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  • Troublesome Words
    by Bryson
    ISBN 0140266402 (0-14-026640-2)
    Softcover, Penguin Uk

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    This dictionary provides a straightforward guide to the pitfalls and hotly disputed issues in written English. The entries are discussed with wit and common sense, and illustrated with examples of questionable usage taken from leading British and American newspapers, plus occasional references to masters of the language such as Samuel Johnson and Shakespeare. No familiarity with English grammar is needed to learn from this book, although a glossary of grammatical terms is included and there is also an appendix on punctuation. [via]

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  • Cazort, Douglass: Under the Grammar Hammer
    Under the Grammar Hammer
    by Douglass Cazort
    ISBN 0929923758 (0-929923-75-8)
    Softcover, McGraw-Hill

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  • Up, Up and Away
    by Ruth Heller
    ISBN 0698116631 (0-698-11663-1)
    Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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    With playful verse and stunning full-color illustrations, bestselling author-illustrator Ruth Heller explores the rich world of adverbs. Adverbs are fun and easy to understand when they are explained in her trademark style. [via]

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  • Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
    by Steven Pinker
    ISBN 0060958405 (0-06-095840-5)
    Softcover, Perennial

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    Human languages are capable of expressing a literally endless number of different ideas. How do we manage it--so effortlessly that we scarcely ever stop to think about it? In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, a look at the simple concepts that we use to devise works as complex as love sonnets and tax laws, renowned neuroscientist and linguist Steven Pinker shows us how. The latest linguistic research suggests that each of us stores a limited (though large) number of words and word-parts in memory and manipulates them with a much smaller number of rules to produce every writing and utterance, and Pinker explains every step of the way with engaging good humor.

    Pinker's enthusiasm for the subject infects the reader, particularly as he emphasizes the relation between how we communicate and how we think. What does it mean that a small child who has never heard the word wug can tell a researcher that when one wug meets another, there are two wugs? Some rule must be telling the child that English plurals end in -s, which also explains mistakes like mouses. Is our communication linked inextricably with our thinking? Pinker says yes, and it's hard to disagree. Words and Rules is an excellent introduction to and overview of current thinking about language, and will greatly reward the careful reader with new ways of thinking about how we think, talk, and write. --Rob Lightner [via]

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  • Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing
    by Patricia T. O'Conner
    ISBN 0156010879 (0-15-601087-9)
    Softcover, Harcourt

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    Patricia T. O'Conner's Words Fail Me is written in the same lighthearted tone as her snappy grammar guide, Woe Is I. This time out, O'Conner tackles the writer's art. "Good writing," she says, "is writing that works." This book is the perfect text for the novice writer who tends to gravitate toward comedic instructors. "Crummy spelling," says O'Conner, "is more noticeable than crummy anything else." Organizing your material "may be a pain in the butt, but it's thankless, too!" "Write as though you were addressing someone whose opinion you value, even if the reader is ... a stingy insurance company that won't pay for your tummy tuck." O'Conner's material isn't new--like many such books, Words Fail Me advocates the use of small words, fresh verbs, and only well-chosen modifiers--but rarely is a primer so amusing. And the clever titles strewn throughout--"Taking Leave of Your Tenses," "The It Parade"--provide added pleasure, particularly for anyone who knows how hard it can be to put a headline on a piece of writing. --Jane Steinberg [via]

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    • La Caseta Magica
      by Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer, Alberto Jiménez Rioja
      ISBN 1587171090 (1-58717-109-0)
      Softcover, Chronicle Books LLC

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      Norton Juster's timeless, best-selling novel will reach an even wider readership with this outstanding Spanish translation. Milo thinks that just about everything is a big waste of time--when he even bothers to think at all. But he starts to see life in a whole new way after a mysterious gift transports him to the Lands Beyond. Accompanied by the ticking watchdog Tock and the boastful Humbug, Milo embarks on an unforgettable quest to rescue Princesses Rhyme and Reason and restore common sense to the Kingdom of Wisdom. [via]

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