Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Slang and Euphemism: A Dictionary of Oaths, Curses, Insults, Sexual Slang and Metaphor, Racial Slurs, Drug Talk, Homosexual Lingo, and Rela
HardcoverOriginal price $37.90 - Original price $37.90Original price $37.90$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A lexicon of “improper” English From slang terminology describing various bodily functions and sexual acts, to the centuries-old cant of thieves...
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How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Written in a clear, crisp, accessible style, this book is perfect for beginners as well as professional writers who need a crash course in the do...
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Speaking by the Numbers: Enneagram Wisdom for Teachers, Pastors, and Communicators
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /It's not just what you say, but how you say it. Good communicators know this, but it's often easier said than done. Teachers, leaders, and speake...
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Chambers Dictionary of Etymology
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /With over 30,000 entries, Chambers Dictionary of Etymology is a prestigious and scholarly dictionary that explains where English words come from....
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The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden...
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Pep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Every writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start c...
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. I...
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You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dial...
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily bus...
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The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
HardcoverOriginal price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Now streamlined and updated, the book that has literally put millions on the highway to greater accomplishment and success can show you how to ha...
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The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis In The Creative Interpretation Of Human Motives
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play...
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How to Make a Book (about My Dog)
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How do you make a picture book? Well, you need an author, an illustrator, and . . . a dog?! Acclaimed author Chris Barton and his trusty pooch Er...
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500 Beautiful Words You Should Know
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS? Whether you've answered ...
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The Art of the Handwritten Note: A Guide to Reclaiming Civilized Communication
HardcoverOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From overcoming illegible penmanship to mastering the challenge of keeping straight margins, avoiding smeared ink, and choosing stationery that i...
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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Few people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style’s popular “Grammar ...
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
HardcoverOriginal price $41.99Original price $41.99 - Original price $41.99Original price $41.99Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Why literally shouldn't be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell O...
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You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy foray...
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and o...
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Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /One of the world’s foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku A haiku is three simple l...
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How to Write a Damn Good Mystery: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide from Inspiration to Finished Manuscript
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99Original price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Edgar award nominee James N. Frey, author of the internationally best-selling books on the craft of writing, How to Write a Damn Good Novel, How ...
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If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /For most, the hardest part of writing is overcoming the mountain of self-denial that weighs upon the spirit, always threatening to extinguish tho...
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Wink: Transforming Public Speaking with Clown Presence
HardcoverOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"This book is a breakthrough, a powerful tool for anyone who cares enough to give a speech or presentation." -Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketi...
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Building Back Truth in an Age of Misinformation
HardcoverOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /How can we build back truth online? Here’s how. How can we build back truth online? In this book, researcher Leslie F. Stebbins provides solution...
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Readers in a Revolution: Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new idea...
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