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  • Smart Words

    Vocabulary for the Erudite

    de Mim Harrison ...
    How and where to use 500 of the words that make you sound more cultured, worldly, and downright smart.Whoever said sounding smart had to be painful? It's all in how you acquire the "ten-dollar words" of English. Smart Words makes fast and smooth learning of words such as prelapsarian, sedulous, sybaritic and draconian. How? By sticking to ultra-simple definitions, then offering a memorable--and ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Wicked Good Words

    From Johnnycakes to Jug Handles, a Roundup of America's Regionalisms

    de Mim Harrison ...
    How to sound like you're from here, no matter where you are in America"Simultaneously full of witty asides and linguistic erudition, Wicked Good Words is one of those rare books that you will read too fast and will find yourself wishing you could read for the first time all over again."-Ammon Shea, author of Reading the OED"As someone who grew up in the land of wicked pissa Sox games, what a ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up

    de Dave Barry ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • You can't make this stuff up. Dave Barry wouldn't lie—and here are the real life, laugh-out-loud stories from across America to prove it.Get up-close with Dave as he examines UFO thrillseekers and Elvis-worshippers, plays lead guitar with a horrifying rock band that includes Stephen King, and swears to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth in ... Leer más

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  • The Right Word!

    How to Say What You Really Mean

    de Jan Venolia ...
    Series series Right! Series
    Every writer needs help with words: choosing them, using them, spelling them correctly. When is optimal or optimum the better choice? Why use germane when relevant is, well, more relevant? Created for just such tortuous (torturous?) situations, this handy guide provides an A-to-Z listing of troublesome, confusing words, accompanied by clear examples and explanations to help avoid common mistakes. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Latin

    de Jürgen Leonhardt ...
    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words

    A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right

    de Bill Bryson ...
    One of the English language’s most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free grammar.As usual Bill Bryson says it best: “English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where ‘cleave’ can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart

    de Mignon Fogarty ...
    Series series Quick & Dirty Tips
    Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one smart word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101 Words to Sound Smart.Are you often stumped for the perfect way to say or write something? Do you find ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Elements of Expression

    Putting Thoughts into Words

    de Arthur Plotnik ...
    More than ever in this completely updated edition, The Elements of Expression helps word users "light up the cosmos or the written page or the face across the table" as they seek the radiance of expressiveness—the vivid expression of thoughts, feelings, and observations. Nothing kills radiance like the murky, generic language dominating today's talk, airwaves, and posts. It tugs at our every ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Little Book Of Tips For Descriptive Writing

    de Patti Roberts ...
    This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia ... Leer más

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  • The Weight of Blood - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know

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    de G Whiz ...
    Series series GWhizBooks.com
    Did you know that The Weight of Blood is Laura McHugh's first published novel?Or, did you know that one of the main characters of the novel is seventeen year old Lucy. Lucy is the youngest narrator of the story, and Laura said that Lucy’s voice is the first that came to her?What are the amazing facts of The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh? Do you want to know the golden nuggets of facts readers ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How to Not Write Bad

    The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them

    de Ben Yagoda ...
    Ben Yagoda's How to Not Write Bad illustrates how we can all write better, more clearly, and for a wider readership.He offers advice on what he calls "not-writing-badly," which consists of the ability, first, to craft sentences that are correct in terms of spelling, diction (word choice), punctuation, and grammar, and that also display clarity, precision, and grace. Then he focuses on crafting ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Not Like a Native Speaker

    On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

    de Rey Chow ...
    Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD