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Nie mehr um eine Antwort verlegen sein. Wer kennt das nicht: Man möchte auf ein Argument reagieren, einen Vorwurf kontern oder soll sich spontan äußern – doch es fällt einem absolut nichts Passendes ein, und wenn doch, dann oft erst im Nachhinein, worüber man sich umso mehr ärgert.

Gestern warst du noch deinem cholerischen Chef ausgeliefert und dank dieses praktischen Leitfadens wirst du ihn schon bald mit dem richtigen Konter zum Schweigen bringen. Dieses Buch ist dein idealer Ratgeber, um dumme Sprüche, sprachliche Manipulation und Killerphrasen in Zukunft abzuwehren und sanft zum Gegenschlag auszuholen. Neben dem Thema Schlagfertigkeit rücken auch die Möglichkeiten für deine Konter in Form einer plausiblen und strukturierten Argumentation in den Vordergrund.

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported, near-fatal accident in 1999—and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery.

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and the Years of Lyndon Johnson series: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books.

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.

Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.

Gekonnt überzeugen: Kein Mensch braucht Rhetorik - Trainer, Rhetorik - Training aber schon! Selbstbewusst die eigenen Ideen präsentieren, andere mit guten Argumenten überzeugen, eloquent und frei sprechen – klingt einfach, ist es aber nicht! Die meisten Redner quälen sich mit Lampenfieber, haben Angst vor Blackouts und krallen sich während des Vortrags nervös an ihren Notizen fest. Die wertvollen Inhalte können so das Publikum nicht wirklich erreichen und die ganze Mühe der Vorbereitung war umsonst. Mal ganz abgesehen von der unangenehmen Situation, in der man sich befand.

This 2006 revision - edited by a longtime consultant to Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., and the editor in charge of updating How to Win Friends and Influence People - is the definitive one for our era. While up to date in its language and points of reference, Public Speaking for Success preserves the full range of ideas and methods that appeared in the original, including Carnegie's complete speech and diction exercises, which follow each chapter, as the author originally designated them.

"Sprechtraining to go" ist das Übungsprogramm für alle, die im entscheidenden Moment gut ankommen wollen. Fundiert, humorvoll und leicht verständlich erklärt, ist das Training darauf ausgelegt, sofort mit den Übungen zu starten. Die langjährige Schauspielerin, Sprecherin und Dozentin Tatjana Auster zeigt spielerisch, wie durch gezielte Übungen die Stimme an Leistungsfähigkeit gewinnt. Auf natürliche Weise wird die Stimme lebendiger und findet ihren individuellen Klang.

A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Writing Fiction. Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for more than three decades, it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft.

The Secrets of Story is a revolutionary and comprehensive writing guide for the 21st century, focused on clever ways to get an audience to fully identify with an all-too-human hero. Authors will learn to how to cut through pop culture noise and win over a jaded modern audience by rediscovering the heart of writing: shaping stories that ring true to our shared understanding of human nature.

The secret to finding out anything you want to know is amazingly simple: Ask good questions. Most people trip through life asking bad questions - of teachers, friends, coworkers, clients, prospects, experts, and suspects. Even people trained in questioning, such as journalists and lawyers, commonly ask questions that get partial or misleading answers. People in any profession will immediately benefit by developing the skill and art of good questioning.

Manipulieren, behaupten, überreden, einschüchtern - die dunkle Rhetorik kennt viele unsaubere Methoden, um den Gesprächspartner zu überlisten. Aber: Ehrlich währt am längsten! Respektvoller, langfristig erfolgreicher und für alle Beteiligten angenehmer ist die weiße Rhetorik, die mit Argumenten überzeugt. Der renommierte Rhetoriktrainer Wladislaw Jachtchenko zeigt wie es geht. Denn Menschen zu überzeugen ist erlernbar.

Sprachen sind faszinierend. Wusstest du zum Beispiel, dass es in Finnland ein eigenes Wort dafür gibt, sich bis auf die Unterhosen auszuziehen, um sich dann allein zu betrinken? Kalsarikännit. Oder wusstest du, dass die alten Hawaiianer über 200 Wörter für die verschiedenen Arten von Regen hatten und sogar mehr als 600 für Winde?

It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page-one rewrite. The prevailing wisdom in the writing community is that there are just two ways around this problem: pantsing (winging it) and plotting (focusing on the external plot).

How do two languages coexist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual, and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few. In The Bilingual Brain, leading expert Albert Costa explores the science of language through a wide range of cutting-edge studies and examples from South Korea to Spain and Canada. 

In June of 1999, Stephen King was hit by a van while walking along the shoulder of a country road in Maine. Six operations were required to save his life and mend his broken body. When he was finally able to sit up, he immediately started writing. This book - part biography, part a collection of tips for the aspiring writer - is the extraordinary result.

The art of speaking can be systematically learned, and if you have the desire, discipline, and determination - not to mention one of the world's greatest presenters as your teacher - you too can become a persuasive and powerful speaker. Tracy reveals time-tested tricks of the trade you can use to present powerfully and speak persuasively, whether in an informal meeting or in front of a large group of people.

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.