Linguistics
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English Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Learn English and Build Your Vocabulary
$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 to fluency.
Reading in English is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. W
- Author: Guru, Language
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1950321495
- Language: English
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Schott’s Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Schott’s Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the colorful language and systems of signs that make up the vocabulary of our w… [more below]
- Author: Schott, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1523532262
- Language: English
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
$17.00 Add to cartA kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Cur… [more below]
- Author: Curzan, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444116
- Language: English
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Buckley: The Right Word
$21.99 Add to cartBuckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume – a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Libra… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005697
- Language: English
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Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings
$17.99 Add to cartHe’s as mad as a hatter!
Whether it’s like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we’ve never really known why … until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains m
- Author: Funk, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0060513314
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
$15.00 Add to cartA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant’s first word to the languages of the internet
Language never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283237
- Language: English
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The Neural Mind: How Brains Think
$35.00 Add to cartOffers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.
What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experi- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 022683588X
- Language: English
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The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover
$14.99 Add to cartThis boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author’s most erudite, outr?, and interesting words – from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic – complete with d… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0156006162
- Language: English
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English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged Edition with Slipcase: More Than 732,000 Words Meanings and Phrases
$77.99 Read more“The Collins English Dictionary is a book to be treasured, no home should be without one”, The Times
The largest single-volume English dictionary in print celebrates the extraordinary breadth and chang
- Series: Collins Complete and Unabridged
- Author: Collins Dictionaries
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2336
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0008511349
- Language: English
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Grammar Essentials for Dummies
$14.99 Add to cartGrammar Essentials For Dummies (9781119589617) was previously published as Grammar Essentials For Dummies(9780470618370). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the… [more below]
- Author: Woods, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1119589614
- Language: English
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Ingl?s Fluido ?Sin Acento! / Fluent and Accent-Free English
$17.95 Add to cart2 cursos en 1: Curso de ingl?s flu?do y Curso de pronunciaci?n de ingl?s americano, con cientos de ejemplos, videos, audios y ejercicios! Incluye pp para que puedas practicar en tu tel?fono
Con ING… [more below]- Series: Ingl?s En 100 D?as
- Author: Inglés En 100 DÃas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890980489
- Language: Spanish
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Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction to psycholinguistics is an accessible and engaging description of how people use language. Talking and understanding- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Ferreira, Fernanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0192886770
- Language: English
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Meaning: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Our ability to find meaning in things is one of the most important aspects of human life. But it is also one of the most mysterious. Where does me- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Borg, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0192866540
- Language: English
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The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story
$39.95 Add to cartToday the number of native speakers of Indo-European languages across the world is approximated to be over 2.6 billion–about 45 percent of the Earth’s population. Yet the idea that an ancient, prehis
- Author: Mallory, J. P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 050002863X
- Language: English
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More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives
Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech,- Author: MacDonald, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593545273
- Language: English
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A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation
$21.99 Add to cartThe first practical and accessible guide to the art of punctuation for creative writers. Punctuation reveals the writer: haphazard commas, for example, reveal haphazard thinking; clear, lucid breaks r
- Author: Lukeman, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329801
- Language: English
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Endangered Languages
$16.95 Add to cartA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.
58% of the world’s languages–or, approximately 4,000 languages–are endangere
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Adamou, Evangelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548704
- Language: English
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The DAO of Complexity: Making Sense and Making Waves in Turbulent Times
$24.99 Add to cartFinalist in the Leadership – Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2024
The pandemic, climate change, rising populism, geo-political unrest – just a few of the issues causing t
- Series: Neudrucke Deutscher Literaturwerke. N. F.
- Author: Boulton, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: September 23 2024
- ISBN10: 3110992647
- Language: English
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Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment for Every Day of the Year
$17.99 Read more- Author: Dent, Susie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1529311489
- Language: English
