Search Results: Language Arts & Disciplines from Chris Hartmann, Bookseller

Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest. Hardcover. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo 226pp . Fine with no DJ. Science Fiction Writing Series Edited by Ben Bova .

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Univ. Press. Paperback. 1987. 2nd Revised Ed. 8vo 205pp . Fine with no DJ. Very scarce book .

London, England: Weidenfeld & Nicholson. Hardcover. 2007. 2nd Printing. 8vo 305pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W and Color Photographs. Describes the discovery of the lost works of Archimedes, the great Greek mathematicia n, as part of a palimpsest from a medieval prayer book created during the thirteenth century, and offers a look at the full range of mathematical discoveries and theories that were found .

Berkeley: Univ. Of California Press. Hardcover. 1977. 2nd Printing. 8vo 138pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. This book is about the current exhaustion of our vocabulary of abuse, of horror, disgust, and negation. From insults and invectives, the author moves to a discussion of the ugly, and from there to meditations on the new art of political lying. He concludes with some thoughts on the modern obscene .

New York: Henry Holt And Company. Hardcover. 1996. 1st Edition. 8vo 510pp . Fine in Fine DJ.

New York: Ecco Press. Hardcover. 2020. 1st Edition. 8vo 368pp . Very Good+ in Fine Dust Jacket. B&W Photographs. Slight black remainder mark on bottom edges .

Cincinnati: Writer's Digest. Hardcover. 1976. 1st Edition. 8vo 244pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Ink name .

New York: Berkley Books. Hardcover. 2001. 1st Edition. 8vo 369pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux. Hardcover. 2005. 1st Edition. 8vo 292pp . Fine in Fine DJ. The Herculean enterprise taken on by Dr Johnson to establish the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language .

London: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1964. Reprint. 8vo 287pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations Top and front edges lightly foxed, DJ spine foxed Examines the early history of newspapers in England. First published in 1962 .

New York: Bedford / St. Martins. Paperback. 2000. 6th Edition. 8vo 786, 93pp . Fine with no DJ. Textbook. This is the Instructor's Edition with 93 pages of Resources for Teaching at the rear of the text .

Chapel Hill: Sun Publishing. Hardcover. 1993. 1st Edition. 8vo 168pp . Fine in Fine DJ. The author escaped the world of New York City journalism to start The Sun, a monthly he first peddled in Chapel Hill, NC .

Chapel Hill: Univ. Of North Carolina. Hardcover. 1994. 1st Edition. 8vo 257pp . Fine in Fine DJ. Studies two notorious antebellum New York murder cases that set off journalistic scrambles over the meanings of truth, objectivity, and the duty of the press that reverberate to this day .

Pittsburgh, PA: Dorrance Publishing. Hardcover. 2006. 1st Edition. 8vo 229pp . Fine with no DJ. Self published book. Offers a detailed explanation of Geographical Alphabet and geographical generic semantics, affix, language, and grammar as a basis for understanding the significance of place names and their meanings .

New York: Random House. Hardcover. 1980. 2nd Printing. 8vo 305pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. Collection of the author's articles, explaining how and why he wrote them .

New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Hardcover. 1989. 1st Edition. 8vo 291pp . Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations .

Monsey, NY: Lloyd-Simone Pub. Co.. Hardcover. 1986. 1st Edition. Thin 4to 155pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W and Color Illustrations DJ spine faded Covers the history of children' s books, markets, categories, trends, creativity resources, writing, illustration, the dummy, dealing with publishers, copyedititng, copyfitting, typesetting, preparation for printing .

Burr Ridge, IL: Irwin Professional Publishin. Hardcover. 1994. 2nd printing. 8vo 177pp . Fine in Fine DJ. A comprehensive guide for public speaking .

New York: Jason Aronson. Hardcover. 1973. 1st Edition. 8vos 498, 437pp . Very Good in Very Good DJ. 2 volume set complete Does for language what Freud did for the dream. Shows how language has been shaped and changed over the centuries by aniety which causes repression or distortion of the original meaning .

Chapel Hill: Univ. Of North Carolina. Hardcover. 1995. 1st Edition. 8vo 220pp . Fine in Fine DJ.