![]() PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio. Winner, Plain English Campaign's International Award 2014: 'a superbly and clearly written celebration of the best, least fuzzy kind of writing.' What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ideas? How can we overcome the Curse of Knowledge, the difficulty in imagining what it's like not to know something we do? And can we distinguish the myths and superstitions from rules that enhance clarity and grace? As Pinker shows, everyone can improve their mastery of writing and their appreciation of the art (yes, 'their'). Pinker argues that to improve the skill of writing, people must read other’s written work to understand and learn the rules of writing. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. The essay The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker explains that writing is not a natural talent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretence, empathy and a drive for coherence. Bad writing can't be blamed on the internet, or on 'the kids today'. ![]()
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![]() The author didn’t have particular requirements for the book cover. Settings : Roughly Middle Ages but with a touch of Mesopotamia. ![]() No guns or modern technology, just swords, horses, basic armor, etc. ![]() Think cobblestone streets, dingy taverns, blacksmiths, bustling docks with towering ziggurats, palatial garden mansions, obelisks with hieroglyphs, massive ancient stone constructions, and evidence of a much older, much more advanced but forgotten culture. Kraven city is a mixture of dark ages Europe, Mesopotamia, high Egypt, and Mayan.
![]() ![]() Housing was largely built on the cheap and lacked ventilation. ![]() A masterpiece of committed reporting and an impassioned call to arms, this is one of the great pioneering works of social history. Conditions in working class areas were hell on earth Engels first observation was the stench within the workers districts. His fascinating later preface, written for the first English edition of 1892 and included here, brought the story up to date in the light of forty years' further refelection. Engels paints an unforgettable picture of daily life in the new industrial towns, and for miners and agricultural workers-depicting overcrowded housing, abject poverty, child labour, sexual exploitation, dirt and drunkenness-in a savage indictment of the greed of the bourgeoisie. Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. The Condition of the Working Class in England and, along with Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil But the Major and his men are hunting him down. However Spencer succeeds to flee from Hathaway and now he wants to prove that he is not an alien replicant. Hathaway has intercepted a Centaurian transmission telling that the real Spencer was murdered and replaced by a replicant with U-bomb in his chest ready to blow-up when he is close to the Chancellor. ![]() When the Earth Chancellor is ready to visit the city where Spencer lives, he is arrested by Major Hathaway from the Earth Security Administration accused of being an alien replicant. His best friend is Nelson Gittes, who works with him in a top-secret facility. Maya Olham, who works in the emergency of a hospital. The weapon engineer Spencer Olham has lost his father in the war with the Centaurians that have not been seen by humans, and is happily married with Dr. In 2079, Earth is in a forty-five-year war with Alpha Centauri and most of the human survivors live in cities that are protected by force field domes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This entire time, Theo has smuggled, hidden, and coveted The Goldfinch. There, he becomes close friends with Boris, a Russian immigrant with vaguely similar circumstances to Theo’s. Theo moves to Las Vegas with his father and his father’s girlfriend, Xandra. Theo’s father resurfaces just as the Barbours are set to adopt Theo. They see each other when Pippa infrequently visits Hobie in New York City. Theo falls in love with Pippa, but she is sent to live with blood relatives. ![]() Hobie looks after Welty’s niece, Pippa, who was also at the museum when the explosion occurred and now suffers from trauma and physical injuries. ![]() Theo befriends the owner, Hobie, who was business partners with the deceased man, Welty. He finds the business the dying man with the ring told him about the business sells and restores antique furniture. Theo, bleary from the trauma, grabs The Goldfinch during the bombing mayhem and takes it home with him.īecause Theo’s father is absent from his life, Theo goes to live with the Barbours, his classmate Andy’s family. During the immediate aftermath, Theo meets an old man who is dying from his wounds the man presses a ring into Theo’s hand and tells him the name of a business establishment. While they are at the museum, a bomb explodes, killing Theo’s mother and traumatizing him. Theodore “Theo” Decker and his mother visit New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art so she can view the masterpiece The Goldfinch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship USS Libra - a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. “I promise you have never read a story like this.” (Blake Crouch, New York Times best-selling author of Dark Matter ) Inception meets True Detective in this science-fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, she challenges us to confront the reasons why there might be so much fascination with Jewish deaths, and so little respect for Jewish lives unfolding in the present. In these essays, Horn reflects on subjects as far-flung as the international veneration of Anne Frank, the mythology that Jewish family names were changed at Ellis Island, the blockbuster traveling exhibition Auschwitz, the marketing of the Jewish history of Harbin, China, and the little-known life of the "righteous Gentile" Varian Fry. Often asked by major publications to write on subjects related to Jewish culture-and increasingly in response to a recent wave of deadly antisemitic attacks-Horn was troubled to realize what all of these assignments had in common: she was being asked to write about dead Jews, never about living ones. ![]() Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating essays since she was a teenager. ![]() ![]() and for a 9oz to 2 pound package the cost is 23.38. For a 1-8 ounce package the cost is $14.93 U.S. I ship by weight to save buyers money since shipping is very expensive. please email me for costs since it is by weight and I will combine multiple items. If you are unsatisfied, please contact me!!!!I will combine postage for multiple auction wins!!! If sales are going to be across multiple days, let me know, I will gladly hold off the invoice so I can ship all at once for you.Outside of the U.S. ![]() The lighter uses lighter fluid not butane gas and is in working condition.Keep an eye out for future itemsOn matchandlighters auctionsI leave feedback once I receive feedback and know youâre happy.If I miss describing something, it is not intentional as I am only human, please contact me for issues. ![]() ![]() There are some minor scratches and scuffs but overall the finish looks ok. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reed returns to them with the ointment he made and begins applying it to Slate's ear. Soon after, Minnow returns to the camp, and it is noted that he is Minnow's mate. When Gray Wing and Slate start to argue, Reed pushes between them, saying he needs to go make ointment. ![]() He adds that it is a shame that the fox got Slate's good ear. Reed obeys and goes to check the bite on Slate's ear, stating that it is a clean bite and will heal neatly, but it needs some ointment. He continues to examine Gray Wing's wounds, but Gray Wing tells him to help Slate first. ![]() Reed approaches Gray Wing and sniffs the wound on his neck, determining that he should put herbs on it before it gets infected. Reed replies by asking how anyone could sleep with all the noise. When Gray Wing and Slate go to her camp after a fight with a fox, Wind Runner calls for him to come look at Slate and Gray Wing's injuries, asking if he was awake. Slate briefly mentions Reed to Gray Wing, stating that Gray Wing hadn't met him or Minnow yet. Reed joking to Slate while treating her wounds A Forest Divided, page 130 Reed and Minnow are rogues who have recently joined Wind Runner's camp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following a successful completion of this mission, Sol Soria and a pro-democracy Resistance assassinated the collective of generals that made up the dictatorship government of Corto Maltese. In 2020, Corto Maltese was invaded by the American black-ops strike team Task Force X to destroy the Jotunheim facility. It briefly fell under the iron fist of dictator Silvio Luna until he was assassinated by Harley Quinn in his palace, which he took from the Herrera family that reigned before him. Luna, however, is virulently anti-American." ― Amanda Waller Ĭorto Maltese is a small island country off the coast of Argentina. ![]() Although the United States did not condone the excesses of the Herrera regime, they were non-antagonistic toward the U.S. The entire Herrera family were hanged in a public execution. But, a week ago, this guy, General Silvio Luna, along with his right-hand man, Mayor General Mateo Suarez, took control of the Corto Maltese government in a violent military coup. Over the past 100 years, the country has been ruled with an iron fist by the Herrera family. Peacemaker (flashback) " Corto Maltese is a small island nation off the coast of South America. ![]() |