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What's Your Point? - Boylan, Bob
Call Number: HF 5718.22.B695 2001
ISBN: 158062460X
A 3 Step Method for Making Effective Business Presentations.
Learn all about how to give effective business speeches or presentations in this step by step guide. At the end of each chapter are helpful summaries of the content presented.
A Speaker's Handbook: Text and Reference - O'Hair, Dan, Stewart, Rob, and Rubenstein, Hannah
Call Number: PN 4129.15.O39 2007
ISBN: 0312443188
One of our newer books, this book is the ultimate public speaking reference guide. Topics covered include: Getting Started with Confidence, Public Speaking Basics, Audience Analysis and Topic Selection, Supporting the Speech, Organizing and Outling, Vocal and Nonverbal delivery, sample speeches and much more.
The Greatest Speeches of All Time - Speechworks
Call Number: PLY E 742 GRE
ISBN: 1885959435
This playaway gives you the chance to hear many of the greatest speeches of all time in audio format.

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Notable Speeches in Contemporary Presidential Campaigns by Robert V. Friedenberg
As implied by the title this book contains the texts of several famous speeches all given by Presidents or other notable political figures within the past century. Also included is background information on the context in which the speeches were given.
Speeches and Toasts by Andrew Frothingham
Have you been asked to give a last minute speech? Or do you want to be prepared in case that should happen to you? Then you need this book. It is full of sample last minute speeches on every topic from birthdays to fundraising to weddings.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Public Speaking by Laurie Rozakis
Are you scared to death of giving a speech? Do you need help writing and delivering a great one? Who doesn’t? This idiot’s guide just like many others provides clear and easy to follow instructions.

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New Speeches DVD

Churchill - Life and speeches - Churchill, Winston
Call Number: QA 76.6 .P495 1999
If anything was sorely lacking in the just-completed series of fund-raising dinners, whistle-stop speeches and primary campaigns, it was great oratory. Rhetoric was in large supply, but almost none of it amounted to anything more substantial than hot air and convenience-store bologna. Occasionally, a keynote speaker at a political convention will stir the assembled delegates - as did Barack Obama four years ago - but candidates have become so adept at avoiding hot-button issues, they rarely say anything at all. Any resemblance between the speechifying of our current chief executive and that of Winston Churchill -- or John F. Kennedy, FDR and Martin Luther King Jr., for that matter - is strictly accidental. White Star's Churchill: The Life and Speeches is a reminder not only of what stirred a nation at a time of desperation, but also what a half-century of American leaders have sorely lacked. --Movie City News
90 Minutes to Killer Presentation Skills - Jefferys, J. Douglas
Call Number: DVD HF 5718.22 NIN
ISBN: 061549997X
A contrarian approach to the art of public speaking that has nevertheless been used by the world's greatest speakers going back to Cato. Regardless of how you perceive your abilities as a presenter, chances are you engage in the same counter-productive actions and beliefs as 95% of all public speakers today. Actions and beliefs you acquired long ago, and that have worked against you and your audiences ever since. But have you ever wondered how some speakers stand out from all the rest? The truth is, great speakers are not born, they're trained. Trained in a set of simple physical behaviors known in the speaking business as "The Skills." Doug Jefferys' firm, PublicSpeakingSkills.com, has been training professionals from all walks of life in The Skills for over 15 years, and is now making this career-changing knowledge available to you in this entertaining and engaging text format. The book is filled with links to videos of famous great speakers and original animations that bring the learning alive. In the back are appendices of transcripts of great speeches broken down, line by line, into the exact cadence of the speaker's original delivery.