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Slova formují naše myšlenky, vztahy a samotné chápání reality – od metafor, které strukturovaně ovlivňují naše myšlení, až po jemné způsoby, jakými gramatika ovlivňuje kulturu. Naše jazykové knihy zkoumají komunikaci ve všech jejích podobách a nabízejí vhledy a praktické rady ohledně psaní, mluvení a fascinující vědy, která stojí za tím, jak lidé používají slova k navazování spojení a vytváření významu.

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About Writing

od Samuel R. Delany • 2006

The sentence, not the world, is science fiction's true unit of meaning. A master explains why.

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🚀 Science Fiction Craft 📚 Genre Theory 🌊 New Wave Sf 🔬 Experimental Fiction ✍️ Aspiring Writers

About Writing

The sentence, not the world, is science fiction's true unit of meaning. A master explains why.

od Samuel R. Delany 2006 272 stran

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🚀 Science Fiction Craft 📚 Genre Theory 🌊 New Wave Sf 🔬 Experimental Fiction ✍️ Aspiring Writers

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

od Erik J. Larson • 2021

Computers can't guess. That single limitation makes human-level AI a myth, not an inevitability.

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🛑 Ai Skepticism ⚙️ Philosophy Of Technology 💻 Computational Limits 💡 Pragmatism 📊 Big Data Critique

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Computers can't guess. That single limitation makes human-level AI a myth, not an inevitability.

od Erik J. Larson 2021 320 stran

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🛑 Ai Skepticism ⚙️ Philosophy Of Technology 💻 Computational Limits 💡 Pragmatism 📊 Big Data Critique

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

od Steven Pinker • 2025

How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology ♟️ Game Theory 🧩 Social Coordination 🤝 Social Norms 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

How an infinite mental loop explains why we blush, lie, laugh, and cancel.

od Steven Pinker 2025 384 stran

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🧠 Cognitive Psychology ♟️ Game Theory 🧩 Social Coordination 🤝 Social Norms 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion

od Jay Heinrichs • 2025

Win the argument with your laziest self: rhetoric's lost art of inward persuasion.

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🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion 🔄 Habit Formation 💬 Inner Dialogue 🎯 Goal Pursuit

Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion

Win the argument with your laziest self: rhetoric's lost art of inward persuasion.

od Jay Heinrichs 2025 288 stran

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🏛️ Applied Philosophy 🗣️ Rhetoric And Persuasion 🔄 Habit Formation 💬 Inner Dialogue 🎯 Goal Pursuit

Reading Like a Writer

od Francine Prose • 2006

Workshops preach rules. Real craft is learned one Chekhov sentence at a time.

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📖 Close Reading 📝 Reading For Writers 🖋️ Literary Craft 📜 Sentence Craft 🔎 Concrete Detail

Reading Like a Writer

Workshops preach rules. Real craft is learned one Chekhov sentence at a time.

od Francine Prose 2006 320 stran

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📖 Close Reading 📝 Reading For Writers 🖋️ Literary Craft 📜 Sentence Craft 🔎 Concrete Detail

How Propaganda Works

od Jason F. Stanley • 2015

How coded language and elite myths rig democratic debate, and why the educated fall hardest.

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🔍 Propaganda Studies 🗳️ Political Language 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⚖️ Epistemic Injustice 🧠 Ideology Critique

How Propaganda Works

How coded language and elite myths rig democratic debate, and why the educated fall hardest.

od Jason F. Stanley 2015 376 stran

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🔍 Propaganda Studies 🗳️ Political Language 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⚖️ Epistemic Injustice 🧠 Ideology Critique

The Sense of Style

od Steven Pinker • 2014

Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.

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✍️ Prose Style 📖 Language Usage 🏛️ Classic Prose 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌳 Syntax

The Sense of Style

Why can't smart people write clearly? A cognitive scientist blames one mental blind spot.

od Steven Pinker 2014 368 stran

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✍️ Prose Style 📖 Language Usage 🏛️ Classic Prose 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🌳 Syntax

The End of Education

od Neil Postman • 1995

Education has lost its story. Here are the narratives that give learning purpose again.

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📚 Educational Philosophy 💡 Humanistic Education 🤖 Technology Criticism 🗣️ Language And Worldview 🗳️ Democratic Education

The End of Education

Education has lost its story. Here are the narratives that give learning purpose again.

od Neil Postman 1995 224 stran

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📚 Educational Philosophy 💡 Humanistic Education 🤖 Technology Criticism 🗣️ Language And Worldview 🗳️ Democratic Education

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

od John Koenig • 2018

The feelings you've always had finally have names: an invented dictionary for the human condition.

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💡 Invented Words 💬 Emotional Vocabulary 🏷️ Naming Emotions 🔬 Emotional Granularity 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

The feelings you've always had finally have names: an invented dictionary for the human condition.

od John Koenig 2018 272 stran

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💡 Invented Words 💬 Emotional Vocabulary 🏷️ Naming Emotions 🔬 Emotional Granularity 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity

Surfaces and Essences

od Douglas R. Hofstadter • 2011

Analogy isn't a language trick. It's the hidden engine of every thought, category, and insight.

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🧠 Cognitive Science 💭 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Analogical Reasoning 📦 Mental Categories 💬 Language And Thought

Surfaces and Essences

Analogy isn't a language trick. It's the hidden engine of every thought, category, and insight.

od Douglas R. Hofstadter 2011 578 stran

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🧠 Cognitive Science 💭 Philosophy Of Mind ⚖️ Analogical Reasoning 📦 Mental Categories 💬 Language And Thought

Quantum Psychology

od Robert Anton Wilson • 1990

Every perception is a wager, and one small word in English stacks the odds against you.

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🧠 General Semantics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 👁️ Active Perception ✨ Mind-Body Connection ⚛️ Quantum Philosophy

Quantum Psychology

Every perception is a wager, and one small word in English stacks the odds against you.

od Robert Anton Wilson 1990 202 stran

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🧠 General Semantics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 👁️ Active Perception ✨ Mind-Body Connection ⚛️ Quantum Philosophy

How to Win an Argument

od Marcus Tullius Cicero • 2016

Cicero's persuasion system: the lost art of drilling memory, logic, and delivery into instinct.

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques ✍️ Speechwriting 🏗️ Argument Structure

How to Win an Argument

Cicero's persuasion system: the lost art of drilling memory, logic, and delivery into instinct.

od Marcus Tullius Cicero 2016 288 stran

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Persuasion Techniques ✍️ Speechwriting 🏗️ Argument Structure

High School English Grammar and Composition

od P.C. Wren • 1935

Grammar isn't guesswork. The systematic classic that builds clear writing from the ground up.

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📖 English Grammar ✍️ Writing Guides 🏛️ Traditional Grammar 🔧 Writing Mechanics ❗ Punctuation Rules

High School English Grammar and Composition

Grammar isn't guesswork. The systematic classic that builds clear writing from the ground up.

od P.C. Wren 1935 431 stran

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📖 English Grammar ✍️ Writing Guides 🏛️ Traditional Grammar 🔧 Writing Mechanics ❗ Punctuation Rules

The Linguist

od Steve Kaufmann • 2003

The method that builds fluency through audio, reading, and self-guided practice, not grammar drills.

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🎧 Comprehensible Input 🧭 Self-Directed Study 📚 Vocabulary Building 🌍 Cultural Immersion 💬 Fluent Communication

The Linguist

The method that builds fluency through audio, reading, and self-guided practice, not grammar drills.

od Steve Kaufmann 2003 146 stran

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🎧 Comprehensible Input 🧭 Self-Directed Study 📚 Vocabulary Building 🌍 Cultural Immersion 💬 Fluent Communication

Thirty Million Words

od Dana Suskind • 2015

A 30-million-word gap opens before age three. Parent talk, not money, closes it.

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🧠 Early Development 🗣️ Language Development 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📉 Achievement Gap 🌐 Bilingual Parenting

Thirty Million Words

A 30-million-word gap opens before age three. Parent talk, not money, closes it.

od Dana Suskind 2015 320 stran

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🧠 Early Development 🗣️ Language Development 🔄 Neuroplasticity 📉 Achievement Gap 🌐 Bilingual Parenting

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

od David W. Anthony • 2007

English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.

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🗣️ Historical Linguistics ⛏️ Prehistoric Archaeology 🏺 Bronze Age 📜 Ancient Languages 🌱 Language Origins

The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

English and Sanskrit share an ancestor spoken by Bronze Age herders. Horse and wheel spread it.

od David W. Anthony 2007 568 stran

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🗣️ Historical Linguistics ⛏️ Prehistoric Archaeology 🏺 Bronze Age 📜 Ancient Languages 🌱 Language Origins

The Vocabulary Builder Workbook

od Chris Lele • 2018

Roots, false friends, and word origins: the 1,400-word shortcut to a command of English.

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🧱 Vocabulary Building 🗣️ English Language Learning 🌳 Word Roots 🔍 Etymology ❓ Commonly Confused Words

The Vocabulary Builder Workbook

Roots, false friends, and word origins: the 1,400-word shortcut to a command of English.

od Chris Lele 2018 254 stran

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🧱 Vocabulary Building 🗣️ English Language Learning 🌳 Word Roots 🔍 Etymology ❓ Commonly Confused Words

The Stuff of Thought

od Steven Pinker • 2007

Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.

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🗣️ Cognitive Linguistics 🧠 Language And Mind 🔄 Conceptual Metaphor 🌍 Linguistic Relativity ⛓️ Causal Reasoning

The Stuff of Thought

Every sentence you speak betrays the mind's hidden assumptions about space, time, and cause.

od Steven Pinker 2007 499 stran

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🗣️ Cognitive Linguistics 🧠 Language And Mind 🔄 Conceptual Metaphor 🌍 Linguistic Relativity ⛓️ Causal Reasoning

The Order of Things

od Michel Foucault • 1966

Thought is governed by hidden rules that have collapsed twice. 'Man' was their latest product.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🔍 Epistemology 🧩 Structuralism 🗂️ Knowledge Systems

The Order of Things

Thought is governed by hidden rules that have collapsed twice. 'Man' was their latest product.

od Michel Foucault 1966 416 stran

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🔍 Epistemology 🧩 Structuralism 🗂️ Knowledge Systems

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary

od Michael McCarthy • 1999

Core English vocabulary, taught through the topics of daily life: home, work, food, and more.

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📚 English Vocabulary 🌐 Esl Resources 📖 Self-Study Guides 🌱 Beginner English 💬 Practical English

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary

Core English vocabulary, taught through the topics of daily life: home, work, food, and more.

od Michael McCarthy 1999 170 stran

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📚 English Vocabulary 🌐 Esl Resources 📖 Self-Study Guides 🌱 Beginner English 💬 Practical English

Misquoting Jesus

od Bart D. Ehrman • 2005

The New Testament's text was changed, thousands of times, by scribes with theological agendas.

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🧐 Textual Criticism 📜 New Testament Manuscripts ⛪ Early Christianity ✍️ Scribal Alterations 📝 Theological Alterations

Misquoting Jesus

The New Testament's text was changed, thousands of times, by scribes with theological agendas.

od Bart D. Ehrman 2005 272 stran

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🧐 Textual Criticism 📜 New Testament Manuscripts ⛪ Early Christianity ✍️ Scribal Alterations 📝 Theological Alterations

1984 and Philosophy

od Ezio Nucci • 2018

Orwell's 1984 as philosophy: language can erase thought, truth is a weapon, and love becomes revolt.

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📜 Political Philosophy 📚 Literary Analysis 🔗 Totalitarian Systems 🗣️ Language And Power 📡 Surveillance Critique

1984 and Philosophy

Orwell's 1984 as philosophy: language can erase thought, truth is a weapon, and love becomes revolt.

od Ezio Nucci 2018 334 stran

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41 hodnocení

📜 Political Philosophy 📚 Literary Analysis 🔗 Totalitarian Systems 🗣️ Language And Power 📡 Surveillance Critique

Secrets of Dynamic Communications

od Ken Davis • 1991

One sentence first, then a full preparation system that builds talks audiences actually remember.

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🎤 Public Speaking 📊 Presentation Skills 🏗️ Speech Structure 💡 Message Clarity 🎭 Stage Presence

Secrets of Dynamic Communications

One sentence first, then a full preparation system that builds talks audiences actually remember.

od Ken Davis 1991 162 stran

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🎤 Public Speaking 📊 Presentation Skills 🏗️ Speech Structure 💡 Message Clarity 🎭 Stage Presence

Think Again

od Walter Sinnott-Armstrong • 2018

Turn arguments from fights into tools: spot the fallacies, build sound cases, refute with civility.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Informal Logic 🪞 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🗣️ Argumentation

Think Again

Turn arguments from fights into tools: spot the fallacies, build sound cases, refute with civility.

od Walter Sinnott-Armstrong 2018 288 stran

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🔍 Informal Logic 🪞 Cognitive Biases ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🗣️ Argumentation

Attacking Faulty Reasoning

od T. Edward Damer • 1980

Every bad argument breaks a specific rule. Spot the rule, and the response becomes clear.

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208

🧠 Informal Logic ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🔍 Argument Evaluation 💬 Rational Discourse 🎯 Intellectual Honesty

Attacking Faulty Reasoning

Every bad argument breaks a specific rule. Spot the rule, and the response becomes clear.

od T. Edward Damer 1980 256 stran

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🧠 Informal Logic ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🔍 Argument Evaluation 💬 Rational Discourse 🎯 Intellectual Honesty

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

od Wendy Laura Belcher • 2008

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

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🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity 🚫 Writer's Block 🧩 Argument Structure

Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks

Short daily sessions beat weekend binges: twelve weeks to turn your draft into a published article.

od Wendy Laura Belcher 2008 376 stran

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🖋️ Academic Writing 📚 Academic Publishing ⏰ Writing Productivity 🚫 Writer's Block 🧩 Argument Structure

Making Your Case

od Bryan A. Garner • 2007

A judge's yes begins before the gavel: the logic, clarity, and professional habits that win cases.

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⚖️ Legal Persuasion 🏛️ Appellate Advocacy 🗣️ Oral Argument ✍️ Legal Writing 🗒️ Plain Language

Making Your Case

A judge's yes begins before the gavel: the logic, clarity, and professional habits that win cases.

od Bryan A. Garner 2007 269 stran

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⚖️ Legal Persuasion 🏛️ Appellate Advocacy 🗣️ Oral Argument ✍️ Legal Writing 🗒️ Plain Language

Becoming Fluent

od Roger J. Kreuz • 2015

You learn languages better as an adult. The cognitive science behind your hidden advantages.

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🧠 Second Language Acquisition 🔬 Cognitive Science 📚 Learning How To Learn 🧩 Memory Techniques 🌍 Cross-Cultural Communication

Becoming Fluent

You learn languages better as an adult. The cognitive science behind your hidden advantages.

od Roger J. Kreuz 2015 226 stran

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🧠 Second Language Acquisition 🔬 Cognitive Science 📚 Learning How To Learn 🧩 Memory Techniques 🌍 Cross-Cultural Communication

Black and White Thinking

od Kevin Dutton • 2021

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking 🖼️ Framing Effects ⚡ Polarization

Black and White Thinking

Your brain sorts the world into two piles. It saved your ancestors. It sabotages you.

od Kevin Dutton 2021

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🧠 Cognitive Biases 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🏷️ Categorical Thinking 🖼️ Framing Effects ⚡ Polarization

The Intelligent Conversationalist

od Imogen Lloyd Webber • 2016

Opinions matter more than expertise. A crash course on having something to say about everything.

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451

🗣️ Conversation Skills 📚 Cultural Literacy 💬 Small Talk 🫂 Social Fluency ✍️ Language Precision

The Intelligent Conversationalist

Opinions matter more than expertise. A crash course on having something to say about everything.

od Imogen Lloyd Webber 2016 396 stran

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 📚 Cultural Literacy 💬 Small Talk 🫂 Social Fluency ✍️ Language Precision

Consider This

od Chuck Palahniuk • 2020

Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.

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🖋️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoir ✂️ Literary Minimalism 💔 Therapeutic Writing 🎤 Narrative Voice

Consider This

Most writing advice avoids the craft that actually builds authority, tension, and voice.

od Chuck Palahniuk 2020 256 stran

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🖋️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoir ✂️ Literary Minimalism 💔 Therapeutic Writing 🎤 Narrative Voice

Word Magic

od Pao Chang • 2017

English is a magic system; your legal name is the spell that binds you.

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🪄 Word Magic 📜 Sacred Language 🎭 Language As Control 👑 Personal Sovereignty ⛪ Gnostic Revival

Word Magic

English is a magic system; your legal name is the spell that binds you.

od Pao Chang 2017 170 stran

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🪄 Word Magic 📜 Sacred Language 🎭 Language As Control 👑 Personal Sovereignty ⛪ Gnostic Revival

How real is real?

od Paul Watzlawick • 1976

Reality is built from messages, not facts. Spies, dolphins, and a counting horse show why.

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🗣️ Communication Theory 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📰 Disinformation 🐬 Animal Communication

How real is real?

Reality is built from messages, not facts. Spies, dolphins, and a counting horse show why.

od Paul Watzlawick 1976

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🗣️ Communication Theory 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🧠 Cognitive Biases 📰 Disinformation 🐬 Animal Communication

Writing for Busy Readers

od Todd Rogers • 2023

Most people won't read what you write. A behavioral scientist's rules for changing that.

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🏢 Business Writing 🗣️ Workplace Communication 🧠 Reader Psychology ✂️ Concise Writing 👁️ Attention Management

Writing for Busy Readers

Most people won't read what you write. A behavioral scientist's rules for changing that.

od Todd Rogers 2023 256 stran

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🏢 Business Writing 🗣️ Workplace Communication 🧠 Reader Psychology ✂️ Concise Writing 👁️ Attention Management

Cognitive Psychology

od Robert J. Sternberg • 2005

From raw sensation to intelligent action: the mental systems that make meaning possible.

3.88

453

🧠 Cognitive Science 🔬 Experimental Psychology 💾 Memory Systems 👁️ Perception 🗣️ Language Processing

Cognitive Psychology

From raw sensation to intelligent action: the mental systems that make meaning possible.

od Robert J. Sternberg 2005 624 stran

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🧠 Cognitive Science 🔬 Experimental Psychology 💾 Memory Systems 👁️ Perception 🗣️ Language Processing

Objective Communication

od Leonard Peikoff • 1980

Most communication floats free of reality. An Objectivist shows how to anchor yours in facts.

4.22

🧠 Objectivism ✍️ Clear Writing 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Argumentation 👥 Audience Awareness

Objective Communication

Most communication floats free of reality. An Objectivist shows how to anchor yours in facts.

od Leonard Peikoff 1980 377 stran

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🧠 Objectivism ✍️ Clear Writing 🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Argumentation 👥 Audience Awareness

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

od Christopher Emdin • 2016

For teachers in the hood: how the black church and hip-hop can turn your classroom around.

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🏙️ Urban Education 📚 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🎤 Hip-Hop Pedagogy 🗣️ Student Voice ✊ Critical Pedagogy

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

For teachers in the hood: how the black church and hip-hop can turn your classroom around.

od Christopher Emdin 2016 232 stran

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🏙️ Urban Education 📚 Culturally Responsive Teaching 🎤 Hip-Hop Pedagogy 🗣️ Student Voice ✊ Critical Pedagogy

Steering The Craft

od Ursula K. Le Guin • 1998

Hear your prose, fix your grammar, and cut what drags: a master novelist's craft manual.

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✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Craft ✏️ Grammar And Style 🏋️ Writing Exercises 👁️ Voice And Point Of View

Steering The Craft

Hear your prose, fix your grammar, and cut what drags: a master novelist's craft manual.

od Ursula K. Le Guin 1998 160 stran

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✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Craft ✏️ Grammar And Style 🏋️ Writing Exercises 👁️ Voice And Point Of View

Bird by Bird

od Anne Lamott • 1994

Great writing starts with a bad page. Shrink the project, write one small square, then repeat.

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✍️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process 🔒 Creative Perfectionism 🗣️ Inner Critic ✨ Creative Intuition

Bird by Bird

Great writing starts with a bad page. Shrink the project, write one small square, then repeat.

od Anne Lamott 1994 272 stran

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✍️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process 🔒 Creative Perfectionism 🗣️ Inner Critic ✨ Creative Intuition

Origins of Human Communication

od Michael Tomasello • 1999

Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 🤝 Cooperative Communication 👋 Gesture Studies 🐒 Comparative Psychology 📚 Cultural Transmission

Origins of Human Communication

Language didn't start with a code. It started with pointing, pantomime, and the urge to help.

od Michael Tomasello 1999 393 stran

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 🤝 Cooperative Communication 👋 Gesture Studies 🐒 Comparative Psychology 📚 Cultural Transmission

The Elements of Typographic Style

od Robert Bringhurst • 1992

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

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🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

The Elements of Typographic Style

Typography is an invisible art. Its rules: proportion, rhythm, and a five-century memory.

od Robert Bringhurst 1992 352 stran

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🖋️ Typographic Design 📖 Book Design 🔤 Letterforms 📐 Page Layout 🏛️ Design History

Fluent in 3 Months

od Benny Lewis • 2014

Skip the classroom: why broken sentences now beat years of silent preparation.

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🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Memory Techniques ❓ Language Myths 🌐 Polyglot Methods 🏠 Immersion At Home

Fluent in 3 Months

Skip the classroom: why broken sentences now beat years of silent preparation.

od Benny Lewis 2014 256 stran

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🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Memory Techniques ❓ Language Myths 🌐 Polyglot Methods 🏠 Immersion At Home

How to Read Better and Faster

od Norman Lewis • 1951

Train your eyes to swallow a paragraph whole, and silence the voice that slows you down.

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⚡️ Speed Reading 🧠 Reading Comprehension 📖 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Active Reading 📻 Mid-Century Self-Help

How to Read Better and Faster

Train your eyes to swallow a paragraph whole, and silence the voice that slows you down.

od Norman Lewis 1951 239 stran

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⚡️ Speed Reading 🧠 Reading Comprehension 📖 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Active Reading 📻 Mid-Century Self-Help

Uncovering the Logic of English

od Denise Eide • 2011

Thirty rules explain 98% of English spellings. Schools quit teaching them; here they are.

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🧪 Science Of Reading 📖 Structured Literacy 🔤 Phonics Instruction 📝 Spelling Rules 🌱 Word Roots

Uncovering the Logic of English

Thirty rules explain 98% of English spellings. Schools quit teaching them; here they are.

od Denise Eide 2011 199 stran

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🧪 Science Of Reading 📖 Structured Literacy 🔤 Phonics Instruction 📝 Spelling Rules 🌱 Word Roots

Stein on Writing

od Sol Stein • 1995

The editor's craft: making dialogue bristle, scenes unfold in real time, and flab vanish.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🔍 Editing Advice 👁️ Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Writing ✂️ Self Editing

Stein on Writing

The editor's craft: making dialogue bristle, scenes unfold in real time, and flab vanish.

od Sol Stein 1995 320 stran

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🔍 Editing Advice 👁️ Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Writing ✂️ Self Editing

The Art and Science of Communication

od P.S. Perkins • 2008

93% of communication is not your words. A guide to the rest.

3.33

🏢 Workplace Communication 💬 Interpersonal Communication 🤐 Nonverbal Communication 🎤 Public Speaking 🤝 Team Dynamics

The Art and Science of Communication

93% of communication is not your words. A guide to the rest.

od P.S. Perkins 2008 224 stran

3.33

36 hodnocení

🏢 Workplace Communication 💬 Interpersonal Communication 🤐 Nonverbal Communication 🎤 Public Speaking 🤝 Team Dynamics

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

od Jacques Lacan • 1998

The unconscious is not what you feel but what escapes when you speak. Four foundations, redefined.

4.11

1 000+

🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy 🌑 The Unconscious 💭 Desire And Subjectivity 🇫🇷 French Psychoanalysis

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

The unconscious is not what you feel but what escapes when you speak. Four foundations, redefined.

od Jacques Lacan 1998 304 stran

4.11

1 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychoanalytic Theory 📚 Continental Philosophy 🌑 The Unconscious 💭 Desire And Subjectivity 🇫🇷 French Psychoanalysis

Closing the Vocabulary Gap

od Alex Quigley • 2018

Some children start school 32 million words behind. The whole-school approach that catches them up.

4.37

500+

📚 Vocabulary Instruction 🔬 Disciplinary Literacy 🧬 Morphology Instruction 🗣️ Academic Talk ✍️ Spelling Instruction

Closing the Vocabulary Gap

Some children start school 32 million words behind. The whole-school approach that catches them up.

od Alex Quigley 2018 204 stran

4.37

500+ hodnocení

📚 Vocabulary Instruction 🔬 Disciplinary Literacy 🧬 Morphology Instruction 🗣️ Academic Talk ✍️ Spelling Instruction

Structuring Your Novel

od K.M. Weiland • 2013

How to structure your novel's scenes, acts, and plot points to keep readers turning pages.

4.33

3 000+

🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Plot Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Structuring Your Novel

How to structure your novel's scenes, acts, and plot points to keep readers turning pages.

od K.M. Weiland 2013 295 stran

4.33

3 000+ hodnocení

🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Fiction Craft 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Plot Development ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

od Sigmund Freud • 2003

A joke is a bribe of pleasure that lets forbidden thoughts past the guard.

3.69

1 000+

🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 😂 Humor Studies 🎭 Comic Theory 🔧 Joke Mechanics 💬 Verbal Wit

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

A joke is a bribe of pleasure that lets forbidden thoughts past the guard.

od Sigmund Freud 2003 229 stran

3.69

1 000+ hodnocení

🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 😂 Humor Studies 🎭 Comic Theory 🔧 Joke Mechanics 💬 Verbal Wit

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