English Linguistics

An insider’s tour through the construction of invented languages from the bestselling author and creator of languages for Legendary's Dune, the HBO series Game of Thrones and the Syfy series Defiance.

NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) is a systematic approach to mental programming born in America. Mental manipulation is a discipline that studies factors that influence socially. Thanks to this guide, you will be able to recognize the various methods applied and take the appropriate countermeasures. This will lead you to have a competitive advantage in business, personal relationships, and in all fields of your interest.

Kept in the Dark is a probing psychological portrait of the near destruction of a marriage - a novel that combines keen insights with vigorous emotional strength. Jealousy, guilt, excessive pride, and compulsion all sweep across its surface.

Stop self-defeating behaviors and act with intention. You’ll thank yourself later. What you receive in life is dictated by your self-discipline. The more you have, the more you get. Will you settle for less than you desire? Get your habits into shape and start living the life that you want. How to make willpower automatic, second nature, and habitual.

You are about to learn how to become a high performer, achieve success and live happily today by changing your mindset, thought patterns and your willpower! Being an extraordinary person who always achieves extraordinary results in anything doesn’t have to be difficult. The audiobook will teach you, among other things: How to have the right mindset for success, how to establish the right habits or attitude for success and happiness, how to boost your willpower and self-discipline for success, and much, much more!

Stalky & Co. is a book published in 1899 (following serialization in the Windsor Magazine) by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories in format, with some information about the charismatic Stalky character in later life. The character Beetle, one of the main trio, is partly based on Kipling himself. Stalky is based on Lionel Dunsterville, M'Turk is based on George Charles Beresford, and Mr. King is based on William Carr Crofts.

After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology.

Embrace personal growth, build self-esteem and self-confidence, and train your mind to be resilient and powerful with the guidance in this book. Filled with mindset training techniques and strategies to foster a growth mindset, this powerful book will help you increase your ability to fulfill your potential and master your life.

This book makes no assumptions. It is made for anyone who understands that to get a positive outlook in life needs work and may demand to make changes across areas, but the results are well worth the work. It is your ticket to dreaming, daring, doing, and achieving more than you ever thought possible, all from leveraging your mind.

We are all victims of manipulation in one way or another. From our normal day-to-day interactions, the media, societal influences, or even in our jobs, dark psychology tactics are everywhere. You would be surprised that it is not always “evil” people who use them, but we also use them in pursuing the things we want in life. In fact, some alpha males use these exact tactics in getting what they desire.

Deathworld centers on Jason dinAlt, a professional gambler who uses his somewhat erratic psionic abilities to tip the odds in his favor. He is challenged by a man named Kerk Pyrrus (who turns out to be the ambassador from the planet Pyrrus) to turn a large amount of money into an immense sum by gambling at a government-run casino. He succeeds and survives the planetary government's desperate efforts to steal back the money.

What is memory? What is NLP? This great bundle-pack explains the differences between short- and long-term memory, defines the neurology and parameters of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and introduces you to essential NLP concepts with meditation to improve your mental power! These audiobooks teach memory techniques such as expanding your attention span, being more alert, and increasing your creativity and imagination.

Speed-read people, decipher body language, detect deception, and get to the truth. We live in a world where dishonesty and lies are seemingly everywhere. From fake news and problematic media outlets to corrupt management in our workplaces and selfish friends, there’s no doubt that as you grow older, you become more cynical and more distrusting of the world and the people in it. What if there was a way to spot the lies and take yourself closer to the truth? Well, there is, and it’s all detailed in this very audiobook.

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language. Now, in Next of Kin, Fouts tells the dramatic story of his odyssey from novice researcher to celebrity scientist and caretaker of a family of chimpanzees, to his impassioned awakening as a crusader for the rights of animals.

Mrs. Wiggs and her five children find themselves in danger of losing their shack in the cabbage patch, as they are falling behind on the mortgage and unable to get the necessary employment that they need. They are so deep in debt that they must sell the beautiful Christmas dinner that is donated to them by the local church in order to buy cheaper food supplies. Her oldest son, Jimmy, who is often the breadwinner, grows sicker and sicker until he passes away and Mrs. Wiggs turns to Lucy.

You are about to discover the methodology behind the most powerful strategy to transform your body fast. You see, whether you realize it or not, your subconscious mind can help you stay motivated and committed to your weight-loss journey so that you enjoy it and never fall off track. Are you tired of depressing diets, soul-crushing workouts, and yo-yoing back and forth? Would you like to change your relationship with health, fitness, and dieting?

The Voyage Out is Virginia Woolf's haunting tale about a naïve young woman's sea voyage from London to a small resort on the South American coast. In symbolic, lyrical, and intoxicating prose, her outward journey begins to mirror her internal voyage into adulthood as she searches for her personal identity, grapples with love, and learns how to face life intellectually and emotionally. Its wit and exquisiteness, and its profound depth and insight into humanity, will capture the imagination of the listener.

This is the story of the mystical travels of Diamond, a coachman's son, through distant lands and strange events while riding on the back of the beautiful North Wind.

Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.

In Whatever Works, Thalma Lobel explores groundbreaking psychological research on job performance, satisfaction, and creativity. Did you know that just doodling in a certain way can increase your creativity? That looking at something green for forty seconds will improve your attention? That crossing your legs similarly to an interviewer could get you the job? That the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk can lessen your performance, even if it's turned off? These are the invisible factors that nudge our behavior on a daily basis.