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Written by Editors of Reader's Digest
Format(s): PDF
Language: English
Reader's Digest Word Power
By Editors of Reader's Digest
Berkley | August 15, 1987 | 256 pages | ISBN-10: 0425102696 | PDF | 7.23 mb
Amazon Link : http://www.amazon.com/Word-Power-Editors-Readers-Digest
This is an old book that's rare now. Its an original scan from me.
I don't think there is any need for description.
Instead, I am giving detailed Contents:
Introdurtion: The Wonder of Words: Peter Funk 1
Words—Our Most Ancient Legacy: W.L. White 5
Native Tongue, Alive and Well: Roderick MacLeish 10
Word Power Test No. 1: Words of Lincoln 15
Your Words Give You Away: John Kord Lagemann 18
Are You a Skid Talker?: Corey Ford 22
Word Power Test No. 2: Relics of Old English 25
Plain Thoughts on Fancy Language: Clifton Fadiman 28
A Word With You, Miss Thistlebottom: Theodore M. Bern-stein 31
Word Power Test No. 3: Medical Terms 35
Like, I Mean, You Know, Right?: Roderick Nordell 38
Ways to Write Better Letters: J. Harold Janis 40
Word Power Test No, 4: Peop'e, Beasts and Places 44
Classroom' Classics: Alexander Abingdon 48
Are We Becoming a Netion of Illiterates?: Vance Pack-ard 50
Word Power Test No. 5: English from Greece. Rome and Elsewhere 55
Write the Way You Talk: Rudolf Fiesch 58
A Civil Tongue: Edwin Newman 64
Word Power Test No. 6: Words from Reader's Digest 67
Was Paul Revere a Minuteperson?: Jacques Barzun 70
Watch Your Language!: Theodore M. Bernstein 73
Word Power Test No. 7: To Look and Dance and Read and Listen 76
How" to Argue: Stuart Chase 79
Thank You, William Shakespeare!. Guy Wright 82
Word Power Test No. 8: Nouns: Airborne and Nof 84
Alphabet You'll Like These Puns: John S. Crosbie 87
i Anything Goes, Verbalizationwise: Newsweek 91
Word Power Test No. 9: Living Latin 94
The Meaning Manglers: James Thurber 97
Why Johnny Can't Write: Merril) Sheils 100
Word Power Test No. 10: Advertising Words 106
Don't Give Up on English: Will Stanton 109
Beware These Word-Traps!: Theodore M. Bernstein 112
Word Power Test No. 11: Moderately Difficult Words 115
A Tip on Straight Thinking: Stuart Chase 118
Masters of Babble: James P. Degnan 121
Word Power Test No. 12: Book Words 124
There's a Meaning Here Somewhere: Edwin Newman 127
The Most Nerve-Shattering Word in the Language: H. Allen Smith 130
Word Power Test No. 13: Margaret Mead 133
As Silly as a Simile: Jane Goodsell 136
I Know Whatcha Mean: Clifton Fadiman 139
Word Power Test No. 14: Headliners: News in a Nut-shell 142
Neither Black Nor White: Stuart Chase 145
I Keep Healing Voices: Cornelia Otis Skinner 149
Word Power Test No. 15: The Sporting Life 154
The Delicate Art of Asking Questions: John Kord Lage-mann 157
The Baffling World of Psychobabble: R.D, Rosen 163
Word Power Test No. 16: How Cicero Made Adjectives 167
Oh, Waddle I Do?: Janet Agle 171
Why Did They Call It That'!. Gary Jennings 173
Word Power Test No. 17: Political Vocabulary 177
There is Magic in a Word of Praise: Fulton Oursler 181
One Man's Mede Clifton Fadiman 185
Word Power Test No. 18: The L ore of Bench and Bar 188
Watch Your Language!: Theodore M. Bernstein 191
My, O Myopia!: Cornelia Otis Skinner 195
Word Power lest No. 19: High School Specials 198
"Englisch as She Is Goodly Spocken": Nino Lo Bello 201
Word Power Test No. 20: A Nosegay of Look-Alikes 203
The American Language: H. L. Mencken 206
Name-Changing—It's the Custom!: Ted Morgan 211
Word Power Test No. 21: Words Ending in ' ite" 215
Accuracy Is a Winner's Policy: Evan Hill 218
Cracking the Real-Estate Code: Richard Lipez 223
Word Power Test No. 22: The French All Around Us 225
"Everything Begins With a Pfcncil": Jerome Brondfield 228
Long Live The Book!: Ernest O. Hauser 232
Word Power Test No. 23: The Joys of Self-Improvement 237
Words That Have Appeared in These Tests 240
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1. Body Basics - A collection of scanned articles on some common ailments & their management.
2. Laughter the Best Medicine - A small book of jokes
3. Top Mobile Apps - A collection of scanned articles on apps for symbian, android phones
4. Top Softwares - A collection of scanned articles on softwares for windows, Mac OS, Linux etc
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January 30th, 2015 at 8:16 am
Thanks for sharing!