Linguistics
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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
$14.95 Read moreGrammar has finally let its hair down Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most impo… [more below]
- Author: Baranick, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1628737506
- Language: English
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
$20.00 Read moreThis New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
“Curi- Author: Pinker, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143114247
- Language: English
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Inglés En 100 DÃas – Inglés Para Tu DÃa a DÃa / Everyday English
$17.95 Read moreAprender ingl s puede ser muy f cil si tienes el curso ideal para ti. Con Ingl s para tu d a a d a te sentir s muy c modo hablando en ingl s sin problema, con naturalidad y confianza, en tu vida diari… [more below]
- Series: Ingl?s En 100 D?as
- Author: Inglés En 100 DÃas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1947783653
- Language: Spanish
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The Trojan Women and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis volume of Euripides’ plays offers new translations of the three great war plays Trojan Women, Hecuba, and Andromache, in which the sufferings of Troy’s survivors are harrowingly depicted. With un… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538816
- Language: English
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Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages
$17.00 Add to cartWhether you’re a frequent visitor to Europe or just an armchair traveler, the surprising and extraordinary stories in Lingo will forever change the way you think about the continent, and may even make… [more below]
- Author: Dorren, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0802125719
- Language: English
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLinguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Beginning at the ‘arts’ end of the subject with… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Matthews, P. H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0192801481
- Language: English
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ESL Beginner
$19.95 Read moreESL Beginner Makes English Easy
If you need to learn the basics of English grammar, this is the book for you Written by experienced ESL teachers specifically for ESL learners, this easy-to-use handb- Series: English as a Second Language
- Author: Boguchwal Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: October 18 2012
- ISBN10: 073861100X
- Language: English
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention
$19.95 Read moreAt the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind’s most incredible creation. Deemed a “bombshell” linguist and “instant folk he
- Author: Everett, Daniel L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496263
- Language: English
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
$19.99 Read more“A literate exploration of why we use–or mangle–our native tongue.”–USA Today
Bill Bryson celebrates America’s magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western ha
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 2001
- ISBN10: 0380713810
- Language: English
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Words on the Move: Why English Won’t – And Can’t – Sit Still (Like, Literally)
$20.99 Add to cartLanguage is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figuratively,” or the way young people use LOL or business ja
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 1250143780
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us
$19.00 Add to cartA surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don’t notice) reveal our personalities, emotions, and identities.
In The Secret Life of Pronouns, social psychologis- Author: Pennebaker, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1608194965
- Language: English
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English the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide for College Students (Book + Audio)
$19.95 Read moreCollege the American Way: A Fun ESL Guide to English Language and Campus Life in the U.S. (Book + Audio)
From the authors of the REA best-sellers, English the American Way and Celebrate the American- Series: English as a Second Language
- Author: Murtha, Sheila Mackechnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 17 2016
- ISBN10: 0738612138
- Language: English
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The Future of Language: How Technology, Politics and Utopianism Are Transforming the Way We Communicate
$32.67 Add to cartWill language as we know it cease to exist? What could this mean for the way we live our lives?
Shining a light on the technology currently being developed to revolutionise communication, The Future o- Author: Seargeant, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1350278858
- Language: English
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
$15.95 Read moreMary Norris has spent more than three decades working in The New Yorker’s renowned copy department, helping to maintain its celebrated high standards. In Between You & Me, she brings her vast experien
- Author: Norris, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352145
- Language: English
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
$30.00 Read moreForget the language instinct–this is the story of how we make up language as we go
Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity–and one that remains poorly understood.- Author: Christiansen, Morten H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1541674987
- Language: English
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
$24.99 Add to cartThe American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots traces over 13,000 words, representing nearly 1,350 basic roots, to their origins in Proto-Indo-European, the prehistoric ancestor of English. T
- Author: Watkins, Calvert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 13 2011
- ISBN10: 054754944X
- Language: English
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Cambridge English Proficiency 2 Student’s Book with Answers: Authentic Examination Papers from Cambridge English Language Assessment
$46.75 Add to cartC2 Proficiency 2 authentic examination papers provide the perfect preparation tool because they are exactly like the real exam. This collection of past examination papers provides the most authentic e… [more below]
- Series: Cpe Practice Tests
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1107686938
- Language: English
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Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
$18.95 Read more“At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss, and recovery.”–The Economist
“Insightful and infor- Author: Sedivy, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0674293932
- Language: English
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The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC
$29.95 Read moreIn The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC-to explore the im
- Author: Grieser, Jessica A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1647121523
- Language: English
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Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity
$28.95 Read moreHow much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were bo
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888975
- Language: English
