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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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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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Subversive Copy Editor Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226240077, ISBN: HB: 9780226239903, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
200 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Longtime manuscript editor and "Chicago Manual of Style" guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides s...
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£36,00
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Scientific Style and Format The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (Eighth Edition)
ISBN: HB: 9780226116495, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
840 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 line drawings, 126 tables
For more than fifty years, authors, editors, and publishers in the scientific community have turned to "Scientific Style and Format" for authoritative recommendations on all matters of writing style and citation. Developed by the Council of Science E...
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£56,50
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Student's Guide to Law School What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226067056, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Law school can be a joyous, soul-transforming challenge that leads to a rewarding career. It can also be an exhausting, self-limiting trap. It all depends on making smart decisions. When every advantage counts, "A Student's Guide to Law School" is li...
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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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Sinclair Lewis A Descriptive Bibliography, Second Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781589661561, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, August 2009
350 pp., 23x15 cm, 110 halftones
Sinclair Lewis, celebrated author of "Babbitt and Main Street", wrote more than twenty novels in the course of his prolific career, most of which went through several editions over the years. This is the definitive descriptive bibliography of the Lew...
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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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Surprised in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9780226098739, University of Chicago Press, September 2006
128 pp., 21.9x15 cm, 2 halftones
For Mary Ann Caws – noted translator of surrealist poetry – the most appealing translations are also the oddest; the unexpected, unpredictable, and unmimetic turns that translations take are an endless source of fascination and instruction".Surprised...
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