Description |
1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
Contents |
Introduction: The seventh sense -- The tractable apostrophe -- That'll do, comma -- Airs and graces -- Cutting a dash -- A little used punctuation mark -- Merely conventional signs. |
Summary |
We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Human rights.
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Human rights. |
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Civil rights workers -- Protection.
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Civil rights workers -- Protection. |
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Civil rights workers. |
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Political activists -- Protection.
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Political activists -- Protection. |
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Political activists. |
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Bodyguards.
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Bodyguards. |
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Non-governmental organizations.
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Non-governmental organizations. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Subject |
Human rights. |
Added Author |
Eguren, Luis Enrique.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mahony, Liam, 1958- Unarmed bodyguards. West Hartford, CT : Kumarian Press, 1997 (DLC) 96037848 |
ISBN |
1565495942 |
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156549069X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1565490681 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781565490697 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781565490680 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781565495944 (electronic book) |
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