Kieli

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

Polyglot

kirjoittanut Kató Lomb • 1970

How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.

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🧠 Language Acquisition 📚 Self-Directed Learning 📖 Active Reading 🧩 Mnemonics 🌊 Language Immersion

Polyglot

How an interpreter learned 16 languages after age 30, using books instead of classrooms.

kirjoittanut Kató Lomb 1970 216 sivua

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🧠 Language Acquisition 📚 Self-Directed Learning 📖 Active Reading 🧩 Mnemonics 🌊 Language Immersion

Writing the Breakout Novel

kirjoittanut Donald Maass • 2001

An agent's craft manual for fiction that breaks out: not talent, but specific, learnable choices.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 🎯 Story Stakes

Writing the Breakout Novel

An agent's craft manual for fiction that breaks out: not talent, but specific, learnable choices.

kirjoittanut Donald Maass 2001 272 sivua

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 🎯 Story Stakes

It's the Way You Say It

kirjoittanut Carol A. Fleming • 2010

Fix the vocal problems you cannot hear: from mumbling and speed to monotone and stage fright.

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🗣️ Communication Skills 🎤 Vocal Improvement 🎙️ Public Speaking 🤫 Nonverbal Cues 💼 Professional Communication

It's the Way You Say It

Fix the vocal problems you cannot hear: from mumbling and speed to monotone and stage fright.

kirjoittanut Carol A. Fleming 2010 264 sivua

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🗣️ Communication Skills 🎤 Vocal Improvement 🎙️ Public Speaking 🤫 Nonverbal Cues 💼 Professional Communication

Several Short Sentences About Writing

kirjoittanut Verlyn Klinkenborg • 2012

Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.

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✍️ Writing Advice 🔤 Sentence Craft 📖 Reading Like A Writer 🗣️ Plain Style ✒️ Aspiring Writers

Several Short Sentences About Writing

Writing isn't about flow or formulas; it's about one clear sentence, then another.

kirjoittanut Verlyn Klinkenborg 2012 224 sivua

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✍️ Writing Advice 🔤 Sentence Craft 📖 Reading Like A Writer 🗣️ Plain Style ✒️ Aspiring Writers

The Ultimate Introduction to NLP

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler • 2013

From NLP's co-creator: the original tools for editing the mental maps that run your life.

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🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 🗺️ Mental Models ⚡ State Management 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🤝 Rapport Building

The Ultimate Introduction to NLP

From NLP's co-creator: the original tools for editing the mental maps that run your life.

kirjoittanut Richard Bandler 2013 160 sivua

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🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 🗺️ Mental Models ⚡ State Management 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🤝 Rapport Building

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot

kirjoittanut Jane K. Cleland • 2016

A plotting grid that plants a jolt every 70 pages: the method for stories that grip.

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 🧩 Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing 🔄 Plotting Techniques 🎭 Narrative Tension

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot

A plotting grid that plants a jolt every 70 pages: the method for stories that grip.

kirjoittanut Jane K. Cleland 2016 240 sivua

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🖋️ Fiction Writing 🧩 Story Structure ⏳ Suspense Writing 🔄 Plotting Techniques 🎭 Narrative Tension

Perfect English Grammar

kirjoittanut Grant Barrett • 2016

Grammar isn't a rulebook. It's a toolkit for building sentences that say exactly what you mean.

4.06

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🔤 English Grammar ✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Reference ✂️ Self-Editing 💡 Clear Writing

Perfect English Grammar

Grammar isn't a rulebook. It's a toolkit for building sentences that say exactly what you mean.

kirjoittanut Grant Barrett 2016 238 sivua

4.06

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🔤 English Grammar ✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Reference ✂️ Self-Editing 💡 Clear Writing

The Reading Mind

kirjoittanut Daniel T. Willingham • 2017

Reading is a cognitive assembly line from symbols to meaning, and digital habits are disrupting it.

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🔬 Reading Science 📚 Literacy Instruction 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 📖 Reading Comprehension 📝 Vocabulary Development

The Reading Mind

Reading is a cognitive assembly line from symbols to meaning, and digital habits are disrupting it.

kirjoittanut Daniel T. Willingham 2017 233 sivua

4.14

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🔬 Reading Science 📚 Literacy Instruction 🧠 Cognitive Psychology 📖 Reading Comprehension 📝 Vocabulary Development

Tunesmith

kirjoittanut Jimmy Webb • 1998

Hit songwriter reveals what the craft demands: a broken heart, a thesaurus, and no shortcuts.

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🎵 Songwriting Craft 💔 Creative Emotion ✍️ The Writing Life 📜 Poetic Technique 🎹 Tin Pan Alley

Tunesmith

Hit songwriter reveals what the craft demands: a broken heart, a thesaurus, and no shortcuts.

kirjoittanut Jimmy Webb 1998 448 sivua

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🎵 Songwriting Craft 💔 Creative Emotion ✍️ The Writing Life 📜 Poetic Technique 🎹 Tin Pan Alley

Speed Reading with the Right Brain

kirjoittanut David Butler • 2014

Read faster by understanding faster. No eye tricks, just brain training for ideas.

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🏃 Speed Reading 📖 Reading Comprehension 👁️ Visual Thinking 🧠 Right Brain Learning ✍️ Active Reading

Speed Reading with the Right Brain

Read faster by understanding faster. No eye tricks, just brain training for ideas.

kirjoittanut David Butler 2014 249 sivua

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🏃 Speed Reading 📖 Reading Comprehension 👁️ Visual Thinking 🧠 Right Brain Learning ✍️ Active Reading

Our Declaration

kirjoittanut Danielle S. Allen • 2014

The Declaration's forgotten argument: equality is the only real shield against domination.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Founding Principles 🗳️ Democratic Theory ⚖️ Civic Equality 🧠 Collective Intelligence

Our Declaration

The Declaration's forgotten argument: equality is the only real shield against domination.

kirjoittanut Danielle S. Allen 2014 320 sivua

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 Founding Principles 🗳️ Democratic Theory ⚖️ Civic Equality 🧠 Collective Intelligence

Writing and Difference

kirjoittanut Jacques Derrida • 1967

Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Literary Theory ✍️ Philosophy Of Writing 🔍 Deconstruction 🕸️ Post-Structuralism

Writing and Difference

Structuralism loved the architecture of texts. One philosopher asked where the energy went.

kirjoittanut Jacques Derrida 1967 362 sivua

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📜 Literary Theory ✍️ Philosophy Of Writing 🔍 Deconstruction 🕸️ Post-Structuralism

The Glamour of Grammar

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark • 2010

How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Guides 📝 Style Manuals 🎤 Voice And Style 🔤 Word Choice

The Glamour of Grammar

How the comma, the semicolon, and the well-chosen verb become instruments of style.

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark 2010

3.84

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Grammar Guides 📝 Style Manuals 🎤 Voice And Style 🔤 Word Choice

How to Speak Any Language Fluently

kirjoittanut Alex Rawlings • 2017

The routines, memory tricks, and confidence builders that turn a silent learner fluent.

3.85

499

🗣️ Language Acquisition 🌐 Polyglot Methods 🔄 Spaced Repetition 🎯 Self-Directed Learning 🌊 Immersion Learning

How to Speak Any Language Fluently

The routines, memory tricks, and confidence builders that turn a silent learner fluent.

kirjoittanut Alex Rawlings 2017 216 sivua

3.85

499 arvostelua

🗣️ Language Acquisition 🌐 Polyglot Methods 🔄 Spaced Repetition 🎯 Self-Directed Learning 🌊 Immersion Learning

Writing for Emotional Impact

kirjoittanut Karl Iglesias • 2005

Only ink on the page. Emotional techniques for making a script reader feel what movie would.

4.27

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ❤️ Emotional Storytelling 📖 Reader Engagement 🧑 Character Empathy 🏞️ Scene Craft

Writing for Emotional Impact

Only ink on the page. Emotional techniques for making a script reader feel what movie would.

kirjoittanut Karl Iglesias 2005 238 sivua

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ❤️ Emotional Storytelling 📖 Reader Engagement 🧑 Character Empathy 🏞️ Scene Craft

Words That Work

kirjoittanut Frank Luntz • 2006

Your audience hears their own version. A pollster's method for making your words land as intended.

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🗳️ Political Messaging 🏢 Business Messaging 🖼️ Message Framing 🖊️ Plain Language 🗣️ Persuasive Language

Words That Work

Your audience hears their own version. A pollster's method for making your words land as intended.

kirjoittanut Frank Luntz 2006 483 sivua

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🗳️ Political Messaging 🏢 Business Messaging 🖼️ Message Framing 🖊️ Plain Language 🗣️ Persuasive Language

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

kirjoittanut Gary Provost • 1985

Concrete techniques that turn stiff sentences into music and hesitant writers into confident ones.

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✍️ Writing Craft 🪶 Plain Style ✂️ Concision 🎵 Sentence Rhythm 📖 Storytelling Techniques

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Concrete techniques that turn stiff sentences into music and hesitant writers into confident ones.

kirjoittanut Gary Provost 1985 176 sivua

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✍️ Writing Craft 🪶 Plain Style ✂️ Concision 🎵 Sentence Rhythm 📖 Storytelling Techniques

Winning Minds

kirjoittanut Simon Lancaster • 2015

Before facts reach the brain, metaphors hit the gut: the three-step leadership language sequence.

4.28

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🗣️ Leadership Language 🎙️ Rhetoric And Persuasion 🖼️ Metaphors And Framing 📖 Business Storytelling 👔 Executive Presence

Winning Minds

Before facts reach the brain, metaphors hit the gut: the three-step leadership language sequence.

kirjoittanut Simon Lancaster 2015 236 sivua

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153 arvostelua

🗣️ Leadership Language 🎙️ Rhetoric And Persuasion 🖼️ Metaphors And Framing 📖 Business Storytelling 👔 Executive Presence

Lectures on the Will to Know

kirjoittanut Michel Foucault • 2014

Truth is manufactured. Its machinery runs on power, and someone always guards the door.

4.26

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 Poststructuralism 🏺 Ancient Greek Thought ⚡ Truth And Power 💬 Discourse Analysis

Lectures on the Will to Know

Truth is manufactured. Its machinery runs on power, and someone always guards the door.

kirjoittanut Michel Foucault 2014 293 sivua

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🏛️ Continental Philosophy 📖 Poststructuralism 🏺 Ancient Greek Thought ⚡ Truth And Power 💬 Discourse Analysis

Characters & Viewpoint

kirjoittanut Orson Scott Card • 1988

Shape characters your readers will follow anywhere: the techniques that turn ink into people.

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🎭 Character Creation 👁️ Point Of View ✍️ Fiction Craft 📈 Character Arcs 📖 Narrative Technique

Characters & Viewpoint

Shape characters your readers will follow anywhere: the techniques that turn ink into people.

kirjoittanut Orson Scott Card 1988 240 sivua

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🎭 Character Creation 👁️ Point Of View ✍️ Fiction Craft 📈 Character Arcs 📖 Narrative Technique

The Art of Civilized Conversation

kirjoittanut Margaret Shepherd • 2005

Conversation is a craft anyone can learn: a guide to small talk, listening, and disagreeing well.

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 👂 Active Listening ☕ Small Talk 🕊️ Civil Discourse 🤝 Respectful Disagreement

The Art of Civilized Conversation

Conversation is a craft anyone can learn: a guide to small talk, listening, and disagreeing well.

kirjoittanut Margaret Shepherd 2005 240 sivua

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 👂 Active Listening ☕ Small Talk 🕊️ Civil Discourse 🤝 Respectful Disagreement

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

kirjoittanut Michelle Dresbold • 2006

What your handwriting betrays: a profiler's guide to spotting liars, psychopaths, and hidden selves.

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📝 Graphology 🕵️ Criminal Profiling 🤥 Deception Detection 📋 Personality Assessment 🧠 Self-Awareness

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

What your handwriting betrays: a profiler's guide to spotting liars, psychopaths, and hidden selves.

kirjoittanut Michelle Dresbold 2006 285 sivua

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📝 Graphology 🕵️ Criminal Profiling 🤥 Deception Detection 📋 Personality Assessment 🧠 Self-Awareness

The Art of Always Being Right

kirjoittanut A.C. Grayling • 2012

Thirty-eight dirty tricks that win arguments. Learn to spot them, or learn to use them.

3.44

205

🗣️ Debate Tactics ❌ Argument Fallacies 🧠 Intellectual Honesty 🔄 Motivated Reasoning 🛡️ Verbal Self-Defense

The Art of Always Being Right

Thirty-eight dirty tricks that win arguments. Learn to spot them, or learn to use them.

kirjoittanut A.C. Grayling 2012 63 sivua

3.44

205 arvostelua

🗣️ Debate Tactics ❌ Argument Fallacies 🧠 Intellectual Honesty 🔄 Motivated Reasoning 🛡️ Verbal Self-Defense

The Evolution of Everything

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley • 2015

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

The Evolution of Everything

The same undirected process that built the eye also built language, money, and the internet.

kirjoittanut Matt Ridley 2015 368 sivua

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🕸️ Spontaneous Order 🎭 Cultural Evolution 📜 Big History ⚙️ Technological Evolution 🌐 Decentralization

The Power of Verbal Intelligence

kirjoittanut Tony Buzan • 2002

Word power is a trainable skill that pays. The system for building it, root by root.

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338

🗣️ Verbal Fluency 📚 Vocabulary Building 🧠 Memory Techniques ⏩ Speed Reading 🎤 Public Speaking

The Power of Verbal Intelligence

Word power is a trainable skill that pays. The system for building it, root by root.

kirjoittanut Tony Buzan 2002 232 sivua

3.41

338 arvostelua

🗣️ Verbal Fluency 📚 Vocabulary Building 🧠 Memory Techniques ⏩ Speed Reading 🎤 Public Speaking

Verbal Advantage

kirjoittanut Charles Harrington Elster • 2000

Ten levels that take your vocabulary from competent to commanding, one word at a time.

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📚 Vocabulary Building 📖 Usage Guides 🎓 Self-Education 🔄 Lifelong Learning ✏️ Prescriptive Grammar

Verbal Advantage

Ten levels that take your vocabulary from competent to commanding, one word at a time.

kirjoittanut Charles Harrington Elster 2000 459 sivua

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📚 Vocabulary Building 📖 Usage Guides 🎓 Self-Education 🔄 Lifelong Learning ✏️ Prescriptive Grammar

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

kirjoittanut Neil Postman • 1969

School's hidden curriculum is obedience. The real subject: learning what to disbelieve.

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🏫 Progressive Education 🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning 📰 Media Literacy 📏 Hidden Curriculum 🗣️ Language And Thought

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

School's hidden curriculum is obedience. The real subject: learning what to disbelieve.

kirjoittanut Neil Postman 1969 240 sivua

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🏫 Progressive Education 🔍 Inquiry-Based Learning 📰 Media Literacy 📏 Hidden Curriculum 🗣️ Language And Thought

Ursula K. Le Guin

kirjoittanut Ursula K. Le Guin • 2018

Ursula K. Le Guin shares the philosophy behind her worlds, her craft, and the power of stories.

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✍️ Writing Craft 🎙️ Author Interviews 🌍 Fantasy Worldbuilding ✨ The Writing Life 📚 Literary Analysis

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin shares the philosophy behind her worlds, her craft, and the power of stories.

kirjoittanut Ursula K. Le Guin 2018 138 sivua

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✍️ Writing Craft 🎙️ Author Interviews 🌍 Fantasy Worldbuilding ✨ The Writing Life 📚 Literary Analysis

Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

kirjoittanut Hilary Glasman-Deal • 2009

Why good scientists write badly, and the writing blueprint that gets non-native speakers published.

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🧪 Scientific Writing 📝 Academic Publishing 🌐 ESL Writing 📄 Research Article Structure 📚 Academic Vocabulary

Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

Why good scientists write badly, and the writing blueprint that gets non-native speakers published.

kirjoittanut Hilary Glasman-Deal 2009 272 sivua

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🧪 Scientific Writing 📝 Academic Publishing 🌐 ESL Writing 📄 Research Article Structure 📚 Academic Vocabulary

How to Write Short

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark • 2013

Tiny texts, big impact: the craft moves that make short sentences stick harder than long ones.

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📝 Short Form Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🗣️ Rhetorical Techniques 👁️ Reading As A Writer 📰 Journalism Craft

How to Write Short

Tiny texts, big impact: the craft moves that make short sentences stick harder than long ones.

kirjoittanut Roy Peter Clark 2013 272 sivua

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📝 Short Form Writing ✍️ Writing Craft 🗣️ Rhetorical Techniques 👁️ Reading As A Writer 📰 Journalism Craft

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

kirjoittanut Renni Browne • 1993

The self-editing techniques that find and fix the flaws keeping your novel from publication.

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✍️ Fiction Editing 🔍 Self-Editing 🎭 Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Craft 👁️ Point Of View

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

The self-editing techniques that find and fix the flaws keeping your novel from publication.

kirjoittanut Renni Browne 1993 288 sivua

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✍️ Fiction Editing 🔍 Self-Editing 🎭 Show Don't Tell 💬 Dialogue Craft 👁️ Point Of View

The Craft of Scientific Presentations

kirjoittanut Michael Alley • 1986

Your research is only as visible as your talk. The presentation craft guide for scientists.

3.93

337

🧪 Science Communication 🎞️ Slide Design 🎤 Presentation Skills 😰 Stage Fright ⚙️ Technical Presentations

The Craft of Scientific Presentations

Your research is only as visible as your talk. The presentation craft guide for scientists.

kirjoittanut Michael Alley 1986 241 sivua

3.93

337 arvostelua

🧪 Science Communication 🎞️ Slide Design 🎤 Presentation Skills 😰 Stage Fright ⚙️ Technical Presentations

The Halbert Copywriting Method Part III

kirjoittanut Bond Halbert • 2016

The editing craft: how to shear off every word that gives a reader permission to leave.

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🧑‍💻 Copywriting 📬 Direct-Response Marketing ✂️ Editing Techniques 👁️ Readability 🎣 Psychological Triggers

The Halbert Copywriting Method Part III

The editing craft: how to shear off every word that gives a reader permission to leave.

kirjoittanut Bond Halbert 2016 108 sivua

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149 arvostelua

🧑‍💻 Copywriting 📬 Direct-Response Marketing ✂️ Editing Techniques 👁️ Readability 🎣 Psychological Triggers

The Power of Language

kirjoittanut Viorica Marian • 2023

Language doesn't just describe your world. It builds it. A second language builds a second you.

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📊 Psycholinguistics 🗣️ Multilingualism 🌐 Linguistic Relativity 🧠 Cognitive Flexibility 🎯 Language Framing

The Power of Language

Language doesn't just describe your world. It builds it. A second language builds a second you.

kirjoittanut Viorica Marian 2023 288 sivua

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📊 Psycholinguistics 🗣️ Multilingualism 🌐 Linguistic Relativity 🧠 Cognitive Flexibility 🎯 Language Framing

Unlocking English Learners′ Potential

kirjoittanut Diane Staehr Fenner • 2017

Your English learners can handle complex content. The missing piece is scaffolds, not simpler texts.

4.06

192

🗣️ Esl Teaching 🏗️ Scaffolding Instruction 📝 Academic Language 🌍 Culturally Responsive Teaching 📊 Formative Assessment

Unlocking English Learners′ Potential

Your English learners can handle complex content. The missing piece is scaffolds, not simpler texts.

kirjoittanut Diane Staehr Fenner 2017 288 sivua

4.06

192 arvostelua

🗣️ Esl Teaching 🏗️ Scaffolding Instruction 📝 Academic Language 🌍 Culturally Responsive Teaching 📊 Formative Assessment

A Natural History of Human Thinking

kirjoittanut Michael Tomasello • 2014

Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.

3.99

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Cognitive Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Origins 🦍 Ape Cognition

A Natural History of Human Thinking

Apes think alone. We think together. The two-step evolution that made the difference.

kirjoittanut Michael Tomasello 2014 192 sivua

3.99

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🧠 Evolutionary Psychology 🧬 Cognitive Evolution 🤝 Social Cognition 🗣️ Language Origins 🦍 Ape Cognition

The Emotion Thesaurus

kirjoittanut Angela Ackerman • 2012

Emotion drives story. This reference replaces clichéd sighs and shrugs with hundreds of body cues.

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🖋️ Fiction Writing ✂️ Writing Craft 🎭 Character Development 💔 Emotional Writing 👁️ Showing Vs Telling

The Emotion Thesaurus

Emotion drives story. This reference replaces clichéd sighs and shrugs with hundreds of body cues.

kirjoittanut Angela Ackerman 2012 164 sivua

4.53

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🖋️ Fiction Writing ✂️ Writing Craft 🎭 Character Development 💔 Emotional Writing 👁️ Showing Vs Telling

You Are What You Speak

kirjoittanut Robert Lane Greene • 2011

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

You Are What You Speak

Grammar rules are recent inventions, language decline is a myth, and purism is identity politics.

kirjoittanut Robert Lane Greene 2011 320 sivua

3.86

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🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🏛️ Language Policy 🧹 Language Purism ⚖️ Linguistic Prejudice 🧠 Language Myths

Pitch Perfect

kirjoittanut Bill McGowan • 2014

A media coach's rules for grabbing attention, making your point stick, and never losing the room.

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🏢 Business Communication 🎤 Public Speaking 🧠 Persuasion Techniques 📖 Storytelling In Business 💬 Conversation Skills

Pitch Perfect

A media coach's rules for grabbing attention, making your point stick, and never losing the room.

kirjoittanut Bill McGowan 2014 288 sivua

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🏢 Business Communication 🎤 Public Speaking 🧠 Persuasion Techniques 📖 Storytelling In Business 💬 Conversation Skills

Mother Tongue

kirjoittanut Christine Gilbert • 2016

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

3.72

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🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

Mother Tongue

A family's two-year quest to learn Mandarin, Arabic, and Spanish abroad. But her toddler objected.

kirjoittanut Christine Gilbert 2016 333 sivua

3.72

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🌊 Language Immersion 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multilingual Parenting ✈️ Family Travel 📖 Language Learning Memoir ❤️ Cultural Empathy

How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

kirjoittanut James Scott Bell • 2014

Your manuscript lives or dies by dialogue. The craft rules for making every exchange count.

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🗣️ Dialogue Craft 🎭 Character Voice ✍️ Writing Exercises ⚡ Narrative Tension 🕳️ Subtext In Writing

How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

Your manuscript lives or dies by dialogue. The craft rules for making every exchange count.

kirjoittanut James Scott Bell 2014 138 sivua

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🗣️ Dialogue Craft 🎭 Character Voice ✍️ Writing Exercises ⚡ Narrative Tension 🕳️ Subtext In Writing

Fundamentals of English Grammar

kirjoittanut Betty Schrampfer Azar • 1985

Make grammar stick: know when to pair up, when to correct, and when to step aside.

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📝 ESL Grammar 🧑‍🏫 Grammar Pedagogy 📚 ESL Teaching Methods 🤝 Cooperative Learning ⚠️ Error Correction

Fundamentals of English Grammar

Make grammar stick: know when to pair up, when to correct, and when to step aside.

kirjoittanut Betty Schrampfer Azar 1985 398 sivua

4.18

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📝 ESL Grammar 🧑‍🏫 Grammar Pedagogy 📚 ESL Teaching Methods 🤝 Cooperative Learning ⚠️ Error Correction

The Mother Tongue

kirjoittanut Bill Bryson • 1990

Why English spelling is a mess, dialects baffle, and a Germanic tongue now rules the world.

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🗣️ History Of English 📚 Popular Linguistics 🌍 Language Evolution 🏷️ Etymology 🗺️ Dialects

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4.24

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Your reader does not care about you. Copy that sells starts there and never gets clever.

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3.92

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The Mechanical Mind

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Can a physical brain represent things outside itself? The foundational puzzle of cognitive science.

3.66

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The Mechanical Mind

Can a physical brain represent things outside itself? The foundational puzzle of cognitive science.

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Because Internet

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Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

4.04

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Because Internet

Why a period feels angry and emoji work like gestures: the hidden grammar of internet English.

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4.04

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Dreyer's English

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4.34

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Dreyer's English

A copy chief teaches the cuts, the commas, and the confidence to write clear, unstoppable prose.

kirjoittanut Benjamin Dreyer 2019 269 sivua

4.34

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Introduction to Metaphysics

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Before any science, one question: what does it mean to exist? Philosophy forgot, and reality shrank.

4.03

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Introduction to Metaphysics

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4.03

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Originality is subtraction: how writing badly in English gave a Japanese novelist his voice.

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