The Merriam-Webster Concise Handbook for Writers


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This essential writer's tool can guide you from rough draft to finished work with its clear explanations of the conventions and techniques for using punctuation, capitalizing words, forming plurals and possessives, preparing footnotes and bibliographies, copyediting, proofreading, and more.







Merriam-Webster's Concise Handbook for Writers


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A guide to improving writing skills that includes information on style, composition, punctuation, copyediting, and other related topics.




Merriam-Webster's Manual for Writers and Editors


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Revised edition of Webster's standard American style manual, 1985.




Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary


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Specially designed to meet the standards of the National Association for the Visually Handicapped, this dictionary contains 40,000 entries, clear definitions, spellings, and pronunciations, and includes a punctuation guide.




The Book Book


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In "The Book Book" readers will learn how to make book planning, typesetting, layout, and prepress production accessible to and easy for anyone with computer experience.




The Merriam-Webster Dictionary


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New edition! A handy, reliable, and authoritative dictionary of words most frequently used in Englis. More than 75,000 definitions, 2,000 new word entries, and more than 150 illustrations. Expanded special features include a Handbook of Style, Basic English Grammar, Irregular English Verbs and a Guid eto Common Verb Collocations (both essential for ESL), and a new Overview of the Internet.




The Health Care Handbook


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Described in the New York Times as “an astonishingly clear ‘user’s manual’ that explains our health care system and the policies that will change it,” The Health Care Handbook, by Drs. Elisabeth Askin and Nathan Moore, offers a practical, neutral, and readable overview of the U.S. health care system in a compact, convenient format. The fully revised third edition provides concise coverage on health care delivery, insurance and economics, policy, and reform—all critical components of the system in which health care professionals work. Written in a conversational and accessible tone, this popular, highly regarded handbook serves as a “one stop shop” for essential facts, systems, concepts, and analysis of the U.S. health care system, providing the tools you need to confidently evaluate current health care policy and controversies.




The Joy Of English


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This is a pencil-sharp book about English for anyone who ever needs to write. In an easy-to-read style, it offers accessible and constructive advice to help you improve your English skills. It targets common pitfalls and those troublesome areas of English usage that affect everyone, no matter what their level of competence. It exposes several language myths and is bursting with 1,500 examples of both right and wrong usage. The Joy of English cuts to the heart of what readers want: help with their English. Its 100 short chapters provide answers to the questions that we are too afraid to ask - amateurs and professionals alike. Questions such as: Who versus whom? Less versus fewer? As versus because? In contrast to versus by contrast? Further versus farther? Learned versus learnt? Imply versus infer? Practice versus practise? Provided versus providing? While versus whilst? We live in the information age. Never in history has the need to communicate been so great. Everyone can improve their language skills. The Joy of English puts you on the path to new levels of competence and confidence.




Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia


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A comprehensive, one-volume desk reference created in cooperation with Encyclopædia Britannica®. Features more than 25,000 informative and enlightening articles, over 1,250 photographs, and 350 maps, diagrams, and tables. Includes pronunciations.