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Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310232112 (0-310-23211-2)
Hardcover, Zondervan

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The Basics of Biblical Greek is an entirely new, integrated approach to teaching and learning New Testament Greek. It makes learning Greek a natural process and shows from the very beginning how an understanding of Greek helps in understanding the New Testament. [via]
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Basics of Biblical Greek: Workbook
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310400910 (0-310-40091-0)
Softcover, Zondervan

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This workbook is complete with exercises and readings for Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar. [via]
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Bedford Basics: A Workbook for Writers
by Diana Hacker, Wanda Van Goor

ISBN 0312154577 (0-312-15457-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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In a workbook format, Bedford Basics incorporates a streamlined version of the text from the highly successful Bedford Handbook with lower-level exercises. Because Bedford Basics follows the handbook's organization, it can easily be used in conjunction with the handbook in a composition sequence or it can stand alone in any developmental writing class. For the new edition, the exercises have been carefully revised after much classroom testing. In addition, several new features have been added to make this book more useful for culturally diverse students, students working on a computer, and students using the book on their own. [via]
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A Canadian Writer's Reference
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312416830 (0-312-41683-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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The Chicago Manual of Style

ISBN 0226104036 (0-226-10403-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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What can we say? This weighty tome is the essential reference for all who work with words--writers, editors, proofreaders, indexers, copywriters, designers, publishers, and students. Discover who Ibid is, how to deftly avoid the split infinitive, and how to format your manuscripts to impress any professor or editor (no, putting it in a blue plastic folder is just not enough). [via]
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The Chicago Manual of Style: For Authors, Editors, and Copywriters
by University of Chicago

ISBN 0226103900 (0-226-10390-0)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press

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Writers Style Manual Grammar Check Guide- For English Majors and Wordsmith's this book is the magic spell put on an author's works. Here's your Charm- it weighs only 3lbs. [via]
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 0679418601 (0-679-41860-1)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
by Henry Watson Fowler

ISBN 0192813897 (0-19-281389-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
by Simon Winchester, Henry Fowler

ISBN 0198605064 (0-19-860506-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss

ISBN 1592402038 (1-59240-203-8)
Softcover, Gotham Books

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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 internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!
by Lynne Truss, Bonnie Timmons

ISBN 0399244913 (0-399-24491-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.

This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughterand better punctuationfrom all who read it.

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Eats, Shoots, and Leaves
by Lynne Truss

ISBN 0786268379 (0-7862-6837-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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A New York Times Bestseller
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!"
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An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 031240249X (0-312-40249-X)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins

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A digital edition of the most widely adopted handbook in the country, An Electronic Writer's Reference 5.0 combines the class tested coverage and reference features of the print text with the cutting edge convenience of an e-book--resulting in an inter-active e-handbook that's both a guide to research and writing and a reference for the electronic age. [via]
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The Elements of Grammar
by Margaret D. Shertzer

ISBN 0028614496 (0-02-861449-6)
Softcover, Pearson P T R

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A handy compendium of grammar in the same format as the perennial bestseller, The Elements of Style. [via]
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The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, E. B. White, Maira Kalman

ISBN 1594200696 (1-59420-069-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered.This book's unique tone, wit and charm have conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. Use the fourth edition of "the little book" to make a big impact with writing. [via]
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The Elements of Style: A Style Guide for Writers
by William Strunk

ISBN 097522980X (0-9752298-0-X)
Softcover, Kt Pub

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Asserting that one must first know the rules to break them, this classic reference is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer. Intended for use in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature, it gives in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style and concentrates attention on the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated. [via]
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The Elements of Style With Index
by William Strunk

ISBN 0024182001 (0-02-418200-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall

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Composition teachers throughout the English-speaking world have been pushing this book on their students since it was first published in 1957. Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style. [via]
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English Grammar and Composition: Complete Course
by John E. Warriner

ISBN 0153120002 (0-15-312000-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub

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English Grammar and Composition: Complete Course Grade 12
by John E. Warriner

ISBN 0153119055 (0-15-311905-5)
Hardcover, Harcourt College Pub

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Fowler's Modern English Usage
by R. W. Burchfield, H. W. Fowler

ISBN 0198610211 (0-19-861021-1)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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Greek Grammar
by Herbert W. Smyth

ISBN 0674362500 (0-674-36250-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr

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Professor H. W. Smyth's classic text on Greek Grammar -- yet to be improved on. [via]
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The Little Brown Handbook/Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines: With Researching Online, 3rd Edition
by H. Ramsey Fowler

ISBN 0201671441 (0-201-67144-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley

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The Little, Brown Handbook
by H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron

ISBN 0321389514 (0-321-38951-4)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group

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The most trusted and authoritative name in handbooks, The Little, Brown Handbook,11/e is an easy-to-use reference that will answer any question you may have in grammar, writing, or research. It also includes exercises so you can practice skills. This edition offers the latest information on writing with computers, writing online, analyzing visuals, and researching effectively on the Internet. With clear explanations, a wealth of examples, and quick reference checklists and boxes, The Little, Brown Handbook will makes it easy to find what you need and use the information you find.
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The Little, Brown Handbook
by Jane E. Aaron, N

ISBN 0321362780 (0-321-36278-0)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group

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Authoritative and accessible, The Little Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the bestselling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage of writing, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. Accompanied by the CompSolutions Plus Interactive Ebook of the text, The Little Brown Handbook retains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of students. Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.
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The Little, Brown Handbook: Includes 1998 Mla Guidelines
by H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron, Christopher Busiel, Tom Maeglin

ISBN 0321019695 (0-321-01969-5)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley

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The seventh edition of this guide to writing has been updated to take into account the increasing use of computers. It covers all stages of the writing process, using student model papers to illustrate this. A research paper section covers all aspects of research writing, and features two model examples. [via]
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Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
by Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873525655 (0-87352-565-5)
Softcover, Modern Language Assn of Amer

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The new edition presents a comprehensive guide to preparing research papers and includes detailed coverage using computers for research and citing electronic publications. [via]
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MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations
by Walter S. Achtert, Modern Language Association of America, Joseph Gibaldi

ISBN 0873520009 (0-87352-000-9)
Hardcover, Modern Language Association

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Modern English Usage
by Fowler

ISBN 1853263184 (1-85326-318-4)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc

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A guide to precise phrases, grammar, and pronunciation can be key; it can even be admired. But beloved? Yet from its first appearance in 1926, Fowler's was just that. Henry Watson Fowler initially aimed his Dictionary of Modern English Usage, as he wrote to his publishers in 1911, at "the half-educated Englishman of literary proclivities who wants to know Can I say so-&-so?" He was of course obsessed with, in Swift's phrase, "proper words in their proper places." But having been a schoolmaster, Fowler knew that liberal doses of style, wit, and caprice would keep his manual off the shelf and in writers' hands. He also felt that description must accompany prescription, and that advocating pedantic "superstitions" and "fetishes" would be to no one's advantage. Adepts will have their favorite inconsequential entries--from burgle to brood, truffle to turgid. Would that we could quote them all, but we can't resist a couple. Here Fowler lays into dedicated:
He is that rara avis a dedicated boxer. The sporting correspondent who wrote this evidently does not see why the literary critics should have a monopoly of this favourite word of theirs, though he does not seem to think that it will be greatly needed in his branch of the business.
Needless to say, later on rara avis is also smacked upside the head! And practically fares no better: "It is unfortunate that practically should have escaped from its true meaning into something like its opposite," Fowler begins. But our linguistic hero also knew full well when to put a crimp on comedy. Some phrases and proper uses, it's clear, would always be worth fighting for, and the guide thus ranges from brief definitions to involved articles. Archaisms, for instance, he considered safe only in the hands of the experienced, and meaningless words, especially those used by the young, "are perhaps more suitable for the psychologist than for the philologist." Well, youth might respond, "Whatever!"--though only after examining the keen differences between that phrase and what ever. (One can only imagine what Fowler would have made of our late-20th-century abuses of like.) This is where Robert Burchfield's 1996 third edition comes in. Yes, Fowler lost the fight for one r in guerrilla and didn't fare too well when it came to quashing such vogue words as smear and seminal. But he knew--and makes us ever aware--that language is a living, breathing (and occasionally suffocating) thing, and we hope that he would have welcomed any and all revisions. Fowlerphiles will want to keep their first (if they're very lucky) or second editions at hand, but should look to Burchfield for new entries on such phrases as gay, iron curtain, and inchoate--not to mention girl. --Kerry Fried [via]
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- Modern English Usage: ISBN 0317199692 (0-317-19969-2)
  Hardcover, Bern Porter
- Modern English Usage: ISBN 1853263184 (1-85326-318-4)
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The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
by H. W. Fowler, R. W. Burchfield

ISBN 0198602634 (0-19-860263-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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For generations, lovers of the English language have turned to trusty copies of Fowler's to settle nagging grammatical questions, or, for true hard-core language junkies, for the sheer fun of reading H. W. Fowler's classic outrage contained in entries on "Hackneyed Phrases" or "Pedantic-Humour Words."
The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, the first revision in more than 30 years, has not arrived without controversy. Some language (and Fowler) purists complain that the book is too liberal at times, noting that usage is common as opposed to correct. Those points are debatable, and, indeed, they're what makes the book's nearly 900 pages so interesting to peruse. The currency of the new Fowler's extends to, in the entry on "Vogue Words," such novelties as "couch potato," "flavour of the month," "on a roll," and the notorious "parameter." [via]
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 0618382011 (0-618-38201-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin

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For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and enlarged her classic handbook with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional whimsical graphics, and further character development and drama -- all the while redeeming punctuation from the perils of boredom. For anyone who has despaired of opening a punctuation handbook (but whose sentences despair without one), THE NEW WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE will teach you clearly and simply where to place a comma and how to use an apostrophe. And as you master the elusive slashes, dots, and dashes that give expression to our most perplexing thoughts, you will find yourself in the grip of a bizarre and beguiling comedy of manners. Long-time fans will delight in the further intrigues of cover girl Loona, the duke and duchess, and the mysterious Rosie and Nimrod. The New Well-Tempered Sentence is sure to entertain while teaching you everything you want to know about punctuation. Never before has punctuation been so much fun!
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Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
by Constance Hale

ISBN 0767903099 (0-7679-0309-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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You gotta love a grammar guide that calls verbs "moody little suckers" and adverbs "promiscuous." Constance Hale (Wired Style) relishes prose that is deliberate, beautiful, and bold. Go ahead and break the rules, she says; just know the rules first, and know why you are breaking them. In Sin & Syntax, Hale examines the elements of grammar from four angles: the "bones" (the grammar lesson), the "flesh" (the writing lesson), "cardinal sins" (what she calls "true transgressions"), and "carnal pleasures" (the beauty that results from either "hew[ing] exquisitely to the underlying codes of language," or not).
For illustration, Hale hails Walt Whitman and Roger Angell, and rails upon Alexander Haig and the Gump's catalogue. She hauls in Joan Didion to make a case for writing in the first person, Mark Twain to promote the killing of adjectives, C.S. Lewis to advocate showing rather than telling, and Loudon Wainwright III to lament the abuse of the word like. But Hale has no problem making her own points. "Euphemisms," she says, "are for wimps." She dismisses a particularly heinous example of scholarly prose as "a bunch of big words thrown into an Osterizer." Even other grammarians don't escape her derision: "Get a grip," Hale says. "Hopefully as a sentence adverb is here to stay." But what distinguishes Sin and Syntax most is its enthusiasm for prose that takes risks. "Even if you have to check with a lawyer," says Hale, "isn't a kick-ass piece of writing worth the effort?" --Jane Steinberg [via]
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The St. Martin's Guide to Writing
by Diana Hacker, Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, Walter Creed

ISBN 0312454554 (0-312-45455-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

ISBN 0812911016 (0-8129-1101-6)
Hardcover, Times Books

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon is no ordinary grammarian, and her works (including The New Well-Tempered Sentence, Torn Wings and Faux Pas, and The Disheveled Dictionary)--are no ordinary books of grammar. A special edition of the 1984 classic, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire is populated by a wickedly decadent cast of gargoyles, mastodons, murderous debutantes, and, yes, vampires (both transitive and otherwise), who cavort and consort in order to illustrate basic principles of grammar. The sentences are intoxicating--"How he loved to dangle his participles, brush his forelock off his forehead with his foreleg, and gaze into the aqueous depths"--but the rules and their explanations are as sound as any you might find in Strunk and White. Outlining the building blocks of the English language, from parts of speech to phrases and clauses, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire goes on to exorcise such grammatical demons as passive voice, fragments, comma splices, and run-on sentences. At last, a handbook of grammar you will actually want to read. In the words of Gordon's preface, "Howling, exploding, crackling, flickering with new life-forms, and drunk on fresh blood (some of mine is certainly missing), this deluxe edition reminds us on every page that words, too, have hoofs and wings to transport us far and deep." [via]
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
by Patricia T. O'Conner

ISBN 1573226254 (1-57322-625-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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The bestselling grammar book has been updated and revised to include the latest and greatest on the basics and subtleties of English, and features a new chapter on the language of the Internet. [via]
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A Writer's Reference
by Diana Hacker, Nancy Sommers, Jane Rosenzweig, Tom Jehn

ISBN 0312450257 (0-312-45025-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This is a guide to help you with composing, revising, puncuation, mechanics, grammatical sentences, documentation, effective sentences, word choices, basic grammer. [via]
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A Writer's Reference 5e + Cd-rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312409044 (0-312-40904-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Cd-rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312413696 (0-312-41369-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Compact Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312413750 (0-312-41375-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Writer's Reference 5e With 2003 Mla Update + Writing About Literature 5e
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312413742 (0-312-41374-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Writer's Reference 5e with 2003 MLA Update and CD-Rom Electronic Exercises for Writer's Reference 5e and CD-Rom IX + Patterns for College Writing 9e + Getting the Picture + Comment for Writer's Reference 5e
by Stephen R. Mandell, Diana Hacker, Marcia F. Muth, Laurie G. Kirszner

ISBN 0312436408 (0-312-43640-8)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins

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A Writer's Reference: With 2001 Apa Guidelines
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312401612 (0-312-40161-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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0-312-40161-2 DIANA HACKER 4TH EDITION BEDFORD/St. MARTIN'S 1999 424 PAGES [via]
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A Writer's Reference : With 2003 MLA Update
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312412622 (0-312-41262-2)
Softcover, Bedford/Saint Martin's

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Writers Guide/Refernce book. [via]
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Writer's Reference With 2003 Mla Update & Dictionary
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312441150 (0-312-44115-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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A Writer's Reference: With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelines
by Hacker

ISBN 0312260377 (0-312-26037-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Great for the college student who may need some extra help with grammar and creative writing. [via]
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Writers Reference: Version 4.0 Updated With Mla's and Apa's 1999 Guidelines
by Diana Hacker

ISBN 0312256957 (0-312-25695-7)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Basics Of Biblical Greek Vocabulary Cards
by William D. Mounce

ISBN 0310259878 (0-310-25987-8)
Hardcover, Zondervan

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Features: * Keyed to William D. Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar * Frequency numbers on every card * Principal parts given for verbs * Cards numbered for easy assignment * First 320 cards based on order of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar * Cards 321--1,000 ordered according to frequency [via]
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