Search Results: Titles starting with O from Shop-books.ca

Condition: Near fine, very light edge wear.Build stronger relationships with customers through the OPEN Questioning technique.By asking four types of questions-Operational, Problem, Effect, and Nail Down-you can address customer needs, find connections, and build the kind of relationships that enable you to close more sales.This hands-on guide shows how to use OPEN Question Selling throughout the sales process, from getting in the door to handling objections to making the close. With more than 100 sample questions and end-of-chapter exercises, you'll soon be on your way to building winning customer relationships.

FSG, New York, 2000. 5th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the storyof that skilled in all ways of contending.the wanderer, harried for years on end,after he plundered the strongholdon the proud height of Troy.So begins Robert Fitzgerlad's magnificent translation of the Odyssey.If the Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus' reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces, during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance.

Collier, New York. 22nd paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, light nicks at spine ends.This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and loses — specifically referred to in the citation accompanying the author's Nobel Prize for literature in 1954.

Modern Library, New York. 7th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight wear at spine edges.A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly.The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, Dickens created an entirely new kind of fiction, scathing in its indictment of a cruel society, and pervaded by an unforgettable sense of threat and mystery.

No edition noted. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, slight nicks at spine.

Wadsworth, 2002. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Near fine, very light corner and edge wear.Each volume in the Wadsworth Philosophers Series provides a brief and accessible insight into the ideas of major philosophers throughout history. This text covers the philosophy of Gurdjieff.

Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A few slight nicks at edges.From the publisher: In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of his passion" for the word.

Penguin, New York. 4th trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, faint creasing at spine, faint crease at bottom right front corner.Though Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single-spaced paragraph on eight long sheets of tracing paper that he later taped together to form a 120 foot scroll, this document is among the most significant, celebrated, and provocative artifacts in contemporary American literary history. It represents the first full expression of Kerouac's revolutionary aesthetic, the identifiable point at which his thematic vision and narrative voice came together in a sustained burst of creative energy. It was also part of a wider vital experimentation in the American literary, musical, and visual arts in… Read More

University Of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.Essays and reviews that trace the changes in Ginsberg's career and in his poetry.

Mariner Books, Boston, 2020. First trade paperback edition. Condition: New.The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines.Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed inDeep South,Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who… Read More

Penguin Books, Toronto, 1980. 17th paperback printing. Condition: Good, light edge wear and creasing on covers, spine creases, previous owner's name on inside front cover, well read.First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union.

Signet Q4171, New York. 15th paperback printing. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, light soiling on white areas of covers, spine creases, previous owners stamp on inside front cover. Well read book.Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.

Del Rey, New York, 1989. 12th paperback printing. Condition: Very good, light edge and corner wear, spine creasing, slight bowing, price sticker on rear cover.Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, and quite possibly a failure...

Simon and Schuster, New York, 2016. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Good, edge and corner wear, creasing at corners, spine crease, edge nicks, a well read book.Can a young baseball star maintain his love of the game after the loss of his brother? Find out in this start to the Home Team series about a small town with high hopes, from New York Times bestselling author and sportswriting legend Mike Lupica.Jack Callahan is the star of his baseball team and sixth grade is supposed to be his year. Undefeated season. Records shattered. Little League World Series. The works. That is, until he up and quits.Jack's best friend Gus can't understand how Jack could leave a game that means more to them than anything else. But Jack is done. It's a year of change. Jack's brother has passed away, and though his family and friends and the whole town of Walton thinks baseball is just the thing he needs to move on, Jack feels it's anything but.In comes Cassie Bennett, star softball player, and the only person… Read More

Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, previous owner's name in pencil and some writing on first few pages.

Subterranean Press, Burton MI, 2008. First edition. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. Deluxe Edition, signed by Baker and limited to 2000 unnumbered copies according to the publisher.His name is John James - at least, that's the name he gives to anyone asking. He's a former pirate just back from Port Royal from the sack of Panama, and he has every intention of settling down and leading a respectable life. First, though, he must honour a promise and deliver a letter to the mistress of one of his dead comrades. But the lady is much more than she seems...

Henry Holt and Co., New York, 2003. First edition. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket, very light edge wear on dust jacket.Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.A novel that expands to fill volumes in the reader's mind, Oracle Night is a beautifully constructed meditation on time, love, storytelling, and the imagination by "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Penguin, Toronto, 2014. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge wear and corner bumps, slightly bowed, faint creases at spine.In the remote winter landscape a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of a young Iroquois girl violently re-ignites a deep rift between two tribes. The girl's captor, Bird, is one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. Years have passed since the murder of his family, and yet they are never far from his mind. In the girl, Snow Falls, he recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter, but as he fights for her heart and allegiance, small battles erupt into bigger wars as both tribes face a new, more dangerous threat from afar.Traveling with the Huron is Christophe, a charismatic missionary who has found his calling among the tribe and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to this new world, with its natural beauty and riches.As these three souls… Read More

Condition: Good, light edge and spine wear, spine is a little loose, NO writing or underlining. This is a large and heavy book and will require additional postage.The standard university level work on Organic Chemistry.

Condition: Good plus, edge wear and creasing along corners, slight nicks at spine ends, slight creases at some interior pages but no writing or underlining.