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Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn...

The A to Z highlights common pitfalls faced by translators working on both Arabic-English and English-Arabic texts. Each translation problem is carefully contextualized and illustrated with examples drawn from contemporary literature and the media. Using...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618574230Author Kenn KaufmanFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Foreword by Master Cicerone Rich HigginsDiscover a world of beer with this sensational handbook, packed with style guides, how-tos, and fascinating anecdotes about the origins and evolution of both well-known and esoteric beers-and ten unique "scratch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402209505Author Diane StaffordFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, Inc

With a Haynes Manual, you can do it yourself, from simple maintenance to full repairs. Every Manual is based on a complete stripdown of the bike. Our authors and technicians work out the best methods to do a job and present this with the home mechanic in...

Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244800314Author Jean CarlesFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

First published in 1999. This book, in compliance with the aims of the series, attempts to provide a comprehensive and critical account of Nietzsche's thought. The present study is an examination of his philosophical thinking; and while this already...

Are you working with qualitative data but unsure how to approach your analysis? This hands-on guide to qualitative content analysis from two internationally renowned experts provides you with a clear strategy for analysing your data, whether you are...

More than 10,000 entries define names, places, objects, and concepts of the Bible with thorough references. Charles Pfeiffer introduces the volume with an essay on How to Study the Bible.Book InformationISBN 9780801066801Author BakerFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2003. Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780060538118Author Elizabeth...

This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic...

Now in a fully updated third edition, The Freelance Writer's Handbook is the essential book for everyone who dreams of making money from their writing. It will appeal to all aspiring writers, whether they want to write as a full time profession, or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989887120Author Greg RossFormat PaperbackImprint Futility ClosetPublisher Futility ClosetWeight(grams) 286g

The ultimate phrase guide for travel, business, and more!"I'll have the chicken dish, please." "How do you get to the theater?" "Let's set up a meeting."Packed with everything you'll need to understand--and be understood by--Brazilian-Portuguese...

History Today carried a feature in 2015, describing The Origin of Museums as "a cult book [that] spawned a new discipline in the history of collecting". Indeed, the first publication of this book in 1985 undoubtedly marked a propitious moment in the...

One of the most distinctive characteristics of English is the number of words and phrases it has borrowed - and continues to borrow - from other languages, originally and most notably from Latin and French but now also from every corner of the globe...

An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940. Argues that the French learned the wrong lessons from World War I and were ill prepared for World War II Lessons for modern armies about how to...

Face it-being a young adult in the digital era is one of the hardest things to be. Well, maybe there are harder things in life...but being an adult is difficult! So Grace Helbig has written a guide that's perfect for anyone who is faced with the daunting...

"God made Heaven, and then, after measuring the space underneath with a ball of thread, he began to form the earth. A mole asked to help, and God gave him the thread to hold while he wove the patterns of the earth. Sometimes the mole would let out too...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227993Author Margaret GrieveFormat PaperbackPage Count 904Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Martha Gellhorn's three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from...

A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sexology, this encyclopedia offers accounts of the most important international developments in an area...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892877829Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Clymer PublicationsPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

100+ all-new meatless recipes for the Instant Pot by the best-selling author of Indian Instant Pot and Instant Pot Fast & Easy Urvashi Pitre, author of best-selling cookbooks such as Indian Instant Pot Cookbook, The Keto Instant Pot Cookbook, and...

The second volume of A History of Private Life is a treasure-trove of rich and colorful detail culled from an astounding variety of sources. This absorbing "secret epic" constructs a vivid picture of peasant and patrician life in the eleventh to...

Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major...

Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction. Weaving her own family's...

Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions helps the public to become more informed citizens through discussions of real world health care examples and fraud assessment applications. The author presents statistical and analytical methods used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226523088Author Ross BaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244224325Author David BoltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

The first prescriptive, innovative guide to seeing inflection points before they happen-and how to harness these disruptive influences to give your company a strategic advantageFeaturing a foreword by Clayton ChristensenParadigmatic shifts in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955692345Author T McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Labour History Movement PublicationsPublisher Labour History Movement...

Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, the issues surrounding Black hair in America continue to linger as we enter the twenty-first century. Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological...

This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937859244Author Peter MoonFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Sky Books (NY)Publisher Sky Books (NY)Weight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in government and foundation grants, this is the essential book on securing grants. It provides comprehensive, step-by-step guide for grant writers, including vital up-to-the minute...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156976480Author Howard ThurmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...