Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in ...

The Author Describes What She Has Learned About Teaching, Writing, And Reading Over Twenty-five Years As An English Teacher, Focusing On Her Experiences Aft...

The First Edition Of Garner's Modern American Usage Established Bryan Garner As An American Equivalent Of Fowler (library Journal). With More Than 23,500 Co...

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near t...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is ...

Following the triumph of thier trip through France to Carcassonne, these two pensioners (and thier whippet, Jim) now cast off in thier narrowboat down the I...

Promote a "can do" attitude with inspiring activities that help students master that very important writing unit--the paragraph. Busy teachers appreciate th...

Parody Is Everywhere In Contemporary Modern Culture. It Runs Through Literature, Theatre And Television, Architecture, Films, And Even Everyday Speech. Draw...

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing wi...

Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate A...

In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airp...

From The #1 New York Times Bestselling World Almanac® Comes A Full-color, Full-of-fun, Oversize Book Packed With Thousands Of Awesome Facts About Science, ...

How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest g...

The pictures that made history as they traveled around the world on their only exhibition tour: more than a hundred masterpieces of modern French painting ...

'when I Begin To Write, I Open Myself And Wait. And When I Turn Toward An Inner Spiritual Awareness, I Open Myself And Wait.' With That Insight, Pat Schneid...

This Accessible Writer's Guide Provides A Helpful Framework For Creating Poetry And Navigates Contemporary Concerns And Practices. Stephen Dobyns, Author Of...

This In-depth Spelling Rules Workbook For Adults Has All The Key Spelling Rules, Patterns And Strategies To Help Improve Spelling. With Over 200 Pages Of Cl...

Presents A Novel About High School Football In A Small Texas Town, A Place In Which Football Has Become A Religion.Categories: Reference Writing, Research &...

Contains Alphabetically Arranged Entries That Provide Definitions Of English Language Words And Phrases, And Includes Spellings And Pronunciations, Usage Gu...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"There's deception, sabotage, violence, family secrets . . . all the stuff you could want from a fictional page-turner."—...

headbangers Rejoice, Because This Fantastically Illustrated Encyclopedia Includes All Things Metal, From Influential Bands Such As Blue Cheer And Iron Butte...

This is a completely updated and expanded second edition of the wide-ranging and accessible Routledge History of Literature in English. It covers the main d...

The gripping first-person account of one woman's survival in Joshua Tree National Park against the odds. "A vibrantly physical book"--The Guardian * "Up...

The New York Times bestseller: A masterful account of today’s money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. When it comes to...

Presents A Style Manual That Covers Manuscript Structure And Content, Writing Style, Grammar, Quotations, Tables, Footnotes, Results Display, And Source Cit...

This Book Considers The Issues Globalization Raises For Second Language Learning And Teaching. Block And Cameron's Collection Shows How, In An Economy Based...

INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he ha...

Hindi For Beginners Is A Hindi Self-study Guide And Language Learning Package Aimed At Helping Students Learn Hindi In A Natural Manner. It Engages Them To ...

Canadian Content has a long history as one of Canada’s leading composition readers and is known as the respected standard in the market. This book is desi...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

The Crafty Poet II Named a Best Book for Writers by Poets & Writers". . . Each of the ten sections thoroughly explores and discusses cra...

Legendary Travel Writer Paul Theroux Fearlessly Drives The Entire Length Of The Us-mexico Border, Then Goes Deep Into The Hinterland, On The Back Roads Of C...

Skill Set is for postsecondary students who need to hone their English writing and reading skills in order to meet future academic demands. Students who get...

For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It...

The Art Of Teaching Writing, New Edition, Has Major New Chapters On Assessment, Thematic Studies, Writing Throughout The Day, Reading/writing Relationships,...

This is the only anthology to present a full history of Canadian poetry — from the early 1600s through the expansiveness of poetic activity during the 18t...

A Canadian Writer's Reference, Fifth Edition, adapted from the most widely used college handbook ever published — and with the help of several Canadian ...

Moving Beyond the Page is a pedagogically rich collection of nonfiction and fiction pieces designed to help students-particularly non-English majors at the ...

The Heartwarming True Story Of One Man, His Rescue Cat, And Their Bike Ride Around The World, From The Creator Of The Massively Popular 1bike1world Instagra...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essential Edition uses ...

Diverse, inclusive, and multicultural, Stories about Us presents 43 engaging short stories from around the world. Offering a medley of readings in translati...

APA Simplified was written specifically for the new 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual, and concisely covers:Finding appropriate research using onlin...

Now in paperback, the #1 San Francisco Chronicle bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany,...

A hefty, oversize encyclopedic compendium of all things related to Canadian music. With black and white photos thoughout. --- In bright red cloth-covered bo...