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Les mots façonnent nos pensées, nos relations et notre compréhension même de la réalité – des métaphores qui structurent notre pensée aux façons subtiles dont la grammaire influence la culture. Nos livres sur la langue explorent la communication sous toutes ses formes, offrant des perspectives et des conseils pratiques sur l’écriture, la parole et la science fascinante derrière la manière dont les humains utilisent les mots pour se connecter et créer du sens.

Langue Résumés de livres

Story Engineering

par Larry Brooks • 2011

Six storytelling skills and a four-part map that transform an idea into a novel that works.

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🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Novel Writing 🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🧑 Character Development 📈 Plot Design

Story Engineering

Six storytelling skills and a four-part map that transform an idea into a novel that works.

par Larry Brooks 2011 278 pages

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🏗️ Story Structure ✍️ Novel Writing 🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🧑 Character Development 📈 Plot Design

Wired for Story

par Lisa Cron • 2012

Your reader's brain evolved to crave story. Neuroscience now knows what it expects from yours.

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🧱 Storytelling Craft 🧠 Neuroscience Of Story 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ⚡ Conflict And Tension

Wired for Story

Your reader's brain evolved to crave story. Neuroscience now knows what it expects from yours.

par Lisa Cron 2012 272 pages

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🧱 Storytelling Craft 🧠 Neuroscience Of Story 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ⚡ Conflict And Tension

How To Write Funny

par Scott Dikkers • 2014

Comedy demystified: a set of learnable devices that turn humor from mystery into repeatable craft.

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🎯 Satire And Parody ⚙️ Joke Mechanics 🗣️ Wordplay And Punning ⏱️ Writing Productivity

How To Write Funny

Comedy demystified: a set of learnable devices that turn humor from mystery into repeatable craft.

par Scott Dikkers 2014 146 pages

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🎭 Comedy Writing 🎯 Satire And Parody ⚙️ Joke Mechanics 🗣️ Wordplay And Punning ⏱️ Writing Productivity

Frogs Into Princes

par Richard Bandler • 1979

Read eye movements, anchor emotions, and rewrite the past: the live NLP workshop.

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🧠 Neurolinguistic Programming ⏱️ Brief Therapy 💬 Ericksonian Hypnosis 👁️ Sensory Acuity 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

Frogs Into Princes

Read eye movements, anchor emotions, and rewrite the past: the live NLP workshop.

par Richard Bandler 1979 194 pages

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🧠 Neurolinguistic Programming ⏱️ Brief Therapy 💬 Ericksonian Hypnosis 👁️ Sensory Acuity 🔄 Cognitive Reframing

The Elements of Eloquence

par Mark Forsyth • 2013

Shakespeare didn't wait for inspiration. He studied the tricks that make phrases stick.

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🗣️ Figures Of Speech ✍️ Writing Craft 🎯 Wordplay 📝 Persuasive Writing

The Elements of Eloquence

Shakespeare didn't wait for inspiration. He studied the tricks that make phrases stick.

par Mark Forsyth 2013 205 pages

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🗣️ Figures Of Speech ✍️ Writing Craft 🎯 Wordplay 📝 Persuasive Writing

A Game Design Vocabulary

par Anna Anthropy • 2013

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

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📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

A Game Design Vocabulary

The grammar of game design: how to script a back-and-forth that players lose themselves in.

par Anna Anthropy 2013 211 pages

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📗 Game Design ⚙️ Game Mechanics 🧩 Game Systems 🧠 Player Experience 📖 Emergent Narrative

Unleash the Power of Storytelling

par Rob Biesenbach • 2018

Bullet points put people to sleep. One simple story structure makes them feel and act instead.

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📊 Business Storytelling 🎤 Presentation Skills 🏷️ Personal Branding 🧠 Neuroscience Of Story 💓 Emotional Persuasion

Unleash the Power of Storytelling

Bullet points put people to sleep. One simple story structure makes them feel and act instead.

par Rob Biesenbach 2018 180 pages

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📊 Business Storytelling 🎤 Presentation Skills 🏷️ Personal Branding 🧠 Neuroscience Of Story 💓 Emotional Persuasion

How to Win Every Argument

par Madsen Pirie • 2006

The fallacies that win arguments: how to use them, spot them, and never get tripped again.

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🧠 Logical Fallacies 🤔 Critical Thinking 🗣️ Debate Tactics 🎯 Persuasion 🔍 Cognitive Biases

How to Win Every Argument

The fallacies that win arguments: how to use them, spot them, and never get tripped again.

par Madsen Pirie 2006 182 pages

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🧠 Logical Fallacies 🤔 Critical Thinking 🗣️ Debate Tactics 🎯 Persuasion 🔍 Cognitive Biases

The Japanese Mind

par Roger J. Davies • 2002

Japan runs on unwritten rules. Twelve everyday concepts reveal the logic beneath the surface.

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🗾 Japanese Society 🌏 Cross-Cultural 🤫 Indirect Communication 🎁 Social Obligation 🎋 Japanese Aesthetics

The Japanese Mind

Japan runs on unwritten rules. Twelve everyday concepts reveal the logic beneath the surface.

par Roger J. Davies 2002 280 pages

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🗾 Japanese Society 🌏 Cross-Cultural 🤫 Indirect Communication 🎁 Social Obligation 🎋 Japanese Aesthetics

Cultish

par Amanda Montell • 2021

The secret grammar shared by Jim Jones, your spin instructor, and the QAnon guy next door.

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💬 Language And Influence 🧠 Cult Psychology 🔒 High-Control Groups 💰 Mlm Tactics 🧘 Wellness Culture

Cultish

The secret grammar shared by Jim Jones, your spin instructor, and the QAnon guy next door.

par Amanda Montell 2021 309 pages

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💬 Language And Influence 🧠 Cult Psychology 🔒 High-Control Groups 💰 Mlm Tactics 🧘 Wellness Culture

Invisible Ink

par Brian McDonald • 2010

Forget formulas: the deep craft of story is a hidden framework of theme, pain, and dramatic irony.

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🏗️ Story Structure 🧭 Theme As Foundation 🦋 Character Transformation 🎭 Dramatic Irony 💬 Subtext And Dialogue

Invisible Ink

Forget formulas: the deep craft of story is a hidden framework of theme, pain, and dramatic irony.

par Brian McDonald 2010 153 pages

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🏗️ Story Structure 🧭 Theme As Foundation 🦋 Character Transformation 🎭 Dramatic Irony 💬 Subtext And Dialogue

Writing That Works

par Kenneth Roman • 1981

From emails to proposals, the enduring rules for business writing that gets read and gets results.

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🏢 Business Writing ✍️ Clear Writing 📐 Writing Structure 💼 Persuasive Writing ✂️ Editing Techniques

Writing That Works

From emails to proposals, the enduring rules for business writing that gets read and gets results.

par Kenneth Roman 1981 210 pages

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🏢 Business Writing ✍️ Clear Writing 📐 Writing Structure 💼 Persuasive Writing ✂️ Editing Techniques

Truth and Method

par Hans-Georg Gadamer • 1960

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⏳ Historical Consciousness

Truth and Method

Understanding is an event language and tradition perform through you, not a method you apply.

par Hans-Georg Gadamer 1960 640 pages

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📖 Hermeneutics 🧠 Phenomenology 🎨 Aesthetics 💬 Philosophy Of Language ⏳ Historical Consciousness

Speech Acts

par John Rogers Searle • 1969

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy 📝 Pragmatics 🧠 Analytic Philosophy

Speech Acts

Language doesn't just describe actions. It IS action, governed by rules that create the game.

par John Rogers Searle 1969 203 pages

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Language 💬 Speech Act Theory 🏛️ Ordinary Language Philosophy 📝 Pragmatics 🧠 Analytic Philosophy

Reframing

par Richard Bandler • 1981

Change anyone's mind, including your own, by shifting the frame around their experience.

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🧠 Nlp Techniques 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🧩 Parts Work 🗣️ Linguistic Psychology 🏢 Systems Thinking

Reframing

Change anyone's mind, including your own, by shifting the frame around their experience.

par Richard Bandler 1981 208 pages

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🧠 Nlp Techniques 🔄 Cognitive Reframing 🧩 Parts Work 🗣️ Linguistic Psychology 🏢 Systems Thinking

The Geography of Thought

par Richard E. Nisbett • 2003

Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌏 East-West Differences 👥 Social Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Styles 👀 Context Sensitivity

The Geography of Thought

Westerners lock on objects; East Asians read the field: a divide rooted in ancient Greece and China.

par Richard E. Nisbett 2003 292 pages

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌏 East-West Differences 👥 Social Cognition 🧩 Cognitive Styles 👀 Context Sensitivity

Socratic Logic

par Peter Kreeft • 2003

Reason with precision, argue with force, and catch every fallacy: a classical logic course.

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🏛️ Classical Education 💬 Argumentation 🚫 Logical Fallacies ❓ Socratic Method

Socratic Logic

Reason with precision, argue with force, and catch every fallacy: a classical logic course.

par Peter Kreeft 2003 397 pages

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🧠 Critical Thinking 🏛️ Classical Education 💬 Argumentation 🚫 Logical Fallacies ❓ Socratic Method

The Writing Revolution

par Judith C. Hochman • 2017

Clear writing is teachable. The method starts with a single sentence and works in every classroom.

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✏️ Writing Instruction 🧱 Sentence-Level Work 🪜 Scaffolded Learning 📚 Content-Area Literacy 🗣️ Direct Instruction

The Writing Revolution

Clear writing is teachable. The method starts with a single sentence and works in every classroom.

par Judith C. Hochman 2017 294 pages

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✏️ Writing Instruction 🧱 Sentence-Level Work 🪜 Scaffolded Learning 📚 Content-Area Literacy 🗣️ Direct Instruction

Speak English Like an American

par Amy Gillett • 2004

300 idioms, zero lists: a cookie-business story that teaches real American speech.

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🗣️ Idiom Guides 🇺🇸 American English 📖 Contextual Learning 💬 Conversational English 🏠 Everyday Expressions

Speak English Like an American

300 idioms, zero lists: a cookie-business story that teaches real American speech.

par Amy Gillett 2004 176 pages

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🗣️ Idiom Guides 🇺🇸 American English 📖 Contextual Learning 💬 Conversational English 🏠 Everyday Expressions

Moral Politics

par George Lakoff • 1996

Liberals and conservatives don't just disagree; they're running different family simulations.

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🧠 Political Psychology 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Political Polarization 🤔 Moral Reasoning 🇺🇸 American Politics

Moral Politics

Liberals and conservatives don't just disagree; they're running different family simulations.

par George Lakoff 1996 512 pages

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🧠 Political Psychology 💡 Conceptual Metaphor ⚖️ Political Polarization 🤔 Moral Reasoning 🇺🇸 American Politics

Effortless English

par A.J. Hoge • 2014

Grammar made you slow. The fix: massive listening, whole phrases, and a playful mindset.

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🗣️ Language Acquisition 📚 Esl Education 🔇 Comprehensible Input 🧠 Psychology Of Learning 📖 Lexical Approach

Effortless English

Grammar made you slow. The fix: massive listening, whole phrases, and a playful mindset.

par A.J. Hoge 2014 192 pages

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🗣️ Language Acquisition 📚 Esl Education 🔇 Comprehensible Input 🧠 Psychology Of Learning 📖 Lexical Approach

Dialogue

par Robert McKee • 2016

Dialogue is action, not conversation. The real meaning lives in what characters won't say.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ✍️ Fiction Craft 💬 Dialogue Technique 🫥 Subtext 🗣️ Character Voice

Dialogue

Dialogue is action, not conversation. The real meaning lives in what characters won't say.

par Robert McKee 2016 312 pages

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ✍️ Fiction Craft 💬 Dialogue Technique 🫥 Subtext 🗣️ Character Voice

Rhétorique

par Aristote

Persuasion isn't one thing. It's three, and mixing them up loses the audience every time.

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Greek Philosophy 🎙️ Modes Of Persuasion ❤️ Emotional Appeals 🧠 Logical Argument

Rhétorique

Persuasion isn't one thing. It's three, and mixing them up loses the audience every time.

par Aristote 292 pages

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🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 📜 Greek Philosophy 🎙️ Modes Of Persuasion ❤️ Emotional Appeals 🧠 Logical Argument

The Art of Nonfiction

par Ayn Rand • 2001

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

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📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining 🧠 Subconscious Creativity ✂️ Editing And Revision

The Art of Nonfiction

Skip the mystique: nonfiction writing is a system, and the outline is its non-negotiable start.

par Ayn Rand 2001 210 pages

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📖 Philosophical Writing 💡 Clarity And Precision 🗂️ Pre-Writing And Outlining 🧠 Subconscious Creativity ✂️ Editing And Revision

The Logic of Sense

par Gilles Deleuze • 1969

Sense is not a thing but an event, a surface effect where language meets the world.

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🧩 Post-Structuralism 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🏛️ Stoic Logic 🌫️ Incorporeal Events 🎭 Paradox And Nonsense

The Logic of Sense

Sense is not a thing but an event, a surface effect where language meets the world.

par Gilles Deleuze 1969 393 pages

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🧩 Post-Structuralism 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🏛️ Stoic Logic 🌫️ Incorporeal Events 🎭 Paradox And Nonsense

Suis-je assez clair ?

par Terry Felber • 2002

Ten clarity techniques from the world's best communicators, for making complex ideas stick.

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💼 Business Communication 🔬 Science Communication ✍️ Clear Writing 📝 Plain Language 📊 Data Storytelling

Suis-je assez clair ?

Ten clarity techniques from the world's best communicators, for making complex ideas stick.

par Terry Felber 2002 160 pages

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💼 Business Communication 🔬 Science Communication ✍️ Clear Writing 📝 Plain Language 📊 Data Storytelling

The Story Grid

par Shawn Coyne • 2015

Why stories fail, scene by scene: an editor's diagnostic that finds the break and the fix.

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🎭 Storytelling Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🔧 Structural Editing 🔍 Scene Craft 🎯 Story Beats

The Story Grid

Why stories fail, scene by scene: an editor's diagnostic that finds the break and the fix.

par Shawn Coyne 2015 344 pages

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🎭 Storytelling Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🔧 Structural Editing 🔍 Scene Craft 🎯 Story Beats

Techniques of the Selling Writer

par Dwight V. Swain • 1965

Master the rhythm of conflict and emotional reaction that makes any story impossible to put down.

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🎬 Scene Structure ⚡ Dramatic Tension 👥 Character Development 💓 Emotional Resonance 🧱 Story Structure

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Master the rhythm of conflict and emotional reaction that makes any story impossible to put down.

par Dwight V. Swain 1965 344 pages

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🎬 Scene Structure ⚡ Dramatic Tension 👥 Character Development 💓 Emotional Resonance 🧱 Story Structure

Legal Writing in Plain English

par Bryan A. Garner • 2001

The plain-English playbook for lawyers: how to structure, cut, and clarify every sentence you write.

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⚖️ Legal Writing 📝 Legal Drafting 📄 Plain Language ✂️ Concision 👁️ Readability

Legal Writing in Plain English

The plain-English playbook for lawyers: how to structure, cut, and clarify every sentence you write.

par Bryan A. Garner 2001 227 pages

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⚖️ Legal Writing 📝 Legal Drafting 📄 Plain Language ✂️ Concision 👁️ Readability

Word Hero

par Jay Heinrichs • 2011

How to write lines that people repeat, share, and remember: the forgotten art of rhetorical figures.

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🎭 Figures Of Speech 🏛️ Practical Rhetoric 😂 Wordplay And Wit 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling Techniques

Word Hero

How to write lines that people repeat, share, and remember: the forgotten art of rhetorical figures.

par Jay Heinrichs 2011 354 pages

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🎭 Figures Of Speech 🏛️ Practical Rhetoric 😂 Wordplay And Wit 🎤 Public Speaking 📖 Storytelling Techniques

The Elements of Style

par William Strunk Jr. • 1918

Kill your adverbs, activate your verbs, and never say 'in order to': the writing bible, modernized.

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✍️ Writing Style 📖 Grammar And Usage ✂️ Concise Writing 🏗️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Self-Editing

The Elements of Style

Kill your adverbs, activate your verbs, and never say 'in order to': the writing bible, modernized.

par William Strunk Jr. 1918 123 pages

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✍️ Writing Style 📖 Grammar And Usage ✂️ Concise Writing 🏗️ Sentence Craft 🔍 Self-Editing

Persuasive Copywriting

par Andy Maslen • 2015

Why flattery, secrets, and stories sell harder than features: a copywriter's psychological toolkit.

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✍️ Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💓 Emotional Persuasion 📖 Business Storytelling 🏛️ Rhetoric

Persuasive Copywriting

Why flattery, secrets, and stories sell harder than features: a copywriter's psychological toolkit.

par Andy Maslen 2015 256 pages

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✍️ Copywriting 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💓 Emotional Persuasion 📖 Business Storytelling 🏛️ Rhetoric

Sleight of Mouth

par Robert B. Dilts • 2001

Limiting beliefs have a grammatical structure. Learn the verbal patterns that target it directly.

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🧠 Neurolinguistic Programming 💬 Linguistic Reframing 🔄 Belief Change 🚧 Limiting Beliefs 🗣️ Self-Talk

Sleight of Mouth

Limiting beliefs have a grammatical structure. Learn the verbal patterns that target it directly.

par Robert B. Dilts 2001 330 pages

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🧠 Neurolinguistic Programming 💬 Linguistic Reframing 🔄 Belief Change 🚧 Limiting Beliefs 🗣️ Self-Talk

Bird by Bird

par Anne Lamott • 1994

How to trap the stories inside you, one small, terrible draft at a time.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Author Memoir 🧱 Writer's Block 🔓 Creative Unblocking 🎤 Authentic Voice

Bird by Bird

How to trap the stories inside you, one small, terrible draft at a time.

par Anne Lamott 1994 222 pages

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Author Memoir 🧱 Writer's Block 🔓 Creative Unblocking 🎤 Authentic Voice

On Language

par Noam Chomsky • 1998

All languages share a hidden architecture, and it exposes what the mind is born knowing.

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🧠 Linguistic Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Innate Knowledge 📐 Generative Grammar

On Language

All languages share a hidden architecture, and it exposes what the mind is born knowing.

par Noam Chomsky 1998 481 pages

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🧠 Linguistic Theory 💬 Philosophy Of Language 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Innate Knowledge 📐 Generative Grammar

Algospeak

par Adam Aleksic • 2025

Censorship algorithms didn't kill language online. They made it weirder, faster, more creative.

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🖥️ Digital Linguistics 🤖 Algorithmic Culture 🚫 Content Moderation 💡 Linguistic Innovation ⏱️ Attention Economics

Algospeak

Censorship algorithms didn't kill language online. They made it weirder, faster, more creative.

par Adam Aleksic 2025 256 pages

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🖥️ Digital Linguistics 🤖 Algorithmic Culture 🚫 Content Moderation 💡 Linguistic Innovation ⏱️ Attention Economics

Language, Truth and Logic

par Alfred Jules Ayer • 1936

A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.

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🧠 Logical Positivism 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🏛️ Vienna Circle 👁️ Empiricism

Language, Truth and Logic

A single test separates meaningful statements from nonsense, and most of philosophy fails it.

par Alfred Jules Ayer 1936 160 pages

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🧠 Logical Positivism 🔍 Analytic Philosophy 💬 Philosophy Of Language 🏛️ Vienna Circle 👁️ Empiricism

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II

par James N. Frey • 1994

Most novelists fail at the premise, not the prose. The craft rules for getting it right.

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✍️ Novel Writing 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development ⏳ Suspense Techniques 🎙️ Narrative Voice

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II

Most novelists fail at the premise, not the prose. The craft rules for getting it right.

par James N. Frey 1994 176 pages

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✍️ Novel Writing 🎭 Dramatic Structure 👤 Character Development ⏳ Suspense Techniques 🎙️ Narrative Voice

Hypnotic Writing

par Joe Vitale • 2006

A guide to matching your reader's mental trance and leading them straight to the sale.

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✍️ Copywriting 🎯 Persuasive Writing 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💬 Hypnotic Language 📖 Storytelling

Hypnotic Writing

A guide to matching your reader's mental trance and leading them straight to the sale.

par Joe Vitale 2006 288 pages

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✍️ Copywriting 🎯 Persuasive Writing 🧠 Marketing Psychology 💬 Hypnotic Language 📖 Storytelling

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

par Jessica Brody • 2018

A screenwriter's 15-beat method, adapted for novels: how to map a flawed hero's full transformation.

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🧱 Story Structure 🗺️ Novel Plotting 🥁 Beat Sheets 🎭 Character Arcs 🎬 Screenwriting For Novelists

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

A screenwriter's 15-beat method, adapted for novels: how to map a flawed hero's full transformation.

par Jessica Brody 2018 320 pages

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🧱 Story Structure 🗺️ Novel Plotting 🥁 Beat Sheets 🎭 Character Arcs 🎬 Screenwriting For Novelists

Plot & Structure

par James Scott Bell • 2004

Four pillars of plot that hold readers from opening to climax, whether you outline or not.

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✍️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ✏️ Plotting Vs Pantsing 🎬 Scene Building 💡 Idea Generation

Plot & Structure

Four pillars of plot that hold readers from opening to climax, whether you outline or not.

par James Scott Bell 2004 240 pages

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✍️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ✏️ Plotting Vs Pantsing 🎬 Scene Building 💡 Idea Generation

The Story Paradox

par Jonathan Gottschall • 2021

Story logic that built nations now tears them apart. The psychology is identical.

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🧠 Social Psychology 📖 Narrative Persuasion 💥 Group Conflict 📉 Post-Truth Politics 🏛️ Collective Memory

The Story Paradox

Story logic that built nations now tears them apart. The psychology is identical.

par Jonathan Gottschall 2021 272 pages

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🧠 Social Psychology 📖 Narrative Persuasion 💥 Group Conflict 📉 Post-Truth Politics 🏛️ Collective Memory

What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

par Stephen Wolfram • 2023

ChatGPT is just next-word prediction. The breakthrough is what that reveals about language itself.

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🤖 Large Language Models 🧠 Neural Networks 💬 Ai And Language ⚙️ How Ai Works 💻 Computational Thinking

What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work?

ChatGPT is just next-word prediction. The breakthrough is what that reveals about language itself.

par Stephen Wolfram 2023 143 pages

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🤖 Large Language Models 🧠 Neural Networks 💬 Ai And Language ⚙️ How Ai Works 💻 Computational Thinking

Neverisms

par Mardy Grothe • 2011

The collected wisdom of a single word: what 'never' taught politics, business, love, and sports.

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📚 Quotation Collections 💬 Aphorisms 🗣️ Proverbs And Sayings 📖 Word Lovers 🎤 Public Speakers

Neverisms

The collected wisdom of a single word: what 'never' taught politics, business, love, and sports.

par Mardy Grothe 2011 384 pages

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📚 Quotation Collections 💬 Aphorisms 🗣️ Proverbs And Sayings 📖 Word Lovers 🎤 Public Speakers

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish

par Margarita Madrigal • 1953

A large Spanish vocabulary is already yours. A few conversion patterns make it usable.

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🧠 Spanish Vocabulary 🔗 Cognate Vocabulary 🌱 Beginner Spanish 📐 Grammar Patterns 📝 Verb Conjugation

Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish

A large Spanish vocabulary is already yours. A few conversion patterns make it usable.

par Margarita Madrigal 1953 512 pages

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🧠 Spanish Vocabulary 🔗 Cognate Vocabulary 🌱 Beginner Spanish 📐 Grammar Patterns 📝 Verb Conjugation

The Art of Character

par David Corbett • 2013

The five things every unforgettable character has, and why questionnaires will never uncover them.

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✍️ Character Development 🧠 Character Psychology ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Character Arcs

The Art of Character

The five things every unforgettable character has, and why questionnaires will never uncover them.

par David Corbett 2013 383 pages

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✍️ Character Development 🧠 Character Psychology ⚔️ Dramatic Conflict 🎬 Scene Craft 📈 Character Arcs

On Dialogue

par David Bohm • 1996

Dialogue is less about talking than about seeing the hidden thought system that runs you.

4.08

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🗣️ Philosophy Of Dialogue 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🔄 Systems Thinking ☯️ Nonduality 👥 Group Facilitation

On Dialogue

Dialogue is less about talking than about seeing the hidden thought system that runs you.

par David Bohm 1996 144 pages

4.08

1 000+ évaluations

🗣️ Philosophy Of Dialogue 🧠 Collective Intelligence 🔄 Systems Thinking ☯️ Nonduality 👥 Group Facilitation

Words Like Loaded Pistols

par Sam Leith • 2011

Rhetoric built and toppled civilizations, and its ancient rules still run every ad you see.

3.75

1 000+

🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🔧 Rhetorical Devices 🎤 Speechwriting 🗣️ Argumentation 📢 Public Speaking

Words Like Loaded Pistols

Rhetoric built and toppled civilizations, and its ancient rules still run every ad you see.

par Sam Leith 2011 322 pages

3.75

1 000+ évaluations

🏛️ Classical Rhetoric 🔧 Rhetorical Devices 🎤 Speechwriting 🗣️ Argumentation 📢 Public Speaking

Short Stories in English for Beginners

par Olly Richards • 2018

A book of stories where finishing feels like winning, and every page quietly upgrades your English.

4.09

162

📚 Graded Readers 🧠 Language Acquisition 🇬🇧 English Learners 📖 Short Stories 📝 Vocabulary Building

Short Stories in English for Beginners

A book of stories where finishing feels like winning, and every page quietly upgrades your English.

par Olly Richards 2018 240 pages

4.09

162 évaluations

📚 Graded Readers 🧠 Language Acquisition 🇬🇧 English Learners 📖 Short Stories 📝 Vocabulary Building

The Myth of Mars and Venus

par Deborah Cameron • 2007

Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.

4.03

482

🗣️ Gender And Language 💬 Language Myths ⚡ Gender Stereotypes ✊ Feminist Linguistics 🏗️ Gender Construction

The Myth of Mars and Venus

Verbal ability overlaps 99.75% between sexes. The gender-communication industry is built on noise.

par Deborah Cameron 2007 208 pages

4.03

482 évaluations

🗣️ Gender And Language 💬 Language Myths ⚡ Gender Stereotypes ✊ Feminist Linguistics 🏗️ Gender Construction

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