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By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of French and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.

What skills do you need to succeed today? How can you make better choices? In today's fast world, it's important to have certain skills for success. With so much fake news and information everywhere, critical thinking and logic are crucial. These skills help us think well and make good decisions. They help us understand why things are how they are, figure out what influences them, and come up with ways to make things better. One of the reasons most of us fall short in thinking critically is that our educational system doesn't teach critical thinking.

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The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Farsi Persian With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Farsi Persian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven...

Looking for a beginner language course that fits into your busy lifestyle and gets you speaking a new language in a matter of weeks, not years? Michel Thomas's unique method is designed to overcome the frustrations usually faced by language learners.

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Korean With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Korean — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help...

In Polish Short Stories: 11 Simple Stories for Beginners Who Want to Learn Polish in Less Time While Also Having Fun, you will encounter rich and new but not too complex vocabulary, which is translated at the end of the chapter, avoiding the hassle of having to stop the reading rhythm to look up every word in the dictionary.

The Zero to Finals Surgery book is the fourth in the Zero to Finals series, aimed at providing key learning material for students. The books are designed to be studied from beginning to end in preparation for your exams. There is a focus on the key information that is tested in exams, without the waffle. It contains the concepts, vocabulary, and latest guidelines you need, as well as helpful TOM TIPs, which are pearls of wisdom from the author, gained over more than a decade of sitting medical exams.

Do you find it increasingly difficult to see things positively? Do you often believe that it's not going to work anyway, that you can't do something as well as others or that you’re not good enough? Do you often worry, brood a lot and are insecure - also about what others think of you? Yet you'd like to be able to think much more positively and deal with difficult situations in a relaxed way.

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Norwegian With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Norwegian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program...

While most apps just teach you words, Learn Italian Bundle—The Complete Beginner to Advanced Course (Levels 1-5) teaches Italian through useful, everyday conversations so you can have those same conversations in fluent Italian.

The musician and Hip Hop legend—hailed as “the greatest MC of all time” and compared to Thelonious Monk—reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity of a master artist. When he exploded on the music scene...

Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work. Personifying London’s own dreams of education and literary fame as a young man in San Francisco, Martin Eden’s impassioned but ultimately ineffective battle to overcome his bleak circumstances makes him one of the most memorable and poignant characters Jack London ever created.

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Lithuanian With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Lithuanian — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program...

Spanish podcast for upper-beginners or lower-intermediate learners, hosted by César and “El Inglés”. Each episode comes with a free transcript in Spanish and English, plus vocabulary flashcards to help you memorise the new words. “Not quite a beginner, not yet fluent - let’s fix that.” All resources are available at www.spanishlanguagecoach.com.

Bestselling children's author Andy Stanton has made a career out of writing differently—from the unconventional ‘hero' of his bestselling Mr Gum series to his penchant for absurdist plots, his children's books are anything but formulaic. When a friend introduces him to ChatGPT, the new large language chatbot, Andy is as sceptical as he is curious. Can this jumble of algorithms really mimic the spontaneity of human thought? Could it one day replace human authors like him for good? And are we soon to be ruled over by despotic robot overlords.

Training is created with the goal of changing learners' behaviors, but anyone who has created learning experiences knows that there's a big gap between knowing and doing. You can create an engaging learning experience that informs and helps people remember, but often those people go back to their regular world and continue to do things the same way they always have. In the last few decades, the fields of psychology, behavioral economics, and other behavioral sciences have brought an enormous amount of scientific research into helping people with behavior change.

It is possible to live more deeply, more intimately in touch with yourself and with the world around you. It is possible to experience your interconnection with everything, even as you express your own utter uniqueness. All it takes is a subtle inner attunement to your own body and mind.

Want to learn Italian quickly and easily, without the stress? Do you struggle with mastering conversational Italian? Ready to handle everyday situations with confidence, from ordering food to asking for directions? Conversational Italian Made Easy is the beginner-friendly guide to speaking Italian naturally and effortlessly. Whether you're travelling to Italy, connecting with Italian friends and family, or simply passionate about learning the language, this book will help you master essential expressions quickly and confidently.

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle - three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and unable to speak.