Linguistics
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Naming Nature: A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities for Word Lovers
$24.99 Add to cart“A GLORIOUS BOOK” -Dr. Jane Goodall
A lyrical journey through the world’s languages that reveals how humanity has named–and been shaped by–the natural world, complete with exquisite archival artwork- Author: Barron, T. A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881608514
- Language: English
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Depraved and Insulting English
$15.99 Add to cartOriginally published as two distinct collections, Depraved and Insulting English brings to light the language’s most offensive and obscene words–words that have fallen out of today’s lexicon but will… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Novobatzky, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0156011492
- Language: English
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Words to Love a Planet: An Illustrated Lexicon of Landscape, People, and Possibility
$24.99 Add to cartWords to Love a Planet is a beautifully illustrated and culturally diverse dictionary of words from a wide variety of languages offering new ways to consider our lives, our landscapes, and our ways of… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881600082
- Language: English
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The Language of the Soul: How the Words You Choose Shape the Life You Live
$22.00 Add to cartA poetic treasury of spiritual insight, The Language of the Soul uncovers the original meanings of words to help us remember what it means to be fully alive
For poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo, w- Author: Nepo, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1250404231
- Language: English
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This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams: A Journey Through the Sharpest, Strangest, and Most Stirring Lines Ever Constructed
$18.00 Add to cartUnleash your inner grammar geek! A perfect gift for word nerds and language lovers, This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams uses the simplicity of the classic sentence diagram to unpack iconic quotes from… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Man
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894142081
- Language: English
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Weighing the Word: Reasoning the Qur’an as Revelation
$10.95 Add to cartA comprehensive survey of traditional and contemporary views on the Qur’an, including textual, historical, sociological, philosophical, aesthetic, linguistic and experiential, brought together in an e… [more below]
- Author: Samsel, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: June 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1908092149
- Language: English
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Mysteries of English Grammar: A Guide to Complexities of the English Language
$33.99 Add to cartDespite a history of hundreds of years of research analysing aspects of English grammar, there are still open problems which continue to baffle language researchers today. Such ‘grammar mysteries’ ari
- Author: Calude, Andreea S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0367710277
- Language: English
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English Short Stories for Beginners: Learn English With Stories From an American Life
$8.99 Add to cartAre you learning English? If so, that’s great!
We would like to help you on your journey to learn English.Reading in English is perhaps the best way to build up your vocabulary. With our book English
- Author: Guru, Language
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: March 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1950321460
- Language: English
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An Apple a Day: 25 Surprisingly Universal Idioms & Their Origins
$19.95 Add to cartA colorful, cross-cultural journey through the world’s most familiar idioms–and how they connect us.
Meet the boldly colorful and charming backstory of familiar colloquialisms from some of the most-s- Author: Tartaglia, Michela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1632176181
- Language: English
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The Eh Team: A Celebration of Canadianisms from Elbows Up to Poutine
$19.95 Add to cart“Funny, short snippets of Canadiana wrung through the hilariously encyclopedic mind of Charlie Demers–so good.”–Ins Choi, creator of Kim’s Convenience
A laugh-out-loud funny guide to how to talk, li- Author: DeMers, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1778403743
- Language: English
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Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red: The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases
$19.95 Add to cartDiscover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language’s most curious phrases in this fascinating trivia book from best-selling author Andrew Thompson.
Engl- Author: Thompson, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1612439640
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Add to cart“What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is–an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and se… [more below]
- Author: Magan, Manchán
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1645023761
- Language: English
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Weak Verb Morphology: 4
$32.99 Add to cartOne of the obstacles to success in learning biblical Hebrew is understanding the various ways weak verbs inflect. Weak Verb Morphology by Adam J. Howell addresses the features and characteristics of t
- Series: Advancing Biblical Hebrew
- Author: Howell, Adam J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0310165512
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
$34.95 Add to cartA breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary- Author: Ando, Miya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049864
- Language: English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme–And Other Oddities of the English Language
$16.98 Add to cartFor anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language.
Maybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you lea- Author: Okrent, Arika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0197760910
- Language: English
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
$23.99 Add to cartThe key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural v
- Author: Agar, Michael H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0688149499
- Language: English
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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
$19.99 Add to cartDid you know that an “astronaut” is literally a “star sailor,” that a thesaurus is, in fact, a “treasure
Have you
trove” of words, and that someone who is “sinister” is actually just “left-handed”?- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399809180
- Language: English
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Meaning of Meaning
$18.99 Add to cartLanguage is the most important of all the instruments of civilization. This is the premise of a work whose significance to the study of language, literature, and philosophy has remained undiminished s… [more below]
- Author: Ogden, C. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: June 26 1989
- ISBN10: 0156584468
- Language: English
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The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
$28.99 Add to cartDreyer’s English meets Schott’s Original Miscellany in this delicious tour of the lesser-known wonders of the language world, perfect for language lovers, word nerds, and the incurably curious.
A deli- Author: Blackburn, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668098849
- Language: English
