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Ever dream of writing a book, article, poem, or play that means something to you—and maybe to someone else as well? Do you have an idea you're ready to get down on paper? In Creative Writing For Dummies, you'll learn how to unleash your creative side and become a confident and productive writer.

Whether you're trying to make better conversation on a first date, or even giving a high level TED talk to Fortune 500 companies, the revolutionary ideas in this book were forged in the fire of experience, are easily understood, and will allow you to reveal and deliver your ideas more effectively. Drawing from some of the most demanding and even stressful speaking experiences imaginable, the insights and accessible training methods from these two authors will empower your verbal skills in ways you will utilize for the rest of your life.

Что такое языковые заимствования? Эта тема, несомненно, волнует каждого из нас. Ее обсуждают в школе, в учебниках, в научной литературе и на интернет-форумах. Вместе с тем популярные экскурсы в область заимствований, выходящие в России, сводятся по большей части к теме иностранных слов в русском языке. А вот что такое заимствование вообще, по каким признакам мы его отличаем, почему оно возникает в языке, почему ему сопротивляются — книги об этом пока не было. Этот пробел и попыталась восполнить филолог-англист Мария Елифёрова.

Come and listen to dozens of experts who shed light into the wonderful complexity of everyday communication, as well as additional exclusive commentaries on each episode with brand new insights and examples on the subject that we can't stop thinking about - how humans translate everything that comes their way.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

This timely audio edition of A Rulebook for Arguments sharpens an already-classic text, adding updated examples and a new chapter on public debates that provides rules for the etiquette and ethics of sound public dialogue as well as clear and sound thinking in general.

For the last 20 years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

For millennia, philosophers and scientists have been trying to unlock the secrets of the mind with only limited success—until now. Today, with modern technologies including the best in neuroscience, medical imaging, and recent advances in artificial intelligence, we are making more progress than ever before. In Introduction to Cognitive Science, Professor Thad A. Polk takes you on a fascinating tour of the latest discoveries in the relatively new field of cognitive science. In 24 exciting lectures, Professor Polk shares dozens of the most challenging questions in cognitive science today.

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today’s masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel.

Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature. He may now be best known through the colorful Stanley Kubrick film released in 1975, but it is Thackeray who, in true 19th-century style, shows him best.

Carefully designed by leading experts in the field, here is a vocabulary building program that provides the inside edge on learning new words, understanding word usage and pronunciation and making a powerful vocabulary part of your everyday life.

Virtual Voice Audible Millionaire is your definitive guide to mastering Virtual Voice, Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX), and Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Virtual Voice is Amazon's innovative computer-generated speech technology that produces audiobooks in five steps. Although still in beta, U.S. authors have published over 60,000 audiobooks using Virtual Voice.

In this book, renowned rhetorical scholar Robin Reames argues that, in today's polarized political climate, we should all care deeply about learning rhetoric. Drawing on examples ranging from the destructive ancient Greek demagogue Alcibiades to modern-day conspiracists like Alex Jones, Reames breaks down the major techniques of rhetoric, pulling back the curtain on how politicians, journalists, and "journalists" convince us to believe what we believe—and to talk, vote, and act accordingly.

Listening to audiobooks is a fun and natural way to learn. You hear real English, improve your pronunciation, and build your vocabulary–just by enjoying a good story. This audiobook includes two brilliant stories by the most famous British writer William Shakespeare, specially adapted for learners of English at CEFR level A2 (elementary/pre-intermediate).

Numerous enterprises have leveraged literary works spanning across eras to steer their Artificial Intelligence down the path of comprehending human existence, with a more distinct focus on crafting top-tier human-like prose. In the realm of education, AI has ingeniously generated an array of refined intellectual compositions.

At midcentury, everyone knew Bennett Cerf: witty, beloved, middle-aged panelist on What’s My Line?, whom TV brought into America’s homes each week. They didn’t know the handsome, driven, paradoxical young man of the 1920s who’d vowed to become a great publisher, and a decade later, was. By then, he’d signed Eugene O’Neill, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, and had fought the landmark censorship case that gave Americans the freedom to read James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting, global perspective, and intellectual rigor. Each selection remains strikingly relevant today, offering historical insights that challenge contemporary perspectives and reaffirm the power of journalism to shape the world.

Given the stiff competition in today's attention economy, many pastors feel pressured to make their sermons strikingly original. But Austin Carty, a longtime pastor and award-winning writer, has a different perspective: nothing we do or say is ever truly new. The power of a sermon is found not in novelty, but in the mandate it gives preachers to collect their thoughts every week and put them down in a succinct, coherent fashion.

A delightful rollick through language unlike any you’ve ever experienced. As the inventor of the bestselling game about words, League of the Lexicon, Joshua Blackburn has created an A–Z that’s part-encyclopedia, part-treasure map, and an all-around joy for anyone interested in words and language. Meticulously researched, joyfully written, and beautifully designed, The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia dives into the quirky, the curious, and the unexpected to reveal a world of language you never knew existed.

¿Te gustaría aprender inglés de forma natural, sin depender de la traducción? ¿Quieres un método estructurado que te guíe desde cero hasta hablar con confianza? ¿Buscas un sistema probado que utilice imágenes, audios y ejercicios prácticos?