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Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st centuryWhat is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In this funny, thoughtful book about the modern art of writing, Steven Pinker shows us why we all need a sense of style.More than ever before, the currency of our social and cultural lives is the written word, from Twitter and texting to blogs, e-readers and old-fashioned books. But most style guides fail to prepare people for the challenges of writing in the 21st century, portraying it as a minefield of grievous errors rather than a form of pleasurable mastery. They fail to deal with an inescapable fact about language: it changes over time, adapted by millions of writers and speakers to their needs. Confusing changes in the world with moral decline, every generation believes the kids today are degrading society and taking language with it. A guide for the new millennium, writes Steven Pinker, has to be different.Drawing on the latest research in linguistics and cognitive science, Steven Pinker replaces the recycled dogma of previous style guides with reason and evidence. This thinking person's guide to good writing shows why style still matters: in communicating effectively, in enhancing the spread of ideas, in earning a reader's trust and, not least, in adding beauty to the world. Eye-opening, mind-expanding and cheerful, The Sense of Style shows that good style is part of what it means to be human.
THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE – essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election‘Tyranny of the Minority is an exceptional book, one of the best guides out there to the crisis of American democracy’ Zack Beauchamp, Vox–-------------------------------------How has democracy become so threatened – and what can we do to save it?With the clarity and brilliance that made their first book, How Democracies Die, a global bestseller, leading Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt offer a coherent new framework for understanding the dangerous times we live in. They draw on a wealth of examples – from the Capitol riots to Edwardian Britain, from 1930s France to present-day Thailand – to explore right-wing efforts to undermine the very foundations of the American political system, and to explain why and how political parties turn against democracy.With its attention on factors from election losses to demographic change and voting rights, its urgent call for a reform of our politics to balance the need for majority rule with the need for minority protections, and a citizens’ movement to put enough pressure on lawmakers to act before it’s too late, Tyranny of the Minority is a must-read for everyone keen to see more vibrant democracy – and to understand where future threats may come from.–-------------------------------------‘Just like their previous work, this book is concise, readable, and convincing’ Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy‘An exceptionally perceptive and wide-ranging book . . . [that lays] out an ambitious fifteen-plank project of democratic renewal’ Lawrence Douglas, TLS
This book is a brief memory of my life between the years 1975 and 1995 in Rushden, Northamptonshire. It is open and frank and talks about the happiness and the heartbreak during this time. Life can make you feel great and it can make you feel dejected and miserable. Like most people I have had plenty of both in my life. In some parts of the book it felt like life wasn't worth living but fortunately we can climb back up and start again. When the same thing happened again, I wondered how I'd be able to go on? This is the second book about my life, the first one From Zero to Eighteen in Hayes, is about my childhood and how things were back then in Hayes, West London.
The Russians have developed an incredible new weapon, something so terrible it threatens to tip the balance of power away from the British Empire. It s underhand, devious and just isn t cricket. They need to be stopped. Who better to do the job than Air Group Captain Sebastopol Valiant? Valiant the Racing driver! Valiant the Land Speed Record holder! Valiant the Amazonian adventurer! Valiant the saviour the RMS Titanic! Valiant, the most eligible bachelor of the year as voted by the readers of the Ladies Gazette! Just as soon as he s dealt with getting out of jail, burning skyscrapers, airship saboteurs and journalists of fake news -all the while recovering from hangovers of varying magnitude- he ll be right on it. The Russians won t know what hit them.
"[...] In passato, Cataldo Teatini aveva connesso la produzione poetica di Steven Aspinall a talune esemplificazioni ascrivibili alle ariette metastasiane, non cogliendo altresi la profonda ispirazione dantesca e stilnovistica (quando non, "absit iniuria verbo", schiettamente petrarchesca) presente nelle liriche in questione. Io, pero, non sono che un semplice critico letterario e non un piccolo fanciullo che piange (mi sia consentita la parafrasi corazziniana) e dunque mi permetto di dire che nelle liriche aspinalliane si possono ritrovare accenti che sono certamente relativi ad una magistrale, preziosa, grande storia d'amore. Una storia d'amore, ribadisco, che e nata all'interno di un mondo occulto ed esoterico, pur senza violare nessun dettame di quel Dio degli Amanti che regola la devozione e il contatto di chi si connette ad esso, e che pure ha la stessa forza e lo stesso spessore diamantifero di un connubio immortale e inestinguibile [...]".
Two student flatmates living out a very meagre hand-to-mouth existence in the centre of Glasgow find themselves the lucky recipients of a winning lottery ticket. The only catch is that it is in America and was sent to them by a supposed long lost uncle (and conman). A man serving time in a state penitentiary for armed robbery. But more significantly a man in serious trouble with the Mob. In just a few short days our two innocent student pals find themselves caught up and embroiled in a dangerous world of greed, revenge and murder. Who lives, who dies and who ultimately gets their hands on that fortune in this fast paced black comedy romp?
The Family is a story of self discovery. Join me on my journey and walk beside me as I venture to find the Happy Family life of which I crave. As I battle my mental health, depression and addiction issues and strive to find the meaning of love and discover the promise of the happily ever after that it brings.
Wonderful language, beautifully crafted. These poems come direct from the heart, and are intensely moving. Many themes are covered, and each one is handled skilfully and passionately. This book is essentially one poem, divided into twelve sections, powerfully describing one man's search for happiness in a cruel world that is out to destroy him. The ending is divine, and will leave you breathless. This is the third book by an original, talented poet, with a unique voice. A must read for all fans of poetry.
Fiction comes and goes in droves, but one thing is constant: remembering the feelings that bind us to the words.14 stories within these pages each urge you to face the imminent terror and dismay of their unfortunate and cruel situations.From eerie clown-children to blood-draining aliens - including the pre-cursor to his forthcoming supernatural horror novel, Bethany Chiller (R) - this is Steven Deighan giving us a glimpse into an unforgiving world that's harshly fragmented and frequented by the unmerited and unworldly.These tales are the culmination of a decade filled with real-life trials and tribulations found, perhaps, only in [his] horror fiction.
Facing up to the challenges of our changing climate goes much deeper than erecting a few wind turbines and switching to a Honda Prius - it challenges the very heart of our, social, cultural and economic models. The transition before us will require active involvement from everybody. What if we can find new ways of working that are actively beneficial - methods of building, farming and living that lock carbon away in plants and soils - while also meeting the needs of the 7 billion of us? If each person can have a net beneficial impact on planet and climate then maybe, at this moment when we are facing our greatest challenge, the many hands available to us will become a big part of the solution. The One School One Planet project has been working to bring some of these ideas into the mainstream school curriculum, and this small book is a record of our efforts at achieving this. www.llanfyllin.sector39.co.uk
In The Sport Marriage, Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades that focus on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. These women, who are usually portrayed in unflattering and/or unrealistic terms, face enormous challenges in their attempts to establish and maintain functional marital and family lives while the husband routinely puts his career first. Ortiz defines the traditional sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, illustrating how it encourages women to contribute to their own subordination through adherence to an unwritten rulebook and a repertoire of self-management strategies. He explains how they make invaluable contributions to their husbands’ careers while adjusting to public life and trying to maintain family privacy, managing power and control issues, and coping with pervasive groupies, overinvolved mothers, a culture of infidelity, and husbands who prioritize team loyalty. He gives these historically silent women a voice, offering readers perceptive and sensitive insight into what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports.
Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber-working communities have concerned themselves with the health and future of the woods surrounding them. Life experiences like hunting, fishing, foraging, and hiking imbued timber country with meanings and values that nurtured a deep sense of place in workers, their families, and their communities. This sense of place in turn shaped ideas about protection that sometimes clashed with the views of environmentalists--or the desires of employers. Beda's sympathetic, in-depth look at the human beings whose lives are embedded in the woods helps us understand that timber communities fought not just to protect their livelihood, but because they saw the forest as a vital part of themselves.
The National Basketball Association reaches a global audience via a multiplatform strategy that leverages its uncanny ability to connect fans to all things NBA. Steven Secular brings readers inside the league’s global operations and traces the history of the NBA’s approach to sports media from its 1980s embrace of cable through the streaming revolution of the twenty-first century. As fans around the world stream games and other league content, NBA teams incorporate foreign languages and cultures into broadcasts to boost their product’s appeal to audiences in Brazil, China, and beyond. Secular’s analysis reveals how the NBA continues to transform itself into a wildly successful media producer and distributor more akin to a streaming studio than the sports leagues of old even as its media partners and sponsors erase any notion of sports as a civic good. A timely look at a dynamic media landscape, The Digital NBA shows how the games we love became content first and sport a distant second.
Comprehensive and thoughtful, City Games looks at the complex interrelationship and interdependency between sport and the city. Steven A. Riess shows how demographic growth, evolving special arrangements, social reform, the formulation of class and ethnic subcultures, the expansion of urban government, and the rise of political machines and crime syndicates all interacted to influence the development of sports in the United States.
The hit movie La Bamba (based on the life of Richie Valens), the versatile singer Linda Ronstadt, and the popular rock group Los Lobos all have roots in the dynamic music of the Mexican American community in East Los Angeles. The "Eastside Renaissance" in the region gave barrio music a symbolic power throughout the Southwest, yet its story has remained undocumented and virtually untold. In Barrio Rhythm, Steven Loza brings this hidden history to life, demonstrating the music's essential role in the cultural development of East Los Angeles and its influence on mainstream popular culture. Drawing from oral histories and other primary sources, as well as from appropriate representative songs, Loza provides a historical overview of the music from the nineteenth century to the present and offers in-depth profiles of nine Mexican American artists, groups, and entrepreneurs in Southern California from the post-World War II era to the present. His interviews with many of today's most influential barrio musicians, including members of Los Lobos, chronicle the cultural forces active in this complex urban community.