From time to time we all make the mistake of believing ideas should sell themselves. Not so. As a matter of fact, the better & bolder the idea, the more it needs selling. This book

Includes:: thoughts, tips & techniques to help you sell your good ideas to decision makers.

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Provides an exposition of Charles Manski's methodology for analyzing empirical questions in the social sciences. This book studies prediction with missing or otherwise incomplete data. It also concerns the analysis of treatment response, which aims to predict outcomes when alternative treatment rules are applied to a population. ...

Niccolo needs a female character for his next film project, but his ideas for both project & protagonist are somewhat vague. As his relationship with his girlfriend dissolves
- she leaves him to move in with another woman
- he embarks on an affair with a young actress, but she, too eventually eludes him. His physical union with his lovers is no more than that & his desertion by the two women echoes his search for both a female character & his own identity.

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