This text provides an overview of the speaking skills needed in business. It offers step-by-step guidelines on speaking clearly, organizing speeches and presentations, and speaking informa-tively or persuasively. It also includes proper phone procedures and speaking techniques geared toward various types of meet-ings, small group discussions, and larger presentations.

Speaking Skills for Business Careers

Becker,Dennis

Becker,Paula

Literature & Fiction

McGraw–Hill Education

Betty Bard MacDonald (1907–1958), the best-selling author of The Egg and I and the classic Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle children's books, burst onto the literary scene shortly after the end of World War II. Readers embraced her memoir of her years as a young bride operating a chicken ranch on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and The Egg and I sold its first million copies in less than a year. The public was drawn to MacDonald's vivacity, her offbeat humor, and her irreverent take on life. In 1947, the book was made into a movie starring Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, and spawned a series of films featuring MacDonald's Ma and Pa Kettle characters. MacDonald followed up the success of The Egg and I with the creation of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, a magical woman who cures children of their bad habits, and with three additional memoirs: The Plague and I (chronicling her time in a tuberculosis sanitarium just outside Seattle), Anybody Can Do Anything (recounting her madcap attempts to find work during the Great Depression), and Onions in the Stew (about her life raising two teenage daughters on Vashon Island). Author Paula Becker was granted full access to Betty MacDonald's archives, including materials never before seen by any researcher. Looking for Betty MacDonald, a biography of this endearing Northwest storyteller, reveals the story behind the memoirs and the difference between the real Betty MacDonald and her literary persona. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lr6iVK4zWk

Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, the Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Washington Press

This beautifully bound, 300-page image rich commemorative book explores the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and its legacy. Written by local experts Paula Becker and Alan J. Stein of HistoryLink.org and commissioned for the 50th Anniversary of the Fair.

The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy

History

Stein, Alan J.

History Link

Americas

Seattle Center Foundation

Powerful Presentation Skills (BUSINESS SKILLS EXPRESS SERIES)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker’s son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet, addiction found him. More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril. For parents, a child’s addiction upends family life, catapulting them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr. Spock, but by Dante’s Inferno. Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.

A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Addiction & Recovery

University Of Iowa Press

Product Description 
Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb. 
Breathe. 
This beautiful book offers a gentle and honest guide for surviving the early days of grief―shock, trauma, disbelief―and beyond. In simple, easy-to-absorb pages composed of short, poetic text and spot illustrations, readers will begin to find the path they need to move through their grief, step by step. From grieving a sudden death or a long illness, someone hard to love or impossible to live without, anyone suffering a loss will see themselves and their grief reflected in these pages. 
When author Paula Becker’s son was killed in 2017, she reached for grief books to help her understand how to proceed through the enormous grief engulfing her. Most grief books are tens of thousands of words long―helpful resources, but often too overwhelming for the newly bereaved to navigate with shattered attention spans and broken hearts. With A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve, as only someone who knows grief intimately can, Paula Becker offers grievers a touchstone, quiet snippets of care and advice that can be returned to again and again as they travel the lifelong road of grief. A planned foreword from a notable voice in the grief community as well as a resources section rounds out this essential book. 
In the vein of It's OK That You're Not OK, A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve acknowledges the brokenness, the pain, and how grief alters your reality and with great tenderness and gentle compassion, walks with readers in that new world. 
 Review 
“Becker’s authentic sharing of her own experience offers readers suggested instruction rarely given but frequently sought after. This book will go a long way to help others who struggle with the death of a loved one feel less alone.” 
—Laura Takacs, LICSW, MPH, Clinical Director, 
Grief Services, Virginia Mason Medical Center\n“There’s no map for grief, but . . . Paula Becker’s suggestions light a path to navigate the early days of intense grief and heartbreak.”\n—Jana DeCristofaro, LCSW, Community Response Program Coordinator, 
The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Families 
 Review 
"This book is perfect. It's truly perfect in every way. It finds the right words to express what you feel, and has the right words to comfort and be able to breathe. Most importantly, it makes you feel ok, and that you are not losing your mind, even in those moments when grief overwhelms you and your pain is more than you can handle. I have read a lot about grief since my mom died Christmas 2016. More recently, I came home from work on April 8, 2021 to find my partner dead. This book is the best one I've read, because it actually helps. I'm not crazy for wearing his shirts or mom's necklaces. It's OK to have normal dishtowels and special ones (mom's), which I treat more carefully, and a million other little things that I do or I keep and treasure for the most benign reasons. This book is important. This book helps. This book should be given to everyone, who has lost someone recently. This book can give people, who feel they don't want to continue a life without the person they lost, moments to catch a breath, thing to do to process the grief, permission to feel their feelings, something that soothes and calms and the sense that it will become bearable with time. Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a free review copy, and to Paula Becker for writing this book, which has made a difference in my life. That's priceless beyond what my words can express." --Katarina O. 
"This book was great. Like the title, it’s a book of self care for those who are grieving. Excerpts are short and are easy to read through. This book reminds those to breathe, process, and just take care of you during an extremely difficult time. I did wish the book was a bit longer, but as the author explains, it’s the perfect length for those who are still in the early stages of grief (as well as those who have been grieving for

A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve

Parenting & Relationships

Girl Friday Books

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