(Hardback)
By: John D. Wright
ISBN: 9781573561358
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is a compilation of slang, nicknames, military jargon and terminology, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words and expressions used (and often originating) during the American Civil War.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Piotr Sadowski
ISBN: 9781350016149
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Discusses the semiotic use of light and shadows in modern visual and performing arts, including painting, the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, photography and early cinema.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Piotr Sadowski
ISBN: 9781350119017
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John Ayto
ISBN: 9780713674989
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Laid out in an A-Z format with detailed cross references, and written in a style that is both authoritative and accessible, Word Origins is a valuable historical guide to the English language.
(Hardback)
By: Julian Walker
ISBN: 9781350001930
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Hugh Lunn
ISBN: 9780733322518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: ABC Books
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This wonderful follow up o the best selling Lost for Words continues its humorous and nostalgic trip through our language.
(Paperback)
By: Tometro Hopkins
ISBN: 9781474298469
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Tometro Hopkins
ISBN: 9781474298537
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Simon Horobin
ISBN: 9781350473782
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.
(Hardback)
By: Debra Dank
ISBN: 9781760689803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Our places, our voices. From the award-winning author of We Come with This Place.
(Paperback)
By: Jess Zafarris
ISBN: 9781399808217
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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From bodily functions to the dirtiest insults onto war and weaponry to illicit substances, this book goes where no dictionary has dared go before. It is the only adults-only etymology dictionary.
(Paperback)
By: Steven Roger Fischer
ISBN: 9781780239033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguistics was developed and analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Sanders
ISBN: 9780691191461
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Anatoly Liberman
ISBN: 9781517914127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of idioms in English. Widely known for his studies of word origins, Anatoly Liberman explains more than one thousand idioms, both popular and obscure, occurring in both American and British standard English and including many regional expressions"--
(Paperback)
By: James N. Sneddon
ISBN: 9780868405988
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This title is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian culture. It traces the origins and pre-colonial development of the language and the emergence of classical Malay from the 14th century. It challenges many assumptions about the simplicity of the Indonesian language.
(Hardback)
By: Edmund Blair Bolles
ISBN: 9781582436418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Ostler
ISBN: 9780007118717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Vize
ISBN: 9781876580605
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Phoenix Education Australia
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A resource book to help develop essential literacy skills in students with special learning needs. Each book contains four units, each starting with a story and followed by photocopiable worksheets.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Vize
ISBN: 9781876580612
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Phoenix Education Australia
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A resource book to help develop essential literacy skills in students with special learning needs. Each book contains four units, each starting with a story and followed by photocopiable worksheets.
(Hardback)
By: Ben Yagoda
ISBN: 9780691262291
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Andrea Moro
ISBN: 9780262037129
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's era of syntax, in search of a dangerous verb and its significance.
(Paperback)
By: Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9780006546818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 21st April 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary genres.
(Paperback)
By: John Humphrys
ISBN: 9780340923764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Following his bestselling Lost for Words, the ever-popular John Humphrys takes a provocative look at the hidden attitudes that lie behind so many of our current phrases and expressions.
(Hardback, 3rd edition)
By: Simon Horobin
ISBN: 9781350473799
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.
