Author: Michael Maar
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: nabokov, speak
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2010-01-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1844674371
ISBN-13: 9781844674374
Master literary sleuth unearths Nabokov’s life from his work. On the eve of the controversial, posthumous publication of The Original of Laura, Michael Maar follows his critically acclaimed The Two Lolitas with a revealing new perspective on Vladimir Nabokov’s life and work. Hunting down long-hidden clues in the novels, and using the themes that run through Nabokov’s fiction to illuminate the life that produced them, Maar constructs a compelling psychological and philosophical portrait. Characteristically graceful and engaging, Speak, Nabokov offers a vital new perspective on the tw
Author: Munro Leaf
Publisher: Universe
Keywords: amp, politely, speak
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2005-08-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0789313529
ISBN-13: 9780789313522
Updated for the 21st century, How to Speak Politely and Why is a picture book with a point: proper speech and good grammar without nagging. It aims to remove “ain’t” and “uh-huh” and “gimme” and “got” and a score of unfortunate nuances by a simple, sure painless and humorous process. In his signature style of amusing stick figure drawings and captions, Leaf makes clear such things as the difference between can and may, and the reason why one does not say “he done it” or “she come.”Exasperated parents (and grandparents) faced with the unpleasant task of dealing with
Author: Ted Andrews
Publisher: Dragonhawk Publishing
Keywords: runes, speak
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1888767588
ISBN-13: 9781888767582
Ted Andrews’ Animal-speak Runes is a book and rune divination kit. This kit contains 40 animal runes, inscribed on pine wood - along with the animal’s name and meaning. The book describes how to use the runes for insight, divination and answers to everyday situations and questions. Boxed set includes 40 wooden rune-like charms, 128 page guide book and a carrying bag for the runes.
Author: JOSEPHDEVLIN
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: correctly, speak, write
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1557429227
ISBN-13: 9781557429223
This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner. Some broad rules are laid down, the observance of which will enable the reader to keep within the pale of propriety in oral and written language. Many idiomatic words and expressions, peculiar to the language, have been given, besides which a number of the common mistakes and pitfalls have bee
Author: C. E. M. Joad
Publisher: Abdul Press
Keywords: correctly, speak, think, write
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2008-10-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 144371884X
ISBN-13: 9781443718844
INTRODUCTORY - The man who said that language was given to us to conceal our thoughts was a diplomat and a cynic. Admicdly, diplomatists, politicians and propagandists find it expedient to put vvhat they have to say in language which can be interpreted in different ways and there are occasions when most of us ordinary Folk are glad to take advantage of the opportunity language gives us to disguise our true feelings or intentions. But if this were the sole object of language, or if we were to use it with this object habitually, the confusion of Babel would be worse confounded, and ordinary hum
中文参考译名:如何书写和会话正确
Author: Joseph Devlin
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: correctly, speak, write
Number of Pages: 129
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1557429170
ISBN-13: 9781557429179
This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner. Some broad rules are laid down, the observance of which will enable the reader to keep within the pale of propriety in oral and written language. Many idiomatic words and expressions, peculiar to the language, have been given, besides which a number of the common mistakes and pitfalls have bee
中文参考译名:你说美国？
Authors:Robert MacNeil, William Cra,
Publisher: Harvest Book
Keywords: american, speak
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156032880
ISBN-13: 9780156032889
Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America’s grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran, coauthors of the language classic The Story of English, on a journey that took them around the country in search of answers. Do You Speak American?, the companion volume to a PBS special, is the tale of the surprising discoveries they made while interviewing a host of native speakers and observing everyday verbal
