The Elements of Style,William Strunk, Jr.Dover publications
$ 3.95
William Strunk has concisely put together suggestions for improving sentence construction, structuring a paragraph, and appropriately using punctuation. The use of the apostrophe, in Jesus’, Charles’s and Achilles, has been highlighted. Similarly, examples are given in each of the segments.
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The writer has covered expressions and words commonly misused and misspelt; why sentences should be in positive form and active voice; importance of using concrete language; omission of needless words; use of a single tense; and correct presentation of quotation, numerals, references and titles.
Why I failed, Shweta Punj, Random House India Rs 199
How about looking at failure from a different perspective? The author has talked about the failures of 16 prominent people from Abhinav Bindra to Narayana Murthy, Madhur Bhandkhar to Sabysachi Mukherjee.
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“You need failure to succeed” – the writer’s own words.