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Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve
$19.99 Add to cartData meets literature in this “enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal), “brilliant” (The Boston Globe), “Nate Silver-esque” (O, The Oprah Magazine) look at what the numbers have to say about our favor… [more below]
- Author: Blatt, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1501105396
- Language: English
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Blimey, I’m Knackered!: An American’s Survival Guide to British English
$17.00 Add to cartBrit Speak for Yanks!
Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology- Author: Hall, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: August 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1945501510
- Language: English
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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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Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy
$114.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 782
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1725286742
- Language: English
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
$15.95 Add to cartIn this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581340
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Irishisms: Know the Irish through our Words
$14.99 Add to cartIf an Irish person said to you, “Gimmie that yoke,” would you think they were talking about an egg? If so, 99% of the time, you’d be wrong. How about banjaxed, bockety or craic? Any clue what they mea
- Author: Alexander, Aimee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1914437004
- 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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Dirty Spanish: Third Edition: Everyday Slang from What’s Up? to F*%# Off!
$16.99 Read moreLearn the slang words, modern phrases, and curses they definitely never taught you in Spanish class with this super-handy and hilariously improper English-Spanish phrasebook.
You already know enough S- Author: Caballero, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1646042379
- Language: English
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El Método Kurashi. Cómo Organizar Tu Espacio Para Crear Tu Estilo de Vida Ideal / Marie Kondo’s Kurashi at Home
$23.95 Add to cartMarie Kondo nos ense?a a construir nuestro kurashi o estilo de vida ideal.
Controla c?mo disfrutas tu d?a a d?a y transforma tu hogar en un refugio de calma con esta bella gu?a visual con m?s de 100… [more below]- Author: Kondo, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 8403523513
- Language: Spanish
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The Queens’ English: The Lgbtqia+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
$22.50 Add to cartA landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community’s contributions to the English language–an intersectional, inclusive, playfully illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms and fabulous ph… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Chloe O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593135008
- Language: English
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How to Argue with a Cat: A Human’s Guide to the Art of Persuasion
$15.99 Add to cartLearn how to persuade cats–the world’s most skeptical and cautious negotiators–with this primer on rhetoric and argument from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing
Cats are- Author: Heinrichs, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 163565274X
- Language: English
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Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
$11.95 Add to cartOne of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the… [more below]
- Author: Pieper, Josef
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: March 02 1992
- ISBN10: 089870362X
- Language: English
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Blimey, I’m Knackered!: An American’s Survival Guide to British English
$24.00 Add to cartBrit Speak for Yanks!
Back in 1887, Oscar Wilde wrote, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.” One would think, in a world homogenized by technology- Author: Hall, Marshall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1945501499
- Language: English
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What Are Words, Really?
$17.99 Read moreA renowned photographer and a Pura Belpr? Honor-winning illustrator join forces for a playful and stylish picture book that’s destined to make the world a better place, one word at a time.
Perfectly p- Author: Lubomirski, Alexi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1536219800
- Language: English
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How to Speak Southern
$9.99 Read moreThis tongue-in-cheek dictionary of Southern words and phrases offers a hilarious spoof of the Southern accent.
This book is dedicated to all Yankees* in the hope that it will teach them how to talk ri… [more below]- Author: Mitchell, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553275194
- Language: English
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Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice
$20.00 Add to cartIs it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?
We’ve all wrestled with questions like these, whether we’r- Author: Shahvisi, Arianne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143136836
- Language: English
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Et Tu, Brute?: The Best Latin Lines Ever
$20.00 Read moreHarry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present.
There are so many Latin phra- Author: Mount, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1399400975
- Language: English
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A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
$16.99 Add to cartLearn (and love) the language of the landlocked in this bitingly funny illustrated guide to the common phrases and sentiments of the American Heartland, from the author of the McSweeney’s series “A Gu… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Taylor Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1984861336
- Language: English
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Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide
$18.00 Add to cartThe legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it’s a learnable, improvable skill.
“Many people have- Author: Cleese, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0385348274
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$12.99 Add to cart“Philosophy is not a theory,” asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), “but an activity.” In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Witt
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 12 1998
- ISBN10: 0486404455
- Language: English
