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  • Writing Tools

    55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.Ten years ago, Roy Peter Clark, America's most influential writing teacher, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, writing, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. In the past decade, Writing Tools has become a classic ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD

  • The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

    Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana

    by Peter Clarke ...
    A sweeping, brilliantly vivid history of the sudden end of the British empire and the moment when America became a world superpower."I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire*."* Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously affirmed his loyalty to ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Writing Tools for the College Admissions Essay

    Write Your Way into the School of Your Dreams

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    The essential guide to crafting the winning college admissions essay that only you could write, from America’s favorite writing coach.Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive than ever, the admissions essay may turn out to be the single most important thing they ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Tell It Like It Is

    A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    America's favorite writing coach and bestselling author returns with an "indispensable" guide (Diana K. Sugg, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter) to writing clearly and honestly in a world full of lies, propaganda, and misinformation.The darker and more dystopian the future appears, the more influential public writers become. But with so much content vying for our attention, and so much ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Art of X-Ray Reading

    How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    One of America's most influential writing teachers offers writing lessons we can draw from twenty-five great texts.Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made.In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Alpha One Sixteen

    A Combat Infantryman's Year in Vietnam

    by Peter Clark ...
    In this "great and necessary addition to the canon of Vietnam War memoirs" the author "is a thoroughly human Virgil guiding us through the hell of combat" ( New York Journal of Books).Peter Clark's year in Vietnam began in July 1966, when he was shipped out with hundreds of other young recruits as a replacement in the 1st Infantry Division. Assigned to the Alpha Company, Clark gives a visceral and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope and Glory

    Britain 1900-2000

    by Peter Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Men of 1924

    Britain’s First Labour Government

    by Peter Clark ...
    An in-depth look at the diverse group of men who comprised Britain’s first Labour Party in 1924.In January of 1924, the cabinet of the first Labour government consisted of twenty white, middle-aged men, as it had for generations. But the election also represented a radical departure from government by the ruling class. Most members of the administration had left school by the age of fifteen. Five ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire

    The Demise of a Superpower, 1944-47

    by Peter Clarke ...
    'I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.'Winston Churchill's famous statement in November 1942, just as the tide of the Second World War was beginning to turn, pugnaciously proclaimed his loyalty to the world-wide institution which he had served devotedly for most of his life. The majority of the British people, who believed they ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Murder Your Darlings

    And Other Gentle Writing Advice from Aristotle to Zinsser

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    From one of America's most influential teachers, a collection of the best writing advice distilled from fifty language books -- from Aristotle to Strunk and White.With so many excellent writing guides lining bookstore shelves, it can be hard to know where to look for the best advice. Should you go with Natalie Goldberg or Anne Lamott? Maybe William Zinsser or Stephen King would be more appropriate ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Public Speaking Anxiety Eliminated

    by Peter Clark ...
    A guide to Public Speaking for the occasional speaker. By using the simple formula that the book explains in detail, anyone can successfully speak publicly at such events as a short presentation, a thank you or wedding speech.The method described is complete and includes examples to ensure the reader fully understands how to implement the preparation of their engagement to ensure complete ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Write Short

    Word Craft for Fast Times

    by Roy Peter Clark ...
    America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing." How to Write Short is a deeply practical guidebook and an annotated collection of concise gems from some of the world's greatest writers and journalists, not one of them longer than 300 words. Roy's message is clear: great writing is a matter of craft, not word count. How to Wri... ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD