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This is a summary of the book, “The Secret”, written by author Rhonda Byrne. As you make your way through this summary, discover how to manifest your desires through visualization, gratitude and positive energy.

Shhh. Did you know there is a secret Language of Leadership: a timeless set of cues and signals that still determines who reaches the top in politics and business today? The ancient Greeks were the first to study the art of communication 2,500 years ago. It is only now, with recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, that we can say for sure what works and how.

Top speechwriter Simon Lancaster explains that the secret of brilliant communication is all about making connections. Whether in speech or in writing, at a networking event or in an email, at work or at home, the best communicators find ways of connecting with their audiences. More than that, they are able to connect the personal with the universal, the past with the present, the abstract with the everyday, the visual with the verbal, the moral with the mundane.

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.

This is the audio summary of Find Your Why, a book that digs deep into one of the most crucial aspects of any business or career, and the first step to seeing progress - finding the why behind doing what you do.

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct - and often failing as a result - we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, or rhetoric.

This is the Podcast where you learn how professional jazz players practice. In short and concise episodes, jazz trombone player Simon Petermann shares insights that show how a consistent practice routine looks like, so you can create your practice routine yourself. Learn how to play improv jazz solos live on stage with confidence with the JazzMind System.More info: https://www.jazzmindaccelerator.com/getstarted

Written during his time in Reading Gaol, De Profundis is Oscar Wilde's moving letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, whose relationship with Wilde led to the poet's imprisonment. Here Wilde repudiates Lord Alfred and reflects on his ordeal, acknowledging how the depths of his sorrow have helped liberate him toward a fuller, freer wisdom. Brimming with beautiful passages, De Profundis is a profound and inspiring treatise on the meaning of suffering.

Have we been taught to discount the veracity and deeper meaning of our emotional resonance with the world around us? In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English "prep school" and begins to wonder if this subliminal teaching has indeed produced a generation who discount such a nature.

A sinister masterpiece, Our Mutual Friend was Dickens' last completed novel. It is perhaps his ultimate vision of a dark, macabre London and the corrupting power of money.

Learn Catalan intuitively by listening to carefully crafted short stories designed specifically for beginner and intermediate learners (A1-A2 levels). This audiobook course teaches you Catalan the way you learned your first language—naturally, through context and repetition.

This audio program introduces Québec French through 50 short and accessible stories designed for beginners. Each story is first told in French, then repeated with a clear English translation, helping learners quickly connect new expressions with familiar language. The course emphasizes everyday vocabulary and simple sentence structures that reflect how French is spoken in Québec today.

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you home again: we use these words without thinking about their origins or how their meanings have changed over time. Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories.

Papyrus rolls and Twitter have much in common, as each was their generation's signature means of "instant" communication. Indeed, as Tom Standage reveals in his scintillating new audiobook, social media is anything but a new phenomenon. From the papyrus letters that Roman statesmen used to exchange news across the Empire to the advent of hand-printed tracts of the Reformation to the pamphlets that spread propaganda during the American and French revolutions, Standage chronicles the increasingly sophisticated ways people shared information with each other....

Millionen Leser weltweit haben Frag Immer erst: warum gelesen und waren begeistert. Dieses Buch ist der nächste Schritt für alle Fans von Simon Sinek und seinen Start-With-Why-Ansatz - ein Arbeitsbuch, um sein ganz persönliches Warum herauszufinden. Und mit dem sich diese Erkenntnisse konkret in Alltag, Team, Unternehmen und Karriere anwenden lassen. Mit zwei Koautoren hat Sinek einen detaillierten Leitfaden erstellt, der Punkt für Punkt zum eigenen Warum führt. Und dabei häufige Fragen beantwortet wie: Was ist, wenn mein Warum dem der Konkurrenten gleicht?

If you already have the basics and want to learn more Norwegian, this advanced beginner audio course will boost your confidence to speak and understand. Practise the most frequent words and expressions for: having an encounter on a plane, arranging to meet, going to the chemist's, meeting the family, sightseeing in Oslo, buying clothes, having lunch at a restaurant, asking for directions, buying a rail ticket, saying goodbye.

When travelling, do you want to journey off the English-speaking path, meet people and communicate easily? If so then you need to Get Talking. Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you'll learn the skills for understanding and the confidence to speak Norwegian in just 10 days. Practise the most frequent words and expressions for: Introducing yourself. Making a telephone call. Arranging to meet. Going to a cafe. Talking about likes and dislikes. Asking the way. Going to the tourist information office. Going to a chemist.

Linguistik-Professor Simon Meier-Vieracker vermittelt uns die faszinierende Vielfalt der deutschen Sprache. Wir sprechen, also sind wir. In verschiedenen Gegenden Deutschlands wird unterschiedlich gesprochen. Die lokalen Dialekte haben nicht nur Kultstatus, sondern geben uns auch Auskunft über die Herkunft von Sprechenden. Während das Ende eines Brotstücks beispielsweise in Ostdeutschland oft als »Kanten« bezeichnet wird, sagt man in Hamburg eher »Knust« und im Schwabenland heißt es oft »Riebele«.

Award-winning historian David W. Blight, with the Yale and Slavery Research Project, answers the call to investigate Yale University’s historical involvement with slavery, the slave trade, and abolition. This narrative history demonstrates the importance of slavery in the making of this renowned American institution of higher learning.

In Business Spotlight Audio 09/2023 für September hören Sie Artikel und Interviews aus der Welt des Business-Englisch. Mit Übungen verbessern Sie Ihre sprachlichen und kommunikativen Kompetenzen. In „Career Coach“ geht es um Wertschätzung für die Leistungen anderer. In „Business Skills“ erhalten Sie Tipps, wie Sie aus Fehlern lernen können. In einem Interview geht es um Fliegen ohne CO2-Ausstoß und in einem Dialog um die Vor- und Nachteile virtuellen Lernens. Und Sie erfahren, wie es um den industriellen Anbau von Rosen in Bulgarien bestellt ist.