Language Arts & Disciplines : Publishing

The Everything® Guide to Writing Children's Books is the perfect handbook if you're looking to create a successful children's book. more...

Price: $14.95

This readable and lively guide is an invaluable handbook for postgraduates and lecturers new to publishing, with direct advice based on up to date research that goes beyond that given in current textbooks. more...

Price: $37.95

Aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description. more...

Price: $379.00

Dan Poynter’s ‘Book Publishing Encyclopedia’ is the “Book Publishing answer Book.” It has thousands of tips and references in an easy-to use alphabetical encyclopedia. Each fact, figure, resource or reference, in its 222 pages, links to a specific page on a web site for more information. Time is money. Writers, publishers and publicists need access to resources—quickly. Whether they deal in entertainment (fiction) or information (nonfiction), they need information on the book industry. Poynter’s Encyclopedia is also made available in softcover, large print and four types of eBook. All are laid out alphabetically—A through Z and have a voluminous index. The eBook editions may also be searched electronically. Dan Poynter has been gathering these facts and figures for years. He has written more than 120 books and hundreds of other information products. The media come to Dan because he is the leading authority on how to write, publish and promote books. Keep this reference within easy reach; you will refer to it often. When you have questions, this book will supply the answers and they will be easy to find. more...

Price: $19.95

From one of America's most beloved and bestselling authors, a wonderfully useful and readable guide to the problems of the English language most commonly encountered by editors and writers. What is the difference between “immanent” and “imminent”? What is the singular form of graffiti? What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”? What is the former name of “Moldova”? What is the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number? One of the English language's most skilled writers answers these and many other questions and guides us all toward precise, mistake-free usage. more...

Price: $22.00