Public Speaking & Speech Writing

How to make a great, best man's speech - and a guide to being a great best man.In this book Phillip Khan-Panni uses his expertise as a champion professional speaker to help the best man with the terrifying prospect of writing and delivering The Speech.He...

Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change. In what...

'Most books on persuasion teach the few how to sway the many. With wit and vim, Guy has given us something else: an X-ray into the tactics of those trying to change our minds and behaviour.' - Stephen Krupin, former speechwriter for Barack Obama When...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381969Author Ryan N. S. ToppingFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Whether your goal is to carry a tune, expand your vocal range, or speak with ease and confidence before an audience, Roger Love provides you with exactly the help you need. Through the innovative techniques and enjoyable exercises in this book, Love...

50 Scientifically-Supported Techniques to Create More Confident and Compelling SpeakersSpeaking Up without Freaking Out by Matt Abrahams is an easy-to-read book containing over 50 anxiety management techniques that are based on scientifically supported...

The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people's respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest goals.Anyone can learn to be a great speaker, just as easily as they can learn to drive a...

The philosopher-statesman on ethics and rhetoric.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954024182Author Mike AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Advantage Publishing GroupPublisher Advantage Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Say it with style--on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with more than 100 examples from Lincoln, Churchill, and other masters of the language. Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences, and...

"Splashy slides, confident body language, and a lot of eye contact are fine and well. But if a speech is rambling, illogical, or just plain boring, the impact will be lost. Now everyone can learn to give powerful, on-target speeches that capture an...

Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster!"I had to learn [a new language] in a handful of days for a TV interview. I asked Benny for help and his advice was invaluable." - Tim Ferriss What if you could skip the years of study and jump right to speaking...

"I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (praeteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it - and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it - buy it and read it (epimone)."-Bryan A...

Mindful meditation has been around for thousands of years, and is used by top therapists as a highly effective way of overcoming anxiety, depression and a number of other emotional difficulties. It has also caught the popular imagination as a wonderful...

Pros and Cons: A Debaters Handbook offers a unique and invaluable guide to the arguments both for and against over 140 current controversies and global issues. Since it was first published in 1896 the handbook has been regularly updated and this...

Cicely Berry, Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is world-famous for her voice teaching. The Actor and the Text is her classic book, distilled from years of working with actors of the highest calibre.About the AuthorCicely Berry, Voice...

Getting our voices heard can be a nerve-wracking and overwhelming task particularly in a world where everyone seems to have something to say. The ability to present our ideas with confidence is now a coveted skill. Yet on stage, we become this other...

Learn to influence audiences with storyopia: Stories that take them on a journey from what is to what could be: Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies shows you how to develop and deliver a presentation through storytelling, keeping audience...

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Does the thought of delivering a presentation make your heart skip a beat? Do your pitches fall flat no matter how much preparation you put in? Are you often comparing yourself to more eloquent speakers and wondering how they capture the room?At some...

In this hilarious and highly practical book, author and professional speaker Scott Berkun reveals the techniques behind what great communicators do, and shows how anyone can learn to use them well. For managers and teachers -- and anyone else who talks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539388Author Patrick Henry WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Babies have no problem in vocalising - they cry, loud and long. But as we learn how to speak language, a highly intellectual activity, we increasingly depend on speech and body language to express what we wish to communicate. This is fine for ordinary...

Be memorable. Whether you like it or loathe it, public speaking is something many of us have to do. Be it presentations to colleagues or speeches to a room full of near strangers, we all want to shine...or at least get through it with our dignity intact...

The past twenty years has seen the emergence of an industry standard model of presentation - the slide show. Yet research has shown that audiences are deeply dissatisfied with this mode of public speaking. In Lend Me Your Ears, Max Atkinson - a highly...

This is a guide for prospective best men which aims to answer the anxieties about making the speech. It offers advice on speech-making essentials, great openings, strong middles, big finishes, plus putting it all together and delivering the speech itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591843191Author Dan RoamFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979-1980) examines the most expressive medium in Somali culture and politics, that is, oral poetry, in its ideological and discursive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767902960Author Lee GlicksteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080026Author CassadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 400g

A central work in the history of rhetoric.Quintilian, born in Spain about AD 35, became a widely known and highly successful teacher of rhetoric in Rome. The Orator's Education (Institutio Oratoria), a comprehensive training program in twelve books,...

Crack the Code and Get Fluent Faster!"I had to learn [a new language] in a handful of days for a TV interview. I asked Benny for help and his advice was invaluable." - Tim Ferriss What if you could skip the years of study and jump right to speaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789819402229Author Tim YeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Quiet AchieverPublisher Quiet AchieverWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too...

Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907722301Author Andy LopataFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Ecademy PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990830204Author Denis BoudreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Prominence PublishingPublisher Prominence PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

"There is a mystery in every play that is written, no matter whether classical and poetic or modern and demotic, and it is the sound and the rhythm of the writing which take us there." Cicely Berry, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Voice Director,...

Patsy Rodenburg is the leading acting coach in the UK (she has worked with Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett). Patsy has discovered the principles of speech in theatre apply extremely effectively when transferred into the...

Patsy Rodenburg is the leading acting coach in the UK (she has worked with Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett). Patsy has discovered the principles of speech in theatre apply extremely effectively when transferred into the...