Don't Just Present. Persuade, Inspire, and Perform! Powerhouse presentations that engage and move your audience 
Imagine if every presentation received rapt attention and buy-in from the audience. 
Start getting these results with Own the Room, featuring the renowned Eloqui Method-innovative techniques that leave boring behind. 
Research shows a memorable presentation is a combination of stirring your audience's emotions while appealing to its intellect. This team of authors has developed techniques that tap into the persuasive, expressive aspects of presentations-employed over the past ten years by Fortune 500 companies such as TD Ameritrade, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Merrill Lynch, Siemens, and Pfizer. 
This effective method brings you:
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 <li>An award-winning actor who applies performance techniques from the stage to engage and move an audience 
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<li>A television and film director who demonstrates how to craft and deliver your message with authority, credibility, and authenticity 
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<li>A psychologist who specializes in memory and stage fright and reveals how to overcome fear and activate an audience's attention and memory</li>
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 Own the Room is written by a unique set of authors with the expertise perfect for creating vivid narratives. Own the Room shares how to excite your audience's emotions and intellect. And Own the Room will give you a communication toolkit to make any presentation lively, compelling, and memorable.

Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get Results

Business & Money

Desberg, Peter

Booth, David

Shames, Deborah

Industries

McGraw=Hill

From developing a friendly computer interface to creating animated effects that "make the screen dance," this hands-on guide shows readers how to use HyperCard software to create top-quality instructional programs on the Macintosh. The book describes how to choose subject matter, design a program, and determine the method of presentation - including the type of interaction and guiding metaphors that will be used. It explains how to make programs easy for the user to navigate and control; how to create effective introductions, paths, and transitions; how to create useful feedback and remediation; and how to develop reliable assessment, scoring, and help facilities. To make it easy for readers to learn by doing, twenty-five special HyperCard stacks are used to walk the reader through on-screen demonstration sessions - the stacks are supplied on disk accompanying the book. These modular sessions let readers try their hand at various aspects of CAI before sitting down to create an entire program. Readers will learn how to write scripts, design screens, develop appropriate practice tasks, "bullet-proof" their programs, and integrate graphics, sound, and animation into their lessons. For those with access to videotape and other video sources, a chapter on QuickTime explains how Apple Computer's new system extension can be used to integrate video presentations into computer lessons, creating multi-media instructional programs right on the computer screen.

Hyper Interactive Cai: Using Hypercard to Develop Computer-Assisted Instruction/Book and Disk

Computers & Technology

Allyn&Bacon

This revolution in teaching and publishing gives you a unique "hands-on" opportunity to learn about using technology in schools. All the content of a traditional textbook for the computers in education course taught interactively, plus the ability to experience using the software you'll encounter on the job - spreadsheets, databases, drawing programs, evaluation programs, and more! It's a publishing first - new totally interactive "bookware!"

Teaching With Technology (4 Macintosh Disks)

Fisher, Farah

PRENTICE/HALL

Teaching With Technology

This Web-based book is an interactive resource that teaches educators how to use and integrate current technology in their classrooms using numerous applications. Students learn by doing and participating, rather than by reading passive descriptions. TWT stresses applied situations useful to classroom teachers, and provides the theoretical and research underpinnings to support the information. Through many descriptions, interactive exercises and demos, TWT provides a great deal of useful information for integrating technology into the classroom. For educators working with grade levels K-12, who are interested in creating technology-friendly classrooms.

Teaching with Technology: A Web-Based Resource for Teachers (3rd Edition)

Job Hunting & Careers

Cartoons show ludicrously extreme methods for teaching dogs to obey commands, avoid bad habits, and become accustomed to grooming procedures

No Good Dogs

Science & Math

Technology

Pocket_Books

For millions, the idea of public speaking is terrifying--actually ranking ahead of the fear of death. Many books on public speaking promise to turn shy talkers into impressively confident speakers, but Speaking Scared, Sounding Good is different. Written by Dr. Peter Desberg, a practicing psychologist who has taught thousands of people to speak in front of groups, it doesn’t make ridiculous claims. What it does do is provide you with proven techniques that will enable you to make it through any speech and―even though you may still be nervous―sound as if you know what you are talking about. You’ll learn how to relax, how to focus, and how to set reachable goals for yourself. Through worksheets and self-tests, you’ll be able to isolate and address your individual needs. The author even discusses the unique speaking problems associated with dyslexia. If the fear of public speaking has been holding you back in your career―or if you’ve simply run out of excuses to avoid talking in front of your local garden club―Speaking Scared, Sounding Good will successfully guide you through the process.

Speaking Scared, Sounding Good: Public Speaking for the Private Person

Literature & Fiction

Square One

There is a feeling of pure delight that comes from laughing out loud while watching a hilarious movie or a TV show. Yet as funny as these lines may be, they are the work of people you will never see. The magic behind any comedy hit begins when an idea is hatched in the mind of a comedy writer and is then put down on paper. And while few of us are privy to this fascinating process, for writers Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis, the challenge of observing and understanding how comedy is born has culminated in a unique new book, Now That’s Funny! Desberg and Davis provide an intimate look into the minds of twenty-four of Hollywood’s funniest comedy writers, who have given us such shows as: Saturday Night Live Monk Everybody Loves Raymond The Simpsons Frasier Maude Home Improvement Valerie Modern Family Cheers There’s Something about Mary The Honeymooners Suddenly Susan Newhart Sabrina the Teenage Witch Archie Bunker’s Place The Tracey Ullman Show Wings Who’s The Boss? and more How do you get to see the creative wheels turn? The authors’ premise was simple: Using a Q and A format, they provided each writer with a story idea and let them run with it. Each of the writers was told there were no rules, no boundaries, and no limits! Because everyone started with the same concept, the authors could see how some writers jumped in and began creating, while others asked lots of questions; how some writers stuck closely to the premise, while others turned it on its head. What emerges is an entertaining look―illuminating and hilarious in turn―at the creative process behind hit TV shows and movies. If you’re one of the millions who have enjoyed watching the work of comedy writers, here is an opportunity to go behind the scenes and see the madness unfold. Now that’s funny!

Now That's Funny!: The Art and Craft of Writing Comedy

Humor & Entertainment

Davis, Jeffrey

Humor

Written by Dr. Peter Desberg, a practicing psychologist who has taught thousands of people to speak in front of groups, doesn't make ridiculous claims. What he does do is provide you with proven techniques that will enable you to make it through any speech and-even though you may still be nervous-sound as if you know what you are talking about. You'll learn how to relax, how to focus, and how to set reachable goals for yourself. If the fear of public speaking has been holding you back in your career-or if you've simply run out of excuses to avoid talking in front of your local garden club - this book will successfully guide you through the process.

Mastering the Art of Public Speaking

Barnes&Noble

This book contains a wealth of information written by two psychology professors at the California State University.

Controlling Stagefright: Presenting Yourself to Audiences from One to One Thousand

Marsh, George D.

New Harbinger Pubns Inc

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