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Ord former våre tanker, relasjoner og selve forståelsen av virkeligheten – fra metaforene som strukturerer vår tenkning til de subtile måtene grammatikk påvirker kultur på. Våre språk bøker utforsker kommunikasjon i alle dens former, og tilbyr innsikt og praktisk veiledning om skriving, tale og den fascinerende vitenskapen bak hvordan mennesker bruker ord for å knytte bånd og skape mening.

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Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

av David Karashima • 2020

Your Murakami was crafted by translators who cut, reshaped, and sometimes rewrote him; this is how.

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📚 Literary Translation 📚 Publishing History 🌐 Global Publishing 🚪 Cultural Gatekeeping 🌟 Literary Celebrity

Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami

Your Murakami was crafted by translators who cut, reshaped, and sometimes rewrote him; this is how.

av David Karashima 2020 304 sider

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📚 Literary Translation 📚 Publishing History 🌐 Global Publishing 🚪 Cultural Gatekeeping 🌟 Literary Celebrity

Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies

av Michelle Maxom • 2009

Teach English abroad from scratch: lesson planning, classroom control, and grammar that clicks.

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🎓 Tefl Training 📋 Lesson Planning 🏫 Classroom Management 📝 Grammar Instruction 💬 Communicative Approach

Teaching English as a Foreign Language For Dummies

Teach English abroad from scratch: lesson planning, classroom control, and grammar that clicks.

av Michelle Maxom 2009 400 sider

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🎓 Tefl Training 📋 Lesson Planning 🏫 Classroom Management 📝 Grammar Instruction 💬 Communicative Approach

How to be Heard

av Julian Treasure • 2017

Your voice is an untuned instrument, and deep listening is the practice that tunes it.

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🗣️ Interpersonal Skills 🎤 Public Speaking 💼 Business Communication 👂 Conscious Listening 🎙️ Vocal Presence

How to be Heard

Your voice is an untuned instrument, and deep listening is the practice that tunes it.

av Julian Treasure 2017 308 sider

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🗣️ Interpersonal Skills 🎤 Public Speaking 💼 Business Communication 👂 Conscious Listening 🎙️ Vocal Presence

Proust and the Squid

av Maryanne Wolf • 2007

Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.

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📜 History Of Reading 🧠 Neuroscience Of Reading ✍️ History Of Writing 🤿 Deep Reading 🔤 Dyslexia

Proust and the Squid

Reading isn't genetic. The brain built it by recycling circuits meant for hunting and speech.

av Maryanne Wolf 2007 308 sider

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📜 History Of Reading 🧠 Neuroscience Of Reading ✍️ History Of Writing 🤿 Deep Reading 🔤 Dyslexia

Magic Words

av Tim David • 2014

Seven ordinary words with outsized influence: the psychology of each, and when to use them.

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🗣️ Interpersonal Communication 💼 Business Communication 🧠 Persuasion Psychology ✍️ Word Choice 🤝 Rapport Building

Magic Words

Seven ordinary words with outsized influence: the psychology of each, and when to use them.

av Tim David 2014 160 sider

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🗣️ Interpersonal Communication 💼 Business Communication 🧠 Persuasion Psychology ✍️ Word Choice 🤝 Rapport Building

How to Learn a Foreign Language

av Graham E. Fuller • 1987

Train your mouth for new sounds, hunt grammar as patterns, and turn everyday life into immersion.

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📚 Language Acquisition ✍️ Self-Study Methods 🗣️ Pronunciation Training 🧩 Grammar Patterns 📝 Vocabulary Building

How to Learn a Foreign Language

Train your mouth for new sounds, hunt grammar as patterns, and turn everyday life into immersion.

av Graham E. Fuller 1987 102 sider

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📚 Language Acquisition ✍️ Self-Study Methods 🗣️ Pronunciation Training 🧩 Grammar Patterns 📝 Vocabulary Building

Once Upon an Algorithm

av Martin Erwig • 2017

What Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Groundhog Day can teach you about algorithms.

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🧠 Computational Thinking 📐 Algorithm Design 📖 Story-Driven Education 🔓 Accessible Algorithms 🗄️ Data Structures

Once Upon an Algorithm

What Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, and Groundhog Day can teach you about algorithms.

av Martin Erwig 2017 336 sider

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🧠 Computational Thinking 📐 Algorithm Design 📖 Story-Driven Education 🔓 Accessible Algorithms 🗄️ Data Structures

Writing Fiction

av Alexander Steele • 2003

The fiction curriculum from New York's most acclaimed writing workshop, now in book form.

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📝 Fiction Writing 👤 Character Development 📈 Plot And Structure 💬 Dialogue Writing 🎙️ Narrative Voice

Writing Fiction

The fiction curriculum from New York's most acclaimed writing workshop, now in book form.

av Alexander Steele 2003 304 sider

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📝 Fiction Writing 👤 Character Development 📈 Plot And Structure 💬 Dialogue Writing 🎙️ Narrative Voice

Babel No More

av Michael Erard • 2012

Legendary language learners aren't geniuses. They're obsessive collectors with shallow skills.

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🌐 Multilingualism 🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 📜 Linguistic History

Babel No More

Legendary language learners aren't geniuses. They're obsessive collectors with shallow skills.

av Michael Erard 2012 306 sider

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🌐 Multilingualism 🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 📜 Linguistic History

Words Can Change Your Brain

av Andrew B. Newberg • 2012

Your words flood the listener's brain with stress or trust hormones. The choice is trainable.

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🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🗣️ Neurolinguistics 🤝 Conflict Resolution 👂 Active Listening 🧘 Emotional Intelligence

Words Can Change Your Brain

Your words flood the listener's brain with stress or trust hormones. The choice is trainable.

av Andrew B. Newberg 2012 267 sider

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🧠 Interpersonal Neurobiology 🗣️ Neurolinguistics 🤝 Conflict Resolution 👂 Active Listening 🧘 Emotional Intelligence

Word Painting

av Rebecca McClanahan • 2014

Most writing advice says 'show, don't tell.' This one teaches you how, sense by sense.

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✍️ Writing Craft 👃 Sensory Detail 🎬 Show Don't Tell 🖼️ Figurative Language 🛠️ Workshop Techniques

Word Painting

Most writing advice says 'show, don't tell.' This one teaches you how, sense by sense.

av Rebecca McClanahan 2014 250 sider

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✍️ Writing Craft 👃 Sensory Detail 🎬 Show Don't Tell 🖼️ Figurative Language 🛠️ Workshop Techniques

Writing Is Designing

av Michael J. Metts • 2020

Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.

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🖊️ Ux Writing 📋 Content Strategy 📝 Plain Language ♿ Accessibility 🎯 User-Centered Design

Writing Is Designing

Interface words are design elements, not just content. Research and strategy to get them right.

av Michael J. Metts 2020 200 sider

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🖊️ Ux Writing 📋 Content Strategy 📝 Plain Language ♿ Accessibility 🎯 User-Centered Design

Write to the Point How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page

av Sam Leith • 2017

From Aristotle to email, the sentence craft that makes readers absorb ideas before they can resist.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Style Guides ✂️ Editing And Revision 🏗️ Sentence Structure 🎯 Audience Awareness

Write to the Point How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page

From Aristotle to email, the sentence craft that makes readers absorb ideas before they can resist.

av Sam Leith 2017 288 sider

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✍️ Writing Craft 📖 Style Guides ✂️ Editing And Revision 🏗️ Sentence Structure 🎯 Audience Awareness

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method

av Randy Ingermanson • 2014

From one sentence to a full novel draft, one step at a time, without the pain.

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📝 Novel Writing 🧱 Incremental Planning 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Design 🧑 Character Development

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method

From one sentence to a full novel draft, one step at a time, without the pain.

av Randy Ingermanson 2014 234 sider

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📝 Novel Writing 🧱 Incremental Planning 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Design 🧑 Character Development

Linguistic Fingerprints

av Roger J. Kreuz • 2023

The hidden patterns in your words identify you better than fingerprints: stylometry reads them.

3.50

🗣️ Linguistic Identity 📊 Stylometry 🔍 Forensic Linguistics 📚 Literary Hoaxes 🕵️ Anonymous Authorship

Linguistic Fingerprints

The hidden patterns in your words identify you better than fingerprints: stylometry reads them.

av Roger J. Kreuz 2023 245 sider

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🗣️ Linguistic Identity 📊 Stylometry 🔍 Forensic Linguistics 📚 Literary Hoaxes 🕵️ Anonymous Authorship

The Art of Intimacy

av Stacey D'Erasmo • 2013

Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.

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🎓 Literary Criticism ✍️ Craft Of Fiction 🗣️ Narrative Voice 🤫 Subtext 🕰️ Modernist Literature

The Art of Intimacy

Fiction's real intimacy lives in the subjunctive, the white space, and the shared glance.

av Stacey D'Erasmo 2013 144 sider

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🎓 Literary Criticism ✍️ Craft Of Fiction 🗣️ Narrative Voice 🤫 Subtext 🕰️ Modernist Literature

The Art of Subtext

av Charles Baxter • 2007

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

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📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

The Art of Subtext

What a character won't say, can't hear, and can't admit: the hidden engine of unforgettable fiction.

av Charles Baxter 2007 182 sider

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📖 Narrative Craft ✍️ Writers On Writing 🎨 Fiction Aesthetics 🔍 Close Reading 👤 Character Depth

The Martin Buber–Carl Rogers Dialogue

av Rob Anderson • 1997

The Buber-Rogers dialogue shaped modern therapy. For forty years, the transcript was wrong.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Humanistic Psychology 💬 Dialogic Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🤝 Therapeutic Relationship 🧠 Philosophical Psychology

The Martin Buber–Carl Rogers Dialogue

The Buber-Rogers dialogue shaped modern therapy. For forty years, the transcript was wrong.

av Rob Anderson 1997 150 sider

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31 vurderinger

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Humanistic Psychology 💬 Dialogic Philosophy 📜 Intellectual History 🤝 Therapeutic Relationship 🧠 Philosophical Psychology

The Creative Writing Coursebook

av Julia Bell • 2001

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

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✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Creative Writing Coursebook

Forty authors teach the exercises and craft tools that turn rough drafts into publishable work.

av Julia Bell 2001 449 sider

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✍️ Creative Writing 📝 Writing Exercises 🏫 Workshop Method 👤 Character Development 📐 Story Structure

The Writer's Portable Mentor

av Priscilla Long • 2010

A portable system for making writing a daily practice, mastering sentences, and getting published.

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🖊️ Writing Practice 📝 Language And Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 👁️ Observation And Detail 🔄 Revision Process

The Writer's Portable Mentor

A portable system for making writing a daily practice, mastering sentences, and getting published.

av Priscilla Long 2010

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361 vurderinger

🖊️ Writing Practice 📝 Language And Style ✍️ Sentence Craft 👁️ Observation And Detail 🔄 Revision Process

Semicolon

av Cecelia Watson • 2019

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

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🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

Semicolon

How a semicolon started a grammar war: the rules we invented, the people they hurt.

av Cecelia Watson 2019 224 sider

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🖋️ Grammar And Style 📜 Language History 🔍 Cultural Microhistory ⚖️ Language Prescriptivism 🗣️ Grammar Elitism

The 7 Principles of Public Speaking

av Richard Zeoli • 2008

Your audience wants to be helped, not impressed. Serve them, and stage fright fades.

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🎤 Public Speaking 😰 Speaking Anxiety 💪 Speaking Confidence 🗣️ Authentic Speaking 📖 Storytelling

The 7 Principles of Public Speaking

Your audience wants to be helped, not impressed. Serve them, and stage fright fades.

av Richard Zeoli 2008 224 sider

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🎤 Public Speaking 😰 Speaking Anxiety 💪 Speaking Confidence 🗣️ Authentic Speaking 📖 Storytelling

English Grammar

av Sean Williams • 2019

Your grammar mistakes aren't random: a predictable hundred that mark you as careless.

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🧱 Grammar Guides ⚠️ Common Mistakes 🔣 Punctuation 📝 Word Usage 🏗️ Sentence Structure

English Grammar

Your grammar mistakes aren't random: a predictable hundred that mark you as careless.

av Sean Williams 2019 184 sider

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🧱 Grammar Guides ⚠️ Common Mistakes 🔣 Punctuation 📝 Word Usage 🏗️ Sentence Structure

Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive

av Gordon Smith-Durán • 2015

Spanish subjunctive: five trigger families replace the rulebook, and practice makes it permanent.

4.50

🗣️ Language Learning 📝 Spanish Grammar 🧠 Mnemonic Devices 🔁 Spaced Repetition 🎯 Skill Acquisition

Demystifying the Spanish Subjunctive

Spanish subjunctive: five trigger families replace the rulebook, and practice makes it permanent.

av Gordon Smith-Durán 2015 358 sider

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🗣️ Language Learning 📝 Spanish Grammar 🧠 Mnemonic Devices 🔁 Spaced Repetition 🎯 Skill Acquisition

Beyond Human Nature

av Jesse J. Prinz • 2011

Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌍 Cognitive Anthropology 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🏗️ Social Construction

Beyond Human Nature

Language, emotions, gender, and thought: how culture builds the mind that biology only primes.

av Jesse J. Prinz 2011 402 sider

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🧠 Cultural Psychology 🌍 Cognitive Anthropology 🧬 Nature Vs Nurture 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🏗️ Social Construction

Greek to Me

av Mary Norris • 2019

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Greek to Me

One copy editor's love affair with Greek: ancient ruins, Aegean swims, and a nation in turmoil.

av Mary Norris 2019 240 sider

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🏛️ Greek Language ✈️ Travel Memoir 📖 Language Obsession 🏺 Greek Mythology 🇬🇷 Philhellenism

Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer

av J. Michael Straczynski • 2021

Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.

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🖋️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Manuscript Revision 🧱 Creative Blocks 👤 Character Craft

Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer

Writer's block is a myth. Revise like a surgeon, diversify across media, and outlast the industry.

av J. Michael Straczynski 2021 288 sider

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🖋️ Writing Craft 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Manuscript Revision 🧱 Creative Blocks 👤 Character Craft

Mastering Plot Twists

av Jane K. Cleland • 2018

Why your plot twists fall flat: the real conflict is never external.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Novel Writing 🧱 Plot Structure 🎭 Character Motivation ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Mastering Plot Twists

Why your plot twists fall flat: the real conflict is never external.

av Jane K. Cleland 2018 240 sider

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✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Novel Writing 🧱 Plot Structure 🎭 Character Motivation ⏱️ Pacing And Tension

Woe Is I

av Patricia T. O'Conner • 1996

Most grammar rules aren't rules at all. Here are the few that actually clarify your writing.

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📖 English Usage 😄 Humorous Grammar 🧐 Language Myths ⚠️ Common Errors ✨ Clear Writing

Woe Is I

Most grammar rules aren't rules at all. Here are the few that actually clarify your writing.

av Patricia T. O'Conner 1996 240 sider

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📖 English Usage 😄 Humorous Grammar 🧐 Language Myths ⚠️ Common Errors ✨ Clear Writing

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts

av Bryan Cohen • 2010

A thousand prompts and a one-month plan: write daily and the blank page stops winning.

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✍️ Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 💡 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Writing Habit 🔥 Writing Motivation

1,000 Creative Writing Prompts

A thousand prompts and a one-month plan: write daily and the blank page stops winning.

av Bryan Cohen 2010 117 sider

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✍️ Writing Prompts 🧱 Writer's Block 💡 Creativity Exercises 📅 Daily Writing Habit 🔥 Writing Motivation

Making Shapely Fiction

av Jerome Stern • 1991

Story templates over pep talks: pick a shape, fill it with detail, and turn idea into draft.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft 👂 Sensory Detail

Making Shapely Fiction

Story templates over pep talks: pick a shape, fill it with detail, and turn idea into draft.

av Jerome Stern 1991 270 sider

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft 👂 Sensory Detail

Churchill

av Winston S. Churchill • 2012

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

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🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

Churchill

His speeches held Britain together when the bombs fell, then drew the Cold War's battle lines.

av Winston S. Churchill 2012 688 sider

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🎤 Political Oratory 🌍 World War Ii 🫡 Wartime Leadership 📢 Crisis Communication 🇬🇧 British History

Dreaming in Hindi

av Katherine Russell Rich • 2009

After cancer, she went to India. Learning Hindi broke her brain open and rebuilt it.

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🏊 Language Immersion 🇮🇳 India Memoir 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🎭 Language And Identity

Dreaming in Hindi

After cancer, she went to India. Learning Hindi broke her brain open and rebuilt it.

av Katherine Russell Rich 2009 360 sider

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🏊 Language Immersion 🇮🇳 India Memoir 🧠 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Linguistic Relativity 🎭 Language And Identity

Wired for Culture

av Mark Pagel • 2012

Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.

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🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology 🔄 Cultural Evolution 👥 Social Learning 📚 Cumulative Culture 🤝 Group Cooperation

Wired for Culture

Culture isn't a byproduct of big brains. It's the reason we have them.

av Mark Pagel 2012 432 sider

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🦴 Evolutionary Anthropology 🔄 Cultural Evolution 👥 Social Learning 📚 Cumulative Culture 🤝 Group Cooperation

Korean Made Simple

av Billy Go • 2014

Korean isn't English with different words. The verb goes last, and politeness has two settings.

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🗣️ Korean Language 🌱 Korean For Beginners 📚 Korean Grammar ✍️ Hangul 🔊 Korean Pronunciation

Korean Made Simple

Korean isn't English with different words. The verb goes last, and politeness has two settings.

av Billy Go 2014 348 sider

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🗣️ Korean Language 🌱 Korean For Beginners 📚 Korean Grammar ✍️ Hangul 🔊 Korean Pronunciation

Introduction to Psycholinguistics

av Danny D. Steinberg • 1995

How children acquire language, why adults struggle with a second, and what feral children teach us.

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🧒 Language Acquisition 🧠 Psycholinguistics ⏳ Critical Periods 🗣️ Bilingualism 🐒 Animal Communication

Introduction to Psycholinguistics

How children acquire language, why adults struggle with a second, and what feral children teach us.

av Danny D. Steinberg 1995 288 sider

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🧒 Language Acquisition 🧠 Psycholinguistics ⏳ Critical Periods 🗣️ Bilingualism 🐒 Animal Communication

The Ancient Celts

av Barry Cunliffe • 2018

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

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🏛️ Iron Age Europe ⛏️ Celtic Archaeology 🏗️ Identity Construction 🗣️ Linguistic Archaeology 🌍 Indoeuropean Origins

The Ancient Celts

Two millennia of reinvention: the Celts as barbarians, noble savages, and nationalist ancestors.

av Barry Cunliffe 2018 360 sider

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🏛️ Iron Age Europe ⛏️ Celtic Archaeology 🏗️ Identity Construction 🗣️ Linguistic Archaeology 🌍 Indoeuropean Origins

Copywriting

av Mark Shaw • 2009

Your reader is scanning, not reading. The copywriter's craft for making every word count.

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✏️ Commercial Writing 📋 Copywriting Fundamentals 🎙️ Brand Voice 💬 Persuasive Writing 💻 Digital Content

Copywriting

Your reader is scanning, not reading. The copywriter's craft for making every word count.

av Mark Shaw 2009 216 sider

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✏️ Commercial Writing 📋 Copywriting Fundamentals 🎙️ Brand Voice 💬 Persuasive Writing 💻 Digital Content

A Writer's Notebook

av Ralph Fletcher • 1996

A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.

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📝 Writing Craft 📅 Daily Writing Habits 💡 Idea Generation 🗣️ Authentic Voice 🏫 Writing Workshop

A Writer's Notebook

A notebook habit turns raw noticing into finished writing. Everything starts with what you catch.

av Ralph Fletcher 1996 138 sider

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📝 Writing Craft 📅 Daily Writing Habits 💡 Idea Generation 🗣️ Authentic Voice 🏫 Writing Workshop

Thinking Like Your Editor

av Susan Rabiner • 2002

Trade editors don't acquire books; they acquire audiences. Your proposal has to prove you have one.

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🗒️ Book Proposals 🏢 Trade Publishing 📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🧩 Narrative Structure ✂️ Editorial Process

Thinking Like Your Editor

Trade editors don't acquire books; they acquire audiences. Your proposal has to prove you have one.

av Susan Rabiner 2002 288 sider

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🗒️ Book Proposals 🏢 Trade Publishing 📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🧩 Narrative Structure ✂️ Editorial Process

The Everything Sign Language Book

av Irene Duke • 2003

A slight hand turn changes the word. Your face does the grammar. The complete ASL manual.

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🧏 Sign Language 🇺🇸 American Sign Language 📖 Self-Study 🎓 Language Instruction 🗣️ Deaf Communication

The Everything Sign Language Book

A slight hand turn changes the word. Your face does the grammar. The complete ASL manual.

av Irene Duke 2003 304 sider

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🧏 Sign Language 🇺🇸 American Sign Language 📖 Self-Study 🎓 Language Instruction 🗣️ Deaf Communication

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

av Orhan Pamuk • 2010

Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.

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🎨 Novel As Art Form 📖 Reading Experience ✍️ Novel Craft 🎭 Fiction And Reality 🌍 Comparative Literature

The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist

Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.

av Orhan Pamuk 2010 81 sider

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🎨 Novel As Art Form 📖 Reading Experience ✍️ Novel Craft 🎭 Fiction And Reality 🌍 Comparative Literature

The Unfolding of Language

av Guy Deutscher • 2005

Language has no inventor. Its intricate architecture is the product of decay, not deliberate design.

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 📜 Historical Linguistics 🗣️ Origin Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🔗 Metaphor Theory

The Unfolding of Language

Language has no inventor. Its intricate architecture is the product of decay, not deliberate design.

av Guy Deutscher 2005 368 sider

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🧬 Evolutionary Linguistics 📜 Historical Linguistics 🗣️ Origin Of Language 🧠 Cognitive Linguistics 🔗 Metaphor Theory

Monkeys with Typewriters

av Scarlett Thomas • 2012

Fiction is craft, not chance: the rules for plot, character, and sentences that grip readers.

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📝 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ✍️ Sentence Craft 💡 Idea Generation

Monkeys with Typewriters

Fiction is craft, not chance: the rules for plot, character, and sentences that grip readers.

av Scarlett Thomas 2012 480 sider

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📝 Fiction Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Development ✍️ Sentence Craft 💡 Idea Generation

The Third Ear

av Chris Lonsdale • 2006

The trick to fluency isn't a better textbook; it's learning to hear what words can't say.

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🌍 Adult Language Learning 🤝 Nonverbal Communication 🗣️ Pronunciation Mastery 💬 Meaning-First Learning 🧠 Pattern Recognition

The Third Ear

The trick to fluency isn't a better textbook; it's learning to hear what words can't say.

av Chris Lonsdale 2006 184 sider

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🌍 Adult Language Learning 🤝 Nonverbal Communication 🗣️ Pronunciation Mastery 💬 Meaning-First Learning 🧠 Pattern Recognition

Critical Thinking

av Tracy Bowell • 2001

Map an argument's structure, test its logic, and know when rhetoric is doing the work.

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🔍 Argument Analysis 🧩 Informal Logic ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🔗 Deductive Reasoning 🎯 Rhetorical Analysis

Critical Thinking

Map an argument's structure, test its logic, and know when rhetoric is doing the work.

av Tracy Bowell 2001 294 sider

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249 vurderinger

🔍 Argument Analysis 🧩 Informal Logic ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🔗 Deductive Reasoning 🎯 Rhetorical Analysis

Raising a Bilingual Child

av Barbara Zurer Pearson • 2008

The exposure minimum that predicts bilingual fluency, and the family strategies to get there.

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360

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