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An Essay on Typography – Eric Gill
₦15,000.00Eric Gill’s opinionated manifesto on typography argues that ‘a good piece of lettering is as beautiful a thing to see as any sculpture or painted picture’. This essay explores the place of typography in culture and is also a moral treatise celebrating the role of craftsmanship in an industrial age.
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Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life – Anne Lamott
₦18,000.00Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides – a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Beautifully written, wise and immensely helpful, this is the book for all serious writers and writers-to-be.
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In Defence of the Republic – Marcus Tullius Cicero
₦18,000.00Cicero (106-43BC) was the most brilliant orator in Classical history. Even one of the men who authorized his assassination, the Emperor Octavian, admitted to his grandson that Cicero was: ‘an eloquent man, my boy, eloquent and a lover of his country’.
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On War – Carl von Clausewitz
₦16,000.00Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war.
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction – William Zinsser
₦28,000.00On Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.
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The Art of Rhetoric – Aristotle
₦10,000.00HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.
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The Flame – Leonard Cohen
₦27,000.00Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers an intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, this collection is a valedictory work.
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The Power of Words – Simone Weil
₦13,000.00Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipulation of language by the powerful, the obligations of individuals to one another and the needs – for order, equality, liberty and truth – that make us human. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series.
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The Writing Life – Annie Dillard
₦15,500.00How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning? Her perennial guide, which wrestles with the hubris and insanity of the creative process, has been an inspiration and a comfort to writers for nearly forty years.
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Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot – Matt Abrahams
₦18,000.00In this invaluable guide, Stanford University lecturer and host of the #1 business podcast Think Fast, Talk Smart, Matt Abrahams, provides a six-point methodology to help you cut through the anxiety and find the right words – when it counts. A prospective client asking unexpected questions during a sales pitch, a teacher singling you out for an an…
