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Fun with Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills)
 | author: Geoffrey Lamb asin: 0486420981 binding: Paperback list price: $4.95 USD amazon price: $4.95 USD |
Fascinating, easy-to-understand book for would-be cryptanalysts of all ages teaches how to invent and decipher a host of codes and secret messages, including the "Moving Ahead" cipher used by Julius Caesar; dots and pinpricks, as used by the secret Rosicrucian society; and even a system used by Sherlock Holmes. 14 black-and-white illustrations.
How to Open a Business Writing and Publishing Memoirs, Gift Books, or Success Stories for Clients: Make Hand-Crafted
 | author: Anne Hart asin: 0595380832 binding: Paperback list price: $18.95 USD amazon price: $15.94 USD |
Learn what questions to ask and how to interview people for the significant moments in their life stories, and then write, publish, and bind by hand exquisitely-crafted personal gift books, memoirs, or business success stories. Words in memoirs or life success story gift books have a life of their own. The purpose of a hand-made, finely bound memoirs or business success-story gift book is to show how two or more people bring out the best in one another. read more »
An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing: Value, Consent, And Community
 | author: Lianna Farber asin: 0801444128 binding: Hardcover list price: $39.95 USD amazon price: $39.95 USD |
Economics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts, showing that it contains three component parts: value, consent, and community. Medieval writing about trade not only relies on these elements, it presents them as unproblematic. By addressing texts in which each element of trade is discussed directly, Farber demonstrates that this straightforward picture is falsely reassuring. read more »
The Quotable Writer: Words of Wisdom from Mark Twain, Aristotle, Oscar Wilde, Robert Frost, Eric Jong, and More
 | asin: 0071355766 binding: Hardcover list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $14.95 |
"The Quotable Writer taps the power of words for the wordsmiths who live and make their living by them. Dip into it and see if you don't find yourself driven to write some yourself." David A. Fryxell, editorial director and nonfiction columnist for Writer's Digest, and author of How to Write Fast (While Writing Well) and Elements of Article Writing: Structure and Flow William A. Gordon has created a Barlett's of the literary life with The Quotable Writer, a collection of roughly a thousand of the best things ever said or written by and about writers and writing. read more »
How to Write for Children (Allison & Busby's Writer's Guides)
 | author: Tessa Krailing asin: 0749002581 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $11.66 USD |
A practical guide on how to write for children of all ages.
Internships: Theory And Practice (Baywood's Technical Communications) (Baywood's Technical Communications)
 | author: Charles H. Sides Ann Mrvica asin: 0895033550 binding: Hardcover list price: $37.95 USD amazon price: $37.95 USD |
Internships: Theory and Practice focuses on the history, theory, value, design, administration, and evaluation of professional internships as an educational experience for college students. Internships are guided, pre-professional experiences that combine academic and professional components as a managed transition to professional careers. read more »
How to Write Articles That Sell
 | author: L. Perry Wilbur Jon Samsel asin: 1581150148 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 |
This is a practical and inspirational handbook that will guide aspiring writers as well as seasoned pros through the mysteries of researching, writing, and selling freelance articles for magazines, newspapers, and Internet zines. With explicit examples and an easy-to-understand writing style, L. Perry Wilbur and Jon Samsel help writers to realize their inherent power for creative expression by showing how to transform bright ideas into saleable articles. read more »
How to Write Books That Sell
 | author: L. Perry Wilbur Jon Samsel asin: 1581150067 binding: Hardcover list price: $19.95 USD amazon price: $19.95 |
This is a practical and inspirational handbook that will guide aspiring writers as well as seasoned pros through the mysteries of researching, writing, and selling freelance articles for magazines, newspapers, and Internet zines. With explicit examples and an easy-to-understand writing style, L. Perry Wilbur and Jon Samsel help writers to realize their inherent power for creative expression by showing how to transform bright ideas into saleable articles. read more »
