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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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The Professor and the Madman

av Simon Winchester • 1998

The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.

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🎯 Lexicography 🔗 Criminal Insanity 💥 Civil War Trauma 🎩 Victorian Scholarship 📚 Bibliomania

The Professor and the Madman

The Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific contributor was a murderer confined to an asylum.

av Simon Winchester 1998 242 sidor

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🎯 Lexicography 🔗 Criminal Insanity 💥 Civil War Trauma 🎩 Victorian Scholarship 📚 Bibliomania

Description & Setting

av Ron Rozelle • 2005

Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.

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✍️ Writing Craft 🖼️ Descriptive Writing 📖 Fiction Technique 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🗺️ Setting Development

Description & Setting

Harvest details. Deploy the senses. Make setting an engine for character, mood, and plot.

av Ron Rozelle 2005 224 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 🖼️ Descriptive Writing 📖 Fiction Technique 👁️ Show Don't Tell 🗺️ Setting Development

The Spell of the Sensuous

av David Abram • 1996

The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.

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🌀 Phenomenology 🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🦊 Animism 👁️ Embodied Perception 🌿 Deep Ecology

The Spell of the Sensuous

The alphabet didn't just capture speech. It taught us the natural world had nothing to say.

av David Abram 1996 368 sidor

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🌀 Phenomenology 🌍 Environmental Philosophy 🦊 Animism 👁️ Embodied Perception 🌿 Deep Ecology

Lingüistica Para Todos / Introducing Linguistics

av R.L. Trask • 1996

From baby babbling to brain damage, a scientific tour of the system that makes us human.

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📚 General Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 📜 Historical Linguistics 🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🧠 Neurolinguistics

Lingüistica Para Todos / Introducing Linguistics

From baby babbling to brain damage, a scientific tour of the system that makes us human.

av R.L. Trask 1996 176 sidor

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📚 General Linguistics 👶 Language Acquisition 📜 Historical Linguistics 🗣️ Sociolinguistics 🧠 Neurolinguistics

The Origin of Language

av Madeleine Beekman • 2025

The demands of keeping helpless infants alive, not hunting or gossip, gave us language.

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🗣️ Evolutionary Linguistics 🦴 Human Origins 👶 Cooperative Breeding 🧠 Brain Evolution 🤝 Self-Domestication

The Origin of Language

The demands of keeping helpless infants alive, not hunting or gossip, gave us language.

av Madeleine Beekman 2025 320 sidor

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🗣️ Evolutionary Linguistics 🦴 Human Origins 👶 Cooperative Breeding 🧠 Brain Evolution 🤝 Self-Domestication

Rebel with a Clause

av Ellen Jovin • 2022

She toured fifty states with a grammar table. The confessions were stranger than the questions.

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🧱 Language Mechanics 🗣️ Pop Linguistics 😂 Grammar Humor ✍️ Language Memoir 🔬 Descriptive Grammar

Rebel with a Clause

She toured fifty states with a grammar table. The confessions were stranger than the questions.

av Ellen Jovin 2022 400 sidor

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🧱 Language Mechanics 🗣️ Pop Linguistics 😂 Grammar Humor ✍️ Language Memoir 🔬 Descriptive Grammar

Wit's End

av James Geary • 2018

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

3.35

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🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

Wit's End

Wit is the mind's way of connecting opposites, seeing past habit, and holding life lightly.

av James Geary 2018 128 sidor

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479 betyg

🧠 Philosophy Of Humor 🎲 Verbal Play 🔗 Metaphor And Analogy 🔬 Cognitive Science 👁️ Perceptual Illusion

Translating as a Purposeful Activity

av Christiane Nord • 1997

What if fidelity to the original is the least important thing about a good translation?

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📚 Translation Studies 🏛️ Translation Theory 🌍 Intercultural Communication 🔍 Text Analysis 💬 Pragmatics

Translating as a Purposeful Activity

What if fidelity to the original is the least important thing about a good translation?

av Christiane Nord 1997 160 sidor

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📚 Translation Studies 🏛️ Translation Theory 🌍 Intercultural Communication 🔍 Text Analysis 💬 Pragmatics

Style

av Joseph M. Williams • 1981

Clarity is structural, not mysterious. The diagnostic principles that tell you exactly what to fix.

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🖋️ Prose Style ✂️ Sentence Craft 📝 Expository Writing 🌊 Information Flow ✏️ Editing And Revision

Style

Clarity is structural, not mysterious. The diagnostic principles that tell you exactly what to fix.

av Joseph M. Williams 1981 226 sidor

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🖋️ Prose Style ✂️ Sentence Craft 📝 Expository Writing 🌊 Information Flow ✏️ Editing And Revision

The Secret Life of Words

av Anne Curzan • 2012

English stole a million words, hid their origins, and keeps changing the rules.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Language History 📖 Etymology 📚 Lexicography 🔄 Semantic Drift 🌍 Loanwords

The Secret Life of Words

English stole a million words, hid their origins, and keeps changing the rules.

av Anne Curzan 2012 36 sidor

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Language History 📖 Etymology 📚 Lexicography 🔄 Semantic Drift 🌍 Loanwords

Writing Alone, Writing Together

av Judy Reeves • 2002

How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.

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👥 Writing Community ✍️ Writing Workshops 🖋️ Freewriting 👓 Peer Critique 🎨 Creativity Exercises

Writing Alone, Writing Together

How to start a writing group that provides feedback, builds accountability, and keeps you writing.

av Judy Reeves 2002 265 sidor

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👥 Writing Community ✍️ Writing Workshops 🖋️ Freewriting 👓 Peer Critique 🎨 Creativity Exercises

1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts

av Ryan Andrew Kinder • 2014

A thousand prompts, from six-word tales to random-object chaos, each a cure for the blank page.

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🖊️ Writing Prompts ⚡ Flash Fiction 🔒 Constrained Writing 🧱 Writer's Block 🎨 Creative Practice

1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts

A thousand prompts, from six-word tales to random-object chaos, each a cure for the blank page.

av Ryan Andrew Kinder 2014 111 sidor

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🖊️ Writing Prompts ⚡ Flash Fiction 🔒 Constrained Writing 🧱 Writer's Block 🎨 Creative Practice

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

av Randy Ingermanson • 2018

Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.

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🎬 Scene Construction 📖 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Story Engineering 📋 Structured Outlining

How to Write a Dynamite Scene Using the Snowflake Method

Two scene patterns drive every novel: one forces a setback, the other forces a hard choice.

av Randy Ingermanson 2018 156 sidor

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🎬 Scene Construction 📖 Novel Writing 🏗️ Story Structure ⚙️ Story Engineering 📋 Structured Outlining

Improve Your Global Business English

av Fiona Talbot • 2012

Business English across borders: adapt your writing to any culture and never lose a deal.

3.81

🌍 Global Business 📝 Business Writing 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 💡 Clear Writing 💼 Professional English

Improve Your Global Business English

Business English across borders: adapt your writing to any culture and never lose a deal.

av Fiona Talbot 2012 256 sidor

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26 betyg

🌍 Global Business 📝 Business Writing 🗣️ Cross-Cultural Communication 💡 Clear Writing 💼 Professional English

The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

av Jack M. Bickham • 1992

Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 📚 Writing Reference 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Show Don't Tell

The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes

Thirty-eight mistakes that mark your fiction as amateur, and how to fix every single one.

av Jack M. Bickham 1992 117 sidor

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🖋️ Fiction Craft 📚 Writing Reference 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Show Don't Tell

How to Write Romantasy

av Jenna Moreci • 2025

Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.

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🏰 Fantasy Writing 💕 Romance Writing 🌍 Worldbuilding ⚡ Character Chemistry 📋 Plotting Methods

How to Write Romantasy

Romance and fantasy demand opposite things from a story. Here is how to make them inseparable.

av Jenna Moreci 2025 240 sidor

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🏰 Fantasy Writing 💕 Romance Writing 🌍 Worldbuilding ⚡ Character Chemistry 📋 Plotting Methods

The Language of the Night

av Ursula K. Le Guin • 1979

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

The Language of the Night

Beauty is morality, prose is the novel, and fantasy speaks to the unconscious.

av Ursula K. Le Guin 1979 304 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Essays On Writing 🐉 Genre Fiction Defense 🎭 Art And Ethics 🧠 Jungian Psychology

Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish

av Joseph Bates • 2015

Your novel, start to finish: a guide that treats structure as discovery's framework, not a cage.

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Development 📈 Plot Structure 💡 Creative Process ✂️ Revision Process

Writing Your Novel from Start to Finish

Your novel, start to finish: a guide that treats structure as discovery's framework, not a cage.

av Joseph Bates 2015 272 sidor

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🖊️ Fiction Writing 👤 Character Development 📈 Plot Structure 💡 Creative Process ✂️ Revision Process

Drive Yourself Sane

av Susan Presby Kodish • 2000

Your language splits you from reality. A century-old system for bridging the gap.

4.14

🧠 General Semantics 🗣️ Language And Thought 🧱 Mental Models 🧘 Non-Verbal Awareness 👁️ Perception And Reality

Drive Yourself Sane

Your language splits you from reality. A century-old system for bridging the gap.

av Susan Presby Kodish 2000 237 sidor

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99 betyg

🧠 General Semantics 🗣️ Language And Thought 🧱 Mental Models 🧘 Non-Verbal Awareness 👁️ Perception And Reality

My Toddler Talks

av Kimberly Scanlon • 2012

A speech pathologist's playbook for when your toddler understands everything but says nothing.

4.03

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🗣️ Language Development 👶 Toddler Development 🧸 Play-Based Learning 🏠 Speech Therapy At Home ⏰ Early Intervention

My Toddler Talks

A speech pathologist's playbook for when your toddler understands everything but says nothing.

av Kimberly Scanlon 2012 127 sidor

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🗣️ Language Development 👶 Toddler Development 🧸 Play-Based Learning 🏠 Speech Therapy At Home ⏰ Early Intervention

Becoming a Translator

av Douglas Robinson • 1997

Your second language gets you in the door. Professional pride and cultural instinct keep you there.

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🎓 Translator Training 📝 Translation Practice 🏛️ Translation Theory 💼 Freelance Translation 🌉 Cultural Mediation

Becoming a Translator

Your second language gets you in the door. Professional pride and cultural instinct keep you there.

av Douglas Robinson 1997 320 sidor

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🎓 Translator Training 📝 Translation Practice 🏛️ Translation Theory 💼 Freelance Translation 🌉 Cultural Mediation

The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners

av TESOL International Association Writing Team • 2018

Stop teaching English as a separate subject. The framework that weaves it into every lesson.

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🌍 English Learners 🗣️ Esl Teaching 🧠 Language Acquisition 🌏 Culturally Responsive Teaching 📋 Formative Assessment

The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learners

Stop teaching English as a separate subject. The framework that weaves it into every lesson.

av TESOL International Association Writing Team 2018 285 sidor

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🌍 English Learners 🗣️ Esl Teaching 🧠 Language Acquisition 🌏 Culturally Responsive Teaching 📋 Formative Assessment

Book in a Month

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt • 2008

A complete novel draft in 30 days: write forward, fix nothing, reach the end.

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📝 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft ⚡ Fast Drafting 🏗️ Story Structure 🧱 Creative Resistance

Book in a Month

A complete novel draft in 30 days: write forward, fix nothing, reach the end.

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt 2008 288 sidor

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📝 Novel Writing ✍️ Writing Craft ⚡ Fast Drafting 🏗️ Story Structure 🧱 Creative Resistance

Building Great Sentences

av Brooks Landon • 2013

Grammar explains the parts. Here is the construction kit for sentences that move, linger, and land.

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📝 Prose Style 🧱 Sentence Construction 🏛️ Rhetoric And Composition 🎵 Prose Rhythm ✂️ Sentence-Level Editing

Building Great Sentences

Grammar explains the parts. Here is the construction kit for sentences that move, linger, and land.

av Brooks Landon 2013 288 sidor

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📝 Prose Style 🧱 Sentence Construction 🏛️ Rhetoric And Composition 🎵 Prose Rhythm ✂️ Sentence-Level Editing

Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers

av David Olsen • 2013

Most thesauri are dull lists. This one gives 2,300 words chosen to stir, not just define.

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📖 Writers' Thesaurus 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Choice 🎨 Evocative Language 🖋️ Descriptive Writing

Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers

Most thesauri are dull lists. This one gives 2,300 words chosen to stir, not just define.

av David Olsen 2013 448 sidor

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146 betyg

📖 Writers' Thesaurus 📚 Vocabulary Building ✍️ Word Choice 🎨 Evocative Language 🖋️ Descriptive Writing

Supercommunicator

av Frank J. Pietrucha • 2014

Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.

3.35

🧩 Simplifying Complexity 📱 Digital Communication 🎨 Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement 🛠️ Technical Communication

Supercommunicator

Your audience's brain has changed. Here's how to adapt your explanations so they actually land.

av Frank J. Pietrucha 2014 272 sidor

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82 betyg

🧩 Simplifying Complexity 📱 Digital Communication 🎨 Visual Storytelling 👥 Audience Engagement 🛠️ Technical Communication

Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses

av Frederick William Hamilton • 2011

Words have jobs. A primer that sorts them by function, and fixes the sentences they build.

3.74

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🧱 Grammar Basics 🗂️ Parts Of Speech 📖 Traditional Grammar ✍️ Sentence Construction ⚠️ Common Writing Errors

Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses

Words have jobs. A primer that sorts them by function, and fixes the sentences they build.

av Frederick William Hamilton 2011 47 sidor

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🧱 Grammar Basics 🗂️ Parts Of Speech 📖 Traditional Grammar ✍️ Sentence Construction ⚠️ Common Writing Errors

Being There

av Andy Clark • 1996

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Being There

The mind extends past the skull, looping through body and world. Brains alone cannot think.

av Andy Clark 1996 292 sidor

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🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔬 Cognitive Science 🏃 Embodied Cognition 🌐 Extended Mind 🔗 Connectionism

Big Talk, Small Talk (and Everything in Between)

av Shola Kaye • 2020

The small talk you dread, the tough conversations you avoid, and a playbook for both.

3.64

🗣️ Communication Skills 💼 Workplace Communication 🫂 Small Talk 👂 Active Listening 🕺 Body Language

Big Talk, Small Talk (and Everything in Between)

The small talk you dread, the tough conversations you avoid, and a playbook for both.

av Shola Kaye 2020 148 sidor

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14 betyg

🗣️ Communication Skills 💼 Workplace Communication 🫂 Small Talk 👂 Active Listening 🕺 Body Language

Parenting with an Accent

av Masha Rumer • 2021

Parenting advice assumes a shared culture. Immigrant families must invent their own playbook.

4.21

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🧳 Immigrant Families 🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🎭 Cultural Identity 🧠 Bilingualism 💬 Heritage Language

Parenting with an Accent

Parenting advice assumes a shared culture. Immigrant families must invent their own playbook.

av Masha Rumer 2021 232 sidor

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🧳 Immigrant Families 🌍 Cross-Cultural Parenting 🎭 Cultural Identity 🧠 Bilingualism 💬 Heritage Language

The Writer's Process

av Anne H. Janzer • 2016

Your brain has two writing gears. The schedule that makes them both work for you.

4.05

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✍️ Writing Craft 💡 Creative Process 🧠 Attention Management 🌊 Flow Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Psychology

The Writer's Process

Your brain has two writing gears. The schedule that makes them both work for you.

av Anne H. Janzer 2016 200 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 💡 Creative Process 🧠 Attention Management 🌊 Flow Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Psychology

How to Learn Any Language

av Barry Farber • 1991

Spare minutes, multiple tools, and vivid mnemonics: a language method that gets you speaking fast.

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🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Mnemonic Techniques 📚 Vocabulary Acquisition 🌐 Polyglot Methods 💡 Memory Improvement

How to Learn Any Language

Spare minutes, multiple tools, and vivid mnemonics: a language method that gets you speaking fast.

av Barry Farber 1991 172 sidor

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🗣️ Language Learning 🧠 Mnemonic Techniques 📚 Vocabulary Acquisition 🌐 Polyglot Methods 💡 Memory Improvement

501 Spanish Verbs

av Christopher Kendris • 1963

Master the 14 Spanish tenses with 501 alphabetized verbs and targeted practice drills.

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🧩 Verb Conjugation 🇪🇸 Spanish Grammar 📚 Language Learning Reference ⏳ Tense Systems 💥 Irregular Verbs

501 Spanish Verbs

Master the 14 Spanish tenses with 501 alphabetized verbs and targeted practice drills.

av Christopher Kendris 1963 674 sidor

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🧩 Verb Conjugation 🇪🇸 Spanish Grammar 📚 Language Learning Reference ⏳ Tense Systems 💥 Irregular Verbs

But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?

av University of Chicago Press • 2016

Grammar superstitions debunked: the Chicago Style Q&A teaches editing judgment, not rigid rules.

4.27

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🔍 Editorial Judgment 📘 Chicago Style ✍️ Grammar And Punctuation 📝 Copyediting 🔖 Citation Formats

But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?

Grammar superstitions debunked: the Chicago Style Q&A teaches editing judgment, not rigid rules.

av University of Chicago Press 2016 112 sidor

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🔍 Editorial Judgment 📘 Chicago Style ✍️ Grammar And Punctuation 📝 Copyediting 🔖 Citation Formats

The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children

av Nancy Lamb • 2001

Kids spot sermons from page one. Craft rules for stories they actually want to read.

4.16

307

📚 Children's Literature 🏗️ Story Structure 🎨 Creative Process ✍️ Prose Style 🗺️ Hero's Journey

The Writer's Guide to Crafting Stories for Children

Kids spot sermons from page one. Craft rules for stories they actually want to read.

av Nancy Lamb 2001 240 sidor

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📚 Children's Literature 🏗️ Story Structure 🎨 Creative Process ✍️ Prose Style 🗺️ Hero's Journey

The Writer's Idea Thesaurus

av Fred White • 2014

Two thousand story situations, organized and ready: your imagination just needs a starting point.

3.84

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Story Prompts 💡 Idea Generation 🚧 Writer's Block 🧩 Plot Development

The Writer's Idea Thesaurus

Two thousand story situations, organized and ready: your imagination just needs a starting point.

av Fred White 2014 320 sidor

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✍️ Writing Craft 📝 Story Prompts 💡 Idea Generation 🚧 Writer's Block 🧩 Plot Development

100 TESOL Activities for Teachers

av Shane Dixon • 2016

One hundred communicative ESL activities for every phase of a lesson, no rote drills required.

4.35

🏫 Language Teaching 🎯 Classroom Activities 📋 Lesson Planning 💬 Communicative Approach 📝 Vocabulary Instruction

100 TESOL Activities for Teachers

One hundred communicative ESL activities for every phase of a lesson, no rote drills required.

av Shane Dixon 2016 84 sidor

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37 betyg

🏫 Language Teaching 🎯 Classroom Activities 📋 Lesson Planning 💬 Communicative Approach 📝 Vocabulary Instruction

Rationality in Action

av John Rogers Searle • 2003

Between reason and action is a gap no cause can close. Free will lives there.

3.67

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔓 Free Will Debate 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Practical Reasoning 📝 Analytic Philosophy

Rationality in Action

Between reason and action is a gap no cause can close. Free will lives there.

av John Rogers Searle 2003 319 sidor

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64 betyg

🧠 Philosophy Of Mind 🔓 Free Will Debate 💭 Consciousness Studies ⚖️ Practical Reasoning 📝 Analytic Philosophy

The Read Aloud Factor

av Rekha S. Rajan • 2022

1.5 million more words by kindergarten: the read-aloud habit that starts at birth and sticks.

3.50

📚 Early Childhood Literacy 📖 Read-Aloud Practice 🗣️ Language Acquisition 📝 Vocabulary Building 🧠 Brain Development

The Read Aloud Factor

1.5 million more words by kindergarten: the read-aloud habit that starts at birth and sticks.

av Rekha S. Rajan 2022 196 sidor

3.50

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📚 Early Childhood Literacy 📖 Read-Aloud Practice 🗣️ Language Acquisition 📝 Vocabulary Building 🧠 Brain Development

Explaining Postmodernism

av Stephen R.C. Hicks • 2004

When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🔍 Postmodernism Critique ⚖️ Political Philosophy 📉 Socialism's Failures 🗣️ Language And Power

Explaining Postmodernism

When socialism failed, the academic Left didn't abandon the project. It abandoned truth instead.

av Stephen R.C. Hicks 2004 230 sidor

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🏛️ Intellectual History 🔍 Postmodernism Critique ⚖️ Political Philosophy 📉 Socialism's Failures 🗣️ Language And Power

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

av Amanda H. Podany • 2022

Before empires had kings, they had barley counters and scribes. Their ledgers are our history.

4.39

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🏛️ Ancient Near East 👥 Social History 🏙️ Early Cities 📝 Early Writing Systems ✍️ Scribal Culture

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

Before empires had kings, they had barley counters and scribes. Their ledgers are our history.

av Amanda H. Podany 2022 662 sidor

4.39

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🏛️ Ancient Near East 👥 Social History 🏙️ Early Cities 📝 Early Writing Systems ✍️ Scribal Culture

Memes of Translation

av Andrew Chesterman • 1997

Why do some ideas about translation survive for centuries while others vanish? A memetic answer.

4.09

📚 Translation Studies 🧬 Memetics 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🎓 Skill Acquisition 🏫 Translator Training

Memes of Translation

Why do some ideas about translation survive for centuries while others vanish? A memetic answer.

av Andrew Chesterman 1997 227 sidor

4.09

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📚 Translation Studies 🧬 Memetics 🌍 Cultural Evolution 🎓 Skill Acquisition 🏫 Translator Training

Style

av Joseph M. Williams • 1981

The grammar you studied won't help you write. The psychology of how readers process sentences will.

4.21

2 000+

🎓 Academic Writing 🖊️ Prose Style 🔄 Revision Strategies ✍️ Sentence Craft 🧠 Reader Psychology

Style

The grammar you studied won't help you write. The psychology of how readers process sentences will.

av Joseph M. Williams 1981 288 sidor

4.21

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🎓 Academic Writing 🖊️ Prose Style 🔄 Revision Strategies ✍️ Sentence Craft 🧠 Reader Psychology

The Art and Craft of Writing

av L. Jagi Lamplighter • 2021

Scenes that land: emotional reversals, dual threads, and characters who want two things at once.

4.33

🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Scene Craft ✍️ Writing Technique

The Art and Craft of Writing

Scenes that land: emotional reversals, dual threads, and characters who want two things at once.

av L. Jagi Lamplighter 2021 196 sidor

4.33

9 betyg

🖋️ Fiction Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🎭 Character Development 🎬 Scene Craft ✍️ Writing Technique

21 Days of Effective Communication

av Ian Tuhovsky • 2018

A 21-day plan of daily habits that turn awkward exchanges into confident, connected conversations.

3.85

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🗣️ Social Skills 🧠 Social Intelligence 👂 Active Listening 💬 Difficult Conversations 🎙️ Vocal Presence

21 Days of Effective Communication

A 21-day plan of daily habits that turn awkward exchanges into confident, connected conversations.

av Ian Tuhovsky 2018 124 sidor

3.85

500+ betyg

🗣️ Social Skills 🧠 Social Intelligence 👂 Active Listening 💬 Difficult Conversations 🎙️ Vocal Presence

Understanding Large Language Models

av Thimira Amaratunga • 2023

The 2017 architecture that made LLMs huge and fluent but unable to think, and how it works.

5.00

🗣️ Natural Language Processing 🤖 Generative Ai 📖 Ai Literacy ✍️ Prompt Engineering ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Understanding Large Language Models

The 2017 architecture that made LLMs huge and fluent but unable to think, and how it works.

av Thimira Amaratunga 2023 169 sidor

5.00

1 betyg

🗣️ Natural Language Processing 🤖 Generative Ai 📖 Ai Literacy ✍️ Prompt Engineering ⚖️ Ai Ethics

Ingles para Latinos

av William C. Harvey • 1992

Spanish speakers, master English verbs as natives use them and crack the idioms textbooks ignore.

4.51

🗣️ English As A Second Language 📘 Bilingual Education 📖 Self-Study Method ⏳ Verb Tenses 📝 Vocabulary Building

Ingles para Latinos

Spanish speakers, master English verbs as natives use them and crack the idioms textbooks ignore.

av William C. Harvey 1992 368 sidor

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How I Learnt to Speak in English?

av Neetu Sugandh

A self-taught path to fluent spoken English, starting with the vowel sounds textbooks skip.

4.00

🗣️ Spoken English 🎤 Pronunciation 📝 Grammar Fundamentals 💨 Fluency Techniques 🌊 Language Immersion

How I Learnt to Speak in English?

A self-taught path to fluent spoken English, starting with the vowel sounds textbooks skip.

av Neetu Sugandh 180 sidor

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🗣️ Spoken English 🎤 Pronunciation 📝 Grammar Fundamentals 💨 Fluency Techniques 🌊 Language Immersion

Always Take Notes

av Simon Akam • 2023

Two hundred writers on the money, the rejection, and what it actually takes to publish.

3.56

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📝 Writing Advice 📚 Publishing Industry 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Revision And Editing 🛡️ Creative Resilience

Always Take Notes

Two hundred writers on the money, the rejection, and what it actually takes to publish.

av Simon Akam 2023 310 sidor

3.56

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📝 Writing Advice 📚 Publishing Industry 🎨 Creative Process ✂️ Revision And Editing 🛡️ Creative Resilience

Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch

av Constance Hale • 2012

Your sentences live or die by one part of speech: the craft and history of getting verbs right.

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✍️ Writing Craft ✏️ Sentence Craft 🎯 Word Choice 📝 Writing Instruction 🏛️ History Of English

Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch

Your sentences live or die by one part of speech: the craft and history of getting verbs right.

av Constance Hale 2012 400 sidor

3.96

271 betyg

✍️ Writing Craft ✏️ Sentence Craft 🎯 Word Choice 📝 Writing Instruction 🏛️ History Of English

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