English Linguistics

"The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continue'd variety for three-score years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (whereof once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia at last grew rich, liv'd honest, and died a penitent."

Paula Power, the daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She commissions a young architect from London, George Somerset, to undertake the work. Somerset falls in love with Paula. But Paula, the Laodicean of the title, meaning a person who is lukewarm or halfhearted, is torn between George's admiration and that of Captain De Stancy, whose old-world romanticism contrasts with Somerset's forward-looking outlook.

Covert techniques of emotional manipulation are control methods that are underhanded. Methodically, emotional manipulation wears down your self-esteem and destroys your trust in your own perceptions. It can unintentionally cause you to compromise your personal boundaries and lose your self-respect, thus leading to a skewed view of yourself and reality.

Even the most erudite among us use words like apocryphal, facetious, ironic, meteorite, moot, redundant, and unique incorrectly every day. Don’t be one of them. Using examples of misuse from leading newspapers, prominent public figures and famous writers, among others, language gurus Ross Petras and Kathryn Petras explain how to avoid these perilous pitfalls in the English language.

Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then, Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. But at the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all....

Written by the author of The Wind in the Willows, this collection of imaginative tales includes "Dies Irae", "Mutabile Semper", "The Magic Ring", "Its Walls Were as of Jasper", "A Saga of the Seas", "The Reluctant Dragon", and "A Departure".

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a beloved and prolific Canadian author, best known for her Anne of Green Gables series. She was also the author of over 500 short stories, poems, and essays. This delightful collection includes 20 of her earliest short stories, ranging from tales of fated romance to school friendships to Christmas miracles, all touching on the narrative themes of class, family, belonging, and romance that characterize her work.

This delightful sequel to Webster's Daddy Long-Legs centers on socialite Sallie McBride, who reluctantly agrees to become director of an orphan asylum. The asylum's benefactors, her friends Judy and Jervis Pendleton, insist she is just the person to institute the sweeping reforms the institution needs. The exuberant Sallie soon begins ruffling feathers of the staff, filling the children's lives with hope and love, and locking horns with the new Scotch doctor, the Dear Enemy of the title.

With insider tips, usually only known to top debaters, this book will help you maximize your chances of winning debates and receiving praise for your new remarkable skills. With examples from classical literature and advice compiled from many different sources, this book will ground you in methods that have been developed over centuries of rhetorical exercise.

Practitioners of neurolinguistic programming are able to apply various techniques to solve problems such as phobias, depression, habitual disorders, learning disorders and many more. So using the NLP Technique, you can take control of your mind, influence others, and improve many aspects of your life. There are many uses of NLP, some are therapeutic; others have been modified for use outside of psychotherapy, such as interpersonal skills, motivation, management training, sales and sports performance.

Do you want the power to change your thoughts, behaviors, and your future? Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) can help you to do just this. Through various practical techniques, NLP empowers you to be a better individual both inside and out. Your enthusiasm for life and positive demeanor become infectious, and people will flock to you for advice on how they can achieve the same outcomes. Once you transform your mind, you open yourself up to exponential change. NLP provides all the tools to obtain this transformation.

This compact but powerful book argues for the primacy of language - of the words we speak - as a force for creating the lives we want to lead. There are ways of speaking that will produce action and change, and there are ways of speaking that don’t. This book explores that distinction. For anyone who is wanting to lead a more intentional, focused, and powerful life, Change Your World One Word at a Time is both inspirational and practical.

An individual who regards himself as an influencer will often try to help a person in one manner or another, in general. The manipulators are a reverse opposite, since their purpose is to regulate their victims secretly for their own gain, mostly without consideration for their victim. Therefore, in the difference between whether or not a specific action is of a manipulative nature, intention is something important to consider.

Swift's allegorical satire about religion and politics follows the lives of three brothers, Martin, Peter, and Jack, each of who represents a faction of the Christian faith - Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism, and the dissenting faiths, respectively. Each brother inherits a coat (representing religious practice) from their father (God) on the condition that they do not change it. But instead the three quarrelsome youths disobey their father and change their coats beyond recognition.

This book answers the most pressing questions we receive about Neuro Linguistic Programming and takes you on a journey that highlights how you can use NLP in personal development, communication, business, health, and other aspects of life.

The human brain is the most complex and powerful system in the universe, but many of us fail to live up to our full potential because of self-limiting beliefs, self-sabotaging behavior, and the inability to quiet our inner critic. What if you could retrain your brain? In The Armchair Psychologist, author Tom Shepherd teaches you how to transform your life by reprogramming your brain. This two-book bundle teaches you two different techniques that you can use to change your inner dialogue.

The information in this book is thoroughly researched to get the behaviors of different people and the solutions you can apply to understand them. Online content will offer you only short stories on how to meet and understand people, but this book offers you more insight and properly prepares you to meet different characters in your venture to analyze people.

The Lifelong Learner is about accomplishing your goals. The skill of learning is so valuable in life because without it, you are stuck in place, exactly where you are right now. No growth, no development, and nothing accomplished.

A criminal plot, a kidnapped youth, and a sinister intelligence on an alien world. Out-Hunter Ras Hume has a plan to steal a fortune with a shadowy underworld character, but the plot goes awry on the supposedly open world of Jumala, which is not as open as it seemed. A classic science fiction novella by sci-fi master Andre Norton.

In this ambitious book, Jieun Kiaer explores the lives of English words in the twenty-first century, when the creation and use of language has become an increasingly dynamic, interactive, and diverse process in which ordinary people have taken leading roles—offering such coinages as "flexitarian," "MeToo," "glow up," and "shitizen" to "No sabo kids" and beyond. As English language grows ever more diverse, Kiaer believes, we need a paradigm shift.