English Writing

This book is organized to teach Java to beginners, and it guides readers to master writing code by working with more than 100 examples, exercises, and assignments. Prior experience in coding is not required in order to start this book. It explains Java in an easy to understand way, with simple coding examples and many exercises that make it interesting and helpful to the reader even if they have no prior experience in programming. It is difficult for any expert software developer to believe that anyone can learn to program by only reading books. All experts build their experiences by doing ...

The San Francisco 49ers shaped the NFL throughout the 1980s with their unique blend of precision, panache, and preparation. Three decades later, NFL teams are still copying the system and the methods that made the 49ers unlike any other organization in professional sports. Now fans of this dynamic franchise will relive all the action and thrills of 49ers football through the eyes of one of the greatest San Francisco legends of all time: Roger Craig.

By captivating millions during his six-year, 50-country tenure as The New York Times' "Frugal Traveler", Seth Kugel has become one of our most internationally beloved travel writers. While his famously unassuming journeys around the globe have forged a signature philosophy of whimsy and practicality, they have also revealed the seemingly infinite booby traps of on-the-grid tourism. In a book with widespread cultural reverberations, Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task, determined to reignite humanity's age-old sense of adventure.

Want to disrupt your retirement and leave the USA, either part-time or full-time for good? Everything you need to do is in this book, from figuring out how to get your mail, to domiciling in a tax-free state, to selling all of your stuff. This the How to Launch book of nomad life, full-time travel. You can leave the USA in less than a month if you want. Retirement can be full of change, excitement, and fascinating new experiences without breaking the bank. You can become: An intrepid explorer, A globe-trotting nomad, An endless adventurer. And you can: Eat delicious treats along the Danube,...

Vedanta is the very heart of India’s mysticism and spirituality. It contains the most essential principles for life, leadership and success. This book distils the essence of Vedanta for truly successful living.

Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry.

Houston Homicide Detective Jack West is back at work. A fresh case he's working might be connected to a murder case fellow detectives Chang and Severson are working. The medical examiner's report shows some similarities to each murder, but the victims are strangers with nothing in common. A third murder victim found under a bridge on the Buffalo Bayou confirms Houston has a serial killer on the loose. Three very diverse people are dead—are these hate crimes, and if so, how many more will die? The clock is ticking; Jack and his team need to catch this killer before another body shows up.

Do Your Readers Care What Happens To Your Characters? No matter what type of fiction you write, it's the characters that draw readers in. In fact, if the reader doesn't care about the characters, the most gripping plot won't carry the day. So how do you get readers to care? Character diagrams, checklists, and charts can only take you so far. You need to know your characters--and love (or hate) them--just as you do real people, which means learning about your characters from the inside out. In Creating Compelling Characters From The Inside Out you'll explore your characters' loves, lives, ...

10 Ways to Start a Song: Find Your Best! What I am going to do in this songwriting book is tell you some great tips that will help you write a song and get rid of that creative block you can experience from time to time. You feel like having no talent or abilities. Then start with any of the recommended ways, and slowly you will discover your strengths. I believe, if God has put in your heart a desire to write songs, He has also given you an ability to do it. It is important to use your strengths instead of torturing yourself with things you are not good at doing. Songwriting should be fun!...

A boundless source of consolation and intellectual stimulation and one of the central texts of Judaism, the Talmud is not only a great compilation of ancient wisdom concerning law, religion, history, ethics, metaphysics, and folklore; it is also a treasure trove of aphorism, maxims, and witty sayings, including:Adversity is the true school of mind. Avoid anger and thou wilt not sin. Too many captains sink the ship. The noblest of all charities is in enabling the poor to earn a livelihood. Dignity does not consist in a silk dress.

When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, 16 pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for a hundred pounds, he thought, that's the life, and signed himself up. Six times over. Good value aside, what Ben was really after was the company of his elders - those with more chapters under their belt, with the wisdom granted by experience, the candour gifted by time, and the hard-earned ability to live each day like it's nearly their last.

Emerson's enduring reputation, however, is as a philosopher, an aphoristic writer (like Friedrich Nietzsche) and a quintessentially American thinker whose championing of the American Transcendental movement and influence on Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, William James, and others would alone secure him a prominent place in American cultural history. Emerson is often characterized as an idealist philosopher and indeed used the term himself of his philosophy, explaining it simply as a recognition that plan always precedes action. Contents:. History. Self-Reliance. Compensation.

Need to “upgrade” your writing skills to 2020s-internet-content-friendly? Want to understand how to write great online content that converts and works, and then get the lowdown on AI writing – how to use artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up your writing process? That’s what this book is all about. It’s a simple, easy, highlight-worthy handbook (a real back-to-the-basics primer) that will train you to do just that: Write better content worthy of being read, consumed, and acted upon in the 2020s and beyond, with a touch of AI writing thrown in. What kind of content ...

Wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears - from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition to frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal's place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change.

#1 Bestseller in: Authorship, Authorship Reference, Computer Graphics, Electronic Documents, Electronic Publishing, Writing Skill Reference * * * Under a tight deadline, see how one bestselling author leveraged AI to write a publishable full-length novel in two weeks. * * * Hey fellow authors! You’ve heard of this thing called AI (Artificial Intelligence) and I bet you have questions, such as: • How fast can an author write a publishable novel using AI? • Does using AI speed up the writing process? • Can AI help an author write consistently? • How does a writer adjust to using AI?...

Contains 17 informative chapters for new or established poets trying to earn and make a living with poetry. Gives you an insight into the tools you need (and probably already have) to make a decent living or a fair amount of extra income at writing poetry or writing in forms similar to poetry. If you are able to explore all forms of the craft, your odds increase as to your likelihood of getting published ... and paid! Take your poetry and parlay it into other writing venues besides poetry as well as into paying poetry publications. Includes info on how to print and publish your own chapbook...

The Technical Writing Process is a simple, five-step process that can be used to create almost any piece of technical documentation such as a user guide, manual or procedure. It's suitable for a wide range of audiences: aspiring technical writers and students of technical writing, non-writers who find themselves assigned with the task of creating technical documentation, established writers who want to bring more structure to their work, and anyone managing a documentation project.

NEWS FLASH: “This is a great book for pickleball players of all levels. It will make a huge difference in your future pickleball life.“ Discover the secrets to leveling up your pickleball game with Rick Cipes, former ESPN Magazine sportswriter, and current regular writer at Pickleball Magazine. How to Play Better Pickleball is more than a guide to better shots and strategy; it’s an invitation to embrace the unique culture, challenges, and camaraderie of one of the world’s fastest-growing sports. Inside, you’ll find: - Essential techniques for beginners and intermediate players to ...

In Joel's Schwartzberg's 10-plus years as a strategic communications trainer, the biggest obstacle he's come across - one that connects directly to nervousness, stammering, rambling, and epic fail - is that most speakers and writers don't have a point. They typically have just a title, a theme, a topic, an idea, an assertion, a catchphrase, or even something much less. This book shows you how to identify your point, leverage it, stick to it, and sell it and how to train others to identify and successfully make their own points.

Many people say that they have at least one novel inside them - it's on a lot of bucket lists - but most will never come up with the goods. For one thing, you need an awesome stubbornness, an absolute unwillingness to give in, if you're going to succeed. Perhaps that can't be taught, but fortunately there are a few things that can be. In this short guide to the essentials of writing novels, author Joe Morello draws on more than thirty years of experience in the writing of both fiction and non-fiction to offer you some very practical advice on how to go about being one of those people who ...