Books, Reference, Words & Language, Public Speaking

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Stephen Lucas
Student Workbook for use with The Art of Public Speaking
by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (Paperback)

Containing exercises, checklists, worksheets, evaluation forms, and other materials, the workbook gives students additional assistance with all the major elements of effective speechmaking.

Henry M. Robert
Robert's Rules of Order
by Topeka Bindery (School & Library Binding)

Dale Carnegie
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
by Pocket (Mass Market Paperback)

Good public speakers are made, not born - or so thinks Dale Carnegie, the pioneer of personal business skills. Yet business, social and personal satisfaction depend heavily upon a person's ability to communicate clearly. Public speaking is an important skill which anyone can acquire and develop. It is also the very best method of overcoming self-consciousness and building up courage, enthusiasm and self-confidence. This classic, well established title has been called 'the most brilliant book of its kind'. It takes you step by step through: acquiring basic skills; developing confidence; speaking effectively the quick and easy way; earning the right to talk; vitalising your talk; and sharing the talk with the audience as well as organisation, presentation and other skills.

Alan Garner
Conversationally Speaking: Tested New Ways to Increase Your Personal and Social Effectiveness
by Contemporary Books (Paperback)

More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides more ways to improve conversational skills by asking questions that promote conversation, learning how to listen so that others will be encouraged to talk, reducing anxiety in social situations and more.

Dan O'Hair, Rob Stewart, Hannah Rubenstein
A Speaker's Guidebook
by Bedford/St. Martin's (Plastic Comb)

A Speaker’s Guidebook is the most successful public speaking book in over a decade and the best resource for students both in and outside the classroom. Praised for connecting with students and addressing their most pressing needs, it is not only the easiest-to-use public speaking text available, it’s also the text that students keep. This comprehensive text covers all topics taught in the introduction to public speaking course from analyzing the audience and choosing a topic to researching, outlining, practicing, and delivering the speech. In addition, A Speaker’s Guidebook offers coverage that’s useful for a lifetime of public speaking with unparalleled treatment of speaking in other courses and on the job. The 12 tabbed dividers, the quick access menu on the inside front cover, and Speakers’ Reference sections help students find information they need when they need it, and the four-color design highlights key content and brings public speaking concepts to life ...

Dale Carnegie
How to develop self-confidence and influence people by public speaking
by Cedar (Unknown Binding)

This book will show you how to overscome the natural fear of public speaking and even learn to enjoy it. Drawing on Dale Carnegie's years of experience as a business trainer, this practical book will help you to become a successful speaker. His invaluable advice includes ways to: * Develop poise * Gain self-confidence * Improve your memory * Make your meaning clear * Begin and end a talk effectively * Interest and charm your audience * Improve your diction * Win an argument without making enemies Dale Carnegie's methods have helped millions of people worldwide. Make sure you have the advantage, and make them work for you too.

Dan O'Hair, Hannah Rubenstein, Rob Stewart
A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking
by Bedford/St. Martin's (Spiral-bound)

Based on the highly successful A Speaker's Guidebook, A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking offers all of the material typically covered in a full-sized text — from invention, research, and organization to practice and delivery — in a concise format perfect for any course across the curriculum or day-to-day setting.

Jay Heinrichs
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
by Three Rivers Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2007-02-27)

Thank You for Arguing is your master class in the art of persuasion, taught by professors ranging from Bart Simpson to Winston Churchill. The time-tested secrets the book discloses include Cicero’s three-step strategy for moving an audience to actionÑas well as Honest Abe’s Shameless Trick of lowering an audience’s expectations by pretending to be unpolished. But it’s also replete with contemporary techniques such as politicians’ use of “code” language to appeal to specific groups and an eye-opening assortment of popular-culture dodges, including:The Eddie Haskell PloyEminem’s Rules of DecorumThe Belushi ParadigmStalin’s Timing SecretThe Yoda Technique Whether you’re an inveterate lover of language books or just want to win a lot more anger-free arguments on the page, at the podium, or over a beer, Thank You for Arguing is for you. Written by one of today’s most popular online language mavens, it’s warm, witty, erudite, and truly enlightening. It not only ...

Debra Fine
The Fine Art of Small Talk
by Small Talk Publishing (CD)

Do you spend an abnormal amount of time hiding out in the bathroom or hanging out at the buffet table at social gatherings? Does the thought of striking up a conversation with a stranger make your stomach do flip-flops? Do you sit nervously through job interviews waiting for the other person to speak? Are you a Nervous Ned? (or Nervous Nellie?) when it comes to networking? Then it's time you mastered The Fine Art Of Small Talk. With practical advice and conversation cheat sheets, The Fine Art of Small Talk will help you learn to feel more comfortable in any type of situation, from lunch with the boss to a networking event to a cocktail party where you don't know a soul. Do you dread corporate cocktail parties where you are expected to schmooze with complete strangers? Do job interviews, blind dates or holiday functions make you clam up, searching frantically for things to say? When speaking with someone you ve just met, do you expect him or her to keep the conversation going? ...

Stephen Lucas
The Art of Public Speaking with Connect Lucas
by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (Paperback)

By far the leading speech textbook of our time, The Art of Public Speaking has defined the art of being the best for more than 10 million students and instructors. Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas' clear explanations of classical and contemporary theory and thorough coverage of practical applications. . . The new edition offers a revolutionary digital experience--McGraw-Hill Connect Lucas and Connect Lucas Plus. The Connect Lucas products allow students and instructors to access all course materials including a complete media and research library, study aids and speech preparation and assessment tools from a single place, connectlucas.com. With Connect Lucas, students use the traditional printed text. Specially marked icons in the text guide students to the media-rich, interactive features available at connectlucas.com. Connect Lucas Plus allows students and instructors to access the ...

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