I am doing more and more public speaking and wonder if anyone knows a good book about it. I am especially looking for ways to avoid sounding nervous when audiences are intimidating.

Dale Carnegie Course in Effective Speakng and Human Relations is highly recommended.

"Convince, persuade and motivate" - an audio-book published by Journey Learning http://www.journeylearning.com/index.htm and written by - me!

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One of the best paper titles is the old, but still good, "The quick and easy way to effective speaking" by Dale Carnegie - still in print and still 100% relevent.

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