Language: History & General Works
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Literature of the Gaelic Landscape: Song, Poem and Tale
John MurrayCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99From the comfort of an armchair and with the aid of this new book, the reader can travel to the Breadalbane and Argyll of Duncan Ban Macintyre; the...
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On the Tip of My Tongue: The perfect word for every life moment
Tom Read WilsonCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50In On the Tip of My Tongue, logophile and television star Tom Read Wilson takes a delicious dive into the etymology and usage of words, euphemisms ...
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Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history
Bard Borch MichalsenCurrent price €12.29Original price €14.99''Punctuation is not only an important part of our language code; an advanced system of punctuation has been a driving force in our entire Western ...
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The Art of Verbal Warfare
Rik SmitsCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99We 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...
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Politics and the English Language
George OrwellCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50George Orwells essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisel...
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English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language
Tim William MachanCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and framewor...
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My Word!: The stories behind our favourite words
Peter SargentCurrent price €13.11Original price €15.99Current price €13.11Original price €15.99Save 18% -
Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy: A Glossary of Naval Terminology
Mark NelsonCurrent price €16.52Original price €18.99Pull up a bollard and get to know the colourful language of the Royal Canadian Navy. Do you ever get channel fever so bad only a great homeward bou...
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In Other Words: An Illustrated Miscellany of the World''s Most Intriguing Words and Phrases
Christopher J. MooreCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99''It is a book that leaves you musing long after reading... a true celebration of the diversity of language and an important reminder of the quirks...
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Truth About Language
Corballis MichaelCurrent price €44.81Original price €51.50While birds can chirp and monkeys can chatter, only humans possess the extraordinary power to tell stories and offer explanations, to explain and p...
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Words of a Feather: An Etymological Explanation of Astonishing Word Pairs
Graeme DonaldCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99In this quirky and humorous volume, Graeme Donald explores the fascinating links and curious connections between words. While at first these word p...
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What''s Their Story?: A History of Australian Words
Bruce MooreCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99At last the real stories behind some of Australia's unique and best-loved words are now ready to be told. A companion volume to Bruce Moore's highl...
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Proverbs: Words of Wisdom
Alice O'NiellCurrent price €9.56Original price €10.99If many hands make light work, how can too many cooks spoil the broth? If youll find the best advice on your pillow, are proverbs even useful? Ho...
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Will''s Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
Jane SutcliffeCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99Current price €15.65Original price €17.99Save 13% -
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Were all familiar with a flock of sheep but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources,...
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Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
Oxford University PressCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99One of the most distinctive characteristics of English is the number of words and phrases it has borrowed - and continues to borrow - from other la...
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Just My Typo: From ''sinning with the choir'' to ''the large hardon collider''
Drummond MoirCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From the sublime to the ridiculous, Just My Typo is a hilarious collection of typographical errors, slips of the pen and embarrassing misprints whi...
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The Story of English: How the English language conquered the world
Philip GoodenCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from th...
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I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
James GearyCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! This is one of Shakespeare's most famous lines and one of the most well-known metaphors in literature. But m...
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How to Talk Like a Local: A National Phrasebook from the author of Word Perfect
Susie DentCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99'Susie Dent is a national treasure' RICHARD OSMAN'Susie Dent is a one-off. She breathes life and fun into words and language' PAM AYRES____________...
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Modern Manglish
Alan MoirCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99''It''s dog eat dog in this rat race.'' ''We''ll burn that bridge when we come to it.'' ''I hope to come first or second, or at least win it.'' T...
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The Writing on the Wall: Reading''s Latin Inscriptions
Peter KruschwitzCurrent price €14.62Original price €18.50What are monuments for? and why are the inscriptions so often in Latin? What on earth is the point of communicating in a language so few understand...
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Language Ungoverned: Indonesia''s Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 19111949
Tom G. HoogervorstCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's Language Ungoverned examines how the M...
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