"What messages do animals send to each other using sound? How can we decipher them? What lessons might these messages offer for understanding the origins and workings of our own communication? Scientists who study bioacoustics try and answer these questions, using physiology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology to understand how and why animals communicate via sound. In this book, Nicholas Mathevon offers readers an accessible overview of the...

"Complete with new material, The Hard Questions is now being published in the same keepsake format as The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life"--

Be the speaker they follow with breakthrough innovative presentations Innovative Presentations For Dummies is a practical guide to engaging your audience with superior, creative, and ultra-compelling presentations. Using clear language and a concise style, this book goes way beyond PowerPoint to enable you to reimagine, reinvent, and remake your presentations. Learn how to stimulate, capture, and hold your audience in the palm of your hand with sound,...

Manser helps you develop your conversational skills for the workplace. He offers help to new and aspiring managers who need to deliver bad new in a appraisal, or work with problem colleagues. By developing your active listening skills and the art of asking incisive questions, you can make difficult conversations easier.

In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.

"If animals could talk, what would they tell us? If you love animals, you've probably always wanted to know how to reach out to them: how can you possibly know what your pets are thinking, what they need, what they'd like to say to you? This guide teaches how to communicate with your pets, establishing a new level of awareness of their needs and personalities and deepening your bond with them in the process"--Back cover.