Search results for ‘Charles Harrington Elster’

Filter & Refine

      Cover image for Word Workout: Building a Muscular Vocabulary in 10 Easy Steps
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Word Workout: Building a Muscular Vocabulary in 10 Easy Steps

      Charles Harrington Elster

      Word Workout is a practical book for building vocabulary–a graduated program featuring thousands of words that begins with those known by most college graduates and ascends to words known only…

      $57.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      The Accidents of Style: Good Advice on How Not to Write Badly

      Charles Harrington Elster

      Fasten your seat belt for a crash course in careful usage…. Just like automobile accidents, accidents of style occur all over the English-speaking world, in print and on the Internet…

      $47.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language

      Charles Harrington Elster

      Drawing upon esoteric sources and his own expertise, Elster uses a Q&A format to cover a variety of topics–word and phrase origins, slang, style, usage, punctuation, and pronunciation. Every chapter…

      $45.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      How to Tell Fate from Destiny: And Other Skillful Word Distinctions

      Charles Harrington Elster

      If you have trouble distinguishing the verbs imitate and emulate, the relative pronouns that and which, or the adjectives pliant, pliable, and supple, never fear–How to Tell Fate from Destiny…

      $45.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for There's a Word for It: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      There’s a Word for It: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life

      Charles Harrington Elster

      Here’s an irresistible invitation to discover a treasure trove of exceptional words you can use to add sophistication to your vocabulary and charm to your repartee. Consider that without realizing…

      $47.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Verbal Advantage: 10 Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Verbal Advantage: 10 Easy Steps to a Powerful Vocabulary

      Charles Harrington Elster

      A language reference based on the best-selling audio vocabulary series introduces 3,500 key vocabulary words, offering an easy-to-follow vocabulary-building program that provides concise explanations of definitions, etymologies, usage, pronunciation, and…

      $34.99

      Available to order, ships in approx 3 weeksAvailable to order

      Cover image for Tooth and Nail
      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Tooth and Nail

      An ingeniously imaginative alternative to stale word list books for building a strong vocabulary for the verbal sections of the SAT. The authors have created a mythical college and entangled…

      $37.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order

      Paperback
      Add to list Added to list

      Test of Time

      Page 6A fun and effective study method for students who take the annual SAT and ACT, this captivating time-travel adventure incorporates vocabulary words from the tests into the story.

      $51.99

      Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order