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Storycraft, Second Edition The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
ISBN: PB: 9780226736921, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Jack Hart, master writing coach and former managing editor of The Oregonian, has guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. Since its publication in 2011, his book Storycraft has become the definitive guide to crafting narrative...
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£15,00
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Wordcraft The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing
ISBN: PB: 9780226749075, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings
Legendary writing coach Jack Hart spent 26 years at The Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes...
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Thinking Like a Political Scientist A Practical Guide to Research Methods
ISBN: PB: 9780226327549, ISBN: HB: 9780226327402, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 figures, 9 tables
Each year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on researc...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Storycraft The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
ISBN: PB: 9780226318165, ISBN: HB: 9780226318141, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 line illus.
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the "New Yorker" essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach's "Stiff" or Erik Larson's "Devil in the White Ci...
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£11,50
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£19,00
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Rights Buying, Protecting, Selling
ISBN: PB: 9780857420039, Seagull Books, August 2011
72 pp., 18x11 cm
These essays by Petra Christine Hardt, head of the rights department at esteemed German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, offer unique and informed insight into day-to-day practices in the rights and permissions departments of publishing houses. Hardt also...
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£14,50
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Craft of Scientific Communication
ISBN: PB: 9780226316628, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 21 halftones, 12 line illus.
The ability to communicate in print and person is essential to the life of a successful scientist. But since writing is often secondary in scientific education and teaching, there remains a significant need for guides that teach scientists how best t...
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£23,00
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Scientific Literature A Guided Tour
ISBN: PB: 9780226316567, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 27 line drawings
The scientific article has been a hallmark of the career of every important western scientist since the seventeenth century. Yet its role in the history of science has not been fully explored. Joseph E. Harmon and Alan G. Gross remedy this oversight...
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£28,00
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