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a Perfect Core Text For Introduction To Communication Or Communication Theory Classes, questions Of Communication Puts Theory Into Context By Using An Acc...

Writing That Works is unique among business and professional writing textbooks. The book's advice on the writing process, abundant workplace samples, guida...

The Author Of Five Books, Including The Novels Hard Laughter, Rosie And Joe Jones, Offers An Inspiring Book About Writing As A Way Of Finding Truth (san Fra...

Where would we be without conversation? Throughout history, conversations have allowed us to see different perspectives, build ideas, and solve problems. C...

Larry McMurtry criscrosses America -- driving in search of the present, the past, and himself -- as he shares his fascination with this nation's great trai...

This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra. It describes some its most reknowned musical directors such as Stotowski and Mut...

Collects The Author's Best New Yorker Pieces, Including Essays On Such Topics As Why There Are So Many Kinds Of Mustard But Only One Type Of Ketchup, A Surp...

In the Skin of a Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the 20s and 30s. Michael Ondaatje e...

From Homer to Plato, Thackeray to Kafka, Proust to Twain, Freud to Whitman--an introduction to more than 100 classics of Western literature and thought.Cate...

After her husband died of cancer, 57-year-old Rosie set off to run around the world, raising money in memory of the man she loved. Followed by wolves, knoc...

Poems Deal With The Seasons, City Life, An Abandoned Child, Famine, Rape, Masculinity, Religion, Childhood, Parents, Love, And MortalityCategories: Referenc...

the Celebrated Author Of the Last American Man Creates An Irresistible, Candid, And Eloquent Account Of Her Pursuit Of Worldly Pleasure And Spiritual Devo...

A concise handbook, THE PR STYLEGUIDE: FORMATS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS PRACTICE serves as a complete style guide and reference tool. Learn to present messages ...

From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs...

Need to find more time to write--without sacrificing the important things? Looking to consistently discover great book ideas? Wish you could generate a ste...

Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. Reporting on news-impoverished areas in the...

Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of...

We All Know The Basics Of Punctuation. Or Do We? A Look At Most Neighborhood Signage Tells A Different Story. Through Sloppy Usage And Low Standards On The ...

Describes Travel Experiences In Vanuatu And Fiji, Which Include Coping With Mother Nature--typhoons, Earthquakes, Volcanoes--and Observing The Relaxed Lifes...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocativ...

Ever since October 1967, when he set off in a battered motor home to explore America and talk to its people, Charles Kuralt has been one of our premier chr...

The Controversial Conservative Radio Personality Presents A Collection Of His Observations On The Clinton Administration, Liberals, And Other TopicsCategori...

The #1 New York Times bestseller: a brilliant account—character-rich and darkly humorous—of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff. The Barnes &am...

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Eleven Powerful Pieces First Published In The New Yorker Recall The Path Terror In The Middle East Has Taken From A More Peaceful Time In 1990s Israel To Th...

Make your descriptions fresh and they'll move your story forward, imbue your work with atmosphere, create that tang of feeling that editors cry for and read...

Open your spirit. Deepen your writing. Find your personal Truth. With more than 85 exercises engaging ritual, poetry, dreamwork, journaling, visualization,...

In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. ...

An Exhilarating, Anti-colonial Reclamation Of Nature Writing And Memoir, Rooted In The Forests And Flatlands Of Taiwan From The Winner Of The Rbc Taylor Pri...

the Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need Is The Ideal Resource For Everyone Who Wants To Produce Writing That Is Clear, Concise, And Grammatically Excellent....

An Observation Survey introduces teachers to ways of observing children's progress in the early years of learning about literacy and leads to the selection ...

In this sequel to her New York Times bestsellers Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the celebrated bard of Tuscany (New York Times) lyrically chronic...

Immortalizes Damon Runyon in a biography of the Roaring Twenties journalist who covered the Mexican Revolution, World War I, the Lindbergh kidnapping, sport...

Jack-the-lad, wheeler-dealer, and international playboy (just ask the manageress of El Sid's, Torremolinos, 1978), this was a man destined for greatness. On...

The Story Of How Six Men And One Woman Made Maritime History In April 1993, By Sailing The Pacific On A Bamboo Raft To Test The Theory That Asian Sailors Re...

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to...

Xiomara Batista Feels Unheard And Unable To Hide In Her Harlem Neighborhood. Ever Since Her Body Grew Into Curves, Xiomara Batista Has Learned To Let Her Fi...

What if everything we've been taught about learning to write was wrong? In The Right to Write, Julia Cameron, award-winning author of such national bestse...

At one time, Italian wines conjured images of cheap Chianti in straw-wrapped bottles. More recently, expensive “Super Tuscans” have been the rage. But bet...

This is the legendary travel diary that the twenty-four-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) kept during his formative journey through Souther...

Do you know how to use semicolons, where to put your apostrophes and when to use commas? Do you know the difference between affect and effect, if and whethe...

“If there are shoulders modern African-American women’s literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theatre and literature wit...

Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work The Great Railway Bazaar, the world’s most acclaimed travel writer re-creates his 25,00...

This critically acclaimed memoir, now in paperback, tells the story of the woman who piloted The Washington Post through the stormy times related to the Pe...

Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St....

Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Haro...

Hilarious, cringe-inducing stories about teachers, students and parents, from CBC star of Mr. D, one of Canada's hottest comedic talents. Gerry Dee is a ris...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...