by Bill Bryson  
From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
by Jack Tresidder Publisher Comments The Complete Dictionary of Symbols is an engaging and accessible guide to more than 2,000 major themes, figures, and symbols that are commonly found in myth, art, and literature. Drawing on classical mythologies, Biblical themes, and traditional symbols... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
English Linguistics and Dialects by Matthew Porter Publisher Comments ABC is an adorable alphabet book that is full of gorgeous colors, textures and cute animals. It comes with funky acrylic and ink paintings on wood, like those well loved and worn wooden ABC blocks we stacked up, chewed up, kicked around, and dropped as... (read more) Your Price $8.95 (New - Board Books) check for used and sale copies
by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. Written by a well-known author in the field, the entries are concise and lucid, and provide an... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments This revised edition of Deborah Tannen's first discourse analysis book, Conversational Style--first published in 1984--presents an approach to analyzing conversation that later became the hallmark and foundation of her extensive body of work in discourse... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jacques Durand Synopsis This book is part of a series intended for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level and aims to provide a broad view of the linguistics field such as is hard to obtain exclusively from scholarly journals.... (read more) Your Price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With... (read more) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Nicholas Ostler Publisher Comments Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Jack Tresidder Publisher Comments Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium covers iconography from around the world and is perfect for travel and museum outings. Author Jack Tresidder examines common imagery in art, religion, and literature, revealing hidden... (read more) Your Price $4.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Steven Pinker
Powells.com Staff Pick With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your Price $20.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
by Barbara Ann Kipfer Publisher Comments Are You a Word Nerd? Did you know... Only a human (not an animal or thing) is able to do something The five on dice is called cinque K for strike-out in baseball comes from the last letter of struck To skice is to frisk about like squirrels in spring For... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your Price $11.96 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Nicholas Ostler Publisher Comments The Latin language has been the one constant in the cultural history of the West for more than two millennia. It has been the foundation of our education, and has defined the way in which we express our thoughts, our faith, and our knowledge of how the... (read more) Your Price $27.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments How does language work, and how do we learn to speak? Why do languages change over time, and why do they have so many quirks and irregularities? In this original and totally entertaining book written in the same engaging style that illuminated his... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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