The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
256 pages | McGraw-Hill (September 11, 2009) | ISBN: 0071636080 | PDF | 8.2 MB
“The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs reveals the operating system behind any great presentation and provides you with a quick-start guide to design your own passionate interfaces with your audiences.” —Cliff Atkinson, author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Activist Audience
Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s wildly popular presentations have set a new global gold standard—and now this step-by-step guide shows you exactly how to use his crowd-pleasing techniques in your own presentations. The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs is as close as you’ll ever get to having the master presenter himself speak directly in your ear. Communications expert Carmine Gallo has studied and analyzed the very best of Jobs’s performances, offering point-by-point examples, tried-and-true techniques, and proven presentation secrets that work every time. With this revolutionary approach, you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to sell your ideas, share your enthusiasm, and wow your audience the Steve Jobs way.
“No other leader captures an audience like Steve Jobs does and, like no other book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs captures the formula Steve uses to enthrall audiences.”
--Rob Enderle, The Enderle Group
“Now you can learn from the best there is--both Jobs and Gallo. No matter whether you are a novice presenter or a professional speaker like me, you will read and reread this book with the same enthusiasm that people bring to their iPods."
--David Meerman Scott, bestselling author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR and World Wide Rave
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Author: Douglas Biber , Stig Johansson , Geoffrey Leech , Susan Conrad , Edward Finegan
Hardcover: 1203 pages
Publisher: Pearson ESL; illustrated edition edition (November 5, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0582237254
ISBN-13: 978-0582237254
The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English is a revolutionary, corpus-based reference grammar of English, based on a groundbreaking research project to analyze the ways in which English grammar is really used. The book looks at four text types ¿ conversation, fiction, news reportage, and academic prose ¿ and reports statistical findings as well as examining the reasons that condition a particular grammatical choice.
•Encompasses a six-year research project into the ways in which language is really used.
•Reveals which structures, tenses, and lexical choices occur, and how their distribution differs in different text types.
•Analyzes natural language in each chapter, based on analysis of the real everyday conversations in the Longman Spoken American Corpus and the British National Corpus.
•Contains over 350 tables and graphs that show the frequency of constructions across different registers, from conversation to fiction to academic prose.
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Continuing the success of the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series, Practice Makes Perfect English Grammar for ESL Learners features well-organized presentations, skill-building exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills
A complete overview of English grammar with hands-on exercises for the beginning ESL student Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you build a solid foundation in English grammar to help you communicate effectively. This clearly written guide leads you through the entire system of English grammar using concise, easy-to-understand language. The book features clear explanations, skill-building exercises, and a focus on practical conversational skills.
The book’s numerous exercises include a variety of formats, such as fill-in-the-blank sentences, sentence rewriting, writing original sentences, and more. Answers to all questions are provided in the back of the book. This comprehensive workbook provides thorough coverage of every grammatical topic you need to know about, including:
• Nouns--from common to proper to predicate
• Punctuation, capitalization, articles, and pronouns
• Modifiers such as adjectives and adverbs
• The passive voice and subjunctive mood
• All types of verbs in their various tenses
Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners guides you through the most difficult parts of English and helps you develop your grammar skills so you can communicate confidently in your new language.
