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By: Ewan Clayton
ISBN: 9781848873636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An authoritative and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word.
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By: Dr Tim Lomas
ISBN: 9780349417196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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How to harness the power of 'untranslatable' words to help you live your best possible life
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By: Dr Tim Lomas
ISBN: 9780349417172
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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How to harness the power of 'untranslatable' words to help you live your best possible life
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By: Nicholas Ostler
ISBN: 9781846142161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. This title explores the rise of a linguistic diversity we could never before have imagined.
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By: James W. Pennebaker
ISBN: 9781608194964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A sleeper hit in hardcover -- now in paperback with new material. A surprising, and entertaining, explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities, emotions, and identities.
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By: Hugo Hamilton
ISBN: 9780007148110
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.
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By: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781472139665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The revealing stories behind slang, the language that shows us at our most human
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By: David Skinner
ISBN: 9780062027498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Entertaining and erudite, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, this title describes a societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language.
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By: Robert McCrum
ISBN: 9780571275083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the author of Globish, a new edition of the acclaimed history of the English language.
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By: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781846684289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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An eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages.
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By: Philip Gooden
ISBN: 9780857383280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The extraordinary story of the development and spread of the English language, from Dark Age Britain to the age of the Internet.
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By: Justin Cord Hayes
ISBN: 9781440552557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
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By: Guy Deutscher
ISBN: 9780099460251
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Presents an investigation into the evolution of language. This book exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication. Along the way, it teaches why German maidens are neuter while German turnips are female, why we have feet not foots, and how great changes of pronunciation may result from simple laziness.
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By: Mitchell Symons
ISBN: 9781782437666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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From information about words and their uses, useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, to bizarre test answers and much, much more, The Wonderful World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language and will have you hooked from the very first page.
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By: John Simpson
ISBN: 9780349141008
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of words, cultures, the OED and John Simpson, a word detective with thirty-seven years of dictionary experience and twenty years as Chief Editor of the world's most important dictionary
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By: Guy Deutscher
ISBN: 9780099505570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Does language reflect the culture of a society Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts This title states that contrary to the fashionable academic consensus of today, the answer to all these questions is - yes.
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By: Ralph Keyes
ISBN: 9781848542075
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A witty and comprehensive exploration of euphemestic language andwhat our euphemisms reveal about us
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By: Boze Hadleigh
ISBN: 9781632205575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
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By: Katie Haegele
ISBN: 9781621060116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
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"This is Microcosm [publication] #133"--Title-page verso.
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By: Lewis Glinert
ISBN: 9780691153292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Bhalla Jag
ISBN: 9781426204586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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If youre already fluent in 10 languages, you probably wont need this book, but youll get a kick out of it anyhow; for the rest of us, its a must.
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By: NJ Enfield
ISBN: 9781541645028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Basic Books
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By: Professor Nicola Gardini
ISBN: 9781781259399
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The international bestseller that celebrates the beauty, passion and life-lessons to be found in this not-so-dead language.
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By: Joe Gillard
ISBN: 9781760876852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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In The Little Book of Lost Words, history buff Joe Gillard presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words.
