Language: History & General Works
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A Smattering of Latin: Get classical with trivia, quizzes and fun
Simon JamesCurrent price €9.35Original price €11.99This fun, absorbing book, packed with quirky bite-sized lists, quizzes and trivia, is an exploration of the Latin language, aiming to prove that it...
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The Welsh Language: A History
Janet DaviesCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R...
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Runes: Literacy in the Germanic Iron Age
Stephen PollingtonCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Current price €39.14Original price €44.99Save 13% -
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive Orliberating, Dead or Alive?
Rajiv MalhotraCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Current price €27.83Original price €31.99Save 13% -
The Terrible Meanings of Names: Or Why You Shouldn''t Poke Your Giselle with a Barry
Justin Cord HayesCurrent price €14.61Original price €16.99The bizarre meanings behind everyday names!Did you know that Jacobs tend to cheat in school, Marys have nasty attitudes, and Catherines like to cau...
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It''s All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories
Alexander TullochCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, ...
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Horologicon Signed Edition
Forsyth MCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50The characteristically brilliant sequel to The Sunday Times Number One bestseller The Etymologicon, The Horologicon ? which means ?a book of things...
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Place Names of Newquay: Henwyn-Tyller Tewynblustri
Kesva An Taves KernewekCurrent price €5.54Original price €6.75Current price €5.54Original price €6.75Save 18% -
Coming Home: One mans return to the Irish Language
Michael McCaughanCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being. I was o...
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Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can''t Live Without Them
Adrienne RaphelCurrent price €14.27Original price €16.99'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar ...
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The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche
John RentoulCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Let me be clear. This book does not contain a raft of measures to address issues around the abuse of the English language. It is not a forward offe...
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Translating Dialects and Languages of Minorities: Challenges and Solutions
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €40.88Original price €46.99This book offers a range of analyses of the multiplicity of opinions and ideologies attached to rendering, in familiar or unfamiliar voices, langua...
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Winning Arguments: What Works and Doesn''t Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom
Stanley FishCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Fish mines cultural touchstones from Milton to 'Married with Children' to explain how various types of arguments are structured and how that unders...
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers
Geoffrey HorrocksCurrent price €160.94Original price €184.99Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the sec...
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The Tongue of Adam
Abdelfattah KilitoCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99In the beginning there was one language-one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. These days, no one bothers to ask ...
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How to Speak Klingon
Ben GrossblattCurrent price €13.93Original price €16.99Master the harsh, guttural language of Klingon with this indispensable audio phrasebook. This amusing and enlightening primer on ill-tempered and p...
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Resurrexio Domini: Community Edition
Kesva An Taves KernewekCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Current price €15.23Original price €17.50Save 13% -
Resurrexio Domini: Student Edition
Kesva An Taves KernewekCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Handbook of the Changing World Language Map
Springer Nature Switzerland AGCurrent price €1,118.47Original price €1,363.99This reference work delivers an interdisciplinary, applied spatial and geographical approach to the study of languages and linguistics. This work i...
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Una lingua morta per letterature vive: il dibattito sul latino come lingua letteraria in eta moderna e contemporanea. Atti del convegno internazionale, Roma, 10-12 dicembre 2015
Leuven University PressCurrent price €72.20Original price €82.99La straordinaria polifonia di lingue che caratterizza le letterature nazionali di eta moderna e ormai un dato acquisito nelle piu aggiornate ricost...
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Nailing the Lies of the Plain English Campaign: Exposing the false claims of a business that preaches clarity and honesty to everyone else
Martin CuttsCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Current price €16.10Original price €18.50Save 13% -
The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between: Volume II
Patrick FooteCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Dive Into the Fun Facts Behind Names and Word Origins#1 Bestseller in Words, Language & Grammar, Etymology The best-selling book is back in its...
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Gaelic in Modern Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies
Wilson McLeodCurrent price €103.52Original price €118.99Current price €103.52Original price €118.99Save 13% -
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment Every Day
Susie DentCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99'Susie Dent is a national treasure' Richard Osman'WORD PERFECT is a golden vaulted cave of fascinating and funny hidden gems' JO BRANDWelcome to a ...
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Burning Issues in Afro-Asiatic Linguistics
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €50.83Original price €61.99This refereed volume is a collection of selected scholarly articles resulting from research conducted for the first international Australian Worksh...
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In Praise of the Garrulous
Allan CameronCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
David BellosCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming l...
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Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story
Michael RosenCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's...
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A history of Ireland in 100 words
Gregory TonerCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99This book tells a history of Ireland through the examination of 100 key words from the Royal Irish Academys Dictionary of the Irish Language, the m...
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Moonwise Calendar 2020 for Cornwall / Dydhlyver Furlorel 2020 rag Kernow
Coherent VisionsCurrent price €14.36Original price €16.50Current price €14.36Original price €16.50Save 13% -
Now You''re Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence
Trevor CoxCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can s...
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Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary School
Koros Press LimitedCurrent price €129.62Original price €148.99Current price €129.62Original price €148.99Save 13% -
Our Tangled Speech: Essays on Language and Culture
Aodan Mac PoilinCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Current price €22.61Original price €25.99Save 13% -
Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan DollingerCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...
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Reading the Gaelic Landscape: Leughadh Aghaidh na Tire
John MurrayCurrent price €18.80Original price €23.50Following the success of the first edition, this new edition has been expanded and improved with additional images and enhanced drawings. The subje...
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From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History
Tariq RahmanCurrent price €21.31Original price €25.99This book is the first of its kind on the socio-political history of Urdu. It analyses the historiography of the language-narratives about its name...
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Language!: Five Hundred Years of the Vulgar Tongue
Jonathon GreenCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99In this richly entertaining book, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argu...
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Beatha Iosa Chriosd: A Gaelic Gospel - The Life of Jesus Christ
Anthony DilworthCurrent price €16.20Original price €19.75This story of the life of Jesus is told in Gaelic by an author whose love of God and of the Gaelic language shine through every page. Suitable for ...
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Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language
Peter JonesCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Did you know that the word 'prestige' derives from the Latin word for 'illusion'? Or that 'infantry' stems from a Latin word meaning one who could ...
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Printer''s Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
J. P. RomneyCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by televisions fav...
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Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language
Darach O'SeaghdhaCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Bestseller & Winner of the Popular Non-Fiction Irish Book Award. 'Thought-provoking, irreverent and often laugh-out-loud hilarious' Irish Inde...
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Colourful Irish Phrases
Micheal O ConghaileCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99The Irish language has made a huge contribution to the English language as its spoken in Ireland and beyond. Micheál Ó Conghaile's 'Colourful Iris...
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Irish Proverbs & Sayings
Seamus CashmanCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99Irish history and folklore is rich with proverbs and sayings of old, full of timeless wisdom that still has resonance and truth today. This beautif...
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Dent''s Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Susie DentCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That t...
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