Search Results: Writing from Books of the World

Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2006. Trade Paperback. Seventh Edition. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. l + 876 + 28 pages.

Chicago: Teach Yourself Books, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Light shelfwear. Foxing to edges. Not from a library. iv + 188 pages.
The way we write mirrors our mood and character. It is the way we project ourselves to the world--and other people often judge us by our handwriting. This practical and informative book will help you to improve your handwriting and develop a mature and individual style.

Portland, Oregon: Marion Street Press, September 2003. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 240 pages.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, August 2003. Hardcover. 15th Edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine jacket. Slight corner wear. Spine straight and sound. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 984 pages.
Clear, concise, and replete with commonsense advice, The Chicago Manual of Style offers the wisdom of a hundred years of editorial practice while including a wealth of new topics and updated perspectives. For anyone who works with words, whether on a page or computer screen, this continues to be the one reference book you simply must have.

London: Penguin, December 1998. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Pages lightly tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright, dog ear to lower front cover. Remainder mark. Not from a library. 464 pages. The second part of M.M. Kaye's biography covers her return to India after many years of a lonely, drab existence at school in Britain. It is a world of travel, of glorious trips down the Ganges, life on a house-boat on a lake in Kashmir, and visits to Indian palaces.

Cincinnati, Ohio: Story Press, 2001. Trade Paperback. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. 228 pages.

Cambridge: MIT Press, February 1969. Trade Paperback. Fifth printing, May 1982. Very Good+. No markings. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean with reading and shelf wear. Not from a library. xii + 185 pages.

San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation, 1990. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with slight edgewear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xxxvi + 402 pages.
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to published pieces by Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Norma Alarcón and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

New York: Harper Perennial, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Sixth Edition. Fine. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Light shelf wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xii + 308 pages.

Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, March 2005. Trade Paperback. As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. x + 182 pages.

London: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Trade Paperback. First Edition / full number line. Fine. Lightly tanned, otherwise As New. Not from a library. No remainder mark.

New York: Simon & Schuster, October 1978. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight, and uncreased. Corner wear. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 698 pages. The story of the men and women who built an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award.

Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1997. Staple-Bound Paperback. Third Edition. Fine. Unmarked. Clean and bright. Not from a library. 440 page. A comprehensive reference guide to grammar and its uses.

New York: Dell, August 1972. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Pages tanned. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers foxed. Not from a library. 367 pages.

Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, November 2003. Trade Paperback. First English Edition (stated). As New. Not a remainder. Not damaged. 221 pages. A biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves. One of the most interesting and paradoxical comparisons coming out of Ugresic's dissection of book culture is the similarity between the art of socialist realism (as prescribed by the Soviets) and the nature of contemporary marketplace to produce and promote art that appeals to every-one.

Chicago: March/Abrazo, 1992. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with one-inch dog-ear crease to front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 156 pages.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1913. Hardcover. Illustrated cloth over board. Color frontis, three color plates, and many B&W illustrations. Good. Covers are heavily worn. Corners, spine ends, and bottom edges are frayed. Names of prior owners and "West Liberty, Iowa" penciled to front pastedown. Front free endpaper has been torn out. Small tears and wrinkling to page edges, but no writing noticed in text block. Sewn binding is straight and tight. 191 pages. 6 x 7.5 inches. Contains selections from such authors as Susan Coolidge, Laura Richards, and Mary Wilkins, authors whose stories for children are classics and who know and interpret delightfully the interests of the little people.

New York: Vintage, February 1990. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition / full number line. Near Fine. Pages tanned, otherwise as new. Unmarked. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. xv + 238 pages.
A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

New York & London: Routledge, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Covers clean and bright with light reading wear to corners. Not from a library. No remainder mark.
Women's Words is the first collection of writings devoted exclusively to exploring the theoretical, methodological, and practical problems that arise when women utilize oral history as a tool of feminist scholarship. In thirteen multi-disciplin ary esays, the book takes stock of the implicit presuppositions , contradictions, and prospects of oral history at the hands of feminist scholars.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Good+. Occasional underlining. Not from a library. xii+180 pages.
Social scientists, whether earnest graduate students or tenured faculty members, clearly know the rules that govern good writing. But for some reason they choose to ignore those guidelines and churn out turgid, pompous, and obscure prose. The author looks for an explanation for this bizarre behavior not in the psyches of his colleagues but in the structure of his profession. In this personal and inspirational volume he considers academic writing as a social activity.
Both the means and the reasons for writing a thesis or article or book are socially structured by the organization of graduate study, the requirements for publication, and the conditions for promotion, and the pressures arising from these situations create the writing style so often lampooned and lamented. Drawing on his thirty-five years' experience as a researcher, writer, and teacher, the author exposes… Read More