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100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses (Edition 001)
The 100 Words series continues to set the standard for measuring and improving vocabulary, with a new title focusing on words that are best known for getting people into linguistic trouble. 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is the perfect book for anyone seeking clear and sensible guidance on avoiding the recognized pitfalls of the English language. Each word on the list is accompanied by a concise and authoritative usage note based on the renowned usage program of the American Heritage® Dictionaries. These notes discuss why a particular usage has been criticized and explain the rules and conventions that determine what's right, what's wrong, and what falls in between. Troublesome pairs such as affect / effect, blatant / flagrant, and disinterested / uninterested are disentangled, as are vexing sound-alikes such as discrete / discreet and principal / principle. Other notes tackle such classic irritants as hopefully, impact, and aggravate, as well as problematic words like peruse and presently. A great graduation gift or stocking stuffer for anyone who cares about language, 100 Words Almost Everyone Confuses and Misuses is guaranteed to help keep writers and speakers on the up-and-up!.
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More Damned Lies and Statistics: How Numbers Confuse Public Issues
In this sequel to the acclaimed Damned Lies and Statistics, which the Boston Globe said "deserves a place next to the dictionary on every school, media, and home-office desk," Joel Best continues his straightforward, lively, and humorous account of how statistics are produced, used, and misused by everyone from researchers to journalists. Underlining the importance of critical thinking in all matters numerical, Best illustrates his points with examples of good and bad statistics about such contemporary concerns as school shootings, fatal hospital errors, bullying, teen suicides, deaths at the World Trade Center, college ratings, the risks of divorce, racial profiling, and fatalities caused by falling coconuts. More Damned Lies and Statistics encourages all of us to think in a more sophisticated and skeptical manner about how statistics are used to promote causes, create fear, and advance particular points of view. Best identifies different sorts of numbers that shape how we think about public issues. Entertaining, enlightening, and very timely, this book offers a basis for critical thinking about the numbers we encounter and a reminder that when it comes to the news, people count-in more ways than one. Illustrations: 15 line illustrations, 7 tables.
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Would You Rather...?'s Mindf*cks: Over 300 Ways to Confound, Confuse, and Abuse
For those who enjoy messing with other people’s heads — or who wish to channel his or her inner performance artist — this irreverent guide is the perfect companion. It contains 1,000 off-the-wall things to do in over 50 locations, all of which are guaranteed to disturb or disgust those unfortunate enough to be nearby. From conducting a job interview in interpretive dance to ending a relationship with the help of a big foam “You’re #1” finger, Mindf*cks makes the most of any mundane situation. .
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Never Confuse a Memo With Reality: And Other Business Lessons Too Simple Not To Know
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What Have You Got to Lose?: Experience a Richer Life By Letting Go of the Things That Confuse, Clutter and Contaminate
Experience the miracle of addition through subtraction Less really can be so much more. Less really can be more, especially when you're trying to eliminate unnecessary burdens from your life. Want to lose weight? Eat less. Want to improve your finances? Spend less. Want to reduce stress and simplify your life? Read this book. Stephen Arterburn, bestselling author of The Every Man's Battle series, is a nationally renowned expert on helping men and women take life-changing actions to improve their lives. In What Have You Got to Lose? he uses Biblical concepts to guide readers through seven steps-surrender, acceptance, confession, responsibility, forgiveness, transformation, preservation-to relieve themselves of baggage and to live more abundantly. Less really can be so much more! .
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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age: A Documentary Study of Political Economy in Qing China, 1644-1840 (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies)
This seminal book translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy--water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops, brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth, self-interest, profit, hoarding, and the market; these texts go a long way toward dispelling the notion that economic liberalism is necessarily a Western, "modern" phenomenon. Helen Dunstan has succeeded brilliantly in translating and editing the documents and in providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Helen Dunstan is Professor of History and Chair of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney. She has published widely on the economic, intellectual, and environmental history of late imperial China.
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Don't confuse children with adults when treating OCD: get creative with therapy. (obsessive-compulsive disorder).(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News
This digital document is an article from Clinical Psychiatry News, published by International Medical News Group on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 765 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Don't confuse children with adults when treating OCD: get creative with therapy. (obsessive-compulsive disorder).(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry) Author: Kerri Wachter Publication:Clinical Psychiatry News (Magazine/Journal) Date: September 1, 2003 Publisher: International Medical News Group Volume: 31 Issue: 9 Page: 34(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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