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The Art of Public Speaking with Learning Tools Suite (Student CD-ROMs 5.0, Audio Abridgement CD set, PowerWeb, And Topic Finder)

Author: Stephen Lucas
ASIN : 0073228656
Sales Rank : 202
Studio : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780073228655
ISBN : 0073228656
Number Of Pages : 506
Publication Date : December 29, 2005
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations and thorough coverage. By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than six million students and instructors. The Lucas Learning Tools Suite offers even more tools and study options to fit the active lifestyles and diverse learning/teaching styles of today's students and instructors..

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Influencer: The Power to Change Anything

Authors: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
ASIN : 007148499X
Sales Rank : 837
Studio : McGraw-Hill
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780071484992
ISBN : 007148499X
Number Of Pages : 288
Publication Date : December 13, 2007
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
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An INFLUENCER motivates others to change.

This is what it takes to be an INFLUENCER.

Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We develop complicated coping strategies when we should be learning the tools and techniques of the world's most influential people.

But this is about to change. From the bestselling authors who taught the world how to have Crucial Conversations comes Influencer, a thought-provoking book that combines the remarkable insights of behavioral scientists and business leaders with the astonishing stories of high-powered influencers from all walks of life. You'll be taught each and every step of the influence process-including robust strategies for making change inevitable in your personal life, your business, and your world. You'll learn how to:

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• Identify a handful of high-leverage behaviors that lead to rapid and profound change..
• Apply strategies for changing both thoughts and actions..
• Marshall six sources of influence to make change inevitable..

Influencer takes you on a fascinating journey from San Francisco to Thailand where you'll see how seemingly �insignificant� people are making incredibly significant improvements in solving problems others would think impossible. You'll learn how savvy folks make change not only achievable and sustainable, but inevitable. You'll discover why some managers have increased productivity repeatedly and significantly-while others have failed miserably.

No matter who you are, or what you do, you'll never learn a more valuable or important set of principles and skills. Once you tap into the power of influence, you can reach out and help others work smarter, grow faster, live, look, and feel better, even save lives. The sky is the limit�for an Influencer.

Are you an Influencer ?

Find out at www.influencerbook.com

�You don't have to be a manager to realize that no one likes being told what to do. Yet lectures are still the main way we try to get people to change their behavior. Fortunately, social learning academics have been studying alternatives for decades. Patterson and his fellow consultants have now collected their findings in this engaging, example-rich book. The key message is hardly new, but it has gotten more sophisticated: Managers need to get out of the way and facilitate, not manage, the process of change for employees. They can do this by offering vicarious experiences, restructured environments, peer pressure, and frequent tests-all geared so that people embrace the change as authentic to them, not imposed by an outsider. Missing are only success stories of organizations that persuaded managers to drop their controlling habits and choose to be mere facilitators.�-John T. Landry, Harvard Business Review

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The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking

Author: Dale Carnegie
ASIN : 0671724002
Sales Rank : 5179
Studio : Pocket
Binding : Mass Market Paperback
EAN : 9780671724009
ISBN : 0671724002
Number Of Pages : 224
Publication Date : December 01, 1990
Publisher : Pocket
Manufacturer : Pocket
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Good public speakers are made, not born - or so thinks Dale Carnegie, the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to communicate clearly. Public speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. It is also the very best method of overcoming self-consciousness and building up courage, enthusiasm and self-confidence. This classic, well established title has been called 'the most brilliant book of its kind'. It takes you step by step through: acquiring basic skills; developing confidence; speaking effectively the quick and easy way; earning the right to talk; vitalising your talk; and sharing the talk with the audience as well as organisation, presentation and other skills.

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The Art of Public Speaking with Connect Lucas

Author: Stephen Lucas
ASIN : 0077306295
Sales Rank : 1591
Studio : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780077306298
ISBN : 0077306295
Number Of Pages : 480
Publication Date : December 03, 2008
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than 10 million students and instructors. Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations of classical and contemporary theory and thorough coverage of practical applications. .

. The new edition offers a revolutionary digital experience--McGraw-Hill Connect Lucas and Connect Lucas Plus. The Connect Lucas products allow students and instructors to access all course materials including a complete media and research library, study aids and speech preparation and assessment tools from a single place, connectlucas.com. With Connect Lucas, students use the traditional printed text. Specially marked icons in the text guide students to the media-rich, interactive features available at connectlucas.com. Connect Lucas Plus allows students and instructors to access the fully-integrated, media-rich textbook from connectlucas.com. As students read the book online, linked icons guide them to embedded media-rich, interactive features..

. Learn more and visit connectlucas.com.. .

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Write Great Fiction - Dialogue

Author: Gloria Kempton
ASIN : 1582972893
Sales Rank : 12384
Studio : Writers Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582972893
ISBN : 1582972893
UPC : 035313109362
Number Of Pages : 240
Publication Date : December 26, 2004
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
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How do some writers craft conversation so authentic, it feels like they've been eavesdropping? What's the secret behind getting characters to talk to each other? How can writers make their dialogue sing?

Answers to all of these questions and more can be found in Gloria Kempton's in-depth look at this crucial component of fiction. Readers will learn how to create dialogue that sizzles, with tips on:

* Creating dialogue for specific genres

* Bringing characters to life with revealing dialogue

* Identifying and fixing common dialogue problems

Each chapter features numerous examples of successful dialogue drawn from bestselling novels, and chapter-ending exercises help readers apply the lessons learned. This is one book that will get readers talking!

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DeMark Indicators (Bloomberg Market Essentials: Technical Analysis)

Author: Jason Perl
ASIN : 1576603148
Sales Rank : 13349
Studio : Bloomberg Press
Format : Illustrated
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9781576603147
ISBN : 1576603148
Number Of Pages : 208
Publication Date : December 28, 2008
Publisher : Bloomberg Press
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Long a secret weapon of the hedge-fund elite, the DeMark indicators are now used by more than 35,000 traders. This book provides an easy-to-follow system for using the indicators to identify market turns as they happen. Author Jason Perl gives a concise introduction to thirty-nine of the indicators, and then shows how to combine the indicators and time frames to achieve a higher probabilty of trading success. Thomas R. DeMark, the creator of the DeMark indicators and one of the most well-respected practitioners of technical analysis, wrote the foreword to this book.

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Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion

Author: Jay Heinrichs
ASIN : 0307341445
Sales Rank : 6256
Studio : Three Rivers Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780307341440
ISBN : 0307341445
Number Of Pages : 336
Publication Date : December 27, 2007
Release Date : December 27, 2007
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer : Three Rivers Press
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Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it’s also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use of “code” language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of popular-culture dodges, including:

The Eddie Haskell Ploy
Eminem’s Rules of Decorum
The Belushi Paradigm
Stalin’s Timing Secret
The Yoda Technique

Whether you’re an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Written by one of today’s most popular online language mavens, it’s warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening. It not only teaches you how to recognize a paralipsis and a chiasmus when you hear them, but also how to wield such handy and persuasive weapons the next time you really, really want to get your own way.

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A Speaker's Guidebook: Text and Reference

Authors: Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein
ASIN : 0312443188
Sales Rank : 1780
Studio : Bedford/St. Martin's
Binding : Plastic Comb
EAN : 9780312443184
ISBN : 0312443188
Number Of Pages : 576
Publication Date : December 09, 2006
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
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Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach (7th Edition) (MySpeechLab Series)

Authors: Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe
ASIN : 0205543014
Sales Rank : 1837
Studio : Allyn & Bacon
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780205543014
ISBN : 0205543014
Number Of Pages : 528
Publication Date : December 07, 2008
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Manufacturer : Allyn & Bacon
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The unique, audience-centered approach of this top-selling text emphasizes that success in public speaking depends on how listeners interpret the message. Public Speaking: An Audience-Centered Approach brings theory and practice together. Its distinctive and popular approach emphasizes the importance of analyzing and considering the audience at every point in the speech making process. This model of public speaking is the foundation of the text, and it guides students through the step-by-step process of public speaking, focusing their attention on the dynamics of diverse audiences, and narrowing the gap between the classroom and the real world. The seventh edition includes an expanded emphasis on helping students manage communication apprehension.

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Interpersonal Conflict

Authors: William Wilmot, Joyce Hocker
ASIN : 0073135542
Sales Rank : 6175
Studio : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780073135540
ISBN : 0073135542
Number Of Pages : 384
Publication Date : December 27, 2005
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Manufacturer : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Written for courses such as Communication and Conflict, Interpersonal Conflict, Conflict Management, Conflict and Negotiation, and Conflict in Personal Relationships, this textbook examines the central principles of effective conflict management in a wide variety of contexts--from romantic relationships to the workplace. Its combination of up-to-date research and examples gives students a theoretical as well as a practical foundation in conflict management.