Linguistics
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The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages
$24.95 Add to cartIt is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages–Teutonic, Romance, Gre
- Author: Bodmer, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: October 17, 1985
- ISBN10: 039330034X
- Language: English
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The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
$35.00 Add to cartA riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and m
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062658
- Language: English
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The Perfect English Grammar Workbook: Simple Rules and Quizzes to Master Today’s English
$16.99 Add to cartGrammar greatness–with simple rules, exercises, and quizzes.
Mastering English grammar has never been easier. The Perfect English Grammar Workbook is a complete explanation of standard American Engli- Author: McLendon, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 162315796X
- Language: English
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words
$29.00 Add to cartA kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Cur
- Author: Curzan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593444094
- Language: English
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
$18.99 Add to cart“A narrative full of suspense, pathos and humor. . . . In this elegant book [Winchester] has created a vivid parable, in the spirit of Nabokov and Borges. There is much truth to be drawn from it, abou
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063341905
- Language: English
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Twelfth Night
$12.99 Add to cartThis edition of Twelfth Night is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly cred… [more below]
- Series: Oxford School Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0198328710
- Language: English
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues cu
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593421388
- Language: English
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TOEFL Preparation Book 2023-2024 – TOEFL IBT Exam Secrets Study Guide, Full-Length Practice Test, Step-By-Step Video Tutorials: [Includes Audio Links
$54.99 Read moreMometrix Test Preparation’s TOEFL Preparation Book 2023-2024 – TOEFL iBT Exam Secrets Study Guide is the ideal prep solution for anyone who wants to pass their Test of English as a Foreign Language.
- Author: Matthew Bowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1516722523
- Language: English
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
$18.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century a- Author: Tsu, Jing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0735214735
- Language: English
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
$27.95 Read more“An assured guide” (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.
We tend to assume that al- Author: Everett, Caleb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674976584
- Language: English
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The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
$30.00 Add to cart“Sparkles with insight.”–Daniel Pink
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023
A New Scientist Best Science Book
A Publishers Weekly Summer Read 2023 Recommendation
One of Next Big Idea Club’s “7 Boo- Author: Marian, Viorica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593187075
- Language: English
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
$21.99 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
A
- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062868888
- Language: English
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English Grammar in Use Book with Answers: A Self-Study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Learners of English
$36.00 Add to cartRaymond Murphy’s English Grammar in Use is the first choice for intermediate (B1-B2) learners and covers all the grammar you will need at this level. This book with answers has clear explanations and … [more below]
- Series: Grammar in Use
- Author: Murphy, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108457657
- Language: English
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Easy English Grammar Step-By-Step, Second Edition
$18.00 Add to cartThis step-by-step approach helps you learn the rules of grammar quickly and easily!
The English language is full of rules, exceptions, and often confusing concepts, and for many students, English gramm
- Author: Dutwin, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1264878087
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect Advanced English Vocabulary Games
$22.00 Add to cartTake your English vocabulary to an advanced level with games, games, games!
Beat the boredom of language drills and rev up your English language learning with Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English
- Series: Practice Makes Perfect
- Author: Gunn, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 10, 2014
- ISBN10: 0071841148
- Language: English
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
$21.99 Read moreWhere did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The answers can be found in this essential companion to a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Hoad, T. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 29 1993
- ISBN10: 0192830988
- Language: English
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Ingles Para Latinos, Level 1 + Online Audio
$24.99 Add to cartDiseñado para enseñar a los hispanos en los Estados Unidos y Canadá un conocimiento práctico del inglés. Actualizada con frases adicionales de uso común, nuevas preguntas y respuestas para la práctica
- Series: Barron’s Foreign Language Guides
- Author: Harvey, William C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1506286380
- Language: English
