Writing with Pleasure by Helen Sword
$44.99 AUD
Category: Etymology | Series: Skills for Scholars Ser.
An essential guide to cultivating joy in your professional and personal writingWriting should be a pleasurable challenge, not a painful chore. Writing with Pleasure empowers academic, professional, and creative writers to reframe their negative emotions about writing and reclaim their positive ones. By ...Show more
JapanEasy: Classic and Modern Japanese Recipes to Cook at Home by Tim Anderson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
What are your favorite Japanese dishes? Sushi? Surprisingly easy. Gyoza? Very easy. Karaage? Soooooo easy! Tempura? Stupidly easy. Yakitori, yakisoba, miso soup? Easy, easy, easy. It's easy to be intimidated by Japanese food, but in JapanEasy, Tim Anderson offers an introduction to the world of Japanese ...Show more
Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories by David Pearson
$79.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered from fire or water, or even disguised as completely different texts for protection in dangerous times. Marks ...Show more
The Literary Almanac: A year of seasonal reading by Francesca Beauman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
Discover over 300 seasonal book recommendations in the ultimate reading list for book lovers everywhere. ----- 'I will be giving this book to everyone I know' - Elizabeth Day ----- Spanning the dreary, cold days of January to the first flushes of spring and then the blazing August heat, bibliophile ...Show more
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction by William Zinsser
$27.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet. Whether you want to write abo ...Show more
Writely or Wrongly: An Unstuffy Guide to Language Stuff by Joanne Anderson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us). Author Joanne Anderson has expanded on the popular tips s ...Show more
Schmegoogle by Daniel Klein
$27.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
Schmegoogle: n. : someone so insignificant that if you Google their name, nothing comes up. Yiddish has long-enriched English language slang. In this fast-changing modern world experienced online and through apps, of foodies, legal weed, and shifting social constructs, our need for the expressive wonde ...Show more
How to Sound Really Clever by Hubert Van Den Bergh
$19.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
How to Sound Really Clever explains and illustrates over 600 words that can outfox us, such as 'condign', 'Zelig-like' and 'agitprop'. This is the sequel to the successful How to Sound Clever (2010) which taught you 600 words you really ought to know but haven't had the time to look up in the dictionary ...Show more
Write Like Hemingway by Ed Gleason; Cider Mill Press Staff
$29.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
An examination of how The Kansas City Star's style guide shaped Hemingway's unmistakable writing style. Acclaimed for his lean, succinct prose, Write Like Hemingway connects the dots between Ernest Hemingway's earliest writing job and his most memorable fiction. After graduating high school, and before ...Show more
Guarded by Dragons - Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People by Rick Gekoski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Etymology | Reading Level: very good
Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old.In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers i ...Show more
First You Write a Sentence:The Elements of Reading, Writing ... and Life by Joe Moran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time.Enter widely-acclaimed author Professo ...Show more
Because Internet by Gretchen McCULLOCH
$29.99 AUD
Category: Etymology
THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online inte ...Show more