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Author | : Don Watson |
Publisher | : Random House Australia |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1742744664 |
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The brilliant and bestselling companion volume to Don Watson's Death Sentence The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead) – How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts. Striking a much-needed blow for truth and clarity, here is Don Watson, author of the international bestseller Death Sentence, at his sobering, scathing and wickedly funny best.
Author | : Paul Wasserman |
Publisher | : Capital Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781933102078 |
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With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.
Author | : Mario Pei |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Surveys intentionally misleading words and how they are used in radio, TV, advertising, the press and politics, and how they affect the process of language change.
Author | : Don Watson |
Publisher | : Gotham |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2006-05-04 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781592402052 |
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From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--and must--be done about it.
Author | : Philip Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 9780552990257 |
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Author | : Jean Conder Soule |
Publisher | : Dragonfly Books |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2011-05-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 037587285X |
Download Never Tease a Weasel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A funny, finger-wagging rhyme with some very good advice: never tease a weasel, because teasing isn't nice! Rather, kids should do nice things for animals, such as bake a drake a cake, or give a mule a pool, and much more. Long out of print, this new edition of Never Tease a Weasel with art by the great New Yorker cartoonist George Booth will surely please a weasel, and everyone else who reads it!
Author | : Cynthia DeFelice |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1991-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0380713586 |
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The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal... Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, the weasel, he hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills not because he is hungry, but for the sport of it...I know what I have to do. Weasel is out there. He could come here and hurt us. Maybe Pa can wait for the day when we'll have the law to take care of men like Weasel. But I can't...
Author | : Albert Jack |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1101162961 |
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From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants—a curious guide to the hidden histories of classic nursery rhymes. Who was Mary Quite Contrary, or Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? Do Jack and Jill actually represent the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? And if Ring Around the Rosie isn’t about the plague, then what is it really about? This book is a quirky, curious, and sometimes sordid look at the truth behind popular nursery rhymes that uncovers the strange tales that inspired them—from Viking raids to political insurrection to smuggling slaves to freedom. Read Albert Jack's posts on the Penguin Blog.
Author | : Melissa Jagears |
Publisher | : Utmost Publishing |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1948678012 |
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Author | : Giuseppina Scotto di Carlo |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1443848891 |
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Did Security Council resolutions authorise the use of force during the Second Gulf War? Did the UN intentionally use vague and indeterminate linguistic patterns as a set of discursive strategies with the overall legislative intent of using deliberate vagueness as a political strategy? Over the last few years, UN resolutions have been repeatedly questioned for the excessive presence of vagueness. In order to overcome the cultural divergences of recipient countries, UN diplomatic texts use vague words quite extensively, which could lead to biased or even strategically-motivated interpretations of resolutions, undermining their legal impact. This book proposes a linguistic analysis of whether the use of strategic vagueness in Security Council resolutions has contributed to the breakout of the Second Gulf War instead of a diplomatic solution to the controversy. The hypothesis is discussed through an analysis of the UN resolutions relating to the war, and reinforced through an analysis of US legislation related to the authorization for war, revealing how the US has interpreted UN legislation, in order to see how vague expressions used in UN resolutions have allowed the US to interpret them as a means to go to war. A second section of the work attempts to understand whether the same patterns have been used in resolutions relating to the Iranian nuclear crisis in 2010, revealing a relationship between the choice of vague linguistic features and the use of intentional vagueness as a political strategy.