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Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Don Watson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:416
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 127
Category/GenreLanguage - history and general works
ISBN/Barcode 9781740513661
ClassificationsDewey:427.0994
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House Australia
Imprint Vintage (Australia)
Publication Date 3 October 2005
Publication Country Australia

Description

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.

Author Biography

Don Watson's Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association's Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year 2003. Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, another best-seller, was published in 2004. His most recent book American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards in 2008. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and has been shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.