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• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571103538
• ISBN-13: 978-1571103536

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• Hardcover: 984 pages
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 15th edition (August 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226104036
• ISBN-13: 978-0226104034

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• Spiral-bound: 288 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; 5th edition (January 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312452756
• ISBN-13: 978-0312452759

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• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 50 Anv edition (October 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205632645
• ISBN-13: 978-0205632640

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You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You’ve probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style–the most widely read and employed English style manual–is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title’s vast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic. Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999, the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a brief overview of the book’s illustrious history. Used extensively by individual writers as well as high school and college students of writing, it has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for writers of any age and ability level. Fifty Years of Acclaim for The Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White “I first read Elements of Style during the summer before I went off to Exeter, and I still direct my students at Harvard to their definition about the difference between ‘that’ and ‘which.’ It is the Bible for good, clear writing.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr. “For writers of all kinds and sizes the world begins and ends with Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. Only something to actually write about trumps the list of what is required to put words together in some kind of coherent way. I treasure its presence in my life and salute its fifty years of glory and accomplishment.” — Jim Lehrer “The Elements of Style remains an unwavering beacon of light in these grammatically troubled times. I would be lost without it.” — Ann Patchett “To the extent I know how to write clearly at all, I probably taught myself while I was teaching others — seventh graders, in Flint, Michigan, in 1967. I taught them with a copy of Strunk & White lying in full view on my desk, sort of in the way the Gideons leave Bibles in cheap hotel rooms, as a way of saying to the hapless inhabitant: ‘In case your reckless ways should strand you here, there’s help.’ S&W doesn’t really teach you how to write, it just tantalizingly reminds you that there’s an orderly way to go about it, that clarity’s ever your ideal, but — really — it’s all going to be up to you.” — Richard Ford “The Elements of Style never seems to go out of date. Its counsel is sound and funny, wise and unpretentious. And while its precepts are a foundation of direct communication, Strunk and White do not insist on a way of writing beyond clear expression. The rest is up to the imagination, the intelligence within.” — David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker “It’s the toughness–the irreverence and implicit laughter–that attracted me to the little book when I was seventeen. I fell in love with Strunk & White’s loathing for cant and bloviation, the ruthless cutting of crap, jargon, and extra words. For me, that skeptical directness included a tacit permission by The Elements of Style to break its rules on occasion: an alloy of generosity in the blade, a grace I still admire and still learn from.” — Robert Pinsky “In the quest for clarity, one can have no better guides than Strunk and White. For me, their book has been invaluable and remains essential.” — Dan Rather “Eschew surplusage! A perfect book.” –Jonathan Lethem “Not until I started teaching writing and I reread The Elements of Style did I realize that most everything I would be teaching young writers, and everything I would be learning myself as a writer, was contained between the covers of this slim, elegant, wise little book.” — Julia Alvarez “Strunk and White seared their way into my brain long ago, and I benefit from them daily.” — Steven J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics “Since high school, I have kept a copy of this book handy. That should be unnecessary. I should, by now, have fully internalized The Elements of Style. But sometimes I get entangled in a paragraph that refuses to be ‘clear, brief, bold.’ I dip back into The Elements of Style and am refreshed. After Scott Simon interviewed me on NPR about whether the word ‘e-mail’ needs a hyphen (yes, it does), some listeners, including friends of mine, wondered why I had answered in the affirmative when asked, in passing, ‘Are you a drunken white man?’ Those listeners misheard. ‘Strunk and White man’ was what Scott said.” — Roy Blount Jr. “Strunk & White–writing’s good-natured law firm–still contains enough sparkling good sense to clean up the whole bloviating blogosphere.” — Thomas Mallon “I used Strunk — that’s what we called it, Strunk — as a student at Berkeley fifty years ago. I didn’t know that it was new, and that we were the first generation to be educated in The Elements of Style. I got a firm foundation in the English language, learned to write basically, and could depict the realistic world. Then I was able to become an impressionist and expressionist.” — Maxine Hong Kingston “Strunk and White’s gigantic little book must be the most readable advice on writing ever written. Side by side with Roget, Shakespeare, the Bible, and a dictionary, it’s an essential for every writer’s shelf.” — X.J. Kennedy “With what joy I welcome the fiftieth anniversary of The Elements of Style. I am greatly indebted to this book for the invaluable help it has given me all these years.” — Horton Foote “Elegant, droll, and perfectly proportioned, and like your favorite aunt, strict but affectionate. And, like your favorite aunt, full of optimism: You can, and will, be a better writer! There has never been a better, briefer, or more loved book about the art and craft of communicating.” — Susan Orlean “This book is an essential tool. It has been of great use to me and is probably responsible for my best writing. I owe my success to Strunk and White; only the mistakes are mine.” — Ben Affleck, in O, the Oprah Magazine “This book is a wonderful example of teaching by example. Not only does it recommend clear and concise writing, it demonstrates it. Written in the style of a friend offering help, it is a godsend to anyone wanting to put words on paper. Thank you, Messieurs Strunk and White. And Happy Anniversary, Elements of Style.” — S.E. Hinton “When I began to have …I wouldn’t say arguments but conversations in my mind with Strunk and White about a few of their rules and principles, I knew I was coming into my own. If only they were still here to talk things over! No doubt their side of the exchange would be kindly put, well-informed, and wise. They’d probably help me with my side of it. What more could one want from writers reaching out to help other writers?” — Barbara Wallraff, language columnist for The Atlantic “I don’t believe there is a serious writer alive who doesn’t have a worn copy of ‘Strunk & White’on his or her bookshelf.” — Mignon Fogarty, author of Grammar Girl’s Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing “This little book has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to write better — partly by precept and partly by example. It continues to influence more writers than any other. It’s a force for good in the world.” — Bryan A. Garner, author of Garner’s Modern American Usage “I can think of no better guide to good writing, and I always think of this little classic with a warm heart. More importantly, I revisit its pages often. It’s the one essential book on writing.” — Jay Parini, author of Why Poetry Matters “Clarity and simplicity have always been the goals, and this book shows the way. It has always been a lighthouse in the dark and stormy night of student prose, of all of our prose.” — Ron Carlson “The only rules you are ever going to get from me are all in Strunk and White.” –Ursula K. Le Guin, from Steering the Craft “[The Elements of Style is] a book to which I return from time to time, the way I periodically reread Shakespeare. I always discover something new, settle a question that has been puzzling me, or learn a principle of usage that I have been pretending to know, a pretense that has resulted in inconsistency and in the sort of errors from which I can only pray some saintly copy editor will save me.” — Francine Prose, from ReadingLike A Writer “!still a little book, small enough and important enough to carry in your pocket, as I carry mine.” — Charles Osgood “Almost every writer has a Strunk and White story. One journalism professor spends the first two weeks of school forcing his students to memorize the book. A top editor at a major paper buys copies at yard sales to distribute to her writers and interns. It has even caused love affairs…Could its greatness be any more clear?” — Jesse Sheidlower, American Editor of the OxfordEnglish Dictionary, on NPR “If the English language is one of the finest homes ever devised for the human spirit, Elements is the best guided house tour we’ve got.” –David Gelernter, The Wall Street Journal “!Should be the daily companion of anyone who writes for a living and, for that matter, anyone who writes at all. ” –Jonathan Yardley,Greensboro (N.C.) Daily News “No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.” — Herbert A. Kenny, The Boston Globe “Buy it, study it, enjoy it. It’s as timeless as a book can be in our age of volubility.” — Charles Poore, The New York Times “White is one of the best stylists and most lucid minds in this country. What he says and his way of saying it are equally rewarding.” — Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.” — Dorothy Parker, Esquire.

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• Paperback: 239 pages
• Publisher: Anchor; 1 edition (September 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385480016
• ISBN-13: 978-0385480017

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• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 4 edition (May 21, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 013223968X
• ISBN-13: 978-0132239684

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With more than 15 years of extensive observations and experiences in real classrooms, the authors bring keen insight to this activity-based book. They advocate basing student learning on the appropriate developmental level. This philosophy is supported with more than 250 ready-to-use word study, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics activities presented in developmental sequence, from the Emergent through the Derivational Relation stage. For educators and school administrators. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (July 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743455967
• ISBN-13: 978-0743455961

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• Spiral-bound: 626 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; Sixth Edition edition (June 19, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312593392
• ISBN-13: 978-0312593391

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Rules for Writers succeeds because it has always been grounded in classroom experience. By looking at her own students’ needs, Diana Hacker created an affordable and practical classroom tool that doubles as a quick reference. Developed with the help of instructors from two- and four-year schools, the sixth edition gives students quick access to the information they need to solve writing problems in any college course.

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• Hardcover: 992 pages
• Publisher: Longman; 11 edition (January 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205651712
• ISBN-13: 978-0205651719

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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; 30 Anv edition (May 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060891548
• ISBN-13: 978-0060891541

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• Plastic Comb: 512 pages
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s; 6th edition (November 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312450257
• ISBN-13: 978-0312450250

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A Writer’s Reference is the most widely adopted college handbook ever published. The new edition is available in a classic version that provides more help with academic writing, serves a wider range of multilingual students, and lends more support for college research — all in an easy-to-use quick-reference format. Now for all the ways you teach your course, you can choose the classic version or choose from among 4 additional versions with varied content.

• A Writer’s Reference with Exercises is tailor-made for classroom use or for additional grammar practice with 86 integrated exercise sets.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing in the Disciplines provides help for college writing beyond composition with advice and models in six academic disciplines.
• A Writer’s Reference with Writing about Literature includes an entire tabbed section on interpreting and writing about works of literature, with two annotated student essays.
• A Writer’s Reference with Extra Help for ESL Writers includes an entire tabbed section for nonnative speakers of English; it offers targeted advice and strategies for college writing and research.

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• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (January 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393924092
• ISBN-13: 978-0393924091

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DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT …

Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories.

In this entertaining and inspirational book, you’ll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy-writing process, their influences, their likes and dislikes, and their experiences in the industry. You’ll also learn some less useful but equally amusing things, such as:

• How screenwriter Buck Henry came up with the famous “plastics” line for The Graduate.
• How many times the cops were called on co-writers Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer during the shooting of Borat.
• What David Sedaris thinks of his critics.
• What creator Paul Feig thinks would have happened to the Freaks & Geeks crew if the show had had another season.
• What Jack Handey considers his favorite “Deep Thoughts.”
• How Todd Hanson and the staff of The Onion managed to face the aftermath of 9/11 with the perfect dose of humor.
• How Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais created the original version of The Office.
• What it’s really like in the writers’ room at SNL.

Funny and informative, And Here’s the Kicker is a must-have resource – whether you’re an aspiring humor writer, a fan of the genre, or someone who just likes to laugh.

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• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books (July 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582975051
• ISBN-13: 978-1582975054.

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From Debbie Diller, author of numerous best-selling books and videos on literacy work stations and small group reading instruction, comes another practical resource filled with ideas you can use immediately to better manage your classroom and support student learning and independence.

In Spaces & Places you’ll find a wealth of full-color photos from all sorts of classroom spaces in PreK-5th grade, including well-organized areas for whole group and small group reading instruction, classroom libraries, literacy work stations, teacher desks, and storage areas. You’ll love the “before and after” pictures and the step-by-step processes outlined for organizing your furniture and cabinets, setting up your room space by space, and using your walls thoughtfully. Debbie has even documented how to pack your room at the end of the year to save time next fall (so you can focus on thinking about instruction) and what to do if you must move all your belongings.

Through pictures and text, this unique visual reference answers tough questions educators ask, such as:

• What do I really need in my room and what’s the best way to set it up?
• How does my physical classroom impact student learning?
• How can I find the space I need to teach more effectively?
• What can I get rid of and how?
• Where do I put all my stuff?

Charts, reproducible forms, motivating quotes, a list of shopping sources, and reflection questions are included, along with a section outlining ten specific suggestions for on-going staff development. Whether or not you implement literacy work stations in your classroom, Spaces & Places includes everything you need to look deeply at classroom space and how it supports instruction.

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• Spiral-bound: 240 pages
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers; Spi edition (June 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571107223
• ISBN-13: 978-1571107220.

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