best way to maintain business with current customers and grow your business with both existing and new customers. Each one of us can implement the seven steps into our selling. Mr. Smith did a great job of giving us examples we can work with. I have already recommended this book to several colleagues!

If you're looking for the perfect gift for a fan of Forumula One, this book is it. I've given a few away as gifts, and it's always a riot to see the results. Whether it's a child, teen, or adult (I've mostly given this book to adults), faces light up, and the person who receives it becomes immediately drawn into the book . . . for hours. Try giving one at a party and watch as everyone gathers around to get in on the play. This is PERFECT for the fan who has everything (or the fan who wishes to have everything . . . such as a Ferrari F300). An unbelievable amount of fun. You won't be disappointed. Enjoy!

The CD has fantastic sounds-- BRM car brings back fond memories. The Pop Ups especially the Ferrari instrument panel and the F1 with pit crew is great. All graphics, photographs are 5 star quality. This is a must book for the F1 fanatic.

I purchased this book for my husband, who has just become interested in Formula One racing. The whole family enjoyed reading and interacting with this informative book. We learned more about Formula One than we ever expected...this book has to be the best book I've purchased in years! HURRY - BUY THIS BOOK!!! Excellent, excellent, excellent!!!

All diehard Formula One fans can increase their knowledge of this wonderful sport by reading this book. The CD is fantastic,all of the engine sounds brings back fond memories. The Pop Ups especially the Ferrari instrument panel and the F1 with pit crew is great. All graphics, photographs are 5 star quality. A must book for the F1 fanatic's library.

Wow, great information, great fun! A must read, actually it is a tome to pour over. There is a lot to digest, and it is very interesting. It is a very clever layout, there are lots of pockets and flaps to explore. Not for children unattended though, it could be quickly demolished. My one beef is that I found the glasses (not 3d by the way) to be a little tough to view sometimes.

Nigel Roebuck is widely considered to be one of motor racing finest scribes. In this book, with a bit of an odd title (since it focuses on much more than just the F1 championship battles, but our Nigel acknowledges that), Roebuck again narrates miscellaneous stories and anectodes, remembrances and conversations from the world of Formula One. Never boring, with that Roebuck-wit and humour, it not only captivates but it also amuses. Of particular interest are his opinions, whether you agree with him or not. Roebuck covers the whole spectrum, from the modern Formula One cars and the knee-jerk reactions to safety improvements, to perceptive studies of personalities like Mika Hakkinen, Michael Schumacher, Enzo Ferrari, Sid Watkins, and Jacques Villeneuve-- amongst the many. A book for the serious Formula One fan, who appreciates the great history of the sport as well as its many great characters. A must on any Formula One student's shelf!

Nigel Roebuck, one of the finest journalists to cover motorsport in general and Formula One in particular, presents in this book a wonderful series of sharp vignettes covering the entire period of the modern World Championship. Roebuck begins at Imola in 1994, when, as he puts it aptly, "everything changed" with the tragic death of Ayrton Senna and the introduction of knee-jerk "safety" improvements which have led only to boring racing and have not, as we learned earlier this season, prevented what are, given the nature of the sport, inevitable tragedies. Hard as it is to believe, the "turbo years" of the late 70s and 80s are beginning to look suspiciously like a final golden age, which they certainly weren't at the time, but, given the emasculation of tracks, over-dominance by a few teams, and drivers who do not understand the history of the sport and drive like they're the only man on the track, they're beginning to look pretty good in retrospect. But I digress. Between the covers of this book you'll find incisive portraits of several great drivers (among them Phil Hill, Piers Courage, James Hunt, Ayrton Senna, and Jochen Rindt), car owners (the great Rob Walker, who long after his car-owning days were over wrote wonderful F1 journalism for Road & Track when R&T was still a great magazine), and others associated with the F1 scene (journalist Denis Jenkinson, F1's official doctor Professor Sid Watkins, and current F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone). He also writes of several races - the great slipstreaming duel at Monza in 1971, the first win for Renault in 1979, Dallas 1984 which ended with Nigel Mansell trying to push his car over the finish line in the blazing heat. As an added incentive, there are sections of black and white and color photographs. More and more nonfiction books seem to be doing away with illustrations, and with F1 being the visual spectacle that it is, we can be glad that Roebuck and his publisher resisted this new and unfortunate trend. Turn to the section of color plates and feast your eyes on the first photograph - Fangio in the Maserati 250F at Monaco in 1957. The greatest driver, the greatest car, the greatest race; one picture says it all. Highly recommended to anyone interested in Formula One.

When I first saw this book's title, I nearly gave it a pass, thinking it was just one more in an already well-covered niche. But Nigel Roebuck's name was enough for me to chance it. (If you've read his columns you know he's always interesting.) This book is really unique. Despite the title, it's not an attempt to condense a history of 50 years of racing. It's more like a collection of essays about people and events that are not well covered elsewhere. I've read a LOT of books about F1 (cars, teams, drivers, ...) but each chapter of this book had new and intriguing things to say. It was a really enjoyable read, as well.

This book is one of the best books that I've ever read. It does not concentrate on the stats or indeed particularly on the winners of the World Championship. It takes a personal look at the people, races and years that have shaped F1 from it's very begining. It is a great read for any F1 fan as Roebuck succeeds in not only jogging our memory of the past but also telling untold behind the scenes stories in detail not to mention a tinge of humour. I trully love this book, in fact I think I've read it cover to cover at least 3 times if not more.

Since Damon Hill retired from the grand prix circuit and writes for a certain very popular English motorsport magazine we know that the guy can write. What we learn from this book is that he already had that gift when he was still driving! The book was made in 1998 when Damon was on his last F1 stint with the Jordan team, during that emotional year when Jordan scored a historic 1-2 in Spa. The F1-educated reader who knows what happened in '99 (Damon fired by Eddie Jordan because he was consistently outperformed by team-mate Heinz-Harald Frentzen) will find his remarks on the team a poignant read.
The book touches all the major aspects of Formula One motorsport: technology, image, media pressure, professional rivalry, the fear, money and fame. Damon also talks about his famous father Graham Hill and "his" race: Monte Carlo (GH won Monte Carlo 5 times and was only fairly recently surpassed by Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher in this feat). Damon explores how having a famous race driver as a father influenced his own career path and attitude towards the sport.
The book is overall very well crafted. Damon's text is supported and enhanced by the superb photography of Keith Sutton, England's premier F1 photographer. Overall a very good read and a pleasure to the eye, certainly a must-have for every serious F1-fan, even you Schumacher fans: Damon has some very interesting things to say about his famous rivalry with Michael!

Damon Hill is seen by many fans as the "loser" champion, the champion who had it, he had the drive, he had the car, he had the intelligence, he had the motivation and dedication, but there was Schumacher in the way, as there was Clark that came Graham's way. It must be said that, even if the 1995 season, climax of the 90's, is most remembered and pictures Damon's defeat, Damon's 96 title is thorougly deserved and well acomplished. Damon deserves much respect for his acomplishmnet in the sport; even during his last and terrible f1 season, 1999, where he was outshined by his very fast team-mate Heinz Harald Frentzen, Damon was not to be looked pathetic next to him - instead he was to be held tremendous respect and would not receive any contempt from any TRUE F1 fan. Damon was not the fastest driver ever, but he holds his place among the other World Champions and stands as one of the Lords of this sport.

Damon Hill is seen by many fans as the "loser" champion, the champion who had it, he had the drive, he had the car, he had the intelligence, he had the motivation and dedication, but there was Schumacher in the way, as there was Clark that came Graham's way. It must be said that, even if the 1995 season, climax of the 90's, is most remembered and pictures Damon's defeat, Damon's 96 title is thorougly deserved and well acomplished. Damon deserves much respect for his acomplishmnet in the sport; even during his last and terrible f1 season, 1999, where he was outshined by his very fast team-mate Heinz Harald Frentzen, Damon was not to be looked pathetic next to him - instead he was to be held tremendous respect and would not receive any contempt from any TRUE F1 fan. Damon was not the fastest driver ever, but he holds his place among the other World Champions and stands as one of the Lords of this sport.

From the moment I recieved this book, I could tell a lot of time and energy (money) went into making it. The cover is made of a nice, almost sliky paper material, which just makes you feel like it is worth the price. However, the real treat is inside. Damon Hill is a very eloquent writer, and makes some very personal revelations. If you ever wanted to know what makes an F1 World Champion tick, here's your chance. His gives his feelings about his early years driving with legends such as Aryton Senna, and Alain Prost, as well as his current on-going rivaly with M. Schumacher. Also, the photographs taken by Keith Sutton are an added bonus. As Damon said in his book, "So here it is. A book about all that (F1 life). But you can just look at the pictures if you prefer..." Yes! You really can; the pictures are fabulous. It's a shame about his retirement, and i actually would have felt that this book would have been better off, if he retired first and then published it, so that his writing wouldn't be so restrained. Even so, it gives the most comprehensive first-person's view of the things that transpire in the world of F1. Personally, I am a Damon Hill fan, so I can recommend this book to all those who also follow this "gentlemen's racer."

This book is a wonderful book for those who weren't lucky or rich enough to have bought all the Autocourse books from the period. Amazing how many great photos there are and in color!!

This book is basically a photography book, and that's what it's supposed to be. As a photography book it's loaded with some great shots of cars, pilots and situations of the F1 circus in the 70's. If you want more text or facts, this is not the book for you.

This book is a must-have for every fan of yesteryear's Formula 1. Photos are of great quality and the texts summarize very well each season of the decade.

Reiner Schlegelmilch is one of the best photographers in F1 which he has been covering since the 1960s. One of his trademarks is that he gives this extremely technical sport a very human perspective. This is transparent in every driver portrait or scene shot from the track. The 1970s were a decade of aggressive technical development in F1 which led to some of the most spectacular (Lotus 72) and bizarre (Tyrrel 6-wheeler and Brabham fan car)cars ever. It was a decade of triumph and tragedy with the loss of some of the sport's best drivers like Jochen Rindt and Ronnie Peterson, and of course there was Niki Lauda's terrible fire accident at the Nuerburgring. Schlegelmilch covers all of this with insight and brilliance, focusing not only on the highlights and the stars, but the sport as as whole. The prints are superb, text and picture captions are concise but informative

Paul Henri Cahier's new book "Through My Eye" is a must have for all who admired Ayrton Senna and his amazing career in F-1. The pages are filled with probably the most expressive portraits of Ayrton Senna that have ever been taken. There are also photographs of some of the most important racing moments in Ayrton's career . Recognized as Formula One's premeir photo artist , Paul Henri does not let us down. The book construction is of the highest quality and will be right at home in any art collection.

"Through My Eye" is an insightful masterpiece that allows the observer to get a rare glimpse inside the life of the racing phenom that was Ayrton Senna. Paul-Henri Cahier has done an outstanding job capturing the essence, the emotion, and the passion of Ayrton Senna's life during his Formula One career. Stunning photographs, brilliant writing. Beautiful, high quality book. For those who appreciate fine photography, are motorsports fans, or want to add to their Senna collection, this is a definite must have.

"Any creative endeavor is a raid on the inarticulate" - T. S. Elliott

Some things are truly beyond words. Despite the volumes of books attempting to describe the magic that made the late great Ayrton Senna da Silva the legend he was -- we have been left wanting . . . until now.

No other photographer today carries the mantle of resident artist in the rarified airs of the world that is Formula One better than Paul-Henri Cahier. As a second generation F1 photographer PHC began his brushes with greatness early on as a wee boy playing ping-pong with house guests like like the legendary Fangio and other grand prix luminaries who were part of his famous father Bernard Cahier's menagerie d' bon amis.

The photographic images of Paul-Henri Cahier are an inexhaustible invitation to discovery of things that are simply not possible to ascribe to the written word alone. With the prodigious gift that is Cahier's visual poem for our fallen hero we have returned to the place of joy and remembrance our hearts have longed for since the world changed forever on the black weekend of May 1994.

This book takes us beyond the mere surface of the image and into the realm of mystique. Like Senna before him Cahier is transcendent in his art form where both talents on display are a tantalizing thing of beauty to behold. Any serious collection of motor sport is incomplete without this definitive aesthetic masterwork.
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Tony Di Zinno
December 2004

This book will be a great addition to any F1 fans collection. I personally am a huge Gilles fan to this day, and continue to be saddened that we never got to see more of this most unique racer. I started watching him race Alouette snowmobiles and followed him with great interest throughout his auto racing career, and believe we will never see the likes of such a talent again. He certainly was a once in a lifetime thing. I believe I have every book that has ever been published about Gilles, and rank this right up near the top of my collection. There are some pictures in this book that I have never seen before, which to me makes it worth the price all by it self. Nigel Roebuck is a great writer of F1, and does a great job on this book of bringing the history back to life. I really enjoyed it, and am sure you will too.

It's already 26 years since Gilles died in action but he is still remembered depite the fact that he never was a world champion.He just didn't lived long enough to do so. Villeneuve is the living proof that numbers don't really matter when it came to the greatness of a driver. I remembered very well a visit at Maranello, the Ferrari factory near Modena in 1999. Michael Schumacher was the new god for Ferrari but as I strolled through the town,all I saw was pictures of Gilles Villeneuve and very few of Schumacher. Gilles Villeneuve is a living legend in Italy, a sort of icon with his scarlett Ferrari No 27.His famous battle with René Arnoux during the French Grand prix of 1979 in Dijon is probably the most spectacular piece of driving exitement ever !So, if you are a fan of Gilles Villeneuve, this is just the best photographic book done about his racing career that I ever saw. Rush for it ! Long live Gilles !

If you believe, as I do, that Gilles Villeneuve was the greatest driver of all time, then this book is a must. The photos are all of excellent quality, and there is just enough written information to keep you informed. This book, however, is aimed at those of us who know of Gilles exploits already, and of the tragedy of his untimely passing. Therefore it is all about enjoying the visual aspect of his exploits behind the wheel of racing cars, and remebering his brilliance.

I am about half way through reading this book. It is a masterpiece. This is one of the finest books ever written on a motor sport subject. From family backgrounds of the important characters in the story, through a description of comfortable, middle-class, life in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th century, the book goes on to describe Raymond Mays driving career, leading into the story of ERA cars. All this is, of course, just the background to the formation of BRM. The design, construction, development and competition career of the BRM V16 cars is described in great detail. All these aspects of this car were such troubled experiences, dealt with in an absorbing and entertaining way, the account interspersed at regular intervals with lighter moments which occured around the endless problem solving. I know the remainder of this book, dealing with the later front engined cars of the 1950's will continue at this high standard.
I am unable to say that this is the finest motor sport book ever written, as I also have, waiting on my bookshelves, Volumes 2 and 3 of the BRM story, which I know will give the same high level of reading pleasure. And I cannot wait for the [final] 4th volume to be published to complete this mammoth work.

From the pre-WWII beginnings with ERA cars, Doug Nye traces the development of the enigmatic and sometimes successful BRM racing cars. Starting with the incredible 1.5 liter V-16 of the early 50's to the 2.5 liter 4 cylinder cars that followed, Mr. Nye produces an accurate and well refrenced account of the behind-the-scenes effort along with a detailed run-down of each competitive event that BRM entered during the "front-engine" period. We are treated to many first-hand accounts from Mr. Tony Rudd who joined the team during the early days as a develoment engineer. Of special interest are his descriptions of the many technical investigations into the failures of the early V-16 engine, and the theoritical and experimental efforts to understand handling and braking problems during a period when much of the engineering was "seat-of-the-pants". This book is very worthwhile for the avid BRM watcher, and I eagerly await the second volume. In fact, if anyone knows the publication date of the next volume, please let me know

This is one of the most practical books on comedy. Use this wonderful book not only to write sketch humor - use it to write pointed, intelligent stand-up act-outs too.

_Build to Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy with the Fast and Funny Formula_ is no recent release. Still in print and readily available, the book has already encouraged a decade of emerging comedy writers to think about their material in deeper ways. Its long shelf life came from its clarity and its playful explanations. It actually helps writers learn to be funny. My own reasons for reading Kerr's book may be unique, however. I am no comedy writer, nor am I a comic, really. I teach history and philosophy, mostly to students who want to be CEO's, rock stars, millionaires, and Special Forces operatives. Lucky for us all, a course or two in the humanities is still required for the bachelor's degree. So in trying to reach people with little genuine interest in history and philosophy, I have discovered an important tradeoff. While sleeping students may seem more civil and polite, they retain much less of the lecture materials than do conscious students. What I have learned from teaching is that giggling students--even when laughing at the silly teacher's antics--come to more classes and retain more of the serious stuff between the laughable. And what have I learned from Kerr's excellent little book? [Drum roll, please!] I have learned the source of "the funny." Hilarious stuff happens right in front of us every day. It is in the newspapers, at the parking lots, in our personal tragedies, and yes, even in history and philosophy books. And you can learn how to find it and to use it.
So can ANYONE really learn to be funny? Kerr offers no guarantees with her advice gleaned from her own experience as a comic, especially not for history teachers. But her "formula" is rather easy to follow. Most of the "eight steps" empower a reader to "see" the material in new ways, find the joke, understand why it is funny, and to toy with perspective. Much of this advice can be found in any good writing textbook. But who wants to actually read a writing textbook? Kerr's book, about comedy, is a fun read. You will find yourself bracketing moments, thoughts, and situations that burst with levity, and they just need your help to let out the laughter. And here, I can provide a guarantee if Kerr does not. If you will look for funny things you will find them, even in textbooks, ancient archives, and philosophy lectures. Anyone standing in front of groups of people (teachers, politicians, bosses, drill sergeants, pan handlers, preachers) will benefit from a close reading of _Build to Laugh_.

Zis is a sehr gut book. Although a Schuey fan, I think Herr Coulthard ist a fein man and drive very fast. Zis book tells us why. He eats 3 shredded wheatz for breakfast, sausage for lunch and haggis in the evening, zis is the food of a fast man. Herr Rowlinson gives us lots of informations like zis. Vi have ways of making you buy it.

Let us not split hairs, Mr. Rowlinson writes as if he was David Coulthard's hairdresser - he has the inside info, he has the gossip, he takes us into all the permutations the intricate world of F1 holds. He keeps abreast of Coulthard's career, the ups, downs, his first Pole and his early exits, no holes barred. You need not be a Coulthard fan - if you like the thrust of F1, this book will put curls in your hair.