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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.
Jazyk Shrnutí knih
Writing Alone, Writing Together
How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Writing Alone, Writing Together
How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Lingüistica Para Todos / Introducing Linguistics
From baby babbling to brain damage, a scientific tour of the system that makes us human.
Jazyk
Věda
Psychologie
Filozofie
Historie
Lingüistica Para Todos / Introducing Linguistics
From baby babbling to brain damage, a scientific tour of the system that makes us human.
Jazyk
Věda
Psychologie
Filozofie
Historie
The Professor and the Madman
The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.
Historie
Biografie
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Skutečné zločiny
The Professor and the Madman
The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.
Historie
Biografie
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Skutečné zločiny
The Spell of the Sensuous
The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.
Filozofie
Příroda
Ekologie
Životní prostředí
Antropologie
The Spell of the Sensuous
The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.
Filozofie
Příroda
Ekologie
Životní prostředí
Antropologie
Becoming a Translator
Your second language gets you in the door. Professional pride and cultural instinct keep you there.
Jazyk
Referenční
Psaní
Vzdělávání
Podnikání
Becoming a Translator
Your second language gets you in the door. Professional pride and cultural instinct keep you there.
Jazyk
Referenční
Psaní
Vzdělávání
Podnikání
Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers
Most thesauri are dull lists. This one gives 2,300 words chosen to stir, not just define.
Referenční
Psaní
Jazyk
Writers
Osobní rozvoj
Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers
Most thesauri are dull lists. This one gives 2,300 words chosen to stir, not just define.
Referenční
Psaní
Jazyk
Writers
Osobní rozvoj
The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners
Stop teaching English as a separate subject. The framework that weaves it into every lesson.
Vzdělávání
Výuka
Jazyk
Učitelé
Curriculum
The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners
Stop teaching English as a separate subject. The framework that weaves it into every lesson.
Vzdělávání
Výuka
Jazyk
Učitelé
Curriculum
1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts
A thousand prompts, from six-word tales to random-object chaos, each a cure for the blank page.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Výuka
1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts
A thousand prompts, from six-word tales to random-object chaos, each a cure for the blank page.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Výuka
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes
Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes
Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.
Psaní
Referenční
Jazyk
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish
Your novel, start to finish: a guide that treats structure as discovery's framework, not a cage.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Pro dospělé
Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish
Your novel, start to finish: a guide that treats structure as discovery's framework, not a cage.
Psaní
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Pro dospělé
Improve Your Global Business English
Business English across borders: adapt your writing to any culture and never lose a deal.
Podnikání
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Culture
Improve Your Global Business English
Business English across borders: adapt your writing to any culture and never lose a deal.
Podnikání
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Culture
Drive Yourself Sane
Your language splits you from reality. A century-old system for bridging the gap.
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Filozofie
Duševní zdraví
Drive Yourself Sane
Your language splits you from reality. A century-old system for bridging the gap.
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Jazyk
Filozofie
Duševní zdraví
How to Write Romantasy
Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Creativity
Vzdělávání
How to Write Romantasy
Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.
Psaní
Referenční
Knihy o knihách
Creativity
Vzdělávání
My Toddler Talks
A speech pathologist's playbook for when your toddler understands everything but says nothing.
Rodičovství
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Rodina
Osobní rozvoj
My Toddler Talks
A speech pathologist's playbook for when your toddler understands everything but says nothing.
Rodičovství
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Rodina
Osobní rozvoj
How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method
Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.
Psaní
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method
Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.
Psaní
Knihy o knihách
Vzdělávání
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
The Language of the Night
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
Psaní
Eseje
Knihy o knihách
Fantasy
Science fiction
The Language of the Night
Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.
Psaní
Eseje
Knihy o knihách
Fantasy
Science fiction
Building Great Sentences
Grammar explains the parts. Here is the construction kit for sentences that move, linger, and land.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Grammar
Style
Building Great Sentences
Grammar explains the parts. Here is the construction kit for sentences that move, linger, and land.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Grammar
Style
Translating as a Purposeful Activity
What if fidelity to the original is the least important thing about a good translation?
Jazyk
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Filozofie
Translating as a Purposeful Activity
What if fidelity to the original is the least important thing about a good translation?
Jazyk
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Filozofie
Supercommunicator
Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Jazyk
Psaní
Supercommunicator
Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.
Podnikání
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Jazyk
Psaní
Big Talk, Small Talk (and Everything in Between)
The small talk you dread, the tough conversations you avoid, and a playbook for both.
Osobní rozvoj
Podnikání
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Vztahy
Big Talk, Small Talk (and Everything in Between)
The small talk you dread, the tough conversations you avoid, and a playbook for both.
Osobní rozvoj
Podnikání
Psychologie
Osobní rozvoj
Vztahy
Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses
Words have jobs. A primer that sorts them by function, and fixes the sentences they build.
Referenční
Jazyk
Grammar
Psaní
English
Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses
Words have jobs. A primer that sorts them by function, and fixes the sentences they build.
Referenční
Jazyk
Grammar
Psaní
English
Parenting with an Accent
Parenting advice assumes a shared culture. Immigrant families must invent their own playbook.
Rodičovství
Sociologie
Rodina
Culture
Multicultural
Parenting with an Accent
Parenting advice assumes a shared culture. Immigrant families must invent their own playbook.
Rodičovství
Sociologie
Rodina
Culture
Multicultural
But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
Grammar superstitions debunked: the Chicago Style Q&A teaches editing judgment, not rigid rules.
Psaní
Referenční
Publishing
Grammar
Jazyk
But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
Grammar superstitions debunked: the Chicago Style Q&A teaches editing judgment, not rigid rules.
Psaní
Referenční
Publishing
Grammar
Jazyk
The Writer's Process
Your brain has two writing gears. The schedule that makes them both work for you.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Creativity
Referenční
The Writer's Process
Your brain has two writing gears. The schedule that makes them both work for you.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Creativity
Referenční
The Writer's Idea Thesaurus
Two thousand story situations, organized and ready: your imagination just needs a starting point.
Psaní
Referenční
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
The Writer's Idea Thesaurus
Two thousand story situations, organized and ready: your imagination just needs a starting point.
Psaní
Referenční
Creativity
Knihy o knihách
Jazyk
The Read Aloud Factor
1.5 million more words by kindergarten: the read-aloud habit that starts at birth and sticks.
Rodičovství
Vzdělávání
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Rodina
The Read Aloud Factor
1.5 million more words by kindergarten: the read-aloud habit that starts at birth and sticks.
Rodičovství
Vzdělávání
Osobní rozvoj
Psychologie
Rodina
How to Learn Any Language
Spare minutes, multiple tools, and vivid mnemonics: a language method that gets you speaking fast.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
How to Learn Any Language
Spare minutes, multiple tools, and vivid mnemonics: a language method that gets you speaking fast.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
501 Spanish Verbs
Master the 14 Spanish tenses with 501 alphabetized verbs and targeted practice drills.
Referenční
Jazyk
Grammar
Vzdělávání
Instructional
501 Spanish Verbs
Master the 14 Spanish tenses with 501 alphabetized verbs and targeted practice drills.
Referenční
Jazyk
Grammar
Vzdělávání
Instructional
100 TESOL Activities for Teachers
One hundred communicative ESL activities for every phase of a lesson, no rote drills required.
Výuka
Vzdělávání
Jazyk
Foreign Language
Referenční
100 TESOL Activities for Teachers
One hundred communicative ESL activities for every phase of a lesson, no rote drills required.
Výuka
Vzdělávání
Jazyk
Foreign Language
Referenční
The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children
Kids spot sermons from page one. Craft rules for stories they actually want to read.
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Creativity
Jazyk
The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children
Kids spot sermons from page one. Craft rules for stories they actually want to read.
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Creativity
Jazyk
Understanding Large Language Models
The 2017 architecture that made LLMs huge and fluent but unable to think, and how it works.
Technologie
Informatika
Ai
Věda
Referenční
Understanding Large Language Models
The 2017 architecture that made LLMs huge and fluent but unable to think, and how it works.
Technologie
Informatika
Ai
Věda
Referenční
The Art and Craft of Writing
Scenes that land: emotional reversals, dual threads, and characters who want two things at once.
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Creativity
Jazyk
The Art and Craft of Writing
Scenes that land: emotional reversals, dual threads, and characters who want two things at once.
Psaní
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Creativity
Jazyk
How I Learnt to Speak in English?
A self-taught path to fluent spoken English, starting with the vowel sounds textbooks skip.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Psaní
How I Learnt to Speak in English?
A self-taught path to fluent spoken English, starting with the vowel sounds textbooks skip.
Jazyk
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Vzdělávání
Psaní
Ingles para Latinos
Spanish speakers, master English verbs as natives use them and crack the idioms textbooks ignore.
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Spanish
Ingles para Latinos
Spanish speakers, master English verbs as natives use them and crack the idioms textbooks ignore.
Jazyk
Vzdělávání
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Spanish
Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch
Your sentences live or die by one part of speech: the craft and history of getting verbs right.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch
Your sentences live or die by one part of speech: the craft and history of getting verbs right.
Psaní
Jazyk
Referenční
Osobní rozvoj
Creativity
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
Before empires had kings, they had barley counters and scribes. Their ledgers are our history.
Historie
Archeologie
Blízký východ
Antropologie
Psaní
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings
Before empires had kings, they had barley counters and scribes. Their ledgers are our history.
Historie
Archeologie
Blízký východ
Antropologie
Psaní
Explaining Postmodernism
When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.
Filozofie
Politika
Historie
Kultura
Sociologie
Explaining Postmodernism
When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.
Filozofie
Politika
Historie
Kultura
Sociologie
Always Take Notes
Two hundred writers on the money, the rejection, and what it actually takes to publish.
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Jazyk
Publishing
Always Take Notes
Two hundred writers on the money, the rejection, and what it actually takes to publish.
Knihy o knihách
Osobní rozvoj
Referenční
Jazyk
Publishing
Air & Light & Time & Space
Daily writing is a myth. The flexible, four-foundation practice that real productive academics use.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Referenční
Jazyk
Air & Light & Time & Space
Daily writing is a myth. The flexible, four-foundation practice that real productive academics use.
Psaní
Osobní rozvoj
Vzdělávání
Referenční
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