Digest

Digest
Author: Gregory Pardlo
Publisher: Four Way Books
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2016-04-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1935536818

From Epicurus to Sam Cooke, the Daily News to Roots, Digest draws from the present and the past to form an intellectual, American identity. In poems that forge their own styles and strategies, we experience dialogues between the written word and other art forms. Within this dialogue we hear Ben Jonson, we meet police K-9s, and we find children negotiating a sense of the world through a father's eyes and through their own.

Polling Matters

Polling Matters
Author: Frank Newport
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2004-07-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0759511764

From The Gallup Organization-the most respected source on the subject-comes a fascinating look at the importance of measuring public opinion in modern society. For years, public-opinion polls have been a valuable tool for gauging the positions of American citizens on a wide variety of topics. Polling applies scientific principles to understanding and anticipating the insights, emotions, and attitudes of society. Now in POLLING MATTERS: Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People, The Gallup Organization reveals: What polls really are and how they are conducted Why the information polls provide is so vitally important to modern society today How this valuable information can be used more effectively and more...

Guide to Literary Agents 2020

Guide to Literary Agents 2020
Author: Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1440354944

The Best Resource Available for Finding a Literary Agent! No matter what you're writing--fiction or nonfiction, books for adults or children--you need a literary agent to get the best book deal possible from a traditional publisher. Guide to Literary Agents 2020 is your go-to resource for finding that literary agent and earning a contract from a reputable publisher. Along with listing information for more than 1,000 agents who represent writers and their books, the 29th edition of GLA includes: • The key elements of a successful nonfiction book proposal. • Informative articles on crafting the perfect synopsis and detailing what agents are looking for in the ideal client--written by actual literary agents. • Plus, a 30-Day Platform Challenge to help writers build their writing platforms +Includes 20 literary agents actively seeking writers and their writing

The Illiterate Digest

The Illiterate Digest
Author: Will Rogers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2013-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781494093426

This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.

Statistics

Statistics
Author: David Freedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9788130915876

Statistics is written in clear, everyday language, without the equations that sometimes baffle non-mathematical readers. The goal is teaching students how to think about statistical issues.

The Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing

The Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9780898798319

Contains thirty-seven articles drawn from the pages of "Writer's Digest" magazine, in which authors, editors, agents, and teachers offer advice on various aspects of novel-writing, discussing topics such as building plot skeletons, writing good dialogue, creating a book outline, and negotiating a contract.