 | 1. A Writer's Guide to Overcoming Rejection
This guide teaches the reader how to sell themselves and their book in order to get in print. Using sales techniques taken from other industries, it demonstrates how the writer can target and market their book in the competitive business of publishing.
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 | 2. An Atlas of English Dialects: The Only Compact Guide to Understanding Regional English
This text reports the findings of a survey of the 20th century nonstandard dialects. It is aimed at general readers and A Level students, as well as language specialists, and consists of maps with detailed commentaries discussing the distribution of words and pronunciations in England.
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 | 3. Argument and Evidence
This book is concerned with the most fundamental aspects of academic study; the abilities to reason with ideas and evidence, to formulate arguments effectively and to appreciate the interplay between ideas and evidence in debate.
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 | 4. Colloquial Arabic (Levantine)
Colloquial Arabic is easy to use and completely accomplishable. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Arabic.
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 | 5. Dictionary of Symbols
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
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 | 6. Dictionary of Word Origins
This fascinating, authoritative reference dictionary supplies the answers to hundreds of questions about the derivations of words we use everyday. The reader can follow a word through its many lives, tracing it from its earliest known use to its current meaning. Dr. Shipley presents a wealth of anecdotal material in a lively style guaranteed to give hours of entertainment as well as sound...
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 | 7. Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary
This dictionary is ideal for everyone needing clear and accessible information on today's English. With over 140,000 words, including phrases, derivatives and idioms in more than 30,000 definitions, it provides a comprehensive coverage of everyday English. The meanings are given in a plain and straightforward style. Usage notes give guidance on points of grammar, usage, and spelling. Concise and...
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 | 8. Encyclopedia of Language
This well organised and usefully illustrated encyclopaedia explores human language from every angle, and provides comrehensive reference to the state of knowledge and future directions of its study.
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 | 9. Literature About Language
In Literature About Language Valerie Shepherd brings together linguistic theory and literary criticism and examines languages as a theme in a range of literary texts. By looking at the work of writers such as Swift, Joyce and Sontag she discusses the power of story-telling and metaphor to shape our thinking and examines the communicative capacities of non-standard English and the strengths of...
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 | 10. Magazines Handbook
The Magazines Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry. Tracing the development of magazine publishing, Jenny McKay explores the business of magazines and the role of the magazine journalist.
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 | 11. NTC's American Idioms Dictionary
Completely revised, updated, reorganized, and enlarged with 600 new entries. Essential for writers and learners of American English, it features a unique new format, an appendix of 500 fixed-order phrases - such as fast and furious - that cannot be reversed, and a Phrase-Finder Index for easy lookups of even partially remembered phrases.
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 | 12. Oxford Better Wordpower: Increase Your Confidence and Improve Your Command of English
This is a vocabulary building book for anyone who wants to improve their command of English. The first section provides a 'tool-kit' to improve confidence and understanding, while the second is a reference section for help with specific problems. A detailed contents list is provided.
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 | 13. Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English
Collocations - common word combinations such as 'bright idea' or 'talk freely' - are the essential building blocks of natural-sounding English. The dictionary contains over 150,000 collocations for nearly 9,000 headwords. The dictionary shows all the words that are commonly used in combination with each headword: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions as well as common phrases.
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 | 14. Oxford Paperback Thesaurus
This thesaurus covers nearly one-third of a million alternative and opposite words. The most useful alternative word is given first, opposites and related terms are clearly marked, and thousands of example sentences help users select the right word. There is clear labelling of informal, dialect, literary, and technical words.
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 | 15. Romance Writing: Literary History & Commercial Categories
The romance market is the most interesting and lucrative field in publishing today. New windows of opportunity have opened to talented writers with persistence and determination. Prolific authors who consider themselves storytellers, rather than literary greats with an inclination to change the world, often resent the analysis of a commercial endeavor. Romance novelists are entertainers. They...
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 | 16. Shorter Dictionary of Catch Phrases
An abridged version of Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Catch Phrases, concentrating on those phrases in current use in the English-speaking world. The rewritten entries are in an accessible style, with some additions.
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 | 17. The Appropriate Word
This book provides a clear and concise reference to nearly 4,000 of the most confusing words the English language has to offer. This enlightening and entertaining volume provides easy answers to some of the most commonly asked questions about word usage. The Appropriate Word helps you to say and write what you mean, without putting your foot in your mouth. Unlike other books, it does not focus on...
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 | 18. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Grammar and Style
With this guide you'll gain what you need to be a great communicator at home and on the job. It provides solid information on grammatical rules and how and when to use them, friendly advice for adding variety and style to your writing, and tips, definitions, and warnings to help you along the way.
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 | 19. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics
This invaluable work is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available. It provides concise, informative entries across the whole field of linguistics. With entries ranging from epiglottal and morpheme to Austronesian and Navajo, the dictionary is an ideal reference work for students and anyone with an interest in language and its study.
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 | 20. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Over 9,000 entries from nearly 2,000 authors. Offering all the authority and accuracy of the acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this indispensable source of reference has extensive coverage of literary and historical quotations.
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 | 21. The Faith of a Writer
Free excerpts are available for this ebook: Download Free Excerpt for Adobe Reader Download Free Excerpt for Microsoft ReaderDownload Free Excerpt for Palm Reader One of America's greatest and most prolific contemporary literary figures draws on her years of experience with the craft to answer profound questions ranging in topic from inspiration, memory, and self-criticism to what makes a story...
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 | 22. The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
Readers, writers, wordsmiths, verbivores, and logophiles rejoice! Renowned lexicographer and author Eugene Ehrlich gathers the 3,500 most engrossing words in the English language and their concise definitions, including short discussions for words most often confused and misused by today's speakers and writers.
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 | 23. The King's English
The Fowler brothers, Henry Watson and Francis George, write about grammar with the schoolmaster’s instinct to add a dash of whimsical humor to their lesson. Drawing from every day examples of incorrect usage found in newspapers, The King’s English appeared in London bookstalls in May 1906. Although reader response was favorable, reviewers for publications from which the Fowlers had drawn...
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 | 24. The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the twentieth century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language. This accessible and comprehensive dictionary comes to the aid of both the general reader and the student or teacher, offering straightforward and immediate access to 1,000 grammatical terms and their meanings. All the...
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 | 25. The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
This Dictionary covers metaphorical phrases, familiar sayings and proverbs, and similes, providing illustrative quotations from sources as varied as the Bible, the Spectator, and Agatha Christie. Explore the meanings and origins of such well-known idioms as 'set the world alight', 'cost an arm and a leg', 'once in a blue moon', and 'the tip of the iceberg'.
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