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)

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)

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)

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)

Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of her writings that have become a source of spiritual guidance and wisdom for countless individuals. On the fiftieth anniversary o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On the fiftieth anniversary of the first English edition, this Routledge Classics edition offers the English reader the complete text of this landmark work for the first time ever.

金兹堡，1892－1946年，苏俄建筑师、建筑理论家。曾在法国和意大利求学，后在俄国读土木工程，于1917年毕业。1923年在莫斯科第一次全俄农业展览会上设计克里米亚馆，同年，与维斯宁兄弟一起酝酿着构成主义（结构主义）的早期理论。金兹堡吸收现代建筑思想，其中包括法国勒・柯布西耶的《新精神》和荷兰的凡・杜埃斯堡的《风格》。1924年，他把在俄罗斯艺术科学院里所做的报告整理成了《风格与时代》一书。1925年，在莫斯科成立了 “现代建筑师协会”，金兹堡任副主席并任协会刊物《现代建筑》的主编。除了理论工作之外，金兹堡主要从事新型的住宅研究和设计。1930年5月后，其学术主张和理论受到批判。去世之前，默默地在工业建筑和居住建筑方面工作。 译者简介： 陈志华，1929年生于浙江，1947年入清华大学社会学系学习，1949年转入清华大学建筑系，1952年毕业，曾...(展开全部)