Historical & Comparative
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The Little Book of Foreign Swear Words
$9.99 Read moreThis is the ultimate guide to swear words from around the globe. When you want to get your point across abroad, there’s only one way to do it: by swearing your ass off!
Ever been lost for words abroad- Series: Little Book of
- Author: Finch, Sid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1787837696
- Language: English
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
$17.99 Add to cart“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricit
- Author: Bryson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 23, 2001
- ISBN10: 0380715430
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Read more“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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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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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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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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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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Bookish Words & Their Surprising Stories
$25.00 Add to cartTravel through time with words that have shaped the trajectory of the English language across centuries.
The world of books has played a striking role in the history of English vocabulary. “Book” itse
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1851246517
- Language: English
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Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
$29.95 Add to cartAn enthralling tour of the world’s rarest and most endangered languages
Languages and cultures are becoming increasingly homogenous, with the resulting loss of a rich linguistic tapestry reflecting un- Author: Gibb, Lorna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0691274177
- Language: English
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
$29.99 Add to cartThe enthralling story of how today’s largest language family, spoken by nearly half the world’s population, descended from one ancient dialect.
Daughter. Duhit?r-. Dustr. Dukte. Listen to these Englis- Author: Spinney, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1639732586
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164196
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English
$24.95 Add to cartA spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms–for good or ill
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America–from French fries to Awes- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691262292
- 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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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
$21.00 Add to cartA 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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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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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
