The Library : A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells
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Category: Words & Writing
"Excellent . . . Tracks the history of that greatest of all cultural institutions." --The Washington Post Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist to ...Show more
Letters to My Future Self - Write Now, Read Later, Treasure Forever by Lea Redmond
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Category: Words & Writing
An Oprah's Favorite Things Pick for 2015 At once a priceless memento and a journey forward in time, this innovative book of 12 fold-and-mail style letters offers a unique way to capture the moment. Each letter bears a prompt to inspire self-reflection. Once written, the letters can be sealed with th ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
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Category: Words & Writing
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Legends of Literature: The Best Articles, Interviews, and Essays from the Archives of Writer's Digest Magazine by Phillip Sexton
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Category: Words & Writing
Writer's Digest magazine has been published on an uninterrupted basis for more than 85 years. Circulation currently tops 120,000. No other book on the market captures such an interesting spectrum of the 20th century literary scene. And, in fact, there's no other publisher that could provide it. Includes ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Words & Writing
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more
How We Talk by N. J. Enfield
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Category: Words & Writing
We all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals in How We Talk, these "bad words" are fundamental to language. Whether we are speaking with the clerk at the store, our boss, or our spouse, language is dependent on things as comm ...Show more
How to be a Writer: Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors, and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft by John Birmingham
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Category: Words & Writing
'Beauty is good, but coin is better. You can't eat artistic integrity. It tastes like sawdust.' This gonzo guide is a lesson in the practicalities of writing: how to be productive, professional and maybe one day even pay the rent. Topics covered include 'How to slay writer's block', 'What the hell is wo ...Show more
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
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Category: Words & Writing
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher. Draft No. 4is a master class on the writer's craft. John McPhee shares insights he has gathered over his long career, and has refined while teaching at Princeton University, where he has nurtured some of the most ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
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Category: Words & Writing | Series: Modern Classics
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
Bookshops by Jorge Carrion
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Category: Words & Writing
Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes his reader on a journey around the world, via its bookshops. His travels take him to Shakespeare Co in Paris, Wells in Winchester, Green Apple Books in San ...Show more
Books that Changed History by Dk; James Naughtie (Foreword by)
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Category: Words & Writing
With a foreword by James Naughtie (British radio and news presenter for the BBC).Turn the pages of the most famous books of all time and marvel at the stories behind them. Over 75 of the world's most celebrated, rare, and seminal books are examined and explained in this stunning treasury.Books That Chan ...Show more