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37 produkter
Fruit Garden; a Treatise Intended to Explain and Illustrate the Physiology of Fruit Trees, the T
Inbunden, 2022
428 kr
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Fruit Garden; a Treatise Intended to Explain and Illustrate the Physiology of Fruit Trees, the T
Häftad, 2022
314 kr
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Good with Words
Writing and Editing
Häftad, 2019
192 kr
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If your success at work or in school depends on your ability to communicate persuasively in writing, you’ll want to get Good with Words. Based on a course that law students at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago have called "outstanding," "A-M-A-Z-I-N-G," and "the best course I …
Syntax of Sports, Class 1
The Words Under the Words
Häftad, 2019
224 kr
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The Syntax of Sports is that course you wish you took in college—even if you aren’t a sports fan. It’s interesting. It’s practical. It’s inspiring. And best of all, it teaches you a skill that is at once highly marketable and potentially transforming: how to become a better thinker and writer.The …
Syntax of Sports, Class 3
The Rule of Three
Häftad, 2021
224 kr
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It’s not an accident that hall of fame coaches, Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, and the marketing teams at the most innovative companies in the world often rely on a certain three-part structure when trying to communicate their ideas. This third volume of The Syntax of Sports series explores the …
Syntax of Sports, Class 2
The Power of the Particular
Häftad, 2020
224 kr
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What can we learn from baseball great Ted Williams about how to improve our writing? What can we learn we from the iconic ESPN show SportsCenter about how to manage information? And are you sure you really know what the word “peruse” means? Explore these and other questions in the second volume of …
Notes on Nuance
Volume 1
Häftad, 2021
177 kr
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To succeed in law, business, education, government, health care, and many other fields, it is becoming increasingly important to distinguish yourself as a savvy communicator. Social media has only accelerated the ways in which we all must learn to use our words to connect, compete, and create. …
Good with Words
Speaking and Presenting
Häftad, 2021
224 kr
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Suppose you were good with words. Suppose when you decided to speak, the message you delivered—and the way you delivered it—successfully connected with your intended audience. What would that mean for your career prospects? What would that mean for your comfort level in social situations? And …
Syntax of Sports, Class 4
Parallel Structure
Häftad, 2022
208 kr
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“Once you find the right structure, perhaps it will be easier to find the right content.” That’s one of the key insights from this fourth book in the series The Syntax of Sports. Others include:The importance of being “radically inclusive”The power of defining something by what it is notThe …
Editing and Advocacy
Häftad, 2023
213 kr
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Good editors don’t just see the sentence that was written. They see the sentence that might have been written. They know how to spot words that shouldn’t be included and summon up ones that haven’t yet appeared. Their value comes not just from preventing mistakes but from discovering new ways to …
Punctuation and Persuasion
Häftad, 2022
200 kr
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With a little knowledge and a lot of practice, you can do more than just sound more professional when you skillfully use commas, semicolons, and other forms of punctuation. You can, importantly, become more persuasive. That’s what students who have taken Professor Patrick Barry’s classes at the …
Feedback Loops
How to Give and Receive High-Quality Feedback
Häftad, 2023
213 kr
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Learning how to give and receive feedback is fundamental to the development of every student and professional. Yet few of us are ever taught anything like “feedback skills.” This book, which is the first in the Feedback Loops series, is designed to change that. Here is what students who have taken …
Syntax of Sports, Class 6
Drafting and Editing
Häftad, 2024
284 kr
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How do you start a piece of writing? How do you edit one? And what can be done to combat those pesky—and paralyzing—feelings of perfectionism that often derail our most important sentences and paragraphs? This sixth volume of the Syntax of Sports series creatively uses the language of baseball, …
Syntax of Sports, Class 7
Information Flow
Häftad, 2025
208 kr
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What can sports fans who start “the wave” at a big stadium teach us about getting people to speak up in class or at an important meeting? What can the poet Maya Angelou and the boxer Joe Louis teach us about streamlining sentences and paragraphs? And how exactly do we get our ideas to flow in …
AI Tips and Traps
Häftad, 2026
286 kr
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Based on a series of popular courses and workshops that Professor Patrick Barry has created for students, professionals, and anyone else interested in taking a skills-based approach to artificial intelligence, this book gives you a chance to engage with important AI concepts, experiment with …
Wisdom from the Monastery
The Rule of St.Benedict for Everyday Life
E-bok, 2005
138 kr
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A publication with guidance that can be adapted to any individual circumstances and a centuries old, proven guide on how to live in community with others. Here is Benedictine spirituality in essence: the timeless wisdom of the Rule and a basic orientation and includes Patrick Barry''s translation …
Wisdom from the Monastery
The Rule of St.Benedict for Everyday Life
Av Patrick Barry, Richard Yeo m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
227 kr
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The Rule of St Benedict, just 9000 words long and written 1500 years ago, has proved to be one of the most timeless, influential and lasting of all texts. Its realism about human character, its extraordinary practical wisdom and its original recipe for creating a work/life balance have made it …
