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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-R......more
Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages--all self-taught--runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluen......more
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This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. I......more
Accurate and accessible, this reference offers writers practical advice on mastering writing techniques to avoid common ......more
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. This author blames Southern England ....more
Salvador Novo es uno de los escritores mas conocidos del siglo XX debido, sobre todo, a su labor como cronista. Como poe......more
In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses thro......more
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinitie......more
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There are many reasons why you might need to learn a foreign language quickly--perhaps an unexpected business trip or a ......more
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MILSPEAK: Slang for military jargon, troop idioms, and Pentagonese. The perfect gift for anyone who is in the military, ......more
Teach Your Baby to Sign is filled with full color photos and 200 of the most useful signs. Communicating with infants ha......more
"Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only..." From his legendary birth in a snow ......more
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The COBUILD Pocket English Grammar is a handy, new companion for learners of English to carry with them everywhere. Smal......more
Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a language. In this Very Short Introduction, L......more
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A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English lan......more
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Welcome to the illogical, idiosyncratic, outrageous linguistic phenomenon known as the English language. The story of ho......more
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In Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, best-selling author Frank Close provides a compelling and lively introdu......more
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La presente biografia es el mas completo estudio de cuantos existen sobre el polemico escritor ingles que vivio en Canad......more
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"A compendious, entertaining look at our nation’s leaders through words and turns of phrase." -- Kirkus Reviews From Geo......more
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Motherfocl ir focloir means dictionary and is pronounced like a rather more vulgar English epithet] is a book based on......more
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a div......more
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Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining, and often hilarious origins to the English language’s most curious phrase......more
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Don t be down in the dumps if you can t cut the mustard when asked the definition of certain phrases--this down-to-earth......more
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Collins Easy Learning English Vocabulary is designed to help learners of all ages build their vocabulary. This easy-to-u......more
Food is a favorite topic of conversation around the world--how to create it, how to season it, how to compliment it with......more
We all swear, whether we admit it or not, but do you know the fascinating origins of the curses and maledictions that we......more
Person to person (and station to station ), bar sinister, the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, between the devil......more
It is hard to find someone who doesn t have a pet peeve about language. The act of bemoaning the decline of language has......more
FROM TRINITY TO TRINITY recounts the pilgrimage of Japanese atomic-bomb survivor Kyoko Hayashi to the Trinity Site in no......more
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