Master the many different uses of werden in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch your use werden fall into place and improve your speech without a hitch! With 30-Day Mastery: Winning with Werden, you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorizing anything... you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story!

Written in a conversational, easy-to-follow format that makes the concepts easy to understand, Western Philosophy in Simple German explores the main traditions of Western philosophers from Aristotle to Descartes, and from Kant to Nietzsche.

Master 90 common German idioms in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as brand-new idioms fall into place and improve your fluency...it’s a piece of cake!

Master all the tricky aspects of German declension in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as your command of German improves dramatically, and without a hitch!

Master 70+ German conversational connectors (or transition phrases) in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as conversational connectors fall into place and improve your fluency without a hitch!

Juni ist 24 Jahre alt und hat schon viele Jobs ausprobiert. Auch die neue Arbeit als Rezeptionistin in einem Hotel macht ihr keinen Spaß. Die Uniform ist hässlich, die Chefin hat keinen Humor und außerdem sind die Gäste verrückt. Aber dann bekommt Juni einen seltsamen Brief, ohne Briefmarke und nur mit den Buchstaben GV als Absender. Noch seltsamer ist: Der Brief ist nicht für sie, sondern für eine Victoria Posch. Juni bringt ihn wieder zur Post, aber am nächsten Tag ist der Brief wieder da.

What’s the secret of the old marble bust Michael is trying to ship off to a distant relative? Will Manfred and Sabine ever escape the doldrums of everyday life and finally go on vacation? What’s a birthday without a cake? This book is designed to provide beginners and intermediate learners with real-world conversational German from everyday life: a stroll over the farmer’s market, a neurotic’s trip to the doctor’s office, a brief foray into the arcane mysteries of German train fares, a job application gone rogue, and much more.

Master real spoken German in the next 30 days with this innovative, story-based immersion course, and learn to sound like a native when you speak. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as you start saying exactly what you wanted to say!

Master 60+ Italian conversational connectors in the next 30 days with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as conversational connectors fall into place and improve your fluency without a hitch! Most Italian students try to learn through memorization, especially when it comes to learning new vocabulary or conversational connectors. This doesn't work and is extremely stressful for you as a learner. Why? Because there is so much vocabulary to learn.

Master tricky German irregular verbs in the next 30 days with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one chapter per day, complete the exercises, and watch as irregular verbs fall into place and improve your speech without a hitch! In this story, you will hear about how Siegfried, a mathematician living in Bonn and passionate about its history, becomes drawn into the legend of the Steinfield family and their castle, “Der Drachenfels” (dragon rock).

When it comes to mastering a foreign language, finding interesting topics makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book addresses that. You’ll learn to improve your German while listening to one of the most important topics of the century: climate change. Told through authentic conversations in intermediate German, you’ll become confident in the words, phrases, and expressions that you'll need to speak about the topics you care about.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of German. Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners has been written specifically for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, and, most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you, and give you a feeling of progress when listening.

With 30-Day Mastery: C’est Vs Il Est, you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorizing anything...you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story! As you're listening, you will find that the different uses of c’est and il est will begin to lodge themselves subconsciously in your brain.

With 30-Day Mastery: 101 Essential French Verbs, you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do! The magic of learning through story is that your main focus is actually not on memorizing anything...you concentrate on understanding and enjoying the story! As you're listening, you will find that the different verbs, and the instances in which they are used, will begin to lodge themselves subconsciously in your brain. It doesn't happen right away—in fact, it may take a couple of weeks for you to feel the real effects.

For high-beginner to low-intermediate learners. Master French conversational connectors (or transition phrases) in the next 30 days, with this innovative, story-based immersion method. Just listen to one section per day, complete the exercises, and watch as conversational connectors fall into place and improve your fluency without a hitch! With 30-Day Mastery: Conversational Connectors you'll learn through example and context, just like native speakers do!

Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.

In the six lessons of Why Memoir Matters: Learning from the Lives of Others, associate professor and author Tahneer Oksman guides you through enduring categories and themes within the genre of memoir, exploring how these deeply personal stories work and why they are so impactful. The course also addresses the ethical responsibilities of the memoir writer, in terms of writing about personal life details and what it means to tell the truth as a writer while sharing personal memories, shocking events, and even family secrets.

Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.

It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.

Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes. You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.

Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller. No one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, and the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.

In July 1995, San Jose Mercury-News reporter Gary Webb found the Big One - the blockbuster story every journalist secretly dreams about - without even looking for it. A simple phone call concerning an unexceptional pending drug trial turned into a massive conspiracy involving the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, L.A. and Bay Area crack cocaine dealers, and the Central Intelligence Agency.

Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.

Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is designed in such a way that each section builds upon the last to help your brain progressively create lasting and meaningful connections to each new word and grammar concept. Simply by listening and speaking out loud with us, you will naturally progress, step-by-step, toward Spanish communication and fluency.