29 Best Language Arts & Disciplines Books
Language Arts & Disciplines is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Language Arts & Disciplines audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Language Arts & Disciplines audiobooks below.
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Pure Evil
- By: Balaji Vittal
- Narrator: Anindya Chakravorty
- Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: HarperCollins India
- Publish date: May 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.55(128 ratings)
4.55(128 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDSholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur’s arms with a sword in each hand.Karz (1980): Kamini murders her husband by ramming him repeatedly with a jeep.Mr. India (1987): Mogambo kills hundreds of innocent citizens. No, you don’t want toSholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur’s arms with a sword in each hand.
Karz (1980): Kamini murders her husband by ramming him repeatedly with a jeep.
Mr. India (1987): Mogambo kills hundreds of innocent citizens.No, you don’t want to meet these Bollywood baddies in a dark alley; you may not escape with your life if you do.
In Pure Evil, Balaji Vittal examines, in delicious detail, the misdeeds of the gangster, the sly relative, the corrupt policeman, the psychopathic killer…
A rollercoaster ride, looking at the changing face of the Hindi film villain.
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Going Short
- By: Nancy Stohlman
- Narrator: Nancy Stohlman
- Length: 2 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.48(103 ratings)
4.48(103 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDFlash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy. EnterFlash fiction is changing the way we tell stories. Carving away the excess, eliminating all but the most essential, flash fiction is putting the story through a literary dehydrator, leaving the meat without the fat. And it only looks easy.
Enter Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction. In this, her treatise on the form, veteran writer Nancy Stohlman takes us on a flash fiction journey: from creating, sculpting, revising, and collecting stories to best practices for writers in any genre. It is both instructive and conversational, witty and practical, and presented in flash fiction chapters that demonstrate the form as they discuss it. If you’re already a flash fiction lover, this book will be a dose of inspiration. If you teach flash fiction, you’ll want it as part of your repertoire. And if you’re new to the form, you might just find yourself ready to begin.
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A People’s Guide to Publishing
- By: Joe Biel
- Narrator: David Stifel
- Length: 11 hours 37 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.44(66 ratings)
4.44(66 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to book publishing written by a successful book publisher So, you want to publish books. Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering bookA comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide to book publishing written by a successful book publisher
So, you want to publish books.
Publishing is an incredibly rewarding yet endlessly complicated profession. This comprehensive and empowering book serves as a resource and reality check for anyone considering launching a press or publishing a single book. Author Joe Biel draws on twenty-three years of experience in all parts of operating a small publishing company to teach you the skills of the trade, from distribution, operations, inventory, scheduling, and accounting to development, sales, publicity, and marketing. Listeners will come away with the confidence to succeed and a big-picture overview of why publishing matters and how to plan and run their business fairly and sustainably.
This book is equally useful to publishing beginners looking for a realistic overview of the process and for already practicing publishers seeking a deeper understanding of accounting principles, ways to bring their books to new audiences, and how to advance their mission in a changing industry.
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Writing Tools (10th Anniversary Edition)
- By: Roy Peter Clark
- Narrator: Neil Kaplan
- Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: April 06, 2021
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDA special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark’s bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools. Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America’s most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years ofA special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark’s bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.... Read moreTen years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America’s most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available.
Organized into four sections, “Nuts and Bolts,” “Special Effects,” “Blueprints for Stories,” and “Useful Habits,” Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools.
Accessible, entertaining, inspiring, and above all, useful for every type of writer, from high school student to novelist, Writing Tools is essential reading.
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Wordslut
- By: Amanda Montell
- Narrator: Amanda Montell
- Length: 6 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Wave
- Publish date: May 28, 2019
- Language: English
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4.37(8045 ratings)
4.37(8045 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them. “I get so jazzed about the future of feminismA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them.
“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”–Jill Soloway
The word bitch conjures many images for many people, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman. Even before its usage to mean a female canine, bitch didn’t refer to gender at all–it originated as a gender-neutral word meaning genitalia. A perfectly innocuous word devolving into a female insult is the case for tons more terms, including hussy–which simply meant housewife–or slut, which meant an untidy person and was also used to describe men. These words are just a few among history’s many English slurs hurled at women.
Amanda Montell, reporter and feminist linguist, deconstructs language–from insults and cursing, gossip, and catcalling to grammar and pronunciation patterns–to reveal the ways it has been used for centuries to keep women and other marginalized genders from power. Ever wonder why so many people are annoyed when women talk with vocal fry or use the word like as a filler? Or why certain gender-neutral terms stick and others don’t? Or where stereotypes of how women and men speak come from in the first place?
Montell effortlessly moves between history, science, and popular culture to explore these questions and more–and how we can use the answers to effect real social change. Montell’s irresistible humor shines through, making linguistics not only approachable but both downright hilarious and profound, demonstrated in chapters such as:
- Slutty Skanks and Nasty Dykes: A Comprehensive List of Gendered Insults
- How to Embarrass the Shit Out of People Who Try to Correct Your Grammar
- Fuck it: An Ode to Cursing While Female
- Cyclops, Panty Puppet, Bald Headed Bastard and 100+ Other Things to Call Your Genitalia
Montell effortlessly moves between history and popular culture to explore these questions and more. Wordslut gets to the heart of our language, marvels at its elasticity, and sheds much-needed light into the biases that shadow women in our culture and our consciousness.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
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Wordcraft
- By: Jack Hart
- Narrator: Paul Bellatoni
- Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 05, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(33 ratings)
4.33(33 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at The Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basicLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at The Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written. Originally published in 2006 as A Writer’s Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing.
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The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer
- By: Kevin Larimer
- Narrator: Samantha Desz
- Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.33(112 ratings)
4.33(112 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDThe definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers.For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turnedThe definitive source of information, insight, and advice for creative writers, from the nation’s largest and most trusted organization for writers, Poets & Writers.
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For half a century, writers at every stage of their careers have turned to the literary nonprofit organization Poets & Writers and its award-winning magazine for resources to foster their professional development, from writing prompts and tips on technique to informative interviews with published authors, literary agents, and editors. But never before has Poets & Writers marshaled its fifty years’ worth of knowledge to create an authoritative guide for writers that answers every imaginable question about craft and career–until now. Here is the writing bible for authors of all genres and forms, covering topics such as how to:
-Harness your imagination and jump-start your creativity
-Develop your work from initial idea to final draft
-Find a supportive and inspiring writing community to sustain your career
-Find the best MFA program for you
-Publish your work in literary magazines and develop a platform
-Research writing contests and other opportunities to support your writing life
-Decide between traditional publishing and self-publishing
-Find the right literary agent
-Anticipate what agents look for in queries and proposals
-Work successfully with an editor and your publishing team
-Market yourself and your work in a digital world
-Approach financial planning and taxes as a writer
-And much more
Written by Kevin Larimer and Mary Gannon, the two most recent editors of Poets & Writers Magazine, this book brings an unrivaled understanding of the areas in which writers seek guidance and support. Filled with insider information like sample query letters, pitch letters, lists of resources, and worksheets for calculating freelance rates, tracking submissions, and managing your taxes, the guide does more than demystify the writing life–it also provides an array of powerful tools for building a sustainable career as a writer. In addition to the wealth of insights into creativity, publishing, and promotion are first-person essays from bestselling authors, including George Saunders, Christina Baker Kline, and Ocean Vuong, as well as reading lists from award-winning writers such as Anthony Doerr, Cheryl Strayed, and Natalie Diaz. Here, at last, is the ultimate comprehensive resource that belongs on every writer’s desk. -
On Writing
- By: Stephen King
- Narrator: Stephen King
- Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2000
- Language: English
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4.33(219933 ratings)
4.33(219933 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDTwentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen KingONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’sTwentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen King’s critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work.
“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it—fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Metaphor
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.32(37 ratings)
4.32(37 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDMake your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here’s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing one thing to another. Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical tour ofMake your writing and speech shine like the sun! Here’s the most entertaining and instructive book about enlivening and clarifying communication by comparing one thing to another.
Ward Farnsworth provides a wide-ranging, practical tour of metaphors, arranged by theme. He shows how the best writers have put figurative comparisons to distinctive use–for the sake of caricature, to make an abstract idea visible, to make a complicated idea simple.
Using hundreds of examples, Farnsworth demonstrates all the different stylistic ways that points can be unforgettably made. There are quotations from novelists, playwrights, philosophers, and orators–along with commentary on how and why they work to bring power to words both in person and and on paper.
Writers and speakers, this book will make you a star.
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Write for Life
- By: Julia Cameron
- Narrator: Eliza Foss
- Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: January 10, 2023
- Language: English
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4.28(65 ratings)
4.28(65 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDA 6-Week Artist’s Way Program Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, first broke open the conversation around art. Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjectsA 6-Week Artist’s Way Program
Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, first broke open the conversation around art.
Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart: the art and practice of writing.
Over the course of six weeks, Cameron carefully guides listeners step by step through the creative process. This latest guide in the Artist’s Way Series:
– Introduces a new tool and expands on powerful tried and true methods.
– Gently guides readers through many common creative issues — from procrastinating and getting started, to dealing with doubt, deadlines, and “crazymakers.”
– Will help you reach your goals, whether your project is a novel, poetry, screenplay, standup, or songwriting.
With the learned experience of a lifetime of writing, Cameron gives listeners practical tools to start, pursue, and finish their writing project. Write for Life is an essential listen for writers who have completed The Artist’s Way and are looking to continue their creative journey or new writers who are just putting pen to paper.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Essentials.
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The Scandal of the Century, and Other Writings
- By: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Narrator: Bernardo de Paula
- Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.28(174 ratings)
4.28(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDFrom one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s–work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universallyFrom one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s–work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed works of fiction.
“I don’t want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize, but rather for my journalism,” Gabriel Garcia Marquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career–years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla … his longer, more fiction-like reportage from Paris and Rome … his monthly columns for Spain’s El Pais. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be “the best in the world.”
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The Author’s Checklist
- By: Elizabeth K. Kracht
- Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: February 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.28(118 ratings)
4.28(118 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0012.99 USDThe bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix — once the writer sees and understands them. Over time, literaryThe bad news: even really good manuscripts have weak spots that are enough to garner rejections from agents and publishers. The good news: most of these problems are easy to fix — once the writer sees and understands them. Over time, literary agent Elizabeth Kracht noticed that many submissions had similar problems, so she began to make a list of the pitfalls. She knew that even excellent projects could be rejected based on these surmountable issues because those on the receiving end of proposals most often don’t have the time to walk writers through needed adjustments. And writers can’t clearly judge their own creative output. The checklist Kracht has created helps writers make their manuscripts good to go. It offers short, easy-to-implement bites of advice, illustrated by inspiring — and cautionary — real-world examples. Kracht cuts to the chase and demystifies intricate issues like dialogue and pacing as well as nuts-and-bolts subjects such as query letters and agency guidelines. The result is a reliable, doable way for writers to make their work truly ready for readers. Most aspiring authors yearn for a friend in book publishing. The Author’s Checklist is just that.
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Stein on Writing
- By: Sol Stein
- Narrator: Christopher Lane
- Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2005
- Language: English
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4.27(3945 ratings)
4.27(3945 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.95 USDStein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether newcomers or accomplished professionals. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, “This is not a book of theory. It is aStein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether newcomers or accomplished professionals. As Sol Stein, renowned editor, author, and instructor, explains, “This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions–how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place.”
With examples from his bestsellers as well as aspiring students’ writing, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, liposuctioning flab, the “triage” method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and more. This is an essential guide for writers at every level.
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The Smear
- By: Sharyl Attkisson
- Narrator: Sharyl Attkisson
- Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 27, 2017
- Language: English
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4.24(725 ratings)
4.24(725 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influenceEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.
Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda; an effort by opposition researchers, spin doctors, and outside interests to destroy an idea or a person. The tactic they use is the Smear. Every day, Americans are influenced by the Smear without knowing it. Paid forces cleverly shape virtually every image you cross. Maybe you read that Donald Trump is a racist misogynist, or saw someone on the news mocking the Bernie Sanders campaign. The trick of the Smear is that it is often based on some shred of truth, but these media-driven “hit pieces” are designed to obscure the truth. Success hinges on the Smear artist’s ability to remain invisible; to make it seem as if their work is neither calculated nor scripted. It must appear to be precisely what it is not.
Veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson has witnessed this practice firsthand. After years of being pitched hit jobs and puff pieces, she’s an expert at detecting Smear campaigns. Now, the hard-hitting investigative reporter shares her inside knowledge, revealing how the Smear takes shape and who its perpetrators are–including Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal and, most influential of all, “right-wing assassin turned left-wing assassin” (National Review) political operative David Brock and his Media Matters for America empire.
Attkisson exposes the diabolical tactics of Smear artists, and their outrageous access to the biggest names in political media–operatives who are corrupting the political process, and discouraging widespread citizen involvement in our democracy.
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Making Sense
- By: Sam Harris
- Narrator: Sam Harris
- Length: 22 hours 26 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: August 11, 2020
- Language: English
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4.18(787 ratings)
4.18(787 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.005.99 USDFrom the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense. “Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.”From the bestselling author of Waking Up and The End of Faith, a collection of the best conversations from his wildly popular, often controversial podcast, Making Sense.
“Civilization rests on a series of successful conversations.” –Sam Harris
Sam Harris–neuroscientist, philosopher, and bestselling author–has been exploring some of the most important questions about the human mind, society, and current events on his podcast, Making Sense. With over one million downloads per episode, these discussions have clearly hit a nerve, frequently walking a tightrope where either host or guest–and sometimes both–lose their footing, but always in search of a greater understanding of the world in which we live. For Harris, honest conversation, no matter how difficult or controversial, represents the only path to moral and intellectual progress.
The Making Sense audiobook includes talks with Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom, and Glen Loury, on topics that range from the nature of consciousness and free will, to politics and extremism, to living ethically. Together they shine a light on what it means to “make sense” in the modern world.
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Style
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrator: John Lescault
- Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.18(103 ratings)
4.18(103 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDSay it with style–on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, and other masters of the language. Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences,Say it with style–on paper or in person.
This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, and other masters of the language. Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences, and paragraphs put force into writing and speech that have stood the test of time. This is must for anyone who wants to speak or write with clear, persuasive, enjoyable, unforgettable style.
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The Book of Nonexistent Words
- By: Stefano Massini
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 05, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(30 ratings)
4.14(30 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDThe internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino’s mesmerizingThe internationally acclaimed author harnesses his brilliant imagination and masterful storytelling ability to create a catalog of new words inspired by stories of real people in this wondrous book reminiscent of Italo Calvino’s mesmerizing Invisible Cities.
How many times have words not been enough?
How many complex feelings don’t have a corresponding noun that properly describes them?
How many times has language left us like an archer without arrows in the labyrinth of our emotions?
Award-winning author Stefano Massini, a master of expression,, made a discovery that shot new life into his writing practice. To his surprise he found that the ancient rules of language were not quite as restrictive as he had long envisioned them to be. With so many emotions and states of mind missing modern descriptors and definitions, Massini stumbled across a simple but artistry-altering idea. Instead of compromising honest expression through perfunctory verbiage, he decided language was, if anything, a flowing palette of colors he could use to paint all things. Words are meant to be invented.
To reconfirm his belief in the magic of words, Massini returned to the wondrous mechanism that has fed dictionaries from time immemorial. If he could not find the precise word he wanted, he created one. In this delightful compendium, he introduces his personal vocabulary; every chapter mentions a new word that comes from a story about a real person, from Louis XIV to an American gangster.
The Book of Nonexistent Words is a beautifully illustrated collection of linguistic origin stories wrought from the mind of an internationally renowned storytelling icon. Massini effectively liberates our human capacity for using language creatively and shows how we can embrace storytelling to fine tune our way of being in the world. Massini encourages us to be imaginative; if the language in the dictionary cannot adequately match the reality of the here and now, we must create new words that ring true.
Translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon
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Secrets of Dynamic Communications
- By: Ken Davis
- Length: 4 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publish date: November 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.12(167 ratings)
4.12(167 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0018.99 USDWhat’s the best way to make a speech or presentation go smoothly? A person‚Äôs voice has more power than they realize. Professional speaker and author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring hisWhat’s the best way to make a speech or presentation go smoothly? A person‚Äôs voice has more power than they realize.
Professional speaker and author Ken Davis is frequently hired by individuals and companies around the world to bring his humor and expertise to others in the speaking field, and now he’s bringing those concepts to the wider community as well. Whether you are one who speaks only on rare occasions or you find yourself addressing an audience every day, this book will be an invaluable tool.
Beneficial to the experienced pro as well as the new beginner, this practical and effective handbook will help you deliver powerful presentations of all kinds. It takes the listener through the process of selecting and developing a theme, giving it focus, fleshing it out, and communicating well with the audience. The first half is devoted to preparation, the second to delivery.
In Secrets of Dynamic Communication, Davis provides you with speaking tips such as:
- Multiple methods for improving your speeches
- Ideas for preparing for presentations
- Guidelines and examples on how to involve humor
- Outlines and templates for creating titles that draw interest
This guide does not have abstract theories, only step-by-step help in preparing and delivering speeches that get results. You’ll soon develop the dynamic speaking skills associated with the very best in the field.
 
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Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric
- By: Ward Farnsworth
- Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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4.11(298 ratings)
4.11(298 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDMasters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aestheticMasters of language can turn unassuming words into phrases that are beautiful, effective, and memorable. What are the secrets of this alchemy? Part of the answer lies in rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying great aesthetic principles–repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise–to a simple sentence or paragraph. Farnsworth’s Classical English Rhetoric recovers this knowledge for our times. It amounts to a tutorial on eloquence conducted by Churchill and Lincoln, Dickens and Melville, Burke and Paine, and more than a hundred others. The book organizes a vast range of examples from those sources into eighteen chapters that illustrate and analyze the most valuable rhetorical devices with unprecedented clarity. The result is an indispensable source of pleasure and instruction for all lovers of the English language.
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Pep Talks for Writers
- By: Grant Faulkner
- Narrator: Greg Tremblay
- Length: 5 hours 38 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.1(465 ratings)
4.1(465 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDEvery writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wideEvery writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage of their career. From tips about how to finally start that story to helpful ideas about what to do when the words just aren’t quite coming out right, Pep Talks for Writers provides motivation, encouragement, and helpful exercises for writers of all stripes.
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Zen in the Art of Writing
- By: Ray Bradbury
- Narrator: Ray Bradbury
- Length: 3 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: January 15, 2018
- Language: English
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4.09(13129 ratings)
4.09(13129 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0010.99 USD“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it’s your turn. Jump!” Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a land mine. The land mine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces back together. Now, it’s your turn. Jump!” Zest. Gusto. Curiosity. These are the qualities every writer must have, as well as a spirit of adventure. In this exuberant book, the incomparable Ray Bradbury shares the wisdom, experience, and excitement of a lifetime of writing. Here are practical tips on the art of writing from a master of the craft-everything from finding original ideas to developing your own voice and style-as well as the inside story of Bradbury’s own remarkable career as a prolific author of novels, stories, poems, films, and plays. Zen In The Art Of Writing is more than just a how-to manual for the would-be writer: it is a celebration of the act of writing itself that will delight, impassion, and inspire the writer in you. In it, Bradbury encourages us to follow the unique path of our instincts and enthusiasms to the place where our inner genius dwells, and he shows that success as a writer depends on how well you know one subject: your own life.
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Outsource Your Book
- By: Alinka Rutkowska
- Narrator: Sherry Granader
- Length: 3 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.08(40 ratings)
4.08(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0014.95 USDOutsource Your Book shares the secrets of a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author on how to hire experts to write, publish, and launch your bestseller. Warning: listening to this book and following the advice within can result inOutsource Your Book shares the secrets of a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author on how to hire experts to write, publish, and launch your bestseller.
Warning: listening to this book and following the advice within can result in having your name on a bestselling book and on top of the charts.
Discover the seventeen steps known only to bestselling authors of going from a book idea to a six-figure funnel, including:
How to position your book so that it’s a bestseller—you have to do this before it’s written;Where to hire a pro to craft a clever book outline;How to hire the right interviewer who can get your ideas out of your head;How to turn your ideas into a masterfully crafted manuscript; How to know which of the three different types of editing you will need;How and where to hire for the interior layout and formatting of your book;Where to hire a designer for an attention-grabbing cover and why the right cover can make or break your book sales;How to optimize your book for online sales so that it pops up on top of any search results; Where to find the pros to launch your book to bestseller status and to reach libraries and foreign markets; andMuch more!
Outsource Your Book answers the question: How do I turn my business book idea into a bestseller by hiring out?
Discover the seventeen steps to becoming an authority, building credibility, preparing for a consultancy, and leaving a legacy. Your book awaits you.
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The Science of Storytelling
- By: Will Storr
- Narrator: James Clamp
- Length: 6 hours 51 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 18, 2020
- Language: English
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4.07(2855 ratings)
4.07(2855 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHow do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edgeHow do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach. In The Science of Storytelling, Will Storr applies dazzling psychological research and cutting-edge neuroscience to our myths and archetypes to show how we can tell better stories, revealing, among other things, how storytellers–and also our brains–create worlds by being attuned to moments of unexpected change.
Storr’s superbly chosen examples range from Harry Potter to Jane Austen to Alice Walker, Greek drama to Russian novels to Native American folk tales, King Lear to Breaking Bad to children’s stories. With chapters such as “The Dramatic Question” and “Plot, Endings, and Meaning” and a practical, step-by-step appendix dedicated to “The Sacred Flaw Approach,” The Science of Storytelling is destined to become an invaluable resource for writers of all stripes, whether novelist, screenwriter, playwright, or writer of creative or traditional nonfiction.
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The End of Ownership
- By: Aaron Perzanowski
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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4.07(110 ratings)
4.07(110 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDIf you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital goods you buy?If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, or sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the e-books or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don’t own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your e-book vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation–as Amazon deleted Orwell’s 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago. These readers thought they owned their copies of 1984–until, it turned out, they didn’t. In The End of Ownership, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz explore how notions of ownership have shifted in the digital marketplace, and make an argument for the benefits of personal property.
Of course, e-books, cloud storage, streaming, and other digital goods offer users convenience and flexibility. But, as Perzanowski and Schultz warn, consumers should be aware of the trade-offs involving user constraints, permanence, and privacy. The rights of private property are clear, but few people manage to read their end user agreements. Perzanowski and Schultz argue that introducing aspects of private property and ownership into the digital marketplace would offer both legal and economic benefits. But more importantly, it would affirm our sense of self-direction and autonomy. If we own our purchases, we are free to make whatever lawful use of them we please. Technology need not constrain our freedom; it can also empower us.
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Ticking Clock
- By: Ira Rosen
- Narrator: Ira Rosen
- Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.06(458 ratings)
4.06(458 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDThis program includes a prologue read by the author. Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show. It’s a 60 Minutes story on 60This program includes a prologue read by the author.
Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show. It’s a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself.
When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism, breaking some of the most important stories in TV news. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, and the most formidable 60 Minutes figure: legendary correspondent Mike Wallace.
Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace’s top producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace’s work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20, Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo.
A master class in how TV news is made, Rosen shows listeners how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of 60 Minutes‘ most sensational stories.
Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never-before-told account of the most successful news show in American history.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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This Is Not Propaganda
- By: Peter Pomerantsev
- Narrator: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: August 06, 2019
- Language: English
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4.05(2025 ratings)
4.05(2025 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.98 USDLearn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).When information is a weapon, every opinion isLearn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” account of propaganda in Russia and beyond during the age of disinformation (New York Times).
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We live in a world of influence operations run amok, where dark ads, psyops, hacks, bots, soft facts, ISIS, Putin, trolls, and Trump seek to shape our very reality. In this surreal atmosphere created to disorient us and undermine our sense of truth, we’ve lost not only our grip on peace and democracy — but our very notion of what those words even mean.Peter Pomerantsev takes us to the front lines of the disinformation age, where he meets Twitter revolutionaries and pop-up populists, “behavioral change” salesmen, Jihadi fanboys, Identitarians, truth cops, and many others. Forty years after his dissident parents were pursued by the KGB, Pomerantsev finds the Kremlin re-emerging as a great propaganda power. His research takes him back to Russia — but the answers he finds there are not what he expected.
Blending reportage, family history, and intellectual adventure, This Is Not Propaganda explores how we can reimagine our politics and ourselves when reality seems to be coming apart. -
Talk to Me
- By: Dean Nelson
- Narrator: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.05(202 ratings)
4.05(202 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0027.99 USDFrom respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor. “Dean NelsonFrom respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
“Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around.”–Anne Lamott
Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and doctors, lawyers, social workers, teachers, human resources staff, and, really, all of us) get information. Yet to many, the perfect interview feels more like luck than skill–a rare confluence of rapport, topic, and timing. But the thing is, great interviews aren’t the result of serendipity and intuition, but rather the result of careful planning and good journalistic habits. And Dean Nelson is here to show you how to nail the perfect interview every time.
Drawing on forty-years of award-winning journalism and his experience as the founder and host of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea, Nelson walks readers through each step of the journey from deciding whom to interview and structuring questions, to the nitty gritty of how to use a recording device and effective note-taking strategies, to the ethical dilemmas of interviewing people you love (and loathe). He also includes case studies of famous interviews to show readers how these principles play out in real time.
Chalk full of comprehensive, time-tested, gold-standard advice, Talk to Me is an indispensable guide to the subtle art of the interview guaranteed to afford readers with the skills and confidence they need the next time they say, “talk to me.”
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Someday Is Today
- By: Matthew Dicks
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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4.04(163 ratings)
4.04(163 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDRealize your creative dreams–starting today Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it?Realize your creative dreams–starting today
Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways to turn random minutes throughout
your days into pockets of productivity, and dreams into accomplishments.In addition to presenting his own winning strategies for getting from dreaming to doing, Matthew Dicks offers insights from a wide range of creative people–writers, editors, performers, artists, and even magicians–on how to augment inspiration with motivation.
His actionable steps will help you:
* silence negative messages from family, friends, and teachers
* eliminate time-sucking activities (and people)
* be willing to make terrible things
* find supporters here, there, and everywhere
* cultivate optimism in the face of negativity and obstaclesEach strategy is accompanied by amusing and inspiring personal and professional anecdotes and a clear plan of action. Someday Is Today will give you every tool to get started and finish that [fill in the blank].
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Nonconformity
- By: Nelson Algren
- Narrator: Richard Poe
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.04(217 ratings)
4.04(217 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers. “You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more thanThe struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America’s greatest twentieth-century writers.
“You don’t write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich,” writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: “A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.”
Nonconformity is about twentieth-century America: “Never on the earth of man has he lived so tidily as here amidst such psychological disorder.” And it is about the trouble writers ask for when they try to describe America: “Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards … [where there] are still … defeats in which everything is lost [and] victories that fall close enough to the heart to afford living hope.”
In Nonconformity, Algren identifies the essential nature of the writer’s relation to society, drawing examples from Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Twain, and Fitzgerald, as well as utility infielder Leo Durocher and legendary barkeep Martin Dooley. He shares his deepest beliefs about the state of literature and its role in society, along the way painting a chilling portrait of the early 1950s, Joe McCarthy’s heyday, when many American writers were blacklisted and ruined for saying similar things to what Algren is saying here.
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