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Last But Not Least
A Guide to Proofreading Text
Nothing is more infuriating than working hard on an essay or work report, only to realize you let an embarrassing typo slip through after you've submitted it. Proofreading is hard work, and often left until the final hours or minutes before a deadlin...
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Institutional Literacies
Engaging Academic IT Contexts for Writing and Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226699349,
ISBN: HB: 9780226699202,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 2 line drawings
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 2 line drawings
Information technologies have become an integral part of writing and communication courses, shaping the ways students and teachers think about and do their work. But, too often, teachers and other educational stakeholders take a passive or simply rea...
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£28,00
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£72,00
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Artful History
A Practical Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300239904,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
304 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
304 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn't it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just...
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Manual of the Mammalia
An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"
ISBN: HB: 9780226533001,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings
The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...
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Collecting Experiments
Making Big Data Biology
ISBN: PB: 9780226635040,
ISBN: HB: 9780226634999,
University of Chicago Press,
June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...
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£34,00
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£102,00
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Economical Writing
Thirty-Five Rules for Clear and Persuasive Prose (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226448077,
University of Chicago Press,
April 2019
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones
176 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 3 halftones
Economics is not a field that is known for good writing. Charts, yes. Sparkling prose, no. Except, that is, when it comes to Deirdre Nansen McCloskey. Her conversational and witty yet always clear style is a hallmark of her classic works of economic...
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£11,00
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Provenance Research in Book History
A Handbook
ISBN: HB: 9781851245109,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2019
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
Since this handbook was first published in 1994, interest in the book as a material object, and in the ways in which books have been owned, read and used, has burgeoned. Now established as a standard reference work, this book has been revised and exp...
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Student's Guide to Writing College Papers
Fifth Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226430263,
ISBN: HB: 9780226494562,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 6 tables
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 17 line drawings, 6 tables
Students of all levels need to know how to write a well-reasoned, coherent research paper – and for decades Kate L. Turabian's "Student's Guide to Writing College Papers" has helped them to develop this critical skill. For its fifth edition, Chicago...
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£38,00
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Writing Fiction
A Guide to Narrative Craft (Tenth Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226616698,
ISBN: HB: 9780226616551,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
More than 250,000 copies sold!
A creative writer's shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and "Writing Fiction". Janet Burroway's best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America,...
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Writing Your Journal Article in Twelve Weeks
A Guide to Academic Publishing Success (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226499918,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2019
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm
"Wow. No one ever told me this!" Wendy Laura Belcher has heard this countless times throughout her years of teaching and advising academics on how to write journal articles. Scholars know they must publish, but few have been told how to do so. So Bel...
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