Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process
A classic handbook for anyone who needs to write, Writing With Power
speaks to everyone who has wrestled with words while seeking to gain
power with them. Here, Peter Elbow emphasizes that the essential
activities underlying good writing and the essential exercises
promoting it are really not difficult at all. Employing a cookbook
approach, Elbow provides the reader (and writer) with various recipes:
for getting words down on paper, for revising, for dealing with an
audience, for getting feedback on a piece of writing, and still other
recipes for approaching the mystery of power in writing. In a new
introduction, he offers his reflections on the original edition,
discusses the responses from people who have followed his techniques,
how his methods may differ from other processes, and how his original
topics are still pertinent to today's writer. By taking risks and
embracing mistakes, Elbow hopes the writer may somehow find a hold on
the creative process and be able to heighten two mentalities--the
production of writing and the revision of it. From students and
teachers to novelists and poets, Writing with Power reminds us that we
can celebrate the uses of mystery, chaos, nonplanning, and magic, while
achieving analysis, conscious control, explicitness, and care in
whatever it is we set down on paper.
David Ritchie, Alexander E. Gates, "Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes"
From aa to Yellowstone, if it's got anything at all to do with earthquakes or volcanoes, you're likely to find within the pages of this updated encyclopedia from science journalist David Ritchie and Rutgers geology professor Alexander Gates.
The 1,000-plus alphabetical listings range from historical volcanoes and quakes (both famous and obscure) to entries on specific seismic phenomena (everything from parasitic cones to jökulhlaup) and general geological principles, including a few excellent in-depth discussions on topics like plate tectonics and seismic wave types. The encyclopedia also contains a lengthy bibliography, a list of Internet resources, a chronological listing of notable quakes and eruptions, and a handful of unforgettable eyewitness accounts (after the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79, apparently Pliny the Elder's party went out "having pillows tied upon their heads with napkins; and this was their whole defense against the storm of stones that fell around them").
With its clear, newspaper-style entries, the Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes will be navigable even to geo-newbies, but its a-to-z organization makes it more useful as a reference than as a stand-alone text.
Encyclopedia of Catholicism By Frank K. Flinn This is yet another book of the series about world religions, giving us an opportunity to get acquainted with the language and thought used in this large field of knowledge. Publisher: Facts on File Number Of Pages: 670 Publication Date: 2007-04-20
Encyclopedia Of Hinduism
By Constance A. Jones, James D. Ryan
Publisher: Facts on File
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: 2007-02-28
This is an immensely important book for Westerners
As a Westerner who became interested in Eastern spiritual teachings thirty years ago, I was appalled to discover then, my own ignorance and the ignorance of others in the West about Hinduism and its spinoff, Buddhism, the principal Eastern religions.
There is even today in the West, thirty years later, a vacuum of knowledge about Hinduism. The Encyclopedia of Hinduism by professors Jones and Ryan helps to fill this vacuum in a simple, straightforwsrd way.
The entries are arranged alphabetically, and one can find information on the key concepts in Hinduism along with biographical and other information about the key historical and contemporary figures in this great world religion.
Of even more importance for the Westerner, in my view, is the ten page introduction explaining Hinduism's origins, its sacred texts, its contemporary situation, and its esoteric aspects sometimes known as Vedanta or Advaita which carry their own entries and typify the thorough nature of this Encyclopedic work.
You will not regret owning this book. Highly recommended.
Краткость - душа остроумия. Английские пословицы, поговорки, крылатые выражения
В книге приводятся наиболее употребительные словосочетания, пословицы и поговорки, являющиеся живыми фактами современного английского языка. Кроме того, значительное место в ней занимают цитаты из произведений английских и американских авторов и высказывания общественных деятелей, вошедшие в английский язык в качестве крылатых выражений. Особое внимание автор уделяет не научным аспектам фразеологии, а обиходности, частоте употребления приводимых выражений.
