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Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This course provides a theoretical and practical survey of the ideas behind and the practices of effective communication. It helps you become aware of the automatic processes involved that influence every day talk, of how face-to-face talk really works in the most common three recognized modes: connect talk, control talk, and dialogue talk. Effectiveness is measured by three things: getting what one wants, being understood from our point of view,...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling. Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has defined how we talk about the art of story creation. Now, in Dialogue, McKee offers the same in-depth...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Silence of the lambs: A psychopath is murdering young women across the Midwest. Believing that it takes one to know one, the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling to interview a demented prisoner, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Lecter is willing to provide clues to the killer's actions if Clarice will feed his morbid curiosity by telling him about her own complicated life.
Hannibal: After escaping from the asylum in Baltimore, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, moves to Florence,...
Author
Series
Dialogue studies volume Volume 29
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
9) The book of dialogue: how to write effective conversation in fiction, screenplays, drama, and poetry
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Author
Series
Series in Continental thought volume 36
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Series
Pragmatics and beyond volume new ser. 114
Publisher
John Benjamins Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris...
Series
Dialogue studies volume Volume 31
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English