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Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style guides and books on editing. This book distils over two decades of experience, explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable. Topics include:

• Achieving an editorial Gestalt
• Common errors—danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers, shortcuts
• Errors of reasoning—begging the question, teleology, size comparisons
• Expression—first-person science, order of events, parallel narratives
• Tricky terms—applied, based on, due to, respectively

And two handy character charts for Macintosh- and Windows-based editors who are tired of hunting around for special characters.

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Writing Science in English is intended as a "how-to" guide for Japanese scientists who are required to write in English for publication. It is based on over 25 years of my experience working as a scientific editor with Japanese authors. It covers all of the common errors I see, and provides a basic structure for writing scientific papers in English, along with examples. It starts with a background to the English language and why it is so annoying. Then it presents the basic structure of a scientific paper. Then it shows examples of how to write and how not to write, and why.

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No printed copies are available, only the PDF, but you can print out the PDF if you want.

表紙をクリックして本書をダウンロードしてください（2.7 MBダウンロード）。 拙著Writing Science in Englishは、英語で出版物の執筆をしなければならない日本人科学者のため のハウツーガイドとなることを意図して書かれています。本書は、日本人著者と25年にわたって科学 編集者として仕事をしてきた私の経験に基づいており、私がよく目にする誤りをすべて網羅し、英語 で科学論文を執筆するための基本構造を例とともに提供しています。まず、英語という言語の背景と 、英語の面倒な点から始め、科学論文の基本構造を提示し、次いで、論文の書き方の例と、適切でな い書き方の例、そしてその理由を述べています。 本書を有用だと思われましたら、PayPalより、1,000円または10ドルのご送金をお願いいたします。

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Where on Earth?: Adventures off the beaten path:

For more than four decades, I have sought out adventure trips to out-of-the-way places, first on my own, then with my wife, and then with our children. Early on I began keeping trip diaries so I could remember what I had seen and done. Later, as the Internet grew, I sent messages home as and when I found an Internet café. This book collects all of these tales together. All the chapters have been fleshed out with memories refreshed by the thousands of photographs I've taken over the years, all comprehensively scanned and stored on archival CDs and DVDs. The book recounts my adventures travelling the world by bicycle, elephant, camel, tuk-tuk, commuter train, steam train, dugout canoe, ferry, ship, foot, motorbike, taxi, bus and felucca, and the weird and wonderful foods I've eaten. I hope my tales of far-fetched derring-do in unlikely places by unusual modes of transport entertain you and perhaps inspire you to explore some of these places yourself.

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Left-handedness is not a disability. But just as technology can enable and include people with disabilities, so can it disable and exclude others. This book is not another history of left-handedness. Instead, it is a plea for better design to include everyone, not exclude some.