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Latest Sound Recordings on the Pivotal Network:

 

 

 

Muse

 

Muse's fusion of progressive rock, glam, electronica, and Radiohead-influenced experimentation is crafted by guitarist/vocalist Matthew Bellamy, bassist Chris Wolstenholme, and drummer Dominic Howard

 

 

 
Free this week:   $5 Albums        
     
  Blues and Country Legends    Parachutes   American Pie      So Far, The Best of Sinead O'Connor
 

 

Country Music

by Willie Nelson

 

Truly these 15 tracks define country music in ways that are satisfactorily poignant. Be it heartbreak or struggling miners or spirituality or the meaning of life, these tracks offer questions as well as answers that are often thought provoking, heartfelt and moving. And this, in a nutshell, is what country music is all about. Willie Nelson has not only defined country music with this new disc, but he is in many ways the embodiment of country music

 

 

 

 

How to Make Affirmations A Powerful Force for Change 

by Jaqui Duvall

 
 
 
 
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
 
Twenty years after the original smash-hit "Phantom of the Opera" (which knocked "Cats" off it's scratching post in 2006 as the longest-running musical in Broadway history), Andrew Lloyd Webber has finally come through with the long-awaited sequel, LOVE NEVER DIES. 

 

 

 

Live From The Montreal International Jazz Festival

by Ben Harper And Relentless7

"Ben Harper never disappoints and this Live release with his new group Relentless 7 delivers in a BIG way.".. Definitely a relentlessly rocking experience from beginning to end...a MUST for any fan of rock!!"

 

 
 

Is Twitter a Presenter’s Nightmare or a Dream Come True?

with Cliff Atkinson

Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences are no longer sitting quietly while speakers are talking — instead they’re using Twitter and other tools to create a backchannel where they chat with one another, make comments about your presentation and broadcast their thoughts to people all over the world.


If audiences are happy, the backchannel can spread your ideas far and wide, create buzz about your ideas, and keep a conversation going long after you leave the podium. But if audiences are unhappy, the backchannel can criticize your ideas and delivery, disrupt your talk, and even derail your presentation completely. So is the backchannel yet another thing to fear when you give your next presentation? Or a great opportunity to really know what your audience is thinking?

 

Cliff Atkinson, author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever, will share his research and ideas for making the backchannel work for you.


You will learn:


• How audiences are changing the power dynamic of presentations
• Why you need a Twitter account and how to use it
• How to make your presentation Twitter-friendly
• How to avoid backchannel disasters
• How to extend your message farther than previously possible
• How to use Twitter feedback to adjust or fine-tune your ideas

     
 

From Good to Great: 10 Little Known Techniques to Transform Your Speech

  • Do you want to learn advanced presentation skills?

  • Can you benefit from learning the latest presentation tips?

  • Do you dream of becoming a professional public speaker or professional motivational speaker?

  • Can you benefit from listening to presentation coaching?

Award-winning speaker and in-demand speech coach Patricia is in fine form in this 90 minute action-packed session before 150 professional speakers. You will hear her best advice after 25 years of studying how to have impact on the platform. You benefit from listening in on the mini-coaching sessions.

     
  Better Parent/parents-improve Your Parenting Skills Subliminal Self Help Cd
     

 

The 7 Hidden Secrets of Motivation: Unlocking the Genius Within (Your Coach in a Box)

~ Todd Beeler 

 

I'm not big on hype, but if you really want to change your life pick this book up. It's filled with ideas that will shift your reality far beyond what you thought was ever possible for you.

 

     
  Self-Motivation and How to Get It 
 

by Unlimited Success Principles

 

From the Album Self Improvement Secrets

 

 

       
 

The Gift of Laughter: Dialogues With Great Comedians

All you'll ever need to know about the enjoyment, appreciation and art of performance humor. Patricia Fripp with Larry Wilde. Larry made publishing history as the author of the most popular humor series of all time. His 53 books have sold more than 12 million copies. The New York Times called him "America's best-selling humorist." 

In this one-of-a-kind album, you will learn the inside secrets of America's greatest comedians ... you can hear the collective wisdom of the people who defined American comedy. For the first time, you will learn the most fascinating, interesting, inside stories about how Larry convinced the great comedians to share their never-before-revealed views on making people laugh. 

6 hour audio program.
 

 
       

 

Home

 

by Marilynne Robinson

 

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction

 

  Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Now comes HOME, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead.

 

--- Listen to a podcast from the Philadelphia Free Library

 

--- Download the audio of an interview in which the author reads from her book

 

--- Listen as the novelist talks to Claire Armistead about the novel that has won her this year's Orange prize

 

 

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