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New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
$71.50 Add to cartNew Directions Second edition is a thematic reading and writing-skills text for advanced learners that bridges the gap between ESL and college writing courses. New Directions is a thematic reading/wri… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Academic Writing Collection
- Author: Gardner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0521541727
- Language: English
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A Date with Language
$40.00 Read moreA collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year.
In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1851246118
- Language: English
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
$27.99 Add to cartWhat’s the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What’s the correct pronunciation of … [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0195135083
- Language: English
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Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day
$14.95 Read moreDo your sentences run longer than a page? Or do they hang in the air, waiting for a subject, an object or some punctuation to finish them off?
This easy-to-use guide to sentence writing not only teach- Series: Better English
- Author: Campbell, Dianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 1564142035
- Language: English
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.99 Add to cartBlending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Lang- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080120
- Language: English
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$27.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
$44.99 Add to cartWhy literally shouldn’t be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What’s wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrise… [more below]
- Author: Butterfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199661359
- Language: English
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind
$28.00 Add to cart“Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, rangi… [more below]
- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0226468046
- Language: English
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How to Speak Midwestern
$18.95 Add to cart“A dictionary wrapped in some serious dialectology inside a gift book trailing a serious whiff of Relevance.”―The New York Times
In this book on Midwestern accents and sayings, Edward McClelland
- Author: McClelland, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0997774274
- Language: English
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The Language Hoax
$16.98 Add to cartJapanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does langu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 190468890
- Language: English
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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide
$19.95 Add to cartThis insightful, practical book can be used as a stand-alone guide for families on their language journey, or as an accompaniment to the author’s successful seminars for families and schools. Learn fr
- Author: Crisfield, Eowyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1788929330
- Language: English
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Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You
$24.99 Add to cartTales from the Word Guy is a collection of essays adapted from the author’s segments on CBC Radio One’s North by Northwest. Jonathan Berkowitz takes the reader on a delightful journey through the hist… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1039149367
- Language: English
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Como hablar bien en publico e influir en los hombres de negocios por Dale Carnegie autor de Como Ganar Amigos
$24.99 Add to cartDale Carnegie afirma que cualquier hombre es capaz de hablar cuando se excita. Alega que casi cualquier persona puede hablar en p blico pasaderamente si tiene confianza en s misma y una idea de que h… [more below]
- Author: Carnegie, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1607962055
- Language: Spanish
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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
$15.99 Add to cartThe founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history’s best words.
This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern- Author: Gillard, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0399582673
- Language: English
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A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
$35.00 Read moreFrom the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. Like his other languages, S
- Author: Salo, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0874809126
- Language: English
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The Secrets of Words
$18.95 Add to cartTwo distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.
In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky a- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046717
- Language: English
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
$20.00 Add to cartIn his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, n… [more below]
- Author: Singh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0385495323
- Language: English
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Garner’s Modern English Usage
$63.00 Add to cartThe most original and authoritative voice of today’s English lexicography presents a fully revised new edition of his beloved usage dictionary
When Bryan Garner published the first edition of A Dictio- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1312
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0197599028
- Language: English
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English
Did you know that th- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 16, 2014
- ISBN10: 1607747103
- Language: English
