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1) Books, Crooks, and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
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Publisher
Quill Driver Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Addressing the misunderstood and misrepresented aspects of the law in today's writing, this reliable guidebook demonstrates how to use legal concepts, terminology, and procedure to create fiction that is true to life and crackling with real-world tension. Examples from actual cases are provided along with excerpts of authentic courtroom dialogue. Topics covered include criminal and civil law; differences between federal, state, and Native American...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anyone who regularly deals with work-related writing deadlines knows the kind of paralysis that can take over when there's too much to accomplish and not enough time to compose a clear sentence. This book contains an easy, efficient, and confidence-building process for keeping up and being productive, even under tight time constraints and concentration-sapping obstacles. The book contains an immediately usable approach based on the mnemonic DASH,...
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Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author tells the origin story of LA defense attorney Mickey Haller.
In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work—and the strokes of luck—that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who played...
In this concise, absorbing account, Michael Connelly reveals the work—and the strokes of luck—that contributed to his creation of the character Mickey Haller, the subject of multiple bestselling novels as well as the hit Netflix series. He reveals the lawyers, both fictional and real-life, who played...
Author
Publisher
Babelcube Inc.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Da rienda suelta a tu creatividad con el poder de la inteligencia artificial en «Desata tu creatividad: los desafíos de escritura de ChatGPT al descubierto». Esta completa guía ofrece una perspectiva única sobre el uso de ChatGPT de OpenAI para mejorar tu proceso de escritura, y te proporciona una gran variedad de consejos prácticos y propuestas generados por la IA para escritores de todos los niveles.
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Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Language
English
Description
Get to know some of the many groundbreaking and legendary women in US soccer. Read about some amazing and unstoppable women who changed soccer in America like Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan, Briana Scurry, Trinity Rodman, and Mia Hamm. This book also includes a history of women's soccer in America and a summary of all four historic World Cup wins.
6) The Leader's Guide to Speaking with Presence: How to Project Confidence, Conviction, and Authority
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Language
English
Description
Whether in a meeting or a presentation, a watercooler conversation or a formal speech, a leader's most important job is to.
Your idea may be groundbreaking. The potential profits might be exhilarating. The time to act may be right now, but if you're not able to craft and deliver a clear message that doesn't lead the audience to gain your perspective, that can be the difference between your pitch being transformational and becoming forgettable.
Executive...
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Language
English
Description
One of the world's foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku.
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that "make the mind leap." A good one, he said, lets the mind experience "a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God." As many spiritual practices seek to do, the haiku's spare yet acute noticing of the immediate and often ordinary...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation when she moves to the Southwest desert with nothing and no one but her four dogs"--
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