Skills category: 6777 books

1000 Tips For Climbers is aimed at anyone who hangs off stuff, or just hangs around in the mountains. It's not an instruction book, but more a massive collection of all those little tips that make a real difference.  These tips are based on thirty years of climbing obsession, as well as nineteen...

Winner of Hoffer, Nautilus and Midwest Book Awards as one of the best new books on creative writing. "The essential truths about excellent writing." The Judges of the Hoffer Awards MFA in a Box is a different kind of book on creative writing -- and, more broadly, on the creative...

Businesses are sending their top managers to improvisational classes to learn how to give presentations, how to talk to clients, and how to finesse difficult situations. But those same skills can be mastered with the help of the simple and fun exercises found in this book. The authors explain how...

Improve your writing and enhance your creativity with the power of imagery. Let's face it. Some authors write so beautifully with such vivid description that it makes you question your own abilities. You want to write compelling books, but sometimes it feels like you got the short end of the...

Lunch with friends, frequent coffee breaks and easy living are things that come up only when you are working from home. It’s just like a dream come true for a person who wanted to enjoy life completely. Having a cup of coffee from your own coffee maker simply boasts your energy levels. ...

This book teaches you how to easily write daunting term papers in a short amount of time. With the systems taught in this book, you will be able to research your topics in a rapid fashion and to produce your term papers in just a matter of a couple of hours. Also this book will help you find reliable...

Meetings are an inevitable and often unwelcome aspect of the working day. They figure heavily in all walks of life and create a forum for providing information, holding discussions, and making decisions. If they are run well they are a really valuable tool in running your organisation and progressing...

Do you find it hard to get people to take notice of you? Do you find that you are saying a lot, but not actually making any impression? Would you like to be better at making and keeping friends? Has your career suffered because you can't seem to communicate properly? This book aims to show how the skills...

This book is written in a manner to teach basic skills in choosing, care for and using bodyguarding defensive weapons which includes personal firearms and protective vests. To those who are starting out in the profession, those who want to increase their knowledge and also gives an in-depth look as to what bodyguards are expected to do, and the equipment they need to do it.

This Is Your Roadmap to Success! The Indie Author Guide takes you through every stage of the self-publishing process. With e-books, print on demand and the power of Web 2.0, you have the ability to publish your own high quality books and go indie—just as filmmakers and musicians have done....

Would You Like to Learn How To Create and Sell Your First 1000 Copies through Books?   This book begins by sharing an overview to make the beginners understand the world of self-publishing. It is followed by a simple & easy guide which beginners can follow in order to write and publish their...

The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Write Persuasive Copy helps you to write compelling copy, to show off your communication skills and fulfil your creative potential.

Don't let the revision process intimidate you any longer. Discover how to successfully transform your first draft into a polished final draft readers won't be able to forget. In Write Great Fiction: Revision & Self-Editing, James Scott Bell draws on his experience as a novelist and instructor...

Superlearner is the same as superforgetter. Research in cognitive psychology, which goes back more than one hundred years, has shown that effective learning is hard and requires time and effort. You can feel like a superlearner by consuming tons of information in record time, but, in that case, you...