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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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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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Fighter in Velvet Gloves Study Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781602234451, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2021
42 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In 1945, Elizabeth Peratrovich stood before the Alaska Territorial Legislative Session and gave a powerful speech about her childhood and her experiences being treated as a second-class citizen. Her heartfelt testimony led to the passing of the landm...
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£8,00
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What Is Research?
ISBN: PB: 9781941792247, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2021
120 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Research underlies nearly every aspect of our culture, with expansive investment poured into it and its significance acknowledged by governments, industries, and academic institutions around the world. Yet the idea, practice, and social life of resea...
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£20,00
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Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching
ISBN: PB: 9780226542362, ISBN: HB: 9780226542225, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training – despite being a substantial part of their career. This book is a practical guide for an...
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£15,00
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£76,00
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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
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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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
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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£45,00
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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
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
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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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
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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£13,00
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£38,00
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