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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
Gabriel Wyner - 2014
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered. The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, and as a result, fluency can seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up. Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you'll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. Soon, you'll gain the ability to learn grammar and more difficult abstract words--without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books. This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
The Habit Fix: The New Habit Guide to Getting Happy and Healthy in 7 Simple Steps
Eileen Rose Giadone - 2016
"Part motivation, part road map, this book will take you there." A no-nonsense, 7-step, guide using the power of habit for self-improvement, good health, confidence and happiness.If you're ready to leave behind old habits that have been weighing you down but don't know where to begin, The Habit Fix has a big, bright arrow that points to "START HERE".If you're serious about swapping a lifetime of unhealthy habits for good, healthy habits but can't see a clear path through, The Habit Fix will guide you.Simple, Go-To Habits That Work In Your Busy Life Our habits create the framework of our lives. Changing a lifetime of habits can seem overwhelming and time consuming, but this book offers quick, go-to habits that bring immediate change, a step at time. If you think your bad habits are deeply ingrained and too powerful to overcome, this book offers 7, simple new habits that show you deep habit change is possible. It targets 7 key areas life and offers 7 highly effective habits for personal growth that have brought profound improvement and success to thousands of people like you - keystone habits that help you on your way to a healthy habit lifestyle.Don't Break Old Habits, MAKE New Habits
The Habit Fix
is not loaded with idealistic principles and doesn't dwell on all you've done wrong in life. We hear enough of that already! It takes the focus off that tired, old tradition of analyzing your "bad" habits and lack of motivation. It's not about the arduous task of breaking old habits but instead, embracing fresh, new, keystone habits that dissolve the old habits naturally. With 7 new keystone habits, this book offers a positive approach that avoids the trap of negative self-judgement and taps into our natural confidence and healthy self-esteem.Ideas That Work, Put to Immediate PracticeThis is a pratical guide with specific, credible information for habit building for a healthy lifestyle that can be put to use right now. It's not filled with theories, poetry and feel-good platitudes. It has real, proven tactics for building healthy habits now and direct links to trustworthy, self-improvement techniques. These are healthy lifestyle tactics that are actually effective and not just marketed effectively. Start with 7 new keystone habits in this first book of The Habit Fix Series and build on them later with
The Habit Fix 2: QUICKSTEP
.Keeps You On Track To Your GoalsThis book will help you create habits that last but don't require a huge amount of time and brain power. It's for those seeking deeper evolution and a vibrant, healthy sense of well-being for life-permanent healthy lifestyle habits for REAL change.Begin Today!This book offers the best resources out there - proven methods of self-development and habit-building that motivate you to get started! The habits in this book are sensible, designed for immediate action and forged from the combined wisdom of many self-help, habit building books, personal growth and development blogs, healthy lifestyle diet and exercise programs, courses in mindfulness and motivation, health trainers and meditation groups, advice from doctors, therapists and healthy lifestyle practitioners.Grab your copy now!About The Author Eileen Rose Giadone is the author of the The Habit Fix Series which became an AMAZON BEST SELLER in its first week of publication.
The Habit Fix 2: Quickstep
and her first children's book,
Natasha The Party Crasher
are also available on Amazon.
The Vinyl Dialogues: Stories behind memorable albums of the 1970s as told by the artists
Mike Morsch - 2014
The Vinyl Dialogues offers the stories behind 31 of the top albums of the 70s, including backstories behind the albums, the songs, and the artists. It was the 1970s: Big hair, bell-bottomed pants, Elvis sideburns and puka shell necklaces. The drugs, the freedom, the Me Generation, the lime green leisure suits. And then there was the music and how it defined a generation. The birth of Philly soul, the Jersey Shore Sound and disco. It's all there in "The Vinyl Dialogues," as told by the artists who lived and made Rock and Roll history throughout the decade.Throw in a little political intrigue - The Guess Who being asked not to play its biggest hit, "American Woman," at a White House appearance and Brewer and Shipley being called political subversives and making President Nixon's infamous "enemies list" - and "The Vinyl Dialogues offers a first-hand snapshot of a country in transition, hung over from the massive cultural changes of the 1960s and ready to dress outrageously and to shake its collective booty. All seen through the eyes, recollections and perspectives of the artists who lived it and made all that great music on all those great albums.
The Sixties
Richard Avedon - 1999
Benjamin Spock, September 1969The connection between all the rhetoric and all the poetry, between the words of a Black Panther and those of a rock star or a pacifist, between the scars of a pop artist and those of a napalm victim, have haunted and informed the structuring of this book, with its own peculiar version of a beginning, a middle, and an end.
You're Cookin' It Country: My Favorite Recipes and Memories
Loretta Lynn - 2004
She was the oldest of seven kids; raised in poverty, married at 13, and a mother of 4 by the time she was 17. Few would have expected this type of adolescence to produce a woman who was the winner of every music award imaginable, the author of two New York Times bestselling books and a 2003 Kennedy Center honoree, and whose life story was the subject of an Academy Award winning movie.In You're Cookin' It Country, Loretta Lynn shares over 120 of her favorite recipes. From the dishes her mother cooked as she was growing up to the meals she has prepared for her family over the years. Also included are more than 35 stories relating to food as only Loretta can tell them. These include stories of her "Mommy" going out hunting for rabbit and possum to the more recent story of Jack White of the rock group The White Stripes flying to Nashville to have a dinner of chicken and dumplings with Loretta. There is also the story of her husband to be, Doolittle, buying a pie from her at an auction only to discover that Loretta had mistaken salt for the sugar when she baked it.You're Cookin' It Country will be a must have purchase for the millions of fans Loretta has made all over the world.Loretta's first book, Coal Miner's Daughter (1978) has sold more than one million copies. Her second book, Still Woman Enough (2002) has sold more than 200,000 copies. Both were New York Times bestsellers.
The Little Black Book of Wine
Elizabeth Poyet - 2004
Let's toast this essential and unpretentious course on wine, which demystifies the lingo and lore, while educating on how to serve, preserve, store, and evaluate wines.
Drawing Dragons: Learn How to Create Fantastic Fire-Breathing Dragons
Sandra Staple - 2008
You’ll discover how to draw all types of dragons using nothing but a pencil. Drawing Dragons shows how to bring to life fierce warriors and bearded ancients as well as baby hatchlings and protective mothers. It also features a special section on adding claws, scales, horns, jewels and other unique details to your dragons.Learn to draw:• Ferocious, attacking dragons•Graceful sea dragons•Fire-breathing flying dragons•Wise, thoughtful dragons
The Poison Tree - Planted and Grown in Egypt
Marwa Rakha - 2008
I branched out and my branches carried me far away from the roots and the ground. I questioned the tutoring of my conservative society and green leaves covered my bare branches. My tree bore its fruits; poisoned fruits that were the poison of many who dropped dead next to the solid stubborn tree. This is a book about love, marriage, divorce, sex, dating, virginity, adult dating, religion, shame, taboos, gender wars and fear that grew and blossomed on my poison tree.
The SAS Guide to Tracking, New and Revised
Bob Carss - 2000
Former-SAS member Bob Carss shows how to track any moving thing, in any environment, and under nearly any circumstance. Included are tips on: The SAS Guide to Tracking is a remarkable guide to developing a new awareness of the outdoors and is the perfect companion for naturalists, outdoorspeople, hunters, wildlife photographers, search-and-rescue teams, and law enforcement. With a Foreword by John “Lofty” Wiseman, author of The SAS Survival Handbook
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon - 2012
That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.
The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
Marti Olsen Laney - 2002
The better news is that by celebrating the inner strengths and uniqueness of being an "innie" THE INTROVERT ADVANTAGE shows introverts, and the extroverts who love them, how to work with instead of against their temperament to enjoy a well-lived life. Covering relationships, parenting - including parenting the introverted child - socialising, and the workplace, here are coping strategies, tactics for managing energy, and hundreds of valuable tips for not only surviving but truly thriving in an extrovert world.
The Liver Cleansing Diet
Sandra Cabot - 1987
Cabot's award-winning eight-week diet plan for cleansing the liver, including her groundbreaking healing soup and raw juice recipes. New sections examine natural therapies for reversing a fatty liver, healthy strategies for children who have a fatty liver or are overweight, nutritional medicine for hepatitis C and B, and statistics showing why drug therapy alone is generally not successful in the long term.
A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies
John Wiley & Sons - 2011
From that first printing of that first book came a series unlike anything in the publishing world, one that is global in both geography - we have been published worldwide in some 30 languages - and in coverage. No single volume can hope to summarize what thousands of titles have meant to millions of readers over the years, and we don't claim to do that in this e-book. Rather, this e-book celebrates the breadth and depth of the For Dummies series, offering 20 chapters - in honor of our 20 years - from a list of books compiled by our global colleagues. We are confident the chapters we've included give you a representative glimpse at why - no matter what the topic - our products have meant so much to so many by Making Everything Easier. We've grouped our chapters into five main parts:Part I: Dummies Classics, offers four chapters from some of our best-loved books. There's a chapter from DOS For Dummies, the book that started it all, and chapters from two of our best-sellers: Windows 7 For Dummies and Sex For Dummies. And just for a bit of spice, we've included a chapter from French For Dummies.Part II: Daily Dose of Dummies, offers the kind of lifestyle, self-help, and business skills that our readers have come to treasure. There's one of our famous Part of Tens chapters from Cognititive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies and a chapter from Meditation For Dummies to help you get your center. Chapters from Leadership For Dummies and Marketing For Dummies help you develop new skills for the marketplace.Part III, Fun with Dummies, celebrates life and all it has to offer. We've got chapters here from The Royal Wedding For Dummies, Guitar For Dummies, Digital Photography SLR All-in-One For Dummies, Puppies for Dummies, Knitting For Dummies, and Wine For Dummies.Part IV, Get Social, highlights how we help you grow and develop new skills. Chapters here come from Facebook For Dummies, Social Media Marketing For Dummies, and Dating For Dummies.Part V, Going Global, shares the worldwide appeal of the For Dummies series. These chapters from British History For Dummies, Canadian History For Dummies, and Rugby Union For Dummies were created by our global colleagues and authors and show how the For Dummies approach applies not only to whatever the subject is at hand, but also wherever the discussion is taking place.Download and enjoy!