Linguistics
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Read more“What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is–an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and se… [more below]
- Author: Magan, Manchán
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1645023761
- Language: English
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Weak Verb Morphology: 4
$32.99 Add to cartOne of the obstacles to success in learning biblical Hebrew is understanding the various ways weak verbs inflect. Weak Verb Morphology by Adam J. Howell addresses the features and characteristics of t
- Series: Advancing Biblical Hebrew
- Author: Howell, Adam J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0310165512
- Language: English
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The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, Second Edition
$22.50 Add to cartCelebrating the short, witty, philosophical phrases known as aphorisms, this delightful history is an entertaining tour through the wisest and wittiest sayings in the world.
Aphorisms are literature’- Author: Geary, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0226838609
- Language: English
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Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
$34.95 Add to cartA breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.
In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary- Author: Ando, Miya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049864
- Language: English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme–And Other Oddities of the English Language
$15.99 Add to cartFor anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language.
Maybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you lea- Author: Okrent, Arika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0197760910
- Language: English
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
$23.99 Add to cartThe key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understanding the context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural v
- Author: Agar, Michael H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 16 1996
- ISBN10: 0688149499
- Language: English
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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
$19.99 Add to cartDid you know that an “astronaut” is literally a “star sailor,” that a thesaurus is, in fact, a “treasure
Have you
trove” of words, and that someone who is “sinister” is actually just “left-handed”?- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1399809180
- Language: English
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Meaning of Meaning
$18.99 Add to cartLanguage is the most important of all the instruments of civilization. This is the premise of a work whose significance to the study of language, literature, and philosophy has remained undiminished s… [more below]
- Author: Ogden, C. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 396
- Publish Date: June 26 1989
- ISBN10: 0156584468
- Language: English
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The Language-Lover’s Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
$28.99 Add to cartDreyer’s English meets Schott’s Original Miscellany in this delicious tour of the lesser-known wonders of the language world, perfect for language lovers, word nerds, and the incurably curious.
A deli- Author: Blackburn, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1668098849
- Language: English
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English Short Stories for Beginners and Intermediate Learners: Learn English and Build Your Vocabulary
$8.99 Add to cartAre you learning English? If so, that’s great! We would like to help you on your journey to learn English to fluency.
Reading in English is perhaps the most effective way to build up your vocabulary. W
- Author: Guru, Language
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1950321495
- Language: English
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Schott’s Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the international bestseller Schott’s Original Miscellany comes a visually rich book that breaks down the colorful language and systems of signs that make up the vocabulary of our w… [more below]
- Author: Schott, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1523532262
- Language: English
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
$17.00 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… [more below]
- Author: Curzan, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593444116
- Language: English
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Buckley: The Right Word
$21.99 Add to cartBuckley’s provocative observations on the use and abuse of English, gathered for the first time in a single volume – a “veritable cornucopia of language and logic that belongs in every library” (Libra… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156005697
- Language: English
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Heavens to Betsy!: & Other Curious Sayings
$17.99 Add to cartHe’s as mad as a hatter!
Whether it’s like a bump on a log or a bat out of hell, these expressions have been around forever, but we’ve never really known why … until now! Finally Dr. Funk explains m
- Author: Funk, Charles E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0060513314
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
$15.00 Read moreA lively journey through the story of language, from an infant’s first word to the languages of the internet
Language never leaves you alone. It’s there in your head, helping you think. It’s there to- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283237
- Language: English
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The Neural Mind: How Brains Think
$35.00 Add to cartOffers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.
What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experi- Author: Lakoff, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 24 2025
- ISBN10: 022683588X
- Language: English
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The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover
$14.99 Add to cartThis boon to logophiles, culled from Buckley: The Right Word, presents the author’s most erudite, outr?, and interesting words – from prehensile and sciolist to rubric and histrionic – complete with d… [more below]
- Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0156006162
- Language: English
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English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged Edition with Slipcase: More Than 732,000 Words Meanings and Phrases
$77.99 Read more“The Collins English Dictionary is a book to be treasured, no home should be without one”, The Times
The largest single-volume English dictionary in print celebrates the extraordinary breadth and chang
- Series: Collins Complete and Unabridged
- Author: Collins Dictionaries
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 2336
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0008511349
- Language: English
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Grammar Essentials for Dummies
$14.99 Add to cartGrammar Essentials For Dummies (9781119589617) was previously published as Grammar Essentials For Dummies(9780470618370). While this version features a new Dummies cover and design, the content is the… [more below]
- Author: Woods, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1119589614
- Language: English
