Weasel Words
Title | Weasel Words PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Wasserman |
Publisher | Capital Books |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781933102078 |
With more than 1,200 terms, this A to Z dictionary is a hard-hitting, politically savvy translation of all those evasions, put-on-holds, distortions, circumventions, obfuscations, and misleading terms used by government, businesses, and the media.
Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
Title | Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words PDF eBook |
Author | Don Watson |
Publisher | Random House Australia |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1742744664 |
The brilliant and bestselling companion volume to Don Watson's Death Sentence The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead) – How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose words kill brain cells and sink hearts. Striking a much-needed blow for truth and clarity, here is Don Watson, author of the international bestseller Death Sentence, at his sobering, scathing and wickedly funny best.
Death Sentences
Title | Death Sentences PDF eBook |
Author | Don Watson |
Publisher | Gotham |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2006-05-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781592402052 |
From one of Australia's best-known writers and public intellectuals comes a funny and profound polemic about the sorry state of public language and what can--and must--be done about it.
Weasel Words
Title | Weasel Words PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Pei |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Surveys intentionally misleading words and how they are used in radio, TV, advertising, the press and politics, and how they affect the process of language change.
Weasel Words
Title | Weasel Words PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Howard |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN | 9780552990257 |
Never Tease a Weasel
Title | Never Tease a Weasel PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Conder Soule |
Publisher | Dragonfly Books |
Total Pages | 42 |
Release | 2011-05-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 037587285X |
A funny, finger-wagging rhyme with some very good advice: never tease a weasel, because teasing isn't nice! Rather, kids should do nice things for animals, such as bake a drake a cake, or give a mule a pool, and much more. Long out of print, this new edition of Never Tease a Weasel with art by the great New Yorker cartoonist George Booth will surely please a weasel, and everyone else who reads it!
Pop Goes the Weasel
Title | Pop Goes the Weasel PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Jack |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-09-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1101162961 |
From the international bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants—a curious guide to the hidden histories of classic nursery rhymes. Who was Mary Quite Contrary, or Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? Do Jack and Jill actually represent the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette? And if Ring Around the Rosie isn’t about the plague, then what is it really about? This book is a quirky, curious, and sometimes sordid look at the truth behind popular nursery rhymes that uncovers the strange tales that inspired them—from Viking raids to political insurrection to smuggling slaves to freedom. Read Albert Jack's posts on the Penguin Blog.