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A targeted and insightful guide to the stages of creating a full-length work without falling into common traps

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"A revised, expanded edition of the best-selling Japanese-English character dictionary--now with all the current Joyo and Jinmei Kanji"

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What really is correctness Why do people care so much about it What is at stake in the quarrel about good and bad usage

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In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. This title explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have imagined.

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A new adaptation - by David Hare - of one of Henrik Ibsen's most complex autobiographical masterpieces.

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The essential dictionary for school, college, office, and home, this newly revised fourth edition contains more features than any other pocket dictionary, including special notes on word origins, a pronunciation key on each page, and much more. Revised reissue.

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- Clear Precise Easy to use The convenient, comprehensive, popular one-volume English/ Hebrew, Hebrew/English Dictionary ow updated for the first time in thirty-five years housands of new words in science, technology, and culture - Tables of English irregular verbs Tables of the Hebrew noun and all forms of the Hebrew verb

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"This handbook contains principles and methods for the management, archiving, sharing, and citing of linguistic research data-especially digital data-with an eye toward engaging growing trends in transforming linguistics into a more data-driven and reproducible scientific endeavor"--

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Offers a selection of synonyms for a host of words, ranging from the everyday to the comparatively esoteric and from standard vocabulary to contemporary slang and jargon.

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Looks at a range of examples, providing definitions and explaining how they should be used. This practical guide is arranged by theme, making it possible to compare all the idioms in that subject area and find the right one for the occasion, whether in writing or speech.

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This is a revised edition of the existing "Nuttall's Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms" that is designed to help widen the reader's vocabulary. Lists of synonyms provide alternative words of the same meaning while lists of antonyms provide words of opposite meaning.

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The Penguin Guide to Punctuation is indispensable for anyone who needs to get to grips with using punctuation in their written work. Whether you are puzzled by colons and semicolons, unsure of where commas should go or baffled by apostrophes, this jargon-free, succinct guide is for you.

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Despite lower levels of compulsory Latin in schools, the language remains prolific in many areas of our daily life. This is a comprehensive dictionary that includes Latin to English, English to Latin, notes on grammar and pronunciation as well as the historical context of this classical language.

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This companion for rhymesters everywhere - from lyric poets to limerick writers, from songwriters to composers of commercial jingles and slogans. Unlike many of its predecessors it is not merely organized according to spelling of the words, but also on phonetic principles.

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This is a supplemental text for all philosophy courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.

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This is a supplemental text for all philosophy courses that facilitates, invigorates, and enhances student learning by teaching students to read and write effectively.

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During the more than ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find an effective handbook for his courses.

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In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who have influenced his work, wonders about the motives of biographers, ponders the merits of creative writing courses, pulls the rug from under certain theoretical critics and throws open the curtains on his own workshop.

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It takes you step by step through:

-Acquiring basic public speaking skills
-Building confidence
-Speaking effectively the quick and easy way
-Earning the right to talk
-Vitalising your talk
-Sharing the talk with the audience as well as organisation and presentation skills

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An indispensable guide for writers of English prose from Robert Graves.