Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform inspire & persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often presentations don't resonate with the audience & move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience & lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach you'll convey your content with passion persuasion & impact. Author has a proven track record including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero & the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict & resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun exciting & full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized & ready to take action with Resonate. ...

This is a complete resource for teaching creative writing & thinking at KS4 & KS5. This resource book is designed to engage students in the process of creative writing. Using ideas & activities he has put into practice himself. Johnnie Young guides the teacher through a series of creative lessons designed to stimulate creative thinking. Each activity is supported by lesson notes including ideas for starters pleanaries & follow up work as well as a photocopiable worksheet. ...

' It may be rash to claim that there is nothing more you'll ever need to know about people resourcing & talent management once you've read Stephen Taylor's book but it's nonetheless a claim I come close to making.. . For Stephen people resourcing & talent management properly performed will promote people as contributors to organisational excellence. In other words everything he writes is said with the long-term health of the business in mind'
- Ted Johns CIPD Chief Examiner People Resourcing & CIPD National Examiner Managing & Leading People. This textbook has been written for the new optional CIPD postgraduate module Resourcing & Talent Management. It is also ideal for students studying People Resourcing modules on non-CIPD programmes. It maps on to the new CIPD module on Resourcing & Talent Management. This title is written by Stephen Taylor the CIPD's examiner for the Managing in a Strategic Business Context paper & the author of the new Resourcing & Talent Management module. It is very student-friendly with exercises in-depth case studies & reference to academic journal articles. Through practical guidance & theoretical underpinning Resourcing & Talent Management" provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental management issues. New to this edition: Three new chapters on fairness & diversity employer branding & succession planning/talent management; Dedicated chapters on measuring & analysing employee turnover & improving employee retention; Individual chapters on retirements & managing redundancy; & Online resources. For tutors: Power Point slides Comprehensive lecturer's guide (including sample assessments & lecture handouts) Feedback on the case studies in this book & One additional case study per chapter. For students: Web links for each chapter & Annual update on developments in resourcing & talent management."
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This fascinating & detailed book about acting is Miss Hagens credo the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself & those she teaches & an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage her book is the best substitute."
- Publishers Weekly " Uta Hagens Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely practical information by a superb craftswoman. An illuminating discussion of the standards & techniques of enlightened stage acting."
- Brooks Atkinson " Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience skill & a sense of personal & professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her object exercises display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation."
- Library Journal " Respect for Acting is a simple lucid & sympathetic statement of actors problems in the theatre & basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress & teacher of acting."
- Harold Clurman " Uta Hagens Respect for Acting is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft."
- Los Angeles Times " Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is moreover interested & mystified by the presence of talent & its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her."
- Fritz Weaver " This is a textbook for aspiring actors but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor. Respect for Acting is certainly a special book perhaps for a limited readership but of its " How-To" kind Id give it four curtain calls & two hollers of " Author Author
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Respect for Acting This fascinating & detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself & those she [taught] & an explanation of the means to the end." --Publishers Weekly " Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience skill & a sense of personal & professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." --Library Journal " Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting.. .is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times " There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by Uta Hagen." --Fritz Weaver " This is a textbook for aspiring actors but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor." --King Features Syndicate" ...

Walter Tull (Tully) is one of Britains unsung heroes. This fascinating biography tells of his life as an orphan as a Premier League football player & finally as an army officer during the First World War. An incredible & moving story that describes how a poor orphan became the first black officer in the British army. ...

The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances & her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash & a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiahs protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants & finds her life & fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum & slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history & inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire & shame of individuals of a society & of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others. ...

The second edition of Respiratory Physiotherapy" (formerly " Emergency Physiotherapy") continues to be a highly accessible & convenient guide which brings the insight of clinical experts in the field to the fingertips of the busy physiotherapist who are often exposed to challenging & stressful situations. Beverley Harden is now joined by a team of 5 additional Editors & the new edition has been completely revamped. It looks at assessment management of & calls to specific areas while presenting key information in tables bullets & summaries for quick reference on the ward. " Respiratory Physiotherapy" is the essential pocketbook for physiotherapy students on clinical placement newly qualified physiotherapists as well as for physiotherapists working in emergency settings who need a refresher." ...

Forget fixed-width Photoshop comps bloated client requirements & overproduced wireframes. Yesterdays web design deliverables fail to take into account the demands of responsive solutions. Design workflow hasnt really changed but best practices have. This book shows you how to adapt to the new paradigm & create sites for todays web. Some of the strategies youll learn include: * how to better manage client expectations & development requirements* a practical approach for designing in the browser* documentation methods that outperform static Photoshop comps* a method for visualizing the points where responsive designs change After absorbing the lessons in this book youll leave behind old-school workflows & start working in ways that are uniquely suited to todays multi-platform web. ...

The inspiration behind the South Bank Centre's year-long festival of 20th century music Alex Ross's masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground. The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands each influenced by its own composers performers & musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour Alex Ross music critic for the ' New Yorker' explores the people & places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig Brahms to Bjork pre-First World War Vienna to ' Nixon in China'. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art politics & cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom & a source of immense social change. ...