Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write . . . And Why It Matters
Simon Heffer's incisive and amusingly despairing emails to colleagues at the Telegraph about grammatical mistakes and stylistic slips have attracted a growing band of ardent fans over recent years. Now, he makes an impassioned case for correct English and offers practical advice on how to avoid the solecisms and mangled sentences that increasingly pepper everyday speech and writing. If you have ever been guilty of writing "different than," if you have ever tortured the language by saying "Thank you for asking my friend and I," if you have ever confused "imply" and "infer," then this book will prove essential reading.
Time is against you. You know what you'd like to say if you could only find the words. But some things in life are strictly... TABOO. Example: How do you get your team to say the word BIRTHDAY... if you can't say the words HAPPY, ANNIVERSARY, CANDLES, PRESENTS or CAKE? You might say: "Friends and family sing to you once each year," or "You celebrate this event by blowing out a fire on top of a frosted dessert." Or you might hum the well-known tune until your team shouts, "Birthday!"
A wild ride through the dark heart of American health and health care, plus sex, drugs, and stem-cell wars.
Physical is the story of a hard-living, happily married, middle-aged American (the author) who gets a three-day “executive checkup” at the Mayo Clinic and is thereby forced to confront his mortality, not to mention glove-wearing doctors and the pair of dominatrix-esque technicians who supervise his stress test quite strictly. James McManus must understand his revised actuarial odds in the light of his not-so-long-lived forebears and the fact that his youngest children are only six- and five-years-old.
What you're going to find in this eCookbook called Selected Freebies are recipes that appear in his 659 pages. Cajun Clark's Cookbook: One Inch From the Top-The Only Way to Cook! Now, in order of appearance, like in the movies, are recipes from: M.F., Caj's Mother, Miz Amy, Sandy D, Strictly Cajun, Cajun Seasoning...Seasoned Pepper, Small Game
