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7 Essential Habits of Christian Writers - Paperback

$14.17

by Steph Beth Nickel (Editor), Sandra Somers (Editor), Carolyn Wilker (Editor)Could your personal and writing habits be holding you back from becoming a successful writer? Perhaps you've discovered, as have many others, that being gifted or knowing you are called by God to write is not enough to be successful at it. There comes a time when every writer must develop the gentle art of discipline - establishing certain practices, or habits, that make it easier to carry out the right and good thi...

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by Fiona Raven (Author), Glenna Collett (Author)Book Design Made Simple gives DIY authors, small presses, and graphic designers--novices and professionals alike--the power to design their own books. It's the only book of its kind, explaining every step from installing Adobe(R) InDesign(R) right through to sending the files to press. Book Design Made Simple explains WHAT book design is, and HOW to do it. It guides the novice designer through the process of leasing and installing Adobe(R) InDes...

Advanced Kindle Book Marketing: How to sell more Ebooks online with new Amazon promotions and Kindle Bestseller tips - Paperback

$20.25

by Lucinda Sue Crosby (Author), Laura Dobbins (Author)This book is a step-by-step instruction guide to help you navigate your Kindle Book promotional efforts so you can sell more ebooks online. In addition learn the newest Amazon promotions available to self-published authors that use Kindle and Createspace marketing and publishing online. Learn to navigate: Kindle Direct Publishing Kindle Countdown Deals Kindle Unlimited .99 Kindle Deals All Kindle Promos While most of the tips are for Kindl...

Step By Step Pitches And Proposals: A Workbook For Writers - Paperback

$17.53

by Holly Lorincz (Author), Chip MacGregor (Author)Your novel is ready to go. Your nonfiction book is fleshed out. NOW WHAT? This book uses clear, detailed explanations, work-sheets, and annotated examples to walk you step-by-step through: INDUSTRY TERMINOLOGY, QUERYING, PITCHING, PROPOSALS, and FORMATTING A MANUSCRIPT. You'll find helpful information regarding who and when to query, and how to find contacts. Suggestions on how to create a pitch are offered, along with sample pitches, as well ...

How to Write a Sizzling Sex Scene - Paperback

$10.75

by Elizabeth Engstrom (Author)Good sex scenes are a must in today's novel, and they don't just happen on their own. There is a structure, a method, and boundaries to be drawn. Whether you want to write for publication or your own enjoyment, whether you want to write sizzling sex scenes for your novel or erotic short stories, you'll find the tools here. This book is about recognizing the sensuality of our bodies, our minds, our lovers, our environment. Based on years of erotic weekends and rio...

De cabo a rabo - Vocabulario/Gramática: The Most Comprehensive Guide to Learning Spanish Ever Written - Paperback

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by David Faulkner (Author)VOCABULARIO/GRAMÁTICA - 2 great books in 1 (out of 3) in the "De cabo a rabo - Spanish" series- Gramática, broken down into 30 manageable units, explains, in detail, everything there is to know about Spanish grammar. Whether you are a beginner, intermediate, or advanced student, this is the only guide you'll ever need to push you to the next level. Gramática answers questions you never knew you had and delves into subtleties other books don't dare to wade into. If yo...

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Inside Story: Everyone's Guide to Reporting and Writing Creative Nonfiction - Paperback

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by Julia Goldberg (Author)Inside Story tackles the myriad approaches to the burgeoning genre of creative nonfiction--from memoir to criticism to literary journalism to the lyric essay--by deeply exploring each stage of the generation, reportage, writing and editing of stories. Drawing on and integrating examples and advice from diverse practitioners in the field, Inside Story extends beyond idea and inspiration with practical advice, examples and exercises geared toward everyone from writing ...

Winning Words: A writers' helper and commonplace book to stimulate imagination - Paperback

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by Malcolm E. Brown (Author)Your writer's notebook can electrify your writing. But if you have not accumulated "commonplace books" over forty years, this one, from a writer with over 90 publications, may help. It offers about 5,000 entries, divided into categories valuable to writers. This offers "the best bits" of four decades of a writer's notebooks. Other sources such as the Google global zeitgeist 2013 were also used. The result is 55 categories useful to writers (the author has special s...

Silencing Your Inner Saboteur - Paperback

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by Sherry Peters (Author)All writers experience times when we don't feel like writing, or have difficulty getting words on the page. We give these situations the umbrella name of writer's block and blame our censor, critic, or editor. Silencing Your Inner Saboteur explores these issues and situations, to discover that it is really a saboteur behind it all, preventing writers from achieving their dreams. This book is for writers of all stages in their careers, from those just beginning to thos...

Now What?: The Creative Writer's Guide to Success After the MFA - Paperback

$21.53

by Michael Bayer (Editor), A. J. O'Connell (Editor), Erin a. Corriveau (Editor)". . . just what you need. . .if it's genuinely useful information you're looking for, from people who, like you, are trying to keep body and soul and writing together" -The Huffington Post "Yes, writers, there is life after the MFA. Eight or nine years before I found an agent and a publisher, I found a writers' group. My literary success has been partly about luck but mostly about persistence, humility, a commitme...

Curate This: The Hands-On, How-To Guide To Content Curation - Paperback

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by Steven Rosenbaum (Author)The concept of "Curation" has rapidly moved from museums to mainstream media. As the sheer volume of Tweets, Likes, Blogs, YouTube videos, and emails overwhelm the web, publishers and brands are increasingly being asked to provide a human face to content organization and editorial curation. With the right framework, curation can be a powerful tool to help editorial meet new challenges.Author BiographySteven Rosenbaum is an Author, Entrepreneur and Curator. He's fou...

204 Illustrated American Idioms - Paperback

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by George T. Jackman (Author)Someone once said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. Idioms create pictures also. They can be facilitators (when they help in understanding) or they can become barriers (when they confuse understanding.) What I have attempted to present in this book is to remove any barriers to understanding idioms (by drawing an illustration for each idiom.)Every language has idioms. Some have fewer, some have more. Idioms enrich language by making it more colorful, more memora...

303 Illustrated Limericks of Life - Paperback

$38.86

by George T. Jackman (Author)Here is a book full of little short stories dressed up in the clothing of limericks. They are illustrated also. They are more of my personal favorites.If you look up "limericks" in the dictionary, you'll find a definition that mentions words like "humorous", "bawdy", and "frequently funny". This form of poetry lends itself very well to short story telling.Humor is universal. Laughter (via sarcasm, bursts of levity, and satire are the stuff that limericks are made ...

Multiple Perspectives on Learner Interaction: The Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks - Paperback

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by William J. Crawford (Editor)In the field of Second Language Studies, shared datasets provide a valuable contribution to second language research as many variables are held constant (e.g., participants, tasks, research context) thus allowing for an evaluation of theoretical and/or methodological perspectives that may not otherwise be comparable. This edited volume includes a wide range of studies using a common dataset (the Corpus of Collaborative Oral Tasks). The corpus includes 820 spoken...

The Song of the Ape: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Hardcover

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by Andrew R. Halloran (Author)An absorbing investigation of chimpanzee language and communication. This Tenth Anniversary Edition contains a new final chapter and a new preface. The Song of the Ape traces the individual histories of five chimpanzees. Interspersed with these histories, the book details the long history of scientists attempting (and failing) to train apes to use human grammar and language. Ultimately, the book shows that while laboratories try in vain to teach human grammar to ...

Power of Narrative: Climate Skepticism and the Deconstruction of Science - Paperback

$73.51

by Raul P. Lejano (Author), Shondel J. Nero (Author)There is an ideological war of words waging in America, one that speaks to a new fundamentalism rising not just within the American public, but across other ideologically-torn nations around the globe as well. At its heart is climate skepticism, an ideological watershed that has become a core belief for millions of people despite a large scientific consensus supporting the science of anthropogenic climate change. While many scholars have exa...

Dubious Pundits: Presidential Politics, Late-Night Comedy, and the Public Sphere - Paperback

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by Nickie Michaud Wild (Author)This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, and newspaper commentary about them.Author BiographyNickie Michaud Wild is visiting lecturer of sociology at Mount Holyoke College. Number of Pages: 180 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Pub...

French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide - Paperback

$61.54

by Jason Nedecky (Author)Singers, teachers, coaches, and conductors will appreciate French Lyric Diction: A Singer's Guide for its thorough account of the language as it is sung in opera and mélodie. Often-overlooked topics are explored, including phrasal and emphatic stress, vocalic length, singing the French r, and traditions in the setting of French poetry. Considerable attention is paid to the subject of liaison, with recommendations on how to make decisions about optional liaisons in sin...

Word Power Made Easy: The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary - Paperback

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by Norman Lewis (Author)The most effective English language vocabulary builder available: this time-tested classic has helped millions achieve mastery of English and improve their communications skills in business, the classroom, and in life. Word Power Made Easy provides a simple, step-by-step method for increasing knowledge and mastery of the language. Arranged in thematic sections--on everything from how to flatter friends and insult enemies to how to talk precisely about science and medic...

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by The Princeton Review (Author)THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS Ace the GRE verbal sections with 800+ words you need to know to excel. Improving your vocabulary is one of the most important steps you can take to enhance your GRE verbal score. The Princeton Review's GRE Power Vocab is filled with useful definitions and study tips for over 800 words, along with skills for decoding unfamiliar ones. You'll also find strategies that help to liven up flashcards and boost memorization techniques....

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of Women's Friendships - Paperback

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by Deborah Tannen (Author)This warm, wise exploration of female friendship from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand will help women lean into these powerful relationships. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK - "Celebrates friendship in its frustrations and its rewards and, above all, its wonderful complexity."--The Atlantic Best friend, old friend, good friend, bff, college roommate, neighbor, workplace confidante: Women's friendships are a lifeline in times of t...

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The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative News Organiza - Paperback

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by Allan M. Siegal (Author), William Connolly (Author)The premier source for journalists, now revised and updated for 2015. Does the White House tweet? Or does the White House post on Twitter? Can "text" be a verb and also a noun? When should you link? For anyone who writes--short stories or business plans, book reports or news articles--knotty choices of spelling, grammar, punctuation and meaning lurk in every line: Lay or lie? Who or whom? That or which? Is Band-Aid still a trademark? It'...

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by John Lewis Burckhardt (Author)This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment...

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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries - Paperback

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by Kory Stamper (Author)"We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don't want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets." With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the k...

Oxford International Lower Secondary English Student Book 9 - Paperback

$61.18

by Eve Sullivan (Author), Rachel Redford (Author)Oxford International Lower Secondary English teaches students the skills they need to become confident communicators. This three-level lower secondary course will provide students with a strong grasp of English language and literature, vocabulary and grammar. Students will discover the joy of learning through engaging with a range of diverse texts from all over the world. There are speaking and listening opportunities throughout and a wide vari...

Oxford International Lower Secondary English Student Book 8 - Paperback

$57.58

by Danihel (Author) Dimensions: 0.33 x 10.79 x 8.64 IN Publication Date: April 23, 2023

The Correspondence of G. E. Morrison 1912 1920 - Paperback

$97.92

by Hui-Min Lo (Author), Hui-Min Lin (Author)Originally published in 1978, this is the second of two volumes of the selected letters of George Ernest Morrison, The Times correspondent in China in the late Imperial and early Republican period. Few people were in a better position to observe and comment on the events of those years. The first volume of Correspondence ends with the revolution and the collapse of the Manchu dynasty in 1912. The second volume covers Morrison's career as political a...

Essential Grammar in Use with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Elementary Learners of English - Paperback

$38.88

by Raymond Murphy (Author)Grammar in Use is the world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. Essential Grammar in Use with Answers, authored by Raymond Murphy, is the first choice for elementary-level (A1-B1) learners and covers all the grammar required at this level. It is a self-study book with simple explanations and lots of practice exercises, and has helped millions of people around the world to communicate in English. It is also trusted by teachers and can be used as a s...

Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises: To Accompany Essential Grammar in Use Fourth Edition - Paperback

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by Helen Naylor (Author), Raymond Murphy (With)Grammar in Use is the world's best-selling grammar series for learners of English. To accompany Essential Grammar in Use Fourth edition, Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises provides elementary-level learners with extra practice of the grammar covered in the main book. The easy-to-follow exercises and full answer key make this supplementary book ideal for independent study. Extra activities for Essential Grammar in Use are also availa...

Super Safari American English Level 1 Student's Book with DVD-ROM [With DVD ROM] - Paperback

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by Herbert Puchta (Author), Günter Gerngross (Author), Peter Lewis-Jones (Author)Super Safari American English edition is a three-level pre-primary English course that welcomes very young children to English through stories, songs, and plenty of playtime while supporting their cognitive, motor-sensory, and social development. Join Polly and her friends on an exciting adventure that welcomes children to English through colorful stories, action songs, arts and crafts, and plenty of fun. With ch...

Motivating Learners, Motivating Teachers: Building Vision in the Language Classroom - Paperback

$62.75

by Zoltan Dörnyei (Author), Magdalena Kubanyiova (Author)Provides tools to enable teachers to improve their own motivation, and thereby that of their students. A new approach to motivation, focusing on the concept of 'vision'. Drawing on visualisation research in sports, psychology and education, the authors describe powerful ways by which imagining future scenarios can promote motivation to learn a language. The book offers a rich selection of motivational strategies to help students 'see' t...

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by Quentin Skinner (Author)The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli's The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare's plays, n...