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  The Global English Style Guide (eBook, PDF)

  The Global English Style Guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful. Author John Kohl also includes revision strategies, as well as caveats that will help you avoid applying guidelines incorrectly. Focusing primarily on sentence-level stylistic issues, problematic grammatical constructions, and terminology issues, this book addresses the following topics: ways to simplify your writing style and make it consistent; ambiguities that most writers and editors are not aware of, and how to eliminate those ambiguities; how to make your sentence structure more explicit so that your sentences are easier for native and non-native speakers to read and understand; punctuation and capitalization guidelines that improve readability and make translation more efficient; and how language technologies such as controlled-authoring software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard. This text is intended for anyone who uses written English to communicate technical information to a global audience. Technical writers, technical editors, science writers, and training instructors are just a few of the professions for which this book is essential reading. Even if producing technical information is not your primary job function, the Global English guidelines can help you communicate more effectively with colleagues around the world. This book is part of the SAS Press program.

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  Back to Normal: Why Ordinary Childhood Behavior Is Mistaken for ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 511min

  A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal a 41 percent increase in rates of ADHD diagnoses over the past decade and a forty-fold spike in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Similarly, diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder has increased by 78 percent since 2002. Dr. Enrico Gnaulati, a clinical psychologist specializing in childhood and adolescent therapy and assessment, has witnessed firsthand the push to diagnose these disorders in youngsters. Drawing both on his own clinical experience and on cutting-edge research, with Back to Normal he has written the definitive account of why our kids are being dramatically overdiagnosed - and how parents and professionals can distinguish between true psychiatric disorders and normal childhood reactions to stressful life situations. Gnaulati begins with the complex web of factors that have led to our current crisis. These include questionable education and training practices that cloud mental health professionals' ability to distinguish normal from abnormal behavior in children, monetary incentives favoring prescriptions, check-list diagnosing, and high-stakes testing in schools. We've also developed an increasingly casual attitude about labeling kids and putting them on psychiatric drugs. So how do we differentiate between a child with, say, Asperger's syndrome and a child who is simply introverted, brainy, and single-minded? As Gnaulati notes, many of the symptoms associated with these disorders are similar to everyday childhood behaviors. In the second half of the book Gnaulati tells detailed stories of wrongly diagnosed kids, providing parents and others with information about the developme ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Kugler. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013094/bk_adbl_013094_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Nonprofit: How to Start Your Nonprofit the Right Way So It Will Survive and Thrive: Practical Step-By-Step Guide to Forming A 501(C) Nonprofit Corporation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 101min

  It is easy to make mistakes when you are creating or reorganizing your nonprofit. There are so many organizational laws, administrative requirements, and tax considerations to navigate when you are organizing your nonprofit corporation that it can seem overwhelming. Lawyers, accountants, and advisors can be expensive, but so can setting up your nonprofit incorrectly or forgetting to file the right documents. What you need is the knowledge to get it done right the first time without breaking the bank. It doesn’t have to be complicated. This guide makes it fast and easy to form your 501(c) nonprofit corporation and get your organization started on the right foot. The aim of this guide is action. It gives you the knowledge you need to get your nonprofit up and running without making costly mistakes in the process, or being so paralyzed by the overwhelming nature of organizing your nonprofit that you keep putting it off. Avail yourself of the many advantages a 501(c) nonprofit corporation offers. Many organizations find that organizing their operation as a nonprofit corporation is the best and most efficient organization from the perspective of taxation and legal protection for their activities. Learn the secrets so many successful nonprofits have used to get where they are today. This easy step-by-step guide walks you through everything you need to know including: Introduction to nonprofit organizations Finding your purpose Crafting the prefect vision statement and mission statement Defining your focus Choosing a name Defining the leadership Benefits of incorporating your nonprofit Protecting your nonprofit with a conflict of interest policy Website creation and design for a nonprofit Creating bylaws - the backbone of your organization Budget considerations for a nonprofit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Stuhre. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/105829/bk_acx0_105829_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Crate Training for Puppies: How to Crate Train Your Puppy in Just 3 Days: A Step-by-Step Program so Your Pup Will Understand You! , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min

  Crate training your puppy can often turn out to be a tough task. It might sometimes seem like a simple task but at the end can turn out to be annoying and frustrating if done incorrectly.  With little know-how, you will end up wasting a lot of energy and time, resulting in frustration. The main goal of this audiobook is to simplify and enlighten any new owner to crate training puppies. In addition, it seeks to add more knowledge to all pup owners on how to effectively crate train a puppy. The audiobook will solve all common problems you may go through during the crate-training process.Without proper puppy crate-training tricks and techniques, it may be difficult for a puppy to understand you. This audiobook will showcase the best ways to train your puppy well. Remember, patience is a significant factor to consider while crate training your puppy.Here is a preview of what you'll learn:Benefits of crate trainingHow to introduce your puppy to the crateThe basics of crate trainingWeekend crate-training programHouse training using cratesHow to allow your dog more freedomAnd much, much more!As a pup owner, you expect the dog to bring a lot of happiness in the home, but without the essential crate-training techniques, it's going to be a bad experience between you and the puppy. Get rid of all bad experience by making this audiobook your teacher!Follow this amazing crate-training audiobook, and you will get a lot of information by scrolling up and clicking the "Buy Now" button at the top of this page! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nathan Rooks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133369/bk_acx0_133369_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror  , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 818min

  A public defender’s dedicated struggle to rescue two innocent men from the recent Kafkaesque practices of our vandalized justice system. "Our government can make you disappear." Those were the words Steven Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his 29 years as a public defender, Wax had never had to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a "black site," one of our country's dreaded secret prisons. How had our country come to this?; The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen - governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America? Under the current administration, not only are the civil rights of foreigners in jeopardy, but those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories of two men that he and his team represented: Brandon Mayfield, an American-born small town lawyer and family man, arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid train station bombings after a fingerprint was incorrectly traced back to him by the FBI; and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator taken from his apartment to a Pakistani prison and then flown in chains to the United States military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Kafka Comes to America reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded for a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. If these events could happen to Brandon Mayfield and Adel Hamad, they can happen to anyone. It could happen to us. It could happen to you. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Michael Butler Murray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013177/bk_adbl_013177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Paleofantasy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 646min

  An exposé of pseudoscientific myths about our evolutionary past and how we should live today. We evolved to eat berries rather than bagels, to live in mud huts rather than condos, to sprint barefoot rather than play football - or did we? Are our bodies and brains truly at odds with modern life? Although it may seem as though we have barely had time to shed our hunter-gatherer legacy, biologist Marlene Zuk reveals that the story is not so simple. Popular theories about how our ancestors lived - and why we should emulate them - are often based on speculation, not scientific evidence. Armed with a razor-sharp wit and brilliant, eye-opening research, Zuk takes us to the cutting edge of biology to show that evolution can work much faster than was previously realized, meaning that we are not biologically the same as our caveman ancestors. Contrary to what the glossy magazines would have us believe, we do not enjoy potato chips because they crunch just like the insects our forebears snacked on. And women don’t go into shoe-shopping frenzies because their prehistoric foremothers gathered resources for their clans. As Zuk compellingly argues, such beliefs incorrectly assume that we’re stuck - finished evolving - and have been for tens of thousands of years. She draws on fascinating evidence that examines everything from adults’ ability to drink milk to the texture of our ear wax to show that we’ve actually never stopped evolving. From debunking the caveman diet to unraveling gender stereotypes, Zuk delivers an engrossing analysis of widespread paleofantasies and the scientific evidence that undermines them, all the while broadening our understanding of our origins and what they can really tell us about our present and our future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Laura Darrell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/012336/bk_adbl_012336_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 583min

  We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field - but each also stumbled badly. Darwin’s theory of natural selection shouldn’t have worked, according to the prevailing beliefs of his time. Not until Gregor Mendel’s work was known would there be a mechanism to explain natural selection. How could Darwin be both wrong and right? Lord Kelvin, Britain’s leading scientific intellect at the time, gravely miscalculated the age of the Earth. Linus Pauling, the world’s premier chemist (who would win the Nobel Prize in chemistry) constructed an erroneous model for DNA in his haste to beat the competition to publication. Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle dismissed the idea of a "Big Bang" origin to the universe (ironically, the caustic name he gave to this event endured long after his erroneous objections were disproven). And Albert Einstein, whose name is synonymous with genius, speculated incorrectly about the forces that hold the universe in equilibrium - and that speculation opened the door to brilliant conceptual leaps. These five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on Earth, the evolution of the Earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error. Mistakes are essential to progress. Brilliant Blunders is a singular tour through the world of science and scientific achievement - and a wonderfully insightful examination of the psychology of five fascinating scientists. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004960/bk_brll_004960_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 445min

  With cutting-edge sleep science and time-tested techniques, The Sleep Solution will help anyone achieve healthy sleep and eliminate pills, pain, and fatigue. If you want to fix your sleep problems, Internet tips and tricks aren't going to do it for you. You need to really understand what's going on with your sleep - both what your problems are and how to solve them. The Sleep Solution is an exciting journey of sleep self-discovery and understanding that will help you custom design specific interventions to fit your lifestyle. Drawing on his 24 years of experience within the field, neurologist and sleep expert W. Chris Winter will help you... Understand how sleep works and the ways in which food, light, and other activities act to help or hurt the process Learn why sleeping pills are so often misunderstood and used incorrectly - and how you can achieve your best sleep without them Incorporate sleep and napping into your life - whether you are a shift worker, a student, or an overcommitted parent Think outside the box to better understand ways to treat a multitude of conditions - from insomnia to sleep apnea to restless leg syndrome and circadian sleep disorders Wade through the ever-changing sea of sleep technology and understand its value as it relates to your own sleep struggles Dubbed the "Sleep Whisperer" by Arianna Huffington, Dr. Winter is an international expert on sleep and has helped more than 10,000 patients rest better at night, including countless professional athletes. Now he's bringing his experiences out from under the covers - redefining what it means to have optimal sleep and get the ZZZs you really need. Includes tips, tricks, and exercises. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: W. Chris Winter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/003041/bk_peng_003041_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Kingdom of Herod the Great: The History of the Herodian Dynasty in Ancient Israel During the Life of Jesus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 77min

  Herod is one of the more well-known characters of the Bible, as even those with a limited knowledge of the Bible will recognize the name and maybe have some idea of who Herod was. One of the most popular stories, known even to non-Christians, is Herod's slaying of the Innocents, a gruesome part of the Christmas story. Others who may know a little bit more about the Bible will know of the accounts of Herod and John the Baptist, Herod and Jesus, Herod who was eaten by worms and maybe even Herod and Paul. Although Herod doesn't appear in the Bible very often, it appears at critical junctures in New Testament history, and a casual reader of the Bible might incorrectly assume that each time the name "Herod" is mentioned, the Bible is referring to the same person. In fact, there were actually six different people in the New Testament who were part of this dynasty of Herods. From before the birth of Christ until the destruction of Jerusalem, the Herodian Dynasty was the ruling family in Palestine. The family of Herod came from Idumea, so they were considered by some Jews to not be qualified to sit on the throne of David in Jerusalem. However, the close connections of the family with the current Roman emperors and those who were to become emperors kept them in power for almost 100 years. The dynasty started with a celebrated war hero and ended with strong rumors of an incestuous relationship between brother and sister. The power struggles among the aristocracy and the discontent of the populace also characterized the political scene behind the events of New Testament Palestine. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Zarbock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/082310/bk_acx0_082310_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Prophetic Integrity: Maintaining Integrity in Today's Prophetic Ministry , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 162min

  Prophetic ministry is one of the most controversial and confusing, yet one of the most crucial ministries in the body of Christ. In 1 Corinthians 14:1, the Apostle Paul told the Corinthian Christians to "... eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy". Prophecy is one of the seven primary motivational gifts listed in Romans chapter 12; and one of the five ministry gifts listed in Ephesians chapter 4. Since God began to highlight the prophetic gifts in the 1980s, many methods and models have emerged. Some of those are biblical, others are not. In this book, Eddie and Alice draw from their personal experiences with the prophetic, as well as from what they've encountered in their worldwide ministry. They transparently share their journey, story after story, and pull no punches when it comes to identifying and examining problems that many are bringing into the prophetic arena. How does God speak today? How can we discern God's voice from other "inner voices?" What are we to do with a prophetic word we've been given? Are New Testament and Old Testament prophets the same? What is the proper way to deliver a prophetic word to someone? Is an unfulfilled prophetic word the sign of a false prophet? What's to be done with a person who prophesies incorrectly? You will also find inspiring stories of successful prophetic ministry, and guidelines that will help you maintain "prophetic integrity" in the days ahead. Whether you are a believer who hungers for more, or a pastoral leader who must administrate prophetic ministry, you'll be blessed by these biblically balanced guidelines. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Russell Stamets. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/052476/bk_acx0_052476_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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