This guide should be within easy reach for any writer because it answers hundreds of commonly asked questions that arise when penning anything from business letters to personal correspondence. The tips are presented in question-and-answer format and are arranged alphabetically by keyword for quick and easy reference. This book explains the differences between similar words, suggests appropriate words and phrases, helps writers avoid common grammatical errors, and provides guidance in the correct pronunciation of unusually spelled words.

The Wordwatcher's Guide to Good Grammar & Word Usage

Reference

Freeman, Morton S.

Words, Language & Grammar

Medford Press

Ideal for anyone with personal concerns about genetic illness or an interest in the latest scientific breakthroughs and their potential impact on people, families, and society, this book explains the advances in genetic research. Now that gene research promises to revolutionize medicine in the 21st century, public interest in genetics has never been greater. The confidentiality of personal genetic information and the regulation of genetic technologies like cloning are hot-button topics increasingly dramatized in the media. This book includes the latest information on the Human Genome Project; a directory of Internet-based genetics resources; advice on when to consider a genetic test; and information on finding local genetics professionals, societies, support groups, and foundations.

Genetics & Your Health: A Guide for the 21st Century Family

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alford Ph.D., Raye Lynn

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Most Americans equate space exploration with NASA, but the general public is largely unaware that hundreds of passionate individuals and private organizations are working to allow ordinary people the opportunity to tour near space and to create permanent human settlements on Mars and other celestial bodies. Through a series of fascinating interviews, this book introduces the scientists, astronauts, engineers, and entrepreneurs behind the private space movement and offers a clear-eyed assessment of their prospects for success. The legal, ethical, and political challenges facing the exploitation of space resources are also explored, and issues such as environmental responsibility, safety, law enforcement, property rights, patents, and government policy are discussed.

Making Space Happen: Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind Them

Business & Money

Berinstein, Paula

Industries

Humorist Melissa Jarvis offers a hilarious look at American motherhood in an Erma Bombeck tradition updated for a new generation of harried moms. Each of the two dozen stories portrays an amusing real-life situation as the book's protagonist, a busy wife and mother of children aged five to seven, struggles to juggle work and parenting and to cope with the many aspects of modern motherhood for which she is not prepared. The goings-on in this happily dysfunctional household will have mothers laughing out loud as they identify with the frustrations, challenges, and small victories dealing with the Girl Scout cookie business, the terrors of crafting and volunteerism, babysitting nightmares, exotic pets, and foul smells of an unknown origin.

Welcome to the Motherhood: Grime & Punishment

Humor & Entertainment

Jarvis, Melissa

Humor

From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reaching history offers a riveting account of its past 100 years—from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era. A colorful cast of characters, led by Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the toxic power structure that grew out of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic City's shadowy past—through its rise, fall, and rebirth—is given new light in this revealing, and often appalling, study of legislative abuse and organized crime.

Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City

History

Johnson, Nelson

Americas

Providing the inspiration and source material for the upcoming HBO series produced by Academy Award–winning director Martin Scorsese and Emmy Award–winning screenwriter Terence Winter, this riveting and wide-reaching history explores the sordid past of Atlantic City—forever a freewheeling town long-dedicated to the fast buck—from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era. A colorful cast of powerful characters, led by “Commodore” Kuehnle and “Nucky” Johnson, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the toxic power structure that grew out of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic City's shadowy past—through its rise, fall, and rebirth—is given new light in this revealing, and often appalling, study of legislative abuse and organized crime.

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The Wordwatcher's Guide to Good Grammar & Word Usage

Genetics & Your Health: A Guide for the 21st Century Family

Genetics & Your Health: A Guide for the 21st Century Family

Making Space Happen: Private Space Ventures and the Visionaries Behind Them

Welcome to the Motherhood: Grime & Punishment

Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City

Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City