Linguistics
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Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition
$18.00 Read moreThe go-to guide for learning and reinforcing American English vocabulary for beginning ESL learners–now enhanced with audio recordings through the McGraw Hill Language Lab app
Now enhanced with audi- Author: Yates, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1264264224
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
$18.99 Add to cart“An essay in origins … as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer.”– Harper’s
In the first book written for the layperson about th
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 006052085X
- Language: English
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Learning a New Language for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartStrategies, tools, and motivation for learning a new language
Learning A New Language For Dummies explains how you can create a personal plan to achieve your language learning goals. Get research-base
- Author: Cabrera-Puche, Maria J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1394249918
- Language: English
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words–morphology or phonology–a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Edwards, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199858616
- Language: English
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Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese
$26.99 Read moreLearn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy–a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension.
Chinese is one of the oldest written l
- Author: Hsueh, Shaolan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0062332090
- Language: English
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Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School: Giggles in the Middle
$24.95 Add to cartJane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught’ya Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resourc… [more below]
- Series: Maupin House
- Author: Kiester, Jane Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0929895886
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
$21.00 Read moreA New York Times Editor’s Choice
The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an art
An Economist Best Book of 2010
A Financial Times Best Book of 2010
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610491
- Language: English
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Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
$32.95 Read moreA fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.
Language is said to be humankind’s- Author: Enfield, N. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 026204661X
- Language: English
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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
$20.00 Add to cartJean-Beno? Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the F… [more below]
- Author: Barlow, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1250130271
- Language: English
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Basic Phonics Skills, Kindergarten – Grade 1 (Level B) Teacher Resource
$29.99 Add to cartThis comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more!
Basic Phonics Skills, Level B (Grades K-1) features 238 r
- Series: Basic Phonics Skills
- Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1557999678
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explores the nuances o… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Ella Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1607749335
- Language: English
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Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
$24.99 Read moreDiscover a simple, instantaneous technique that differentiates truth from falsehood in a matter of seconds from world-renowned author, psychiatrist, clinician, and spiritual teacher, David R. Hawkins,… [more below]
- Author: Hawkins, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1401945066
- Language: English
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Far from the Madding Gerund: And Other Dispatches from Language Log
$22.00 Read more- Author: Liberman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1590280555
- Language: English
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Getting to the Roots of Social Studies Vocabulary Levels 6-8
$29.99 Read moreExpand your students’ content-area vocabulary and improve their understanding with this roots-based approach! This standards-based resource, geared towards secondary grades, helps students comprehend … [more below]
- Series: Getting to the Roots of Content-Area Vocabulary
- Author: Rasinski, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1425808689
- Language: English
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The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam
$99.99 Read moreA pioneering, comprehensive study of the pronunciation of Judeo-Palestinian Koine Greek.
How was New Testament Greek pronounced? Often students are taught Erasmian pronunciation, which does not even- Series: Eerdmans Language Resources
- Author: Kantor, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 895
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0802878318
- Language: English
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The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America
$17.95 Read moreIn this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Can ne- Author: Pitner, Barrett Holmes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095594
- Language: English
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Dictionary of Gestures: Expressive Comportments and Movements in Use Around the World
$24.95 Read moreAn illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels.
Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head,- Author: Caradec, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0262547996
- Language: English
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Kiss My Asterisk: A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
$14.95 Read moreGrammar has finally let its hair down Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most impo… [more below]
- Author: Baranick, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1628737506
- Language: English
