Public Speaking category: 1264 books
Presidents and Their Pens
The Story of White House Speechwriters
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2016
Presidents and Their Pens: The Story of White House Speechwriters explores 23 presidencies through the detailed analysis of speeches including Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” speech, Eisenhower’s farewell to the nation, and Bill Clinton’s compassionate words...
by Jackie Arnold
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
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. Made An Unforgettable Speech is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to learning the basic principles of a great speech in a few...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
What are today's best interventions for supporting language acquisition and literacy for children who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH)? This comprehensive textbook-and-DVD set brings the answers to life for tomorrow's speech-language pathologists, audiologists, and educators. The newest addition to...
Spreek als TED
de negen geheimen van de beste sprekers ter wereld
Language: Dutch
Release Date: July 4, 2015
TED is een wereldwijd fenomeen dat de beste sprekers ter wereld bij elkaar brengt. De TED-talks zijn online al meer dan een miljard keer bekeken en ze zijn vrijwel zonder uitzondering boeiend en inspirerend. TED is uitgegroeid tot dé standaard voor spreken in het openbaar. Maar wat maakt die presentaties...
Media Training for Modern Leaders
How to Face News Media with Confidence in Today's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Never fear the news media again!
If you've always had that underlying fear of media attention, Media Training for Modern Leaders is for you. Written specifically for today's leaders, you'll learn how to face the media confidently in any situation. International author and media expert Pete...
Great Speeches
Words that Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Great Speeches collects over forty of the most powerful and stirring addresses delivered in the English language. It captures the significant historical events of the past 400 years in the words of their participants, from those speeches given in times of war and sorrow, such as Winston Churchill's 'This...
The Rhetoric of Food
Discourse, Materiality, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book focuses on the rhetoric of food and the power dimensions that intersect this most fundamental but increasingly popular area of ideology and practice, including politics, culture, lifestyle, identity, advertising, environment, and economy. The essays visit a rich variety of dominant discourses...
Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication
Cognition/culture/power
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers...
Educational Ecologies
Toward a Symbolic-Material Understanding of Discourse, Technology, and Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This book elucidates how technology has impacted the discourse and practices of higher education. Dowd situates current educational movements centered on new technologies, such as the Do It Yourself (DIY) movement, within broader ideological concepts concerned with education, progress, technology,...
Falar para impressionar
Descubra o poder da oratória
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Quanto maiores suas habilidades para se expressar, maiores também suas chances de sucesso na vida pessoal e profissional. A boa comunicação linguística não depende de dons, mas de habilidades que podem ser adquiridas e aprimoradas. Falar para impressionar irá ajudá-lo neste processo de aprendizagem...
by Donald Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Body Language
The Latest Body Language Guide. Learn To Read A Person Like a Book
Better communication at work or leisure is a desirable goal for everyone. With this primer on body language, you can literally read people “like a book” and react more consistently and appropriately...
I Have a Dream
The Speeches That Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
To read of Elizabeth I addressing her troops before the Spanish Armada, or Martin Luther-King urging the American population for racial equality is to understand the tremendous power of language to inspire, to comfort, to move, or to enthuse an audience. It is inspiring to hear the words of people whose...
The Ides of War
George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
History tells us that on a day when the forces of civil government confront the forces of military might, no one knows what may follow. Americans believe that they have avoided this moment, that whatever other challengesthe country has faced, at least it never has had to deal with the prospects of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Understanding how rhetoric, and environmental rhetoric in particular, informs and is informed by local and global ecologies contributes to our conversations about sustainability and resilience — the preservation and conservation of the earth and the future of human society. This book explores some...