William Lutz: 11 books

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook...

‘Oh God, please make it stop!’ ...is a refrain some of us often casually say to ourselves when either facing our usual day to day lives or when we’re about to be subjected to yet another self-help book. Well, lucky you! Here’s your chance to get yourself a copy of "Another Book...

Drawing upon some of the author’s experiences, The Audio Sensory Guide to Schroedinger’s Cat is a collection of essays and ruminations linked together by the notion that life is for living. The Audio Sensory Guide does not delve into the details of quantum physics; in fact, aside from the book...

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. To date, HGIS projects in...

The Shark Tank is a work of non-fiction based upon several years of selected journal entries that probably would not have seen the light of day had not friends and family suggested I put it all down on paper into a single work - this, after years of sharing work stories that few would ever believe. Camden...

What if Napoleon, Leonardo DaVinci, Henry Ford, Socrates or Julius Caesar (just to name a few) had a twitter account? What if you could read a tweet from Michelangelo as he worked on the Sistine Chapel? What would they say? (No doubt something more meaningful and useful than what’s in here, but...

From Scout Media comes A Flash of Words—the fifth volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world, but the first in which the stories are exclusively flash-fiction pieces. In this installation, no limits were set on genre, allowing the authors to...

Marking the centennial anniversary of the first publication of Max Weber's "Protestant Ethic" essays, a group of internationally recognized Weber scholars review the significance of Weber's essays by addressing their original context, historical reception, and ongoing relevance. Lawrence...

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more...

Guatemala emerged from the clash between Spanish invaders and Maya cultures that began five centuries ago. The conquest of these “rich and strange lands,” as Hernán Cortés called them, and their “many different peoples” was brutal and prolonged. “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”...

This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in...