Language
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
$16.95 Add to cartNoam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist
- Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0231175973
- Language: English
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The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said
$22.00 Add to cartA fresh selection of sharp, witty zingers gathered from both famous and utterly unknown (but very quotable) sources, by the editor of the popular quote collection The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Sa… [more below]
- Author: Byrne, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1451648901
- Language: English
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Maine Lingo: A Wicked-Good Guide to Yankee Vernacular
$16.95 Add to cartMaine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling media had begun to seriously erode regional speech distinctions, and this dictionary will furnish anyone interested in Maine … [more below]
- Author: Gould, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: November 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1608935663
- Language: English
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The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
$17.99 Add to cartIn The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed, Karen Elizabeth Gordon “manages to make the period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, and
- Author: Gordon, Karen Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: August 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0618382011
- Language: English
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Homophones Visualized: (Book Lover Gift, Nerdy Word and Wordplay Book)
$14.95 Add to cartHomophones Visualized is a witty book that illustrates homophones–words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have completely different meanings.
This book uses clever and minimalist grap- Author: Worden, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1452180032
- 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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English Grammar to Ace New Testament Greek
$14.99 Add to cartIf you think that . . . – Aorist is a major artery of the heart – Clause is the surname of the fat guy in the red suit – Syntax is Uncle Sam’s slice of alcohol and tobacco sales . . . then you need En
- Author: Lamerson, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0310255341
- Language: English
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
$35.00 Add to cartAnalogy is the core of all thinking.
This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize — winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new wor- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0465018475
- Language: English
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The Morphology of Biblical Greek: A Companion to Basics of Biblical Greek and the Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament
$36.99 Add to cartThe Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word formation follows a limited set of rules. Once these
- Author: Mounce, William D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: October 14 1998
- ISBN10: 0310226368
- Language: English
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How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet and Savory Tips for the Writing Life
$19.99 Add to cartProviding comfort food and inspiration for the aspiring novelist, How To Write a Novel in 20 Pies offers novelist and writing coach Amy Wallen’s insider secrets on living the writing life. Filled with… [more below]
- Author: Wallen, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1524875651
- Language: English
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Italian Without Words
$7.99 Add to cartYou don’t need words to speak Italian. All you really need is this unique “phrase book” of the most common Italian expressions, complete with authentic Italian gestures and body language. There’s no f… [more below]
- Author: Cangelosi, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671677438
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid
$16.95 Add to cartPublic discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”–be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi find… [more below]
- Series: Bad Arguments
- Author: Almossawi, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198407
- Language: English
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Yiddish with Dick and Jane
$20.00 Read moreJane is in real estate.
Today is Saturday. Jane has an open house. She must schlep the Open House signs to the car. See Jane schlep. Schlep, Jane. Schlep. Schlep, schlep, schlep. In text that c- Series: Dick and Jane (Hardcover)
- Author: Weiner, Ellis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0316159727
- Language: English
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You Can Do Anything, Magic Skeleton!: Monster Motivations to Move Your Butt and Get You to Do the Thing
$9.98 Add to cartIn the tradition of inspirational pick-me-ups like Lin-Manuel Miranda and Johnny Sun’s G’Morning, G’Night but with a Calvin & Hobbesian sensibility comes this whimsically nerdy spin, illustrated by Na… [more below]
- Author: Wendig, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0789344114
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy
$89.00 Add to cartAfter twenty years of research, Dr. J. Barton Payne has compiled the one complete guide to Biblical prophecy. From the prediction of Adam’s death in Genesis 2: 17 to the prophecy of mankind’s perpetua… [more below]
- Author: Payne, J. Barton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 782
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1725286750
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Joke Book
$16.99 Read moreHow many crime writers does it take to change a light bulb?
I slipped over in the library this m
A. Two. One to screw it most of the way in, and the other to give it an astonishing twist at the end.- Author: Johnson, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0712354514
- Language: English
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Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit: And Other Country Sayings, Say-So’s, Hoots and Hollers
$10.99 Read moreThey’re called colloquialisms, idioms, of just good old fashioned, home-grown country sayings steeped in humor and home-spun common sense. These parlances might not fit the modern hoity toity rhetoric… [more below]
- Author: Zullo, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 740785672
- Language: English
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Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament
$36.99 Read moreThe Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament sets a new standard as the most comprehensive book of its kind. Covering the entire vocabulary of the Greek New Testament, this revision of The
- Author: Trenchard, Warren C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 04 1998
- ISBN10: 0310226953
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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The Snark Handbook: Christmas Edition: Sarcasm, Bitterness, and the Holiday Season
$16.99 Read moreBah! Humbug! It’s that time of year again….Time to spend too much, drink too much, eat too much, smile falsely, dig down deep to try and find “good cheer,” battle crowds, try to find parking in over… [more below]
- Series: Snark
- Author: Dorfman, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1510775358
- Language: English
