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Tell It Slant, Third Edition, 3rd Edition
Author Suzanne Paola , Brenda Miller
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Two award-winning authors reveal everything you need to know to develop your....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Techniques for Noise Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition
Author Bhiksha Raj , Tuomas Virtanen , Rita Singh
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems are finding increasing use in everyday life. Many of the commonplace environments where the systems are used are noisy, for example users calling up a voice search system from a busy cafeteria or a street. This can result i....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS
Author XiPeng Xiao
Technical, Commerical and Regulatory Challenges of QoS provides a comprehensive examination of Internet QoS theory, standards, vendor implementation and network deployment from the practitioner's point of view, including extensive discussion of related economic and....
Release Date 2008/10 -
Technical Writing for Business People
Author Carrie Marshall
Technical writing is about communicating key information to the people who need it. It might be a manual for an application, a guide to using heavy machinery, a diagnostic aide for medical practitioners or a guidance note about new legislation. It needs to be clear....
Release Date 2018/09 -
Author Phillip A. Laplante
Engineers and scientists of all types are often required to write reports, summaries, manuals, guides, and so forth. While these individuals certainly have had some sort of English or writing course, it is less likely that they have had any instruction in the specia....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author CEdMA Europe
Wih technical skills in ever increasing demand and software updates coming thick and fast, the need for technical training is rising rapidly. To be successful in the provision of technical training in IT requires a solid commercial understanding of how to establish....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Technical Blogging, 2nd Edition
Author Antonio Cangiano
Successful technical blogging is not easy but it's also not magic. Use these techniques to attract and keep an audience of loyal, regular readers. Leverage this popularity to reach your goals and amplify your influence in your field. Get more more users for your s....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Talk Less, Say More: Three Habits to Influence Others and Make Things Happen
Author Connie Dieken
Talk Less, Say More is a revolutionary guide to 21st century communication skills to help you be more influential and make things happen in our distracted, attention-deficit world. It's loaded with specific tips and takeaways to ensure that you're fully heard, cle....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Author Kirk McElhearn
Finally, write your novel or screenplay with Scrivener 2!Updated August 24, 2016In this book, you'll take a creative voyage with Scrivener, a unique and popular content-generation tool. Scrivener supports wordsmiths of all types, and it's designed especially for l....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Surviving the Whiteboard Interview: A Developer’s Guide to Using Soft Skills to Get Hired
Author William Gant
The industry standard whiteboard interview can be daunting for developers. Let’s face it: it combines the worst aspects of a typical interview, on-the-spot public speaking, a quiz show, and a dinner party full of strangers judging you—all at once. Brilliant develop....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Valerie Matarese
Supporting Research Writing explores the range of services designed to facilitate academic writing and publication in English by non-native English-speaking (NNES) authors. It analyses the realities of offering services such as education, translation, editing and wr....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Author Frank J. Pietrucha
In our increasingly complicated and data-driven world, many new developments are so complex that only experts comprehend their nuances. But what they don't grasp is how to tell the world about them. Communicating technical content to nontechnical listeners has fast....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Successful Presentation Strategies (Collection)
Author Jerry Weissman
In Winning Strategies for Power Presentations, Weissman identifies the elements of a great presentation, distilling 75 best practices from the world's best persuaders into bite-sized chapters designed to be easy-to-read -- and equally easy to apply. Following on th....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Successful Grants Program Management
Author David G. Bauer
As school districts struggle with decentralized management, the need to coordinate grant proposal development has grown dramatically. This indispensable resource contains all the practical tools that districts need to manage cross-curricular proposals for all their ....
Release Date 1999/11 -
Success as an Introvert For Dummies
Author Joan Pastor
Thrive as an introvert in an extrovert worldBill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and author J.K. Rowling have more in common than being highly successful. They're also introverts. Success as an Introvert For Dummies identifies common misunderstandings about introverts and ....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Author Michael Baran , Tiffany Jana
This practical, accessible, nonjudgmental handbook is the first to help individuals and organizations recognize and prevent microaggressions so that all employees can feel a sense of belonging in their workplace. Our workplaces and society are growing more div....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Style Guide for Business Writing
Author De Gruyter
Style guides come in many shapes and sizes, usually focused toward scientific or academic use only. However, business writing is a space occupied by many individuals that has not been given the attention it deserves. The Style Guide for Business Writing, Second Edi....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Author Warren Master , Howard R. Balanoff
Real-life Solutions to the Challenges Facing Public Administrators!Complex management issues in the public sector can't be addressed with limited, short-term fixes. Strategic, well-conceived approaches are critical to meet your organization's long-term needs....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Author Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Be heard. Change minds. Get people to act. (Inspire them to clap.)Whether presenting in a meeting, delivering a keynote on stage, or simply talking with your colleagues about your latest project, you play a critical role in how information is shared. You determine whether people engage, understand, ....
Release Date 2022/09 -
Storytelling for Grantseekers: A Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fundraising
Author Cheryl A. Clarke
Grantwriters often have little or no training in the practical task of grantseeking. Many feel intimidated by the act of writing, and some don't enjoy writing. In Storytelling for Grantseekers, Second Edition, Cheryl Clarke presents an organic approach to grantseek....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author Geoffrey Tumlin
PLAY DUMB. BE BORING. DON'T SOLVE PROBLEMS. AND ABOVE ALL, DON'T BE YOURSELF.Not exactly what you'd expect to hear from a communication expert, but these counterintuitive strategies are precisely what we need to interact productively and meaningfully in today's ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Michael Bungay Stanier
Giving advice is a habit you’ve been encouraged to adopt all your life. But most of the advice you give isn’t all that great, for three reasons: (1) We tend to solve the wrong problems. (2) When we do zero in on the right challenges, we propose mediocre solutions. (3) The....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Author Barbara Baig
Elevate Your Writing From So-So To Spectacular!Great writing requires more than an original idea, compelling characters, or a scintillating plot. An author needs all of these to be successful, but writing--and writing well--also demands an entirely different skill s....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Frederick Gilbert
If you are in middle management, you live with daily ambiguity, lack of control, and even chaos. To get anything done, you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. Careers and projects can come unwound in a matter of minutes....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Speaking in Styles: Fundamentals of CSS
Author Jason Cranford Teague
Speaking in Styles aims to help Web designers learn the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static comp to the live Internet. Many designers think that CSS is code, and that it's too hard to learn. Jason takes an approach to CSS that breaks i....
Release Date 2009/06 -
Author Ryan Avery , Jeremey Donovan
The secrets of superb public speaking—based on the best of the best of ToastmastersToastmasters, a name synonymous with public speaking, is dedicated to developing its members’ communication and leadership skills.Now Distinguished Toastmaster Jeremey Donovan and Pub....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Speaker Camp: A Self-paced Workshop for Planning, Pitching, Preparing, and Presenting at Conferences
Author Samantha Starmer , Russ Unger
Are you interested in getting out of the audience observing and onto the stage sharing your thoughts, ideas, and experience with the world? If so, Speaker Camp is for you! Russ Unger and Samantha Starmer are seasoned and popular presenters at venues such as South b....
Release Date 2013/11 -
Author Mike Acker
Build your communication confidence and master the ability to inspire your audienceIn Speak with Confidence: Overcome Self-Doubt, Communicate Clearly, and Inspire Your Audience, keynote speaker, author, and executive communication coach Mike Acker delivers a practical and hands-on playbook to buildi....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Speak Up, Speak Out (HBR Women at Work Series)
Author Harvard Business Review , Francesca Gino , Amy Jen Su , Laura Morgan Roberts , Ella
Make yourself heard.When women we admire such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised, "Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes" and Vice President Kamala Harris has to remind a room full of men, "I'm speaking," it can feel as though having our own voices heard at work is a lost cause. Whether we're con....
Release Date 2022/02 -
Author Brian Tracy
The ability to speak with confidence and deliver winning presentations can accelerate your career, earn people’s great respect, and enable you to achieve your greatest -- even most impossible-seeming goals. But what many people don't realize is that anyone can lear....
Release Date 2008/01