Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Educación y formación

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams sets aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the work and person of Walt Whitman, and attempts to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first encountered it, to explore why Whitman's epic "continues to inspire and sometimes daunt" him. The result is a personal reassessment and appreciation of one master poet by another, as well as an unconventional and brilliant introduction - or reintroduction - to Whitman.

How do brand names differ from other names, and what goes into making a good name great and a bad name ghastly? Knowing this can spell the difference between bankruptcy and marketplace triumph. In this indispensable guide, the authors share the secrets of successful brand names--how they've indelibly stamped cultures around the world; who makes them; why they're made; and how they're compiled, bought, sold, and protected.

English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it - only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than 20 languages. He sets out to explore these top 20 world languages, which range from the familiar (French, Spanish) to the surprising (Malay, Javanese, Bengali).

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots

To glimpse America’s future, one needs to look no further than its college campuses. Of those institutions, none holds more clout than Yale University, the hallowed “cradle of presidents”. In Sex and God at Yale, recent graduate Nathan Harden undresses perversity among the Ivy and ideology gone wild as the upper echelon of academia is mired in nothing less than a full-fledged moral crisis.

What does it take to have a long writing life? Drawing on her years of writing, teaching, and practicing Zen, Natalie Goldberg shares the experiences that have opened her to new ways of being alive - experiences that point the way forward in our lives and our writing. The "great spring" of this book title refers to the great rush of energy that arrives when you think no life will ever come again - the early yellow flowering forsythia, for example.

Anne Weiss hat den Kleiderschrank voll schicker Klamotten und eine teure Wohnung in der Innenstadt, in der sich Luxusartikel stapeln - alles, was sie sich nach Jahren auf der Karriereleiter endlich leisten kann. Stolz ist sie drauf, aber als sie ihren Job verliert, stellt das alles, woran sie bisher geglaubt hat, infrage. Wofür hat sie sich so abgestrampelt? Was ist das gute Leben, und wo in diesem ganzen Krempel ist eigentlich sie selbst? Und vor allem: Was macht dieser ganze Konsum eigentlich mit unserer Welt?

Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, Joan Didion, Franz Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and more. In Process, acclaimed journalist Sarah Stodola examines the creative methods of literature's most transformative figures. Each chapter contains a mini biography of one of the world's most lauded authors, focused solely on his or her writing process.

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank takes a fair and balanced look at the unsettling rise of the silly Fox News host Glenn Beck. Thomas Jefferson famously wrote that the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. In America in 2010, Glenn Beck provides the very refreshment Jefferson had in mind: Whether he's the patriot or the tyrant, he's definitely full of manure.

Philanthropy has long been a distinctive feature of American culture, but its crucial role in the economic well-being of the nation - and the world - has remained largely unexplored. Why Philanthropy Matters takes an in-depth look at philanthropy as an underappreciated force in capitalism, measures its critical influence on the free-market system, and demonstrates how American philanthropy could serve as a model for the productive reinvestment of wealth in other countries.

Adam Habib, the most prominent and outspoken university official through the recent student protests, takes a characteristically frank view of the past three years on South Africa's campuses in this new book. Habib charts the progress of the student protests that erupted on Wits University campus in late 2015 and raged for the better part of three years, drawing on his own intimate involvement and negotiation with the students, and also records university management and government responses to the events.

Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day. Did you know that silly once meant "blessed"? Or that ought was the original past tense of owe? Or that the suffix -ly in adverbs is actually a remnant of the word like? And have you ever wondered why some people from New Orleans sound as if they come from Brooklyn?

How to Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook. It tells you about every aspect of writing, from having an idea to getting the idea out into the world and getting paid for it, too. It covers everything from journalism to screenwriting, from speeches to sketches, from sitcoms to novels. With thirty years' experience as an award-winning scriptwriter, journalist, author, and broadcaster, David Quantick is ideally suited, as a writer, to write this definitive writer's guide to writing...everything.

Hygge ist ein dänisches Wort mit vielen Bedeutungen, von "Kunst der Innigkeit" über "Gemütlichkeit der Seele" und "Abwesenheit jeglicher Störfaktoren" bis hin zu "Freude an der Gegenwart beruhigender Dinge", "gemütliches Beisammensein" oder gar "Kakao bei Kerzenschein". Hygge ist warmes Licht und ein kuscheliges Sofa, Picknicken im Sommer und Glögg trinken im Winter. Und Hygge ist eine Haltung, die man lernen kann!

Raus aus dem digitalen Hamsterrad! Das Leben entschleunigen, Stress reduzieren, Handyhörigkeit ablegen, ständige Erreichbarkeit unterbinden und endlich wieder die Kussbilanz verbessern - dieses Hörbuch zeigt, wie's geht! Es eröffnet Ihnen einfache Wege aus der digitalen Leibeigenschaft und hält über 100 Digital-Detox-Tipps für einen Alltag ohne E-Mail-Flut und Digitalisierungswahnsinn bereit. Schonungslos ehrlich, gnadenlos charmant, ausnahmslos effektiv.

Akzeptieren, was ist, bedeutet eine Einladung zu persönlicher Entwicklung und innerem Frieden. Statt zu grübeln, was hätte sein können, wenn..., beginnen wir zu erkennen, was wir tun können, um die Situation zu verbessern. Wir fragen nicht mehr Warum oder Warum ich? , sondern Wozu? und Was jetzt? . Die Freude des Loslassens: ein praxisnaher Weg zu mehr Gelassenheit.

Achtsamkeit ermöglicht uns, wach und entspannt im Hier und Jetzt zu leben. Die kleinen, kompakten Pocketguides aus der Reihe "Achtsam leben" eignen sich für den unkomplizierten Einstieg und sind randvoll mit Anregungen, Übungen und fundierten Impulsen für die Umsetzung im Alltag. Alle Bände wurden von erfahrenen Psychologen, Achtsamkeitslehrern oder Lebensberatern entwickelt.

Kränkungen und seelische Verletzungen führen oft zu Groll und Rachegefühlen. Darunter leiden in erster Linie wir selbst. Dieses Buch ermutigt, eigene Ressourcen zu entdecken und den Opfer-Status zu verlassen: So kann Vergebung aus der Bitterkeit zu innerem Frieden führen.

Vertrauen ist die Grundlage von Offenheit, Entspannung und einem guten Selbstwertgefühl. Dabei gibt es drei Formen, die sich ergänzen: Vertrauen in uns selbst, in andere Menschen und in das Leben. Wie wir sie entwickeln können und dabei Herz und Verstand verbinden, zeigt dieses Hörbuch mit Anregungen zum Nachdenken und vielen praktischen Übungen. So können wir lernen, mit entspannter Zuversicht durchs Leben zu gehen.