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  Public Speaking Crash Course

  Introbooks Team

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  Public speaking is the act of rendering a live audience an eloquent speech or display of purposeful choicest words with the intent of informing, persuading, or entertaining. A majority of people cite public speaking as one of their greatest apprehensions, but with adequate training, they succeed to learn to build trust and confidence and improve their acumen to excel speaking to the public in any ambiance. 
  Being a decent orator is many a time very crucial factor in the realm of industry, culture, state, and other various leadership areas. Professional speakers try to mix critical thinking, logic and reasoning, meticulous research, well-articulated storytelling and more to help express their intrinsic ideas. Proper training methods can also enable the audience to absorb the quality of speech demonstration. Such techniques can be taught to help individuals reach dizzy heights while embracing the art of public speaking. 

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  James Baldwin - The Life Album

  Magdalena J. Zaborowska

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  James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin's many incarnations have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin's work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin—the man behind the prophet and the online meme—who is the focus of this book. 
   
   
    
  Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin's archives and material legacy—from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France—to offer a fresh look at the writer's understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin's own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin's troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin's development of a unique worldview, "Black queer humanism," premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice.

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  Outsourcing Duty - The Moral...

  Bradley J. Strawser, Michael J....

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  Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an all-volunteer force? In this volume, Michael J. Robillard and Bradley J. Strawser examine the question of whether and how American soldiers have been exploited in this way. 
   
   
   
  Robillard and Strawser offer an original theory of "moral exploitation"—the notion that persons or groups can be wrongfully exploited by being made to shoulder an excessive amount of moral weight. They make the case that this exploitation accurately describes the relationship between the United States and the members of its military, and offer an in-depth analysis of some of the exploitative and misleading elements of present-day military recruitment, the moral burdens soldiers often bear, and the stifling effect that a "Thank You for Your Service" and "I support the troops" culture has had on serious public engagement about America's ongoing wars. Robillard and Strawser offer a critique of the pernicious divide between military members and the civilians who direct them. They conclude by arguing for several normative and prudential prescriptions to help close this ever-widening fissure between the US and its military, and within the US itself.

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  Perfect Punctuation for...

  Liv Montgomery

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  Perfect punctuation—it’s not just for professors, publishers, and pencil pushers! Whether you are writing the next New York Times bestselling novel or an email to coworkers and customers, you need to know how to skillfully use punctuation in your writing. Whatever issues may be challenging you today, punctuation doesn’t have to be one of them because author Liv Montgomery makes it fun and understandable. In 30-minutes, Perfect Punctuation for Practical People will entertain you while you learn the fundamentals of periods, parentheses, and paragraphs. Tickle your funny bone with this off-beat and authoritative program on using punctuation to write like a professional.

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  Karl Marx on Society and Social...

  Karl Marx

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  This volume presents those writings of Marx that best reveal his contribution to sociology, particularly to the theory of society and social change. The editor, Neil J. Smelser, has divided these selections into three topical sections and has also included works by Friedrich Engels. 
   
  In his comprehensive Introduction to the selections, Professor Smelser provides a biography of Marx, identifies the various intellectual traditions which formed the background for Marx’s writings, and discusses the selections which follow. The editor describes Marx’s conception of society as a social system, the differences between functionalism and Marx’s theories, and the dynamics of economic and political change as analyzed by Marx.

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  A Rare Recording of Mel Trotter

  Mel Trotter

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  This is a rare recording of Mel Trotter (1870-1940), a former alcoholic turned evangelist who was instrumental in the founding of 65 rescue missions. He was good friends, and often substituted for evangelists Billy Sunday and R. A. Torrey.

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