Linguistics
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Collected Poems and Other Verse
$16.95 Add to cartSt?phane Mallarm? was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, pe… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mallarm?, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537925
- Language: English
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50 English Coffee Breaks: Short Activities to Improve Your English One Cup at a Time
$14.99 Add to cartTransform your down time into ‘do time’.
The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 English Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of impr- Author: Coffee Break Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1399810413
- Language: English
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Tyranny of Words
$40.83 Read moreA popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index
- Author: Chase, Stuart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 15, 1959
- ISBN10: 0544313135
- 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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Miss Julie and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538042
- Language: English
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Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture
$34.95 Add to cartWords of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #7
- Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558623
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
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Word Nerds Unite!: The Fascinating Stories Behind 200 Words and Phrases
$14.99 Read moreWhy are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does “putting your best foot forward” mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and
- Author: Garrison, Webb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1400337976
- Language: English
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Sign Language for Everyone: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf
$19.99 Add to cart“Listen with your eyes . . .
Sign Language is a method of presenting thoughts via pictures made with one’s hands.”
People are adaptable. This trait is particularly useful when one of the five senses is
- Author: Rice, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 078526986X
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Chineasy Everyday: Learning Chinese Through Its Culture
$29.99 Read moreA unique and highly entertaining introduction to the richness of Chinese language, culture, and civilization, built on the groundbreaking and hugely popular Chineasy visual learning method.
To educate
- Author: Shaolan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0062439715
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, Third Edition
$20.00 Add to cartGet the expert instruction and practice needed to take your English skills to the next level
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar s… [more below]- Author: Torres-Gouzerh, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1260453456
- Language: English
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Ruth: A Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew (an Intermediate Hebrew Reader’s Edition with Exegetical and Syntactical Aids)
$43.75 Read moreMaintain your Hebrew.
Too often, a former Hebrew student is a lapsed Hebrew student. The paradigms, the syntactical forms, and even the alphabet can be hard to recall. The way to make Hebrew stick, li
- Series: Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew
- Author: Howell, Adam J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1683595572
- Language: English
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Reading and Speaking English by Sound
$13.00 Add to cartReading and Speaking English by Sound
By: Nate Green, Sr.
This book teaches all the sounds of the letters in the alphabet. Once you have learned all the sounds, you will become a better reader and spea
- Author: Green, Nate, Sr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: November 09 2020
- ISBN10: 1644265745
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners, Second Edition
$23.00 Add to cartTake your English Grammar skills to the next level and speak with confidence
To fully understand how to speak English effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle
- Series: Practice Makes Perfect
- Author: Lester, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1260010864
- Language: English
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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$17.95 Add to cartThe Upper Peninsula of Michigan–known as “the U P”–is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the variet… [more below]
- Series: Languages and Folklore of Upper Midwest
- Author: Remlinger, Kathryn A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0299312542
- Language: English
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated
$26.00 Add to cartAn essential book on California’s Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.
Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California,
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1597145661
- Language: English
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Cynicism
$15.95 Read moreA short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
Everyone’s a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today’s cynics excuse themselves half-hear
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Allen, Ansgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537885
- 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
