Speeches

This unofficial compilation reviews the 100 best TED talks about innovation from great minds worldwide. With quirky graphics and memorabl...

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunbe...

Fully updated with new preface and five new speeches for paperback edition.A Guardian Book of the Year.Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of...

Reclaims public speaking as a central cultural form of the nineteenth centuryPlaces famous speeches by Emmeline Pankhurst, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Tw...

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to cha...

As an adult, I learned this: persist. Work hard. Face rejection, weather the setbacks, until you meet the gatekeeper who will open a door for you...

The great speeches since post-World War II to the present have marked eras and interpreted feelings, in a continuously evolving world, when faced w...

The poetry of Odysseus Elytis owes as much to the ancients and Byzantium, as to the surrealists of the 1930s and the architecture of the Cyclades, ...

Speak Up! is a joyful celebration of 45 speeches by children and teenagers who have stood up for causes they passionately believe in and challenged...

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR For all those who believe in the politics of principle and hope this a wond...

From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches ...

From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, discover the most significant speeches of the modern era!Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to t...

The President of Ireland since 2011, when he was elected by a final tally of almost 57% of the votes, Michael D. Higgins has used his time in offic...

In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very G...

On October 13, 2016, it was announced that Bob Dylan had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to mu...

Give me liberty, demanded Patrick Henry, or give me death! Henry''s words continue to echo in American history and that quote, and the speech it...

What makes a speech great? In this second volume of Great Scottish Speeches, more than 60 speeches made by Scots or by others in Scotland have been...

'Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfil themselves.' These powerful words, spoken by Nelson Mandela ...

At 11.15 a.m. on Sunday 3 September 1939 Neville Chamberlain spoke to the Nation: 'I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street...

'Even if everyone else succumbs to slavery, we must still fight for our freedom.' Admired by many in the ancient world as the greatest of the clas...

Selected from a diverse field of speakers and venues, this volume offers some of the most engaging American speeches of the year.Distinguished by i...