Psycholinguistics
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More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World
$32.00 Add to cartThe groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives
Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech,- Author: MacDonald, Maryellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 593545273
- Language: English
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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- 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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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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Linguistic Fingerprints: How Language Creates and Reveals Identity
$28.95 Read moreHow much of ourselves do we disclose when we speak or write? A person’s accent may reveal, for example, whether they hail from Australia, or Ireland, or Mississippi. But it’s not just where we were bo
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1633888975
- Language: English
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Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening
$27.00 Add to cartThis illuminating book weaves personal stories of a multilingual upbringing with the latest scientific breakthroughs in interspecies communication to show how the skill of deep listening enhances our … [more below]
- Author: Rosner, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1640095519
- Language: English
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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
$29.00 Read moreA celebration of the beauty and mystery of language and how it shapes our lives, our loves, and our world.
If there is one feature that defines the human condition, it is language: written, spoken, si- Author: Sedivy, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0374601836
- Language: English
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid
$16.95 Add to cartPublic discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with “loaded language”–be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you’ll miss what Ali Almossawi find… [more below]
- Series: Bad Arguments
- Author: Almossawi, Ali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1615198407
- Language: English
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35 Reading Passages for Comprehension: Context Clues & Figurative Language: 35 Reading Passages for Comprehension
$10.99 Add to cartRepeated practice builds mastery, and this book provides exactly the practice students need to master the reading skills of using context clues and understanding figurative language. The 35 reproducib… [more below]
- Author: Beech, Linda Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0439554101
- 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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Sleight of Mouth Volume II: How Words Change Worlds
$34.99 Add to cartAt the foundation of Sleight of Mouth is the realization that words can create worlds. Language is a pivotal part of how we humans create our maps and models of reality, for better or for worse. Chang
- Series: Sleight of Mouth #2
- Author: Dilts, Robert Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1947629484
- Language: English
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The Structure of Magic a Book about Language and Therapy
$39.38 Add to cartThese seminal works in neurolinguistic programming (NLP) help therapists understand how people create inner models of the world to represent their experience and guide their behavior. Volume I describ… [more below]
- Series: Structure of Magic #01
- Author: Bandler, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0831400447
- Language: English
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the International Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction
Animal tracks, word magic, the speech of stones, the power of letters, and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intelle- Author: Abram, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776397
- 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
