First We Read, Then We Write - Emerson on the Creative Process
Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today.
Private investigator Regan Reilly is back, just settling into her L.A. office routines when a weird assignment comes her way. A promising young Hollywood star has been kidnapped, and associates want Regan to solve the disappearance with as little publicity as possible. Regan's somewhat unconventional gumshoe work takes her into glitzy Tinseltown gatherings, upscale vineyards, and new age cult hangouts. Fast, funny, and very good reading.
Is war grounded, perhaps inescapably, in human nature? In this truly global study, major military historian Azar Gat sets out to unravel the "riddle of war" throughout human history, from the early hunter-gatherers right through to the unconventional terrorism of the twenty-first century.
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English offers the ultimate record of modern American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer lively examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. This informative, entertaining and sometimes shocking dictionary is an unbeatable resource for all language aficionados out there.
Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor “The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English"
The Concise New Partridge presents, for the first time, all the slang terms from The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English in a single volume.
With over 60,000 entries from around the English-speaking world, the Concise gives you the language of beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, hippies, pimps, druggies, whores, punks, skinheads, ravers, surfers, Valley girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, hackers, rappers and more.
The Concise New Partridge is a spectacular resource infused with humor and learning - it's rude, it's delightful and it's a prize for anyone with a love of language.
