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 Finish Your Damn Speech written by Tony Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 In the SpotLight written by Janet E. Esposito and published by In The SpotLight LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The SpotLight: Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking and Performing is a perfect book for those who are afraid of speaking or performing in front of others. This book provides many different methods and strategies to help you get beyond stage fright and learn to speak or perform with ease and confidence. This book will also help anyone who is self-conscious and uncomfortable in any social situation. You will discover how to: * Dramatically decrease your feelings of fear, discomfort, and loss of control associated with speaking or performing in front of others * Minimize your uncomfortable physical symptoms associated with fear * Significantly reduce the dread of anticipating a speaking or performing event * Eliminate your need to avoid situations of speaking or performing because of fear * Create a relaxed and confident state of mind and body in preparing to speak or perform * Break through your fear and create an inner peace around speaking and performing that you never imagined possible!

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 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 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 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 385 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.

Download or read book Thanks for the Trouble written by Tommy Wallach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique story about first—and last—loves from the celebrated and bestselling author of We All Looked Up. Parker Santé hasn’t spoken a word in five years. While his classmates plan for bright futures, he skips school to hang out in hotels, killing time by watching the guests. But when he meets a silver-haired girl named Zelda Toth, a girl who claims to be quite a bit older than she looks, he’ll discover there just might be a few things left worth living for.

Download or read book Preparation for the Next Life written by Atticus Lish and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zou Lei is an illegal immigrant who works at a Chinese restaurant in Queens in search of a better life in the 'Land of the Brave'. Brad Skinner has recently arrived in New York following a tour in Iraq and is determined to party as hard as he can in order to start 'wanting to live again'. When their paths cross, they discover that new starts may be possible for both of them, if they can survive homelessness, lockup and Skinner's post-traumatic stress disorder, which may be more prophecy than madness.

Download or read book The Complete Fiction Collection vol III written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of three books containing the complete fiction collection of the great HP Lovecraft, the master of horror. The serie contains 83 fiction stories (including some rare juvenile stories), one sonnet and two essays.

Download or read book How to End Our Speech with Confidence written by Mark Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closing our speeches professionally is a learned skill. We can't avoid the end of our presentation. This is the time we create our lasting impression, the final soundbite in our audience's mind.We have to stop talking sometime, so we might as well design the ending of our talk to be effective and memorable.* Nervous about closing? * Uncomfortable with asking for a decision? * Afraid no one will clap? * Don't know how to finish? Relax.Get ready to master five simple and professional ways to quickly and effectively close your talk. All five simple techniques will immediately help us to remove the fear of closing our talk. Now we can enjoy our public speaking experiences even more. We will walk away from our talks feeling awesome while achieving our goals.

Download or read book The War for Gloria written by Atticus Lish and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A legendary writer entirely on his own account' Observer 'Stunningly good' Guardian Gloria Goltz's intellectual ambitions are derailed when she meets Leonard at college. Self-taught, blue-collar, possessor of an aggressive intelligence, Leonard claims to hold the key to unlocking her potential. After making her pregnant, he disappears. Her son Corey grows up without a father, looking for a male role model - and restless, dreaming of a great adventure. Instead, when Corey is fifteen, Gloria is diagnosed with motor neuron disease, and his estranged father - this man of domineering charisma and dubious moral character - returns. Determined to be his mother's hero at any cost, Corey begins shouldering responsibility for her expensive medical care, pushing himself to his physical and emotional limits as her disease progresses. And as Leonard's influence over son and mother grows, Corey must dismantle the myth of his father's genius and confront the evil that lurks beneath it. Atticus Lish won a Pen/Faulkner award for his debut Preparation for the Next Life, a novel 'described as the finest and most unsentimental love story of the new decade' in The New York Times. His second novel confirms Lish as a beguiling storyteller and a prose stylist of extraordinary emotional reach and beauty.

Download or read book Tenth of December written by George Saunders and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing America' Sunday Times WINNER OF THE 2014 FOLIO PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2013 George Saunders's most wryly hilarious and disturbing collection yet, Tenth of December illuminates human experience and explores figures lost in a labyrinth of troubling preoccupations. A family member recollects a backyard pole dressed for all occasions; Jeff faces horrifying ultimatums and the prospect of Darkenfloxx(TM) in some unusual drug trials; and Al Roosten hides his own internal monologue behind a winning smile that he hopes will make him popular. With dark visions of the future riffing against ghosts of the past and the ever-settling present, this collection sings with astonishing charm and intensity.

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 Till Noon written by Thomas R. Brooks and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-05-23 with total page 326 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 Brooks¡±has written a splendid ¡ª¨C serious, solid and engaging ¡ª¨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 Between the Lines written by Jodi Picoult and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.