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Get Rid of Your Accent is a speech training manual for mastering British-English pronunciation. The audiobook is based on a tried and trusted method, used in London drama schools, that helps British people with provincial accents learn standard British English. It includes humorous sentences, tongue twisters, period verses, and rhyme exercises. Relevant subjects are received pronunciation, elocution, and phonetics.

Leading on the Frontline brings humanitarian leadership into the boardroom, giving business leaders a powerful lesson in engagement, motivation, inspiration, and innovation. Drawing upon a lifetime of humanitarian work in some of the world's most difficult places, author Linda Cruse shares stories from the front line that illustrate how to dig deep, inspire, thrive, and more.

This audiobook helps people to master English pronunciation and intonation and helps to make their speech clear and easy to understand. It is instrumental in overcoming the barrier to speak English.

Amelia Child has devoted her life to researching Gerald Shapiro, the Catfish Killer, a man who pretended to be other people online to gain women’s trust before meeting and killing them. Her book on the Catfish Killer, Into the Glass, earned wild success and a legion of true crime fans. Years later, Amelia is pulled back into the case when a girl from her daughter’s high school disappears, and all signs point to a copycat killer mimicking the Catfish Killer’s every move.

This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful expression of “two contrary states of the human soul.” Songs of Innocence was originally a complete collection of twenty-three poems, first printed in 1789. In 1794, a composite collection entitled Songs of Innocence and of Experience, containing forty-seven poems, was published.

In the first part of this speech training manual, we provide practical exercises for difficult speech patterns, such as word endings, consonant clusters, schwa, and strong and weak forms of words. The second part is devoted to connected speech patterns. The third part deals with natural flow of speech, intonation, sentence stress, and onomatopoeia. The fourth part covers how to make your speech interesting to listen to using power, pitch, pace, and pause.

Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction aims to offer a concise introduction to comparative law-its objectives, methods, concepts, and uses. After an overview of the fundamental definitions, key concepts, and basic lexicon of the discipline, the book proposes an analysis of the most successful techniques adopted in legal comparison for mapping the world's legal systems and for explaining legal change and diffusion of law, also giving a concise description of the legal traditions of the world.

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.

Cutting through the confusion caused by the healthcare system, the media, and gaps in our reasoning, the bestselling author of How Doctors Think gives listeners essential tools for making the medical decisions that best suit their own needs. “This important and riveting book could change—and...

From one of the world's leading experts, this absorbing narrative history of the changing structure of modern families shows how children can flourish in any kind of loving home. The past few decades have seen extraordinary change in the idea of a family. The unit once understood to include two...

An American classic adapted for the stage, starring Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson and Matthew Rhys as Benjamin Braddock. A fresh-faced college grad returns home, diploma in hand, to seek an answer to that age old question: “Now what?” Lacking any clear career path, he falls prey to the original “cougar”, the predatory Mrs. Robinson, wife of his father's business partner.

Cleo, Rikki und Bella haben die Schule geschafft. Damit sie und ihre Mitschüler das gebührend feiern können, soll eine Strandparty stattfinden. Jetzt ist die große Frage, wer wen zur Party begleitet. Bella will natürlich am liebsten mit Will zur Party gehen – und Will am liebsten mit Bella.

Learn how to value your own opinion over those of others. Codependency books are perfect for those of us who live as if what other people think matters more than what we think. This thinking leads to constantly trying to please or even to change others. Codependent behaviors can have negative effects on us and those around us, even leading to a dysfunctional family. It can be difficult to say no to those we love.

Die junge Schauspielerin Lisa Reynolds bittet Jack und Cliff um Hilfe. Sie ist vom Unglück verfolgt, ständig passieren mysteriöse Unfälle in ihrer Nähe. Und alles fing mit dem Geschenk einer sonderbaren Puppe an. Welche dunkle Macht geht von der Puppe aus? Jack und Cliff forschen nach und finden heraus, dass der berühmte Puppenmacher Fredrick von Derstadt eine ganze Serie dieser geheimnisvollen Puppen angefertigt hat: Die Schicksalspuppen.

Jack und Cliff versuchen dem Bann der Puppe zu entgehen, indem sie die Puppe wegwerfen. Doch was sie auch tun, die Puppe kommt immer wieder zurück und verfolgt sie. Bei einem Zwischenfall während einer Probe im Theater werden Jack und Cliff von einem dunklen Schatten bedroht und eingesperrt. Ist auch dafür die mysteriöse Puppe verantwortlich? Cliff findet einen seltsamen metallischen Gegenstand. Ist das der Schlüssel zum Geheimnis der Puppe?

Die Trilogie kreist um den jungen Nestor, auch Pipett genannt. Er ist Privatdetektiv, Poet und Anarchist in den Jahren zwischen den Weltkriegen. Zusammen mit Freunden wie Leboeuf, dem bulligen Lumpensammler und Jahrmarktringer, sorgt er - neben einigen Gaunereien - in der Stadt der Liebe für etwas mehr Gerechtigkeit. Das Paris der 20er, 30er und 40er Jahre ist Schauplatz vieler Verbrechen, begangen von und an oft mals äußerst obskuren Gestalten.

Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more.

Manchmal ist Conni einfach traurig. Weil ihr ein Missgeschick passiert, weil Mama oder Papa etwas falsch machen, weil Kater Mau Blödsinn anstellt oder weil sie sich wehtut. Zum Glück sind Connis Eltern immer da, um sie aufzufangen und zu trösten. Und so macht Conni die Erfahrung, dass Kummer einfach dazugehört, dass Tränen okay und sogar wichtig sind und wie gut sich Trost anfühlt. Conni möchte wissen, wie spät es ist. Aber sie kann die Uhr noch nicht lesen. Zum Glück hat Mama versprochen, es ihr zu erklären, und schnell stellt Conni fest: So schwer ist das gar nicht!