Language Arts & Discipline Ebooks
Whether you’re a student, a writer, a journalist, or simply curious about language, there are some fantastic language arts and discipline ebooks for perfecting your writing and language skills. Our wide selection includes creative writing books, grammar and punctuation titles, linguistics, and much more. Today’s a great day to start perfecting your writing and language arts.
Whether you’re a student, a writer, a journalist, or simply curious about language, there are some fantastic language arts and discipline ebooks for perfecting your writing and language skills. Our wide selection includes creative writing books, grammar and punctuation titles, linguistics, and much more. Today’s a great day to start perfecting your writing and language arts.
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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
byTiago Forte“One of my favorite books of the year. It completely reshaped how I think about information and how and why I take notes.” —Daniel Pink, bestselling author of Drive A revolutionary approach to enhancing productivity, creating flow, and vastly increasing your ability to capture, remember, and benefit from the unprecedented amount of information all around us. For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There has never been a better time to learn, to contribute, and to improve ourselves. Yet, rather than feeling empowered, we are often left feeling overwhelmed by this constant influx of information. The very knowledge that was supposed to set us free has instead led to the paralyzing stress of believing we’ll never know or remember enough. Now, this eye-opening and accessible guide shows how you can easily create your own personal system for knowledge management, otherwise known as a Second Brain. As a trusted and organized digital repository of your most valued ideas, notes, and creative work synced across all your devices and platforms, a Second Brain gives you the confidence to tackle your most important projects and ambitious goals. Discover the full potential of your ideas and translate what you know into more powerful, more meaningful improvements in your work and life by Building a Second Brain.
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The Philosophy of Modern Song The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.
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Students, authors, journalists, essayists and anyone curious about language and the craft of writing, will find something in the language arts and discipline genre. Composition and creative writing, grammar and punctuation titles, linguistics, vocabulary and memoirs about writing are all part of this fascinating and informative genre. Aspiring authors will want to read Stephen King’s On Writing, which is part memoir, part master class, by one of the bestselling authors of all time. Check out Bill Bryson’s dazzling The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way and dive into the history and eccentricities of the language. If non-fiction is your jam, William Zinsser’s definitive guide to writing nonfiction On Writing Well is a must-read. Learn the craft of research or the keys to plotting a novel or how to write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day. Pick up one of the many manuals, guides and how-tos on all manner of writing whether it be poetry, fiction, non-fiction or even fan-fiction. No matter where your interests lie, you’ll find something that will help you hone your writing skills. And who knows? Maybe you’ll write the next Great American novel.
Students, authors, journalists, essayists and anyone curious about language and the craft of writing, will find something in the language arts and discipline genre. Composition and creative writing, grammar and punctuation titles, linguistics, vocabulary and memoirs about writing are all part of this fascinating and informative genre. Aspiring authors will want to read Stephen King’s On Writing, which is part memoir, part master class, by one of the bestselling authors of all time. Check out Bill Bryson’s dazzling The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way and dive into the history and eccentricities of the language. If non-fiction is your jam, William Zinsser’s definitive guide to writing nonfiction On Writing Well is a must-read. Learn the craft of research or the keys to plotting a novel or how to write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day. Pick up one of the many manuals, guides and how-tos on all manner of writing whether it be poetry, fiction, non-fiction or even fan-fiction. No matter where your interests lie, you’ll find something that will help you hone your writing skills. And who knows? Maybe you’ll write the next Great American novel.