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The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder

Peter Zeihan and Hachette Audio

4.7 on Amazon

12 HN comments

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

David Eagleman

4.6 on Amazon

11 HN comments

Discrimination and Disparities

Thomas Sowell

4.9 on Amazon

9 HN comments

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Frederick Engels and Edward Aveling

4.6 on Amazon

9 HN comments

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

4.7 on Amazon

9 HN comments

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics)

Hannah Arendt and Amos Elon

4.6 on Amazon

8 HN comments

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement

Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

8 HN comments

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

4.8 on Amazon

7 HN comments

Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

Amy Klobuchar

4.5 on Amazon

7 HN comments

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

Francis Fukuyama, Jonathan Davis, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

7 HN comments

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Knowledge and Decisions

Thomas Sowell, Robertson Dean, et al.

4.8 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Evidence: A Structured Approach [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook)

David P. Leonard, Victor J. Gold, et al.

4.1 on Amazon

6 HN comments

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

John Rawls and Erin I. Kelly

4.4 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Associated Press Stylebook

The Associated Press

4.8 on Amazon

5 HN comments

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mkr-hnonNov 25, 2012

The Elements of Style is to K&R what The Voynich Manuscript is to On the Origin of Species. Elements of Style is good to read to see one person's ideas on style from a century ago, but it's not a guide to writing.

If you have a need for guidelines but don't want to develop your own, many major publications publish style books. For example: The Associated Press Stylebook, The Chicago Manual of Style. APA and MLA work too.

cghonFeb 6, 2015

Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.

projektfuonMay 20, 2021

Usually publishing organizations have house rules and the copy hews to these rules. NPR uses the spellings in Webster’s New World College Dictionary Fifth Edition, and then has a few rules of their own.

A more algorithmic rule is found in APA style: https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2016/10/hyphenation-stati...

Edit: NPR also uses the Associated Press Stylebook and related resources.

rifficonApr 5, 2018

The Associated Press stylebook calls for reporters to avoid using the term "Accident":

https://www.transalt.org/news/releases/9545

chconJuly 22, 2011

"Mister" is correct for any adult male. They may prefer the more exclusive title, but that's no more obligatory than my preference to be addressed as "Captain Awesome." And some style manuals (including the Associated Press Stylebook) actually forbid "Dr." unless the story is about medicine and the person in question is an MD.

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