Language and Litterature

Would you like to find new, exciting words to use in your speech and writing? Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist? Would you like to be a Scrabble expert? Better Vocabulary In 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving defi

Do you use the dictionary more than you think you should? Are the business memos you write filled with embarrassing spelling mistakes? Have you received a lot of low grades on your papers because of poor spelling? This easy-to-use book not only teaches you how to avoid misspellings, but also sharpens your skills so you can recognize spelling errors right away. You'll write clean English, improve y

Covers organizing and writing a speech, gives tips on effective speaking, and includes openings, quotations, and anecdotes to use in speeches.

In Last Minute Speeches and Toasts, Andrew Frothingham gives you useful tips and ideas on how to make a winning last minute speech or toast. You'll find helpful advice and reassurance including: Tips on how to choose and use quotes and jokes within the speech or toast. Six last minute resources to use. Little-known tricks of toasting. Killer openers to launch your speech or toast in the right di

Who cares about commas, semicolons, dashes, and hyphens?...Well, you should. A misplaced punctuation mark can confuse physicians and surgeons, cause thousands of dollars in legal fees, misinform judges, puzzle bankers, misguide stockbrokers…and create lumps in your pudding. You don't need a teacher with a mouthful of jargon to help you understand how to make yourself clearly understood. Better

Thanks to e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, pagers, and the ever-expanding Web, we live in an age of information overload. Although all of these wonders were designed to make communication easier and faster, speed and efficiency have come with a price. Clear business writing has never been more difficult or stressful. Writers are expected to respond quickly to an endless flow of e-mail messages. Re

The central message of POWERSPEAK is the importance of engaging stimulating and maintaining the attention of an audience. Focusing on the elements of speaking effectively from a design and a delivery perspective Dorothy Leeds isolates these elements to ensure that any speaker can gain and keep the audience enthralled. In addition she zeroes in on the trouble of any presentation and the six major f

Gathers hundreds of toast samples that can be adapted for any toast for such occasions as birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, business events, parties, and farewells.

Here are hundreds of tips, techniques, and samples that will help you create the perfect letter (or e-mail!) no matter what the occasion or circumstance, no matter how little time you have.A phone call, page, or text message may be faster, but sometimes only a letter will do. What do you do when you're a wizard of technological communication, but still aren't sure what an "inside address" is? Use

En la Enciclopedia de cristales, gemas y metales mágicos, usted encontrará la información más completa disponible sobre las cualidades mágicas de más de cien gemas, piedras y cristales. En esta obra, catalogada como uno de los clásicos de Cunningham, aprenderá cómo identificar las características particulares de los minerales, sus atribuciones mágicas, su relación con los planetas, las deidades,

This Rumi collection features selections from one of the world's great spiritual masterpieces, the "Mathnawi." The "Mathnawi" consists of six volumes of poetry in rhyme--over fifty-one thousand verses--inspired by folklore, the Qur'an, stories of saints and teachers, and sayings of Muhammed. Rendered by Rumi's premier English translators, these excerpts from the "Mathnawi" are presented in America

From the author of million-copy bestseller, Flowers for Algernon, the shocking true story of a troubled young man and his splintered, terrifying world. Inspiration for the new TV series THE CROWDED ROOM starring Tom Holland 'An absorbing, often heart-rending exploration of the human mind' Cosmopolitan 'Fascinating' LA Times '[Keyes] has carried it off brilliantly, bringing not only a fine c

An examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies—now in paperback Using data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagio

A revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge—now in paperbackIn this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-taking, the inventor of “industrial music,” founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, and world-renowned fine artist with COUM Transmissions, Genesis P-Orridge (1950–2020) takes us on

In this uniquely fascinating book, internationally renowned psychic Sylvia Browne recounts her captivating life as a clairvoyant, telling of her earliest 'readings' as a young child in Kansas City, and of her first contact with 'Francine,' her spirit guide. In engrossing detail, Sylvia tells how her 'gift' has assisted police departments in their seach for missing children and dangerous crimina

Ever stumble when choosing between who and whom, affect and effect, "lay" and "lie"? Are you worried that how you speak or write is holding you back at work? Do you fear you're making frequent conversational errors, but just aren't sure what's correct? How you use language tells people a good deal about who you are, how you think, and how you communicate. Making simple errors in written and spoke

A unique glimpse into the mind of the 12-century visionary Hildegard of Bingen through her “creative and insightful” writings on medicine, spirituality, and more (Booklist) Visionary, mystic, poet, musician, naturalist, healer, theologian—the Rhineland nun Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) was a Renaissance woman long before there w

     "Love is a stranger and speaks a strange language," wrote Rumi, one of the world's most beloved mystical poets. His poems of spiritual love still speak directly to our hearts after more than seven hundred years. These classic selections contemplate separation and longing, intoxication and bliss, union and transcendence.

As one who has written extensively about the interior life, meditation, and psychotherapy, Ken Wilber—the leading theorist in the field of integral psychology—naturally arouses the curiosity of his numerous readers. In response to this curiosity, this one-year diary not only offers an unprecedented entrée into his private world, but offers an introduction to his essential though

This is the story of Hanns Scharff the master interrogator of theLuftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAFEighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. This Intelligence Officergained the reputation as the man who could magically get all theanswers he needed from the prisoners of war. In most cases the POWsbeing interrogated never realized that their words, small talk o