Our Masters' Voices

Author: John Maxwell Atkinson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415018753
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
What kinds of political message are actually capable of striking chords with an audience? How do the skills of spellbinding speakers compare with those of their less charismatic competitors? Why are some politicians much more effective on television than others? Max Atkinson's revealing and entertaining review of how politicians attempt to win out hears and minds and votes - based on the study of audio and videotaped material - enables use to begin to answer questions that once seemed unanswerable. He investigates the skills of, amongst others, Tony Benn, J.F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and comes up with some intriguing results -- From back cover

Lend Me Your Ears

Author: Max Atkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198041209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 385

Book Description
The room darkens and grows hushed, all eyes to the front as the screen comes to life. Eagerly the audience starts to thumb the pages of their handouts, following along breathlessly as the slides go by one after the other...We're not sure what the expected outcome was when PowerPoint first emerged as the industry standard model of presentation, but reality has shown few positive results. Research reveals that there is much about this format that audiences positively dislike, and that the old school rules of classical rhetoric are still as effective as they ever were for maximizing impact. Renowned communications researcher, consultant, and speech coach Max Atkinson presents these findings and more in a groundbreaking and refreshing approach that highlights the secrets of successful communication, and shows how anyone can put these into practice and become an effective speaker or presenter.

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!

Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763615781
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor.

Voices for the Ascended Masters

Author: Sharon K. Richards
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537156460
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
Voices for the Ascended Masters skillfully interweaves the personal story of a woman who agreed to channel for the Masters with the heretofore untold story of ancient traditions within the Community of Masters for selecting and training those who will deliver their messages. "More than ever," says Michael J Tamura, pioneer of clairvoyant development and award-winning author, "we need to hear what those with much greater consciousness have to say if we are to learn, heal, and grow as humanity. How, then, do we give voices to those who are of such great consciousness that most of humanity cannot yet see - or hear directly? Voices for the Ascended Masters is a jewel of a book that offers us not only an extensive answer to that question, but also a new, in-depth understanding of the ancient spiritual art and science of channeling." "Mind blowing and consciousness-expanding revelation," says Dr. Martina Violetta Jung, expert on business leadership based on Oneness that exists beyond intellect. "The deep importance of Voices for the Ascended Masters cannot be expounded upon enough," says Raphaelle Tamura, clairvoyant, spiritual healer and teacher. We learn how the Ascended Masters categorize their messages, how they match the complexity of the message with the frequency of the channel and how they prepare a channel pre-birth for the mission they will undertake when incarnate.

Voices Of Courage - Everyone Has A Story

Author:
Publisher: Olayinka Joseph
ISBN: 9780970023650
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description

Master of Poisons

Author: Andrea Hairston
Publisher: Tordotcom
ISBN: 1250260558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
“This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Named a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020 Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

English Voices

Author: Ferdinand Mount
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471155994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 645

Book Description
‘A sheer delight’ Times Literary Supplement Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by some of England's finest authors and poets (both alive and dead) including Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, John le Carré, Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster and Alan Bennett. He also analysed the works of a variety of our Masters covering the past four hundred years such as, of course, William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Samuel Pepys. Whether it be holding up to account the writings of Winston Churchill, or celebrating the much-loved poems of Siegfried Sassoon, each essay reproduced in full here has been carefully chosen by Mount to weave a unique tapestry of the wealth of writings that have helped shape his own respected career as an author and political commentator. For anyone interested and passionate about writing and poetry across the centuries in the British Isles, this book will be a very welcome guide to the best one can pick up and read.

His Master's Voice

Author: Stanisław Lem
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
"Twenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received, and, under the surveillance of the Pentagon, the scientists labor on His Master's Voice, the secret program set up to decipher the transmission."--BOOK JACKET. "Among them is Peter Hogarth, an eminent mathematician whose posthumous diary makes up the novel. Hogarth joins His Master's Voice after all efforts to decode the message prove futile and, after an early success, gives up on the project to pursue clandestine research into the so-called TX effect. Hogarth comes to realize that the TX effect could lead to the construction of the ultimate weapon - a fission bomb - and that such knowledge must not be allowed into the hands of the military."--BOOK JACKET. "Originally published in 1968, His Master's Voice takes to task the military takeover of scientific research, Cold War - era politics, and humanity's perpetual capacity for (self-)destruction. It remains a mordant satire on scientific microworlds and the monstrous political and military systems bankrolling them."--BOOK JACKET.

The Lark and the Wren

Author: Mercedes Lackey
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618241230
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
A GHOST OF A CHANCE A voice, an icy, whispering voice, came out of the darkness from all around her; from everywhere, yet nowhere. It could have been born of her imagination, yet Rune knew the voice was the Ghost's, and that to run was to die. Instantly, but in terror that would make dying seem to last an eternity. "Why have you come here, stupid child " it murmured, as fear urged her to run away. "Why were you waiting here For me Foolish child, do you not know what I am What I could do to you " Rune had to swallow twice before she could speak, and even then her voice cracked and squeaked with fear. "I've come to fiddle for you-sir " she said, gasping for breath between each word, trying to keep her teeth from chattering. The Ghost laughed, a sound with no humor in it, the kind of laugh that called up empty wastelands and icy peaks. "Well, then, girl. Fiddle, then. And pray to that Sacrificed God of yours that you fiddle well, very well. If you please me, if you continue to entertain me until dawn, I shall let you live, a favor I have never granted any other. But I warn you-the moment my attention lags, little girl-you'll die like all the others and you will join all the others in my own private little Hell." At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Voices in the Band

Author: Susan C. Ball
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
This unsentimental but moving memoir of bridges two distinct periods in the history of the AIDS epidemic: the terrifying early years in which a diagnosis was a death sentence and ignorance too often eclipsed compassion, and the introduction of antiviral therapies that transformed AIDS into a chronic, though potentially manageable, disease.