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How Not to Write
The Essential Misrules of Grammar
Häftad, 2005
250 kr
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How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential misrules of grammar," those mistakes that call attention to the major rules and regulations of writing. He tells you …
Safire's Political Dictionary
Av William Safire, William Safire
Häftad, 2008
329 kr
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When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes …
Safire's Political Dictionary
E-bok, 2008
184 kr
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When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes …
Quoth the Maven
More on Language from William Safire
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist discusses contemporary figures of speech, from witty stories about expressions such as "kiss and tell" and "stab in the back" to the evolution of "read my lips." NOTE: This edition does not include illustrations.
In Love with Norma Loquendi
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist describes his lifelong fascination with Norma Loquendi --common speech--in a collection of columns that celebrates the mysteries and continual evolution of the English language. From the Hardcover edition.
Watching My Language:
Adventures in the Word Trade
E-bok, 2011
236 kr
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America''s most entertaining language maven is back with more words to live by in his latest exploration of hot catchphrases, syntactical controversies, and other matters of national linguistic importance. Before you scratch that seven-year-itch, you might want to know where it came from. And …
Sleeper Spy
E-bok, 2011
87 kr
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In the wake of an important KGB agent''s disappearance, an event of international proportions, journalist Irving Fein teams up with a television anchorwoman and stumbles on the story of a lifetime. From the Hardcover edition.
First Dissident
The Book of Job in Today''s Politics
E-bok, 2011
226 kr
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One of America''s foremost political columnists ties the Book of Job to the news of the day in a provacative exploration of how we can reshape politics by following Job''s empowering example. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Language Maven Strikes Again
E-bok, 2011
79 kr
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Good news! America’s master wordsmith strikes again with a new collection of erudite, witty, provocative, sometimes barbed, frequently hilarious “On Language” columns. Published in The New York Times and syndicated in more than three hundred other newspapers, these opinions from the “Supreme Court …
Coming to Terms
E-bok, 2012
110 kr
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When William Safire delineates the difference between misinformation and disinformation or “distances himself” from clichés, people sit up and take notice. Which is not to say that Safire’s readers always take the punning pundit at his word: they don’t, and he’s got the letters to prove it. Among …
Lend Me Your Ears
Great Speeches in History
Inbunden, 2004
548 kr
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An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hundred outstanding moments of oratory. It is selected, arranged, and introduced by William Safire, who honed his skills as a presidential speechwriter. …
Words of Wisdom
Häftad, 1990
274 kr
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From Simon & Schuster, Words of Wisdom, compiled and edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, is a collection of good advice.A follow-up to the highly successful Good Advice, here are more witty, insightful words of advice on every subject under the sun--from sources as diverse as Hippocrates …
Scandalmonger
A Novel
E-bok, 2000
239 kr
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A presidential hopeful has taken a beautiful, vulnerable woman as his mistress, though both are married to others. His rival for the presidency of the United States has even more sensational secrets to guard about his own past. An ambitious journalist unearths the stories of the private lives of …
No Uncertain Terms
More Writing from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine
E-bok, 2003
213 kr
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There is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist William Safire. For many people, the first item on the agenda for Sunday morning is to sit down and read Safire''s "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine, then to compose a "Gotcha" letter …
No Uncertain Terms
More Writing from the Popular "on Language" Column in the New York Times Magazine
Häftad, 2040
325 kr
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There is no wittier, more amiable or more astute word maven than Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire. For many people, the first item on the agenda for Sunday morning is to sit down and read Safire's "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine, then to compose a "Gotcha" letter …
Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Wit and Wisdom from the Popular "On Language" Column in The New York Times Magazine
E-bok, 2007
213 kr
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For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine''s column "On Language" -- one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for …
Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Wit and Wisdom from the Popular "On Language" Column in the New York Times Magazine
Häftad, 2010
360 kr
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For the past twenty-five years Americans have relied on Pulitzer Prize-winning wordsmith William Safire for their weekly dose of linguistic illumination in The New York Times Magazine's column "On Language" -- one of the most popular features of the magazine and a Sunday-morning staple for …
