This book offers the practical skills used by outstanding communicators. Excellent communication is the basis of creating excellent results. NLP skills are proving invaluable for personal development and professional excellence in counseling, education and business.

Some people appear more gifted than others. NLP, a growing development in applied psychology, describes what they do differently and explains these patterns of excellence.

Between a third and half of all patients seeking help from the medical profession are suffering from medically unexplained symptoms, and we are facing an epidemic of complex chronic conditions that have no easily discernible pathology or cause. Pressure for a model of 'whole-person' health care has been growing over teh past 25 years, but, no practical, cost effective, integraive model has been suggested, until now. Medical NLP - developed out of the work of Dr Richard Bandler and the field of neuro linguistic programming - offers for the first time a practical methodology and explicit intervetnions to help tackle this debilitating array of problems. Supported by new research and extensive clinical experience, Medical NLP offers the only internationally recognised and licensed health practicitioner training that seamlessly integrates psychosocial therapeutic approaches with the existing biomedchanical prociniples and time constraints of the consultation process.

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science. Based on feedback from extensive classroom experience, the book has been carefully structured in order to make teaching more natural and effective. Slides and additional exercises (with solutions for lecturers) are also available through the book's supporting website to help course instructors prepare their lectures.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) studies brilliance and quality--how outstanding individuals and organizations get their outstanding results. Joseph O'Conner, a leading international NLP trainer and co-author of the bestselling Introducing NLP, offers a step-by-step guide to learning the NLP methods and techniques to help you become the person you want to be in the NLP Workbook. The NLP Workbook is a complete guide to NLP that includes: How to create and achieve outcomes How to choose your emotional state and shift thinking Meta modeling your own internal dialogue All of the basic NLP techniques and training exercises An Action Plan with exercises and suggestions for skill-building O'Conner discusses a range of topics from rapport and trust, and how to visualize, to negotiation skills, mental rehearsal and coaching. NLP Workbook is a book for everyone and anyone interested in NLP. The neophyte will find definitions, examples, and a step-by-step entry into learning how to use NLP, and trainers will discover many new ideas for NLP training.