Writing from Life - How to turn your personal experience into profitable prose
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Coursebooks | 25 July 2009
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This book will show how your own personal experiences can provide you with an endless supply of ideas for your writing - whether fiction or non-fiction. You will learn how to write about what you know - and you certainly know a lot. The good news is that the older you are, and the older you get, the more experiences you have had - so you'll always have something to write about.
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics—and meaning—of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences "work"? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields — chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more — to narrow the gap between reason and mystical phenomena.
Una Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson are the parents of four children who have grown up speaking English and Swedish. This book is based on their personal experiences with the trials and rewards of life with two languages. The Anderssons' experiences are further illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews with fifty families from all around the world. They discuss the various systems families develop and recognize that every family is unique. Filled with invaluable practical advice for parents and professionals, this book provides guidelines on how to support children's linguistic development and enable them to gain maximum benefit from living with two languages.
Added by: genzianella | Karma: 67.97 | Fiction literature | 22 April 2009
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A #1 bestseller in the United Kingdom and an urban antidote to "A Year in Provence," this laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of an expat in Paris is the almost-true story of the author's own experiences
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Other | 20 April 2009
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Excellent interview techniques, tips, and strategies are tackled one by one in Goof-Proof Interviews. Since adequate interview preparation begins long before the day of the interview, this book shows all the pieces that make up the perfect interview. This book relates no less than 47 Goof-Proof Rules that will lead to goof-free interview experiences.
