Advice on good writing from everybody's favorite editorial curmudgeon Persnickety, cantankerous, opinionated, entertaining, hilarious, wise...these are a few of the adjectives reviewers used to describe good-writing maven Bill Walsh's previous book, Lapsing Into a Comma. Now, picking up where he left off in Lapsing, Walsh addresses the dozen or so biggest issues that every writer or editor must master. He also offers a trunkload of good advice on the many little things that add up to good writing. Featuring all the elements that made Lapsing such a fun read, including Walsh's trademark acerbic wit and fascinating digressions on language and its discontents, The Elephants of Style provides: <ul>
<li>Tips on how to tame the "elephants of style"--the most important, frequently confused elements of good writing </li>
<li>More of Walsh's popular "Curmudgeon's Stylebook"--includes entries such as Snarky Specificity, Metaphors, Near and Far, Actually is the New Like, and other uses and misuses of language </li>
<li>Expert advice for writers and editors on how to work together for best results </li>
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The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English

Business & Money

Walsh, Bill

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

The celebrated coach shares his philosophy of football, profiles players he has coached, recounts key moments in his career

Building a Champion: On Football and the Making of the 49Ers

Biographies & Memoirs

St Martins Pr

The celebrated coach shares his philosophy of football, profiles players he has coached, and recounts key moments in his career

Dickey, Glenn

This is a case book written by prominent authors at both Harvard and Stanford. It contains nine core sections with approximately three to five cases per part. The parts include Leagues and Events, Sponsorship and Marketing, and Finance and Valuation. Each section is preceded with an Overview of Key Topics that set the stage for the cases and each section concludes with summary materials and discussion questions. The cases themselves focus on certain teams or aspects of team sports. It includes cases on major league soccer, the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, the pros and cons of hiring a sports agent, Magic Johnson's endorsement deals and the Women's NBA. Each individual case is also followed by discussion questions.

The Business of Sports: Cases and Text on Strategy and Management

Foster, George

Greyser, Stephen A.

South-Western College Pub.

Walt Disney's Mary Poppins

Andrews, Julie

walt-disney-productions

Van Dyke, Dick

Stevenson, Robert

Tomlinson, David

LANCHESTER, Elsa

Johns, Glynis

Baddeley, Hermione

Buena Vista Home Entertainment (firm)

Copyright Collection (library Of Congress)

(fictitious Character)

Dagradi, Don.

Dotrice, Karen

Garber, Matthew

Poppins, Mary

Distributed By Buena Vista Home Entertainment

No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied. Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing into a Comma. In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudgeonly way, he shows how to apply the basic rules to unique, modern grammar issues. Walsh explains how to deal with perplexing situations such as trendy words, foreign terms, and web speak.

Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--and How to Avoid Them

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Do they think of you as a "changer" or "changee" at work? In today's dynamic world of enterprise every employee must continually choose to become an empowered "changer" or risk becoming a helpless "changee". With this provocative thought the new book, "Agents of Change @ Work" explores the attitudes and approach of today's job-effective, make-it-happen employees. Business writer and consultant, Bill Walsh, first analyses how the intersecting forces of globalization, the rise of a service-dominated economy, and the explosive proliferation of information technologies have forever altered the organizational landscape of today's successful business enterprises and the job demands of their employees. In this new economy employees at all levels must come to terms with a working world where change is the only constant; up-to- date information and speed of response are the ultimate competitive weapons; and individual resourcefulness always trumps organizational resources. In the early chapters the author introduces a customer-focused, three-step work process that consistently leads to job-effective results. Next six key attributes are developed that define the work ethic of today's agent of change. These are initiative, credibility, energy, self-adaptability, commitment, and follow-up. With job approach and job attitude firmly established, Walsh next deals with two very timely issues : the ever expanding leadership roles of knowledge workers, and the leadership of teams. There is an insightful chapter on how today's job leaders put the well-known business concepts of core competency and strategic intent to work for themselves by pinpointing their individual "performance" and "opportunity" gaps. Readers will also be amused and forewarned by a chapter tour of the "company zoo", where mavericks, psuedo-heroes and incompetent employees eventually wind up. In the concluding chapter seven powerful levers for effecting meaningful enterprise change are described. Throughout the book, the wisdom of renowned leaders, from Henry Ford and Winston Churchill to Jack Welch and General Colin Powell, serve as the basis for the development of key leadership concepts. Key ideas are also illustrated by examining the underlying reasons for the continuing growth success of companies such as General Electric, Wal Mart, Merck, and Best Buy. At the end of each chapter there is a set of discusion questions that help to guide the reader in becoming a job-efffective and highly sought-after change agent.

Agents of Change @ Work

N O T A E

This book provides a comprehensive look at specifically what it takes to breakthrough your biggest challenges and live your biggest dreams! It gives you the keys for you to make it happen by identifying "The Universal Laws for Business Success." Once you know what they are, you can put them into action to get the results you want. Bill Walsh and Power Team International are dedicated to giving you the obvious tools (and even the not-so-obvious ones) to expedite your success. He knows firsthand what it takes to overcome challenges and make your business and lifestyle dreams happen. Bill's vision is to provide mentoring opportunities for people like you who are ready for massive success!

The Obvious

Marketing & Sales

Caboodle Publishing

The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership

Jamison, Steve

Walsh, Craig

Portfolio

Yes, I Could Care Less is a lively and often personal look at one man's continuing journey through the obstacle course that some refer to, far too simply, as "grammar." 
These are interesting times for word nerds. We ate, shot and left, bonding over a joke about a panda and some rants about greengrocers who abuse apostrophes. We can go on Facebook and vow to judge people when they use poor grammar. The fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Elements of Style inspired sentimental reveries. Grammar Girl's tally of Twitter followers is well into six digits. We can't get enough of a parody of the Associated Press Stylebook, of all things, or a collection of "unnecessary" quotation marks.
Could you care less? Does bad grammar or usage "literally" make your head explode? Test your need for this new book with these sentences:
"Katrina misplaced many residents of New Orleans from their homes." "Sherry finally graduated college this year." "An armed gunman held up a convenience store on Broadway yesterday afternoon."
Pat yourself on the back if you found issues in every one of these sentences, but remember: There is a world out there beyond the stylebooks, beyond Strunk and White, beyond Lynne Truss and Failblogs. In his long-awaited follow-up to Lapsing Into a Comma and The Elephants of Style, while steering readers and writers on the proper road to correct usage, Walsh cautions against slavish adherence to rules, emphasizing that the correct choice often depends on the situation. He might disagree with the AP Stylebook or Merriam-Webster, but he always backs up his preferences with logic and humor.
Walsh argues with both sides in the language wars, the sticklers and the apologists, and even with himself, over the disputed territory and ultimately over whether all this is warfare or just a big misunderstanding. Part usage manual, part confessional, and part manifesto, Yes, I Could Care Less bounces from sadomasochism to weather geekery, from "Top Chef" to Monty Python, from the chile of New Mexico to the daiquiris of Las Vegas, with Walsh's distinctive take on the way we write and talk.

Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

St. Martin's: Griffin

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