terça-feira, 11 de outubro de 2016

Um dia destes vou ler estes livros de Domínio Público sobre DP (in English please)

5 free PDF books download, with a common subject: "personal development" and including the famous "How to Win Friends and Influence People":
http://www.marketindex.com.au/books

The audio book of the Dale Carnegie one, for those who like the audio format can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/larry-amos-jr/sets/dale-carnegie-how-to-win

Quoting one of the revised editions:
"How to Win Friends and Influence People was first published in 1937 in an edition of only five thousand copies. Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and
Influence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post Depression days, as evidenced by its continued and uninterrupted sales into the eighties, almost half a century later. Dale Carnegie used to say that it was easier to make a million dollars than to put a phrase into the English language. How to Win Friends and Influence People became such a phrase, quoted, paraphrased, parodied, used in innumerable contexts from political cartoon to novels. The book itself was translated into almost every known written language. Each generation has discovered it anew and has found it relevant. "

The last sentence is very true: This book is still for sale in my local FNAC store, for instance.