"Slide:ology is practical, it's highly visual, and it's beautiful. I love this book," observes the visionary author of "Presentation Zen," Garr Reynolds, in his popular blog discussing professional presentation design.

The new title by Nancy Duarte, who heads up Duarte Design--the California firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning firm, An Inconvenient Truth--aims to inspire all of us to create more engaging and more impactful visual communications.

According to Garr, "slide:ology should come bundled with every copy of PowerPoint or Keynote ever sold from now on. I received a draft copy about three months ago that blew me away--the final product is even better than I expected. I just got my copy over the weekend. At 274 pages, the book is meaty without being bloated."

Adds Garr: "A really cool feature in the book is that many of the presentations Nancy shows in her book are available for download or can be seen via video on a specially created slide:ology website for free. There are no longer any excuses for really bad presentations."

In fact, here Garr demonstrates just how easy it is to put together an entertaining short video in a few Keynote slides.