Historical & Comparative
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How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
$15.95 Add to cartEven the most profane practitioner of the vulgar tongue must sometimes wonder, “Am I doing it right?” This highly entertaining and crucially informative visual guide to the art of swearing employs a v… [more below]
- Author: Wildish, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 1452167761
- Language: English
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
$19.98 Add to cartAlmost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whet… [more below]
- Author: Mohr, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 019049168X
- Language: English
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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a marvelous book”
Many of the animals we encounter in ever- Author: Videen, Hana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260001
- Language: English
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Sea & Fog
$16.95 Read moreThese interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves m… [more below]
- Series: Lambda Literary Award – Lesbian Poetry
- Author: Adnan, Etel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: January 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0984459871
- Language: English
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
$19.00 Add to cartEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it–only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in the… [more below]
- Author: Dorren, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147801
- Language: English
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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
$22.95 Read moreThree centuries of English idioms–their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations
To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or by crook. Curry favor. Drink like a fish. Eat crow. W- Author: Liberman, Anatoly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517914124
- Language: English
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Wheelock’s Latin, 7th Edition
$29.99 Add to cartThe classic Wheelock’s Latin remains the most highly regarded and bestselling single-volume, introductory Latin textbook of its kind. Now in its seventh edition, Wheelock’s Latin retains its signature… [more below]
- Author: Wheelock, Frederic M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0061997218
- Language: English
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
$19.00 Add to cartIn this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance–published all around the world–a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through our cultural and social behavior in search of the ori
- Author: Ferrara, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 125086299X
- Language: English
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Jewish History – The Big Picture
$28.95 Add to cartAdult readers will appreciate this epic story of the Jewish people rendered as a concise, accessible, and engaging narrative.
This lively and accessible volume presents the full range of Jewish history
- Author: Gevirtz, Gila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 1, 2008
- ISBN10: 0874418380
- Language: English
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Wheelock’s Latin, 7th Edition
$24.99 Add to cartGenerations of students have learned Latin with this classic introductory textbook that remains the most highly regarded and bestselling single-volume of its kind.
Wheelock’s Latin 7th Edition retains
- Author: Wheelock, Frederic M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 7, 2011
- ISBN10: 0061997226
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words
$30.00 Add to cart“A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully … [more below]
- Author: Nuttall, Jenni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0593299574
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$22.00 Add to cartLiterary 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
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882187
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$28.00 Read moreFrom 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… [more below]
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162460
- Language: English
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The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and m
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062658
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century a- Author: Tsu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735214735
- Language: English
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
$27.95 Read more“An assured guide” (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.
We tend to assume that al- Author: Everett, Caleb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674976584
- Language: English
