Language Arts & Disciplines

Harness the power of suffixes and prefixes while adding more than 4,000 words to your French vocabulary How do you turn Scotland into a Scottish citizen? Or change your brother into a colleague?* It isn't magic, it's suffixes and prefixes. When attached to base...

Speak up and succeed. "Fear of snakes makes sense. After all, snakes bite On the other hand, fear of public speaking is worth overcoming. This book is an excellent place to start."-Seth Godin, bestselling author of Purple Cow and Free Prize Inside "Your ability...

Boiled-down essentials of the top-selling Schaum's Outline series for the student with limited time What could be better than the bestselling Schaum's Outline series? For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, it would have to be Schaum's Easy Outline series. Every book in...

A guide to making money through professional speaking. The book offers tips and techniques for reaching the ranks of the highest paid speakers and checklists, resources and actual examples are also provided.Author: Alan WeissPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 12/01/1997Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

Word Clues the Vocabulary Builder Spiral-Bound]Author: McGraw HillPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 09/02/1983Pages: 288Binding Type: SpiralWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.56h x 6.28w x 0.68dISBN: 9780065380309About the AuthorMcGraw Hill: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests...

Practical writing and meditation exercises that foster creativity, inspire imagination, and help overcome writer's block.Author: Elaine F. HughesPublisher: Harper PaperbacksPublished: 01/29/1992Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.09h x 5.33w x 0.51dISBN: 9780062720238

The classic, bestselling guide to getting published In the 20 years since it first appeared, hundreds of thousands of writers'professionals as well as beginners--have read, followed and benefited from How to Get Happily Published. This new edition adds material on making deals with publishers...

Fourteen elements of structure are described and illustrated through excerpts from seven popular words of fiction including: Madame Bovary, Tom Jones, The Grapes of Wrath, The Pearl, From Here to Eternity, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold....

A revolutionary approach to writing that will teach you how to express yourself fluently and with confidence for the rest of your life.Author: Henriette A. KlauserPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 01/21/1987Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.22h x 6.04w x 0.41dISBN: 9780062544902This title is only available via back...

Respected quotation anthologist and author of Oxymoronica and Viva la Repartee Dr. Mardy Grothe is at his best in Metaphors Be with You, an A to Z dictionary of 2,750 of history's greatest metaphorical quotations, meticulously curated for writers, readers, and quotation lovers everywhere.In...

includes the essay "The Endless Game of Tag", the inspiration for the major motion picture TagA delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal's popular, and long-standing A-hed column.One of the Wall Street Journal's most popular...

From the creators of Six-Word Memoirs comes The Moment, a collection of personal stories from writers both famous and obscure revealing how a single instant changed their lives forever. An innocuous decision, an unforeseen accident, a chance conversation, a tag sale, a terrorist strike,...

When did ghost acquire its silent h? Will cyberspace kill the one in rhubarb? And was it really rocket scientists who invented spell-check? In Righting the Mother Tongue, author David Wolman tells the cockamamie story of English spelling, by way of a wordly adventure...

ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox.examples: "Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."Victor Hugo"To lead the...

A must-have for language lovers, this compendium contains hundreds of mind-stretching observations that are contradictory or illogical on one level, yet true, witty, and often profound on another.ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false...

From Simon & Schuster, Origins of the English Language is Joseph M. Williams' exploration of social and linguistic history. In this book, author Joseph Williams presents a unique social and linguistic history as he explains the ways in which culture, education, class, and race...

From Simon & Schuster, Making News is Gaye Tuchman's exploration into the study in the construction of reality. The Professor of Sociology at Queens College and City University of New York, Tuchman's latest work is one to cherish. As described by Todd Gitlin of...

This practice book will build essential skills through activity-packed fun. The activities are designed to give children a real sense of achievement. This helps to boost their confidence and develop good learning habits for life. This fun range of Maths and English activity books...

This photographic information book by Abigail Steel explores Africa's landscape and climate, as well as summarising the effect of drought on crops.-Collins Big Cat Phonics Progress books are specifically designed for struggling readers, giving them age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence...

If you want to understand everything you read in English, you need to practise reading different kinds of texts. This book presents 20 different everyday situations, such as catching a train, reading a website, or sightseeing. Whether you are living in an English-speaking country...