"Authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E. L. Doctorow, and Frank Rich, into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best foot forward in writing prose. Dreyer offers lessons on the ins and outs of punctuation and grammar, including how to navigate the words he calls 'the confusables,'...

Imagina que llega el día de tu boda, todo está preparado, pero ¿estás realmente preparado para todo lo que puede ocurrir? ¿Conoces todos los problemas que pueden surgir y cómo solucionarlos? Es en este momento cuando el "Manual para parejas que se casan por primera vez" se convierte en tu mejor aliado. Este libro es diferente a cualquier otro que hayas leído, no se centra en cómo planificar una boda, sino en cómo afrontar el día de tu boda....

A foundational work in the field of philosophy, outlining Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's influential theory of dialectics and the logical structure of absolute idealism. Hegel's ambitious work explores the evolution of thought through a triadic process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, leading to the development of higher concepts and truths. This complex philosophical treatise attempts to understand the nature of reality, history, and human...

June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery had ended! The Civil War had actually ended in April. It took two months for word to reach Texas. Still the joy of that amazing day has never been forgotten. Every year, people all over the United States come together on June 19th to celebrate the end...

Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.)
Unmentionable is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on: What to...

La cultura general se refiere a los conocimientos de cualquier tipo que pueda poseer un individuo. Este concepto forma parte del proyecto humanista que tiene origen en la paideia griega, traducida por Marco Tulio Cicerón bajo el término de humanitas y que se unió durante el Renacimiento a las artes liberales. El proyecto de una cultura general está intrínsecamente relacionado con las reflexiones sobre la humanidad, bien sea concebida como naturaleza...

This audiobook will change your view of symbols, their meaning, and how they affect our world. Kuhn is an exquisite genius in showing how our alphabet was formed and how language dictates reality. Get it!

Are you an elderly individual looking for compelling ways to promote self-preservation, awareness, and safety? Would you like to transform your lifestyle so that you can live a healthier and much more fulfilling life? Studies show that in the past 50 years, human life expectancy has been increasing by three years per generation. People who manage to live for 65 years and beyond understand there are no limits to changing their lives so that they can...

Why write your own story? It's a scary thought: What if you died before you told your life's story, and your busybody sister-in-law decided to write it for you? Yes, she's diligent, but she never really liked you, and she surely doesn't know you as well as you know yourself. No one can tell your life's story as clearly or as accurately as you can! Now's the time, before it's too late. In only 30 short minutes a day, you can begin to tell your own...

New York Times bestselling Music Is History combines Questlove’s deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years—now in paperback
Focusing on the years 1971 to the present, Questlove finds the hidden connections in the American tapes, whether investigating how the blaxploitation era reshaped Black identity or considering the way disco took an assembly-line approach...