Resultados para "Miles" en Lengua y gramática

RELATO EN PRIMERA PERSONA DE LA AVENTURA ÉPICA QUE MARCÓ LA HISTORIA ANTIGUA. Obra clásica de la literatura y la historia griegas que narra la odisea vivida por un ejército de mercenarios helenos en las tierras del Imperio persa a finales del siglo V a.C. La narrativa de Jenofonte se centra en los eventos que siguen a la muerte de Ciro el Joven, quien había contratado a unos diez mil soldados griegos para apoyarlo en su intento de arrebatar el trono a su hermano, el rey Artajerjes II.

“Sin que importe quién es su interlocutor —desde Bernardo Hoyos hasta Amparo Grisales, desde Rodolfo Llinás hasta Alicia Machado—, María Elvira logra siempre volvérnoslo interesante, despertar nuestra atención y nuestras ganas de seguir el trazo de esa vida y esas ideas que se nos van apareciendo allí gracias al tino magistral con que ella las lleva”. Del Prólogo de Juan Esteban Constaín

This book is going to teach you how to overcome the obstacles that stand between you and succeeding in convincing others to your way of thinking. It will take a look at what arguing actually is in order to gain a better understanding of how to do it well and efficiently, tackle the prickly issue of just how ethical it is to persuade someone, and look at the different ways in which we fail in our arguments, both in winning and occasionally in reaching a decent resolution without devolving into fighting.

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering classroom communities. Award-winning educator Felicia Rose Chavez exposes the invisible politics of power and privilege that have silenced writers of color for far too long. It's more urgent than ever that we consciously work against traditions of dominance in the classroom, but what specific actions can we take to achieve authentically inclusive communities? The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop is a clear, compelling guidebook on a necessary step forward. 

Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women’s literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and diaries, we get to know the struggles and triumphs of Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia E. Butler, Willa Cather, Madeleine LEngle, Edna Ferber, Zora Neale Hurston, L.M. Montgomery, Anais Nin, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.

“I can’t imagine reading this book without being challenged and instructed, amused, amazed and aroused, and ultimately delighted.” —John Simon, New York Times Book Review Milan Kundera’s brilliant collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer...

“Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” — The New Republic "Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the...

*** CONTAINS AN EXLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR *** 'As breathless, complex and on-the-edge suspenseful as the finest thriller fiction - but it's all real, which makes it truly extraordinary' Lee Child 'McMafia for the new age' Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back...

So, you’re writing a book, or you want to write a book, or you have already written a book. Yay! Celebration! But how are you planning to promote your book and get it out to the public? The best time to start building hype for your book was a year ago. The next best time is TODAY. The point is—you don’t want to wait until the book is published to start promoting or you will be late to the game.

Every walk has a first step. For aspiring authors, it starts here. The Author’s Walk is a book you will refer to when you need inspiration, honest advice and insight, a thunderbolt boost to get your book started or completed, and a reminder that you have an author friend who has walked the path and is there to offer her hand. It is rich with personal anecdotes and nuggets of wisdom for your personal author success. You will learn the strategic, practical steps that optimized her writing and marketing, enabling her to activate profits and become a successful author with intentions.

Learn how to get your listener’s attention, keep her interest, and make your point—all in thirty seconds! Milo Frank, America’s foremost business communications consultant, shows you how to focus your objectives, utilize the “hook” technique, use the secrets of TV and advertising...

You are writing a book...or you have one already published and the OMG moment hits. You have made a mistake (or maybe a lot of them)...screwed up...or you may feel clueless about the tsunami of items you need to deal with. You do not want to fall further into the abyss of book creation and publishing. You need help and savvy guidance.

If you want to be a professional speaker, if you want to learn how to create a speech and speaking career that is successful, if you want to know how to write a speech that meeting planners and audiences want to hear, if you want to learn how to soar like a TED talk, if you want to be sought after as a public speaker, How to Create a $1,000,000 Speech is the audiobook for you.

It is True Dickinson's forty-third birthday, and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night in Cape Cod at a trendy neighborhood restaurant to celebrate. True has never felt more alone. It's been eight years since the death of her husband, leaving her to raise their son on her own. Both...

It remains without question the most memorable and memorized speech in American history. On November 19, 1863, in 272 words delivered among the freshly dug graves of Union dead upon the country's bloodiest battlefield, Abraham Lincoln redefined American liberty and forever altered the course of...