Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words
Contemporary Cliches, Cant and Management Jargon
$25.91
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2005
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781740513661 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1740513665 |
| Author: | Don Watson |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 127mm x 197mm |
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Don Watson
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. Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words was also a bestseller.
American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.
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