25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way In this book, master teacher Geraldine Woods unpacks powerful examples of what she instead prefers to define as “the smallest element differentiating one writer’s style from another’s, a literary universe in a grain of sand.” And that universe is very large: the hundreds of memorable sentences gathered here come from sources as wide-ranging as Edith Wharton and Yogi Berra, Toni Morrison and Yoda, T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx. This is a book that will be treasured by word nerds and language enthusiasts, writers who want to hone their craft, literature lovers, and readers of everything from song lyrics and speeches to novels and poetry.
What is jazz? Louis Armstrong purportedly said: “If you have to ask, you’ll never know.” Music scholar and distinguished professor Ted Buehrer conducts a captivating series of lectures designed to help musical enthusiasts become more astute, sophisticated jazz listeners.
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Sky & Telescope has been the world's leading source of accurate and up-to-date information about astronomy and space science. Edited for the full spectrum of active astronomy enthusiasts worldwide, from novice, devoted amateur to professional.
Sky & Telescope has been the world's leading source of accurate and up-to-date information about astronomy and space science. Edited for the full spectrum of active astronomy enthusiasts worldwide, from novice, devoted amateur to professional.