Download or read book Finish Your Damn Speech written by Tony Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2017-10-07 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear Public Speaking? Need Help With Your Speech? "Finish Your Damn Speech!" offers tips and practical advice for organizing and delivering an effective speech or presentation. It covers important public speaking topics including: the Intro, Body, and Conclusion of your speech; verbal delivery and body language; using notes and visual aids; practicing your speech; managing fear and anxiety; and delivering the best speech possible. Whether it's a class assignment, work presentation, special occasion speech, or keynote address... If you can spare two hours for this book, you'll be on your way to finishing your damn speech!
Download or read book Bird by Bird written by Anne Lamott and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times). “Superb writing advice…. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” —The New York Times Book Review For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”
Download or read book The End of Your Life Book Club written by Will Schwalbe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profoundly moving memoir of caregiving, mourning, and love between a mother and her son—and about the joy of reading, and the ways that joy is multiplied when we share it with others. “A graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived.” —Entertainment Weekly, Grade A During her treatment for cancer, Mary Anne Schwalbe and her son Will spent many hours sitting in waiting rooms together. To pass the time, they would talk about the books they were reading. Once, by chance, they read the same book at the same time—and an informal book club of two was born. Through their wide-ranging reading, Will and Mary Anne—and we, their fellow readers—are reminded how books can be comforting, astonishing, and illuminating, changing the way that we feel about and interact with the world around us.
Download or read book ILLBORN written by Daniel T. Jackson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, The Lord Aiduel emerged from the deserts of the Holy Land, possessed with divine powers. He used these to forcibly unify the peoples of Angall, before His ascension to heaven.
Download or read book Hazard and Somerset Off Duty Volume 2 written by Gregory Ashe and published by Hodgkin and Blount. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty Volume 2 is a collection of short stories. It includes the following: “John-Henry Somerset: Sold!” Somers enters a charity bachelor’s auction without telling his boyfriend. This story takes place before The Rational Faculty. “Pretty and Pink and Perfect” Hazard plans a toddler’s birthday party. This story takes place before The Rational Faculty. “Pride Slays Thanksgiving” Hazard and Somers prepare for their first Thanksgiving as a couple. This story takes place before Police Brutality. “Santa: A Cultural Hegemony” Hazard is volun-told to dress up as Santa. This story takes place before Transactional Dynamics. “Valentine’s in Six Beats” Hazard executes his do-over for Valentine’s. This story takes place before Wayward. “Emery’s Birthday Scavenger Hunt” Somers plans the perfect birthday for Hazard . . . or so he thinks. This story takes place before The Keeper of Bees. “Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty” A series of six vignettes featuring Hazard and Somers on a Caribbean vacation. This story takes place after The Keeper of Bees. Please note that the first six stories have distributed previously to mailing list subscribers and at GRL 2019. “Hazard and Somerset: Off Duty” is exclusively available in this collection.
Download or read book 48 Hours written by William R. Forstchen and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off. Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it? William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Success Psychology of the Whitehouse written by Dr. John J. Churchill and published by Churchill Books . This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new self-help book, John J. Churchill creates a guide to help you fully understand people. Learn to make people like you and win them to your way of thinking in a subliminal and habitual way. This book delves into evidence-based psychology and the success mindsets of Presidents Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, and Roosevelt. This book will both increase your popularity and help you get along with people in everyday life. Learn how the first 26 US Presidents applied the success traits of ambition, adaptability, resourcefulness, fight, faith, reliability, and integrity, into a determination to fight for every inch. Learn how to have a winning mentality always, despite adversity. Understand how the disciplines of loyalty, self-control, alertness, intentness, poise, confidence, and competitive greatness, helped ordinary men attain the Oval Office. Visualize the success traits of the Founding Fathers and make them automatic to success in your own mind. Learn the American winning mindset and apply it in your own business and personal life, no matter where you live on the planet. ‘The best way to predict your future is to create it.’ Abraham Lincoln: 1. Don’t criticize anybody for anything 2. Give sincere appreciation 3. Always focus on what the other person wants 4. Become genuinely interested in other people 5. Remember names 6. Be a good listener and let people talk 7. Make people feel important, sincerely 8. If you are wrong, admit it quickly 9. See things from the other person’s point of view
Download or read book Hot Finish written by Erin McCarthy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire is about to reach its peak. Suzanne Jefferson is broke, which is why she's given up charity work for wedding planning. Fortunately, she has a high-profile client-and best of all, he's paid in advance. There are just two teensy problems: the bride is a bona fide bridezilla, and Suzanne's stock racer ex- husband is the best man. At least she though he was her ex-husband...
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of H P Lovecraft Illustrated written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 3007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook presents the complete fictional works of H. P. Lovecraft, with beautiful illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lovecraft's life and works * Brief introduction to master short story writer * Over 100 short stories, including rare collaborations * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the tales you want to read * A selection of some of Lovecrafts greatest poetry * Includes Lovecraft's memoirs a range of autobiographical writings collected form the authors letters and journals * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to copyright restrictions, the short stories that Lovecraft wrote with C. M. Eddy, Jr. cannot appear in this collection. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: H. P. Lovecraft: Brief Introduction The Short Stories The Little Glass Bottle The Secret Cave The Mystery of the Grave-Yard The Mysterious Ship The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Sweet Ermengarde Polaris The Green Meadow Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory Old Bugs The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter The Terrible Old Man The Tree The Cats of Ulthar The Temple Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Street Poetry and the Gods Celephaïs From Beyond Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House The Crawling Chaos Ex Oblivione The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog The Outsider The Other Gods The Music of Erich Zann Herbert West Reanimator Hypnos What the Moon Brings Azathoth The Horror at Martins Beach The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival Under the Pyramids The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He In the Vault The Descendant Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Two Black Bottles Pickmans Model The Silver Key The Strange High House in the Mist The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Colour Out of Space The Very Old Folk The Thing in the Moonlight The Last Test The History of the Necronomicon The Curse of Yig Ibid The Dunwich Horror The Electric Executioner The Mound Medusas Coil The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Draft) The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Trap The Dreams in the Witch House The Man of Stone The Horror in the Museum Through the Gates of the Silver Key Winged Death Out of the Aeons The Thing on the Doorstep The Evil Clergyman The Horror in the Burying-Ground The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast The Slaying of the Monster The Book The Tree on the Hill The Battle that Ended the Century The Shadow out of Time Till A the Seas Collapsing Cosmoses The Challenge from Beyond The Disinterment The Diary of Alonzo Typer The Haunter of the Dark In the Walls of Eryx The Night Ocean LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Poetry LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Memoirs LIST OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS Please click here to browse our other titles
Download or read book Till Noon written by Thomas R. Brooks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical comment on Thomas R. Brooks previous book: The War North of Rome, June 1944-May 1945 Brookshas written a splendid C serious, solid and engaging Caccount of a grinding and unglamorous battle of attrition, dirty and savage . . . His touch is sure and intensely human. Martin Blumenson Noted Military Historian . . . a lucid account . . . Of what it was like in that grim year after Rome fell. 88th Division Association Newsletter All in all, this is a well-told story of brave men who endured a great deal in an almost forgotten campaign. Frederick N. Smith, Conservative Review .A significant book . . . a solid, well-written campaign history. . . Vnce Murray, Ocala, Florida, Star-Banner Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw em all. Max Shulman Sleep Till Noon
Download or read book Corporate Dictatorship The World Controlled From the Top By Megalomaniacs Volume I written by Raymond Pairan and published by Raymond Pairan. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insanity and compulsiveness, the gamblers spirit pervades this upside down top-heavy society – a society that values the ignorance of well positioned marketing sales types over informed intellect. Capitalism is a fundamentally coherent societal framework if it can be encapsulated from the political substrate and left to small and medium sized corporations without the destructive influences of industry oligarchy. Later stage capitalism unfortunately empowers the crafty snake oil dealers groomed in cult like educational institutions to buyout all the original creative entrepreneurs. This collection of essays that shows how our current societal framework is designed to benefit the few at the expense of the many and how we can change this trajectory of wealth despotism into an egalitarian cooperative community of equally important community participants.
Download or read book Real Queer America written by Samantha Allen and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative tour through the surprisingly vibrant queer communities sprouting up in red states (New York Times Book Review), offering a vision of a stronger, more humane America. Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary. Now she's a GLAAD Award-winning journalist happily married to another woman. A lot in her life has changed, but what hasn't changed is her deep love of Red State America, and of queer people who stay in so-called "flyover country" rather than moving to the liberal coasts. In Real Queer America, Allen takes us on a cross-country road-trip stretching all the way from Provo, Utah to the Rio Grande Valley to the Bible Belt to the Deep South. Her motto for the trip: "Something gay every day." Making pit stops at drag shows, political rallies, and hubs of queer life across the heartland, she introduces us to scores of extraordinary LGBT people working for change, from the first openly transgender mayor in Texas history to the manager of the only queer night club in Bloomington, Indiana, and many more. Capturing profound cultural shifts underway in unexpected places and revealing a national network of chosen family fighting for a better world, Real Queer America is a treasure trove of uplifting stories and a much-needed source of hope and inspiration in these divided times.
Download or read book In the Spotlight written by Janet Esposito and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In The Spotlight is a dynamic workbook for the anxious presenter or performer! Short, easy-to-understand chapters with succinct summaries and powerful action steps, make this book a must-read!' Anthony Robbins, author of Awaken the Giant Within and Unlimited Power. Are you tired of suffering from stage fright? Have you had enough of feeling terrified of speaking or performing in front of others, and trying to avoid it at all costs? If so, In The SpotLight is perfect for you! It reveals the principles, methods and strategies that can help you get beyond stage fright and create a whole new possibility for comfortable and confident speaking and performing. It will also help you if you are self-conscious and uncomfortable in any social situation.
Download or read book UNDYING QUEEN BOOK THREE Quest for the Undying Queen written by Abraham Kawa and published by ARH BOOKS. This book was released on 2020-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkhalla There cannot be a world without a Queen. The Undying may be no more – the few of them left hunted and with a price on their heads – but the darkness of their legacy still lives on. Shamath, the hero who saved humanity, roams the earth a man lost, his life turned into a hunt with little purpose. Far across the sea, in the deserts of Egypt, Bel and Narama, both shades of their former selves, struggle to build a new life, yet even the bond between them seems broken. But out of nowhere comes a new chance at life for hero and foe alike. A call from the beyond sends Shamath on a desperate quest, his routing out the Undying now infused with dread urgency. Meanwhile, a miracle brings Narama and Bel promise of peace. Yet the same hopes that revive the three of them threaten to tangle them once more into a fight to the death. The secret Shamath seeks that will lead to the domain of the dread demon Asag lies with his enemies, and he will spare no effort to find it. But if Shamath succeeds in his quest, the world may end in blood and fire, fulfilling, at last, the Dark God’s plan. To bring back to life the Undying Queen herself.
Download or read book Lend Me Your Ears written by Max Atkinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The room darkens and grows hushed, all eyes to the front as the screen comes to life. Eagerly the audience starts to thumb the pages of their handouts, following along breathlessly as the slides go by one after the other... We're not sure what the expected outcome was when PowerPoint first emerged as the industry standard model of presentation, but reality has shown few positive results. Research reveals that there is much about this format that audiences positively dislike, and that the old school rules of classical rhetoric are still as effective as they ever were for maximizing impact. Renowned communications researcher, consultant, and speech coach Max Atkinson presents these findings and more in a groundbreaking and refreshing approach that highlights the secrets of successful communication, and shows how anyone can put these into practice and become an effective speaker or presenter. Topics Include: DT How to win and hold the attention of audiences; DT Using visual aids and PowerPoint more effectively; DT Getting your message across and winning applause; DT Inspiring audiences; DT How to prepare quickly; DT Fact and fiction about body language and non-verbal communication
Download or read book Palace of the Damned written by Darren Shan and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third installment in the creepy, captivating Larten Crepsley series, young vampire Larten finds out what it means to love...but is he also damned to find out what it means to lose? Before Madame Octa... Before the Cirque... Before Darren Shan... Larten Crepsley was a young man. This is his story. After failing his mentor and killing the entire crew of a ship in a bout of revenge for the death of his assistant, Larten is bereft with guilt. He no longer has the drive to live the vampiric life, and hides out in Paris, masquerading as a human. There, he finds some happiness, even falling in love with a girl. But the darkness inside him is too great for humanity, and he is forced to make a choice: hide in the shadows of the human world, or take his place among the vampire clan and protect those weaker than himself. But enemies are waiting, traps are laid, and Larten's path is bound to be strewn with bodies. A superb addition to the mesmerizing and terrifying world of Darren Shan and Cirque du Freak.
Download or read book The Complete Weird Tales of H P Lovecraft written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WIKIPEDIA says: 'H.P. Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.' H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. This electronic tome collects together Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.
