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A heckler is in the audience; the overhead projector breaks; the allotted speech time runs out--these are just some of the panic-producing crises, interruptions, or distractions easily dealt with in this first-aid guide for business speakers. Here, first-timers and experienced pros alike will find everything they need to organize, write, and deliver effective, entertaining speeches--from installations to toasts and roasts. The guide pinpoints every possible speaking contingency--from failed electricity to a bored audience--and for each one tells how to prevent it, what to do about it, and what to say about it. Its treasury of witty, off-the-cuff lines and audience participation devices helps speakers access the perfect words to cover any situation and captivate any audience.
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Dying on the platform.......2007-10-10
Fun and reassuring, occasionally practical. Overall, a good read, not an investment for career.
Great on so many levels.......2003-04-27
I have many books on presenting and though they come and go on my desk this book stays there all the time. Why?
I'm sick of books that promise you that with just a few easy tips you'll be a great presenter overnight. In many cases I wonder if those authors have ever given a presentation. "What to say when . . ." is clearly written by someone who's been in the trenches and who appreciates the fact that presentation skills need lots of work - and why you need to have ways out of the tricky situations. In many ways it's like being with a small group of top presenters swapping war stories round a dinner table; the attitude is just as important as the information.
Second, this book actually gives you hope that when something bad happens in your presentation you might well be able to recover the situation. When you hear of how experienced speakers saved the day you will stop reacting to setbacks with total panic and instead think "How would the Walters deal with this?"
From the presenter's point of view, the most important message in this book is almost lost in the introduction. In a sidebar by Nate Booth, he makes the point that we'd rather not know - that sooner or later, something unexpected IS going to happen to you. I see so many presenters adopting a formal and distant approach in the hope that everything will go well, and then collapsing when things don't go according to plan. If you accept that nothing is perfect, you'll be taking the first step to relaxing in front of your audience - and giving a much better presentation.
The book is also readable for amusement. There are many examples of how to use humor to defuse tricky situations, and of course many examples of accidents that in retrospect are hilarious. My favorite is the story of the guy who skipped down the aisle to receive an award for running a department with the longest accident-free record. The inevitable happened, of course - but in a way that's much funnier than you could imagine. What was that? Oh, you'll have to buy the book to find out.
What you see is what you get (and need).......2002-08-11
Nice book with some good advice on staying out of trouble on the playform and lots of down-to-earth tips on what to do and say when the going gets rough. Nine out of ten situations described are possible real life scenarios and the suggestions almost always make good sense. Which is really important for a book like this. Best read just before you're going out to a "hard talk" with a live audiance and need to make sure that you win the day. Its even funny. Recommended.
Everything you should and shouldn't say!.......2001-07-13
This great book is wonderfully organized, and very comprehensive to boot! The humourous stories help drive the points home, and the "lines" to say are generally easy to remember.
I think by reading through the entire book, you get a good feel for what is appropriate and inappropriate, and can then "wing it" if you haven't gotten a memorized response at hand.
As a public speaking professional, I will keep this in my collection, and review regularly, just in case!
The Best Book on Damage Control.......1999-09-16
This book covers every possible faux pas or disaster on the platform and helps you to recover with grace and confidence. Filled with excellent examples of what to say and do. If you liked this book you'll love Knockout Presentations.
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Through a selection of primary and secondary sources, Death by Design examines the uses of technology during the Holocaust and the specific ways in which scientists, architects, medical professionals, businessmen, and engineers participated in the planning and operation of the concentration and extermination camps that were the foundation of the “final solution.” The book discusses the overriding intellectual, ethical, and philosophical implications of the Nazi’s use of science and technology in their killing operations.
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Science Run Amok.......2006-06-22
Science has at the same time the power to do great good, and great evil, sometimes at the same time. For the 'honor' of the greatest evil that science has done to mankind there would be many candidates: poison gas, the Atomic bomb come to mind, but by any standard of inhumanity the organization and operation of the holocaust has to rank quite high.
For the 'Final Solution' the skills of many professions were required:
It was among the first applications of data processing using IBM punched card equipment to identify those with Jewish grandparents as 'Jews.'
The operation of the roundup and transportation of Jews to the camps was a major transportation effort, especially after the Allied implemented the 'Transportation Plan' to systematically attach transportation within Germany. In spite of all the other needs for transportation to support their armies, the trains kept running to the camps.
Then, of course came the killing camps themselves, organized with Teutonic efficiency down to signs that would calm the new arrivals even as the Germans prepared to kill them.
This book is a series of essays on the use of science and technology in organized murder.
I can't help but close with a comment about the recent revisionist historians who argue that the Holocaust didn't take place. Not once do I see a defendent at Nurnberg present the defense that this didn't take place, and these people were on trial for their lives.
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- Superb; excellent look at the "architecture of death"
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In common usage the term "monument" usually refers to symbolic sculptural constructions that honor great people, military victories, or victims of disasters or genocide. In this book, however, it typically denotes actual buildings that serve practical purposes connected with death and burial. This may not sound like a particularly promising subject, but don't be misled: Monument Builders is a meaty and significant work that explores subtle issues of spirit and human mortality--and architects' attempts to capture and express it.
An extensive essay--"Modernism, Architecture, and Death"--occupies a third of the book and traces the development of funerary architecture and sculptural memorials. It is followed by an eclectic portfolio of 29 designers' funerary projects, most of them recent. Familiar names and major talents such as Gunnar Asplund, Herman Hertzberger, Arata Isozaki, Maya Lin, Fumihiko Maki, Aldo Rossi, Moshe Safdie, Carlo Scarpa, and Peter Eisenman populate this section, along with less-well-known but often equally interesting designers. The constructions themselves run the gamut from a minimalist stone marker--Wim Cuyvers's grave for his father--to architecturally ambitious building complexes such as Rossi's near-legendary Modena cemetery ensemble. Nearly all of the included works achieve a quiet, contemplative serenity.
Edwin Heathcote, an architect and editorial staffer at Church Building magazine, clearly knows his subject intimately, and has produced an enlightening and impressively authoritative book. Physically, it is equally impressive, featuring a large format, quietly elegant layout, and copious, well-reproduced illustrations--mainly in color. --John Pastier
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A thoughtful exploration of modern architectural monuments and memorials
Structures built in response to death pose unique architectural challenges-challenges that transcend the physical to encompass symbolism, beliefs, and culture. Monument Builders highlights this rarely discussed yet fascinating building type, exploring the links between different perceptions of death and their expression in architecture over the course of the twentieth century. Sensitive but never somber, it features the work of an impressive international roster of architects as it moves from neo-classisist and modernist treatments of death to holocaust memorials and other difficult projects.
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Superb; excellent look at the "architecture of death".......2002-01-21
Edwin Heathcote continues his excellent series of books portraying noteworthy architectural marvels, this time looking at monuments and memorials to the dead. After reading two other "Builders" books ("Airport Builders" and "Church Builders") I am now three times impressed.
The first third of "Monument Builders" contains a very good description of the evolution of the "architecture of death," touching on the necropolis, various forms of ancient tombs, and the different manifestations of modernism, including expressionism, cubism and other applications pertaining to war memorials. It's a fine recounting of the history, architectural style and attitudes toward remembering the dead.
The remainder of the book focuses on specific architectural projects with several pages of text supplemented by superb photos, plan drawings and renderings in the first-rate style which typifies Mr. Heathcote's work in this series of books. In most cases, it's one monument per architect; however, an occasional pleasant deviation results in the exposition of several creations by a given architect. I reiterate: the photograpic work is incredible.
Again, true to form, Academy Editions has published a solid volume on quality paper, suitable for library or coffee table.
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Curl has fashioned an absorbing, lucid and entertaining book describing the Victorian response to the only certainty in life--death--including the disposal of the dead, landscaped, cemeteries, funerals and more.
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Timothy Leary, high priest of psychedelia and former Harvard psychologist, spent decades enthusiastically investigating the meaning of life with the boundary-breaking, consciousness-expanding assistance of hallucinogenic drugs. It seems only natural that when "Mademoiselle Cancer moved in to share [his] body," he seized the opportunity to examine the nature of death ... and throw a big party. He didn't, as threatened, commit suicide on the Net or have his head cut off and frozen, but instead surrounded himself with good friends at an extended wake in his Beverly Hills home, where he drifted peacefully away.
In Design for Dying, his newly released book, Leary shows people how to die happily and well. "There are common-sense, easy-to-understand options for dealing planfully, playfully, compassionately, and elegantly with the inevitable final scene," he states. "Face it. At this point in human history, we're all terminal. It behooves us to focus some time and energy and courage on regaining personal and group autonomy over the dying process.... Talking about death is the last taboo in our society. And as we've learned, the way to overcome taboo is pretty straightforward. As the man says, 'Just Do It!'" The book includes contributions from R. U. Sirius of cyberculture magazine Mondo 2000; a guide to death and dying resources, online tools, and further reading lists; and an addendum of "Timothy Leary's Dying Performance as Remembered by His Friends." Timothy Leary vowed to "give death a better name or die trying," and Design for Dying attempts to do just that. Irreverent, original, and funny as ever, Timothy Leary urges us to face death with courage and joy, if not with laughing gas and a lava lamp.
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Leary's Last (Ego) Trip.......2005-11-04
I think that the basic premise of this book, that you should die in style, have a party, invite some friends round to pay respects while you are still alive, is a good one. However, once that's been said, then there really isn't much else to add, it seems to me. Leary fills the rest of the 140 odd pages with lots of boring technobabble about cryonics, nanotechnology and some cheery predictions about the creation of human/machine hybrids.
I was disappointed to see Leary recommend ketamine as a means of simulating a near death experience. He doesn't state whether he tried this himself and he doesn't mention associated health risks. I would recommend anyone thinking of dabbling in ketamine to look up on the internet to see what happened to author D.M. Turner after one too many ketamine trips. He also makes a ridiculous comment about how people who take drugs are more equipped to enter heaven.
intersting, but don't take all of it seriously.......2005-10-20
There are really two sides to this book: The part where he talks about his impeding death ("throw a big party!" "Do it in style") and the politics of dying is brilliant. The part where he talks about science is ridiculous and shows that Leary has no clue what he is talking about.
In the first part, Leary tries to give a synopsis of how he understands the world. There are some really uninformed statements and some extremely bold and plainly wrong comparisons. For example, he equates the medieval alchemists system of dividing all matter into earth, water, sky and fire with the periodic system of elements. According to Leary they are pretty much the same. Well, they are not. One is a superstition, the other is a table organizing scientific observations about electron orbits around nuclei. There are many blunders like this, which should make anyone who paid attention in science class in high school shake their heads. Leary's excursions into DNA, information and the universe lack any basis. He was old and sick, and can be forgiven for it, but please don't think you are learning anything about science here.
The second part is very uplifting, which must be one of the hardest things to do when writing about death. It is deeply humanist and advocates personal choice and an approach away from emergency high-tech medicine and together with friends for this last part of everyone's life. Leary argues that totalitarian, monotheistic religions want to take control about all fundamental steps in life (birth, sex, death) away from humans and that we should move on and regain individual control. His arguments should make sense to anyone who is not brainwashed by these religions.
There is an appendix where Leary's friends describe his dying experience.
Humanist Classic.......2003-12-03
a very hopeful humanist tome that enlightens and entertains, showing us that confidence and illumination go hand-in-hand.
Also serves as a loving tribute to the genius who inspired (and continues to inspire) many.
Absolutely a humanist classic that should be read many times.
an extraordinary book!.......2001-05-20
One of the few books Ive encountered that I can truly describe as life changing.Throghout his life Dr Leary was the ultimate individual, freethinker, and rebel, and the lives of the people he touched are no doubt much better off for his inspiration.As evidenced in this book, his boundless energy and enthusiasm never waned, even in the face of unimaginable suffering in the grip of a crippling terminal illness.In my humble opinion Learys final months(and probably his entire life)epitomized the primary concepts laid down by Viktor Frankl with his formulation of existential psychology, nothing in life has any meaning other than the meaning we attach to it, including death.As far as Im concerned the good doctor succeeded in his attempt to "give death a better name, or die trying".5 stars, highly reccomended.
Design Your Dying and Death -Throw a Party!.......2000-03-26
Timothy Leary's final media jump into the unknown world of death and technology. Famed LSD Guru, former Harvard Professor and author of some 20 books, Dr. Timothy Leary attempts to marry technology with the dying process. Before doing this, he gives a brief history of his life, the trials and tribulations. Once he discovers his own diagnosis of prostate cancer he then takes the step to make death a public and cultural issue. Attempting to have his brain frozen, or consider nanotechnology to "fix" himself, or perhaps have his ashes flown into space. Leary's job in this book to make the reader aware of the many ways one can die with dignity. I enjoyed this book because its the one book that Leary wrote with the most accessiblity and clearity unlike his other chaos works. The book also has an addendum from all his friends. Certainly Timothy Leary fans will cherish this book, as well as those interested in the process of death.
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John Gary Brown's richly evocative photographs remind us that cemeteries--shadowy markers of death and grief--also shine forth with life and art. By turns starkly sobering, nostalgic, provocative, and quirkily humorous, his photos capture the human spirit preserved in all of its amazing diversity.
Celebrating master stone sculptors as well as grassroots and ethnic folk artists, Brown's striking images document the rich traditions of cemetery art as found throughout Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. The art itself manifests a great many idiosyncratic forms and subjects including an Egyptian sphinx, a gigantic baseball, a salesman's suitcase, a rolltop desk, a car-engine shrine, plexiglass-enclosed dolls, life-size limestone statuary, hovering marble angels, elaborate wrought-iron crosses, along with more modest traditional motifs in etched-grantie and concrete.
Brown's own artistry and insights illuminate the ways in which these works embody or reflect personal grief, family relationships, religious and ethnic values, social status, occupations, avocations, aesthetics, as well as unrealized hopes and dreams. Both informative and entertaining, his book provides a haunting tribute to this neglected art form.
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Fascinating and Well-Written.......2002-07-17
Ok, so not everyone is into the "darker" side of life. We prefer to focus on sunflowers, streams and good old-fashioned values here in the midwest.
To many people, gravestones are just plain creepy. Haven't we all watched horror movies where the dead crawl out from beneath a cracked headstone and kill innocent lovers?
Mr. Brown's book made me look at the gravestones in a brighter (although not unentirely SAD) light. I saw the loss that families suffered through in the intricacy of massive stone mausoleums. I felt the emptiness of parents in the lifelike sculptures of their children. And I shook my head at the quirkiness of folks whose death markers are every bit as weird as they themselves must have been.
I've had this book for 5 years and I STILL pick it up now and again to read the stories behind the cemeteries. I have also given it as a gift to people in my life who I know won't get totally freaked out by it. They LOVE it.
It is a wonderful read/lookat/whatever.... just try it!--
Excellent book on tombstone art.......2001-05-22
My husband John and I love tombstone art and stomp around the countryside taking photos of cemeteries. This is one of our favorite books, with lots of wonderful photos of cemeteries around St. Louis and so forth. The author also writes a wonderful commentary on the nature of cemeteries, their conditions, and how we view them today as a modern American society. The photos of the children's graves are especially haunting. A must for collectors of tombstone art.
A Portfolio of Work Worth a Second Look.......1999-02-10
John Gary Brown, does an excellent job at showing the eccentricity and beauty of grave markers. He uses different angles, and points of view in his compositions, to bring out a morbid beauty, that is rarely seen by the naked eye. A truly impressive collection of masterpieces. Just when you think the works speak for themselves, Brown also includes wonderful poetry, which co-exists perfectly with the photographs. A must for anyone's artistic anthology collection.
Good photos but descriptions often contain errors........1997-01-09
While the photography is excellent, and the author offers several interesting insights into symbolism and customs, the facts about particular monuments are incorrect. He gives the wrong locations for several monuments (placing them in cemeteries across town), and the descriptions of the cemeteries themselves contain errors
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Scholarly work on the history of American cemeteries.......2001-05-07
A comprehensive discussion of the history of cemetery design and management rather than graves, this resource is organized by historic periods and traces the shift from cemetery churchyards to memorial gardens within a social context. Concerned primarily with large eastern cemeteries. About 50 illustrations, a nice bibliographic essay which discusses sources, and a very complete index.
An excellent study.......2000-10-24
This book is without any doubt the best book written on cemeteries in the English language. Anyone with even a remote interest in the way that culture shapes the spaces of death should read this informative, accessible and well-illustrated text. Cemetery studies needs more work of this high quality.
Excellent overview.......2000-10-24
After reading a few score of cemetery-related histories, and being someone that checks every index of every history book for cemeteries, death, funerals, and graveyards, Sloan was a revelation. Most cemetery books drill down into a single cemetery or a single region's cemeteries, and ultimately give us no tools for understanding other cemeteries. Sloan provides a roadmap that can be used in any cemetery. You can walk the grounds and identify when sections were opened, which stones of what type were used when, and so forth. But he does not simply throw out a hundred chronological tables. He weaves everything into a cogent narrative. Along the way the book throws light on politics, law, culture, religion, and the powerful influence of public opinion on our individual choices.
There are weaknesses, but they are minor compared to the scholarship poured into this book. Sloan focuses to some extent on New York State, but this merely means most of his examples are from there. Very little coverage of the west, except Forest Lawn. Personally, I would have liked to have seen more on western cemeteries. I also felt that the cemetery types he identifies are accurate and instructive, but in reality we tend to see hybrids of these. They act for most cemeteries as strong influences rather than as a mold.
This is well worth the purchase, however, for cemeterians, historians, and those that just enjoy good nonfiction.
REQURIED READING FOR ALL CEMETERIANS!.......1997-09-04
FINALLY! After years of unscholarly, pun filled "studies" (eg. "Ripley's Believe it or Not Book of Graveyards") and having to read between the lines of books about English cemeteries, Sloane has put together an intellectual, insightful study of American cemeteries. In the past decade or so, American cemeteries have received good press and a few decent books. Until Sloane, however, most authors allowed themselves to be seduced and manipulated by the emotional art and landscape of America's rural cemeteries, thus misinterpreting later cemeteries of differing styles and making value judgements about the monuments and the people they commemorate.
While I'm not quite in agreement with Sloane's psychological assessment of Victorian society, as an until-recently-disgruntled American Cemeterian, I hereby proclain this book to be canonical, required reading for any cemetery buff who wants to get beyond bad research and worn out jokes.
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Stunning colour illustrations of the magnificent treasures from the Cairo and Luxor museums. Accompanies the ground-breaking, multi- media exhibition opening at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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