Linguistics
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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition
$18.99 Add to cartIn an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semantics–now fully revised and updated–distills the relationship between language and those who use it
- Author: Hayakawa, S. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0156482401
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition
$18.00 Read moreThe go-to guide for learning and reinforcing American English vocabulary for beginning ESL learners–now enhanced with audio recordings through the McGraw Hill Language Lab app
Now enhanced with audi- Author: Yates, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1264264224
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
$18.99 Add to cart“An essay in origins … as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer.”– Harper’s
In the first book written for the layperson about th
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 006052085X
- Language: English
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Learning a New Language for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartStrategies, tools, and motivation for learning a new language
Learning A New Language For Dummies explains how you can create a personal plan to achieve your language learning goals. Get research-base
- Author: Cabrera-Puche, Maria J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1394249918
- Language: English
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words–morphology or phonology–a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Edwards, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199858616
- Language: English
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Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese
$26.99 Read moreLearn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy–a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension.
Chinese is one of the oldest written l
- Author: Hsueh, Shaolan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0062332090
- Language: English
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Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School: Giggles in the Middle
$24.95 Add to cartJane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught’ya Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resourc… [more below]
- Series: Maupin House
- Author: Kiester, Jane Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0929895886
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
$21.00 Read moreA New York Times Editor’s Choice
The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an art
An Economist Best Book of 2010
A Financial Times Best Book of 2010
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610491
- Language: English
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Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
$32.95 Read moreA fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.
Language is said to be humankind’s- Author: Enfield, N. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 026204661X
- Language: English
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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
$20.00 Add to cartJean-Beno? Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the F… [more below]
- Author: Barlow, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1250130271
- Language: English
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Basic Phonics Skills, Kindergarten – Grade 1 (Level B) Teacher Resource
$29.99 Add to cartThis comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more!
Basic Phonics Skills, Level B (Grades K-1) features 238 r
- Series: Basic Phonics Skills
- Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1557999678
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explores the nuances o… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1607749335
- Language: English
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Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a simple, instantaneous technique that differentiates truth from falsehood in a matter of seconds from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, and spiritual teacher, David R. Hawkins,… [more below]
- Author: Hawkins, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1401945066
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log
$22.00 Read more- Author: Liberman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1590280555
- Language: English
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Getting to the Roots of Social Studies Vocabulary Levels 6-8
$29.99 Read moreExpand your students’ content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend … [more below]
- Series: Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary
- Author: Rasinski, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1425808689
- Language: English
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The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam
$99.99 Read moreA pioneering, comprehensive study of the pronunciation of Judeo-Palestinian Koine Greek.
How was New Testament Greek pronounced? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even- Series: Eerdmans Language Resources
- Author: Kantor, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 895
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0802878318
- Language: English
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The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America
$17.95 Read moreIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Can ne- Author: Pitner, Barrett Holmes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095594
- Language: English
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Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use Around the World
$24.95 Read moreAn illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels.
Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head,- Author: Caradec, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547996
- Language: English
