Power of Words
by Chase, Stuart
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Book VG: offset to front board, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1954. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: offset to front board, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 308pp. in collaboration with Marian Tyler Chase. stated first edition. from Foreword: "This book grew out of my earlier work, The Tyranny of Words, published in 1938. I had first thought of a revision but so much new material had come in that the project turned into an entirely new work. Meanwhile my interest had expanded from semantics and the problems of meaning, to the whole broad field of communication. The Tyranny, as its title indicates, was chiefly concerned wtih the misuse of language. The present book, as its title indicates, deals with the positive as well as the negative; power runs to both poles. Words are what hold society together; without them we should. not be human beings. At the same time, words are responsible for untold and unnecessary conflict and misery." #02610.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2545
- Title
- Power of Words
- Author
- Chase, Stuart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG: offset to front board, mild shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- words, writing, language, nonfiction,
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