Language: History & General Works
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Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language
Simon HorobinCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you...
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Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
John AytoCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50What is it to 'cock a snook', where is the land of Nod, and who was first to go the extra mile? Find the answers to these questions (and many more!...
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It''s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Clichés
Orin HargravesCurrent price €22.79Original price €23.99Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...
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Youre All Talk: why we are what we speak
Rob DrummondCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of Ho...
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Life and Language Beyond Earth
Raymond HickeyCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their langu...
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Translingual Identities and Transnational Realities in the U.S. College Classroom
Heather RobinsonCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...
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Women''s Language: An Analysis of Style & Expression in Letters Before 1800
Nordic Academic PressCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an ex...
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Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words
Edward AllhusenCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do...
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Oxford Companion to the English Language
Oxford University PressCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intend...
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The Emoji Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Communication
Philip SeargeantCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Where have emoji come from? Why are they so popular? What do they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society? Far from simply be...
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English around the World: An Introduction
Edgar W. SchneiderCurrent price €88.34Original price €92.99The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the...
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English Compounds and their Spelling
Christina Sanchez-StockhammerCurrent price €117.79Original price €123.99Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (fa...
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Creating Canadian English: The Professor, the Mountaineer, and a National Variety of English
Stefan DollingerCurrent price €103.54Original price €108.99This 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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The History of Spanish: A Student''s Introduction
Diana L. RansonCurrent price €41.79Original price €43.99This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...
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The History of Spanish: A Student''s Introduction
Diana L. RansonCurrent price €74.81Original price €85.99This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...
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The English Phrasal Verb, 1650Present: History, Stylistic Drifts, and Lexicalisation
Paula Rodriguez-PuenteCurrent price €101.64Original price €106.99Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...
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Flipping the Bird: Gestures Not to Use in Foreign Countries
Scott HaydenCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Current price €16.59Original price €19.99Save 17% -
The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education
Ilana S LehmannCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99Current price €13.27Original price €15.99Save 17% -
The Twelve by Alexander Blok (Owerset Intae Scots)
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From Gaillimh to Galway: The Anglicisation of Irish Place Names
Ruth BurnellCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Have you ever wondered where your town or townland name came from? Do you want to know more about an Irish locality? Well if so this is the book fo...
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature
Sarah HartCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Harts lightness of touch and passion for both su...
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Lord Sandwich and the Pants Man: Discover the People and Places Hidden in Everyday Words
Eamon EvansCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Ever wondered who 'the Joneses' were? Or what the original 'peeping Tom' got up to? We all know that there was a ballerina named Pavlova and an ear...
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Spellbound: Untangling English Spelling
Robbins BurlingCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Spellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the boo...
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Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas
Jesse L ByockCurrent price €34.85Original price €41.99Current price €34.85Original price €41.99Save 17% -
Rethinking Tradition in English Language and Literary Studies
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €61.76Original price €70.99This volume deals with contemporary issues in the field of English studies in order to exchange ideas and experiences across the fields of English ...
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The Abuse of Language and the Language of Abuse
J. Andrew KirkCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...
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All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World
Zora O'NeillCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99If youve ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora ONeill re...
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A History of Reading
Steven Roger FischerCurrent price €17.09Original price €17.99Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger F...
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Murli la: Songs and Stories of the Tiwi Islands
Ngarukuruwala Women's GroupCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islan...
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Where There''s a Will There''s a Way: Japanese Proverbs and Their English Equivalents
Primrose ArnanderCurrent price €9.56Original price €10.99The English may say, 'Where there's a will there's a way,' and the Japanese, 'A concentrated mind pierces even a rock', but the meaning is clearly ...
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Passio Christi: Community Edition
Kesva An Taves KernewekCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50Current price €16.63Original price €17.50Save 5% -
Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
Julia CresswellCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of ...
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100 Favourite Scots Words
Pauline Cairns SpeitelCurrent price €11.61Original price €13.99Compiled from the Heralds Scots Word of the Week, this anthology provides a glimpse into the depth of diversity and culture which is to be found in...
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter - Then, Now, and Forever
John McWhorterCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Current price €24.80Original price €28.50Save 13% -
Babel: Adventures in Translation
Dennis DuncanCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys ...
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon WinchesterCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Di...
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The Yoga Sutras of Maharishi Patanjali
Yogachariya Jnandev GiriCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Sabre Prattling: The Language of the Battlefield
Andrew RigsbyCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99The English language is liberally populated with idioms, similes and metaphors associated with firearms and conflict going back to the 14th Century...
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That''s the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of ''Punch''
David CrystalCurrent price €18.99Original price €19.99The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the...
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Snails and Monkey Tails
Michael ArndtCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99An entertaining, informative, and elegantly designed guide that makes understanding punctuation marks and symbols simple and fun. ...
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