The ability to stand up and speak eloquently in public is the number-one skill guaranteed to position a professional ahead of the crowd. And yet, this skill is often ignored or even feared. Patricia Fripp, Darren LaCroix, and Mark Brown, three legends in the speaking industry, are on a mission to show that with guidance and dedication, anyone can deliver an unforgettable presentation. What you will learn from this book are timeless techniques and proven principles that, when adopted, will ...

While there have been quite a few attempts to get JavaScript working as a server-side language, Node.js (frequently just called Node) has been the first environment that's gained any traction. It's now used by companies such as Netflix, Uber and Paypal to power their web apps. Node allows for blazingly fast performance; thanks to its event loop model, common tasks like network connection and database I/O can be executed very quickly indeed.From a beginner's point of view, one of No...

In 1978, Mark and Karen sat on a sunny hillside in Humboldt County, California dreaming of all the wondrous places in the world they wanted to see. This story tells of their travels, travails, adventures and misadventures over the course of the 18 months that they wandered the world and lived those dreams.

While there have been quite a few attempts to get JavaScript working as a server-side language, Node.js (frequently just called Node) has been the first environment that's gained any traction. It's now used by companies such as Netflix, Uber and Paypal to power their web apps. Node allows for blazingly fast performance; thanks to its event loop model, common tasks like network connection and database I/O can be executed very quickly indeed.From a beginner's point of view, one of No...

As a child, teenager, and young adult Edna didn't realize the value of the gifts God had given her. She felt she had been cheated out of everything life had to offer her, wanting to be socially compatible with the "elite people" even though she didn't know anything about their character. Since her daddy, Berkeley Herbert Brown, had the responsibility of taking care of his family, Edna believed he hadn't fulfilled his role as the provider because she didn't get the things she wanted as a ch...

This book is for anyone who sells to homeowners: double glazing, driveways, kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, landscapers, extensions, solar, or the next big thing!Written by Mark Brown, who spent over forty years training, coaching, and mentoring salespeople to improve their conversion rates, hold more commission in their jobs, enjoy their selling more, and find true success in developing a long-term career.This book will help you understand your customers' wants and needs mo...

At least three of out of every five grade 12 students have little or no interest in arithmetical aspect of Mathematics. At least 7 out of 10 educated adults would tell you they managed to scale through passing Mathematics back in their high schools and tertiary education. It is no doubt that the principles of basic mathematics could look very obscure and ambiguous, so it is normal you're struggling with it, you're not alone. From my few years of teaching mathematics, I discovered an approa...

Long before the hit TV show E.R., emergency room doctor Mark Brown decided that the world just had to know about real life in a hospital's E.R.The emergency room is a cauldron of human emotions. The anguish, fear, need, and gore is wearing. As the protective layer of the self is weakened, the pain seeps through and begins to stain the soul. The protective layer grows thicker. But the patients’ needs call out to a sensitive heart, and a balance is struck. Surviv...

This book provides an account of the distinctive way in which penal power developed outside the metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power – discipline – that had inserted itself into the very centre of punishment, it argues that Foucault’s alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will need to be reread and rebalanced to account for its operation in the colonial s...

This book argues that Scottish theatre has, since the late 1960s, undergone an artistic renaissance, driven by European Modernist aesthetics. Combining detailed research and analysis with exclusive interviews with ten leading figures in modern Scottish drama, the book sets out the case for the last half-century as the strongest period in the history of the Scottish stage. Mark Brown traces the development of Scottish theatre’s Modernist revolution from the arrival of influential theatre di...

Therapeutic Taping for Musculoskeletal Conditions explores a range of taping techniques that can be used by physical and sports therapists, and manual therapists. Embedded in a scientific context and supported by current evidence-based practice and research, this practical text is structured around the quadrants of the body and is highly illustrated — each technique is also demonstrated on the accompanying DVD.Many manual therapists use taping techniques as an adjunct to their trea...

What are the various forces influencing the role of the prison in late modern societies? What changes have there been in penality and use of the prison over the past 40 years that have led to the re-valorization of the prison? Using penal culture as a conceptual and theoretical vehicle, and Australia as a case study, this book analyses international developments in penality and imprisonment. Authored by some of Australia’s leading penal theorists, the book examines the historical and conte...