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In Presenting to Win, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most high-level audiences -- and move them to action. Jerry Weissman shows presenters of all kinds how to dump those PowerPoint templates once and for all -- and learn to tell compelling stories... More

"Blues: The Basics" gives a brief introduction to a century of the blues; it is ideal for students and interested listeners who want to learn more about this treasured American artform. The book is organized chronologically, focusing on the major eras in blues's growth and development. It opens with... More

This book began as a way of putting down on paper the feelings that I had as I watched my new golden retriever puppies walk around in our backyard in wide-eyed wonderment. The imaginary conversations that I concocted were actually going through my mind as I watched these precious little girls explor... More

Is something true because we believe it to be so or because it is true? How can a culturally bound community achieve scientific knowledge when values, attitudes, and desires shape its beliefs? In this book an eminent philosopher considers various schools of thought on the nature of truth. David Weis... More

An excellent and essential primer for the aspiring tunesmith, Songwriting: The Words, the Music and Money offers authoritative tips on everything from basic song forms to the hard facts of succeeding in the music business. In between, veteran songwriter Dick Weissman shares his insights into composi... More

Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, and Proclus through Descartes and Kant to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Carnap, and Quine. Mind's separation from body has dominated ... More

Steve Irwin, a struggling playwright, is accidentally shot by his alcoholic wife. He overcomes a paralysis of body and spirit through the love and compassion of Anne Bousquet, a former nun.ACCEPTABLE LOSSES is a gripping novel dramatizing the truth that for every loss there can be a redeeming gain e... More

By inhabiting the imagination of a surviving Kent State classmate, four unquiet ghosts cry out for justice in a powerful and disturbing narrative that confronts the truth about how and why they were killed.SNAPSHOTS USA recreates the lives four Kent State students would have lived, had they lived. B... More

The philosopher Rene Descartes declared, "I think, therefore I am." But who is this I that thought posits? In anecdotal style, the narrator of this nonfiction novel relates an odyssey of discovery and confusion, catalyzed by psychedelic drugs, over a year's time: the hippie era of 1967. With humor a... More