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  Get a Grip on Your Grammar - 250...

  Kris Spisak

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  “A useful reference [and] a fun read, chock-full of telling examples and pop-culture references.” —Charles Euchner, author of Keep It Short 
   
  Most of us are not poets or novelists, but we are all writers. We email, text, and post; we craft memos and reports, menus and outdoor signage, birthday cards and sticky notes on the fridge. And just as we should think before we speak, we need to think before we write. 
   
  Get a Grip on Your Grammar is a grammar book for those who hate grammar books, a writing resource filled with quick answers and a playful style—not endless, indecipherable grammar jargon. Designed for student, business, and creative-writing audiences alike, its easily digestible writing tips will finally teach you: 
   
  • How to keep “lay” and “lie” straight 
   
  • The proper usage of “backup” versus “back up” 
   
  • Where to put punctuation around quotation marks 
   
  • The meaning of “e.g.” versus “i.e.” 
   
  • The perils of overusing the word “suddenly” 
   
  • Why apostrophes should not be thrown about like confetti and 244 more great tips

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  Learn Hungarian While Sleeping -...

  Innovative Language Learning LLC

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  Can you learn while sleeping?  Studies* say that… yes you can.  
   
  Listening to a language while asleep can help supercharge your vocabulary. 
   
  Learn Easily with the Power of Pleasant Repetition 
   
  With the Learn Hungarian While Sleeping Audiobook, you’ll absorb over 430 Hungarian words and phrases effortlessly.  
   
  You can use this Beginner-Level Audiobook to 
  • Relax while listening to Hungarian phrases and translations 
  • Relieve stress. Just listen in —  No confusing grammar rules  
  • Wind down before bed to help you fall asleep 
  • And of course —  learn words passively —  in your sleep. 
   
  How does it work? Just press play... and listen to the gentle voice of a native teacher.  
   
  Our teacher repeats each word and phrase multiple times...  so you’ll retain them better… whether you’re awake or in bed. For best results, listen while awake first. Then, listen while falling asleep. 
   
  What Will You Learn? You’ll Master 430+ Beginner Words & Phrases Including 
  • Basic Greetings 
  • Numbers in Hungarian 
  • Common Questions and Answers 
  • Words for Introducing Yourself 
  • Basic Verbs & Adjectives 
  • And much more 
   
  The Learn Hungarian While Sleeping Audiobook includes 
  • 13 Beginner-Level Audio Lessons  
  • 6+ Hours of Lessons in Total 
  • Accompanying PDF eBook with all of the words, phrases and translations 
   
  * Züst, Mark Alain et al. “Implicit Vocabulary Learning during Sleep is Bound to Slow-Wave Peaks.” Current Biology. October 21, 2019. 
   
  Download the PDF and read along: 
  https://bit.ly/3gGLV9O

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  The Compendium of Erotica -...

  Harry E. Wedeck

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  Explore what sent hearts a flutter through the centuries in this compilation of erotic cultural and literary history.Dictionary of Erotic LiteratureRepresenting cultures around the world and spanning from ancient times to the twentieth century, this A-to-Z guide explores one of the most universal and enduring themes in literature. Entries range from Ovid’s Ars amatoria, second-century Gnosticism, and ninth-century Arabian poets, all the way up to the explicit novels published in Paris in the 1960s.As author Harry E. Wedeck explains in his introduction, a culture’s artistic and literary depictions of eroticism reveal a great deal about their way of life. In Dictionary of Erotic Literature, Wedeck draws on this endlessly vast topic to present an illustrative sampling of authors, written works, and terminology that will be of value to any student of literature or cultural history.Dictionary of AphrodisiacsFrom absinthe, almond soup, and Albertus Magnus to yarrow, yohimbine, and Émile Zola,this authoritative reference volume covers knowledge of aphrodisiacs spanning centuries and drawn from literature, spirituality, and ancient science. Entries include edible substances believed to enhance sexual performance, gemstones thought to possess amorous charms, gods and goddesses of love from various myths, and historic figures who contributed to studies and thought on aphrodisiacs.This dictionary reveals many intriguing ways for partners to enrich their relationships, including recipes to stimulate the gourmet lover using the many ingredients described in the book.Love Potions Through the AgesThis survey explores the evolution of love potion practices in societies over the centuries and across the world. Separate chapters focus on ancient Greece, Rome, India, and the Orient, as well as the Middle Ages and modern times. Wedeck relays the spiritual aspects of these concoctions as well as historical anecdotes about them. Recipes are also included, though Wedeck cautions that they are exclusively for academic purposes and not intended for personal use.

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  Lowdown The: Improve Your Speech...

  Mark Caven

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  We live and work in a global market - but English is still regarded as the international language of business. It is the most widely spoken second language in the world and those who can speak it with clarity have a great advantage. Used properly, speech can help us to achieve a greater level of success. Clear speech sends out the message 'I am in control, I can take charge,' inspiring confidence in those around you.The Lowdown: Improve Your Speech - American English for Chinese Speakers is primarily aimed at those who have a working knowledge of the English language, but who want to continue to improve their clarity of speech and their accent. Through easy exercises and helpful hints, this title will help you make the necessary adjustments to achieve clearer English, giving you confidence and helping you to make the best impression possible.

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  Sophistical Rhetoric in...

  John Poulakos

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  An expert in rhetoric offers a new perspective on the ancient concept of sophistry, exploring why Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found it objectionable. 
   
  In Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece, John Poulakos argues that a proper understanding of sophistical rhetoric requires a grasp of three cultural dynamics of the fifth century B.C.: the logic of circumstances, the ethic of competition, and the aesthetic of exhibition. Traced to such phenomena as everyday practices, athletic contests, and dramatic performances, these dynamics defined the role of sophistical rhetoric in Hellenic culture and explain why sophistry has traditionally been understood as inconsistent, agonistic, and ostentatious. 
   
  In his discussion of ancient responses to sophistical rhetoric, Poulakos observes that Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle found sophistry morally reprehensible, politically useless, and theoretically incoherent. At the same time, they produced their own version of rhetoric that advocated ethical integrity, political unification, and theoretical coherence. Poulakos explains that these responses and alternative versions were motivated by a search for solutions to such historical problems as moral uncertainty, political instability, and social disorder. Poulakos concludes that sophistical rhetoric was as necessary in its day as its Platonic, Isocratean, and Aristotelian counterparts were in theirs.

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  Autobiography - A Very Short...

  Laura Marcus

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  Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians, and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by "autobiography", and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analyzing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.

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