Facts and Figures Books

Lots of trivia and interesting stories. Lots of facts and figures too.

Texas never ceases to fascinate me and this book just adds to that charm! My whole family has enjoyed it, from the 17 year old all the way up to old fuddy-duddy granddad.

It's like having history alive because of the way it is written, as if talking to a friend!

BASEBALLISTICS is a veritable cournacopia of baseball knowledge and statistics. I read THE BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOK TO END ALL BASEBALL TRIVIA BOOKS.......PROMISE and I found it to be very entertaining. I found BASEBALLISTICS to be absolutely riveting. Like Bert (who I have known for almost 30 years), I am a fan of sports realted trivia and I have used his book as the ultimate trivia resource for settling any and all baseball arguements.

The Buick Grand National, T-type, and GNX - Facts and Figures Book, Volume II simply takes off where Vol I stopped. This volume covers additional material and information not covered in Volume I. Volume II includes Service Technical Bulletins, Dash Cluster information, Wheels, Steering and Trim, Dealer Order Guides, and even Window Sticker Information. Adding Volume II to Volume I will give you around 600 pages of Buick GN, Ttype, and GNX Information!

Getting an idea or ideas out of your head is often not a difficult task. Most people can do it easily and fast too, even if they are put under time pressure. Sometimes, under time pressures, surprisingly many people can even come up with whacky and yet brilliant ideas.

However, idea generation or creativity for that matter, is only a small part of the whole equation. There is no dispute ideas come from individual minds, but innovation will only take place when you are able to promote or sell your idea or ideas to your or other people. It takes teams or a group of interested people to make your ideas to work i.e to make innovation to happen.

There are a lot of idea generation and/or creativity books out in the markeptplace, but very hard to find books touching on the promotion and selling of ideas. From my personal pursuit over the years, I have found only a small handful of good books in this genre.

I am very glad to have found this one book. The four authors are well qualified, as all of them are business communication professionals.

As the authors contend: "There are three phases in getting an idea off the ground:

1. Get an idea...and sell it!
2. Develop the idea..and sell it!
3. Move the idea to market...and really sell it!"

This book describes, in a step-by-step process, the strategic and tactical elements of the promotion and selling proposition, as follows:

- research your ideas from all standpoints;
- develop a compehensive plan;
- build a support network;
- develop a winning presentation;
- prepare to present;
- deliver your winning case;
- celebrate;

I am very impressed by this book partly because the authors took a comprehensive, broad-based approach to the subject at hand. They wrote it in the context of both organisational and personal perspectives. In the process, the authors covered every conceivable angle of promoting and selling your idea or ideas - from understanding your organisation, educating yourself right through building your case, gaining allies, assessing your audience, and all the way to designing and preparing your case and presenting your information/ideas.

The chapter pertaining to 'Building a Business Case' is a gem to read and follow. This is a very important area to note in promoting and selling your idea. Oftentimes, people get carried away by their whacky ideas and they forget that the numbers or bottom-line are also important considerations, especially when you want to get support. This chapter will help you to refine your presentation of numbers.

I also enjoy the authors' writing style - concise, crisp and succinct. All key learning points are also captured at the end of each chapter. These make reading and review much easier for the reader.

So, if you want to learn how to promote and sell your idea or ideas, this is a 'must-read' book!

This book is so easy to use. The layout is logical and the photos are great. You can look up the cal, fat, vit., salt content and other facts of most common foods in a blink. I keep going back to peek at all this easy to read info. It has a section that tells what is good and not so good in each food group-and why. For example,in "Breads", whole grains are good, but Wonderbread-not so much

I just love this book because of the sheer volume of questions and answers it contains. Perfect for hours of challenging your buddies or familiy members.

Excellent book with practical examples very well organized. You really don't need to be a math expert to use it.

Everything you need to know about cricket, and an awful lot you don't! Great fun. Loved it. All Liam McCann's books are hilarious.

Direct marketing guru, G. Gilbert Carlson recorded what worked for him, his clients and other top players in direct marketing and it's now revealed.

Full of facts, numbers and percentages. Find out what works without having to spend a fortune on testing. Discover what others have done to boost response, how it worked and by how much it boosted response

Like breaking into your competitor's office! Almost 100 powerful fact-filled 8 ½ x 11 pages, a manuscript style bound report, until recently, available only to Mr. Carlson's clients.
Some of the sections inside:
800 Numbers, Ads, Bind-In Cards, Bonus Gifts, Business-To-Business, Customer Service, Credit Cards, Card Decks, Catalogs, Catalog Average Orders, Color Conversion, Copy, Copywriting, Deadlines, Direct Mail, Free Gift Offers, Gourmet Food Offers, Guarantees, Headlines, Infomercials, Layout, Lift Letters, Lists, Offers, Order Forms, Position, Products, Photos, Postage, Publication Circulation, Press Releases Response, Retail Stores, Size, Surveys, Sweepstakes, Telemarketing, Trade shows, Web Sites.

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An excellent reference for stats on government finance....easy to read and well organized...Friedman's comments are accurate