Language Arts & Disciplines

"A little masterpiece of originality and clarity."--George Steiner "A necessary book."--Roberto Saviano "A wonderful little book that will delight you."--Fran ois Busnel International Best Seller / Now in English for the First Time In this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues...

Strategies and Tactics for the Master Novelist Successfully starting and finishing a publishable novel is often like fighting a series of battles. You not only have to work hard to shape memorable characters, develop gripping plots, and craft dazzling dialogue, but you also have...

This book is designed to give science fiction writers the solid grounding they need in real science to make their fictions read like fact. World Building is a blueprint in words, calculations, tables and diagrams to help writers transport readers from one world to...

Create Complex Characters How do you create a main character readers won't forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character's past into a story? Write...

This new expanded second edition is an international bestseller with over 200,000 copies sold and translated into 15 languages that shows you--no matter your age or skill, your job or training--how to come up with more ideas, faster and easier. Jack Foster's simple five-step...

Handwriting analysis, or graphology, is the science involved in producing a personality profile of the writer by examining the characteristics, traits and strokes of an individual's handwriting. It seems impossible, but a trained graphologist can gather an astonishing amount of information about the writer...

The craft of public speaking is best learned by doing, rendering many speech texts either too theoretical or too bland for effective use in the typical classroom. This quality book provides students with enough theory and information to learn basic speech techniques, while emphasizing...

5,000 words an hour. Total BS, right? Check the reviews and you'll see that some people exceed that. Those that don't still write faster and more consistently after reading this book. It really works.The fastest way to succeed as an author is to write...

TELL YOUR STORY Starting is easy. But finishing it? There is no one way to "the end" other than writing. Arwen Lynch will show you how you can use a pack of cards to get your story line arced and sparked When she applied...

Pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life-sciences companies rely on standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure the quality and safety of their products and services. But in many cases, these documents themselves lack quality.Containing important technical instructions, SOPs are often wordy, confusing, and imprecise, thereby increasing quality...

A Style Guide with Style Writing With Style: An Editor's Advice for RPG Writers presents 45 pages of concise tips on simple ways to make your roleplaying game writing cleaner and clearer. This guide doesn't show you how to structure adventures, build stat blocks,...

NEW EDITION. WITH A CHARACTER'S INDEX AT THE END OF THE BOOK. The choice book for starting with the Chinese writing; its simple method and its near 100 drawings make sure that once a student learns a character, he can remember it forever. All...

Want to learn German quickly? Learning a new language could be fun and easy. And who said learning German can't be? Learning German is a great choice. Germany boasts the most robust economy in Europe, populated with compassionate and amazing people. It is estimated...

Cornell University English professor William Strunk, Jr. wrote The Elements of Style in 1918 and privately published it in 1919, for in-house use at the university. (Harcourt republished it in 52-page format in 1920.) Later, for publication, he and editor Edward A. Tenney revised...

This dictionary is a handy practical tool for Navajo language learners and teachers at various levels. It is meant to be a companion volume to 'The Navajo Language' book by Robert W. Young and William Morgan. The book deals largely with extended word meanings...

What Movies Teach About Race: Exceptionalism, Erasure, & Entitlement reveals the way that media frames in entertainment content persuade audiences to see themselves and others through a prescriptive lens that favors whiteness. These media representations threaten democracy as conglomeration and convergence concentrate the media's...

"How to Deliver a Great TED talk" is a complete public speaking system for delivering highly effective presentations and speeches. If you've watched TED talks before, you've no doubt been inspired and electrified by speeches by figures such as Sir Ken Robinson, Jill Bolte...

The second edition of this distinguished textbook introduces undergraduates to the concepts, terminology and representations needed for an understanding of how English is pronounced around the world. Assuming no prior knowledge, this textbook guides the reader through the vocal tract and explains how the...

This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. The book provides a practical tool-kit approach to how critical multimodal social semiotics should be done through visual, textual and material analysis. It ties this...

This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. With a new foreword and five new essays,...