Dave Brown

Join the Pizza Pilgrims on a fun and thrilling ride through the city of Naples. Famed the world over as the birthplace of pizza, Naples is an extraordinary city that revolves around food. Thom and James Elliot are adopted sons of Naples, with a little black book of chefs, suppliers, restaurateurs and people who have become close friends and colleagues over the past decade of the Pizza Pilgrims restaurants. In 2023 they built the world’s smallest mobile pizzeria – a Vespa with a pizza oven on the back – much to the Neapolitans’ delight and bemusement, and over the past two years they have travelled around the city with photographer Dave Brown, capturing the very best that Naples has to offer. Including Neapolitan classics and personalised recipes from the Pizza legends of Naples, as well as expert tips for making your own authentic Neapolitan pizza, Pizza Napoli is a riotous, glorious explosion of a book infused with ready wit. With unprecedented access to previously undocumented places, and to the stories of the remarkable people, Pizza Napoli is more than just a cookbook – it lifts the lid on a city that is rising up to claim its rightful place as one of the true gastronomic centres of the world.

Any true baseball fan has heard the famous World Series stories about Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, Bill Mazeroski’s Series-ending home run in 1960, and Bill Buckner’s blunder to end Game 6 of the 1986 Series. Many fans, however, may not be aware of other less well-known but equally engaging stories about the Fall Classic. Shadows of Glory recounts 18 of these stories. Readers will encounter some unlikely World Series heroes, such as Dusty Rhodes, the reserve outfielder whose clutch pinch-hits helped the New York Giants win the 1954 World Series, and Brian Doyle, the light-hitting utility infielder who was a batting star for the New York Yankees in their 1978 Series triumph. They will find stories shaped by world events, such as the Spanish flu pandemic and world wars, which significantly affected team rosters and thus the participants and outcomes of the 1918 and 1944 World Series. Baseball lovers will experience a range of emotions—heartbreak that Bill Bevens, an ordinary pitcher, came within an out of the first World Series no-hitter in 1947 and then lost the no-hitter and game on one pitch; outrage that umpire Don Denkinger received death threats after missing a call in the 1985 World Series; and amusement that Cliff Lee, stuck in a traffic jam on his way to start Game 1 of the 2009 World Series, hopped out of the cab he was in and made his way to the subway. Shadows of Glory will captivate casual and hard-core fans alike.

Servant Selling offers a better--more honest--sales approach that will allow you to close more deals and serve your customers' needs. Will you walk away from a sale if it is not the best thing for your customer? Are you okay with losing a sale? As the top producer for an educational sales company, Dave Brown found himself wrestling with these questions during a summer of door-to-door sales. Then, one night, he found clarity: he could be fully honest and transparent and be the best at sales. In fact, being fully honest and transparent would make him the best at sales. In Servant Selling, Dave shares the tested and proven sales techniques he's mastered over his career. His proven strategy works for every demographic and in every industry--even with people who know nothing about sales. He will: Prepare you to serve by explaining the key components of servant selling and the foundations necessary to achieve success. Help you understand the service and sales cycle by focusing on the sales skills you need. Show you how to create concrete systems and utilize game-changing time management strategies to scale your success. Even more importantly, Dave shares the heart and mindset that makes his philosophy so successful: the servant-selling approach. By prioritizing your customer's needs, personality, preferences, and comfort above your sales goals, you will reach more people and make deeper, longer-lasting connections that will help you grow your business in an authentic and meaningful way.

MISTER GOOD FELLOW MEETS THE PRINCE is a fictional story about a young man who cannot figure out why he is experiencing difficult things, after all he is a good fellow. He figures he deserves only good experiences, especially from the Prince of Peace. The second portion of the book (REASONS TO BELIEVE) is a rational examination of facts that can lead a person to believe in God (THE PRINCE OF PEACE). It begins with reasons to believe in creation and concludes with our final destination, heaven or hell. I grew up in a family of five. This included three sisters Charlene, Denise, and Glenna. I experienced a relatively happy childhood with parents who were Christians. As I entered adolescence I began to question the reasons for belief in the Bible and the gospel message. I realized that faith needed to become personal, and I could not just rely upon the faith of my parents. This journey of faith produced some very difficult times of crisis, and times of the joy of discovery that strengthened my faith. In hope of helping others who are facing similar questions and difficulties in their faith journey, is part of the reason I wrote this book. It also helped to clarify and solidify my own faith. My beautiful and loving wife Julie has been a wonderful and encouraging part of this journey for 39 years.

It was every parent's worst nightmare. On a sun-drenched morning in April 2012, a Maryland state trooper knocked on Betty Shaw's front door and delivered the grim news that her 17-year-old daughter, Liz, had been involved in a horrible car accident and was clinging to life. Liz recovered from her life-threatening injuries but suffered severe and permanent effects from the accident. Texting while driving caused Liz's crash, and she and her mother went on a mission to educate people about the perils of distracted driving. The pair began to speak before various groups, and as their popularity grew, they launched a video about Liz's story which went viral, spawning magazine and online articles, as well as several TV appearances, including one on Oprah Winfrey's Where Are They Now? show. In One Simple Text, Betty Shaw recounts her daughter's frightening and arduous but ultimately uplifting and inspirational journey. Betty chronicles Liz's ordeal from the day of the accident and provides a glimpse of their life on the speaking and television circuit. This is a poignant memoir about a young woman who triumphed over tragedy; a mother and daughter's love; and the indomitable power of the human spirit. Winner of Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards: Legacy Award for Inspiration/Motivation

Jack Beckman hangs on a newly purchased rope and harness in midair, one hundred and sixty five feet above a treacherous ravine in western Pennsylvania. He is installing C-4 packs according to instructions from a stranger, who paid a small fortune for his services. At a designated time, he makes a call that triggers the C-4, causing it to blow up the Railroad trestle and a high speed passenger train. Breaking news calls it the biggest rail disaster in over fifty years. So take the journey, if you like, with the survivors of this horrible act. Be warned: this ride gets twisted up... VERY twisted up. It's a journey of a lifetime...

An Ancient Approach To Life And Prayer: The purpose of life is to live Just as the purpose of riding a bike is found in its riding, so, too, the purpose of life is discovered in the living of it. Without life, there is nothing: no meaning, no purpose, no anything. Jesus came to bring us life, and He defined such life as having Him and being His and His Father's friend. If the purpose of life is to live, and if real living is enjoying intimate friendship with God, then the ultimate purpose of life must be to enjoy intimate friendship with God. In becoming a friend of God, true life is experienced. Anything less is non-life. Throughout this compilation, Dave Brown has written about an approach to life and prayer that's been explored and practiced for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. In a nutshell, such an approach boils down to just one thing: letting God love us the way He wants. Whether it's living in community with others, praying The Jesus Prayer, or giving one's life away in selfless service to others, it's all really just one and the same thing: letting God love us the way He wants. It is Dave's earnest prayer that, above all else, the Everlasting Father will use this simple and ordinary compilation to illuminate and enrich your life in a grand and extraordinary way.

A thumb tie is a simple concept; the magician has his thumbs tied together in full view of everyone, nothing is hidden behind the back or under a cloth or any of the other false looking magician type practises. The tying is exactly what it appears to be. Two volunteers are each given a hoop and asked to throw them to the performer, as the hoops are caught they appear to melt through the tied thumbs and are left hanging from the performers forearm. Even with the volunteers watching just inches away from the thumbs, the performer's thumbs appear to melt through the volunteers clasped hands. The comedy comes from the situation and the expressions of the volunteers, this is maximum effect for minimal props - you just need a short length of rope, a pair of scissors and two hoops of some sort (tips about the hoops are given in the book), oh and the detailed instructions given in this book. This routine has been responsible for more bookings and television appearances than anything other routine I have done. There are many thumb tie routines and methods around. I have used as many as I can find but when I needed to improvise I found that couldn't rely on any of the methods I knew about. I decided to develop my own method and came up with this particular thumb tie method. The routine has been performed literally hundreds of times and most of them in the most extreme of conditions, on the street. I was a street performer for many years and this routine was developed over a number of years and in front of thousands of audience members all around the world. It can be performed without any spoken words if needed, the tying material can be improvised - once you understand why it works you will always have a guaranteed crowd pleaser at your disposal. Over the years I have come across everything that could wrong with the routine and I have built into the handling providing for all outcomes. When you purchase this routine you get years of work and a premium routine that is guaranteed to work.

App creation is now a huge, global business, with hundreds of thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, and companies attracted by the potential rewards. But games, functional apps, and promotional apps alike depend on attractive, intuitive design for their appeal, and most fail to find a significant audience. With this book, you'll be able to turn your great app idea into a functioning design ready for coding, or apply graphic design skills to this exciting new field, and create an app that will stand out in a market that is worth over a billion dollars every year. Understand the design process that underlies the best and most successful apps Learn how to create a friendly interface and smooth user experience, and avoid the pitfalls that plague first-time designers Master the tricks of the trade that make apps stand out: effective visuals, punchy copy, and attractive colors

Fed up of anaemic books about mountains, about being poor and happy and mystical fulfilment? Then this is the book for you, tearing the veil from the culture clashes and conflicts on the hills. What happens if you go in search of the American Dream in Colorado, or Celtic Twilight in the Cuillins? And how do the mountains alter the pattern of male/female sexual behaviour? This book presents a different approach, but one that aims to answer just why the mountains exert such fascination over so many people.

Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.