Change Language

Why is the gap so great between our hopes, our intentions, even our decisions - and what we are actually able to bring about? Even when we are able to make important changes - in our own lives or the groups we lead at work - why are the changes are so frequently short-lived and we are soon back to business as usual? What can we do to transform this troubling reality?  

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer discusses the importance of words in Change Your Words, Change Your Life. "Words are a big deal. They are containers for power, and we have to decide what kind of power we want our words to carry ... I believe that our words can increase or...

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE EVOLUTION --- This book provides an in-depth exploration of the processes that have shaped human language over millennia, integrating linguistic, archaeological, cognitive, and sociocultural evidence to illuminate the evolution of languages. Anchoring its analysis in historical linguistics, the book goes into the profound effects of migration, educational systems, trade, and technological innovations on language transformation. The bookunfolds with an examination of migration's necessary place in shaping linguistic territory, from the spread of Indo-...

Healing, Guidance, and Miracles—Through the Lost Vocabulary of the Soul To connect with the ultimate creative power that shapes and directs our lives, teaches Caroline Myss, we first need to learn its sacred medium of communication—what she calls "holy language." Whether through prayer...

MORE THAN 100,000 COPIES SOLD! The completely updated and expanded edition of the classic reference for managers and business leaders on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, subpar...

The Pun Also Rises is an authoritative yet playful exploration of a practice that is common, in one form or another, to virtually every language on earth. At once entertaining and educational, this engaging book answers fundamental questions: Just what is a pun, and why do people make them? How did punning impact the development of human language, and how did that drive creativity and progress? And why, after centuries of decline, does the pun still matter?

Leadership is heard before it is seen. The difference between managing and leading often appears in surprisingly small moments: how you make a recommendation, respond to uncertainty, challenge an idea, give feedback, set priorities or guide people through change. Leadership Language is a practical guide to those moments. Across 20 short chapters, it shows how everyday management language can be shifted from hesitation to judgement, activity to priority, blame to ownership, pressure to commitment, complexity to clarity and change to meaning. Instead of “I think we should…” Try “My ...

THE RISE OF SPANISH-LANGUAGE TELEVISION IN THE US, AND THE INSIDE STORY OF THE NETWORK THAT UNITED MILLIONS OF LATINOS. When Joaquin Blaya took over a struggling Spanish-language TV station in Miami, few believed Hispanic media had a future in the United States. But one Chilean immigrant's bold...

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to ""speed-read"" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Three adult sisters are faced with their mother’s provocative last request in this clear-eyed and moving novel exploring choice, change, and power in the bodies and lives of four different women. "One of the best novels I’ve read in years...

Change your life by taking a Word Fast! The words you have been speaking have spun a web for you that has either entangled you in the blessings of GOD or in the web of the enemy. Word Fasting is an unconventional approach to learning how to speak a change into your life by neglecting to speak certain words for a period of time. It's similar to taking part of a trial offer just to see how it works for you!

Do you work and live with people who are hard to convince? Who dismiss ideas before even thinking about them? Do you want to know how to influence people, without being manipulative? Want to find out how people get motivated, make decisions, how to be more persuasive with everyone? Shelle Rose Charvet, best-selling author, shows you how to match your language to people around you (in your work, with your colleagues, your boss and your clients, and at home, with your partner, family and other relationships).

101 Tough Conversations to Have with Employees provides guidance for managers on how to broach uncomfortable conversations across a wide range of issues. Inappropriate workplace conduct, lateness, sexually offensive behavior, productivity and communication issues . . . these are just a few of...

From the world’s #1 body language expert* comes the essential audiobook for decoding human behavior “The ultimate body language reference. I’ll be both referring to and recommending this book on a daily basis for many years to come.” —Amy Cuddy Joe Navarro has spent a lifetime...

""Anyone pursuing success must read this book."" —Chris Voss, author of Never Split the Difference A master class in leadership from the world’s top body language expert From internationally bestselling author and retired FBI agent Joe Navarro, a groundbreaking look at the five powerful...

This is a compilation of true, often humorous stories and serious observations about the lives and customs of Appalachians from the old days to modern times. Topics include mountain customs and traditions with forays into herbal remedies, moonshining, religion and language, along with the difficulties of being absorbed into cultures outside of the hills. A few of the forty-four chapters include: Aunt Berthy and the Fires of Hell, Enlightenment Comes to the Mountains, Old Time Religion in Appalachia, Uncle Bryant: Mountain Medicine Man, Appalachian Medicine Chest, Catfish in a Log, ...

A phone rings in the next room, and before you've registered whose voice is on the other end, you're already speaking a different language. For the roughly half of the world's population who live with more than one language, this isn't remarkable, it's Tuesday. But what is actually happening inside a bilingual mind when it moves between languages, sometimes mid-sentence, without a moment's conscious effort? Two Languages, One Head explores the strange, largely invisible traffic that runs through the head of anyone who lives with more than one language, and what that traffic actually does to...

Are you “leadership material?” More importantly, do others perceive you to be? Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a noted expert on workplace power and influence, shows you how to identify and embody the Executive Presence (EP) that you need to succeed. You can have the experience and qualifications of a...

New York Times Bestseller Following the success of Lean In and Why Women Should Rule the World, the authors of the bestselling Womenomics provide an informative and practical guide to understanding the importance of confidence—and learning how to achieve it—for women of all ages and at all...

"In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry has...