Peter Roy: 26 books
The Book of Hard Choices
How to Make the Right Decisions at Work and Keep Your Self-Respect
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
“There are a thousand acts of duplicity and dishonesty every day, some large and some small, some of which undoubtedly take place in your workplace. The question for all of us is, ‘Are we going to resist or just play along the path of least resistance?’ The first hard choice a person of integrity...
by Peter Roy Clements
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Ageing land orca, Eccolong is unearthing the bunker which holds the remains of the last human to survive on earth after civilization collapsed in the early twenty-second century. Eccolong is challenged by traditionalist orcas who believe that they are the first sentient beings to inhabit the land...
Writing Tools
55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.
Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of...
The Art of X-Ray Reading
How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Roy Peter Clark, one of America's most influential writing teachers, draws writing lessons from 25 great texts.
Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see...
Help! For Writers
210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The craft of writing offers countless potential problems: The story is too long; the story's too short; revising presents a huge hurdle; writer's block is rearing its ugly head.
In HELP! FOR WRITERS, Roy Peter Clark presents an "owner's manual" for writers, outlining the seven steps...
How to Write Short
Word Craft for Fast Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.
In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship...
The Glamour of Grammar
A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Early in the history of English, the words "grammar" and "glamour" meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this practical guide,...
by Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens defines human beings as "wise" what humans do especially well is to prospect the future. We are homo prospectus. In this book, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and evaluating future possibilities...
Murder Your Darlings
And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2020
From one of America's most influential writing teachers, a collection of 50 of the best writing strategies distilled from 50 writing and language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.
With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look...
Leer con rayos X
25 obras maestras que mejorarán tu escritura
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2016
En este libro Roy Peter Clark, un reconocido profesor de escritura de Estados Unidos, nos enseña una forma de leer que permite penetrar más allá de la superficie de los textos literarios y observar el proceso interno que los convierte en obras maestras. Leer con rayos X: 25 obras maestras que mejorarán...
Futureproofing
If You Can Imagine it, it Will Happen, If You Can't - You're Out of it
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
If you can imagine it it will happen...if you can't you're out of it! This book is a white-knuckle ride. It drills down into what we are doing now and comes up in the future to see what comes next. The book is a commentary and a clarion call and an invitation to see round corners and a clarion call...
Religion, Culture, and International Conflict
A Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2005
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...
Growing Explanations
Historical Perspectives on Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2004
For much of the twentieth century scientists sought to explain objects and processes by reducing them to their components—nuclei into protons and neutrons, proteins into amino acids, and so on—but over the past forty years there has been a marked turn toward explaining phenomena by building them...
by Starla Anderson, Maria Blevins, Teresa Blevins
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic....
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