The official TED guide to public speaking. This is not just the most insightful book ever written on public speaking it's also a brilliant, profound look at how to communicate - Adam Grant, author of Originals. In TED Talks Chris Anderson, Head of TED, reveals the inside secrets of how to give a first-class presentation. Where books like Talk Like TED and TED Talks Storytelling whetted the appetite, here is the official TED guide to public speaking from the man who put TED talks on the world's stage. 'Nobody in the world better understands the art and science of public speaking than Chris Anderson. He is ... |
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Building the Next Era of the Internet. A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet - and how that affects us all - from technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon. The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen almost entirely under the control of a very small group of companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook. In Read Write Own, tech visionary Chris Dixon argues that the dream of a creative, entrepreneurial internet doesn't have to die ... |
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How to work less and achieve more? Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey is a practical guide to managing your attention - the most powerful resource you have to become more creative, get stuff done, and live a more meaningful life. In Hyperfocus, you will learn: how working fewer hours can increase our productivity; how we get more done by making our work harder, not easier; how we do our best creative work when we're the most tired. Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today and we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey provides profound insights into how ... |
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Blockchain, Crypto and the Future of the Internet. The promise of the internet has been stolen. Over the last decade, a handful of giant companies like Facebook and Google have seized control of the web - sapping its dynamism and taking its profits for themselves. But there is a way to take it back. Here, a leading Silicon Valley investor argues that blockchains - the radically free and democratic new type of software design that underpins web3 - could return financial and decision-making power to the internet's users. For the first time, we won't just read and write on the internet - we will own it, too." ... |
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Finding productivity in anxious times. A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies, How to Calm Your Mind reveals the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, through calm. Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don’t just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental ... |
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Книгата за учителя осигурява на преподавателите подробни насоки за всеки урок, както и допълнителни материали. Всичко това намалява много от времето на учителя за подготовка на часа. С книгата преподавателите получават: подробни насоки към всеки урок; отговорите на всички упражнения от учебника; допълнителни материали, сред които тестове за проверка на напредъка, комуникативни упражнения и работни листове за четене, които учителят може да ксерокопира; приложен безплатен DVD диск, който включва необходимите видеоматериали за задачите от разделите "Real World" в учебника и цялото съдържание на книга за ... |
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Fire your boss, do what you love and work better to live more. Change your job to change your life. You no longer need to work nine to five in a big company to pay the mortgage, send your kids to school and afford that yearly holiday. You can quit the rat race and start up on your own - and you don't need an MBA or a huge investment to do it. The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau is your manual to a new way of living. Learn how to: earn a good living on your own terms, when and where you want; achieve that perfect blend of passion and income to make work something you love; take crucial insights from 50 ... |
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From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award. ... A welcome return to Ghastly-Gorm Hall and the irresisteble Ada Goth' Bookseller. Preparations are under way for the Full-Moon Fete and the Great Ghastly-Gorm Bake off. Celebrity cooks are arriving at the hall for the big event and, true to form, Maltravers, the indoor gamekeeper, is acting suspiciously. Elsewhere at Ghastly-Gorm Ada's wardrobe-dwelling lady's maid Marylebone has received a marriage proposal. Ada vows to aid the course of true love and find out what Maltravers is up to but, amidst all this activity, everyone, including her father, ... |
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A former FBI hostage negotiator's fiel-tested tools for talking anyone into (or out of) just about anything. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - ... |
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The Starter Student's Book provides 70 hours of core teaching material, which can be extended to 100 hours with the inclusion of the photocopiable resources in the Teacher's Book (with Teacher's DVD). Vocabulary and Grammar are given equal importance and there is a clear focus on improving student's listening and speaking skills in social situations. The Student's Book includes optional video for the Real World lessons (available on the Teacher's DVD) with vocabulary selection informed by English Profile and the Cambridge Learner Corpus. Учебната система "face2face - Ниво Starter (A1)" ... |
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Уроците в "face2face - Second Edition" се фокусират към говоримия английски език в ежедневни ситуации, който често е трудност за учащите да разбират в реалната среда. Освен с внимание към обучението и развитието на езиковите умения, учебният материал е съобразен с базата от милиарди писмени и разговорни думи на "Cambridge Learner Corpus". Използваната лексика във всеки урок е съпоставена и с базата на "English Vocabulary Profile", която предлага надеждна информация за това кои думи и фрази са известни и към кое ниво от Общата европейска езикова рамка (CEF) могат да бъдат въведени. С внимание ... |
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Уроците в "face2face - Second Edition" се фокусират към говоримия английски език в ежедневни ситуации, който често е трудност за учащите да разбират в реалната среда. Освен с внимание към обучението и развитието на езиковите умения, учебният материал е съобразен с базата от милиарди писмени и разговорни думи на "Cambridge Learner Corpus". Използваната лексика във всеки урок е съпоставена и с базата на "English Vocabulary Profile", която предлага надеждна информация за това кои думи и фрази са известни и към кое ниво от Общата европейска езикова рамка (CEF) могат да бъдат въведени. С внимание ... |
