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The pioneering and still essential text on semantics, urging readers to improve human communication and understanding with precise, concrete language.
In 1938, Stuart Chase revolutionized the study of semantics with his classic text, Tyranny of Words. Decades later, this eminently useful analysis of the way we use words continues to resonate. A contemporary of the economist Thorstein Veblen and the author Upton Sinclair, Chase was a social theorist...
2) Ursula
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Ursula by Honoré de Balzac. Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
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3) Strife
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Strife by John Galsworthy
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This is not a book or a guide. It's an instruction manual.Just like you would use to build a flat-pack wardrobe.This one happens to be for stories of any genre, from horror to romanceIt's a practical, step by step, nuts and bolts approach.Add a bunch of innovative, unique tips and you have everything you need to craft a page turner.Jan-Andrew Henderson is a professional editor, industry assessor and multi-award-winning author of 40 books.
7) Salomé
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Salomé - Original French text
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In the present scenario of starting the 21st century, these facts have kept a big meaning because Science is extremely developed on Earth. Such information technology as we can see the latest mobiles, computers, and TVs highly communicates with each other devices. In transport technology, we can see Flying Cars, electric, and hydrogen cars just we can say that scientific fiction come into true reality. Other big achievements in space technology are...
11) Foniktoons
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This book contains 50 Foniktoon puzzles that will help you increase your vocabulary in a fun way. Read the captions above the illustrations and then see the translations below.Homonyms are words that are pronounced the same as each other (e.g., maid/made) or have the same spelling (e.g., lead weight/to lead). When homonyms have the same sound, they are called homophones. When they have the same spelling, they are known as homographs.Foniktoons word...
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"Hitting a writer's block? Disintegrate it with these 60 prompts. Turn your ideas from verbs in your head to thoughts on paper. Writer's block is often one of the largest antagonists of a writer. This book seeks to help writers overcome writer's block through the use of prompts, combining both poetry and story elements. Join the journey of wrestling and putting writer's block into submission."
13) The Writer's Art
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Writing comes in grades of quality in the fashion of beer and baseball games-good, better, and best.
With the experience of a lifetime spent writing, James J. Kilpatrick wants to make a few judgment calls. Here, in the great tradition of Theodore Bernstein, Edwin Newman, and William Safire, a master of the art gives us a finely crafted, witty guide to writing well. Intended for laymen and professionals alike, The Writer's Art highlights techniques...
15) The Bab Ballads
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The Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert
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16) Vanished Arizona
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Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
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17) Lin McLean
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Lin McLean by Owen Wister.
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5 by Edgar Allan Poe
Includes Philosophy of Furniture, A Tale of Jerusalem, the Sphinx, Hop Frog, the Man of the Crowd, Never Bet the Devil Your Head, Thou Art the Man, Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, and many other tales and poems.
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