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Money Mouth
How To Become A Professional Speaker
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Professional speaking is a flexible and lucrative enterprise. The best public speakers
earn all or most of their money from public speaking, and they make very good livings
indeed. Fees for public speaking can range from the low hundreds, for those just
started out, all the way up to six figures,...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Reflecting advances in theory, research, and application in the discipline since the publication of the Handbook of Public Relations in 2001, this new volume is global in scope and unmatched in its coverage of both academic research and professional best practice. It presents major theories in the...
Innovation and Its Enemies
Why People Resist New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
The rise of artificial intelligence has rekindled a long-standing debate regarding the impact of technology on employment. This is just one of many areas where exponential advances in technology signal both hope and fear, leading to public controversy. This book shows that many debates over new technologies...
The Art of Presentation
Your Competitive Edge
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In The Art of Presentation, the second book of the new Jim Stovall and Dr. Ray Hull “Your Ultimate Guide” series for personal development and business success, the authors use their decades of combined experience, research, and natural abilities to powerfully illustrate the specifics of effective...
by James Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Gain a complete understanding of the important controversy over hydraulic fracturing for shale gas production with this outstanding six-hundred page collection of up-to-date official documents and publications on the risks and rewards of shale gas. It includes the new report from the House Committee...
How to Become a Public Speaker
Showing the Best Manner of Arranging Thought so as to Gain Conciseness, Ease and Fluency in Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
How to Become a Public Speaker is a great book on public speaking first published in 1903.
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Public deliberation depends on how skillful communicators are in establishing their version of what is known to be publicly acceptable. This volume provides rhetorical analyses of institutional websites, political speeches, scientific presentations, journalistic accounts or visual entertainment. It...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Basics of Public Speaking
Referred to as oratory or oration, public speaking is the delivery or performance of a structured or themed speech or presentation in which the objective is to inform, entertain, influence, or motivate a live group of audience. The speech is usually...
Regulatory Politics in an Age of Polarization and Drift
Beyond Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Regulatory change is typically understood as a response to significant crises like the Great Depression, or salient events that focus public attention, like Earth Day 1970. Without discounting the importance of these kinds of events, change often assumes more gradual and less visible forms. But how...
Governors, Grants, and Elections
Fiscal Federalism in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Each year, states receive hundreds of billions of dollars in grants-in-aid from the federal government. Gubernatorial success is often contingent upon the pursuit and allocation of these grants. In Governors, Grants, and Elections, Sean Nicholson-Crotty reveals the truth about how U.S. governors strategically...
The Path of American Public Policy
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Among all the worlds’ democracies, the American system of government is perhaps the most self-conscious about preventing majority tyranny. The American constitutional system is predicated on an inherent ideational and institutional tension dating back to the foundation of the nation in the eighteenth...
The Last Plague
Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 was the deadliest pandemic in history, killing as many as 50 million people worldwide. Canadian federal public health officials tried to prevent the disease from entering the country by implementing a maritime quarantine, as had been their standard practice since...