You step on stage. Your palms sweat. Your pupils dilate. Your heart rate increases. You start taking deeper breaths, faster. Whether you have ever played an organized sport or acted in a school play, you'll recognize these signs. Glossophobia, the fear of public speaking, is consistently rated as one of people's top fears. If you are nervous or anxious before a presentation, you are not alone! Many, many people have faced this same anxiety. Are you the only person who experiences the fear of public speaking? Not even close. How about Prince Harry? Warren Buffett? Leonardo DiCaprio? Adele? All had anxiety prior tospeaking in public at some point in their careers. It doesn't matter how famous you are, how wealthy you are, or how successful you are. This graphic novel exists to provide you with strategies you can put into practice to help you reframe your fear and deliver a great speech or presentation!

Speak Fearlessly: Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Increase Your Confidence...and Comfort!

Comics & Graphic Novels

Eventoff, Matt

Garcia, Thomas Ray

Graphic Novels

Oratory Project, The

El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor tells the story of Chicano activist and self-described fronterizo Aurelio Manuel Montemayor, whose dual identities as an educator and political organizer informed his hitherto little-known role in developing a course, or curso, that cultivated Chicano leadership from the barrios. This memoir follows Montemayor during the formative periods of his life--his education, his teaching career, his political awakening--to describe the development of his critical consciousness in 1960s America. The book combines the personal and the political, leading readers along a journey of self-discovery that results in Montemayor's most consequential, yet relatively unknown, contribution to el movimiento, the Curso de la Raza. Along the way, Montemayor grapples with his Mexican and American identities, foregoes his literary pursuits in favor of uplifting la raza, and navigates the pitfalls of movement politics. From marching with the Mexican American Youth Organization to cofounding the first independent Chicano college, Colegio Jacinto Treviño, he recounts lesser-known events and projects of Chicano activism in South Texas. In doing so, he provides a more complete portrait of the Chicano movement through the lens of an educator-turned-activist from the borderlands. In El Curso de la Raza, Montemayor contextualizes his critical consciousness for twenty-first-century audiences. Much like the goals of the Curso, the book aims to educate readers about deriving pedagogy from oppression, historicity from personality, and contemporary insights from past shortcomings.

El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor

Biographies & Memoirs

Montemayor, Aurelio

Leaders & Notable People

Texas A&M University Press

Thomas Ray Garcia's debut short story collection presents revitalized insights into Texas-Mexico border culture, highlighting tales of resilience while refusing to shy away from the omnipresent reality the river imposes. Written from 2015 to 2020, these stories resist a singular vision of the border, centering the Rio Grande as a site of transformation. 
Here, river crossings lead to cross-country runs and astral projections. A pregnant teenager learns about motherhood from a curandera. A scholarship boy grapples with his fronterizo identity. The sister of a border patrol agent lives in fear of deportation. A child looks into the eye of a drone and sees his family anew. 
The River Runs: Stories won the Américo Paredes Literary Arts Prize for Fiction sponsored by FlowerSong Press from McAllen, Texas, and Prickly Pear Publishing from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The River Runs: Stories

Literature & Fiction

United States

Prickly Pear Publishing

Speechless (Speak With Style Books)

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Independently published

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