Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition by Macquarie Dictionary
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Category: Words and Writing
The <b><i>Macquarie Concise Dictionary Ninth Edition</i></b> provides an up-to-date account of Australian English, with wide coverage to meet the needs of the general dictionary user. Based on the comprehensive <i>Macquarie Dictionary Ninth Edition</i>, this volume in ...Show more
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos
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Category: Words and Writing
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the sa ...Show more
Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
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Category: Words and Writing
Bold as brass, cold feet, cock and bull, off the cuff, red herrings and white elephants - we use these phrases every day and yet have only the vaguest idea of where many of them come from. The origins of hundreds of common phrases are explained in this book.
Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
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Category: Words and Writing
Here's what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that's been used by screenwriters around the world Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. "Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and you ...Show more
Storytime: Growing up with Books by Jane Sullivan
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Category: Words and Writing
What was it exactly? Wonder, rapture delight, surprised recognition, laughter - but also darker feelings that made my heart beat fast and my stomach turn over, and sometimes a frantic urge to close the book before whatever it was sucked me in and destroyed me. But always, I read on. In Storytime, aut ...Show more
The Writer's Library - The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl; Jeff Schwager
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Category: Words and Writing
With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful colle ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard
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Category: Words and Writing
'This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. The gift, like so many gifts, was a book...' So begins the essay by Robert Macfarlane that inspired this collection. In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayis ...Show more
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - 8th Revised edition by Elizabeth Knowles
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Category: Words and Writing
The first edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations was published in 1941 and for over 70 years this bestselling book has remained unrivalled in its coverage of quotations past and present. The eighth edition is a vast treasury of wit and wisdom spanning the centuries and providing the ultimate ans ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur (Editor)
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Category: Words and Writing
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, from Gandhi to Mandela, the most significant speeches of the modern era Whether the rousing words of Winston Churchill, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Salman Rushdie's denouncement of his fatwa, or the optimism of Barack Obama, speeches shape the w ...Show more
The Book About Everything: Eighteen Artists, Writers and Thinkers on James Joyce's Ulysses by Declan Kiberd (Edited by) , Enrico Terrinoni (Edited by) , Catherine Wilsdon (Edited by)
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Category: Words and Writing
To celebrate the centenary of the publication of Ulysses, the most important literary work of the twentieth century, eighteen artists, writers and thinkers respond to an episode each of the great modernist text. Each essayist is an expert in one of the subjects treated in the novel, but what brings the ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
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Category: Words and Writing
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Words and Writing
A stunningly important piece of criticism that asks us not to look away when our shared culture proves so appallingly limited but instead to look harder. To think smarter. To read better.An exploration and manifesto investigating the power of reading - and our potential to become radically better reader ...Show more