This is the definitive text for questions of manuscript protocol, copyediting, style, grammar, and usage. For those who find The Chicago Manual of Style a bit cumbersome and sometimes ambigous, Words Into Type will be a welcome reference guide. With its easy-to-use index and definitive explanations, this third edition makes life simpler for writers, editors, and proofreaders. You may never need to know about frontispieces and imprimaturs, but if you deal with words, this is a wonderfully edifying, reassuring fount of clarity and wisdom.
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This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II.
Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad
as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In
August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore
Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians
fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their Nazi enemy in
an astonishing reversal. As never before, Stalingrad conveys
the experience of soldiers on both sides as they fought in inhuman
conditions, and of civilians trapped on an urban battlefield. Antony
Beevor has interviewed survivors and discovered completely new material
in a wide range of German and Soviet archives, including reports of
prisoner interrogations, desertions, and executions. The battle of
Stalingrad was the psychological turning point of World War II; as
Beevor makes clear, it also changed the face of modern warfare. As a
story of cruelty, courage, and human suffering, Stalingrad is
unprecedented and unforgettable.
The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis
Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.
For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one
of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated
Alice, first published in 1960, has over half a million copies in print
around the world and is highly sought after by families and scholars
alike--for it was Gardner who first decoded the wordplay and the many
mathematical riddles that lie embedded in Carroll's two classic
stories: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking
Glass. Forty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is
proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work
that combines the notes of Gardner's 1960 edition with his 1990 update,
More Annotated Alice, as well as additional new discoveries and updates
drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Illustrated
with John Tenniel's classic and beloved art--along with many recently
discovered Tenniel pencil sketches--The Annotated Alice will be
Gardner's most beautiful and enduring tribute to Carroll's masterpieces
yet. Celebrating his eighty-fifth birthday in the fall of 1999, the
redoubtable Gardner has been called by Douglas Hofstadter "one of the
great intellects produced in this country in this century." With The
Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, we have this remarkable
scholar's crowning achievement.
It is a scientific fact that people's gestures give away their true intentions. This authoritative guide, written with great hhumour and insight, reveals all the secrets of body language to give you more confidence and control in any situation. Learn how to: choose the right partner get others to cooperate make yourself likeable and approachable tell if someone is lying read between the lines of what is being said how to use body language to get what you want