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The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

av Sigmund Freud • 2003

A joke is a bribe of pleasure that lets forbidden thoughts past the guard.

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🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 😂 Humor Studies 🎭 Comic Theory 🔧 Joke Mechanics 💬 Verbal Wit

The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious

A joke is a bribe of pleasure that lets forbidden thoughts past the guard.

av Sigmund Freud 2003 229 sider

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🛋️ Psychoanalytic Theory 😂 Humor Studies 🎭 Comic Theory 🔧 Joke Mechanics 💬 Verbal Wit

Writing the Breakout Novel

av 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.

av Donald Maass 2001 272 sider

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

It's the Way You Say It

av 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.

av Carol A. Fleming 2010 264 sider

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

The Ultimate Introduction to NLP

av 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.

av Richard Bandler 2013 160 sider

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

Several Short Sentences About Writing

av 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.

av Verlyn Klinkenborg 2012 224 sider

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

Mastering Suspense, Structure, and Plot

av 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.

av Jane K. Cleland 2016 240 sider

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

Perfect English Grammar

av Grant Barrett • 2016

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

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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.

av Grant Barrett 2016 238 sider

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

The Reading Mind

av 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.

av Daniel T. Willingham 2017 233 sider

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

Tunesmith

av 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.

av Jimmy Webb 1998 448 sider

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

Speed Reading with the Right Brain

av 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.

av David Butler 2014 249 sider

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

Our Declaration

av 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.

av Danielle S. Allen 2014 320 sider

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

How to Speak Any Language Fluently

av Alex Rawlings • 2017

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

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🗣️ 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.

av Alex Rawlings 2017 216 sider

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

Writing and Difference

av 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.

av Jacques Derrida 1967 362 sider

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

The Glamour of Grammar

av 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.

av Roy Peter Clark 2010

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

Writing for Emotional Impact

av Karl Iglesias • 2005

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

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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.

av Karl Iglesias 2005 238 sider

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

Words That Work

av 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.

av Frank Luntz 2006 483 sider

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

Winning Minds

av Simon Lancaster • 2015

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

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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.

av Simon Lancaster 2015 236 sider

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

Lectures on the Will to Know

av Michel Foucault • 2014

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

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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.

av Michel Foucault 2014 293 sider

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242 vurderinger

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

100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

av 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.

av Gary Provost 1985 176 sider

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

The Art of Civilized Conversation

av 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.

av Margaret Shepherd 2005 240 sider

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

Characters & Viewpoint

av 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.

av Orson Scott Card 1988 240 sider

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

Sex, Lies, and Handwriting

av 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.

av Michelle Dresbold 2006 285 sider

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

The Art of Always Being Right

av A.C. Grayling • 2012

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

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🗣️ 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.

av A.C. Grayling 2012 63 sider

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

The Evolution of Everything

av 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.

av Matt Ridley 2015 368 sider

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

The Power of Verbal Intelligence

av Tony Buzan • 2002

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

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🗣️ 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.

av Tony Buzan 2002 232 sider

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

Verbal Advantage

av 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.

av Charles Harrington Elster 2000 459 sider

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

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

av 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.

av Neil Postman 1969 240 sider

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

Ursula K. Le Guin

av 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.

av Ursula K. Le Guin 2018 138 sider

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

Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

av 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.

av Hilary Glasman-Deal 2009 272 sider

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

How to Write Short

av 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.

av Roy Peter Clark 2013 272 sider

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

Self-Editing for Fiction Writers

av 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.

av Renni Browne 1993 288 sider

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

The Craft of Scientific Presentations

av Michael Alley • 1986

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

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🧪 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.

av Michael Alley 1986 241 sider

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

The Halbert Copywriting Method Part III

av 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.

av Bond Halbert 2016 108 sider

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

The Power of Language

av 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.

av Viorica Marian 2023 288 sider

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

Unlocking English Learners′ Potential

av 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.

av Diane Staehr Fenner 2017 288 sider

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192 vurderinger

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

A Natural History of Human Thinking

av Michael Tomasello • 2014

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

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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.

av Michael Tomasello 2014 192 sider

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

The Emotion Thesaurus

av 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.

av Angela Ackerman 2012 164 sider

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

How to Write Dazzling Dialogue

av 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.

av James Scott Bell 2014 138 sider

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

You Are What You Speak

av 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.

av Robert Lane Greene 2011 320 sider

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

Pitch Perfect

av 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.

av Bill McGowan 2014 288 sider

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

Mother Tongue

av Christine Gilbert • 2016

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

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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.

av Christine Gilbert 2016 333 sider

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449 vurderinger

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

This book will teach you how to write better

av Neville Medhora • 2013

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

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🧱 Copywriting Fundamentals 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology ✍️ Headline Formulas 👤 Audience Personas

This book will teach you how to write better

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

av Neville Medhora 2013 46 sider

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🧱 Copywriting Fundamentals 💼 Business Writing 🧠 Reader Psychology ✍️ Headline Formulas 👤 Audience Personas

Trance-Formations

av John Grinder • 1981

Inducing trance with words alone: how to pace, calibrate, and use every response as a doorway.

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🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 😵‍💫 Ericksonian Hypnosis 💬 Indirect Suggestion 🪞 Self-Hypnosis 🗣️ Linguistic Patterning

Trance-Formations

Inducing trance with words alone: how to pace, calibrate, and use every response as a doorway.

av John Grinder 1981 252 sider

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🧠 Neuro-Linguistic Programming 😵‍💫 Ericksonian Hypnosis 💬 Indirect Suggestion 🪞 Self-Hypnosis 🗣️ Linguistic Patterning

Fundamentals of English Grammar

av 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.

av Betty Schrampfer Azar 1985 398 sider

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500+ vurderinger

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

The Mechanical Mind

av Tim Crane • 1996

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

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🗺️ Mental Representation 💻 Computational Mind 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Folk Psychology

The Mechanical Mind

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

av Tim Crane 1996 272 sider

3.66

214 vurderinger

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🗺️ Mental Representation 💻 Computational Mind 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Folk Psychology

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av Bill Bryson • 1990

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

3.91

44 000+

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The Mother Tongue

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

av Bill Bryson 1990 270 sider

3.91

44 000+ vurderinger

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

Because Internet

av Gretchen McCulloch • 2019

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

4.04

12 000+

🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

Because Internet

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

av Gretchen McCulloch 2019 273 sider

4.04

12 000+ vurderinger

🖥️ Internet Linguistics ✍️ Informal Writing 👋 Digital Gestures 🌐 Internet Culture 🗣️ Sociolinguistics

Dreyer's English

av Benjamin Dreyer • 2019

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

4.34

9 000+

✂️ Copyediting 📖 Usage Guides 📚 Style Guides ✍️ Concise Writing 📝 Punctuation

Dreyer's English

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

av Benjamin Dreyer 2019 269 sider

4.34

9 000+ vurderinger

✂️ Copyediting 📖 Usage Guides 📚 Style Guides ✍️ Concise Writing 📝 Punctuation

Introduction to Metaphysics

av Martin Heidegger • 1929

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

4.03

4 000+

🌊 Phenomenology 🌑 Existentialism 🧱 Ontology ⚫ Nothingness 🔗 Limits Of Logic

Introduction to Metaphysics

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

av Martin Heidegger 1929 254 sider

4.03

4 000+ vurderinger

🌊 Phenomenology 🌑 Existentialism 🧱 Ontology ⚫ Nothingness 🔗 Limits Of Logic

Novelist as a Vocation

av Haruki Murakami • 2015

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

3.89

18 000+

✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Literary Life 🎨 Creative Process 🗣️ Finding Your Voice 🏃 Creative Discipline

Novelist as a Vocation

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

av Haruki Murakami 2015 213 sider

3.89

18 000+ vurderinger

✍️ Writing Craft 📚 Literary Life 🎨 Creative Process 🗣️ Finding Your Voice 🏃 Creative Discipline

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