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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
John Cleese - Crown
Format: Hardcover
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"Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren't actually creative. I like to think I'm writing about it from the inside." --John CleeseCreativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess.... |
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
Silvia Ferrara - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through our cultural and social behavior in search of the origins of our greatest invention -- writing.The L where a tabletop meets the legs, the T between double doors, the D of an armchair's... |
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Promises of Gold
José Olivarez - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love -- self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural -- is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.. Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often... |
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The Word Gobblers: A Handbook for Parents Working With Children Struggling to Read
Catherine Matthias - Square One
Format: Paperback
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Millions of children and adults around the world cope with reading, writing, or depth perception problems, such as dyslexia. For one in every six, this problem is a result of a condition called Irlen Syndrome--the inability of the brain to process certain light waves or colors. Symptoms... |
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25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way
Geraldine Woods - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great.We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn't begin to describe the ways in which these elements... |
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Jing Tsu - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters,... |
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Writing in the Dark
Tim Waggoner - Guide Dog Books
Format: Paperback
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In this comprehensive textbook devoted to the craft of writing horror fiction, award-winning author Tim Waggoner draws on thirty years' experience as a writer and teacher. Writing in the Dark offers advice, guidance, and insights on how to compose horror stories and novels that are original,... |
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Sarah Ogilvie - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind's greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented... |
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