Making Words Dance: Perspectives on Red Smith, Journalism and Writing is a timely and timeless collection of lectures examining both the writer's art and the role of journalism in American culture. Making Words Dance features...
Language arts
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Auteur:Cowley Joy.Sommaire:A child describes his hen and the beautiful eggs she lays.
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Auteur:Sommaire:Gutenberg's invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation...
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Auteur:Nabokov, VladimirSommaire:For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here, collected for the first time, are his famous lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and...
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Auteur:Baranick, JennySommaire:Grammar has finally let its hair down! Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it's fun, flirty, and covers only the most important bits. Its lessons, which...
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Auteur:James, JoySommaire:"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End Times "Keywords for Radicals...
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Auteur:Moro, Andrea C.Sommaire:And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.-...
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Do you love to watch TED Talks? Would you like to give presentations that have the same impact? Whether your goal is to give a TED Talk or to deliver presentations at the same level as TED Talks, How to Rock It Like a TED Talk will...
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Auteur:Talese, Gay.Sommaire:A superb new collection from the illustrious career of Gay Talese, "the most important nonfiction writer of his generation" (David Halberstam). Admired by generations of reporters, Gay Talese has for more than six decades...
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Auteur:Levinson, Jay Conrad, Frishman, Rick, Larsen, MichaelSommaire:Because the battle begins before a book even hits the selves, an author needs every weapon to get ahead of the competition. Guerrilla Marketing for Writers is packed with proven insights and advice, it details 100 “Classified secrets”...
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Auteur:Kidder, TracySommaire:Good Prose is an inspiring book about writing-about the creation of good prose-and the record of a warm and productive literary friendship. The story begins in 1973, in the offices of the Atlantic Monthly, in Boston, where a young...
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Auteur:Harley, HeidiSommaire:English Words is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the study of English words from a theoretically informed linguistic perspective. -accessibly written to give students a command of basic theory, skills in analyzing English...
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Auteur:Woods, GeraldineSommaire:If you're confused by commas, perplexed by pronouns, and plain terrified by tenses, English Grammar For Dummies will put your fears to rest. Packed with expert guidance, it covers everything from sentence basics to rules even your...
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Auteur:Everett, Daniel L.Sommaire:Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the PirahA in 1977-with his wife and three young children-intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way...
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Auteur:Roberts-Miller, PatriciaSommaire:A clear-eyed guide to demagoguery-and how we can defeat it What is demagoguery' Some demagogues are easy to spot: They rise to power through pandering, charisma, and prejudice. But, as professor Patricia Roberts-Miller explains, a...
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Auteur:Schraff, AnneSommaire:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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Auteur:Schraff, AnneSommaire:Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
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The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers , and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it's a learnable, improvable skill. "Many people have written about creativity, but...
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Auteur:Sommaire:The charismatic movement that began in the first century currently spans the globe. The term "charismatic" refers to the "gifts of the Holy Spirit"—speaking in tongues, healing, prophecy, and discernment—said to be...
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Auteur:Galef, DavidSommaire:Flash fiction is over in the blink of an eye yet lingers with the reader. In Brevity, David Galef guides creative writing students through this timely literary genre, detailing best techniques, key examples, and provocative prompts that...
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