Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.Engaging and direct, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace is the guidebook for anyone who wants to write well.

From the Back Cover Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, Ninth Edition Joseph M. Williams Why have thousands of college writers loved–and learned from–this book? Listen to what Joseph Williams has to say: “The ninth edition of Style aims at answering the same questions I asked in the earlier ones: * What is it in a sentence that makes readers judge it as they do? * How do we di...(展开全部)

This acclaimed book is a master teacher's tested program for turning clumsy prose into clear, powerful, and effective writing. A logical, expert, easy-to-use plan for achieving excellence in expression, "Style" offers neither simplistic rules nor endless lists of dos and don'ts. Rather, Joseph Williams explains how to be concise, how to be focused, how to be organized. Filled w...(展开全部)

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflects the wisdom and clear authorial voice of Williams best-selling book, Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace, while streamlining every chapter to create a very brief, yet powerfully direct guide to writing with style. The brevity and clarity of this book make it a quick and ideal read for freshman composition courses, as well as f...(展开全部)

Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace reflects the wisdom and clear authorial voice of Williams' best-selling book, Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, while streamlining every chapter to create a very brief, yet powerfully direct guide to writing with style. The concise clarity of this book makes it a quick and ideal guide for freshman composition courses, writing courses a...(展开全部)

Renowned psychologist Professor Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale called 'Thinking' to help students overcome the cognitive biases that cause people so many problems in their daily lives. It quickly became the university's most popular class. In Thinking 101, she presents the key insights from her years of teaching and research. It has become common knowledge that our min...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Audrey Style comes a charming guide to Audrey Hepburn–inspired living for the modern woman Audrey Hepburn epitomized grace and style, not only in her appearance but in her very essence. Whether in fashion, relationships, her work on the screen, or for UNICEF and her home life, there is no one more worthy of imitation. How d...(展开全部)

A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and one of Twitter's leading enforcers of proper grammar--a twenty-first-century Elements of Style. As authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E. L. Docto...(展开全部)

Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In his ground-breaking book, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective, examining the problem of sta...(展开全部)