Language Arts & Disciplines

Conventional wisdom held that a college degree was a gateway to a better -- and better-paying -- career and lifestyle. But are those student loans worth it? Paul Solman looks at how a group of recent college graduates is faring in the dismal job...

"10 Things I Think I Know For Sure About...Getting Your Writing Published" is presented by John Lehman, founder of Rosebud magazine.John suggests writers stop thinking in terms of books, articles, poems and stories, and instead start thinking in terms...

Reason has done much of the heavy lifting throughout history. This book presents quotations from many of history's key figures who both recognize the importance of – and also the limitations of – reason. Duration - 21m. Author - Gil Carroll. Narrator...

Your hero is not the most important character in your book. Your villain is.Are you fed up of drowning in one-dimensional villains? Frustrated with creating clichés? And failing to get your reader to root for your villain?In 13 Steps to Evil, you’ll...

Do you have self-publishing questions that you can’t seem to find the answer to? We’re here to help.Hi there. We’re The Alliance of Independent Authors (call us ALLi for short—rhymes with “ally”). We’re a nonprofit organization for self-published...

From his best selling series, The Art of World Building, author Randy Ellefson has collected some of his best advice from every chapter in small, bite-sized tips. All three books are represented in the topics covered:Creating Life - analogues,...

This is a compilation of 3 different titles, which are about the following topics:1: Charles Dickens is often remembered because of his Christmas Carol. And even though that is a very interesting novel, it wasn’t even his favorite. Some artists and...

24 Rungs is the first of a journey.This journey could be one of recovery, self-discovery, self-empowerment, all of the above, and then some. It can inspire through the use of rhyme and clever turns of phrase to allow the rlistener to understand that...

33 Ways Not to Screw Up Your Journalism is a succinct, authoritative and encouraging handbook of practical and inspiring tools, techniques and values that journalists, whether they're students or newsroom veterans, need more than ever in our fractured...

40 Interview Icebergs will help you to be more successful in interviews and get the job that you really want. So many people go for interviews and sail along merrily before steering straight into the iceberg that sinks their application there and...

Want to write better blurbs?Blurb writing is the most misunderstood task we undertake. Herein, I'll dissect the principles at work behind awesome blurbs, examine the common mistakes, and detail some completed case studies. Once I've shown you the five...

The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case desegregated America's public schools, but most minority students still attend schools where they are the majority. Gwen Ifill talks to four experts (Sheryll Cashin, John McWhorter, Franklin...

Journalist Haynes Johnson, historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Julius Becton discuss the 50th anniversary of President Harry S. Truman's executive order that formally integrated the armed forces. Author -...

Beat writer's block with 500 writing prompts and finish that novel, journal, poem, assignment, or blog post. Get your creative juices flowing and stretch your writing muscles with this fun collection of prompts.This exciting resource of creative...

Fifty years after the March on Washington, the vision of the civil rights movement has expanded beyond black and white, but what is left to be done? Gwen Ifill sits down with Peniel Joseph of Tufts University and filmmaker Bonnie Boswell Hamilton on...

There are only, in my humble opinion, two kinds of readers: Readers who love your books and readers who don’t know they love your books yet. But how do you reach those readers in the second category, no matter what kind of writer you are?The answer to...

This novel is about a man known as Scrooge who greedy. He is visited by spirits that show him the past the present and the future. This enlightenment causes Scrooge to realize that he must change his ways and so he becomes a better person.This audio...

Hank Morgan is a man from 19th-century Connecticut who, after having a head injury, wakes to find himself 1300 years in the past in the court of King Arthur of medieval England.The people of the time notice that he is strange yet knowledgeable, but...

John Seed travels the world in service to the earth. As a founding father of the Deep Ecology movement, he’s noticed that “we speak of ‘the environment,’ which makes it sound as though this is something that’s far away from us. But if we hold our...

William Wordsworth is one of the greatest poets of English literature. He is remembered as a poet who was concerned with the relationship of human beings to nature. He strongly believed in using the vocabulary and speech patterns of common people in...

Flowers and other forms of nature exist almost everywhere, but are especially abundant in the country. Anne soon realizes this when she visits her friend, Maria, in the country. But Anne longs to see the birds and flowers in the city, too. So, Anne...

A professor, his nephew, and a guide travel down a lava tube in Iceland and encounter prehistoric animals during their dangerous adventure. They eventually reemerge from the Italian volcano, Stromboli.This audio classic novel has been carefully...

A Little Souvenir in Poetry is a sensible collection of original poems crafted to be lyrical, sensual, rhythmic, funny, and informative. The reader is easily moved by the author's work, which exemplifies a unique writing skill, and evokes various...

Edited and produced from the lecture notes of his students at the University of Geneva, Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics was first published in 1916, three years after his death. The book aims to explain Saussure’s theory that all...