slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

No matter where you are on the organizational ladder, chances are you're required to deliver visual presentations to your peers, boss, or your customers.

Indeed, presentations have become the de facto business communication tool.

Yet unlike verbal communication, thinking visually isn't easy, natural, or commonly taught in schools or business training programs.

Fortunately, O'Reilly's newest release - slide:ology - fills that void.

This highly anticipated resource is written by Nancy Duarte, President and CEO of Duarte Design in Mountain View, CA, the firm that created the presentation for "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore's Oscar-winning film.

Combining conceptual thinking and inspirational design, slide:ology offers practical approaches on how to create ideas, translate them into pictures, display them well, and then deliver them in your own natural way.

"A great slideshows is determined by the type of interaction a presenter has with their slides" declares Nancy Duarte.

"If the presenter is addicted to reading bullet points, then everyone in the room suffers."