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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

"The Elements of Style" is an American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was written by William Strunk Jr. in 1918, and it was published by Harcourt in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage," ten "elementary principles of composition," "a few matters of form," a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused," and a list of 57 "words often misspelled."

अहमदाबाद में आपका स्वागत है! साबरमती नदी के तट पर बसी आदिवासी बस्ती, अशावल, कैसे बनी अहमदाबाद—भारत के सबसे तेज़ी से बढ़ते शहरों में से एक? जानने के लिए पढ़ें अहमदाबाद की कहानी!

भारत के प्रसिद्ध शहरों और नगरों की कहानियों को करीबी से जानिए, मनोरंजक अन्दाज़ में लिखी और सुंदर चित्रों से भरपूर इस अद्भुत शृंखला के साथ!

This isn't a typical book on writing essays. First, it's for college students, graduate students, and even high school students—good writing is good writing; all that changes is the length and complexity of what you write. But the plan stays the same. Second, I'm not going to tell you any cute stories about writing. I'm not going to tell you the standard information about writing. Nor am I going to give you a simple formula for writing an essay. They don't work, and in the long run, they won't help you. What I am going to do is give you a plan for how you should approach writing essays.

Les tropes sont partout : sur les réseaux sociaux, nichés au cœur des intrigues... Ils nourrissent les attentes des lecteurs et guident les auteurs. Mais que sont les tropes, précisément ? À quoi servent-ils vraiment ? Et surtout, comment manier ces « clichés » sans en devenir un soi-même ?

Forget everything you think you know about writing and get ready to discover a transformational approach for wellbeing, productivity, better relationships and more creative thinking, in just 6 minutes a day.

La familia Luca de Tena alumbró hace más de una centuria un nuevo medio que resultaría muy pronto determinante en el panorama informativo español: ABC . Por las páginas de ese buque insignia de nuestra prensa han pasado los mejores escritores, los periodistas más avezados, las figuras más destacadas del pasado siglo (y los albores del actual) en todos los órdenes de la vida social y cultural. Ramón Pérez-Maura ha conocido de primera mano las tres últimas décadas de esa larga y fecunda trayectoria.

¿Eres capaz de resumir la historia de tu vida, de contar las andanzas del héroe o la heroína que la protagoniza, las pruebas que ha debido superar o los retos que tiene ante sí? El modo en que contamos lo que nos pasa y se lo contamos a los demás influye en gran medida en cómo nos percibimos y en nuestro bienestar. La vida, nuestra vida, es tan perfecta como misteriosa; tener un relato de ella es una buena forma de comprender su sentido y obtener pistas para orientar nuestro comportamiento. Este libro te da herramientas, aderezadas con ejemplos de buenos cuentos, para que aprendas a poner en palabras el relato de tu vida.

From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps—the largest oral history project in the nation's history—presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And...

Du träumst davon, ein Expertenbuch zu schreiben und damit deine Sichtbarkeit und Glaubwürdigkeit als Expertin bzw. Experte zu steigern? Aber irgendwie fehlen dir das Know-How und der Mut, den ersten Schritt zu wagen? Und einen Verlag hast du natürlich auch nicht an der Hand!? Du bist nicht allein. Viele Experten scheuen sich davor, sich den Herausforderungen eines Buchprojekts zu stellen, geschweige denn das Buch selbst zu veröffentlichen. Doch mit diesem Hörbuch ändert sich das!

Your Life Is a Book by memoirist Brenda Peterson and literary agent Sarah Jane Freymann is a practical and inspiring guide. We offer storytelling insights and writing prompts on finding your voice, self-discovery, and the publishing process. Oprah.com chose Your Life Is a Book as “self-help advice that works,” and “the process of writing about your past can lead to a boost in self-acceptance, self-awareness, and fulfillment.” Memoir is like a love story, with all the ecstasies, disappointments, and turning points of any relationship. It is a pilgrimage to come home to your life story.

The world may have committed at Paris to hold back dangerous climate change, but Australia's fossil-fuel giant Woodside is doubling down: it has bold new plans to keep producing gas out to 2070. Support from the major parties is locked in, so something has to give. This is a story of power and influence, pollution and protest. How does one company capture a country? How convincing is Woodside's argument that gas is a necessary transition fuel, as the world decarbonises? And what is the new "energy realism" narrative being pushed by Trump's White House?

Prastut pustak mein samaachaaron ke sankalan, sampreshan, samyak prastuteekaran tatha sampaadan kee jaanakaaree dee gaee hai. Paathakon kee suvidha ke lie prastut pustak ko aath khandon mein baanta gaya hai. Pratyek khand mein patrakaar, samaachaar patr aur samaachaar ke sampaadan se judee vidhaon par vistrt charcha kee gaee hai. Is pustak mein patrakaarita ke saath samaachaar patr prakaashan kee any vidhaon jaise kampojing, prosesing, printing tatha vigyaapan ke baare mein bhee charcha kee gaee hai.

The acclaimed author of Sins of My Father shares the secrets of writing a new, transformative kind of memoir. Into being is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing, Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the craft of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

This Very Short Introduction is a general introduction to oral history from the interview to the archive. Douglas A. Boyd examines the oral history interview, recording techniques and strategies, technologies for making oral history accessible, and the legal and ethical implications throughout the work of oral history. Boyd also pays special attention to the role of the archive and the importance of memory.

Glued to their screens for news alerts, financial traders must quickly decipher which ones are most reliable in order to make effective trading decisions. Journalists know that the headlines they craft must instantly grab the attention of a trader. This book focuses on the relatively unknown "Headlines" desk in newswire services, where journalists type breaking news for subscribers and the public. Drawing on their experiences as former Bloomberg headline writers, Chandran and Lyte reveal the processes of these teams that deftly link the two sides of news: information and interpretation.

This inaugural edition of what will be a yearly collection offers a fascinating variety of essays and crime reporting, taken from regional, national, and international publications. The stories range from reports of homicide at a Toronto massage parlor to blackmail and murder-for-hire in Austin, Texas, to an unusual murder weapon in rural Minnesota. Other stories examine controversial rehabilitation techniques for sexual criminals and explore the phenomenon of victims' relatives appearing as guests at true crime conventions.