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This fun book is about words: their origins, histories, surprises, colorful use and misuse. It may alter your mental landscape for several months or less.
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The challenges of building a writing career don't end with the craft of writing. Writers also have to find ways to tell the world of their work. Tooting your own horn can be a vastly uncomfortable practice and can be downright excruciating, especially in the midst of ongoing rejection. On the Struggle to Self Promote examines ways to reframe the act of self-promotion so that you don't feel like you're hawking your ways, but rather honoring your creativity and being a passionate advocate for your work out in the world.
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This newly updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. It reads not as a phone directory but more as a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from Bud's Discount Center in Jasper, Alabama to the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Maine to Florida and west to the Mississippi River.
This is the biography of a nineteenth-century gentleman whose career in the diplomatic service of his country contributed greatly to the worldwide expansion of American trade and commerce. John Randolph Clay (1808-1885), son of a Philadelphia Congressman, was named in honor of John Randolph, his father's friend and political associate, with whom he lived after his father's death. In 1830, John Randolph, appointed Minister to Russia, secured the appointment of Clay as Secretary of Legation. Randolph soon returned home, seriously ill, leaving Clay as Charge d'Affaires. Although youthful and inexperienced, Clay acquitted himself well, continuing in diplomatic posts in Russia and Austria for sev...