Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and small intestines? If so, language humorists Richard Lederer and John Shore (with the sprightly aid of illustrator Jim McLean), have written the perfect book to help make your written words perfectly precise and punctuationally profound. Don't expect Comma Sense to be a dry, academic tome. On the contrary, the authors show how each mark of...
Are you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, ...
Der erste kommerziell genutzte Computer wurde vor weniger als funfundfreiig Jahren installiert, der erste sogenannte Tisch- oder Personal Computer 1975 verkauft. Heute sind Millionen von Computern in Gebrauch, und jedes Jahr werden weitere Millionen verkauft. Wir finden sie am Arbeitsplatz und zu Hause, in unserem Werkzeug und in unserem Spielzeug. So vieles hangt von ihnen ab - Energieversorgung, Waffen, offentliche Einrichtungen, Buros, Produktionsstraen, Finanzen und Vergnugen. Ebenso Transport und Kommunikation - ob wir selbst bewegt werden oder Information, wir sind vom Computer...
Der erste kommerziell genutzte Computer wurde vor weniger als funfundfreiig Jahren installiert, der erste sogenannte Tisch- oder Personal Computer 197...
Shore is one of America's leading Christian writers on the subject of gay people and Christianity. His essays are widely credited with being central to the sea change in Christian thinking that has occurred on this issue in recent years. UNFAIR offers the best of Shore's writings on homosexuality and Christians/Christianity, along with heart-wrenching but ultimately inspiring letters from gay people telling what it's like to grow up, and live today, both gay and Christian. The book's opening essay, "Taking God at His Word: The Bible and Homosexuality," is a must-read for anyone seeking...
Shore is one of America's leading Christian writers on the subject of gay people and Christianity. His essays are widely credited with being central t...
