Some interesting word facts:• The word "noisome" had nothing whatsoever to do with noise.• "Ordinance" and "ordnance" have two distinct meanings.• An "errant" fool is a fool wh...

A leading communications expert explains how the tactical use of words and phrases influences what we buy, who we vote for, and what we believe, in a volume that encompasses sections ranging from 'The Ten Rules of Successful Communica...

Do you have a proclivity for sesquipedalian words? Has your prose become ossified because you haven't augmented your vocabulary lately? Here's the perfect pedagogical solution. Word Smart Genius Edition teaches more than 150 of the mo...

Mignon Fogarty can’t remember whether it was a misused semicolon, a chronic case of comma splicing, or an “affect” when an “effect” was called for, but at some point she had seen one mangled sentence too ...

From the 1950s through 1997, Louis 'Studs' Terkel, bestselling author of Working, The Good War, Coming of Age, and eight other books, hosted a daily one-hour show on WFMT radio in Chicago. This nationally syndicated, Peabody Award-win...

Audio Success Series Verbal Success Expand Your Vocabulary & Verbal Acuity Its a multi-session public speaking retreat in a box! And with Verbal Success on 14 audio compact discs, youll have unlimited access to the worlds top co...

Through their many bestselling books, Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron have done nothing less than deepen the way millions of us experience the art and practice of writing and creativity. Now for the first time, Julia Cameron and Na...

Ali G: How many words does you know?Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.Ali G: What is some of 'em?— Youtube.com After forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or ele...

Britain's leading linguistics expert, David Crystal, reads his own eye–opening and highly entertaining tour of the English language through the ages.In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics exp...

The fun way to improve English grammar and vocabulary and to improve standardized test scores! The humorous, irreverent style makes these programs perfect for getting students back into the swing of school. Laugh-out-loud examples, re...

Mignon Fogarty, a.k.a. Grammar Girl, is determined to wipe out bad grammar—but she's also determined to make the process as painless as possible. One year ago, she created a weekly podcast to tackle some of the most common mistakes ...

Word Power is an easy-to-follow series of vocabulary lessons from master linguist Peter Funk. His proven techniques will dramatically help you to improve your vocabulary and express yourself more clearly and forcefully. You will also ...

[This audiobook (9 hours on 12 CDs) comes with 1 Bonus DVD on how to overcome nervousness on stage.] Gain the confidence to be a charismatic speaker with this complete guide to becoming comfortable with public speaking.Public speakin...

What do the worlds best and most influential public speakers have in common? Confidence, energy, influence, charisma. Learn to be the best, from the best, with Public Speaking Success on four audio compact discs. You will have unlimit...

Roy Peter Clark is one of the most influential writing teachers in the U.S. His book, Writing Tools, has 65,000 copies in print and his podcasts have been downloaded from Tunes over 1 million times. Now he's returning to the roots o...

Includes a bonus DVD and PDF workbook Expand your vocabulary and verbal acuity! It's a multi-session communications retreat in a box! And with Verbal Mastery, this eleven-part audio program, you'll have unlimited access to the w...

[Read by Stephen McLaughlin]With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson -- the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent -- brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English ...

Two of Chomsky's most famous and accessible worksDescribed by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language...

"I found the acute observations and his narrative philosophy more valuable for the new writer than the contents of any 100 other texts." —Dean Koontz "For anyone interested in the craft of writing, from beginners t...

In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools to write a novel in one year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the writer through the elements ...

For many of us, public speaking is, at best, a chore marked by great anxiety; and, at worst, a potential career stopper. No matter how anxious you are about going before an audience any audience, whether it s 1 or 1,000 Speak Without ...

The classic works on the art of nonfiction writing are now in a complete package for your listening pleasure.This expanded CD collection presents William Zinsser's On Writing Well, the classic teaching book that has sold more than 1 m...

Jean-Beno't Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their ...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes an argument against snark---the nasty combination of snide and sarcasm---with lessons on how to live without it by thinking and debating with true wit and intelligence.

Deliver the presentation of your life—and launch your careerA nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes o...

Deliver the presentation of your life—and launch your careerA nonprofit dedicated to ideas worth spreading, TED challenges the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers to give "the speech of their lives" in 18 minutes o...

On Becoming a Novelist contains the wisdom accumulated during John Gardner's distinguished twenty-year career as a fiction writer and creative writing teacher. With elegance, humor, and sophistication, Gardner describes the life of a ...

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.Throughout Hemingway's career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing--...

Ever wish you could captivate your boardroom with the opening line of your presentation, like Winston Churchill in his most memorable speeches? Or want to command attention by looming larger than life before your audience, much like A...

As a literary agent, Noah Lukeman hears thousands of book pitches a year. Often the stories sound great in concept, but never live up to their potential on the page. Lukeman shows beginning and advanced writers how to implement the fu...