Capture the Spotlight


Book Description

There's a secret that most of the world's most successful business and political leaders know-that when mastered and properly applied, public speaking can be a real game changer. Written by a top executive speech coach, this book will give you the tools and strategies you need to become the confident and powerful speaker you were born to be. An essential part of leadership development, this book will teach you the fundamentals of great public speaking and how to apply those presentation skills in real-life situations. You will be able to raise your profile and stand out from your competition, by learning how to persuade and captivate the attention of almost any audience, from boardroom presentations to conference keynotes. "Narges Nirumvala has written a fabulous 'how to' book for anyone wanting to become comfortable with public speaking. I have read many books on this topic but this ***by far*** is the best. I improved the quality of my public speaking considerably after a few reads. Capture the Spotlight is one of those books I will keep in my professional arsenal and read over and over." Rhonda Sherwood, CFP FMA, Wealth Advisor "In our busy and complicated lives, it's not enough to communicate, you must make a meaningful connection with your audience. Narges Nirumvala's book Capture the Spotlight shows you how to do just that. If you want to be the best speaker you can possibly be, you will find it easy to read and very practical. It's a book you will keep handy and refer to often." Rev. Ruth Blight, Associate Pastor, Cariboo Road Christian Fellowship Narges Nirumvala is the CEO of Executive Speak Coaching International. She is an executive speech coach, a motivational keynote speaker, and an award-winning entrepreneur. Her writing on the subject has been circulated to 106 countries worldwide. Narges is often called upon as an expert by the media and has appeared numerous times in and on print, radio, and television. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with her family.







Getting the Most Out of Your Interactive Whiteboard


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Put your interactive whiteboard to immediate use with confidence and skill, and launch your classroom directly into the 21st-century! In this book, teacher and SMART-Certified Trainer Amy Buttner provides clear, practical steps for making the most of your interactive whiteboard, plus other multimedia tools and the web. You’ll learn how to design your own activities using SMART Notebook software, utilize the board for assessment purposes, connect with online resources, and more. Use interactive whiteboards to enhance instruction and engage your students in a media-rich setting. With these strategies, you’ll maximize this and other revolutionary technologies, and ultimately help to raise classroom achievement.




The Semiotics of Light and Shadows


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Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative and emotive power of light and shadow when used in contemporary indexical media including the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, camera obscura, photography and film. In particular, Sadowski highlights the aesthetic and emotional significance of shadows. The 'cast shadow', as an indexical sign, maintains a physical connection with its near-present referent, such as a hidden person, stimulating a viewer's imagination and provoking responses including anxiety or curiosity. The 'cinematic shadow' plays a stylistic role, by enhancing image texture, depth of field, and tonal contrast of cinematic moments. Such enhancements are especially important in monochromatic films, and Sadowski interweaves the book with accounts of seminal Weimar cinema moments. Sadowski's book is distinctive for combining historical materials and theoretical approaches to develop a deeper understanding of Weimar cinema and other contemporary art forms. The Semiotics of Light and Shadows is an ideal resource for both scholars and students working in linguistics, semiotics, film, media, and visual arts.




This Is a Book to Read with a Worm


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If you can find a worm, then you can be a biologist! Foster a love of animals and science with this charming activity guide for finding and observing earthworms. Hands-on experiments help young biologists answer questions like "Which end is which?" and "Do worms make noise?" Insider tips encourage readers to think like a scientist and handle living things with care. Equally entertaining with or without a worm friend.




iPhone: The Missing Manual


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Answers found here! In iOS 7, Apple gave the iPhone the most radical makeover in its history. The new software is powerful, sleek, and a perfect companion to the iPhone 5s and 5c—but it’s wildly different. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with an expanded edition of his witty, full-color guide: the world’s most popular iPhone book. The important stuff you need to know: The iPhone 5s. This book unearths all the secrets of the newest iPhone—faster chip,dual-color flash, fingerprint scanner, and more—and its colorful companion, the 5c. The iOS 7 software. Older iPhones gain Control Center, AirDrop, iTunes Radio, free Internet phone calls, and about 197 more new features. This book covers it all. The apps. That catalog of 1,000,000 add-on programs makes the iPhone’s phone features almost secondary. Now you’ll know how to find, manage, and exploit those apps. The iPhone may be the world’s coolest computer, but it’s still a computer, with all of a computer’s complexities. iPhone: The Missing Manual is a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone addict.




Capturing Light


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In almost all photography it’s the quality of light that makes or breaks the shot. For professional photographers, chasing the light, waiting for it, sometimes helping it, and finally capturing it is a constant preoccupation — and for some an obsession. Drawing on four decades of doing just this, Michael Freeman takes a simple but practical approach to reacting to, and capturing photography’s most important commodity. There are just three sections titled Waiting, Chasing, and Helping: Waiting explains the kinds of lighting that photographers can anticipate and plan for, while Chasing explores the transient, serendipitous light that photographers have to work quickly to exploit. Helping, the final and most technical section, focuses on the skills and techniques for enhancing, reducing, or otherwise controlling light, covering everything from in-the-field shooting choices to technical transformations to post-production.




The School Story


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Twelve-year-old Natalie has written a story her best friend says is good enough to publish. But how can two sixth graders conquer the tough world of children's publishing? Illustrations.




The Wildlife Techniques Manual


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A standard text in a variety of courses, the Techniques Manual, as it is commonly called, covers every aspect of modern wildlife management and provides practical information for applying the hundreds of methods described in its pages. To effectively incorporate the explosion of new information in the wildlife profession, this latest edition is logically organized into a two-volume set: Volume 1 is devoted to research techniques and Volume 2 focuses on management methodologies.




Objective Becoming


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Bradford Skow presents an original defense of the 'block universe' theory of time, often said to be a theory according to which time does not pass. Along the way, he provides in-depth discussions of alternative theories of time, including those in which there is 'robust passage' of time or 'objective becoming': presentism, the moving spotlight theory of time, the growing block theory of time, and the 'branching time' theory of time. Skow explains why the moving spotlight theory is the best of these arguments, and rebuts several popular arguments against the thesis that time passes. He surveys the problems that the special theory of relativity has been thought to raise for objective becoming, and suggests ways in which fans of objective becoming may reconcile their view with relativistic physics. The last third of the book aims to clarify and evaluate the argument that we should believe that time passes because, somehow, the passage of time is given to us in experience. He isolates three separate arguments this idea suggests, and explains why they fail.