In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write effective and powerful titles, headlines, essays, sales pitch…
Siapa aku ini? Pertanyaan itu terus berdentam-dentam dalam benakku. Nyatanya, aku hanya sebuah jiwa yang terombang-ambing di antara kehidupan dan kematian. Entah kapan aku akan terbiasa dengan kondisi diriku ini. Aku tidak tahu mana yang lebih parah, hidupku sebelumnya ataukah yang sekarang. Semua terasa absurd semenjak aku tidak bisa menjangkau dunia. Perjalanan panjang yang kulalui bers…
This title gives the story of Scotland from the Ice Age to the Vikings, the Picts and the Romans, to Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora Macdonald, Sir Walter Scott, Logie Baird, Keir Hardie, and many more famous Scots up to the present day. Each page is packed with colorful pictures and witty captions and speech bubbles, and a pithy text gives the facts and tell…
Hey, Waldo fans! Sharpen your eyes and your wits, because Waldo is taking you on a whole new star-studded adventure. That's right, you're going to Hollywood! Follow Waldo—if you can find him—through a cast of thousands on the bustling streets of the great movie classics. Is he there in the chorus line of that musical in production, or up on the ramparts of that epic war film? Or is our elus…
The book contains the facts about extinct and endangered animals, from 'which endangered animal is brought up in a bucket?' to 'why do animals need us?''
Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed to be a simple support mission to investigate the death of an operative who had been looking into suspicious banking activities at a Swiss bank. Ryan's dogged tenacity uncovered not only financial deceit, but also the existence of a KGB assassin, code-named Zenith. He was never able to find the …