English Language Development

Faulty grammar can slow you down and diminish your credibility as a business writer. Essential Grammar has just one objective: to help you use correct English in the documents you write for work. Correct writing is an excellent way to boost your professional credibility. Here are some of the skills the book helps you master: writing grammatically correct sentences, using the right forms of pronouns and verbs, distinguishing between commonly confused words, and knowing when and where to use punctuation marks.

This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army: the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E. Lee. General Lee's Army takes listeners across the Rebel landscape, from campfires to battlefields to their homes, as it portrays a world of life, death, healing, and hardship.

In Understanding Software, Max Kanat-Alexander, Technical Lead for Code Health at Google, shows you how to bring simplicity back to computer programming. Max explains to you why programmers suck, and how to suck less as a programmer. There's just too much complex stuff in the world. Complex stuff can't be used, and it breaks too easily. Complexity is stupid. Simplicity is smart.

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s. While the anecdote about Audible staffers stumbling out of an anonymous casino might be in doubt, one thing’s for sure – this fun listen is the bee’s knees.

This powerful guide reveals the covert tactics used by master persuaders, from politicians to con artists. You'll learn to decode body language, influence others effortlessly, and protect yourself from psychological warfare.

Life can be easier - with the help of this clear and easy-to-understand dark psychology audiobook! It tackles woes in the workplace, love, life direction, and more. Dark Psychology 7 in 1 includes seven books with psychological tests to detect your "darkness" and gain insight into your unknown side. Think you can't do it? Tell yourself "I can" first. In order to break through the status quo, we must first seriously deceive ourselves! Learn how to organize a number of dark warnings so that you can effectively use intuition at will to control people's hearts.

Want to learn Python and start coding real apps in just 7 days? Start from scratch—even if you’ve never written a single line of code—and build real projects you’ll be proud of. In this beginner-friendly crash course, you'll learn Python the easy way with hands-on projects, clear step-by-step instructions, and zero fluff. Whether you're a total newbie, a student, or just curious about coding, this book will get you started the right way.

R in Action, Second Edition teaches you how to use the R language by presenting examples relevant to scientific, technical, and business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics, including elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually. And this expanded second edition includes new chapters on forecasting, data mining, and dynamic report writing.

Learn Windows PowerShell in a Month of Lunches, third edition, is an innovative tutorial designed for busy IT professionals. Just set aside one hour a day - lunchtime would be perfect - for a month, and you'll be automating Windows tasks faster than you ever thought possible. This updated edition covers PowerShell features that run on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and later, and PowerShell v3 and later, and includes v5 features like PowerShellGet.

You're on vacation in the Caribbean when you find yourself caught up in a web of intrigue and adventure. Suddenly, it's up to you to save the island from an eccentric local industrialist, and success will depend on your ability to learn enough Spanish to complete your mission....

Introducing "Thriving Application Development for Modern Platforms" – a game-changing eBook that will provide you with the knowledge and guidance to become a trailblazer in the world of IoT application development. This comprehensive and cutting-edge guide offers a step-by-step journey through the rapidly growing and exciting field of IoT-enabled smart home energy management systems. Are you ready to leverage the power of modern platforms and join the elite group of thriving IoT application developers? "Thriving Application Development for Modern Platforms" meticulously navigates a range ...

Written by an airline pilot and a clinical psychologist, this combination of practical explanation and self-help techniques is the definitive guide to help nervous passengers overcome their fear of flying. Lighthearted, unpatronising and informative.

This book is a collection of stories revolving around language by a seasoned conference interpreter and former chief interpreter in the United Nations system. Ewandro Magalhaes shares actionable career insights and offers an insider’s look into practical and historical aspects of one of the most exciting and stressful professions known to man.

Envision yourself harnessing the power of dark psychology, understanding the strategies employed by master manipulators throughout history, and using this knowledge to positively shape outcomes in your favor.

Are you sure that everything around you is the result of your decisions? If you ever felt being manipulated or uncomfortable with some people, then keep reading. Family, friends, work colleagues, are the relationship that you have created during your life experience. Unfortunately, around you, there are some people who use deception as normal. They use hidden manipulative techniques to control others and situations in their favor. If you cannot master your emotions, you become vulnerable to those techniques.

Through giving couple-therapy and seduction workshops for over 40 years, Neil and Jack have seen it all and changed thousands of lives for the better by giving you the skill set and bravado to create attraction and closing the deal, while remaining who you truly are inside.

Do you want to know how to analyze people instantly? Do you want to know if someone is lying straight to your face? Do you want to avoid making the wrong assumption about someone? If you are tired of it, then you’ve just found the key to mastering it all! Knowing who people are, and what they want to do with you, gives you the power to decide how to deal with them. Most people are in your life for a reason. Some are bad, while some are good. You can make better choices if you analyze them correctly.

The essential skill that helps you form more rewarding interpersonal relationships, boost professional relationships, improve your overall social life, and generally lead a happier life is the skill of speed-reading people accurately. The gift of being able to read people's feelings, thoughts, and behavior is probably what sets apart exceptional performers from average folks. Analyzing other humans isn't a skill we are all born with, but it can be acquired with training and practice.

Experts have actually proven that most of what we communicate is through our actual body language, with about 60 to 90 percent of the way we communicate being nonverbal. But in How to Analyze People 101, not only will you become an expert at recognizing the different types of body language, but also how to master human behavior and emotions so you can build the ultimate relationships you want in life.

Just say Nu is a practical guide to using Yiddish words and expressions in day-to-day situations. Along with enough grammar to enable listeners to put together a comprehensible sentence and avoid embarrassing mistakes, Wex also explains the five most useful Yiddish words–shoyn, nu, epes, takeh, and nebakh–what they mean, how and when to use them, and how they can be used to conduct an entire conversation without anybody ever suspecting that the listener doesn't have the vaguest idea of what anyone is actually saying.