Making A Point

Author : David Crystal
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781782831082

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Making a Point by David Crystal Pdf

This 'engaging history of punctuation' (Wall Street Journal) is not only the first history of its kind, but a complete guide on how to use English punctuation. Behind every punctuation mark lies a thousand stories. The punctuation of English, marked with occasional rationality, is founded on arbitrariness and littered with oddities. For a system of a few dozen marks it generates a disproportionate degree of uncertainty and passion, inspiring organisations like the Apostrophe Protection Society and sending enthusiasts, correction-pens in hand, in a crusade against error. Professor Crystal leads us through this minefield with characteristic wit, clarity and commonsense. He gives a fascinating account of the origin and progress of every kind of punctuation mark over one and a half millennia, and he offers sound advice on how punctuation may be used to meet the needs of every occasion and context.

Author : Jeanine Gleba,Paul Lavenhar
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780578227900

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Making Her Point Loud and Clear - The Story of a Warrior Mom on a Mission by Jeanine Gleba,Paul Lavenhar Pdf

Imagine having a baby and having to ask yourself, "Will I ever hear her call me Mom?" When Jeanine Gleba found out her daughter Grace was born severely hard of hearing, she could not fathom her world of silence. Eventually she and her husband, Bill plowed forward as they realized there is nothing they could do but focus on, what can they do to help her? Their lives changed when they met an educator who told them, "Your daughter will talk. We live in a hearing world. She can learn to speak like her family and everyone else in the world." Jeanine and her daughter Grace not only find a way to embrace living with Grace's hearing loss, but gain a sense of empowerment as they fight a grassroots battle for nine years to pass a law reimbursing families for costly children's hearing aids. For years their words fell on deaf ears, and against all odds with patience, persistence and a "never give up" attitude they changed legislation. The ups and downs of the story ranges from Grace persuading legislators to hold up "Yes" or "No" signs so she could know how they voted to having one of the bill's strongest advocates in the legislature arrested for child pornography before a crucial vote. Written in the tradition of stories like Erin Brockovich and Norma Rae, this story is about a woman who stood up for her rights and the rights of others - and won.

Author : David Bartlett
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429947053

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Making Your Point by David Bartlett Pdf

Making Your Point provides the secrets of sharper, better, and more influential speaking and writing tips from leading strategic communications expert David Bartlett. We all need to speak, write and communicate more effectively. Dave Bartlett shares his decades of experience as a communications strategist in an accessible, easy-to-apply guide to help anybody—students, business people, public speakers, or politicians—improve their speaking and presenting skills. The tricks are as old as Aristotle and as new as The Daily Show: Know how to appeal to each specific audience through research and thoughtful planning, and then use appropriate content and style to deliver a memorable message. Bartlett's advice is common sense backed by dozens of real-world examples. Learn: -How to devise a simple strategic goal for every interview, meeting, or speech -How to deliver your message in a way that will appeal to your audience -How to make your messages positive, concrete, and empathetic -How to use blogs, podcasts, and Web sites like YouTube to promote your message -How to reach even the largest audiences one person at a time

Author : Lloyd E. McIlveen
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781490737287

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Making Changes from This Point Forward by Lloyd E. McIlveen Pdf

Many of us have been so preoccupied day by day with our usual routines at whatever age of work, play, school, domestic activity, worry, and hurry among unforeseen surprises setting us back and off the track of our desired goals. Sometimes that causes even more problems and setbacks. Preventing and/or offsetting those possibilities are innovated in this material through a process of reviewing what we didnt know, were or werent responsible for, what our path has been, what our detrimental habits and fantasies were and are, how we missed our chances, how our attitudes have formed, and whether we made necessary changes as we see are necessary now for correcting our errors or blunders of the past. Its all designed to help make our future better and survivable.

Author : Various
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781447492009

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A Compendium of Lace-Making - Bobbin, Filet, Needle-Point, Netting, Tatting and Much More - Four Volumes in One by Various Pdf

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to lace and lace making, with information on bobbin, filet, needle-point, netting, tatting, and much more besides. Written in plain language and full of useful tips, “A Compendium of Lace-Making” is highly recommended for those with little previous experience. Although old, the information contained within this book is timeless, and will be of considerable utility to the modern reader. Contents include: “Bobbin Lace”, “ Bobbin Lace—The Foundation Stitches”, “Bobbin Lace—'Sewing' and 'Bars'”, “Bobbin Lace—'Raised Work'; 'Meshes'”, “Bobbin Lace—'Fillings'”, “Bobbin Lace Torchons”, “Bobbin Lace—Motifs”, “Ecclesiastical Lace”, “Filet Lace”, “Needle-Point Lace”, “Needle-Run Lace”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on lace.

Author : R. L. Chase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Radio frequency
ISBN : UOM:39015086438242

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A Device for Making Point by Point Measurements of a Varying Frequency by R. L. Chase Pdf

Author : Cedric King
Publisher : Atkins & Greenspan Writing
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1945875283

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The Making Point by Cedric King Pdf

Cedric was an Army Ranger when he stepped on an IED in a bomb-rigged village in Afghanistan. Becoming a double amputee could have been his breaking point. Instead, he turned it into his Making Point, and is now a world-class motivational speaker and endurance athlete. He shows you that if he can achieve the unattainable, then so can you.

Author : LaDonna Murphy
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504911726

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What's the Point in Making More Lemonade? by LaDonna Murphy Pdf

This book is for those of you who may be going through trials, challenges, and testing seasons. You may even want to give up due to life’s circumstances. Many of us can feel helpless, stressed, depressed, confused, afraid, unsatisfied, lonely, angry, and hopeless at times because of all of the challenges around us. I have written this book because the majority of my life has been a challenge. I am blessed with lemon trees! What do you do with a normal fruit tree? You eat the fruit or make something out of it, right? Well, I have enough lemonade to feed many. And I am still here. I can be a testimony to others, and so can you. Therefore, if anyone is thinking about the selfish act of suicide, I will just say, “Don’t do it!” It will be too late to say you wish you had not. Think about all those who you will hurt and leave behind. That alone should frighten you! Ask for God’s intervention immediately and then seek other counsel. After you read this book, you may be able to identify with some of my lemons, and then you can write about your own. Whatever the situation is, face it and deal with it, and you will get through it. Life is full of cycles and seasons, like the weather; therefore, this too shall pass. If giving up is not an option, then what are the alternatives? Start with chapter 1, and make a glass of lemonade! “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way we get through. Face it.” Joseph Conrad

Author : Hiroko Furo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135727581

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Turn-taking in English and Japanese by Hiroko Furo Pdf

This book examines turn-taking in English and Japanese conversations and political news interviews to investigate the relationship between language and interaction.

Author : Brian Dillon
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781681375250

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Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon Pdf

A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called “a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin,” has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence—from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion—this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

Author : Joey Asher,Kenneth F. Oettle
Publisher : Incisive Media, LLC
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1588523632

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Making Your Point by Joey Asher,Kenneth F. Oettle Pdf

Are your arguments as compelling as they should be? Could your briefs be briefer? This insightful and practical guide, comprised of four years of columns that appeared in The New Jersey Law Journal, examines the writing errors that lawyers typically make, why they make them, and how to fix them. Making Your Point: A Practical Guide to Persuasive Legal Writing provides a complete writing strategyOCofrom understanding the composing process to strategizing, establishing credibility, and achieving focus and emphasis. The author, a practicing attorney, drew on years of experience improving his own writing and supervising other lawyers to arrive at field-tested solutions that work. Each article is like a miniature writing workshop, and each concludes with an exercise that tests the reader's mastery of the writing process. This eye-opening book will change the way you think about legal writing."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003580399

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Journal of the Royal Society of Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark Reutter
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252072332

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Making Steel by Mark Reutter Pdf

Making Steel chronicles the rise and fall of American steel by focusing on the fateful decisions made at the world's once largest steel mill at Sparrows Point, Maryland. Mark Reutter examines the business, production, and daily lives of workers as corporate leaders became more interested in their own security and enrichment than in employees, community, or innovative technology. This edition features 26 pages of photos, an author's preface, and a new chapter on the devastating effects of Bethlehem Steel's bankruptcy titled "The Discarded American Worker."

Author : Lee Eisenberg
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781455550470

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The Point Is by Lee Eisenberg Pdf

In this engaging and provocative new book, Lee Eisenberg, bestselling author of The Number, dares to tackle nothing less than what it takes to find enduring meaning and purpose in life. He explains how from a young age, each of us is compelled to take memories of events and relationships and shape them into a one-of-a-kind personal narrative. In addition to sharing his own pivotal memories (some of them moving, some just a shade embarrassing), Eisenberg presents striking research culled from psychology and neuroscience, and draws on insights from a pantheon of thinkers and great writers-Tolstoy, Freud, Joseph Campbell, Virginia Woolf, among others. We also hear from men and women of all ages who are wrestling with the demands of work and family, ever in search of fulfillment and satisfaction. It all adds up to a fascinating story, delightfully told, one that goes straight to the heart of how we explain ourselves to ourselves-in other words, who we are and why.

Author : Donald H. Holly Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759120242

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History in the Making by Donald H. Holly Jr. Pdf

The Eastern Subarctic has long been portrayed as a place without history. Challenging this perspective, History in the Making: The Archaeology of the Eastern Subarctic charts the complex and dynamic history of this little known archaeological region of North America. Along the way, the book explores the social processes through which native peoples “made” history in the past and archaeologists and anthropologists later wrote about it. As such, the book offers both a critical history and historiography of the Eastern Subarctic.