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Books, Reference, Words & Language
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (Oxford Bookworms, Stage 6, 2500 headwords)
by Oxford University Press, USA (Paperback)
365 New Words-A-Year Page-A-Day Calendar 2009 (Original Page a Day Calendars)
by Workman Publishing Company (Calendar)
This 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.
Anne Lamott
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
by Anchor (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-09-01)
Henry Hitchings
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-16)
Words 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 ...
Seuss
The cat in the hat (I can read it all by myself)
by Grolier Book Club edition (Unknown Binding)
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback) (Release Date: 2000-04-03)
William K. Zinsser
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by Collins (Paperback) (Release Date: 2006-05-09)
Robert Brewer
2009 Writer's Market
by Writers Digest Books (Paperback)
For 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.
Norm Goldstein
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STYLEBOOK AND BRIEFING ON MEDIA LAW
by Perseus Publishing (Paperback)
Steven Pinker
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Viking Adult (Hardcover)
New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence that enables him to provide lucid explanations of deep and powerful ideas. His previous books—including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Blank Slate—have catapulted him into the limelight as one of today’s most important and popular science writers. Now, in The Stuff of Thought, Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature. What does swearing reveal about our emotions? Why does innuendo disclose something about relationships? Pinker reveals how our use of prepositions and tenses taps into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and how our nouns and verbs speak to our notions of matter. Even the names we give our babies have important things to say about our relations to our children and to society. With his signature wit and style, Pinker takes ...