Linguistics
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Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension
$25.00 Add to cartThe challenging exercises and critical vocabulary you need to advance your English skills
Created by ESL instructor Diane Engelhardt, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Reading and Comprehension
- Series: Practice Makes Perfect
- Author: Engelhardt, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0071798862
- Language: English
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Word Wise: Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections, and Get to the Point
$16.99 Add to cartSupercharge your speech to get what you want out of every conversation with this fun and practical guide to verbal vividness.
An eye-opening guide on how we talk and write to one another, Word Wise exp… [more below]- Author: Jelbert, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0762499680
- Language: English
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The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation
$18.99 Add to cartIn the no-nonsense, authoritative tradition of the best-selling AP Stylebook, the top editors at the AP have written the definitive guide to punctuation.
More people write for the Associated Press t- Author: Cappon, Rene J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 0738207853
- Language: English
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The Inclusive Language Handbook: A Guide to Better Communication and Transformational Leadership, Easterseals UCP Nonprofit Edition
$13.99 Add to cartIn a world where words can either build bridges or create barriers, The Inclusive Language Handbook: A Guide to Better Communication and Transformational Leadership by Jackie Ferguson, is a timely and
- Author: Ferguson, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218242596
- Language: English
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The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense at Work
$16.95 Add to cartFor some employees, verbal abuse can be the everyday language of doing business. Defending yourself from these verbal abusers–calmly, professionally, and successfully–can be crucial to your on-the-j… [more below]
- Author: Elgin, Suzette Haden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0735200890
- Language: English
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The Major Works
$18.95 Add to cartPreviously published in the Oxford Authors series, this unique one-volume selection of Milton’s poetry and prose includes all the English and Italian verse and a generous selection of his major prose … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Milton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199539189
- Language: English
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Studies in Words
$22.99 Add to cartLanguage – in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings – is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis’s Studies in Words explores this fascination … [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107688655
- 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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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
$26.99 Add to cart“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy
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- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 006286887X
- Language: English
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
$18.00 Read moreA SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Masterly and brilliant”–Simon Sebag Montefiore “A book of vast scope and stunning insight.”–Anthony Sattin, Spectator “Commanding erudition and a swashbu- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251637
- Language: English
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What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
$16.95 Read moreHeralded as “required reading” (Geoff Nunberg) and “the book” (Anne Fadiman) for anyone interested in the conversation swirling around gender-neutral and nonbinary pronouns, What’s Your Pronoun? is a … [more below]
- Author: Baron, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1631498711
- Language: English
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Explorer’s Bible, Vol 2: From Sinai to the Nation of Israel
$15.95 Add to cartEngage your students in authentic, dynamic Bible study!
Your students can now explore the Bible as Jews have done for centuries – by pondering, personalizing, and wrestling with the text. Combining fai
- Author: House, Behrman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0874417937
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$24.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062267
- 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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Como hablar bien en publico e influir en los hombres de negocios por Dale Carnegie autor de Como Ganar Amigos
$24.99 Add to cartDale Carnegie afirma que cualquier hombre es capaz de hablar cuando se excita. Alega que casi cualquier persona puede hablar en p blico pasaderamente si tiene confianza en s misma y una idea de que h… [more below]
- Author: Carnegie, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1607962055
- Language: Spanish
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English After Rp: Standard British Pronunciation Today
$29.99 Add to cartThis book concisely describes ways in which today’s standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned o… [more below]
- Author: Lindsey, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 07 2019
- ISBN10: 3030043568
- Language: English
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The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated
$22.00 Add to cartEnjoy the most comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a l… [more below]
- Author: Rosten, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 26 2003
- ISBN10: 0609806920
- 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 Elements of Eloquence: Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
$20.00 Read moreFrom the #1 international bestselling author of The Etymologicon and The Horologicon comes an education in the art of articulation, from the King James Bible to Katy Perry…
From classic poetry to pop… [more below]- Author: Forsyth, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 042527618X
- 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
