Eric Hayot teaches graduate students & faculty in literary & cultural studies how to think & write like a professional scholar From granular concerns such as sentence structure & grammar to big-picture issues such as adhering to genre patterns for successful research & publishing & developing productive & rewarding writing habits Hayot helps ambitious students newly minted Ph D's & established professors shape their work & develop their voices Hayot does more than explain the techniques of academic writing He aims to adjust the writer's perspective encouraging scholars to think of themselves as makers & doers of important work Scholarly writing can be frustrating & exhausting yet also satisfying & crucial & Hayot weaves these experiences including his own trials & tribulations into an ethos for scholars to draw on as they write Combining psychological support with practical suggestions for composing introductions & conclusions developing a schedule for writing using notes & citations & structuring paragraphs & essays this guide to the elements of academic style does its part to rejuvenate scholarship & writing in the humanities ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON Mark Forsyth presents the secret of writing unforgettable phrases uncovering the techniques that have made immortal such lines as To be or not to be' & Bond James Bond' In his inimitably entertaining & witty style he takes apart famous"ations & shows how you too can write like Shakespeare Oscar Wilde or John Lennon Crammed with tricks to make the most humdrum sentiments seem poetic or wise The Elements of Eloquence reveals how writers through the ages have turned humble words into literary gold
- & how you can do the same An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric Mark Forsyth wears his considerable knowledge lightly He also writes beautifully' David Marsh Guardian
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Since 1914 Cambridge has published The Elements of New Testament Greek a best-selling textbook for scholars & students of the Bible The original book by Nunn was replaced & succeeded in 1965 by J W Wenham's book of the same title; now Jeremy Duff has produced a new book to continue this long-established tradition into the twenty-first century Learning Greek is a journey of many steps In this book each of these steps is explained clearly & reviewed using questions & exercises Lessons are ordered so the most important aspects of Greek are learnt first & the vocabulary consists of the most commonly occurring words in the New Testament Hundreds of examples cover every book of the New Testament & there is a New Testament passage to translate in almost every chapter An audio CD containing vocabulary lists reading passages & paradigms is also available to accompany this book Free software & teaching resources are also available at the book's website ...

This book describes the important ideas in a variety of fields such as medicine biology finance & marketing in a common conceptual framework While the approach is statistical the emphasis is on concepts rather than mathematics Many examples are given with a liberal use of colour graphics It is a valuable resource for statisticians & anyone interested in data mining in science or industry The book's coverage is broad from supervised learning (prediction) to unsupervised learning The many topics include neural networks support vector machines classification trees & boosting---the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in any book This major new edition features many topics not covered in the original including graphical models random forests ensemble methods least angle regression & path algorithms for the lasso non-negative matrix factorisation & spectral clustering There is also a chapter on methods for wide'' data (p bigger than n) including multiple testing & false discovery rates ...

The Elephant & the Bad Baby is the classic story from Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs The Elephant takes the Bad Baby for a ride & they go 'rumpeta rumpeta rumpeta down the road' They help themselves to ice creams pies buns crisps biscuits lollipops & apples & the shopkeepers follow them down the road shouting & waving All ends well as the Bad Baby learns to say ' Please' & his mother makes pancakes for everyone Elfrida Vipont worked as a teacher singer & writer She wrote over 30 books & won the Carnegie Medal in 1950 for Lark on the Wing Raymond Briggs has produced wonderful children's books including the classic titles The Snowman Father Christmas & When the Wind Blows
- all made into immensely successful films Raymond lives in Sussex Look out for these other titles by Raymond Briggs The Snowman; The Elephant & the Bad Baby; Father Christmas; Fungus the Bogeyman; Raymond Briggs's Christmas Little Library; The Father Christmas it's a Bloomin' Terrible Joke Book; Jim & the Beanstalk; Father Christmas Goes on Holiday
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt) a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master" the eloquent soft spoken Merrick is "rescued" by compassionate surgeon Dr Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) who allows him to live at the hospital where he works Merrick becomes a social celebrity when he meets a popular stage performer (Anne Bancroft) but he must continue to fight for his dignity with those who still choose to view him as a freak Meanwhile Treves begins to question whether his supposed act of humanity has been just as exploitative as Merrick&s former caretaker&s Lynch&s follow-up to his 1978 cult classic ERASERHEAD is a striking blend of art & entertainment which earned the film eight Academy Award nominations in 1980 Freddie Francis&s breathtaking black-&-white cinematography combines with John Morris&s score to re-create Victorian England with a deeply haunting beauty It is the compassionate performances of Hurt & Hopkins that lift THE ELEPHANT MAN to a more emotional level however bringing an inspired sadness to Lynch&s striking vision ...

A child a wild animal
- & a life-changing encounter An exciting new range of books in which children find solutions to problems
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When pickpocket Danny accidentally bids for Maharajah the elephant at an Edinburgh auction he's swept up on an unforgettable journey His new employer a zookeeper transforms Danny into a bejewelled Indian prince As he rides Maharajah from Scotland to his new home in England even Queen Victoria follows their journey with delight But a rival zookeeper wagers on their failure & soon Danny's shady connections threaten to overturn the mission ...

When a man's favourite elephant vanishes the balance of his whole life is subtly upset A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a Mc Donald's A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible
- even death In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal
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For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg archduke in Vienna The only way for Solomon to get to his new home is to walk So begins a journey that will take the stalwart elephant across the dusty plains of Castile over the sea to Genoa & up to northern Italy where like Hannibal's elephants before him he must cross the snowy Alps Based on a true story Saramago's tale is an enchanting mix of fact fable & fantasy ...