Anyone who works with words and people will want to keep this indispensable guide close at hand. In her highly entertaining style, best-selling author Rosalie Maggio offers thousands of alternatives for outdated, stereotypical, and damaging language. This substantially updated and expanded version of Maggio's earlier work, "The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage," also covers numerous words and phrases that were not even part of our language five years ago. This handy reference guide merits a place next to the dictionary and thesaurus of all who are sensitive to the use of fair and accurate...
Anyone who works with words and people will want to keep this indispensable guide close at hand. In her highly entertaining style, best-selling aut...
Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English language, replace stereotypical language and improve communication skills. Also included is advice and background perspective on usage or word origin.
Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English langua...
Introduces a gifted woman said to be "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc", providing proof that she did indeed do everything ascribed to her, and investigating some of the reasons she has been forgotten. Known as the "fiancee of danger," she was the model for the silent film series, The Perils of Pauline.
Introduces a gifted woman said to be "the most incredible woman since Joan of Arc", providing proof that she did indeed do everything ascribed to her,...
