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Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning 50 and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her story on the murder of the two-year-old Daniel Valerio wins her a Walkley Award.

Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through conversation. David Crystal explores the factors that motivate so many different kinds of talk and reveals the rules we use unconsciously, even in the most routine exchanges of everyday conversation.

There are short stories and long stories, easy to listen stories and complex ones that will require your undivided attention and teach you more complex grammatical structures. This means the book has something for everyone.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Award-winning actor Alan Alda tells the fascinating story of his quest to learn how to communicate better, and to teach others to do the same. With his trademark humor and candor, he explores how to develop empathy as the key factor. “Invaluable.”—Deborah...

Este audiolibro ofrece las mejores estrategias para triunfar en cualquier contienda intelectual y convencer a los demás de que usted siempre sabe de lo que habla y de que sus rivales son unos indocumentados. Se trata de los recursos que todo polemista selecto debe conocer para moverse en el peligroso mundo cultural y no solo salir vivo, sino triunfante.

Reineke Fuchs wird am Hofe des Königs wegen seiner Übeltaten verklagt. Doch ihm gelingt es immer wieder durch Lügengeschichten seinen Kopf...

Einen Vortrag halten - die Vorstellung allein ist für viele Menschen ein Horror. Sie sind beeindruckt von einem mitreißenden Auftritt, doch an sich selbst zweifeln sie - wieso eigentlich? Unsere Autoren sind sich sicher: Aus jedem Vortrag kann ein echter Hit werden! Und zwar nicht durch Hexerei, sondern durch eine pragmatische Herangehensweise. Das "Gesamtkunstwerk" Vortrag können Sie verblüffend einfach erlernen und trainieren. Dieses Buch soll als flexible Blaupause für die Entwicklung, Vorbereitung und Präsentation Ihres Vortrags dienen.

Some people say 'sconn' while others say 'schown'. He says 'bath' while she says 'bahth'. You say 'potayto'. I say 'potahto'. And - wait a second, no one says 'potahto'. No one's ever said 'potahto'. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of received pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father, David, travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English.

Some find talking to others uncomfortable, difficult, or intimidating. Here is a way to overcome these communication challenges. How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere is the key to building confidence and improving communication skills. Written by Larry King, this guide provides simple and...

If you’ve ever dreamed of learning Korean but felt overwhelmed, this audiobook is your shortcut. Read & Write Korean Fast makes Hangul—the Korean alphabet—simple, clear, and practical. No memorizing endless charts. No boring drills. Just proven step-by-step methods that help you recognize, pronounce, and write Korean characters in hours, not months.

Your style is perfect for you. Public speaking coach to the C-suite Bill Hoogterp reveals proven tips, techniques, and exercises to amplify your effectiveness as a speaker and communicator. He explains how the brain processes information, what people respond to, and how to hold the audience in the palm of your hand. Great public speaking can be learned. Hoogterp's unique method turns fear into fun and tells you how to be your natural, authentic, unique self - and deliver your perfect presentation for any audience each and every time.

From renowned trial attorney and New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence: a must own book for every lawyer and business professional seeking to make cutting-edge winning presentations--in court, at work, everywhere, any time. Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful...

Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential listening for those who care about their country's identity in the 21st century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do and has acted as a catalyst for radical changes in attitude towards the language. In this revised edition, Kay vigorously renews the social, cultural, and political debate on Scotland's linguistic future, and argues convincingly for the necessity to retain and extend Scots if the nation is to hold on to its intrinsic values.

Hedda Gabler is one of the most interesting and intricate figures to appear on stage. Her boredom with her mariage and jealousy of her former lover set off a chain of events that result in an untimely death. Oh, but the deceased did "die beautifully"!

Unter den meistgesprochenen Sprachen der Welt steht Hindi an dritter Stelle nach Chinesisch und Englisch, noch vor Spanisch. Über 600 Millionen Menschen in Indien und Umgebung gebrauchen es als Mutter- oder Alltagssprache. Du hörst konzentriert zu, du wiederholst und du sprichst. Was für uns wichtig ist, sind Aussprache, Wiederholen des Gehörten und aufmerksames Zuhören, im Zusammenhang mit Worten, wichtigen Sätzen und einer Vokabelliste. Seit Jahrzehnten hat sich die Wiederholung in Abständen als eine effektive Lernmethode erwiesen.

This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don’t Understand will help women lean into these powerful relationships. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK “Celebrates friendship in its frustrations and its rewards and, above all...

There are only, in my humble opinion, two kinds of readers: readers who love your books and readers who don’t know they love your books yet. But how do you reach those readers in the second category, no matter what kind of writer you are? The answer to that question is...universal fantasy. Universal fantasy is why my sales tripled when I “accidentally” wrote three books that landed in the Amazon Top 100. Universal fantasy is why some authors get gobs of gushing reviews and some authors who write “way better” get crickets.

In diesem Hörbuch soll es darum gehen, die eigenen Gesprächsfähigkeiten zu potenzieren, indem Sie die Künste der Schlagfertigkeit, Rhetorik und Argumentation erlernen und/oder verbessern. Fühlen Sie sich von Zeit zu Zeit missverstanden, nicht ernst genommen oder ertappen Sie sich selbst dabei, wie Sie unter Sprachlosigkeit leiden? Wenn Sie diese Frage bejahen können, werden Sie dieses Hörbuch dankbar entgegennehmen.

A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris of your education - a mixture of half-truths, myths, and false assumptions that prevents you from writing well. Drawing on years of experience as a writer and teacher of writing, Verlyn Klinkenborg offers an approach to writing that will change the way you work and think. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. What you'll find here isn't the way to write. Instead, you'll find a way to clear your mind of illusions about writing and discover how you write.