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100 Selected Poemsby E. E. CummingsISBN 0802130720 (0-8021-3072-0)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: '100 Selected Poems by E. E. Cummings'Book summary:E.E. Cummings is without question one of the major poets of this century, and this volume, first published in 1959, is indispensable for every lover of modern lyrical verse. It contains one hundred of Cummingss wittiest and most profound poems, harvested from thirty-five of the most radically creative years in contemporary American poetry. These poems exhibit all the extraordinary lyricism, playfulness, technical ingenuity, and compassion for which Cummings is famous. They demonstrate beautifully his extrapolations from traditional poetic structures and his departures from them, as well as the unique synthesis of lavish imagery and acute artistic precision that has won him the adulation and respect of critics and poetry lovers everywhere.[via] 
The African American Guide to Writing and Publishing Nonfictionby Jewell Parker RhodesISBN 0767905784 (0-7679-0578-4)
Softcover, Broadway Books
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Age of Opulence: The Belle Epoque in the Paris Herald, 1890-1914by Hebe DorseyISBN 0810918544 (0-8109-1854-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Aristotle's Poeticsby Aristotle, John Baxter, George Whalley, Patrick AthertonISBN 0773516123 (0-7735-1612-3)
Softcover, McGill Queens Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle's Poetics'Book summary:The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature. Sure, it's 2400 years old, but Aristotle's discussions--Unity of Plot, Reversal of the Situation, Character--though written in the context of ancient Greek Tragedy, Comedy and Epic Poetry, still apply to our modern literary forms. The book is quite short, and Aristotle illuminates his points with clear examples, making the Poetics perfectly readable, the better to impress people at parties when you say, "Of course, as Aristotle says..." [via]
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The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking & Eatingby Sara Paston-WilliamsISBN 0810919400 (0-8109-1940-0)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking & Eating'Book summary:Using National Trust resources and information, this book provides a social history of food, from medieval times to the 20th century - what food was available, where it came from, how it was prepared, served and taken. It contains 90 historical recipes and their modern adaptations. Sara Paston-Williams tackles the subject chronologically, from the cavernous kitchens and great halls of medieval houses like Cotehele in Cornwall, to the technology of late-Victorian service areas like Cragside in Northumberland, producing food for ornate dining rooms and intimate parlours. Other books by her include "National Trust Book of Christmas & Festive Day Recipes", "National Trust Book of Pies", "National Trust Book of Fish Cookery", "National Trust Kitchen Store Cupboard Recipes" and "Beatrix Potter's Country Cookbook". [via]
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The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Successby Marie L. Waddell, K. D. Sullivan, Ann LongknifeISBN 0764121812 (0-7641-2181-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Success'Book summary:Accepted writing style conventions change very slowly, but they do change. That is all the more reason why this favorite reference book for students, writers, and educators requires periodic updating. In this new edition, the authors review the fundamentals of correct sentence structure, then present twenty basic sentence patterns that encompass virtually every effective way of writing simple, compound, and complex sentences. They give advice on ways to vary rhythm and sentence patterns to produce a more interesting writing style. Example sentences as well as brief essays by recognized writers are presented and analyzed. This brand-new edition, updated with many contemporary examples of fine writing style, will inspire both students and seasoned writers to make their own essays sing. [via]
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Beautiful Napkins: Stylish Ideas for Your Tableby Margaret Caselton, David LoftusISBN 076240440X (0-7624-0440-X)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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Book Design: A Comprehensive Guideby Andrew HaslamISBN 0810992205 (0-8109-9220-5)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book Design: A Comprehensive Guide'Book summary:From award-winning writer and designer Andrew Haslam comes the final word on book design. This authoritative text guides readers through establishing formats, constructing grids, choosing typefaces, designing a jacket, and, finally, preparing materials for the printer, with more than 300 illustrations to demonstrate every aspect of the process. Interviews with professional book designers provide valuable insight, and an extensive glossary of editorial, design, and production terms make a handy reference for the burgeoning new designer.
Book Design is one of three titles this spring from Abrams Studio, our new imprint dedicated to providing artists and designers with innovative, affordable books to help them improve their skills. [via]More editions of Book Design: A Comprehensive Guide:
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Book of Teaby Okakura KakuzoISBN 0766140415 (0-7661-4041-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Book of Tea'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via] -
The Book of Tea : The Illustrated Classic Editionby Okakura Kakuzo, Liza DalbyISBN 0804832196 (0-8048-3219-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of Tea : The Illustrated Classic Edition'Book summary:That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as the tea ceremony--more properly, "the way of tea"--with its austerity, its extravagantly minimalist stylization, and its concentration of extreme subtleties of meaning into the simplest of actions. The Book of Tea is something of a curiosity: written in English by a Japanese scholar (and issued here in bilingual form), it was first published in 1906, in the wake of the naval victory over Russia with which Japan asserted its rapidly acquired status as a world-class military power. It was a peak moment of Westernization within Japan. Clearly, behind the publication was an agenda, or at least a mission to explain. Around its account of the ceremony, The Book of Tea folds an explication of the philosophy, first Taoist, later Zen Buddhist, that informs its oblique celebration of simplicity and directness--what Okakura calls, in a telling phrase, "moral geometry." And the ceremony itself? Its greatest practitioners have always been philosophers, but also artists, connoisseurs, collectors, gardeners, calligraphers, gourmets, flower arrangers. The greatest of them, Sen Rikyu, left a teasingly, maddeningly simple set of rules:
Make a delicious bowl of tea; lay the charcoal so that it heats the water; arrange the flowers as they are in the field; in summer suggest coolness; in winter, warmth; do everything ahead of time; prepare for rain; and give those with whom you find yourself every consideration.
A disciple remarked that this seemed elementary. Rikyu replied, "Then if you can host a tea gathering without deviating from any of the rules I have just stated, I will become your disciple." A Zen reply. Fascinating. --Robin Davidson, Amazon.co.uk [via]More editions of The Book of Tea : The Illustrated Classic Edition:
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Wordsby Bill BrysonISBN 0767910435 (0-7679-1043-5)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words'Book summary:One of the English languages most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where cleave can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word set has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where colonel, freight, once, and ache are strikingly at odds with their spellings. As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth, he proceeded to write that bookhis first, inaugurating his stellar career.
Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Brysons Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from a, an to zoom, that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, andbecause it is written by Bill Brysonoften witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it.
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Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Rightby Bill BrysonISBN 0767910427 (0-7679-1042-7)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right'Book summary:One of the English languages most skilled and beloved writers guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage.
As usual Bill Bryson says it best: English is a dazzlingly idiosyncratic tongue, full of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense. This is a language where cleave can mean to cut in half or to hold two halves together; where the simple word set has 126 different meanings as a verb, 58 as a noun, and 10 as a participial adjective; where if you can run fast you are moving swiftly, but if you are stuck fast you are not moving at all; [and] where colonel, freight, once, and ache are strikingly at odds with their spellings. As a copy editor for the London Times in the early 1980s, Bill Bryson felt keenly the lack of an easy-to-consult, authoritative guide to avoiding the traps and snares in English, and so he brashly suggested to a publisher that he should write one. Surprisingly, the proposition was accepted, and for a sum of money carefully gauged not to cause embarrassment or feelings of overworth, he proceeded to write that bookhis first, inaugurating his stellar career.
Now, a decade and a half later, revised, updated, and thoroughly (but not overly) Americanized, it has become Brysons Dictionary of Troublesome Words, more than ever an essential guide to the wonderfully disordered thing that is the English language. With some one thousand entries, from a, an to zoom, that feature real-world examples of questionable usage from an international array of publications, and with a helpful glossary and guide to pronunciation, this precise, prescriptive, andbecause it is written by Bill Brysonoften witty book belongs on the desk of every person who cares enough about the language not to maul or misuse or distort it. [via]More editions of Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right:
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The Catcher in the Ryeby J. D. SalingerISBN 0808514032 (0-8085-1403-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Catcher in the Rye'Book summary:Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,
"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation. [via]
Christian Diorby Richard Martin, Harold Koda, Karin L. WillisISBN 0810965062 (0-8109-6506-2)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Color in Fashion: A Guide to Coordinating Fashion Colorsby Yoko OgawaISBN 080198226X (0-8019-8226-X)
Softcover, Krause Pubns Inc
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empireby Edward GibbonISBN 0753818817 (0-7538-1881-7)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire'Book summary:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, edited with introduction, notes, and appendices by J.B. Bury, D.Litt., LL.D., in seven volumes. This is volume 1. [via]
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The Devil Wears Pradaby Lauren WeisbergerISBN 0767914767 (0-7679-1476-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Devil Wears Prada'Book summary:It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"
This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alix Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer [via]
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The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripesby Michel Pastoureau, Jody GladdingISBN 0743453263 (0-7434-5326-3)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Dictionary Of Environment & Ecologyby Peter CollinISBN 0747572011 (0-7475-7201-1)
Softcover, A & C Black
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Dissertation: An Architectural Student's Handbookby Iain Borden, Katerina RuediISBN 0750647698 (0-7506-4769-8)
Softcover, Architectural Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissertation: An Architectural Student's Handbook'Book summary:Dissertation: an Architecture Student's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all that an architecture student might need to know about writing a dissertation. It clearly navigates the student through the whole process of starting, writing, preparing and submitting a dissertation, as well as suggesting what to do after the dissertation has been completed.
Subjects covered include how to write a proposal, which research methodologies and techniques to adopt, which libraries and archives to utilise (including special architectural resources on the internet), as well as how to structure, reference and illustrate it.
Dissertation also takes architecture students into new terrains, suggesting alternative methods of undertaking dissertations, whether as video, prose writing, multimedia or other forms of expression.
* Learn how to organise and direct your studies with this clear and accessible guide
* Extracts from first class UK and US dissertations provide inspiration to get better marks
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Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usabilityby Steve KrugISBN 0789723107 (0-7897-2310-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Computer Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Make Me Think!: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability'Book summary:Usability design is one of the most important though often least attractive tasks for a Web developer. In Don't Make Me Think, author Steve Krug lightens up the subject with good humour and excellent to-the-point examples.
The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques and examples presented within it revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions. For example, "We don't read pages--we scan them" and, "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through". Getting to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces top-notch sites.
Using an attractive mix of full-colour screen shots, cute cartoons and diagrams, and informative sidebars, the book keeps your attention and drives home some crucial points. Much of the content is devoted to proper use of conventions and content layout, and the "before and after" examples are superb. Topics such as the wise use of rollovers and usability testing are covered using a consistently practical approach.
This is the type of book you can blow through in a couple evenings. But despite its conciseness, it will give you an expert's ability to judge Web design. You'll never form a first impression of a site in the same way again. --Stephen W Plain [via]
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Dressing A Galaxy: The Costumes Of Star Warsby Trisha Biggar, George Lucas, Rick MccallumISBN 0810965674 (0-8109-6567-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writersby Michael L. Keene, Katherine H. AdamsISBN 0767421892 (0-7674-2189-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writers'Book summary:"Easy Access" is the only handbook organized by the types of help student writers need. "Part One" (red tabs) provides a guide to writing processes and products. Solutions to common writing problems and ESL troublespots are found in "Part Two" (blue tab). "Part Three" (yellow tab) offers alphabetically organized definitions and examples of grammar, mechanics, and punctuation terms. [via]
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Softcover, McGraw-Hill College - Easy Access: The Reference Handbook for Writers: ISBN 0767421892 (0-7674-2189-2)
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Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teachingby Kristie S. FleckensteinISBN 0809325268 (0-8093-2526-8)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching'Book summary:[via]Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching is a response to calls to enlarge the purview of literacy to include imagery in its many modalities and various facets. Kristie S. Fleckenstein asserts that all meaning, linguistic or otherwise, is a result of the transaction between image and word. She implements the concept of imageworda mutually constitutive fusion of image and wordto reassess language arts education and promote a double vision of reading and writing. Utilizing an accessible fourfold structure, she then applies the concept to the classroom, reconfiguring what teachers do when they teach, how they teach, what they teach with, and how they teach ethically.
Fleckenstein does not discount the importance of text in the quest for literacy. Instead, she places the language arts classroom and teacher at the juncture of image and word to examine the ways imagery enables and disables the teaching of and the act of reading and writing. Learning results from the double play of language and image, she argues. Helping teachers and students dissolve the boundaries between text and image, the volume outlines how to see reading and writing as something more than words and language and to disestablish our definitions of literacy as wholly linguistic.
Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching comes at a critical time in our cultural history. Echoing the opinion that postmodernity is a product of imagery rather than textuality, Fleckenstein argues that we must evolve new literacies when we live in a culture saturated by images on computer screens, televisions, even billboards. Decisively and clearly, she demonstrates the importance of incorporating imagerywhich is inextricably linked to our psychological, social, and textual livesinto our epistemologies and literacy teaching.
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Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroomby John C. BeanISBN 0787902039 (0-7879-0203-9)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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- Shows how teachers can encourage inquiry, exploration, discussion, and debate in their courses.
- Presents a wide variety of strategies for stimulating active learning and for coaching writing and critical thinking.
- Offers teachers concrete advice on how to design courses, structure assignment, use class time, critique student performance, and model critical thinking activities.
- Demonstrates how writing can easily be integrated with such other critical thinking activities and inquiry discussions, simulation games, classroom debates, and interactive lectures.
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Entertaining for Dummiesby Suzanne Williamson, Linda SmithISBN 0764550276 (0-7645-5027-6)
Softcover, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Entertaining for Dummies'Book summary:At last! An antidote to Martha Stewart. Entertaining for Dummies is a book for the rest of us--a no-nonsense guide to planning and executing every kind of social gathering from a picnic to a formal holiday dinner. The book is divided into five parts; in the first, you'll get plenty of useful tips on planning parties, from making guest lists and planning seating arrangements to arranging the furniture for maximum comfort. Part 2 helps you plan your menu, while Part 3 offers suggestions on how to make a great impression on your guests. This is the chapter to come to if you're wondering just how to set the table or whether it's proper to eat asparagus with your hands. In Part 4, Entertaining for Dummies demonstrates that even ordinary occasions, such as the evening meal, can be social events, then segues into discussions of holiday parties, children's parties, and business entertaining. The last section is "the fun part" in which lots more menus are offered up along with some cooking tips and lots of great once-in-a-lifetime party ideas, such as a "Journey to Ancient Egypt" or a western-style harvest moon celebration. Entertaining for Dummies tells you everything you need to know to make every social gathering a roaring success. [via]
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Fabulous Fifties: Designs for Modern Livingby Kate E. Dooner, Sheila Steinberg, Douglas Congdon-MartinISBN 0764309021 (0-7643-0902-1)
Hardcover, Schiffer Pub Ltd
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Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Dressing, Shopping, and the Cost of Styleby Michelle LeeISBN 0767910486 (0-7679-1048-6)
Hardcover, Broadway Books
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Fiction & Dictionby Gerard Genette, Catherine PorterISBN 0801480868 (0-8014-8086-8)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Field Guide to American Antique Furniture/a Unique Visual System for Identifying the Style of Virtually Any Piece of American Antique Furnitureby Ray Skibinski, Joseph Butler, Kathleen Eagen JohnsonISBN 0805001247 (0-8050-0124-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Finally Comes the Poet: Daring Speech for Proclamationby Walter BrueggemannISBN 0800623940 (0-8006-2394-0)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
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The Go-Girl Guide: Surviving Your 20s With Savvy, Soul, and Styleby Julia BourlandISBN 0809224763 (0-8092-2476-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Good Word GuideISBN 0747550301 (0-7475-5030-1)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
Find This BookBook summary:A guide to punctuation, pronunciation, spelling and grammar plus jargon and buzz words - showing when and how to use them. The entries are listed aphabetically with extensive cross-referencing and appear on two distinct levels - concise answer and more detailed explanation. [via]
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Grand Luxe: The Transatlantic Styleby John Malcolm BrinninISBN 0805008993 (0-8050-0899-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Holy Bible King James Version the King James Study BibleISBN 0785201688 (0-7852-0168-8)
Softcover, Thomas Nelson Inc
Find This BookBook summary:The most comprehensive King James Version study Bible published in 50 years. The King James Study Bible has more than 2,000 pages packed with thousands of notes and commentaries from respected conservative scholars. More than 5,700 annotations in a unique format offer a broad understanding of the Bible and how it relates to the world we live in today. Features include: Presentation page Comprehensive introductions and outlines for each Book of the Bible Center-column references with explanations of difficult terms Doctrinal footnotes Words of Jesus in red Articles and indexes on how to study the Bible, God's answers to man's concerns, the teachings and fulfilled prophecies of Christ, biblical personality profiles, and archaeological notes Harmony of the Gospels 48 in-text maps and 8 pages of full-color maps 128-page concordance Index to annotations Type size: 11 point Part of the Signature Series line of Thomas Nelson Bibles King James Study Bibles sold to date: More than 2.4 million The King James Version-The most successful Bible translation in history with billions of copies published Thomas Nelson Bibles is giving back through the God's Word in Action program. Donating a portion of profits to World Vision, we are helping to eradicate poverty and preventable deaths among children. Learn more and discover what you can do at www.seegodswordinaction.com. [via]
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Holy Bible: Open Bible, King James Version, Brown Genuine LeatherISBN 0804109060 (0-8041-0906-0)
Softcover, Ivy Books
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Home Decorating for Dummiesby Patricia Hart McMillanISBN 0764541560 (0-7645-4156-0)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hundreds of ideas, resources, and budget-wise tips from this decor-savvy mother-and-daughter team of interior designers will inspire you to new heights of interior design projects yourself. Glance through more than 30 pages of full-color photos for some great inspiration, from bright lighting ideas to moldings, wallpapers, fabrics, accessories, floor coverings, and more. Discover the fundamentals of decorating and design, make a room fit your style with the right colors and textures, and create looks with timeless appeal in any room of the house. From floor to ceiling, you'll be impressed with this book's clever solutions to all those familiar decorating woes. [via]
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How to Write Articles for Newspapers and Magazinesby Dawn B. SovaISBN 076891079X (0-7689-1079-X)
Softcover, Petersons
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I Don't Have a Thing to Wear: The Psychology of Your Closetby Jackie Walker, Judie TaggartISBN 0743466446 (0-7434-6644-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Ryeby Harold BloomISBN 0791056643 (0-7910-5664-3)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Lapsing into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print - And How to Avoid Themby Bill WalshISBN 0809225352 (0-8092-2535-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lapsing into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print - And How to Avoid Them'Book summary:Who knew a stylebook could be so much fun? For lovers of language, Lapsing Into a Comma is a sensible and very funny guide to the technicalities of writing and copy editing. Author Bill Walsh, chief copy editor in the business section of the Washington Post, humorously discusses the changing rules of proper print style in the information age. Is it "e-mail" or "email"? According to established grammatical rules, it should be e-mail, but in common practice, we often use email (which should be pronounced "uhmail," but we all know not to do that). Therefore, email is OK.
Walsh does not advocate tossing your AP Stylebook, but he does encourage using your head and not blindly adhering to formal rules. "A finely tuned ear is at least as important as formal grammar," he says, "and that's not something you can acquire by memorizing a stylebook." What about companies that use punctuation in their logos? Walsh cautions against confusing a logo with a name. You wouldn't use "Tech Stock Surge Boosts Yahoo!" as a headline unless you wrote for a very excitable newspaper. And then there's arbitrary capitalization. "The dot-com era has leveled a wall that Adidas and K.D. Lang and Thirtysomething had already cracked," says Walsh, "and suddenly writers and editors faced with a name are asking, "Is that capitalized?"--a question that's about as appropriate as asking a 5-year-old, 'Do you want that Coke with or without rum?'"
The first half of Lapsing Into a Comma zips along, making you think about the intricacies of grammar and editing--all while trying not to choke on laughter. The second half is Walsh's personally crafted style guide. Remember--Roommate: Two m's, unless you ate a room or mated with a roo. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlemanby Laurence Sterne, Judith HawleyISBN 0760763054 (0-7607-6305-4)
Softcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Lolitaby Harold BloomISBN 0791009610 (0-7910-0961-0)
Hardcover, Facts on File
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Lolitaby Vladimir NabokovISBN 0783880804 (0-7838-8080-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lolita'Book summary:Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover.
Playfully perverse in form as well as content, riddled with puns and literary allusions, Nabokov's 1955 novel is a hymn to the Russian-born author's delight in his adopted language. Indeed, readers who want to probe all of its allusive nooks and crannies will need to consult the annotated edition. Lolita is undoubtedly, brazenly erotic, but the eroticism springs less from the "frail honey-hued shoulders ... the silky supple bare back" of little Lo than it does from the wantonly gorgeous prose that Humbert uses to recount his forbidden passion:
She was musical and apple-sweet ... Lola the bobby-soxer, devouring her immemorial fruit, singing through its juice ... and every movement she made, every shuffle and ripple, helped me to conceal and to improve the secret system of tactile correspondence between beast and beauty--between my gagged, bursting beast and the beauty of her dimpled body in its innocent cotton frock.
Much has been made of Lolita as metaphor, perhaps because the love affair at its heart is so troubling. Humbert represents the formal, educated Old World of Europe, while Lolita is America: ripening, beautiful, but not too bright and a little vulgar. Nabokov delights in exploring the intercourse between these cultures, and the passages where Humbert describes the suburbs and strip malls and motels of postwar America are filled with both attraction and repulsion, "those restaurants where the holy spirit of Huncan Dines had descended upon the cute paper napkins and cottage-cheese-crested salads." Yet however tempting the novel's symbolism may be, its chief delight--and power--lies in the character of Humbert Humbert. He, at least as he tells it, is no seedy skulker, no twisted destroyer of innocence. Instead, Nabokov's celebrated mouthpiece is erudite and witty, even at his most depraved. Humbert can't help it--linguistic jouissance is as important to him as the satisfaction of his arrested libido. --Simon Leake [via]More editions of Lolita:
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Looking Good: A Guide for Menby Charles HixISBN 0801546702 (0-8015-4670-2)
Hardcover, Hawthorn Books
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Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern Americaby Lynne LucianoISBN 0809066386 (0-8090-6638-6)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Making of the Nivby Kenneth BarkerISBN 0801057426 (0-8010-5742-6)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Mediterranean Style: Relaxed Living Inspired by Strong Colors and Natural Materialsby Catherine HaigISBN 0789204304 (0-7892-0430-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Merchant Ivory's English Landscape: Rooms, Views, and Anglo-Saxon Attitudesby John PymISBN 0810942755 (0-8109-4275-5)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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My Life and Lovesby Frank HarrisISBN 0802151612 (0-8021-5161-2)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Methodby Gerard Genette, Jane E. LewinISBN 0801410991 (0-8014-1099-1)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Nightwoodby Djuna BarnesISBN 0811200051 (0-8112-0005-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankindby H. G. WellsISBN 0781206618 (0-7812-0661-8)
Hardcover, Reprint Services Corp
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The Parisian Woman's Guide to Styleby Virginie Morana, Veronique Morana, Philippe SebirotISBN 0789303728 (0-7893-0372-8)
Softcover, Universe Publishing
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A Passion for Narrativeby Jack HodginsISBN 0771041985 (0-7710-4198-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Passion for Narrative'Book summary:This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories Its going to be a lot of work, Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.
The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure The Architecture of Story ; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at the mysterious business of writing fiction.
As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master.
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The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar WildeISBN 0809599945 (0-8095-9994-5)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment." [via]
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The Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentaryby Stephen HalliwellISBN 0807842036 (0-8078-4203-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Practical Judgments: Essays In Culture, Politics, And Interpretationby Mark KingwellISBN 0802038018 (0-8020-3801-8)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Pure Style Livingby Jane Cumberbatch, Pia Tryde, Gillian Emerson-RobertsISBN 0789480158 (0-7894-8015-8)
Hardcover, Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
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Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Proseby Edward M. GunnISBN 0804715998 (0-8047-1599-8)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Drawing on linguistic and rhetorical descriptions of language in writing as features of style, the author reviews the innovations that have been introduced into modern Chinese prose from both Chinese and foreign sources. The social history of these features, the attempts by various writers to assert cultural, political, and aesthetic principles through them and the resulting tensions and conventions that arise all form the critical framework for a study of Chinese prose literature and its most innovative authors in this century. The study is introduced and informed throughout by a succinct review o scholarly research from a wide range of disciplines relevant to the question of style as an object of study in contemporary criticism.
The book begins its approach to style with an Introduction that draws on Gestalt theory, information theory, and linguistics to develop a nuanced concept of what "style" is, one that gives adequate weight to the complex interplay of psychological, formal, and historical features at work. Two chapters then examine various aspects of convention, necessarily a historical phenomenon. The fourth chapter, by contrast, discusses the aesthetic prescriptions by which modern Chinese writers sought consciously to introduce innovation and points out the limitations of a prescriptive approach. The final two chapters study the strategies of specific writers.
Almost half the book is an Appendix that consists of a rich catalog of rhetorical and stylistic examples, drawn from a wide range of twentieth-century Chinese literary writing. These hundreds of examples, identified by the nomenclature of grammar, rhetoric, and sentence cohesion, constitute a veritable handbook of modern Chinese prose. The book also contains a Glossary of terms draw from rhetoric and linguistics.More editions of Rewriting Chinese: Style and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Chinese Prose:
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurusby Princeton Language Institute EditorsISBN 0785704515 (0-7857-0451-5)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrasesby Peter Mark RogetISBN 074750105X (0-7475-0105-X)
Hardcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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The Sari: Styles, Patterns, History, Techniqueby Linda Lynton, Sanjay K. SinghISBN 0810944618 (0-8109-4461-8)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Science and Technical Writing : A Manual of Styleby Philip RubensISBN 0805030913 (0-8050-3091-3)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Seven Types of Ambiguityby William EmpsonISBN 081120037X (0-8112-0037-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis.
Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot. [via]More editions of Seven Types of Ambiguity:
Sex and the City : Kiss and Tellby Amy SohnISBN 0743457307 (0-7434-5730-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Shaker Style Wood Projectsby Robert SondayISBN 080691386X (0-8069-1386-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Shoes: A Celebration of Pumps, Sandals, Slippers & Moreby Linda O'KeeffeISBN 0761101144 (0-7611-0114-4)
Softcover, Workman Pub Co
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Style and Discourseby Eugene Albert NidaISBN 0798206039 (0-7982-0603-9)
Softcover, Amer Bible Society
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Stylecity New YorkISBN 0810991276 (0-8109-9127-6)
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Stylecity Paris: A Select Guide for the Discerning Global TravelerISBN 0810991071 (0-8109-9107-1)
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The Territory of Language: Linguistics, Stylistics, and the Teaching of Compositionby Donald McQuadeISBN 0809312174 (0-8093-1217-4)
Hardcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Ultimate Writer's Guide to Hollywoodby Skip PressISBN 0760761108 (0-7607-6110-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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Women in Loveby D. H. LawrenceISBN 0760700109 (0-7607-0010-9)
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Writing Degree Zeroby Roland BarthesISBN 0809013843 (0-8090-1384-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Zelda and Ivy: Three Stories about the Fabulous Fox Sistersby Laura McGee KvasnoskyISBN 0763617717 (0-7636-1771-7)
Softcover, Candlewick Press
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