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Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds |
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The Pyramid Principle: Present Your Thinking So Clearly That the Ideas Jump Off the Page and into the Reader's Mind (Hardcover) by Barbara Minto |
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"The classic work on how to write clear, logical prose. If you haven’t read this book, don’t try to write — or criticize anyone else’s writing.
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Revising Prose (5th Edition) by Richard A. Lanham |
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"This too-often ignored book gives some surprisingly simple and straightforward ways to improve prose after it has been drafted. Anyone, even the ordinary non-writer, can benefit from reading this book and applying its insights to their own writing.
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Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace (9th Edition) by Joseph M. Williams |
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"If you want to learn how to write well, with elegance and power, this is the only book after Strunk and White that will tell you how. Williams has figured out some aspects of writing no one else has.
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills |
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"This book brilliantly analyzes one of the greatest speeches ever given. If you’re interested in improving your own speaking, start here.
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Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most (Paperback) by Douglas Stone |
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Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (Paperback) by Roger Fisher |
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"There are many good books on negotiation; this is the first and still the best. Really—Fisher & Co. know what they’re talking about.
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Influence: Science and Practice (4th Edition) by Robert B. Cialdini |
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less (Paperback) by Guy Claxton |
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"Claxton describes different ways of learning and gives the reader a real insight into how to learn more, faster and better. Cramming for the Bar Exam, a college final, or a new subject on the job? You’ll do it differently after you read this.
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Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping (Paperback) by Paco Underhill |
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"Underhill reflects on his years of research into the shopping mall and how we are influenced by store layouts and design. There’s more to it than you think. You’ll never look at a Nordstrom’s—or a Starbucks—the same way again.
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