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Ord formar våra tankar, relationer och själva förståelsen av verkligheten – från metaforer som strukturerar vårt tänkande till de subtila sätt som grammatik påverkar kultur. Våra språk böcker utforskar kommunikation i alla dess former och erbjuder insikter och praktisk vägledning om skrivande, talande och den fascinerande vetenskapen bakom hur människor använder ord för att knyta an och skapa mening.

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Immediate Fiction

av Jerry Cleaver • 2002

A no-jargon writing method that centers on conflict and emotion, and how to finish the stuck draft.

4.14

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 💔 Emotional Storytelling 🎬 Scene Writing

Immediate Fiction

A no-jargon writing method that centers on conflict and emotion, and how to finish the stuck draft.

av Jerry Cleaver 2002 304 sidor

4.14

500+ betyg

✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 💔 Emotional Storytelling 🎬 Scene Writing

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

av Ludwig Wittgenstein • 1921

Language pictures facts but cannot contain ethics, value, or the mystical; these lie beyond words.

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📝 Philosophy Of Language 🧠 Analytic Philosophy ➡️ Meaning And Reference 📐 Logical Form 🚫 Limits Of Thought

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Language pictures facts but cannot contain ethics, value, or the mystical; these lie beyond words.

av Ludwig Wittgenstein 1921 142 sidor

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22 000+ betyg

📝 Philosophy Of Language 🧠 Analytic Philosophy ➡️ Meaning And Reference 📐 Logical Form 🚫 Limits Of Thought

The Breakout Novelist

av Donald Maass • 2010

Thousands of manuscripts. A handful break out. The specific craft moves that make the difference.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 📚 Commercial Fiction 🎯 Story Stakes ⚡ Scene Tension 🎙️ Narrative Voice

The Breakout Novelist

Thousands of manuscripts. A handful break out. The specific craft moves that make the difference.

av Donald Maass 2010 346 sidor

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404 betyg

✍️ Fiction Craft 📚 Commercial Fiction 🎯 Story Stakes ⚡ Scene Tension 🎙️ Narrative Voice

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book

av Robert M. Martin • 1992

Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.

4.01

247

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 💭 Thought Experiments 🔄 Paradoxes 🧠 Critical Thinking ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book

Logic, morality, identity: each cracks under a well-chosen paradox. This book chooses well.

av Robert M. Martin 1992 327 sidor

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247 betyg

🧩 Philosophical Puzzles 💭 Thought Experiments 🔄 Paradoxes 🧠 Critical Thinking ⚖️ Moral Philosophy

Language Hacking Guide

av Benny Lewis • 2010

Stop waiting until you're ready. Speak a new language today, and let the grammar catch up.

3.64

163

🗣️ Language Acquisition ⚡ Rapid Language Learning 🏠 Language Immersion 📞 Speaking Fluency 🧠 Memory Techniques

Language Hacking Guide

Stop waiting until you're ready. Speak a new language today, and let the grammar catch up.

av Benny Lewis 2010 129 sidor

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163 betyg

🗣️ Language Acquisition ⚡ Rapid Language Learning 🏠 Language Immersion 📞 Speaking Fluency 🧠 Memory Techniques

Your Creative Writing Masterclass

av Jürgen Wolff • 2012

A hundred great novelists teach you fiction's craft secrets, from character to voice.

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182

✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Reading Like A Writer 🎭 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Craft 🗺️ Plot Structure

Your Creative Writing Masterclass

A hundred great novelists teach you fiction's craft secrets, from character to voice.

av Jürgen Wolff 2012 321 sidor

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182 betyg

✍️ Fiction Craft 📖 Reading Like A Writer 🎭 Character Development 💬 Dialogue Craft 🗺️ Plot Structure

Description

av Monica Wood • 1995

Description isn't decoration: the craft of building a world readers can see, hear, and feel.

4.06

500+

🛠️ Fiction Craft 🖊️ Descriptive Writing ⚖️ Showing Vs Telling 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft

Description

Description isn't decoration: the craft of building a world readers can see, hear, and feel.

av Monica Wood 1995 176 sidor

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 🖊️ Descriptive Writing ⚖️ Showing Vs Telling 👁️ Point Of View 💬 Dialogue Craft

Grammar for a Full Life

av Lawrence Weinstein • 2020

Your sentence habits shape your agency, your relationships, and what you believe is possible.

3.91

500+

🖋️ Grammar And Style ✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Language And Thought 🧘 Mindful Writing 📖 Descriptive Grammar

Grammar for a Full Life

Your sentence habits shape your agency, your relationships, and what you believe is possible.

av Lawrence Weinstein 2020 213 sidor

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🖋️ Grammar And Style ✍️ Writing Craft 🧠 Language And Thought 🧘 Mindful Writing 📖 Descriptive Grammar

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

av Rebecca Huntley • 2020

Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.

3.89

368

📢 Climate Communication 🧠 Environmental Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 😰 Eco-Anxiety 🔄 Behavior Change

How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That Makes a Difference

Facts alone won't move anyone on climate. Here is what actually works, emotion by emotion.

av Rebecca Huntley 2020 227 sidor

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📢 Climate Communication 🧠 Environmental Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases 😰 Eco-Anxiety 🔄 Behavior Change

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing

av Laurie E. Rozakis • 1997

One writing process for fiction, poetry, and screenplays, plus the business half most primers skip.

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159

🖋️ Writing Process 📬 Publishing Advice 🧱 Writer's Block 🧩 Plot Structure 🎭 Poetry Techniques

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Writing

One writing process for fiction, poetry, and screenplays, plus the business half most primers skip.

av Laurie E. Rozakis 1997 352 sidor

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🖋️ Writing Process 📬 Publishing Advice 🧱 Writer's Block 🧩 Plot Structure 🎭 Poetry Techniques

Dynamic Characters

av Nancy Kress • 1998

Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🧠 Internal Conflict 💬 Dialogue Craft

Dynamic Characters

Before you outline another scene, ask what your character fears. The answer is your plot.

av Nancy Kress 1998 264 sidor

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 🎭 Character Development 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🧠 Internal Conflict 💬 Dialogue Craft

Once Upon A Number

av John Allen Paulos • 1998

Stories and statistics are two languages your brain was never designed to reconcile.

3.36

228

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔢 Popular Mathematics 🔍 Philosophy Of Math 📖 Narrative Theory 🎲 Coincidence And Chance

Once Upon A Number

Stories and statistics are two languages your brain was never designed to reconcile.

av John Allen Paulos 1998 224 sidor

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228 betyg

🧠 Cognitive Biases 🔢 Popular Mathematics 🔍 Philosophy Of Math 📖 Narrative Theory 🎲 Coincidence And Chance

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

av Lee Gutkind • 2012

True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.

3.98

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📝 Creative Nonfiction ✍️ Narrative Craft 🎬 Scene Building 🔍 Immersion Journalism ⚖️ Truth And Ethics

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

True stories with a novelist's power: the craft, the ethics, and where you must never invent.

av Lee Gutkind 2012 288 sidor

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📝 Creative Nonfiction ✍️ Narrative Craft 🎬 Scene Building 🔍 Immersion Journalism ⚖️ Truth And Ethics

The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing

av Evan Marshall • 1998

Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.

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482

🖋️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 📋 Plotting Methods 📚 Genre Fiction 👁️ Point Of View

The Marshall Plan For Novel Writing

Turn one crisis into a full novel: three acts, three shocks, a synopsis that sells.

av Evan Marshall 1998 287 sidor

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482 betyg

🖋️ Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure 📋 Plotting Methods 📚 Genre Fiction 👁️ Point Of View

Plot Perfect

av Paula Munier • 2014

Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.

4.25

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🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 🧭 Theme-Driven Fiction ⏱️ Narrative Pacing 🎭 Character Arcs

Plot Perfect

Build novels scene by scene, using theme as your compass and emotional rhythm as your engine.

av Paula Munier 2014 288 sidor

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🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 🧭 Theme-Driven Fiction ⏱️ Narrative Pacing 🎭 Character Arcs

Make a Scene

av Jordan Rosenfeld • 2007

A novel lives or dies scene by scene. A blueprint for making every moment count.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Development 🛠️ Writing Technique

Make a Scene

A novel lives or dies scene by scene. A blueprint for making every moment count.

av Jordan Rosenfeld 2007 276 sidor

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Development 🛠️ Writing Technique

The Serious Business of Small Talk

av Carol A. Fleming • 2018

A shared moment, a personal detail, one question: the routine that turns strangers into allies.

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Social Skills 😰 Social Anxiety 🔗 Networking 🧍 Body Language

The Serious Business of Small Talk

A shared moment, a personal detail, one question: the routine that turns strangers into allies.

av Carol A. Fleming 2018 208 sidor

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🗣️ Conversation Skills 🤝 Social Skills 😰 Social Anxiety 🔗 Networking 🧍 Body Language

Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence

av Brent D. Ruben • 2019

A message influences only when it fits a listener's pre-existing mental map. Leadership is mapping.

5.00

🏛️ Leadership Theory 🧲 Social Influence 🗣️ Organizational Communication 👥 Followership 🔄 Systems Thinking

Leadership, Communication, and Social Influence

A message influences only when it fits a listener's pre-existing mental map. Leadership is mapping.

av Brent D. Ruben 2019 193 sidor

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1 betyg

🏛️ Leadership Theory 🧲 Social Influence 🗣️ Organizational Communication 👥 Followership 🔄 Systems Thinking

Spellbinding Sentences

av Barbara Baig • 2015

Sentences are buildable, not born. A practice-based method for word choice, imagery, and rhythm.

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🏗️ Sentence Craft 🖋️ Writing Practice 📚 Vocabulary Building 👁️ Sensory Writing 🖼️ Imagery And Metaphor

Spellbinding Sentences

Sentences are buildable, not born. A practice-based method for word choice, imagery, and rhythm.

av Barbara Baig 2015 304 sidor

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🏗️ Sentence Craft 🖋️ Writing Practice 📚 Vocabulary Building 👁️ Sensory Writing 🖼️ Imagery And Metaphor

How to Grow a Novel

av Sol Stein • 1999

The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.

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📝 Fiction Craft 👁️ Showing Vs Telling 💬 Dialogue Craft 👤 Character Development 🚪 Story Openings

How to Grow a Novel

The editor's craft playbook: what makes readers abandon a novel, and how to keep them turning pages.

av Sol Stein 1999 288 sidor

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📝 Fiction Craft 👁️ Showing Vs Telling 💬 Dialogue Craft 👤 Character Development 🚪 Story Openings

The Writer's Guide to Beginnings

av Paula Munier • 2016

Agents stop reading on page one. The craft decisions that make them turn to page two.

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎣 Opening Hooks 🎬 Scene Craft 👁️ Point Of View

The Writer's Guide to Beginnings

Agents stop reading on page one. The craft decisions that make them turn to page two.

av Paula Munier 2016 256 sidor

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🛠️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎣 Opening Hooks 🎬 Scene Craft 👁️ Point Of View

Portugal - Culture Smart!

av Sandy Pinto Basto • 2005

The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.

4.09

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🧭 Cultural Etiquette 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 🇵🇹 Portuguese Culture 🏛️ Iberian Culture 🌞 Southern Europe

Portugal - Culture Smart!

The Portuguese customs most visitors miss: warmth, hierarchy, and why there are 365 cod recipes.

av Sandy Pinto Basto 2005 201 sidor

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🧭 Cultural Etiquette 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 🇵🇹 Portuguese Culture 🏛️ Iberian Culture 🌞 Southern Europe

Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict

av Cheryl St. John • 2013

For novelists: how to build stories on emotion, tension, and conflict so readers cannot look away.

4.06

372

🖋️ Fiction Craft 💔 Emotional Storytelling 👤 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 👁️ Point Of View

Writing With Emotion, Tension, and Conflict

For novelists: how to build stories on emotion, tension, and conflict so readers cannot look away.

av Cheryl St. John 2013 256 sidor

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 💔 Emotional Storytelling 👤 Character Development ⚡ Narrative Tension 👁️ Point Of View

Creating Characters

av Dwight V. Swain • 1990

Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.

3.92

240

🖋️ Fiction Craft 🎭 Character Development 🧠 Writing Psychology 📚 Classic Writing Guides ⚙️ Story Mechanics

Creating Characters

Characters are built, not found. The nuts-and-bolts system for creating people readers believe in.

av Dwight V. Swain 1990 208 sidor

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🎭 Character Development 🧠 Writing Psychology 📚 Classic Writing Guides ⚙️ Story Mechanics

The Translator's Invisibility

av Lawrence Venuti • 1994

The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.

3.79

272

🧠 Translation Studies 📚 Literary Theory ⚖️ Translation Ethics 🗣️ Language Politics ✊ Cultural Resistance

The Translator's Invisibility

The smoother a translation reads, the more it erases the foreign culture and the translator's labor.

av Lawrence Venuti 1994 368 sidor

3.79

272 betyg

🧠 Translation Studies 📚 Literary Theory ⚖️ Translation Ethics 🗣️ Language Politics ✊ Cultural Resistance

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

av Nancy Kress • 1992

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Beginnings, Middles & Ends

Three pages to lose an editor: a framework for beginnings, middles, and endings that deliver.

av Nancy Kress 1992 149 sidor

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📖 Fiction Craft 🏗 Story Structure 📈 Plot Development 🎭 Character Arcs 🪝 Opening Hooks

Fifth Sun

av Camilla Townsend • 2019

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

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🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

Fifth Sun

They saw steel, horses, and smallpox, not gods. The Aztec annals rewrite their own conquest.

av Camilla Townsend 2019 336 sidor

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🏺 Mesoamerican History 🌎 Colonial Latin America 🌞 Aztec Civilization 🪶 Indigenous Histories ❓ Conquest Revisionism

Damn Fine Story

av Chuck Wendig • 2017

Storytelling starts when a character's world breaks. The tools for what comes next.

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📝 Storytelling Craft ✍️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Craft 🏗️ Plot Structure ⚡ Narrative Tension

Damn Fine Story

Storytelling starts when a character's world breaks. The tools for what comes next.

av Chuck Wendig 2017 240 sidor

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📝 Storytelling Craft ✍️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Craft 🏗️ Plot Structure ⚡ Narrative Tension

Economical Writing

av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey • 1999

An economist's 35 rules for sharp, persuasive writing: no talent required.

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📝 Writing Craft 🔍 Clarity ✂️ Conciseness 🎓 Academic Writing 🔄 Revision

Economical Writing

An economist's 35 rules for sharp, persuasive writing: no talent required.

av Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 1999 176 sidor

4.16

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📝 Writing Craft 🔍 Clarity ✂️ Conciseness 🎓 Academic Writing 🔄 Revision

The Pocket Guide to Mischief

av Bart King • 2008

From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.

3.92

106

🃏 Practical Jokes 🎬 Pop Culture Trivia 💬 Wordplay And Puns 😂 Teen Humor 💩 Gross-Out Humor

The Pocket Guide to Mischief

From classroom pranks to culinary capers: the handbook for causing precise, harmless chaos.

av Bart King 2008 272 sidor

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106 betyg

🃏 Practical Jokes 🎬 Pop Culture Trivia 💬 Wordplay And Puns 😂 Teen Humor 💩 Gross-Out Humor

The Psychology of Language

av Trevor A. Harley • 1995

Language errors are not failures; they are data that expose the cognitive architecture of the mind.

3.77

131

🧠 Psycholinguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Bilingualism 📖 Reading Processes

The Psychology of Language

Language errors are not failures; they are data that expose the cognitive architecture of the mind.

av Trevor A. Harley 1995 624 sidor

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🧠 Psycholinguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 🧬 Neurolinguistics 🗣️ Bilingualism 📖 Reading Processes

Change Your Voice

av Morton Cooper • 1984

Your voice is an acquired habit. Change the habit, and change how the world hears you.

3.65

101

🎤 Voice Training ⚙️ Vocal Mechanics 🪞 Self-Perception 🫁 Vocal Health 🗣️ Speech Therapy

Change Your Voice

Your voice is an acquired habit. Change the habit, and change how the world hears you.

av Morton Cooper 1984 180 sidor

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🎤 Voice Training ⚙️ Vocal Mechanics 🪞 Self-Perception 🫁 Vocal Health 🗣️ Speech Therapy

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

av Jack M. Bickham • 1993

Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 📐 Plot Architecture ⏳ Suspense Craft

Elements of Fiction Writing - Scene & Structure

Your novel drags because your scenes end well. End them badly and the pages turn themselves.

av Jack M. Bickham 1993 270 sidor

4.11

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Narrative Structure 🎬 Scene Craft 📐 Plot Architecture ⏳ Suspense Craft

The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran

av Christoph Luxenberg • 2007

Syriac reveals the Quran's virgins are grapes, boys iced juice, and source a Christian lectionary.

3.85

118

📖 Quranic Linguistics 🔍 Textual Criticism ✝️ Syriac Christianity 🏛️ Revisionist Islamic Studies 📜 Paleography

The Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran

Syriac reveals the Quran's virgins are grapes, boys iced juice, and source a Christian lectionary.

av Christoph Luxenberg 2007 349 sidor

3.85

118 betyg

📖 Quranic Linguistics 🔍 Textual Criticism ✝️ Syriac Christianity 🏛️ Revisionist Islamic Studies 📜 Paleography

How to Speak and Write Correctly

av Joseph Devlin • 1910

Why short words win: a 1910 guide to writing and speaking with force, clarity, and correctness.

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🧱 Grammar Guides 📐 Style Guides 🗣️ Word Choice ✍️ Plain English 📏 Prescriptive Grammar

How to Speak and Write Correctly

Why short words win: a 1910 guide to writing and speaking with force, clarity, and correctness.

av Joseph Devlin 1910 171 sidor

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🧱 Grammar Guides 📐 Style Guides 🗣️ Word Choice ✍️ Plain English 📏 Prescriptive Grammar

Why Business People Speak Like Idiots

av Brian Fugere • 2005

Burn the jargon. Cut every message by a quarter. Sound like a person. A corporate communication fix.

3.62

273

🏢 Corporate Communication 🗣️ Plain Language ✂️ Brevity 📖 Storytelling In Business 🎯 Audience Focus

Why Business People Speak Like Idiots

Burn the jargon. Cut every message by a quarter. Sound like a person. A corporate communication fix.

av Brian Fugere 2005 192 sidor

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🏢 Corporate Communication 🗣️ Plain Language ✂️ Brevity 📖 Storytelling In Business 🎯 Audience Focus

The Meaning of Everything

av Simon Winchester • 2003

A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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📚 Lexicography 📜 Historical Linguistics 🙋 Volunteer Scholarship 📝 Descriptive Linguistics 🏛️ Philology

The Meaning of Everything

A garden shed, an unpaid army, five million slips: the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.

av Simon Winchester 2003 288 sidor

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📚 Lexicography 📜 Historical Linguistics 🙋 Volunteer Scholarship 📝 Descriptive Linguistics 🏛️ Philology

Writing Fantasy Heroes

av Jason M. Waltz • 2008

Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.

3.87

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✍️ Fantasy Writing ⚔️ Heroic Fantasy 😬 Reluctant Heroes 🔄 Trope Subversion 🌀 Mythic Structure

Writing Fantasy Heroes

Turn your fantasy heroes from armored clichés into people who bleed, doubt, and still inspire.

av Jason M. Waltz 2008 216 sidor

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✍️ Fantasy Writing ⚔️ Heroic Fantasy 😬 Reluctant Heroes 🔄 Trope Subversion 🌀 Mythic Structure

Between You & Me

av Mary Norris • 2015

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Between You & Me

Punctuation, pronouns, profanity: the New Yorker copy desk's secrets for making every sentence work.

av Mary Norris 2015 240 sidor

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📝 Copy Editing ✏️ Punctuation Marks 📚 Language Memoir 🧐 Editorial Judgment 🗽 New Yorker Style

Stylish Academic Writing

av Helen Sword • 2012

Most academic writing rules are just conventions. The data that prove you can write differently.

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📝 Academic Writing 📚 Scholarly Publishing 🗣️ Plain Language 🏛️ Disciplinary Norms 📖 Narrative Research

Stylish Academic Writing

Most academic writing rules are just conventions. The data that prove you can write differently.

av Helen Sword 2012 220 sidor

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📝 Academic Writing 📚 Scholarly Publishing 🗣️ Plain Language 🏛️ Disciplinary Norms 📖 Narrative Research

Plot

av Ansen Dibell • 1988

Plot isn't what happens; it's why it matters. A practical guide to structuring fiction that grips.

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Narrative Pacing

Plot

Plot isn't what happens; it's why it matters. A practical guide to structuring fiction that grips.

av Ansen Dibell 1988 176 sidor

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✍️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Plot Mechanics 🎬 Scene Construction ⏳ Narrative Pacing

One Hundred Names for Love

av Diane Ackerman • 2011

A stroke took his language. Two writers then learned what love sounds like without words.

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🏥 Stroke Recovery 🗨️ Aphasia 💝 Caregiving Memoirs 🧠 Neuroplasticity ✍️ Writing As Therapy

One Hundred Names for Love

A stroke took his language. Two writers then learned what love sounds like without words.

av Diane Ackerman 2011 336 sidor

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🏥 Stroke Recovery 🗨️ Aphasia 💝 Caregiving Memoirs 🧠 Neuroplasticity ✍️ Writing As Therapy

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

av Tom Heehler • 2011

Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.

4.17

337

🖋️ Rhetorical Style 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Craft 🎭 Figurative Language 🗣️ Rhetorical Devices

The Well-Spoken Thesaurus

Eloquence isn't big words. Master the small ones: prepositions, articles, and rhythmic restraint.

av Tom Heehler 2011 400 sidor

4.17

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🖋️ Rhetorical Style 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Craft 🎭 Figurative Language 🗣️ Rhetorical Devices

Dreaming in Chinese

av Deborah Fallows • 2010

Tones, compounds, missing pronouns: how Mandarin encodes a worldview no guidebook can offer.

3.63

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📖 Language Memoirs 🏮 Chinese Culture 🧠 Linguistic Relativity 🗣️ Everyday Linguistics 🎓 Language Acquisition

Dreaming in Chinese

Tones, compounds, missing pronouns: how Mandarin encodes a worldview no guidebook can offer.

av Deborah Fallows 2010 208 sidor

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📖 Language Memoirs 🏮 Chinese Culture 🧠 Linguistic Relativity 🗣️ Everyday Linguistics 🎓 Language Acquisition

The Art of Always Being Right

av A.C. Grayling • 2012

Thirty-eight ways to win any argument, none of which require you to be right.

3.44

205

🗣️ Rhetoric And Debate 🎯 Persuasion Techniques ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🖼️ Debate Framing

The Art of Always Being Right

Thirty-eight ways to win any argument, none of which require you to be right.

av A.C. Grayling 2012 63 sidor

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205 betyg

🗣️ Rhetoric And Debate 🎯 Persuasion Techniques ⚠️ Logical Fallacies 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🖼️ Debate Framing

A World Without "Whom"

av Emmy J. Favilla • 2017

The internet changed English. Here is the style guide that keeps up.

3.72

491

📖 Style Guides 🌐 Internet Linguistics 🔄 Language Evolution 🤝 Inclusive Language 📝 Descriptivism

A World Without "Whom"

The internet changed English. Here is the style guide that keeps up.

av Emmy J. Favilla 2017 311 sidor

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📖 Style Guides 🌐 Internet Linguistics 🔄 Language Evolution 🤝 Inclusive Language 📝 Descriptivism

Wittgenstein

av A.C. Grayling • 1988

The philosopher who built logic a perfect prison, then demolished it with everyday chatter.

3.72

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