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Bestsellerautorin Elizabeth George erklärt in ihrem Schreibkurs wie der perfekte Krimi gelingt. Als Bestsellerautorin von über zwanzig Romanen weiß Elizabeth George genau, was dazu gehört, ein ebenso erfolgreichen wie rundherum überzeugenden Text zu schreiben. Und in dieser "Meisterklasse" über die Kunst des Schreibens gibt sie nicht nur wertvolle Anleitungen und Ratschläge. Sie gewährt anhand einer genauen Beschreibung der Arbeit an ihrem eigenen Krimi "Denn die Sünde ist scharlachrot" auch einen sehr privaten Einblick in die Werkstatt einer Großmeisterin des Kriminalroman.

Jeder von uns kennt schwierige emotionale Zustände wie Minderwert, Schuld oder ständige Sorgenschleifen. Georg Lolos vergleicht, in seinem Hörbuch, diese schmerzhaften Zustände mit Räumen in einem Haus. Je nachdem welchen Raum man betritt, atmet man eine bestimmte Atmosphäre ein und fühlt sich dann dementsprechend - einsam, schuldig oder ängstlich. Im Keller des Hauses befindet sich der Raum der Ohnmacht und des Minderwert und im ersten Stock findet man die Kontrolle und den Widerstand. Lolos macht einen Rundgang mit uns durch die 10 Räume des Ego-Hauses.

Completely revised and updated to tackle today’s issues, the 10th Anniversary Edition not only explains what framing is and how it works but also reveals why, after a brief stint of winning the framing wars in the 2008 elections, the Democrats have gone back to losing them, and what can be done about it. In this powerful new volume, George Lakoff delves into the issues that will dominate the midterm elections in 2014, the coming presidential elections, and beyond.

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.

Träumen ist gut. Verwirklichen noch besser. Wie oft spüren wir alle unsere Bedürfnisse, Wünsche und Sehnsüchte genau und wissen, wo uns unser Leben hinführen soll. Doch dann kommt der Alltag dazwischen und wir lassen uns ablenken. Der Weg zu unseren Herzenszielen kann ganz schön beschwerlich sein - oder wir beherzigen die elf praxiserprobten Tricks, die uns der Diplom-Psychologe Hans-Georg Willmann in diesem Hörbuch zeigt. Egal ob wir ein Buch schreiben, ein Unternehmen gründen oder zehn Kilo abnehmen wollen, oft braucht es gar nicht viel, um damit anzufangen und die ersten Schritte zu machen - verblüffend einfach.

Ob in der Familie, am Arbeitsplatz oder in der Freizeit - täglich werden wir mit Herausforderungen konfrontiert, die wir meistern müssen. Dann müssen wir uns selbst vertrauen, d. h. an unsere Fähigkeiten und Möglichkeiten glauben. Dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie Sie Ihr Selbstvertrauen wirksam im Alltag stärken können. Sie erfahren, weshalb Selbstzweifel manchmal gar nicht so schlecht sind, warum auch Fehler Sie weiterbringen und wie Sie sich trauen, Dinge zu machen, die Sie schon immer machen wollten.

Warum schaffen wir es oft nicht, Dinge, die wir uns fest vorgenommen haben, in die Tat umzusetzen? An der Motivation fehlt es meist nicht, aber an der Willenskraft. Wir lassen uns leicht ablenken, vermeiden Anstrengungen, gehen den Weg des geringsten Widerstands. Unsere Biologie hat uns dieses Verhalten einprogrammiert. Wenn wir verstehen, warum wir handeln, wie wir handeln, können wir unsere Willenskraft stärken.

From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about how to live. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the listener through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for 20 years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program.

In this book, George takes us along on his first year inside the messy, magical world of primary school teaching. In the company of five-year-olds – who are somehow wisdom, innocence and chaos incarnate – there is always lots to be learned.

This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. 

Georg Dauth – Coaching für Entscheider

Have you ever had an idea and thought to yourself "this would make a great movie?" Of course, storytelling is engrained in us all and movies have become our modern means to tell them. Recent innovations in film technology have made it easier than ever to get your ideas put onto the big screen. So what's stopping you from writing that award winning screenplay? Screenwriting for Anyone is a four book box set that is a comprehensive guide to writing your script starting from the ground up. Each book will detail different aspects of the writing process beginning with the first book. Book One outline how to develop your idea into a feature length screenplay. Book Two gives you a detailed schedule to complete the first draft within 30 days and Book Three is a comprehensive guide on the dos and don'ts when creating a modern masterpiece. Book Four dives into the business side of screenwriting with proven methods on how to pitch your script and negotiate a deal. Screenwriting for Anyone is a one of a kind four book box set that will help you finally get that idea on paper and up onto the silver screen.

Elizabeth George offers a master class in the art and science of crafting a novel, sharing her wealth of experience with would-be novelists. Using her actual work to illustrate the various steps of novel writing that she explores in this audiobook, she illustrates her points about plotting, characterisation and technique with great clarity and generosity. Mastering the Process provides writers with practical, prescriptive, and achievable tools for creating a novel, editing a novel and problem-solving.

After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, Golda Meir and Edna O'Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger.

Internationally best-selling author Umberto Eco is a master stylist whose books, including The Name of the Rose and Baudolino, have been savored by millions around the world. Now, with The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Eco crafts another of the ambitious and breathtaking novels that are his trademark.

George Horace Lorimer is best known as the editor of The Saturday Evening Post, where he was credited with promoting and discovering authors like Jack London. Lorimer compiled his life advice into the fictional letters from John "Old Gorgon" Graham to his son Pierrepont. John Graham is a Chicago-based pork and finance baron. In the letters Pierrepont receives advice for his different stages of life. Old Gorgon's advice is packed throughout the book, easy to understand, and still rings true today.

Lichtenberg war Physiker und Mathematiker, aber der Nachwelt ist er bestens in Erinnerung geblieben durch seine "Sudelbücher", in denen er Gedanken, Satiren, aber auch Witziges aphoristisch formulierte.

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it - only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than 20 languages. He sets out to explore these top 20 world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali).

Big Brother Is Watching You: The words are inextricably associated with the classic dystopian novel 1984 and with its revered author, George Orwell. The Modern Scholar series continues its exploration of great authors with this course from esteemed professor Michael Shelden. In these lectures, Orwell, who also penned the epitome of the political satire, Animal Farm, is discussed in full, from his childhood in Henley-on-Thames to his final days.

Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of The Man I Knew, Jean Becker shares touching and pivotal life lessons from a leader that left a mark on people's hearts and souls.