Jazyk
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.
Jazyk Shrnutí knih
Gentle Writing Advice
The writing life burns out the best. Skip the craft rules; this is the guide to creative survival.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Jazyk
Psychologie
Gentle Writing Advice
The writing life burns out the best. Skip the craft rules; this is the guide to creative survival.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Jazyk
Psychologie
Your Creative Writing Masterclass
A hundred great novelists teach you fiction's craft secrets, from character to voice.
Psaní
Knihy o knihách
Referenční
Jazyk
Creativity
Your Creative Writing Masterclass
A hundred great novelists teach you fiction's craft secrets, from character to voice.
Psaní
Knihy o knihách
Referenční
Jazyk
Creativity
There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book
Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.
Filozofie
Psychologie
Věda
Matematika
Humor
There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book
Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.
Filozofie
Psychologie
Věda
Matematika
Humor
The Pyramid Principle
Build every document as a pyramid: answer on top, logic grouped beneath. The reader stops guessing.
Podnikání
Psaní
Management
Leadership
Referenční
The Pyramid Principle
Build every document as a pyramid: answer on top, logic grouped beneath. The reader stops guessing.
Podnikání
Psaní
Management
Leadership
Referenční
Language Hacking Guide
Stop waiting until you're ready. Speak a new language today, and let the grammar catch up.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Language Hacking Guide
Stop waiting until you're ready. Speak a new language today, and let the grammar catch up.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Dynamic Characters
Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Dynamic Characters
Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
How to Grow a Novel
The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
Creativity
How to Grow a Novel
The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
Creativity
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing
One writing process for fiction, poetry, and screenplays, plus the business half most primers skip.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Vzdělávání
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing
One writing process for fiction, poetry, and screenplays, plus the business half most primers skip.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Vzdělávání
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.
Psychologie
Životní prostředí
Věda
Udržitelnost
Politika
How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference
Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.
Psychologie
Životní prostředí
Věda
Udržitelnost
Politika
Grammar for a Full Life
Your sentence habits shape your agency, your relationships, and what you believe is possible.
Psaní
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Grammar for a Full Life
Your sentence habits shape your agency, your relationships, and what you believe is possible.
Psaní
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Language pictures facts but cannot contain ethics, value, or the mystical; these lie beyond words.
Filozofie
Jazyk
Klasika
Matematika
Věda
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Language pictures facts but cannot contain ethics, value, or the mystical; these lie beyond words.
Filozofie
Jazyk
Klasika
Matematika
Věda
The Serious Business of Small Talk
A shared moment, a personal detail, one question: the routine that turns strangers into allies.
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Vztahy
The Serious Business of Small Talk
A shared moment, a personal detail, one question: the routine that turns strangers into allies.
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Vztahy
Portugal - Culture Smart!
The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.
Cestování
Portugal
Europe
Historie
Culture
Portugal - Culture Smart!
The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.
Cestování
Portugal
Europe
Historie
Culture
The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing
Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Knihy o knihách
Publishing
The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing
Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Knihy o knihách
Publishing
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.
Psaní
Referenční
Memoáry
Žurnalistika
Eseje
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.
Psaní
Referenční
Memoáry
Žurnalistika
Eseje
Spellbinding Sentences
Sentences are buildable, not born. A practice-based method for word choice, imagery, and rhythm.
Psaní
Jazyk
Grammar
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Spellbinding Sentences
Sentences are buildable, not born. A practice-based method for word choice, imagery, and rhythm.
Psaní
Jazyk
Grammar
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Plot Perfect
Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Plot Perfect
Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict
For novelists: how to build stories on emotion, tension, and conflict so readers cannot look away.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict
For novelists: how to build stories on emotion, tension, and conflict so readers cannot look away.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
The Writer's Guide to Beginnings
Agents stop reading on page one. The craft decisions that make them turn to page two.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
The Writer's Guide to Beginnings
Agents stop reading on page one. The craft decisions that make them turn to page two.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
Creating Characters
Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
Creating Characters
Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
The Psychology of Language
Language errors are not failures; they are data that expose the cognitive architecture of the mind.
Psychologie
Jazyk
Věda
Vzdělávání
Biologie
The Psychology of Language
Language errors are not failures; they are data that expose the cognitive architecture of the mind.
Psychologie
Jazyk
Věda
Vzdělávání
Biologie
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
The Pocket Guide to Mischief
From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.
Humor
Pro mladé dospělé
Referenční
Popkultura
Hry
The Pocket Guide to Mischief
From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.
Humor
Pro mladé dospělé
Referenční
Popkultura
Hry
Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence
A message influences only when it fits a listener's pre-existing mental map. Leadership is mapping.
Podnikání
Leadership
Psychologie
Jazyk
Sociologie
Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence
A message influences only when it fits a listener's pre-existing mental map. Leadership is mapping.
Podnikání
Leadership
Psychologie
Jazyk
Sociologie
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots
Burn the jargon. Cut every message by a quarter. Sound like a person. A corporate communication fix.
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Why Business People Speak Like Idiots
Burn the jargon. Cut every message by a quarter. Sound like a person. A corporate communication fix.
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Writing Fantasy Heroes
Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.
Psaní
Fantasy
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
Writing Fantasy Heroes
Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.
Psaní
Fantasy
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
The Meaning of Everything
A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Historie
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Biografie
Psaní
The Meaning of Everything
A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Historie
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Biografie
Psaní
Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure
Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure
Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
Change Your Voice
Your voice is an acquired habit. Change the habit, and change how the world hears you.
Osobní rozvoj
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Podnikání
Jazyk
Change Your Voice
Your voice is an acquired habit. Change the habit, and change how the world hears you.
Osobní rozvoj
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Podnikání
Jazyk
The Translator's Invisibility
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
Jazyk
Historie
Literatura
Teorie
Psaní
The Translator's Invisibility
The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.
Jazyk
Historie
Literatura
Teorie
Psaní
Fire Up Your Writing Brain
Writer's block is a neural habit. Rewire it with the brain science that helps you finish.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Věda
Creativity
Fire Up Your Writing Brain
Writer's block is a neural habit. Rewire it with the brain science that helps you finish.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Věda
Creativity
How to Speak and Write Correctly
Why short words win: a 1910 guide to writing and speaking with force, clarity, and correctness.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Klasika
How to Speak and Write Correctly
Why short words win: a 1910 guide to writing and speaking with force, clarity, and correctness.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Klasika
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
Syriac reveals the Quran's virgins are grapes, boys iced juice, and source a Christian lectionary.
Islám
Náboženství
Historie
Jazyk
Psaní
The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran
Syriac reveals the Quran's virgins are grapes, boys iced juice, and source a Christian lectionary.
Islám
Náboženství
Historie
Jazyk
Psaní
One Hundred Names for Love
A stroke took his language. Two writers then learned what love sounds like without words.
Memoáry
Zdraví
Jazyk
Biografie
Medicína
One Hundred Names for Love
A stroke took his language. Two writers then learned what love sounds like without words.
Memoáry
Zdraví
Jazyk
Biografie
Medicína
The Writer's Idea Book
Never run out of material: habits and prompts to keep you writing through every block.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Creativity
Umění
The Writer's Idea Book
Never run out of material: habits and prompts to keep you writing through every block.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Creativity
Umění
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus
Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Is This Love or Dopamine?
Emojis, ghosting, and the 0.4-second impression: what your texts say when your mouth isn't moving.
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Humor
Vztahy
Internet
Is This Love or Dopamine?
Emojis, ghosting, and the 0.4-second impression: what your texts say when your mouth isn't moving.
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Humor
Vztahy
Internet
Description & Setting
Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Creativity
Description & Setting
Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Creativity
The Art of Always Being Right
Thirty-eight ways to win any argument, none of which require you to be right.
Filozofie
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Jazyk
Referenční
The Art of Always Being Right
Thirty-eight ways to win any argument, none of which require you to be right.
Filozofie
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Jazyk
Referenční
