Fear of public speaking still outpaces an individual's fear of death, but talking in public is a necessary requirement of any professional at sometime in their career especially when you consider that 99 percent of what people say at any given time is unprepared. Writer and communications coach Anne Cooper Ready provides useful tips and strategies in her book titled "Off the Cuff." Soundview recommends this read because it's an excellent guidebook that's designed to help the reader gather and convey their thoughts in a direct, yet motivating and entertaining matter when put on the spot. The author provides both the basic and advanced skills to help deliver an immediate, compelling statement with little advance notice. "Off the Cuff" is one of those rare books that it's better to have read and not need - as opposed to need and not read.