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| Authors: H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane E. Aaron
Publisher: Longman
Category: Book
List Price: $74.67
Buy New: $54.23
You Save: $20.44 (27%)
Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 1096
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 10
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 992
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0321389514
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.042
EAN: 9780321389510
Publication Date: February 18, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't believe the hype! Save your $50. November 27, 2001
11 out of 22 found this review helpful
This book doesn't even live up to its title. It's difficult to find what you are looking for. Hopefully the author wasn't expecting me to read it cover-to-cover. Just look at all the people selling their used Little Handbooks for $5! The older editions go for even less money. You would think that after 8 editions they would have improved the utility. If you REALLY want one, by a $5 used one.
 Fourteen Years And Counting October 12, 2001
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have been using The Little, Brown Handbook for about 14 years now. I started when I was a freshman in college and haven't been without a copy since. This thing is absolutely fantastic. The layout is just about perfect, it's easy to understand and the index is the benchmark that every reference book should follow. If you write with any kind of regularity, you need this book.
Put this next to your dictionary! October 21, 2001
9 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is a style guide, so it has no plot, no character development, and is about exciting as a box of Kleenex. However, it is a useful to for grammar and style guides. For example, it has business letter formats in it, necessary for any job application. Another thing it has is hints for research projects and how to organize your materials. Sot it is a writing tool, and serves as a check to your grammar-scan programs.The only complaint is that the newer ones aren't brown. How stupid is that? You ever see Mystery Men, and how the Blue Raja has no blue in his costume? Same thing! Make it brown!
The Little Brown Book August 26, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
As a student and instructor, I never ever write a paper without using this book. I have used it since 2002 and each edition is better and better. My highlighter never stops when finding important ways to quote authors, annotate references, and where to use semi colons.
Essential for anyone who wants to write well! May 11, 2006
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Whether you're a student or a grammar geek like me, this book is a must-have. Whatever words you use are a direct reflection on you and your intelligence, so why not use the best resource to shine?
Flip through and find a section when necessary, do a few exercises (answers included in the 10th edition!), or have the security of knowing it's there when you need it, but this is a purchase that you should definitely make!
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