Books, Reference, Words & Language, Handwriting

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Michelle Dresbold
Sex, Lies, and Handwriting: A Top Expert Reveals the Secrets Hidden in Your Handwriting
by Free Press (Paperback)

Have you ever looked at someone and thought:He looks honest.She seems friendly.He doesn't look like a serial killer.Are you always right? Looks can be deceiving, but handwriting never lies. Handwriting profiling is an amazingly accurate tool for assessing how people think, feel, and act. In fact, handwriting profiling is so accurate that the FBI, the CIA, and the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad use it to build detailed psychological profiles of some of the world's most dangerous individuals. And thousands of major corporations use handwriting profiling to help them make the right hiring decisions. Handwriting expert Michelle Dresbold -- the only civilian to be invited to the United States Secret Service's Advanced Document Examination training program -- draws on her extensive experience helping law enforcement agencies around the country on cases involving kidnapping, arson, forgery, murder, embezzlement, and stalking to take us inside the mysterious world of crossed t's and ...

Claire Kehrwald Cook
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
by Houghton Mifflin (Paperback)

The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides information about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every writer from the student to the published author.

Karen Amend, Mary S. Ruiz
Handwriting Analysis
by Newcastle Publishing Company (Paperback)

Here is a fresh new approach to Handwriting Analysis to help you develop a view of the whole person, not just a piecemeal understanding. It offers exciting features not found in conventional books on Graphology: ( An unusually large number of actual size handwriting samples, many of famous people. ( Explanatory material with the samples not in another part of the book. ( New material about determining emotional disturbance and mental illness. ( New ideas on analyzing strokes and shapes. ( New material on understanding the meaning of the writing rhythm. ( Handwriting of children and adolescents. ( Comprehensive, easy-to-use Index. This book will tell you--in clear, precise terms--exactly how to analyze and interpret the handwriting of those you deal with every day: teachers, bosses, children, employees, spouses, parents, lovers, friends ... and your own handwriting as well.

Andrea McNichol, Jeffrey A. Nelson
Handwriting Analysis : Putting It to Work for You
by McGraw-Hill (Paperback)

Having sold over 120,000 copies, Handwriting Analysis has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter on analyzing doodles.

Barbara Getty, Inga Dubay
Write Now: The Complete Program For Better Handwriting
by Continuing Education Press (Paperback) (Release Date: 2005-03-15)

It’s so natural and easy, anyone can achieve elegant, legible handwriting. Write more legibly… These simple, slightly sloped letters were designed for both legibility and speed. Italic is a fast, efficient, and practical writing style that eliminates the loops and flourishes of conventional handwriting. Italic handwriting is easy and natural… Italic is a modern handwriting system based on l6th century letterforms that are highly suited to rapid and legible writing. Rhythmic patterns of sloped lines and elliptical shapes follow the natural movement of the hand. These handsome letterforms are as easy to write as they are to read. Make a positive impression… Your handwriting says a lot about you. Italic writing commands respect and makes a lasting statement about your style and competence. Send handwritten notes you can be proud of… Friends and business associates will appreciate receiving legible and distinctive handwritten messages. No more hand ...

Patrick Sebranek, Verne Meyer, Dave Kemper
Writers Inc
by Great Source Education Group (Hardcover)

It's meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven't inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and usage are very user-friendly, and lots of extras (suffixes, parliamentary procedure, periodic table, metric system, the U.S. Constitution, world maps, etc.) make this an extraordinarily popular and useful household item. If you're feeling generous, you might even let the kid take it to school on occasion.

Peter Elbow
Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

Platt Rogers Spencer
Spencerian Penmanship (Theory Book plus five copybooks)
by Mott Media (MI) (Paperback) (Release Date: 1985-02-01)

In the mid-1800's, the Spencerian form of penmanship became a standard. An elegant handwriting was much prized. Today, in our computer age, a fine, beautiful, and legible handwriting brings a warm personal touch to our correspondence. These books, 5 copybooks and a theory book (available separately or as a set), may be used to introduce cursive writing to second or third graders or to improve the handwriting of older students or adults.

Jill Norris
Daily Handwriting Practice: Contemporary Cursive
by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (Paperback)

Incorporated into the writing exercises in Daily Handwriting Practice, Traditional Cursive, are many other basic areas of learning important to developing minds. For example, on the topic, "What is work," students learn about simple tools and the physics applied in using them. Students write letters, words, and sentences about a variety of content area topics appropriate for the classroom. Monday through Thursday, the weekly subjects for writing exercises range from famous inventors to famous quotations, amazing hunters to the water cycle. On Friday, a full-page exercise draws the topic to a close by reviewing what was learned earlier that week. This book is a useful and effective teaching tool because: Each letter is introduced and practiced before students are asked to use it. Curriculum topics addressed include: the alphabet,unusual animals,math, capital letter,owls as hunters,rhyming words, months of the year,whales,rivers of the world, days of the ...

Louise Purwin Zobel
The Travel Writer's Handbook 5th Ed: How to Write and Sell Your Own Travel Experiences
by Surrey Books (Paperback)

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