English Language Development

The words you use say a lot about who you are and where you're headed. Whether you want to express yourself clearly to impress a prospective employer during a job interview, or just brush up on those pesky words you encounter every so often reading the newspaper, Kaplan Word Power is the essential tool to help you expand your daily vocabulary.

Do you want to make the most of the little free time you have and feel confident that you are actively helping your child's communication skills in just a few minutes a day, no matter what their underlying challenges are?... Then you have come to the right place!

Critical thinking is a skill every person should possess. Sadly, it is all too common to follow the heard, to get stuck in old patterns or traditions, and to not see through the lies and deception of the world, whether intended or unintended. Reasoning can be a dangerous place for those who do not have the power or will to think for themselves. Moreover, it requires a little bit of an intelligence level to do so, and a skeptical mind too. Nevertheless, no matter how you spin it, critical thinking is an important thing to learn more about.

A chance encounter at a museum forever changed the lives of authors, Roz and Ralph. Both eighty-plus years old and some 1500 miles apart, the two embarked on a months-long email correspondence that evolved into a spectacular real-life love story. Follow along this incomparable journey toward love through hundreds of heartwarming, witty, and wise exchanges.

From the outside, Vanya’s childhood of riding horses with her father in the solitude of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and attending flamboyant operas with her mother in the city looked idyllic. But life for Vanya was more about learning to gauge and survive her parents’ unpredictable actions - from being left to lie in her own blood-soaked diaper while her Christian Scientist mother prayed, refusing to get medical help, to watching her father writhe on his bed in the detox ward, his hands and feet tethered with leather straps.

How to Read People Like a Book by Mindnatic gives you all the answers and more! Whether you’re wondering if your partner still loves you or if your boss is unimpressed with your performance, it can be easy to fall into a debilitating sense of uneasiness. This discomfort is triggered by our fear of the unknown. After all, it’s so much easier to take your steps if you know a person doesn’t like you or means you harm.

Interested in knowing what others are thinking before they speak? Do you want to speed read people and decode their body language? Effectively reading body language helps you empathize with others and make better decisions because you know what the other person is thinking. As a corporate productivity coach, I have spent years studying body language in the context of sales meetings, client presentations, and even direct selling. Being able to read both the room and an individual fosters better communication, self-understanding and greater professional success.

The Python-Based Laboratory: A Hands-On Guide for Scientists and Engineers provides a learn-by-doing approach to acquiring the Python programming skills needed to implement computer-controlled experimental work.

J. D. Buck was a prominent theosophist, an influential Freemason, as well as a writer on both subjects. In this particular piece from 1897, he writes about the importance of self-discipline and how it's tied in with the concept of power. He writes about controlling one's feelings and conquering one's passions in order to achieve and maintain the ability of self-mastery. He also talks about universal brotherhood, a concept important to theosophists and Freemasons alike.

Do you think that your social skills need some improvements? Would you like to beat the narcissist and have a better body language? Then you have to listen to this audiobook! If your social skills are not so good, you can use a professional guide to improve them!

Negotiating with a Bully will teach you how to skillfully deal with bullies in different forms and environments. You'll explore the mindset of a bully and understand the motivations and behavior so you can gain an advantage over him or her.

Your words speak volumes about you. Listen to Dynamic Vocabulary anywhere, anytime and you'll become a best seller...at work, at school, or with friends. Communication skills, both spoken and written, are critical to success in today's high-powered, fast-moving, competitive world. This entertaining audio program presents hundreds of words in a well-organized, effective conversational format filled with handy memory hooks for easy recall.

Take the guesswork out of decoding nonverbal cues and discover how to decipher the hidden meanings behind people's gestures and expressions with the definitive guide to understanding body language! The human body always leaves all these little clues that can give you an insight into what they're thinking and feeling. In this guide, you're going to learn what to look out for, as well as the right framework to help you bundle together and de-crypt these little clues for an accurate interpretation of what they may mean.

What do people do when they communicate? They use all kinds of body language. The science of body language is sophisticated. Nonverbal communication knows a myriad of interpretations and analyses. Therefore, you can be assured that studying the topic through a guide like this can be valuable to you. To top it all off, the audiobook will list a number of tips to reduce social anxiety, something we all suffer from in some small degree, and some more than others. The human body sends so many signals without actually uttering words, and it’s time that we learn what it all means.

Travis never thought of problematic language being an issue for him with level one autism. Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome at age 22, he had always been verbal. It was not until a BCBA friend pointed out to him that problematic language is a lot more than just being verbal.

Emotional intelligence, also referred to as emotional leadership or emotional quotient, is the ability of certain people to realize their emotions, as well as those of others, differentiate them, label, and readily manage or adjust depending on the situation or environment. These people typically remain calm despite the changes in the surrounding or negative impacts associated with a given case.

Everyone wants to live longer and feel younger. The information and exercises in You: Breathing Easy will teach listeners both to develop healthier, easier breathing techniques and to implement meditation and relaxation practices that will help them breathe easier in all aspects of their lives.

You are about to discover how you can learn Python to ride in the next wave of big/advanced computing that is in artificial intelligence, deep learning, data science, big data, data analytics, deep learning, and more! There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence, data analytics, data mining, big data, data science, and many other fancy names lately. Lucky for you, this audiobook is meant to answer all these topics and many others.

Humans rely on body language to connect and build trust, but with most of our communication happening from behind a screen, traditional body language signals are no longer visible - or are they? In Digital Body Language, Erica Dhawan, a go-to thought leader on collaboration and a passionate communication junkie, combines cutting-edge research with engaging storytelling to decode the new signals and cues that have replaced traditional body language across genders, generations and culture.

Book 1: The dark side, we all have one, so why don’t we always act on it? Book 2: Learn how advertisements affect your subconscious, how cults gain more members, how brainwashing works, and more. Book 3: Verbal abuse, it’s sick, it’s cruel, it’s wrong, and so very, very damaging. Why do we do it? While this audiobook isn’t the definitive work on these subjects, it does contain valuable information that is important for all to know.