Linguistics
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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
$15.99 Add to cartThe founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history’s best words.
This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern- Author: Gillard, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0399582673
- Language: English
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A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
$35.00 Read moreFrom the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. Like his other languages, S
- Author: Salo, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0874809126
- Language: English
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Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
$69.50 Add to cartAn accessible and comprehensive discussion of teaching methods and approaches. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Third edition is an extensive revision of this highly successful book. As in … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Language Teaching Library
- Author: Richards, Jack C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: June 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1107675960
- Language: English
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English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers: Vocabulary Reference and Practice
$34.00 Add to cartThe words you need to communicate with confidence. Vocabulary explanations and practice for advanced level (C1 to C2) learners of English. Perfect for both self-study and classroom activities. Quickly… [more below]
- Series: Vocabulary in Use
- Author: McCarthy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1316631176
- 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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The Chicago Guide to Grammar, Usage, and Punctuation
$49.00 Add to cartFew people can write on the English language with the authority of Bryan A. Garner. The author of The Chicago Manual of Style‘s popular “Grammar and Usage” chapter, Garner explains the vagaries of Eng… [more below]
- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 022618885X
- Language: English
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
$20.00 Add to cartIn his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, n… [more below]
- Author: Singh, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 29 2000
- ISBN10: 0385495323
- Language: English
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Instant Word Power: The Unique, Proven Program for Increasing Your Vocabulary–Your Vital Key to Social, Academic, and Career Success
$8.99 Add to cartScientific surveys have shown that academic, social, and professional advancement are directly linked to the scope and effectiveness of your vocabulary. Now, vocabulary-building expert Norman Lewis op… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Norman
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0451166477
- Language: English
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How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning
$18.00 Add to cartAmid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1890771422
- Language: English
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
$24.95 Add to cartDavid Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-rangin… [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0991118103
- Language: English
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Perfect Poems for Teaching Phonics
$11.99 Add to cartTeaching phonics is pure poetry with these kid-pleasing, rhyming poems on popular primary topics like weather, colors, and friendship Ready-to-use lessons include reproducible poems with adorable art… [more below]
- Author: Ellermeyer, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0590390198
- Language: English
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Neurolinguistics
$17.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders.
Neurolinguistics, the study of language in the b- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Baggio, Giosue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543265
- Language: English
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
$22.99 Add to cartNicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living o
- Author: Ostler, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060935723
- 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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The Best Punctuation Book, Period: A Comprehensive Guide for Every Writer, Editor, Student, and Businessperson
$14.00 Add to cartThis all-in-one reference is a quick and easy way for book, magazine, online, academic, and business writers to look up sticky punctuation questions for all styles including AP (Associated Press), MLA… [more below]
- Author: Casagrande, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1607744937
- Language: English
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Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe’s Guide to Better English in Plain English (Fourth Edition)
$18.00 Add to cartA revised and updated edition of the iconic grammar guide for the 21st century.
In this expanded and updated edition of Woe Is I, former editor at The New York Times Book Review Patricia T. O’Conner u- Author: O’Conner, Patricia T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 525533052
- 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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Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised
$21.99 Add to cartMake learning Latin faster and easier with this essential companion to the esteemed classic introductory textbook, Wheelock’s Latin. Reflecting the trend toward more active use of classroom Latin, thi
- Author: Comeau, Paul T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 30 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956429
- Language: English
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English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises Book with Answers: To Accompany English Grammar in Use Fifth Edition
$36.00 Add to cartGrammar in Use is the world’s best-selling grammar series for learners of English. This new edition has been updated and revised to accompany the Fifth edition of English Grammar in Use, the first cho… [more below]
- Series: Grammar in Use
- Author: Hashemi, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108457738
- Language: English
