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The book you are about to read is destined to be the first, middle, and maybe even the last word on nonfiction writing for young, young children. It is cer...

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journ...

Welcome To New Auburn, Wisconsin (population: 485). Michael Perry Loves This Place. He Grew Up Here, And Now -- After A Decade Away -- He Has Returned. Unab...

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The Least You Should Know About English 3rd Canadian edition addresses the basic grammar needs of students by providing lively explanations and examples to ...

Can a writing textbook inform and entertain? Can a very brief rhetoric also function as a stand-alone guide to college writing? Yes and yes. Speaking of Wri...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how the...

For introductory courses in computer concepts, digital literacy, or computer literacy, often including instruction in Microsoft Office. Explore, discove...

Behind Most Major Political Stories There Is An Agenda: To Destroy An Idea Or The People Advancing It. Maybe You Watched Someone On The News Report That Don...

WRITING ANALYTICALLY WITH READINGS is two books in one, a guide to writing with a reader, that teaches you how to have ideas and develop them in an academic...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’Long before Manc...

On Writing Well, Which Grew Out Of A Course That William Zinsser Taught At Yale, Has Been Praised For Its Sound Advice, Its Clarity, And For The Warmth Of I...

Himalaya, The Abode of Snow. This is the greatest mountain range on earth, a virtually unbroken wall of rock stretching 1,800 miles from the borders of Afgh...

Learn Korean the easy way, one step at a time! No rush. Let’s learn one letter a day. This book includes 10 Vowels and 14 Consonants. Also, each consonan...

In a revamped, refreshed and expanded edition, Motorworld appears in paperback for the first time. From Iceland to Australia, Clarkson travels the world ex...

A Selection Of Robert Fisk's Finest 'comment' Pieces From The Saturday 'independent'. Robert Fisk Has Amassed A Devoted Readership Over The Years, With His ...

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work. First published by Yale University Press in 1956, it w...

Explores The History Of American Film Noir, Focusing On Its Dreamlike, Erotic, Ambivalent, And Cruel Atmosphere, And Setting It In The Social Context Of Mid...

Newbery Medalist Paul Fleischman Reflects On Growing Up With His Award-winning Father, Sid Fleischman, And Details His Own Path To Becoming A Writer--Catego...

How many people would kill to be a bestselling novelist? Especially one like Janet Evanovich.Writers want to know how a bestselling author thinks, writes, ...

About the Author Jane E. Aaron is a respected writer and editor and has taught composition at both New York University and New School University. ...

The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first we...

In The Art Of Time In Memoir, Critic, Editor, And Memoirist Sven Birkerts Examines The Human Impulse To Write About The Self. Memoir Is, For Better And Ofte...

Oxford is known for publishing the world’s most trusted dictionaries. This is the essential Russian Dictionary—from the first name in reference.• Rev...

The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible ...

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A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 “Glover is a master of narrative structure.” —Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forste...

Under the Tuscan Sun meets the wide-open sea . . . An Embarrassment of Mangoes is a delicious chronicle of leaving the type-A lifestyle behind — and disco...

NihonGO NOW!is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the ne...

365 classic poems celebrating friendship, love, and constancy. Some of the most beautiful poems ever written give us insight into the important things in l...

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s reall...

At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible...

From The Publisher: One Of America's Most Influential Writing Teachers Offers A Toolbox From Which Writers Of All Kinds Can Draw Practical Inspiration. Writ...

One of the biggest problem areas for writers is conveying a character's emotions to the reader in a unique, compelling way. This book comes to the rescue by...

What Inspires You? That's The Simple, But Profound Question More Than Forty Renowned Authors Answer In Light The Dark. Each Author Picks A Favorite Passage-...

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned earl...

An American Journalist Living In Beijing Offers An Odyssey Through Twenty-first-century China As Seen Through The Eyes Of A Handful Of Ordinary People. I: A...

The Definitive Report On The Disruption Of The News Media Over The Last Decade. With The Expert Guidance Of Former Executive Editor Of The New York Times Ji...

A Cbs Reporter Reveals How She Has Been Electronically Surveilled While Digging Deep Into The Obama Administration And Its Scandals, And Offers An Incisive ...

As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun")! Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island....

Drawing on examples from the twentieth-century's "total" and "limited wars," The Media at War provides a uniquely comprehensive assessment of the role of th...

Join New York Times bestselling author Guy Fieri, host of the hugely popular Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, as he takes you on a tour of 6...

The Food Network Star Takes Readers On A Tour Of America's Most Colorful Diners, Drive-ins, And Dives, In This Tie-in To His Enormously Popular Television S...

angels Have Been With Us In Every Time And Culture, And In Many Religious Traditions. Ask Your Angels Vividly Chronicles How They Are Currentlly Reaching ...

The Canadian Writer’s Workplace Is A Developmental English Text Covering Writing From The Sentence To The Essay Level. It Is A Three-in-one Book Covering ...

Your dissertation is not a hurdle to jump or a battle to fight; as this handbook makes clear, your dissertation is the first of many destinations on the pat...

coaching The Artist Within Contains A Dozen Simple Lessons. Eric Maisel, A Leading Creativity Coach, Writes Each One With A Novelist's Flair, As A Narrati...