![]() In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.įilled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. ![]() Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. ![]() Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? ![]()
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Join investigative journalist Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, as he addresses CrossFit HQ Seminar Staff at the Trainer Summit held in October in San Diego, Calif. ![]() ![]() Nicole’s words are a gentle scalpel to reveal the areas in our life that feel dead and lifeless and show us how to live fully alive. “Sometimes, we make issues about others when life’s complications are really dealing with our own insecurity. In I Will Thrive, Nicole not only shares her powerful story, but gives practical tools showing you how to live unchained from your past and flourish in life.”- Christine Caine, Bestselling Author, Founder of A21 and Propel Women “You can find hope, healing, and freedom in Jesus. ![]() You'll learn to find healing and happiness in every day. ![]() Regardless of what happened to you or even because of you, God's plan for you always has a hope and a future, and it never changes. 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The epic poem Teseida (full title Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or "The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily") by Giovanni Boccaccio is the source of the tale, although Chaucer makes many significant diversions from that poem. ![]() The story introduces themes and arguments typically encountered in the literature of knighthood, including courtly love and ethical dilemmas. ![]() ![]() He is accompanied on his pilgrimage by the Squire, his 20-year-old son. Most readers have taken Chaucer's description of him as "a verray, parfit gentil knyght" to be sincere but Terry Jones suggested that this description was ironic, and that Chaucer's readers would have deduced that the Knight was a mercenary. Though the list of campaigns is real, his characterization is idealized. We are told that he has taken part in some fifteen crusades in many countries and also fought for one pagan leader against another. The Knight is described by Chaucer in the " General Prologue" as the person of highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and clothes are unpretentious. " The Knight's Tale" ( Middle English: The Knightes Tale) is the first tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. The first page of Knight's Tale in the Ellesmere manuscript ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first forty percent was a bit slow, especially when Nita gets captured and is sitting in a cage, but then something would happen and I was scared. Which is fine, until she finds herself being sold on the black market by none other than her mother. Yet when her mother brings home a living boy to dissect, Nita’s morals come into play and she frees him. Nita knows there’s something inherently wrong with her, but she doesn’t think about that. Nita and her mother sell the body parts of Unnatural’s on the black market. But I then dismissed it, because this book was good. 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