| 2MPower Writing: Teaching from Great Literature - Ender's Game |
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| A Confession and Other Religious Writings - Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession (1879) is an autobiographical work of exceptional emotional honesty. By the time he was fifty, Tolstoy had already written the novels that would assure him of literary immortality; he had a wife, a large estate and numerous children; he was a happy man' and in good health - yet life had lost its meaning. In this poignant confessional fragment, he records a period of his life when he began to turn away from... |
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| A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings - 'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus... |
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| A Short Method of Prayer and Other Writings - Despite a difficult childhood, a loveless marriage, an early widowhood, and life-long persecution, French mystic Jeanne Guyon produced works of extraordinary spiritual power. Admired by Christians for 300 years - including John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor, and A. W. Tozer - her writings offer penetrating insight into cultivating unfettered communion with God. |
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| An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media: Scriptwriting Essentials Across the Genres - 'Wonderfully practical...just what every media writer needs' - Christopher H. Sterling, George Washington University. You can learn what it takes to write for commercials, news, documentaries, corporate, educational, animation, games, the internet, and dramatic film & video productions. It outlines the key skills needed for a successful media writing career. The demand for quality and knowledgeable multi-platform writing is always in high demand. "An Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media... |
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| Anarchismn And Other Writings |
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| Basic Writings - This revised and expanded edition of Martin Heidegger's Basic Writings includes ten key essays and the Introduction to Being and Time . Basic Writings is a concise introduction to the thought of this controversial and important twentieth-century philosopher. David Farrell Krell has expanded and improved this collection by adding The Way to Language' and including the complete version of The Origin of the Work of Art'. The complete selection is: Being and Time: Introduction What is Metaphysics... |
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| Chambers Report Writing - "Report Writing" is for anyone who has to write informative reports in work, study, or elsewhere. This practical little volume contains guidance on researching, structuring, and writing reports for a number of purposes and in a variety of contexts. The examples show how good practices can be applied and how they can contribute to an organized and articulate report. With extra information and tips, and section summaries in handy reminder boxes, "Report Writing" will help everyone produce clear... |
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| Collins Letter Writing - The only guide you'll ever need to help you write better letters, whether for business or pleasure. The world gets smaller and contacts get faster but whether it's by computer or with pen-and-ink, the need to be able to communicate effectively in writing remains as important as ever. So whether you want to get in touch with a pen-pal, an e-pal, your bank manager, the editor of a newspaper, to make a complaint or declare your undying love, this guide will show you how to make the most of your... |
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| Crime Writing - Drawing on the expertise of crime writers, including Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, this book looks at how to write a successful crime novel - from the critical points in the development of the book, including story setting, creating characters, building suspense, use of sex and violence, the importance of research and the basic rules of story construction, to how to get published. It carries advice from publishers, agents and booksellers in the field, looks at legendary figures in crime fiction... |
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| De Profundis and Other Writings |
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| Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected here, "The Discourses" argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live... |
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| Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers - The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a group known as the Apostolic Fathers, several of whom were probably disciples of the Apostles, they provide a first-hand account of the early Church and outline a form of early Christianity still drawing on the theology and traditions of its parent religion... |
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| Early Writings - Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the "Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State", he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views on civil society, while his letters reveal a furious intellect struggling to develop the egalitarian theory of state. Equally challenging are his controversial essay "On the Jewish Question" and "The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts",... |
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| Empire Writing: An Anthology of Colonial Literature 1870-1918 - 'The contact with ...primitive nature and primitive man brings sudden and profound trouble into the heart.' (Joseph Conrad) 'Flowers look loveliest in their native soil ...plucked, they fade, And lose the colours Nature on them laid.' (Toru Dutt) This is the first anthology to gather together British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English, interweaving short stories, poems, essays, travel writing, and memoirs from the phase of British expansionist imperialism known... |
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| Fast Forward Writing: Level 4 to 5 - Temporarily out of stock. This item will be dispatched as soon as it arrives. |
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| Feature Writing: A Practical Introduction - 'As textbooks go, this one's a very strong volume for the aspiring feature writer ready to make their mark on the world' - www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the book also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies and exercises. The authors... |
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| Goodbye to All That and Other Great War Writings - "Goodbye to All That" is Robert Graves' celebrated account of his youth and his experiences as a young officer during the First World War. From an unhappy childhood at Charterhouse to the horrors of the trenches, this is both a movingly personal portrait and an invaluable chronicle of an age. This is the only available edition of Robert Graves' original 1929 version, differing considerably from the 1957 revision offered by other publishers. Also included are Graves' "Postscript to Goodbye to All... |
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| Grammar and Writing - Grammar and Writing is a practical book designed to be used by writers of all kinds who want to improve their knowledge of language in order to develop and improve their writing skills. The book includes chapters on:* clause and sentence structure* word classes* punctuation * the grammar of literary styleGrammatical terms are explained in an accessible manner and through close attention to the way language is used in specific extracts from literary and non-literary writing: from Ruskin's Modern... |
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| Hindu Writings: A Short Introduction to the Major Sources - This anthology offers sources in the four areas of Vedic tradition; The Hindu religions; The Hindu philosophical quest; and Hinduism encountering other religions. In the first section, besides providing translations from the Vedas and the Vedic legal and ritual literature, some passages from contemporary scholarly writing about Hinduism are offered, in the context of the discussion about the character and 'essence' of Hinduism. In the second section, major extracts (translations) will be provided... |
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| Hippocratic Writings - This work is a sampling of the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of ancient Greek medical works. At the beginning, and interspersed throughout, there are discussions on the philosophy of being a physician. There is a large section about how to treat limb fractures, and the section called The Nature of Man describes the physiological theories of the time. The book ends with a discussion of embryology and a brief anatomical description of the heart. |
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| Leibniz the Monadology and Other Philosophical Writings - This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment... |
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| London Writing |
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| Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality - This volume offers a wide-ranging collection of writings by and about religious women, presenting some of the most original and compelling literature of the middle ages. There are well-known pieces such as "The Mirror of Simple Souls", as well as more obscure writings, including biographies, letters, visionary writings and poems. A male ecclesiastic writes about the resurrection of Christine the Astonishing at her own funeral and the revelations received by Bridget of Sweden, the first woman to... |
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| News Writing - 'Spotting potential pitfalls, using a story structure, writing the intro, how to do backgrounders - and an engaging foreword by Prof Peter Cole - all make this exactly the kind of book the trainee could do with' - HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk Anna McKane's News Writing is a pioneering book dealing exclusively with the all-important craft of writing news stories. The ability to write a good news story is the starting point for all starters in journalism, and is the central test likely to be given to... |
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