Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words

Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words
Author: Don Watson
Publisher: Random House Australia
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1740513665


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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.

Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Author: Paul Wasserman
Publisher: Capital Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781933102078


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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.

Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Author: Philip Howard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1983
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780552990257


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Weasel Words

Weasel Words
Author: Mario Pei
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1978
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:


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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.

Death Sentences

Death Sentences
Author: Don Watson
Publisher: Gotham
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006-05-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781592402052


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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.

Never Tease a Weasel

Never Tease a Weasel
Author: Jean Conder Soule
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2011-05-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 037587285X


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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

Pop Goes the Weasel
Author: Albert Jack
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1101162961


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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.

Weasel

Weasel
Author: Cynthia DeFelice
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1991-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0380713586


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The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian fighter the government sent to drive off the Indians -- to "remove them." Weasel has his own ideas about removal... Now that the Shawnees are dead or have left, Weasel has turned on the settlers. Like his namesake, the weasel, he hunts by night and sleeps by day, and he kills not because he is hungry, but for the sport of it...I know what I have to do. Weasel is out there. He could come here and hurt us. Maybe Pa can wait for the day when we'll have the law to take care of men like Weasel. But I can't...

The Accidental Genius of Weasel High

The Accidental Genius of Weasel High
Author: Rick Detorie
Publisher: Egmont USA
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2011-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1606842447


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A book for the Wimpy Kid who has grown into a Wimpy Teen Larkin Pace desperately wants a new camcorder. How else is he going to become the next great filmmaker? But his dad won’t give him any money, his sister is determined to make his life miserable, and his nemesis Dalton Cooke is trying to steal his girlfriend. Now this height-challenged aspiring director must chronicle his wacky life for a freshman English assignment.