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Publisher
BBL Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Get hired and get ahead, even without years of work experience. Your Personal Career Coach: Real-World Experiences for Early Career Success is a collection of short, real-life stories loaded with valuable advice, humorous confessions, and inspiring insights from 25 successful professionals. The authors share personal stories from their own careers to create the definitive guide on how to get hired, get ahead, and succeed in a rewarding career." --...
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Chick-fil-A's former HR operations manager helps you create a work life you love from recruitment to retirement, including how to prepare and interview for jobs, develop strong relationships, keep a job, and grow your career"--
Author
Publisher
Crown Business
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this definitive guide to the ever-changing modern workplace, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos, the co-founders of popular career website TheMuse.com, show how to play the game by the New Rules. The Muse is known for sharp, relevant, and get-to-the-point advice on how to figure out exactly what your values and your skills are and how they best play out in the marketplace. Now Kathryn and Alex have gathered all of that advice and more in...
Publisher
Ideas Roadshow
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five accomplished scholars (David Cannadine, Linda Colley, David Hollinger, Maria Mavroudi, and Jay Rubenstein) describe how certain personal experiences were crucial in triggering their interest in history and inspiring them to become historians.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A good critique is a necessary way of testing out an idea, but developing a good negative case requires immense creativity to disprove the affirmative argument. Delve into the key arguments available to the negative: the disadvantages of the affirmative case, counterproposals, and critiques of the affirmative's assumptions.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Now that you have explored the ways to build and defend a strong case, it's time to move on to varsity-level debate skills, starting with "even if" arguments. By starting with the premise that your opponent is right about everything, you can then explain why you should still win the debate - an extremely effective argument if performed well.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of cross-examinations with a detailed look at "leading questions." Useful for identifying holes in an argument, leading questions also represent persuasive arguments in and of themselves. Learn the rules of creating a good leading question and how they can help you win the debate.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
THE ART OF DEBATE offers you the ultimate how-to guide for hashing out differences of opinion and making stronger arguments based on reason and compromise. In 24 stimulating lectures, Professor Jarrod Atchison of Wake Forest University helps you develop your command of logic, construct clear arguments, recognize the fallacies in others' reasoning, and sharpen your own strategic thinking skills.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
To be a great debater, you must not only learn to recognize argument fallacies, but you must also learn to combat them during the debate. This first in a two-part lecture series offers insight to help you identify fallacies that stem from flaws in your opponent's research, including the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, hasty generalizations, and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In many great debates, there is a devastating moment where one side clearly out-maneuvers the other. "Flipping the warrant," which requires the highest level of analytic argument, allows you to destroy your opponent's argument by showing that their proposal, rather than solving a problem, will actually make things worse.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Examine the strengths and weaknesses of three primary types of evidence: narrative evidence, empirical evidence, and evidence based on authority. As you review each type of evidence, you will see them in action as Professor Atchison applies them to debates about gun control, climate change, and physician-assisted suicide.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Debate gives you an honest assessment of an idea, and is therefore a powerful decision-making tool. Here, Professor Atchison walks you through the structure of a formal debate and explores when debate can help you the most. As you will learn, big and future-oriented decisions are ripe for formal discussion.
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