Language: History & General Works
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A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €16.14Original 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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Just My Typo: From ''sinning with the choir'' to ''the large hardon collider''
Drummond MoirCurrent price €14.44Original 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 €17.58Original 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 €16.14Original 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 €14.88Original price €17.50'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 €15.73Original 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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Latin: Story of a World Language
Jurgen LeonhardtCurrent price €24.69Original price €25.99The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries after Romes fall, Latin survives today primarily in classroom...
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Speaking in Tongues: Curious Expressions from Around the World
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Ever feel like you are pedalling in the choucroute? Been caught with your beard in the mailbox again? Or maybe you just wish everyone would stop ir...
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New Rhetorics for Contemporary Legal Discourse
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €25.18Original price €26.50Are the general and the particular separated in legal rhetorics? What is the function of singular events, facts, names in legal argumentation and w...
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words
Ella Frances SandersCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or, that theres a Swedish word that mea...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
H. W. FowlerCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50'What grammarians say should be has perhaps less influence on what shall be than even the more modest of them realize ...' No book had more influ...
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A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinches, an ostentation of peacocks: collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifte...
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Straight From The Fridge Dad: New Edition
Max DecharneCurrent price €22.13Original price €26.99Containing thousands of examples of hipster slang drawn from pulp novels, classic noir and exploitation films, blues, country and rock''n''roll lyr...
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That''s Not English: Britishisms, Americanisms and What Our English Says About Us
Erin MooreCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their languag...
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The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar
Bas AartsCurrent price €18.04Original price €18.99The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar is a straightforward and accessible A-Z guide to the diverse and often complex terminology of English gram...
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Jabulani means rejoice: A dictionary of South African names
Phumzile Simelane KalumbaCurrent price €41.27Original price €47.99Current price €41.27Original price €47.99Save 14% -
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
Nicholas OstlerCurrent price €16.63Original price €17.50A revelatory and exhilarating tour de force, Nicholas Ostler's The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages explores the rise of a ...
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The Wonderful World of Words
Mitchell SymonsCurrent price €12.17Original price €13.99Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the lo...
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Salty Dog Talk: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Bill BeavisCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Most of us never realise how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook expla...
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
Dan JurafskyCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Ketchup began as a fermented fish sauce from Chinas Fujian province: ke for fermented fish, tchup for sauce. The British were the first to add toma...
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How English Became English: A short history of a global language
Simon HorobinCurrent price €17.58Original price €18.50The English Language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...
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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 €16.14Original 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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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 €17.58Original 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 €17.58Original 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
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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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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 €175.74Original 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 €16.63Original price €17.50Current price €16.63Original price €17.50Save 5% -
Resurrexio Domini: Student Edition
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