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NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, ESQUIRE, THE GUARDIAN, BOOK RIOT AND LIT HUB An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor—“a revelatory...

Planning a trip to Japan and need to learn Japanese? Want to learn Japanese quickly and easily? Need a reference for your upcoming trip to Japan? Need grammar, spelling, or just pronunciation of a word in the Japanese language? Want to know how to say common greetings in Japanese? Or just need a study guide? All the answers are just one click away!

Master the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an invaluable resource for business professionals, students, and anyone looking to improve their...

En compagnie de Sophie Amundsen, le lecteur est initié par le détour de la fiction romanesque aux grands événements et figures de la pensée occidentale : Socrate, Platon, Aristote, le Moyen Age, la Renaissance, Spinoza, Hegel, Marx, Freud, le post-modernisme, entre autres. "Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de plus important dans la vie ? Tous les hommes ont évidemment besoin de nourriture. Et aussi d'amour et de tendresse. Mais il y a autre chose dont nous avons tous besoin : c'est de savoir qui nous sommes et pourquoi nous vivons."

Join your favourite Indie Horror authors for some tales about their adventures navigating the industry. The highs, the lows, and everything in between. Some of them give some tips and advice and others share their funny and embarrassing stories. This is not a "How To" book, but there are many great lessons inside if you are looking to write or boost where you are at the moment.

In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth century.

New York Times Bestseller “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times “A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor...

Public speaking has been around for centuries, and today, motivational speaking is as popular as ever. And, like a motivational speaker, you can also inspire an audience - to open their wallets and give you money! In Speak to Sell, marketing wizard Dan Kennedy shares his secrets.

On connaît la phrase inaugurale de "Fragments d'un discours amoureux" : "C'est donc un amoureux qui parle, et qui dit..." Mais quel "amoureux" - Roland Barthes ! Et quel "diseur" - Fabrice Luchini ! Intelligence - de "intellegere", comprendre. Comprendre - de "cum prehendere", prendre avec soi, donc aimer... Intelligence de l'amour chez Barthes et amour de l'intelligence chez Luchini : c'est la fusion de ces deux qualités menées à une sorte d'incandescence qui fait de ce livre audio un événement exceptionnel, à la fois une fête du sens et des sens.

Practical, fun and effective. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by millions. You'll be speaking French fluently and confidently in no time at all. Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been proven...

Quickstart French is an audio course for complete beginners. The 140-minute download introduces you to essential holiday language, so you'll learn how to find a place to stay, get around town, order in restaurants, hit the shops, have a drink and enjoy the nightlife.

The complete method. 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential words. How to learn a language differently ? With our learning method : I listen, I repeat, I speak. We rely on pronunciation, oral rehearsal, listening.

This book builds vocabulary by presenting the fascinating histories behind those words we need for more effective communication and comprehension. Focusing on a core of 100 words and their background stories, the author links these words with hundreds of synonyms and antonyms. Greek and Latin...

Looking for a convenient language course that gets you speaking German in hours, not years? The Michel Thomas audio courses have helped over five million language learners to master a new language, with no writing, no stress and no memorisation. Perfect for absolute beginners, little or no prior...

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O’Connor...

If you want to learn Italian in a fun and entertaining way, then keep reading. The truth is: the traditional classroom-style method used to learn a foreign language isn’t really that good. Memorizing dozens (or even hundreds) of grammar rules is hard, and remembering them while you’re in an...

"Give me the money," says the robber to the Los Angeles security guard. The guard looks at the gun and hands over the money. The robber has long blond hair and rides a motorcycle - and a girl with long blond hair arrives at Kenny’s motel - on a motorcycle. Is she the robber?

Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches. This dialogue provides a powerful example of the dialectical writing that Plato uses to manifest ideas that are essential to human existence and to living a good life. Phaedrus shows how oral and written forms of language relate to each other and to philosophy.

One of Barack Obama’s longest-serving speechwriters reveals the public speaking lessons that will help you become a more confident and compelling communicator and leader. As a White House speechwriter, Terry Szuplat helped craft hundreds of speeches for President Obama. But when it came to...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a...