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Sanat muovaavat ajatuksiamme, ihmissuhteitamme ja itse todellisuuden ymmärrystä – metaforista, jotka jäsentävät ajatteluamme, aina niihin hienovaraisiin tapoihin, joilla kielioppi vaikuttaa kulttuuriin. Kielikirjamme tutkivat viestintää kaikissa muodoissaan tarjoten oivalluksia ja käytännön ohjeita kirjoittamiseen, puhumiseen sekä kiehtovaan tieteeseen siitä, miten ihmiset käyttävät sanoja yhdistääkseen ja luodakseen merkitystä.

Kieli Kirjayhteenvedot

Kirjoittamisesta

kirjoittanut Stephen King • 2000

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Immersiiviset

Kirjoittamisesta

Stories get found, not built. Read voraciously, write privately, cut ten percent.

kirjoittanut Stephen King 2000 288 sivua

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📖 Craft Memoirs ⛏️ Discovery Writing ✂️ Revision Strategies ⏰ Daily Writing Practice

Cues

kirjoittanut Vanessa Van Edwards • 2022

Two silent questions shape every first impression. The specific cues that answer them.

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🗣️ Nonverbal Communication 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 👥 Social Psychology ✨ Charisma 🔍 First Impressions

Immersiiviset

Cues

Two silent questions shape every first impression. The specific cues that answer them.

kirjoittanut Vanessa Van Edwards 2022 320 sivua

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🗣️ Nonverbal Communication 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 👥 Social Psychology ✨ Charisma 🔍 First Impressions

Story

kirjoittanut Robert McKee • 1997

How to design the moments where expectations collide with reality and everything flips.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict 🎭 Character Arcs 📚 Narrative Theory

Immersiiviset

Story

How to design the moments where expectations collide with reality and everything flips.

kirjoittanut Robert McKee 1997 480 sivua

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict 🎭 Character Arcs 📚 Narrative Theory

Thirty Days to Better English

kirjoittanut Norman Lewis • 1985

Vocabulary limits your career more than your degree. The efficient path targets a hundred words.

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373

🧱 Vocabulary Building 📝 English Grammar 🌳 Word Roots 🧠 Memory Techniques 📖 Self-Study Methods

Thirty Days to Better English Yhteenveto

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Thirty Days to Better English

Vocabulary limits your career more than your degree. The efficient path targets a hundred words.

kirjoittanut Norman Lewis 1985 208 sivua

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373 arvostelua

🧱 Vocabulary Building 📝 English Grammar 🌳 Word Roots 🧠 Memory Techniques 📖 Self-Study Methods

Writing Better Lyrics

kirjoittanut Pat Pattison • 1995

Seven senses, zero clichés, and the structural secret that makes a chorus land harder each time.

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🎵 Lyric Writing 🖼️ Showing Vs Telling 🏗️ Song Structure 🔤 Rhyme Techniques 🔗 Metaphor Construction

Immersiiviset

Writing Better Lyrics

Seven senses, zero clichés, and the structural secret that makes a chorus land harder each time.

kirjoittanut Pat Pattison 1995 304 sivua

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🎵 Lyric Writing 🖼️ Showing Vs Telling 🏗️ Song Structure 🔤 Rhyme Techniques 🔗 Metaphor Construction

Dialogue

kirjoittanut Robert McKee • 2016

Your dialogue problem is really a scene problem. The fix starts underneath the words.

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✍️ Dramatic Writing 💬 Dialogue Craft 🧱 Scene Construction 🫥 Subtext 🗣️ Character Voice

Immersiiviset

Dialogue

Your dialogue problem is really a scene problem. The fix starts underneath the words.

kirjoittanut Robert McKee 2016 303 sivua

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✍️ Dramatic Writing 💬 Dialogue Craft 🧱 Scene Construction 🫥 Subtext 🗣️ Character Voice

Reading the Silver Screen

kirjoittanut Thomas C. Foster • 2014

You've seen 1,000 films. A literature professor shows you what your eyes already knew.

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326

🎬 Film Appreciation 📽️ Cinematic Language 🔍 Close Reading 👁️ Visual Storytelling 👀 Active Viewing

Immersiiviset

Reading the Silver Screen

You've seen 1,000 films. A literature professor shows you what your eyes already knew.

kirjoittanut Thomas C. Foster 2014 403 sivua

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326 arvostelua

🎬 Film Appreciation 📽️ Cinematic Language 🔍 Close Reading 👁️ Visual Storytelling 👀 Active Viewing

How to Write Clearly

kirjoittanut Tom Albrighton • 2021

Your writing isn't clear unless your reader says so. The reader-psychology method that works.

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112

📝 Plain Language 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Biases ✂️ Editing Craft

Immersiiviset

How to Write Clearly

Your writing isn't clear unless your reader says so. The reader-psychology method that works.

kirjoittanut Tom Albrighton 2021 356 sivua

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112 arvostelua

📝 Plain Language 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology 🔄 Cognitive Biases ✂️ Editing Craft

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

kirjoittanut Marcel Kuijsten • 2016

Your inner voice is barely 3000 years old. Before it, humans heard gods.

3.93

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏺 Cognitive Archaeology 📜 History Of Consciousness 👂 Hearing Voices 🙏 Cognitive Science Of Religion

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind Yhteenveto

Immersiiviset

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind

Your inner voice is barely 3000 years old. Before it, humans heard gods.

kirjoittanut Marcel Kuijsten 2016 312 sivua

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69 arvostelua

🧠 Consciousness Studies 🏺 Cognitive Archaeology 📜 History Of Consciousness 👂 Hearing Voices 🙏 Cognitive Science Of Religion

Thank You for Arguing

kirjoittanut Jay Heinrichs • 2007

Win arguments without making enemies. Aristotle's persuasion playbook for anyone who talks.

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🧠 Persuasion Techniques 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎭 Rhetorical Appeals 🧱 Argument Structure ✍️ Figures Of Speech

Thank You for Arguing

Win arguments without making enemies. Aristotle's persuasion playbook for anyone who talks.

kirjoittanut Jay Heinrichs 2007 457 sivua

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🧠 Persuasion Techniques 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🎭 Rhetorical Appeals 🧱 Argument Structure ✍️ Figures Of Speech

Mythologies

kirjoittanut Roland Barthes • 1957

Wrestling, soap ads, and the Tour de France: how everyday life gets made to look inevitable.

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🧩 Cultural Semiotics 📖 Cultural Criticism 🔍 Ideology Critique 📺 Mass Culture 🔣 Signs And Symbols

Mythologies

Wrestling, soap ads, and the Tour de France: how everyday life gets made to look inevitable.

kirjoittanut Roland Barthes 1957 160 sivua

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🧩 Cultural Semiotics 📖 Cultural Criticism 🔍 Ideology Critique 📺 Mass Culture 🔣 Signs And Symbols

Fluent Forever

kirjoittanut Gabriel Wyner • 2014

The sounds come first: train your ears. Then timed review cards lock words into permanent memory.

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🗣️ Language Acquisition ⏱️ Spaced Repetition 🧠 Memory Techniques 👂 Pronunciation Training 🖼️ Mnemonic Imagery

Fluent Forever

The sounds come first: train your ears. Then timed review cards lock words into permanent memory.

kirjoittanut Gabriel Wyner 2014 326 sivua

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🗣️ Language Acquisition ⏱️ Spaced Repetition 🧠 Memory Techniques 👂 Pronunciation Training 🖼️ Mnemonic Imagery

They Say / I Say

kirjoittanut Gerald Graff • 2006

Write academic arguments that respond to others, not just declare. Templates that show you how.

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📝 Academic Writing 🏫 College Composition 🧱 Argument Structure 📎 Source Integration 🗣️ Rhetorical Strategies

They Say / I Say

Write academic arguments that respond to others, not just declare. Templates that show you how.

kirjoittanut Gerald Graff 2006 181 sivua

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📝 Academic Writing 🏫 College Composition 🧱 Argument Structure 📎 Source Integration 🗣️ Rhetorical Strategies

Ajattele nopeammin, puhu fiksummin

kirjoittanut Matt Abrahams • 2023

Spontaneous speaking is a system: the frameworks and reframes that replace panic with poise.

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🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Communication Skills 💼 Business Communication 👋 Small Talk 👂 Listening Skills

Ajattele nopeammin, puhu fiksummin

Spontaneous speaking is a system: the frameworks and reframes that replace panic with poise.

kirjoittanut Matt Abrahams 2023 304 sivua

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🎤 Public Speaking 🗣️ Communication Skills 💼 Business Communication 👋 Small Talk 👂 Listening Skills

Writing to Learn

kirjoittanut William Zinsser • 1988

Writing's real job is not transmission; it is discovery. How to think on paper.

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📚 Writing Across The Curriculum 🌉 Bridging Disciplines 🧠 Writing As Thinking ✍️ Prose Style 🔄 Revision Process

Writing to Learn

Writing's real job is not transmission; it is discovery. How to think on paper.

kirjoittanut William Zinsser 1988 272 sivua

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📚 Writing Across The Curriculum 🌉 Bridging Disciplines 🧠 Writing As Thinking ✍️ Prose Style 🔄 Revision Process

Atlas of the Heart

kirjoittanut Brené Brown • 2021

Most of us can name five emotions. Here are the other eighty-two.

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🗣️ Emotional Vocabulary 🔍 Emotional Awareness 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🔬 Emotion Science 🤝 Belonging

Atlas of the Heart

Most of us can name five emotions. Here are the other eighty-two.

kirjoittanut Brené Brown 2021 301 sivua

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🗣️ Emotional Vocabulary 🔍 Emotional Awareness 🧠 Emotional Intelligence 🔬 Emotion Science 🤝 Belonging

Totality and Infinity

kirjoittanut Emmanuel Levinas • 1961

Knowledge grasps at everything. The human face resists, demanding something older than philosophy.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology ✡️ Jewish Philosophy 👤 The Other And The Self 🤝 Ethical Responsibility

Totality and Infinity

Knowledge grasps at everything. The human face resists, demanding something older than philosophy.

kirjoittanut Emmanuel Levinas 1961 314 sivua

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔍 Phenomenology ✡️ Jewish Philosophy 👤 The Other And The Self 🤝 Ethical Responsibility

Magic Words

kirjoittanut Jonah Berger • 2023

Your word choices reveal biases, shape identities, and predict who gets promoted, paid, or arrested.

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🧠 Persuasion Science 🗣️ Behavioral Linguistics 🏷️ Identity Framing 💬 Self-Talk Techniques 📖 Emotional Storytelling

Magic Words

Your word choices reveal biases, shape identities, and predict who gets promoted, paid, or arrested.

kirjoittanut Jonah Berger 2023 256 sivua

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🧠 Persuasion Science 🗣️ Behavioral Linguistics 🏷️ Identity Framing 💬 Self-Talk Techniques 📖 Emotional Storytelling

Story Genius

kirjoittanut Lisa Cron • 2016

Your reader's brain is wired for story. The neuroscience for building a novel that actually grips.

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📖 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Story 🏗️ Story Structure 🔄 Character Arcs

Story Genius

Your reader's brain is wired for story. The neuroscience for building a novel that actually grips.

kirjoittanut Lisa Cron 2016 288 sivua

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6 000+ arvostelua

📖 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Cognitive Science Of Story 🏗️ Story Structure 🔄 Character Arcs

Copywriting Secrets

kirjoittanut Jim Edwards • 2019

The exact formulas that turn words into clicks and sales, no matter your audience or product.

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🖊️ Sales Copywriting 📈 Conversion Optimization ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🗞️ Headline Formulas 🧠 Customer Psychology

Copywriting Secrets

The exact formulas that turn words into clicks and sales, no matter your audience or product.

kirjoittanut Jim Edwards 2019 328 sivua

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🖊️ Sales Copywriting 📈 Conversion Optimization ✍️ Persuasive Writing 🗞️ Headline Formulas 🧠 Customer Psychology

Pragmatics of Human Communication

kirjoittanut Paul Watzlawick • 1967

Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.

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🗣️ Communication Theory 🔗 Systems Theory 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems 🏫 Palo Alto School ♟️ Strategic Therapy

Pragmatics of Human Communication

Your silence speaks. Your questions command. Your fights turn on where you punctuate the story.

kirjoittanut Paul Watzlawick 1967 304 sivua

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🗣️ Communication Theory 🔗 Systems Theory 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Systems 🏫 Palo Alto School ♟️ Strategic Therapy

The Social Construction of Reality

kirjoittanut Peter L. Berger • 1966

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology 🏠 Everyday Life 🏛️ Institutional Analysis

The Social Construction of Reality

The world you take for granted is built: how everyday talk, habit, and institutions make reality.

kirjoittanut Peter L. Berger 1966 219 sivua

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🧠 Sociology Of Knowledge 🏗️ Social Constructionism 🔍 Phenomenological Sociology 🏠 Everyday Life 🏛️ Institutional Analysis

Comedy Writing Secrets

kirjoittanut Melvin Helitzer • 1987

The six-part engine under every punchline, and the editing rules that turn groans into laughs.

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🧱 Joke Construction 🧩 Wordplay Techniques 💡 Creative Process 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy Roots

Comedy Writing Secrets

The six-part engine under every punchline, and the editing rules that turn groans into laughs.

kirjoittanut Melvin Helitzer 1987 240 sivua

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🧱 Joke Construction 🧩 Wordplay Techniques 💡 Creative Process 🎤 Stand-Up Comedy Roots

On Bullshit

kirjoittanut Harry G. Frankfurt • 2005

The liar hides the truth. The bullshitter doesn't care what it is. A 67-page philosophical grenade.

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🧠 Analytic Philosophy 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🗣️ Social Commentary 🍿 Pop Philosophy 🤥 Post-Truth

On Bullshit

The liar hides the truth. The bullshitter doesn't care what it is. A 67-page philosophical grenade.

kirjoittanut Harry G. Frankfurt 2005 67 sivua

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🧠 Analytic Philosophy 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🗣️ Social Commentary 🍿 Pop Philosophy 🤥 Post-Truth

Gödel, Escher, Bach

kirjoittanut Douglas R. Hofstadter • 1979

Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.

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🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ➗ Mathematical Logic

Gödel, Escher, Bach

Gödel, Escher, Bach: three ways of drawing a loop, and one key to consciousness.

kirjoittanut Douglas R. Hofstadter 1979 777 sivua

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🧠 Cognitive Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Mind 🧩 Consciousness Studies 🤖 Artificial Intelligence ➗ Mathematical Logic

Metaphors We Live By

kirjoittanut George Lakoff • 1980

Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.

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🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🏃 Embodied Cognition 💭 Language And Thought 📖 Philosophy Of Language 🔗 Metaphor And Cognition

Metaphors We Live By

Metaphor isn't decoration. It's the operating system of the mind, and you never chose yours.

kirjoittanut George Lakoff 1980 276 sivua

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7 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🏃 Embodied Cognition 💭 Language And Thought 📖 Philosophy Of Language 🔗 Metaphor And Cognition

The Art of Public Speaking

kirjoittanut Dale Carnegie • 1915

Turning amateurs into confident speakers: the classic manual on preparation, voice, and stagecraft.

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🎤 Public Speaking 🖥️ Presentation Skills 😱 Stage Fright 🎵 Vocal Delivery 🕺 Body Language

The Art of Public Speaking

Turning amateurs into confident speakers: the classic manual on preparation, voice, and stagecraft.

kirjoittanut Dale Carnegie 1915 553 sivua

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🎤 Public Speaking 🖥️ Presentation Skills 😱 Stage Fright 🎵 Vocal Delivery 🕺 Body Language

English Grammar in Use With Answers

kirjoittanut Raymond Murphy • 1985

English grammar that works like a reference, not a textbook: look up the rule, practice, check.

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📖 Grammar Reference 📚 Self-Study 🌍 Esl Resources 📈 Intermediate English ✏️ Grammar Exercises

English Grammar in Use With Answers

English grammar that works like a reference, not a textbook: look up the rule, practice, check.

kirjoittanut Raymond Murphy 1985 350 sivua

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📖 Grammar Reference 📚 Self-Study 🌍 Esl Resources 📈 Intermediate English ✏️ Grammar Exercises

A Thousand Plateaus

kirjoittanut Gilles Deleuze • 1980

All of Western thought is a tree. Two French philosophers found the off-switch: the root network.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🧩 Post-Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🕸️ Networked Thinking ⚖️ State Critique

A Thousand Plateaus

All of Western thought is a tree. Two French philosophers found the off-switch: the root network.

kirjoittanut Gilles Deleuze 1980 632 sivua

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🧩 Post-Structuralism 🇫🇷 French Theory 🕸️ Networked Thinking ⚖️ State Critique

Practical English Usage

kirjoittanut Michael Swan • 1981

600 A-Z entries that solve the English usage problems your textbook leaves unexplained.

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📚 English Grammar 🗣️ Esl Reference 🔍 Descriptive Grammar 📖 Usage Guide 🍎 Tesol

Practical English Usage

600 A-Z entries that solve the English usage problems your textbook leaves unexplained.

kirjoittanut Michael Swan 1981 658 sivua

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📚 English Grammar 🗣️ Esl Reference 🔍 Descriptive Grammar 📖 Usage Guide 🍎 Tesol

The Communication Book

kirjoittanut Mikael Krogerus • 2020

44 psychology-backed models that make conversation a learnable skill, not a personality trait.

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Interpersonal Skills 📊 Communication Models 🎤 Modern Rhetoric 🧠 Emotional Intelligence

The Communication Book

44 psychology-backed models that make conversation a learnable skill, not a personality trait.

kirjoittanut Mikael Krogerus 2020 208 sivua

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Interpersonal Skills 📊 Communication Models 🎤 Modern Rhetoric 🧠 Emotional Intelligence

Being Logical

kirjoittanut D.Q. McInerny • 2004

Spot fallacies, build arguments, and keep your own mind honest: logic for everyday life.

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🧠 Critical Thinking ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 💬 Argumentation 🏠 Everyday Logic 🔍 Evidence Evaluation

Being Logical

Spot fallacies, build arguments, and keep your own mind honest: logic for everyday life.

kirjoittanut D.Q. McInerny 2004 120 sivua

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🧠 Critical Thinking ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 💬 Argumentation 🏠 Everyday Logic 🔍 Evidence Evaluation

Word Power Made Easy

kirjoittanut Norman Lewis • 1949

One root unlocks twenty words. A systematic method for building a vocabulary that lasts.

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📚 Vocabulary Building 🏛️ Etymology 🌳 Root Words 🎓 Self-Education 🏺 Classical Education

Word Power Made Easy

One root unlocks twenty words. A systematic method for building a vocabulary that lasts.

kirjoittanut Norman Lewis 1949 544 sivua

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📚 Vocabulary Building 🏛️ Etymology 🌳 Root Words 🎓 Self-Education 🏺 Classical Education

On Writing Well

kirjoittanut William Zinsser • 1976

Your personality is the only writing tool: how to strip away everything that buries it.

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✍️ Nonfiction Writing 🛠️ Writing Craft ✂️ Rewriting And Editing 🎤 Writing Voice 📖 Narrative Nonfiction

On Writing Well

Your personality is the only writing tool: how to strip away everything that buries it.

kirjoittanut William Zinsser 1976 321 sivua

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✍️ Nonfiction Writing 🛠️ Writing Craft ✂️ Rewriting And Editing 🎤 Writing Voice 📖 Narrative Nonfiction

HBR Guide to Better Business Writing

kirjoittanut Harvard Business Publishing • 2005

Your readers are busy. The playbook for business documents that get read and change minds.

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1 000+

🧱 Business Writing 📝 Persuasive Writing ✂️ Editing Techniques 📧 Email Etiquette 📄 Proposal Writing

HBR Guide to Better Business Writing

Your readers are busy. The playbook for business documents that get read and change minds.

kirjoittanut Harvard Business Publishing 2005 57 sivua

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🧱 Business Writing 📝 Persuasive Writing ✂️ Editing Techniques 📧 Email Etiquette 📄 Proposal Writing

Everybody Writes

kirjoittanut Ann Handley • 2014

Show up. Write badly. Revise. The practical habits that turn anyone into a better content writer.

3.97

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🎯 Content Marketing 💼 Business Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🗣️ Plain Language ⏰ Writing Habits

Everybody Writes

Show up. Write badly. Revise. The practical habits that turn anyone into a better content writer.

kirjoittanut Ann Handley 2014 320 sivua

3.97

6 000+ arvostelua

🎯 Content Marketing 💼 Business Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🗣️ Plain Language ⏰ Writing Habits

Writing Tools

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark • 2006

Start strong, say less, build momentum: a fifty-tool kit for better writing.

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📰 Journalism Training ✒️ Prose Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 📏 Brevity And Clarity

Writing Tools

Start strong, say less, build momentum: a fifty-tool kit for better writing.

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark 2006 260 sivua

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🛠️ Writing Craft 📰 Journalism Training ✒️ Prose Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 📏 Brevity And Clarity

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

kirjoittanut George Lakoff • 2004

Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.

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📣 Political Messaging 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🖼️ Frame Analysis 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Moral Foundations

The All New Don't Think of an Elephant!

Argue in your opponent's words and you've already lost. How frames, not facts, control politics.

kirjoittanut George Lakoff 2004 192 sivua

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📣 Political Messaging 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🖼️ Frame Analysis 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Moral Foundations

The Craft of Research

kirjoittanut Wayne C. Booth • 1995

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation 💡 Critical Thinking ✍️ Writing Process

The Craft of Research

Finding a question worth fighting over, then building the case your reader cannot walk away from.

kirjoittanut Wayne C. Booth 1995 317 sivua

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📝 Academic Writing 🔬 Research Methods 🧩 Argumentation 💡 Critical Thinking ✍️ Writing Process

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

kirjoittanut Robin I.M. Dunbar • 1996

Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🐒 Primatology 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧩 Social Cognition 💬 Gossip

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

Gossip isn't petty. It's the reason language exists: a louder, faster replacement for grooming.

kirjoittanut Robin I.M. Dunbar 1996

4.17

500+ arvostelua

🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🐒 Primatology 🗣️ Origins Of Language 🧩 Social Cognition 💬 Gossip

Yhteiskunnallisen todellisuuden rakentuminen

kirjoittanut John Rogers Searle • 1995

Money and marriage aren't physical facts. They run on a hidden logic of collective agreement.

3.89

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🧱 Social Ontology 📐 Analytic Philosophy 🤝 Social Construction 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 📜 Constitutive Rules

Yhteiskunnallisen todellisuuden rakentuminen

Money and marriage aren't physical facts. They run on a hidden logic of collective agreement.

kirjoittanut John Rogers Searle 1995 256 sivua

3.89

500+ arvostelua

🧱 Social Ontology 📐 Analytic Philosophy 🤝 Social Construction 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 📜 Constitutive Rules

Understanding and Using English Grammar

kirjoittanut Betty Schrampfer Azar • 1988

A workbook that builds English sentences from tense through clause to clear, connected ideas.

4.13

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🏫 Esl Instruction 📚 English Grammar ✍️ Sentence Structure 🕰️ Verb Tenses 📝 Workbook Exercises

Understanding and Using English Grammar

A workbook that builds English sentences from tense through clause to clear, connected ideas.

kirjoittanut Betty Schrampfer Azar 1988 492 sivua

4.13

1 000+ arvostelua

🏫 Esl Instruction 📚 English Grammar ✍️ Sentence Structure 🕰️ Verb Tenses 📝 Workbook Exercises

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

kirjoittanut Ward Farnsworth • 2010

Why great prose works: the ancient rhetorical devices that power it, catalogued and made visible.

4.16

488

🧰 Rhetorical Devices 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Close Reading 🖋️ Prose Style

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

Why great prose works: the ancient rhetorical devices that power it, catalogued and made visible.

kirjoittanut Ward Farnsworth 2010 256 sivua

4.16

488 arvostelua

🧰 Rhetorical Devices 🏛️ Classical Rhetoric ✍️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Close Reading 🖋️ Prose Style

Mindreader

kirjoittanut David J. Lieberman • 2022

What pronouns, qualifiers, and silence reveal about who's lying and who's in charge.

3.83

1 000+

🔍 Linguistic Analysis 🕵️ Deception Detection ⚡ Power Dynamics 🧠 Forensic Psychology 👤 Behavioral Profiling

Mindreader

What pronouns, qualifiers, and silence reveal about who's lying and who's in charge.

kirjoittanut David J. Lieberman 2022 221 sivua

3.83

1 000+ arvostelua

🔍 Linguistic Analysis 🕵️ Deception Detection ⚡ Power Dynamics 🧠 Forensic Psychology 👤 Behavioral Profiling

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D, Vol. 1

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler • 1975

A master hypnotist's results, reduced to learnable patterns of language and influence.

4.29

500+

🩺 Ericksonian Hypnosis 🧠 Nlp Modeling 🗣️ Linguistic Patterns 🌀 Hypnotic Induction 📖 Storytelling Therapy

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D, Vol. 1

A master hypnotist's results, reduced to learnable patterns of language and influence.

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler 1975 280 sivua

4.29

500+ arvostelua

🩺 Ericksonian Hypnosis 🧠 Nlp Modeling 🗣️ Linguistic Patterns 🌀 Hypnotic Induction 📖 Storytelling Therapy

The Copywriter's Handbook

kirjoittanut Robert W. Bly • 1985

Most readers never get past the headline. The rules for making every remaining word sell.

3.92

5 000+

🖊️ Copywriting Fundamentals ✍️ Persuasive Writing 📬 Direct Response 📰 Headline Writing 📺 Classic Advertising

The Copywriter's Handbook

Most readers never get past the headline. The rules for making every remaining word sell.

kirjoittanut Robert W. Bly 1985 410 sivua

3.92

5 000+ arvostelua

🖊️ Copywriting Fundamentals ✍️ Persuasive Writing 📬 Direct Response 📰 Headline Writing 📺 Classic Advertising

The Art of Fiction

kirjoittanut John Gardner • 1984

Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.

3.99

6 000+

🖊️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Technique 🏗️ Plot Structure 🎭 Character Development

The Art of Fiction

Master the craft that makes readers forget the page and live inside your story.

kirjoittanut John Gardner 1984 240 sivua

3.99

6 000+ arvostelua

🖊️ Fiction Craft ✍️ Prose Style 📖 Narrative Technique 🏗️ Plot Structure 🎭 Character Development

The Structure of Magic I

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler • 1975

The words clients choose reveal where thinking gets stuck, and precise questions can unlock it.

4.08

1 000+

🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 🗣️ Linguistic Therapy 🏗️ Constructivism 💬 Language Patterns 🔒 Limiting Beliefs

The Structure of Magic I

The words clients choose reveal where thinking gets stuck, and precise questions can unlock it.

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler 1975 419 sivua

4.08

1 000+ arvostelua

🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 🗣️ Linguistic Therapy 🏗️ Constructivism 💬 Language Patterns 🔒 Limiting Beliefs

The Limits of Interpretation

kirjoittanut Umberto Eco • 1990

When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.

4.13

500+

🏛️ Literary Theory 🔣 Semiotics 📖 Hermeneutics 📄 Text And Reader 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language

The Limits of Interpretation

When deconstruction declared all readings equal, Eco showed why the text itself disagrees.

kirjoittanut Umberto Eco 1990 304 sivua

4.13

500+ arvostelua

🏛️ Literary Theory 🔣 Semiotics 📖 Hermeneutics 📄 Text And Reader 🗣️ Philosophy Of Language

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

kirjoittanut Donald Maass • 2016

Move past showing versus telling: design a story that gives readers their own emotional journey.

4.25

3 000+

🖋️ Fiction Writing 📖 Storytelling Techniques 💕 Reader Engagement 🎭 Subtext 🧑 Character Development

The Emotional Craft of Fiction

Move past showing versus telling: design a story that gives readers their own emotional journey.

kirjoittanut Donald Maass 2016 224 sivua

4.25

3 000+ arvostelua

🖋️ Fiction Writing 📖 Storytelling Techniques 💕 Reader Engagement 🎭 Subtext 🧑 Character Development

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