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  • Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw

    Unknown Binding (Longman, March 15, 1979)
    Light wear to cover. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
  • Civilization Past & Present, Single Volume Edition, Primary Source Edition

    Palmira Brummett, George Jewsbury, Neil J Hackett, Robert Edgar, Barbara Molony

    Hardcover (Longman, Dec. 30, 2005)
    The Primary Source Edition of Civilization Past and Present weaves the diverse trends of world history into a clear and accessible analysis and includes 2 to 3 primary sources with critical thinking questions per chapter. Civilization Past and Present, well known in the marketplace as a highly readable survey of world history, delivers a strong narrative of world history and a level of detail that is manageable for readers. The book examines all aspects of world history--social, political, economic, religious, cultural, and geographic. With 52 primary source documents, the Primary Source Edition has everything students need to succeed in the course–a highly readable survey text that examines all aspects of world history plus a wealth of original documents that help make the material come alive. “Document Analysis” questions encourage students to delve deeper into the documents and to explore how they relate to the events of the time. Overview of world history, from beginnings to the present day. Readers interested in an overview of world history.
  • Our Sister Killjoy

    Ama Ata Aidoo

    Paperback (Longman, Jan. 1, 1994)
    Out of Africa with her degree and her all seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to makes sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do when she goes back home? A profound version of the theme of self discovery, this novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe. It is a highly personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe, between men and women, and between a complacent acceptance of the status quo and a passionate desire to reform a rotten world.
  • Graphical Communication Book One

    Stuart Bland

    Paperback (Longman, )
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  • The knight & chivalry

    Richard W Barber

    Hardcover (Longmans, March 15, 1970)
    Book by Barber, Richard
  • The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition

    William Strunk, E. B. White

    Hardcover (Longman, Oct. 25, 2008)
    You know the authors’ names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. And now The Elements of Style–the most widely read and employed English style manual–is available in a specially bound 50th Anniversary Edition that offers the title's vast audience an opportunity to own a more durable and elegantly bound edition of this time-tested classic.Offering the same content as the Fourth Edition, revised in 1999, the new casebound 50th Anniversary Edition includes a brief overview of the book's illustrious history. Used extensively by individual writers as well as high school and college students of writing, it has conveyed the principles of English style to millions of readers. This new deluxe edition makes the perfect gift for writers of any age and ability level. Fifty Years of Acclaim for The Elements of Style: “I first read Elements of Style during the summer before I went off to Exeter, and I still direct my students at Harvard to their definition about the difference between 'that' and 'which.' It is the Bible for good, clear writing.” -- Henry Louis Gates Jr. “For writers of all kinds and sizes the world begins and ends with Strunk and White’s Elements of Style. Only something to actually write about trumps the list of what is required to put words together in some kind of coherent way. I treasure its presence in my life and salute its fifty years of glory and accomplishment.” -- Jim Lehrer “The Elements of Style remains an unwavering beacon of light in these grammatically troubled times. I would be lost without it.”-- Ann Patchett "To the extent I know how to write clearly at all, I probably taught myself while I was teaching others -- seventh graders, in Flint, Michigan, in 1967. I taught them with a copy of Strunk & White lying in full view on my desk, sort of in the way the Gideons leave Bibles in cheap hotel rooms, as a way of saying to the hapless inhabitant: ‘In case your reckless ways should strand you here, there's help.’ S&W doesn't really teach you how to write, it just tantalizingly reminds you that there's an orderly way to go about it, that clarity's ever your ideal, but -- really -- it's all going to be up to you."-- Richard Ford “The Elements of Style never seems to go out of date. Its counsel is sound and funny, wise and unpretentious. And while its precepts are a foundation of direct communication, Strunk and White do not insist on a way of writing beyond clear expression. The rest is up to the imagination, the intelligence within.”-- David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker “It’s the toughness–the irreverence and implicit laughter–that attracted me to the little book when I was seventeen. I fell in love with Strunk & White’s loathing for cant and bloviation, the ruthless cutting of crap, jargon, and extra words. For me, that skeptical directness included a tacit permission by The Elements of Style to break its rules on occasion: an alloy of generosity in the blade, a grace I still admire and still learn from.”-- Robert Pinsky “In the quest for clarity, one can have no better guides than Strunk and White. For me, their book has been invaluable and remains essential.”-- Dan Rather "Eschew surplusage! A perfect book."--Jonathan Lethem "Not until I started teaching writing and I reread The Elements of Style did I realize that most everything I would be teaching young writers, and everything I would be learning myself as a writer, was contained between the covers of this slim, elegant, wise little book."-- Julia Alvarez “Strunk and White seared their way into my brain long ago, and I benefit from them daily.”-- Steven J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics “Since high school, I have kept a copy of this book handy. That should be unnecessary. I should, by now, have fully internalized The Elements of Style. But sometimes I get entangled in a paragraph that refuses to be ‘clear, brief, bold.’ I dip back into The Elements of Style and am refreshed. After Scott Simon interviewed me on NPR about whether the word ‘e-mail’ needs a hyphen (yes, it does), some listeners, including friends of mine, wondered why I had answered in the affirmative when asked, in passing, ‘Are you a drunken white man?’ Those listeners misheard. ‘Strunk and White man’ was what Scott said.”-- Roy Blount Jr. “Strunk & White--writing's good-natured law firm--still contains enough sparkling good sense to clean up the whole bloviating blogosphere."-- Thomas Mallon “I used Strunk -- that’s what we called it, Strunk -- as a student at Berkeley fifty years ago. I didn't know that it was new, and that we were the first generation to be educated in The Elements of Style. I got a firm foundation in the English language, learned to write basically, and could depict the realistic world. Then I was able to become an impressionist and expressionist.” -- Maxine Hong Kingston “Strunk and White's gigantic little book must be the most readable advice on writing ever written. Side by side with Roget, Shakespeare, the Bible, and a dictionary, it's an essential for every writer's shelf.”-- X.J. Kennedy...
  • The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop

    Edmund S Morgan

    Paperback (Longman, Jan. 26, 2005)
    In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World. Because of his ardent Puritan beliefs and natural talent for government and politics, he was appointed governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became the foremost political leader in the colony for nearly 20 years, including twelve nonconsecutive terms as governor. When Winthrop and these new settlers arrived in the New World, they were aiming to create their own utopia, but they encountered difficulty and dissent. In The Puritan Dilemma: John Winthrop, biographer Edmund Morgan helps us understand the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties they faced once they arrived. What does freedom mean? What is the proper role of the individual in society? Alongside the unfolding drama of a developing country, Morgan explores the life of John Winthrop and the core question of what level of responsibility people owe to their community and society.
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  • Magic in my shoes

    Constance Savery

    Hardcover (Longmans, March 15, 1958)
    Juvenile fiction.
  • The Bull From The Sea

    Mary Renault

    Hardcover (Longmans, March 15, 1962)
    The Bull From The Sea de Renault Mary. Longmans, 1962.
  • Sprat Morrison

    N. D'Costa

    Paperback (Longman, March 15, 1990)
    Sprat Morrison is the high-spirited tale of the adventures of a small boy growing up in the hills above Kingston, Jamaica. The lively sequence of episodes in his life will have young teenage readers chorusing, 'It could only happen to Sprat!' as we follow his escapades, heroics, failures and successes.
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  • Beloved

    Toni Morrison

    Paperback (Longman, Sept. 8, 1998)
    Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and mother-in-law, is persistantly haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl
  • Una vez más: repaso detallado de las estructuras gramaticales del idioma español

    James H. Couch, Rebecca D. McCann, Carmel Rodriguez-Walter, Angel Rubio-Maroto

    Hardcover (Longman, Aug. 31, 1992)
    This all-Spanish grammar review is used in classrooms across the country.
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