Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Languages and Literature

Winnie the Pooh is one of the best-loved and most successful children's characters of all time. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, this book explores the fascinating story behind the development of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends through the creative ...

For entrepreneurs, creatives, business people, or anyone looking to create authentic connective moments, Winning the Room with the Winning Pitch is the public speaking book for you! Expand from a scared fumbling mess to a powerful public speaker that audiences love! Talk to win in every room. How...

It is strange that you exist, but you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, p...

Provides a newly edited text, an introduction that takes into account current critical thinking and a commentary on the play's language designed to make it easily accessible to contemporary readers.

This guide reveals how writers can take advantage of the brain's hard-wired responses to story to captivate their readers' minds through each plot element.

Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures. This compelling account of life on the road with Child demonstrates that readers are just as important as writers in the making of modern fiction.

In this engaging book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Adopting a different style for each chapter--from dramatic dialogue to sermon, heroic couplets to a barroom monologue--Geary embodies wit in all its forms. Wi...

A revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century. In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O'Conner unties the knottiest grammar tangles with the same insight and humor that have charmed and enlight...

Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature, vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a decade, to get to the heart of what our stories about the wolf reveal about our relations...

"Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy. However, as Sylvana Tomaselli shows, a full understanding of Wollstonecraft's thought is possible only through a more comprehensive appreciation of Wol...