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  GIftedness: Tips and Tricks to...

  Angela Wayning

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  This book consists of 2 titles, which are the following:Title 1: Is your child gifted? And how do you know that?In this comprehensive guide, you will learn more about common qualities of gifted children, and more specifically, the symptoms of such a distinct brain. Through the tips you will be given, you will be able to detect those attributes even in the earlier years, so that you can be prepared for the future. People have been using the term “gifted” in different ways, and it’s important to know what the differences are of those terms. You will learn more about those terms and their meanings.Additionally, this guide covers topics that relate to considering tests for giftedness, the advantages of specific classes in schools and gifted programs, and general tips for higher academic achievements. In short, this is a guide that can really help you along the path of discovery. Your child’s talents and skills can become a greater opportunity by detecting them and adjusting your educational choices according to them.Title 2: Giftedness can be a blessing or a struggle. The stimulation of the senses is different in a gifted child. They experience life, impulses and emotions differently. But there are ways to play into those talents and provoke curiosity and fascination in preschoolers and older children. This book covers some of those suggestions.Sometimes, parents think high grades is a good thing, and it can be. But did you know that this is not always the case? Did you know that some gifted children actually underachieve for various reasons? And then comes the big question: Should you tell a child that he or she is gifted? What are the pros and cons of doing so? Don’t remain in the dark. The achievements of gifted students are the consequences of their psyche, but it’s a vulnerable process to stimulate that intelligence in the right way. To do so, this book can help you along the way.

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  The Art of Public Speaking

  Owen Clarke

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  This work provides a concise synthesis of the key insights and analysis from The Art of Public Speaking. It is an independent summary, not the original book, and has no affiliation with or endorsement from the original publication. Created for readers who want a clear, thought-provoking overview, it distills the central themes and ideas while preserving the depth and relevance of the work. 
  This book provides a comprehensive framework for mastering public speaking by combining theory with practical application. It covers every aspect of the speaking process—from researching and organizing content to developing persuasive arguments, refining delivery techniques, and managing performance anxiety. Emphasizing ethical responsibility and audience-centered communication, it guides readers to transform nervous energy into confident presence. By blending preparation, structure, and authentic expression, it helps speakers build credibility, clarity, and impact across any setting.

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  Secrets and Hidden Knowledge -...

  John Harpoon

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  This book consists of several titles which are: 
  - Clandestine Cabals: History's Most Cryptic Organizations 
  - Global Puppet Masters: Examining the Decahedron of Ultimate World Influence 
  - Hidden Brilliance: Redefining Genius: The Overlooked Intellectual Giant 
  - Subterranean Secrets: Unveiling the Restricted Underworld Beneath the City of Light 
  - Secrets Beneath the Quicksand: Understanding the Science and Mysteries of Treacherous Terrain

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  Areopagitica

  John Milton

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  John Milton is renowned for his poetry, yet during most of his lifetime he was best known as a writer of prose, both celebrated and denounced for his fiery polemics in an era of religious and political controversy, radical pamphleteering and civil war. This annotated edition of his major English prose writings includes Milton's tractates in favour of divorce, on progressive education, in defence of the execution of Charles I and the new Republican state, and Areopagitica, his famous attack on censorship and call for a free press. Rhetorical, powerful, heterodox, these are monuments to the ideals of liberty and free speech from a master of English prose.

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  Writing Your Dissertation in...

  EdD Joan Bolker

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  Expert writing advice from the editor of the Boston Globe bestseller, The Writer's Home Companion 
   
   
   
  Dissertation writers need strong, practical advice, as well as someone to assure them that their struggles aren't unique. Joan Bolker, midwife to more than one hundred dissertations and cofounder of the Harvard Writing Center, offers invaluable suggestions for the graduate-student writer. Using positive reinforcement, she begins by reminding thesis writers that being able to devote themselves to a project that truly interests them can be a pleasurable adventure. She encourages them to pay close attention to their writing method in order to discover their individual work strategies that promote productivity; to stop feeling fearful that they may disappoint their advisors or family members; and to tailor their theses to their own writing style and personality needs. Using field-tested strategies she assists the student through the entire thesis-writing process, offering advice on choosing a topic and an advisor, on disciplining one's self to work at least fifteen minutes each day; setting short-term deadlines, on revising and defing the thesis, and on life and publication after the dissertation. Bolker makes writing the dissertation an enjoyable challenge.

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  Harlots Whores & Hackabouts - A...

  Kat Lister

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  The history of selling sex is a hidden one—and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers, from medieval streets to Wild West saloons, and from brothels to state bedrooms. 
   
   
   
  Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts' chapters are structured thematically in a broadly chronological order, each one introducing a lively cast of complex and entertaining characters operating in an array of different periods, locations, and settings. In ancient Mesopotamia, the harlot Shamhat was powerful and respected, able to civilize the wild man Enkidu through her charms. In medieval London, Elizabeth Moryng serviced religious clergy under the guise of an embroidery business, though she was eventually jailed for being a prolific panderer and bawd. In the hedonistic floating world of Edo, Japan, Kabuki actresses and geishas entertained and pleasured their patrons. Lister's engaging and illuminating tales invite listeners to look, listen, and reconsider everything they thought they knew about the world's oldest profession. Together, these captivating tales of sex workers from around the world and throughout history provide a powerful context to contemporary debates about sexuality and the empowerment of women. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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