Integrating key concepts and ideas about public speaking into a clear, step-by-step, transformational method, Power Speaking teaches emerging speakers how to grow the necessary skills and unleash their inner power.
I highly recommend "Power Speaking: The Art of the Exceptional Public Speaker" to anyone who aspires to be authentically present in any situation, especially infront of an audience.
Power Quality by C. Sankaran
Book Description
Frequency disturbances, transients,
grounding, interferencethe issues related to power quality are many,
and solutions to power quality problems can be complex. However, by
combining theory and practice to develop a qualitative analysis of
power quality, the issues become relatively straightforward, and one
can begin to find solutions to power quality problems confronted in the
real world. Power Quality builds the foundation designers, engineers,
and technicians need to survive in the current power system
environment. It treats power system theory and power quality principles
as interdependent entities, and balances these with a wealth of
practical examples and data drawn from the author's 30 years of
experience in the design, testing, and trouble-shooting of power
systems. It compares different power quality measurement instruments
and details ways to correctly interpret power quality data. It also
presents alternative solutions to power quality problems and compares
them for feasibility and economic viability. Power quality problems can
have serious consequences, from loss of productivity to loss of life,
but they can be easily prevented. You simply need a good understanding
of electrical power quality and its impact on the performance of power
systems. By changing the domain of power quality from one of theory to
one of practice, this book imparts that understanding and will develop
your ability to effectively measure, test, and resolve power quality
problems.
Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power by J.A.S. Evans
Review
'A lucid, thorough and reliable introduction to the age of Justinian for students of the Byzantine World.' - Journal of Roman Studies (Amazon.Com)
In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. Her fanatical mother forbade this sixteen-year-old misfit everything that was young and fun. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: she possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. And so she did one night, when feeling scorned and humiliated...and growing angrier and angrier...she became the vengeful demon who let the whole town feel her power.
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power
speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain
power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential
activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises
promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook
approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes:
for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an
audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other
recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new
introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition,
discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques,
how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original
topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and
embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on
the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the
production of writing and the revision of it. From students and
teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we
can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while
achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in
whatever it is we set down on paper.
