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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, ... With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Author: Roy Blount Jr.
ASIN : 0374103690
Sales Rank : 1402
Studio : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780374103699
ISBN : 0374103690
Number Of Pages : 384
Publication Date : December 14, 2008
Release Date : December 14, 2008
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Product DescriptionAli G: How many words does you know? Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them. Ali G: What is some of 'em? —Da Ali G Show Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder why so many h-words have to do with breath? Roy Blount Jr. certainly has, and after forty years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, except greeting cards, he still can’t get over his ABCs. In Alphabet Juice, he celebrates the electricity, the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies, of letters and their combinations. Blount does not prescribe proper English. The franchise he claims is “over the counter.” Three and a half centuries ago, Thomas Blount produced Blount’s Glossographia, the first dictionary to explore derivations of English words. This Blount’s Glossographia takes that pursuit to other levels, from Proto-Indo-European roots to your epiglottis. It rejects the standard linguistic notion that the connection between words and their meanings is “arbitrary.” Even the word arbitrary is shown to be no more arbitrary, at its root, than go-to guy or crackerjack. From sources as venerable as the OED (in which Blount finds an inconsistency, at whisk) and as fresh as Urbandictionary.com (to which Blount has contributed the number-one definition of “alligator arm”), and especially from the author’s own wide-ranging experience, Alphabet Juice derives an organic take on language that is unlike, and more fun than, any other.
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Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase) (Spanish Edition)
Author: Roy Blount Jr.
ASIN : 0486280861
Sales Rank : 327
Studio : Dover Publications
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780486280868
ISBN : 0486280861
UPC : 800759280865
Number Of Pages : 80
Publication Date : December 26, 1994
Publisher : Dover Publications
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Product DescriptionMore than 770 basic phrases for everyday use enable you to communicate instantly on a host of topics: health and medical situations; essential services; boat, plane, and train travel; much more.
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Authors: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
ASIN : 0071401946
Sales Rank : 274
Studio : McGraw-Hill
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780071401944
ISBN : 0071401946
UPC : 639785375159
Number Of Pages : 256
Publication Date : December 18, 2002
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
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Product DescriptionForeword by Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A PAPERBACK ORIGINAL "Most books make promises. This one delivers. These skills have not only helped us to change the culture of our company, but have also generated new techniques for working together in ways that enabled us to win the largest contract in our industry's history."--Dain M. Hancock, President, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics A powerful, seven-step approach to handling difficult conversations with confidence and skill "Crucial" conversations are interpersonal exchanges at work or at home that we dread having but know we cannot avoid. How do you say what needs to be said while avoiding an argument with a boss, child, or relationship partner? Crucial Conversations offers readers a proven seven-point strategy for achieving their goals in all those emotionally, psychologically, or legally charged situations that can arise in their professional and personal lives. Based on the authors' highly popular DialogueSmart training seminars, the techniques are geared toward getting people to lower their defenses, creating mutual respect and understanding, increasing emotional safety, and encouraging freedom of expression. Among other things, readers also learn about the four main factors that characterize crucial conversations, and they get a powerful six-minute mastery technique that prepares them to work through any highimpact situation with confidence.
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The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Authors: William Strunk Jr., E. B. White
ASIN : 020530902X
Sales Rank : 135
Studio : Longman
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780205309023
ISBN : 020530902X
UPC : 076092005445
Number Of Pages : 105
Publication Date : December 02, 1999
Publisher : Longman
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Product DescriptionContains rules of grammar phrased as direct orders and provides the principal requirements of plain English style. Concentrates on fundamentals: the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. Softcover. DLC: English language--Style. Amazon.com ReviewA masterpiece in the art of clear and concise writing, and an exemplar of the principles it explains.
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365 New Words-A-Year Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Original Page a Day Calendars)
Authors: William Strunk Jr., E. B. White
ASIN : 0761149333
Sales Rank : 989
Brand : 2009 Calendars
Studio : Workman Publishing Company
Format : Illustrated
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780761149330
ISBN : 0761149333
Number Of Pages : 370
Publication Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
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Product DescriptionThis is the gold standard of word calendars. For students, writers, readers, crossword buffs, and all lovers of language, it's the pleasure of learning a new word every day from the editors at Merriam-Webster, the world's most respected dictionary. Discover literary words (Aesopian: conveying an innocent meaning to an outsider but a hidden meaning to a member of a conspiracy or underground movement), words that are too much fun not to use (slugabed: a person who stays in bed after the usual or proper time to get up), and more. Each entry includes a definition, pronunciation, sample sentence, and detailed word history.
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
Author: Henry Hitchings
ASIN : 0374254109
Sales Rank : 7352
Studio : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780374254100
ISBN : 0374254109
Number Of Pages : 448
Publication Date : December 16, 2008
Release Date : December 16, 2008
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Product DescriptionWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think about the origins of the words we use? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, Dutch, or Portuguese? Try admiral, landscape, and marmalade, just for starters. The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account not only of the history of English language and vocabulary, but also of how words witness history, reflect social change, and remind us of our past. Henry Hitchings delves into the insatiable, ever-changing English language and reveals how and why it has absorbed words from more than 350 other languages—many originating from the most unlikely of places, such as shampoo from Hindi and kiosk from Turkish. From the Norman Conquest to the present day, Hitchings narrates the story of English as a living archive of our human experience. He uncovers the secrets behind everyday words and explores the surprising origins of our most commonplace expressions. The Secret Life of Words is a rich, lively celebration of the language and vocabulary that we too often take for granted.
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2009 Writer's Market
Author: Robert Brewer
ASIN : 1582975418
Sales Rank : 1149
Studio : Writers Digest Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781582975412
ISBN : 1582975418
Number Of Pages : 1184
Publication Date : December 29, 2008
Publisher : Writers Digest Books
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Product DescriptionFor 88 years, Writer's Market has given fiction and nonfiction writers the information they need to sell their work--from completely up-to-date listings to exclusive interviews with successful writers. The 2009 edition provides all this and more with over 3,500 listings for book publishers, magazines and literary agents, in addition to a completely updated freelance rate chart. In addition to the thousands of market listings, writers will find up-to-date information on becoming a successful freelancer covering everything from writing query letters to launching a freelance business, and more.
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1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners' Guides)
Author: Seymour Resnick
ASIN : 0486291138
Sales Rank : 919
Studio : Dover Publications
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780486291130
ISBN : 0486291138
UPC : 800759291137
Number Of Pages : 64
Publication Date : December 07, 1996
Publisher : Dover Publications
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Product DescriptionIndispensable learning aid includes definitions of common Spanish words arranged by such categories as foods, numbers, days of the week, months, colors, seasons and family. At the book's heart is a dictionary, from a to zapato, where each word is used in a Spanish sentence (with English translation) demonstrating its proper use.
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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Author: Anne Lamott
ASIN : 0385480016
Sales Rank : 727
Studio : Anchor
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780385480017
ISBN : 0385480016
Number Of Pages : 239
Publication Date : December 01, 1995
Release Date : December 01, 1995
Publisher : Anchor
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Product DescriptionA step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips. Reprint. Tour. K. NYT. Amazon.com ReviewThink you've got a book inside of you? Anne Lamott isn't afraid to help you let it out. She'll help you find your passion and your voice, beginning from the first really crummy draft to the peculiar letdown of publication. Readers will be reminded of the energizing books of writer Natalie Goldberg and will be seduced by Lamott's witty take on the reality of a writer's life, which has little to do with literary parties and a lot to do with jealousy, writer's block and going for broke with each paragraph. Marvelously wise and best of all, great reading.
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On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Author: William K. Zinsser
ASIN : 0060891548
Sales Rank : 546
Studio : Collins
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780060891541
ISBN : 0060891548
Number Of Pages : 336
Publication Date : December 01, 2006
Release Date : December 09, 2006
Publisher : Collins
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Product DescriptionOn Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental priciples as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sole, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers. Amazon.com ReviewWhether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser's mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he'd like to outlaw all leads involving those "future archaeologists" most often found "stumbl[ing] upon the remains of our civilization"). He recommends that all writers of nonfiction read their work aloud (don't commit something to paper that you wouldn't actually say) and write under the assumption that "the reader knows nothing" (not to be confused with assuming the reader's an idiot). In addition to the chapters on the expected--usage, audience, interviews, leads--Zinsser also focuses on such trouble spots as science and technical writing, business writing, sports, and humor.
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