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The Power of Language : Multilingualism, Self and Society

The Power of Language : Multilingualism, Self and Society
Viorica Marian Hardback 336 pages Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only ...
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Steven Pinker The Sense of Style : The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

Steven Pinker

The Sense of Style : The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Steven Pinker Paperback 368 pages Steven Pinker, the bestselling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide ...
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Portable Magic : A History of Books and their Readers

Portable Magic : A History of Books and their Readers
Emma Smith Paperback 352 pages Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved no...
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How Words Get Good : The Story of Making a Book

How Words Get Good : The Story of Making a Book
Rebecca Lee Paperback 384 pages Once upon a time, a writer had an idea. They wrote it down. But what happened next?Join Rebecca Lee, professional text-improver, as she embarks on a fascinating...
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Monster, She Wrote : The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Monster, She Wrote : The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction
Lisa Kroeger & Melanie Anderson Hardback 352 pages Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein; but have you heard of Margaret Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 yea...
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Kingdom of Characters : A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

Kingdom of Characters : A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China
Jing Tsu Paperback 336 pages A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the p...
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The Women Writers' Handbook

The Women Writers' Handbook
Ann Sandham Paperback 224 pages A revised edition of the publisher’s inaugural publication in 1990, which won the Pandora Award from Women-in-Publishing. Inspirational in its original format, t...
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Reading Like a Writer : A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Reading Like a Writer : A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
Francine Prose Paperback 304 pages In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools a...
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Bird by Bird : Instructions on Writing and Life

Bird by Bird : Instructions on Writing and Life
Anne Lamott Paperback 304 pages Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides - a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States i...
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Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
Amanda Leduc Paperback 160 pages A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022)Fairy tales shape how we se...
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The Language Game : How improvisation created language and changed the world

The Language Game : How improvisation created language and changed the world
Morten H. Christiansen Paperback 368 pages What is language?Why do we have it?Why does that matter?Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing accomplishment and one that remains poorly unde...
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Once Upon a Prime : The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime : The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Sarah Hart Hardback 304 pages We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead, they were fundamentally linked? In this insightful, laugh-out-loud funny book,...
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages

Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Gaston Dorren Paperback 368 pages If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages sta...
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Wordslut : A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Wordslut : A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Amanda Montell Paperback 304 pages A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us. The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most...
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Write It All Down : How to Put Your Life on the Page

Write It All Down : How to Put Your Life on the Page
Cathy Rentzenbrink Softback 256 pages Tackle the challenges of memoir writing and share your story. 'Cathy is the person who first told me to write about my mental health when I was nervous to...
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Stephen King On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King

Stephen King

On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King
Paperback 416 pages Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Part memoir, part masterclass by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is ...
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The Art of Verbal Warfare

The Art of Verbal Warfare
Rik Smits Hardback 640 pages We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration and blow off steam. Rik Smits delves ...
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First You Write a Sentence. The Elements of Reading, Writing... and Life.

First You Write a Sentence. The Elements of Reading, Writing... and Life.
Joe Moran Paperback 240 Pages Advanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few. A symphony can be enjoyed, but created only by a genius. Good writing, however, can be written (and re...
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How To Be Well Read

How To Be Well Read
John Sutherland Paperback 560 pages anging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his ver...
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
SoftbackBenjamin Dreyer An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy chief and one of Twitter's leading language gurus. We all write, ...
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Alex Bellos The Language Lover's Puzzle Book

Alex Bellos

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
PaperbackAlex Bellos The Language Lover's Puzzle Book : Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You ...
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Signs of Civilisation: How Punctuation Changed History

Signs of Civilisation: How Punctuation Changed History
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Jeremy Butterfield Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage

Jeremy Butterfield

Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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