Face to Face/Frente a frente: Everyday Conversations in English & Spanish/
Conversaciones cotidianas en inglés y español
Finally—an easy way to learn the words and phrases that you'll need most, and use most often—without searching through a dual-language dictionary. Instead, you'll simply glance across at the facing page. There you'll find the translation, in the idiomatic language used by native speakers.
Con este libro usted podrá aprender, de una manera sencilla, las palabras y frases que más necesitará y utilizará sin tener que recurrir a un diccionario. Bastará con echar una mirada a la página opuesta, donde encontrará la correspondiente traducción en un lenguaje cotidiano.
The stories are short—almost all are one page each—and each helps you learn about a topic that every speaker or writer needs to know. You'll learn the core words related to: household items, people and their personalities, daily routines, food, work, health and medicine, parts of the body, and much more.
Se trata de historias cortas —en promedio de una página— las cuales tocan temas que toda persona que quiera aprender a hablar o escribir el nuevo idioma debería saber. Aprenderá las principales palabras a utilizar cuando se habla sobre artículos del hogar, la gente y sus personalidades, rutinas diarias, comida, trabajo, salud y medicina, partes del cuerpo y mucho más.
ISBN: 978-0-9729920-7-7
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Another Dirty Thirty: More Words Smart People Misuse
All of us, even professionals, occasionally get tangled up in our terms, especially when we’re in a hurry—when we’re thinking hard, writing quickly, talking fast.
Do you want to amend your vocabulary, or emend it?
Will you refer to this book, or allude to it?
Do you take the reigns of control, or the reins?
Do you demur when asked to do something you dislike, or are you too demure?
Is your goal to increase your word-horde, or your word-hoard?
Sexism in writing
This easy-to-read and entertaining book will give you clear answers to these questions,
and many others.
Readers of our earlier book—The Dirty Thirty—suggested other troublesome word pairs. So here’s Another Dirty Thirty, with clear explanations, entertaining exercises, and handy memory hooks.
ISBN: 978-0-9729920-1-5
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The Landa List: Grammar Guidelines, Proofreading Principles and Punctuation Practices
You’ve heard of the “ninety-ten” principle.
It says that ninety percent of the work (or mistakes, or problems) usually come from ten percent of the people.
The principle isn’t perfect, but it’s close to the truth.
In fewer than fifty pages, the Landa List applies the ninety-ten principle to rules about writing and speaking. It sorts out the most important rules (the ten
percent that answer ninety percent of our questions), and gives concise, easy-to-read explanations and examples. Topics include:
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Word Clusters: Build A Vocabulary That Works for You
Successful people have good vocabularies. You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again.
But having a good vocabulary means more than knowing lots of words—it means being able to choose and use the word that says exactly what you mean. It means knowing the subtle (and not so subtle) differences among words. A laconic remark is different from a cryptic one. Being frugal isn’t the same as being stingy. A republic isn’t the same as a democracy.
One of the best ways to improve word-choice skills is to learn groups of words related to a core topic, but different in some important way. This book leads you through many important word clusters, then provides a variety of practice exercises for each group. Chapters include:
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The Writing Process: A Step-by-Step Approach for Everyday Writers
Writing is more than a way to record sentences we've already shaped in our heads. As someone famously said, that’s just typing.
This book will help you develop an approach that includes the thinking part of writing. A series of logical steps will lead you from idea (or assignment) to finished written work.
It answers some basic questions that every writer faces: How do I get organized? What do I do first?
What next? How do I evaluate my drafts? How about word choice? When have I said enough? How should I end?
Designed to help almost any writer, The Writing Process is also an excellent tool for teachers of writing, as well as for parents who want to give their youngsters an extra boost.
Chapters include:
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The Dirty Thirty: Words Even Smart People Misuse
Whether we like it or not, people judge us by the words we use. And misuse. The
Dirty Thirty homes in on (not hones in on) the worst offenders, word-pairs that even professional writers and editors
sometimes find confusing. It explains the differences between the two words, gives tips for using them correctly, and provides
some good memory hooks to keep them locked in place when you use them next month — or next year. Some of the pairs are
