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Oratory Books
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The Public Speaking Bible; a Survival Guide for Standing on Stage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 877 ratings — published
Confessions of a Public Speaker (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,132 ratings — published 2009
How To Deliver A TED Talk: Secrets Of The World's Most Inspiring Presentations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,871 ratings — published 2012
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln: 21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,195 ratings — published 2002
Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,009 ratings — published 2014
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,485 ratings — published 2009
The Quick & Easy Way to Effective Speaking (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 10,873 ratings — published 1962
On the Ideal Orator (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 520 ratings — published -55
The Art of Public Speaking (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 6,030 ratings — published 1915
The Art of Always Being Right (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 18,819 ratings — published 1831
Камасутра для оратора. 10 глав о том, как получать и доставлять максимальное удовольствие, выступая публично (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 379 ratings — published 2000
Institutes of Oratory (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 108 ratings — published 95
The Art of Rhetoric (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 6,988 ratings — published -322
Discourses 1–11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 15 ratings — published 1932
Selected Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,683 ratings — published -43
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 922 ratings — published 1852
Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,519 ratings — published 1983
How We Decide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 41,652 ratings — published 2009
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 568,395 ratings — published 2012
Great Scottish Speeches (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published 2011
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 30,049 ratings — published -335
The Name of the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 399,769 ratings — published 1980
The Aeneid (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 145,437 ratings — published -19
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 12,092 ratings — published -347
Descubre el arte de hablar en público (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.27 — 262 ratings — published
The 6-Figure Speaker: The Ultimate Blueprint to Build a Business as a Highly-Paid Professional Speaker (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 127 ratings — published
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink (ebook)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,266 ratings — published 2017
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 15,171 ratings — published 2016
The Pin Drop Principle: Captivate, Influence, and Communicate Better Using the Time-Tested Methods of Professional Performers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 85 ratings — published 2012
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 561 ratings — published 2017
New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.28 — 127 ratings — published 2011
Demosthenes: Democracy's Defender (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 2025
Retórica a Herenio (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos nº 244) (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 12 ratings — published -90
Compendio de Retórica (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Historia breve de la Retórica (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.67 — 3 ratings — published 1994
American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 46 ratings — published 2006
Greek and Roman Oratory (Dover Thrift Editions: Speeches/Quotations)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 2014
Complete Works of Tacitus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 547 ratings — published 120
Искусство словесной атаки (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.45 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 39,606 ratings — published 2024
His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 82 ratings — published
The Story Factor: Inspiration, Influence, and Persuasion through the Art of Storytelling (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,764 ratings — published 2000
Fragmentary Speeches (Loeb Classical Library)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Satow's Diplomatic Practice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 33 ratings — published 2009
Dialogus de oratoribus (Greek & Latin Classics)
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avg rating 3.43 — 148 ratings — published 102
The Philosophy of Rhetoric (Galaxy Books)
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avg rating 3.71 — 102 ratings — published 1936
Exercises in Style (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 13,193 ratings — published 1947
Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 435 ratings — published
Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,498 ratings — published 2023
“If your proof is insubstantial, you might instead begin with a vehement refutation in the hope that no one notices your lack of argument. Since Plato’s Phaedo, and even a little before, the Western mind has been marked by deep divisions or dualities, such as soul and body, mind and matter, reason and sense experience, reason and emotion, reality and appearance, good and evil, heaven and hell. This binary thinking carries over to dialectic and rhetoric, in which it is often one thing or the other, rather than both or several or neither. Thus, in the Western mind, knocking down your opponent’s argument is tantamount to validating your own. Notice that the very concept of a debate with an ‘opponent’ is confrontational, when the exercise could instead be cooperative and conversational, as in the Upanishads.”
― How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero
― How to Think Like Plato and Speak Like Cicero
“Being a great writer usually deceives one into thinking that one is necessarily a good if not a great speaker.”
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