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The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World by A J Jacobs Publisher Comments 33,000 PAGES 44 MILLION WORDS 10 BILLION YEARS OF HISTORY 1 OBSESSED MAN Part memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines by Thomas C. Foster Publisher Comments What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey? Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is readily visible on the surface — a symbol, maybe, that remains elusive, or... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford American Dictionary by Oxford Publisher Comments The one dictionary for americans who need to use their language well.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.00 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Publisher Comments "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write [it] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver Powells.com Staff Pick I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Novelists Boot Camp: 101 Ways to Take Your Book from Boring to Bestseller by Todd A Stone Synopsis It's time to plan and execute a writing strategy that's in sync with your ultimate mission objective: getting published. In Novelist's Boot Camp, author Todd A. Stone, a former assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, draws on his... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss Publisher Comments We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Plot? No Problem! Novel Writing by Chris Baty Publisher Comments Aspiring novelists don't need an MFA in creative writing, a book agent, an airtight plot, or a winsome cast of characters to get a novel written—they don't even need to know what they're doing. All that's needed is a little determination and this high... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Boxed Non-book) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Discover's 20 Things You Didn't Know about Everything: Duct Tape, Airport Security, Your Body, Sex in Space...and More! by Discover Magazine and Dean Christopher Publisher Comments How much do you know about . . .ObesitySleepMeteorsAliensBeesSperm banks Sex in spaceDuct tapeGermsAirport securityDeathAncient weaponsRatsThe InternetBirthWeatherMilkMosquitoesYour bodySpace disasters DISCOVER'S 20 Things You Didn't Know About... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived: How Characters of Fiction, Myth, Legends, Television, and Movies Have Shaped Our Society, Changed Our by Dan Karlan and Allan Lazar and Jeremy Salter Publisher Comments From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives. The 101 Most... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Reference on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester delivers an account of the seventy-year odyssey and key players behind the making of the unrivalled Oxford English Dictionary.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments The Professor and the Madman, masterfully researched and eloquently written, is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary -- and literary history.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Writer's Toolbox: Creative Games and Exercises for Inspiring the "Write" Side of Your Brain with Book(s) and Cards and Other by Chronicle Books Synopsis Designed by a longtime creative writing teacher, this innovative kit includes a 64-page booklet filled with exercises and instructions that focus on a "right-brain" approach to writing. Sixty exercise sticks First Sentences, Non Sequiturs, and Last... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Boxed Non-book) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Read a Book by Mortimer J Adler Publisher Comments How to Read a Book, originally published in 1940, has become a rare phenomenon, a living classic. It is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader. And now it has been completely rewritten and updated. You are told... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Writer's Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work by Jack R Hart Publisher Comments Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary by Websters Synopsis Rhymes for the times. - Over 55,000 words - Arranged alphabetically by rhyming sounds - Includes one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes - Fully cross-referenced for ease of use... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right by June Casagrande Publisher Comments The only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs. Having already made a name for herself with Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies, now in its fifth printing, June Casagrande returns with Mortal Syntax, taking on the 101 most... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard Publisher Comments The indispensable guide (and gift) for every reader and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead by Ariel Gore Publisher Comments This may come as a shock, but brilliant writing and clever wordplay do not a published author make. True, you'll actually have to write if you want to be a writer, but ultimately literary success is about much more than putting pen to paper (or fingers... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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