Reference imprint: 3303 books
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Avoid vocabulary mistakes with this fun guide to tricky and troublesome words!
With concise and authoritative usage notes from the editors of the American Heritage® Dictionaries, this guide explains common English-language errors—whether it’s mixing up affect and effect; blatant and flagrant;...
Writing That Works, 3rd Edition
How to Communicate Effectively in Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The classic guide that helps you communicate your thoughts clearly, concisely, and effectively. Essential for every professional, from entry level to the executive suite, Writing that Works includes advice on all aspects of written communication—including business memos, letters, reports, speeches...
The Film Encyclopedia 7th Edition
The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects...
Success
Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
How did Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Jeffrey Bezos, David Sedaris, and Macy Gray get where they are today - and how can you get the same edge?
Success is a collection of insights from more than 400 remarkably successful people in all fields - including business, politics, entertainment,...
Easy Eloquence
Sample Thank You Notes and Sympathy Cards For Every Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Have you ever wanted to thank someone for a gift or a kind act but didn't know what to say or how to say it? Easy Eloquence can help. This collction of notes provides readers with the right words to help express their feelings. Complete with over 75 samples, this book makes it easy to write everything from thank you notes to sympathy cards.
American Bar Association Guide to Resolving Legal Disputes
Inside and Outside the Courtroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Whether you’re fighting with a neighbor about who should pay for a fence, pursuing a charge of discrimination at work, or chasing a $5000 loan, the ABA Guide to Resolving Legal Disputes: Inside and Outside the Courtroom can help you decide what steps to take to resolve disputes. This book, written...
Healing
Advice for Recovering Your Inner Strength and Spirit from the World's Most Famous Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
It is important for people who have experienced a major emotional or physical setback to know that they are not alone—many others have experienced such hardship and survived. This beautiful book offers advice and personal experiences from more than 300 celebrities, leaders, Nobel prize winners, and entrepreneurs, including Robert DeNiro, Rudy Giuliani, Liz Taylor, and Winston Churchill.
by BarCharts,Inc
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This essential writing tool demonstrates how "elements of style" function in the composition and editing process of writing. It's useful for any student from middle school through college as a quick-reference writing tool. This guide includes: word choice & diction, exactness & conciseness, audience,...
by John Chuchiak, Walter Kirchner
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Master Your Coursework with Collins College Outlines
The Collins College Outline for Western Civilization to 1500 covers all major events from the earliest known civilizations of Egypt and Sumer to the Greek and Roman Empires through the feudal times, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, finally...
Writing Screenplays That Sell, New Twentieth Anniversary Edition
The Complete Guide to Turning Story Concepts into Movie and Television Deals
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
For more than twenty years, Writing Screenplays That Sell has been hailed as the most complete guide available on the art, craft, and business of writing for movies and television. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends and scripts, Hollywood story expert and script consultant...
LOVE
Quotes and Passages from the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
—Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
“To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling,...
Grace
Quotes & Passages for Heart, Mind, and Soul
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."—Maya Angelou
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”—May Sarton
This...
by John Baick, Arnold M. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The Collins College Outline for United States History from 1865 follows the key moments and players in American history from the Civil War Reconstruction period to the record high gas prices and low presidential poll numbers of 2006, with information on politics, disasters, crimes and scandals, social...
by Light Cummins, Arnold Rice
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
The Collins College Outline for United States History to 1877 starts with the founding of the country and continues through the Civil War and Reconstruion. The colonial era, the constitutional convention and founding of the American system of government, the beginning and rise of the Supreme Court,...