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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.

When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet when Russia viciously attacked Ukraine in February 2022, Hall quickly volunteered to go. A few weeks later, while on assignment, Hall and his crew were blown up in a Russian strike.

In the 1980s, Lawrence Block developed an interactional seminar that adapted elements of the human potential movement specifically for writers. For several years, he and his wife, Lynne, traveled the country conducting seminars that focused on the inner game of writing and designed to enable participants to get out of their own way and put their best work on paper. 

As our ability to pay attention in a world of distractions vanishes, it's no wonder that our ability to be heard and understood - to convey our messages - is also threatened. Whether working with our teams and customers or communicating with our families and friends, it is increasingly difficult to break through the digital devices that get in the way of communication.

All food has a story, reaching as far back into history as language itself. As languages followed and reflected the tides of civilizations, food language came to represent some of the highs and lows of how humans communicate: from the highbrow 'Chateauneuf du Pape: (the Pope's new castle)' to the 'nun's farts' of Jamaica (also known as 'beignets'). Chock full of food puns, linguistic did-you-knows and delectable trivia, this is the surprising and hilarious history of food, told through the lens of the fascinating evolution of language.

“How To Be a Translator From Home” is a how-to guide for individuals who want to learn to translate on their own but aren’t sure where to begin. The book teaches the best way for you to create profiles that clients will trust, how to find the best websites for you to utilize, how to make the most money with your time, and everything else you’ll need to know while translating! And it works for almost any language. If you speak a language and are interested in translation, this is the path for you. Thousands of people are already translating online from their homes, and being paid well. This is your chance to set your own deadlines, work for yourself, and follow your dreams.

With so many programs that focus on travel vocabulary, Home & Garden Spanish offers a unique opportunity to enable language learners of all levels to explain and comprehend conversation about household activities, cooking, laundry, and child care, as well as all activities relating to garden care and maintenance.

Stay-at-home moms do it all when it comes to running their households and keeping their children from self-destruction. But what happens when that mom also has a dream to write a novel? Nikki Mitchell is here to tell you that it isn't easy, and life gets pretty chaotic when you add being an author to your list of never-ending to-dos, but it is entirely possible. You just have to laugh a little.

Exploring the downfalls of being a freelance writer, this cautionary tale explains what happens when one becomes self-employed, celebrating cubicle-free living through a brilliant comic narrative on the real-life ups and downs of a full-time writer.

¿Preparado para que tu profesor de iglés llegue a casa? El profesor será Kyle Millar. Dinámico como él solo y con un pedigrí pedagógico inigualable, Kyle te llevará por todo un recorrido de estructuras y expresiones imprescindibles para estudiantes de nivel intermedio alto. 

¿Preparado para que tu profesor de iglés llegue a casa? La profesora será Alison Lanthorn. Dinámica, alegre y terriblemente exigente, Alison te va a poner las pilas con el inglés, empezando desde lo más elemental hasta llegar a un nivel intermedio.  

¿Preparado para que tu profesor de iglés llegue a casa? El profesor será David Waddell. Conocedor de las principales dificultades de los españoles a la hora de hablar inglés, David te enseñará las estructuras gramaticales y las expresiones obligatorias para estudiantes de nivel intermedio bajo.  

Träumst du davon, ein Buch zu schreiben und zu veröffentlichen? So ging es mir mein ganzes Leben lang. Erst mit 34 habe ich diesen Traum verwirklicht und seither erfolgreich 15 Bücher veröffentlicht. Mit dem Schreiben und Publizieren dieser 15 Träume habe ich einiges gelernt. Und weil ich mir am Anfang dieser Reise gewünscht hätte, anderen Autoren und Autorinnen über die Schulter gucken zu können und von ihnen lernen zu dürfen, gibt es dieses Buch.