On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed nonstop race from New York to L.A. that was nothing at all like the one portrayed in the Burt Reynolds movie.Inspired by his father's dying words, and against the advice of his loyal, lifelong friends, Roy enters the mysterious world of road rallies and underground races—trying both to find himself and to locate The Driver, the anonymous organizer of the world's ultimate secret race—neither of which may exist. But in order to get noticed by The Driver, Roy must first become a force to be reckoned with.In this riveting memoir, Roy straps you into his highly modified BMW M5 and takes you on a terrifying 120 mph lap of Manhattan (his version of the French cult film Rendezvous), then tackles the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun—the two most infamous road rallies in the world. He creates a character for himself and his car, Polizei Autobahn Interceptor, and they stick out among the Lamborghinis and Ferraris driven by millionaire playboys, software moguls, Arab princes, movie stars, leggy Czech supermodels, gear-heads, and tech whizzes. Out of the hundred-plus rally drivers, a select few—Alex Roy among them—compete as if these are full-on honestto-god road races, traveling from London to Morocco, from Budapest to Rome, from San Francisco to Miami at speeds approaching 200 mph.With his M5 armed with amyriad of radar detectors, laser jammers, and police scanners, and his trunk crammed with a variety of fake uniforms, the obsessively prepared Roy evades arrest at almost every turn, wreaking havoc on his fiercest rivals, and gaining the admiration of police forces around the globe.But his rise to the top of the rally-driving world ultimately proves hollow, until he meets a young film producer documenting the obscure post–Cannonball Run races and the holy grail of cross-country racing—the N.Y.-to-L.A. speed record of thirty-two hours and seven minutes set back in 1983. Can that time even be approached today, much less beaten? As Roy reveals in The Driver, there are reasons why no one has tried in twenty-four years. But should he try? Can he do it?Full of hilarious, sexy, and shocking stories from a life lived at the right-hand edge of the speedometer, The Driver offers a never-before-told insider's account of the fast, dangerous, and unbelievable society that has long been offlimits to most of us. Filled with insane driving and Roy's quixotic quest to win both for his late father and for himself, The Driver is the tale of one man's insatiable drive beyond life in the fast lane.

The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

Alexander, Roy

Biographies & Memoirs

Ebury Press

On his deathbed, Alex Roy's father dropped tantalizing hints about the notorious Cannonball Run of the 1970s, the utterly illegal high-speed non-stop races from New York to LA. Inspired by his father's dying words, and against the advice of his friends, Roy enters this mysterious world - trying both to find himself, and to locate 'The Driver' - the anonymous organizer of the world's ultimate car race. In this riveting memoir, Roy straps you into his highly modified BMW M5, takes you on a terrifying 120 mph lap of Manhattan, then tackles the Gumball 3000 and the Bullrun - the two most infamous road rallies in the world. His bogus Polizei Autobahn Interceptor sticks out among the Lamborghinis and Ferraris driven by millionaire playboys, software moguls, Arab princes, movie stars, leggy Czech supermodels, gearheads, and tech whizzes.Armed with myriad radar detectors, laser jammers and police scanners, and his trunk crammed with a variety of fake uniforms, the obsessively prepared Roy evades arrest at almost every turn, wreaking havoc on his fiercest rivals and gaining the admiration of police forces around the globe. Filled with insane driving and Roy's quixotic quest to win both for his late father and himself, "The Driver" is the tale of one man's insatiable drive beyond life in the fast lane.

Driver: True Life Adventures of an Underground Road Racer

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

Ebury

The #1 bestseller on the art of closing sales is now fully updated to meet the challenges of today’s competitive new sales environment—with 53 case studies drawn from real life. The sixth edition features the newest selling tactics and strategies, the latest products, and the new salesperson/customer relations. Among the newer methods covered are critical path selling, group selling and teleconferencing, strategic selling, consultative selling, conceptual selling, empathic selling, and key account selling. Plus, you’ll also discover, step-by-step, the secrets of how to: • Analyze the customer’s psyche to determine your selling strategy • Cash in on the callbacks and follow-up visits • Make more effective use of the telephone • Get great leads from satisfied clients • Profit from telemarketing • Make sure a closed sale stays closed Highlighted by actual real-world examples that demonstrate these successful strategies and techniques in action, Secrets of Closing Sales gives you the tested tools you need to double or even triple your current income. “The appeal of this . . . is in the stories and closing lines collected from master salespeople. You’ll be struck by how simple and effective many techniques are.”—Executive Book Summaries

Secrets of Closing Sales: 6th Edition (Prentice Hall Business Classics)

Business & Money

Roth, Charles B.

Management & Leadership

Penguin Publishing Group

The sixth edition features the newest selling tactics and strategies, the latest products, and the new salesperson/customer relations. Among the newer methods covered are critical path selling...group selling and teleconferencing...strategic selling...consultative selling...conceptual selling...empathic selling...and key account selling.

Secrets of Closing Sales

PRENTICE/HALL

Marketing & Sales

Simon&Schuster

A guide to the techniques of closing sales discusses new selling methods and customer/salesperson relationship strategies suitable for today's competitive sales climate

Prentice Hall Direct

Climbing the Corporate Matterhorn

Uses anecdotes to provide advice about education, career planning, employee relations, decision making, problem solving, productivity, office politics, and leadership

Newman, James

Business Culture

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

As they trace the paths of two recent graduates and their adventures during the corporate ascent, the authors provide tips on necessary education, management of bosses, the delegation of responsibility, and other skills needed to succeed, along with the personal trade-offs necessary to get to the top.

Climbing the Corporate Matterhorn: How to Mive Up the Corporate Ladder...and Live to Tell About It!

Uses anecdotes to provide advice about education, career planning, employee relations, decision making, problem solving, productivity, office politics, and leadership

Economics

Vegetation Mapping Edited by Roy Alexander Environment Research Group, Department of Geography, Chester College, UK and Andrew C. Millington Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest and activity in the mapping of vegetation that has been driven by the needs of environmental modellers and policy makers on the one hand and by the increased availability of data sets and sophisticated tools for their handling and analysis on the other. This increased activity, together with the greater variety of purposes for which vegetation maps are being produced, has led to a divergence of approaches, a wider range of entities being mapped and a more varied audience of end users. Over the same time period the researcher interested in vegetation mapping has had to consult an ever-broadening range of sources in order to keep abreast of developments in the field. This book seeks to provide a review of recent developments in vegetation mapping and the purposes for which it is carried out by bringing together a series of case studies covering techniques and their applications at a range of spatial scales. The work included covers scales of enquiry from the quadrat to the biome, studies based on data gathered from ground, air and space, and applications of mapping in temperate, semi arid and tropical environments. Issues involved in the use of data sets from different sources, the recognition and handling of error and the effects of scale are also given detailed consideration. The volume concludes with a review of contemporary approaches to vegetation mapping and the identification of some key research questions. Vegetation Mapping will thus serve as a collected source of reference on techniques and approaches for the researcher while providing a rich variety of case study and methodological information for postgraduate students and undergraduates following specialist courses.

Vegetation Mapping: From Patch to Planet

Science & Math

Millington, Andrew C.

Biological Sciences

wiley

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The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World

Driver: True Life Adventures of an Underground Road Racer

Secrets of Closing Sales: 6th Edition (Prentice Hall Business Classics)

Secrets of Closing Sales

Secrets of Closing Sales

Secrets of Closing Sales

Climbing the Corporate Matterhorn

Climbing the Corporate Matterhorn: How to Mive Up the Corporate Ladder...and Live to Tell About It!

Climbing the Corporate Matterhorn

Vegetation Mapping: From Patch to Planet