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A Pocket Style Manual

Diana Hacker

Presents a practical pocket reference manual that provides offers instruction on sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics for writers and researchers.

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The Disheveled Dictionary

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

A dictionary of more than two hundred unusual English-language terms of international origin.

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The New Well-tempered Sentence

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

This handbook is revised and enlarged with fuller explanations of the rules of punctuation, additional graphics, and further character development and drama--all the while redeeming punctuation from t

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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Examples of confusing appositives, many uses of gerunds, and the complicated matter of agreements.

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GOR

Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck Dictionary

Jeff Foxworthy

A humorous reference guide to redneck words and phrases that teaches a unique form of Southern dialect.

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Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Lynne Truss

Lynne Truss, a self-proclaimed stickler, presents a humorous look at the history of punctuation, discussing the use and misuse of commas, apostrophes, semi-colons, and other punctuation marks.

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The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus

Presents a comprehensive desk dictionary and thesaurus featuring seventy thousand dictionary entries, twenty thousand thesaurus headwords and one hundred fifty thousand synonyms, pronunciation key, an

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The American Heritage College Dictionary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explain the meanings of thousands of English language words, including over seven thousand new words, with updated biographical and geographical listings,

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Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary

Contains a collection of slang words from African American, Chicano, Jewish, sports, movie, hip hop, and drug sub-culture as well as words from the 1960s beatniks generation to show how different cult

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French for Le Snob

Yvette Reche

Contains a guide to incorporating French loaned words of the English language into ordinary speech, and provides definitions of over 2,500 French terms that have been borrowed by the English lexicon,

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