Instant rapport with the audience. They are smiling, leaning forward, ready to listen.Fear stops people from public speaking. Everyone wants to be liked, but the pressure gets in the way. So we avoid it.In a speech, presentation, webinar or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove we are interesting and valuable. How can we capture our audience’s attention immediately? By mastering our first 20 seconds.We can ...

(Piano Instruction). The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method is a comprehensive and easy-to-use guide designed for anyone interested in playing jazz piano from the complete novice just learning the basics to the more advanced player who wishes to enhance their keyboard vocabulary. There are lots of fun progressions and licks for you to play and absorb. The accompanying audio includes demonstrations of all the examples in the book! Topics include essential theory, chords and voicings, improvisati...

Almost forgotten by time, tucked away beyond the sight of the passerby, there is a little piece of old England, which was for many years a forgotten wilderness. If it were not for a weather-beaten plaque on the gatepost few would realise that beyond the rusted gates there lies, in unmarked paupers’ graves, 2,861 former patients of the once formidable Menston Asylum. To be admitted to a lunatic asylum in the nineteenth century was fraught with danger, and in many cases meant a life sentence...

A book to challenge the status quo, spark a debate, and get people talking about the issues and questions we face as a country!

Panics over the culture wars, political correctness and victim feminism, rap music, ecstasy and body piercings . . . our cultural landscape is currently peppered with examples of a desperately backward-looking stasis and a fearful hanging-on.In Gangland Mark Davis analyses the dated ideals and assumptions of Australia's cultural establishment, and their near monopoly on cultural debate. Who are these people? What do they do? How is their influence affecting public forums a...

'There is an Australian dream that is collective. It goes to the roots of what it means to be Australian, since it's imprinted in Australia's history, the collective acts of its peoples, their attitudes, their gestures, what and how they eat, how they spend their leisure time, and the way such things reflect upon and derive from who they are.'In The Land of Plenty, Mark Davis argues that this dream has been forsaken. Over the past few decades Australians have felt the grou...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Curse of the Old Mansion: An Unsolved Mystery is a spine-chilling novel that will leave you breathless with suspense.Nestled in the heart of the countryside lies an old mansion, abandoned and shrouded in mystery. Its dark history and supernatural powers have been the source of local folklore for generations, but few have dared to venture inside its walls.When a group of amateur sleuths stumble upon the mansion, they ...

A Love Letter to Football is the story of how the beautiful game, from the litter-strewn pitches of the grassroots to packed stadiums at the top of the sport, can help carry us through our darkest days.In 2016, Mark Davies was diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer. A lifelong supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club, his devotion to the club and passion for a game so cherished by billions of people has been essential in helping him navigate the ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Spirit in the Attic: A Horror Unleashed is a spine-tingling tale that will leave readers on the edge of their seats.Emily and her family move into an old Victorian house with a mysterious past. It's not long before strange occurrences start to happen. Objects move on their own, and strange noises can be heard at night.But it's not just the strange occurrences that are haunting them. Emily and her family begin to expe...

Research suggests that future influenza pandemics are inevitable as strains of the virus mutate in new ways. With this uncomfortable reality in mind, this book examines how the general public experienced the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus outbreak by bringing together stories about individuals' perception of their illness, as well as reflections on news, vaccination, social isolation, and other infection control measures. The book also charts the story-telling of public life, including the 'be ...

Description: In the depths of Hollow Manor, an ancient house steeped in darkness, lies a terrifying secret. "The House of Nightmares: A Journey into Insanity" takes readers on a chilling odyssey through the haunted corridors of this malevolent mansion.Dr. Jonathan Reed, an esteemed psychologist, is drawn into the enigma of Hollow Manor when he receives an unsettling invitation to uncover its darkest secrets. Little does he know that his journey will lead him on a harrowing descent ...

To begin at the beginning: it is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters’-and-rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea. - Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas was the self-styled ‘bombastic adolescent provincial Bohemian’, and whose wizardry with words ensured his dominion over poverty, alcoholism, self-destruction and, ultimately, a premature dea...