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The Mother Tongue
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...
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
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...
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Made in America
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...
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert...
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Genie: A Scientific Tragedy
by Russ Rymer Publisher Comments The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition....
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times
by Geoffrey Nunberg Publisher Comments The words that echo through Geoffrey Nunberg's brilliant new journey across the landscape of American language evoke exactly the tenor of our times. Nunberg has a wonderful ear for the new, the comic and the absurd. He pronounces that: "‘Blog' is a...
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1000 Most Important Words
by Norman W. Schur Publisher Comments Based on the contention that we do not utillize speech to its fullest extent, this guide is an essential aide to unlocking our "passive" vocabularies and developing a keener appreciation of the richness of language. Indispensable For Writers...
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News is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the 20th Century (Library of Contemporary Thought)
by Pete Hamill Publisher Comments The Library of Contemporary Thought is a groundbreaking series that tackles today's most provocative, fascinating, relevant issues. Original and daring, creative and important, these respected voices on matters political, social, economic, and cultural...
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Language Variation in South Asia
by William Bright Publisher Comments South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years...
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Collins Gem German Dictionary 7TH Edition
by Harpercollins Publisher Comments One of the bestselling language dictionaries of all time. The first in our exciting range of newandndash;look Collins Gem dictionaries, the Collins Gem German Dictionaryis still the indispensable small dictionary for learners of German. This new edition...
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Introducing Chomsky, New Edition
by John Maher Publisher Comments Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society....
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Under, Over, by the Clover: What Is a Preposition? (Words Are Categorical)
by Brian P. Cleary Synopsis In this fun-filled guide, playful puns and comical cartoon cats combine to show, not tell, readers what prepositions are all about. Illustrations....
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Word Smart II: 700 More Words To Help Build an Educated Vocabulary
by Adam Robinson Publisher Comments Revised Edition This revised edition of Word Smart II features another 848 words you need to know for an educated, up-to-date vocabulary. Other features are a pronunciation guide, a list of common usage errors and the most frequently tested words....
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XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar: Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Ayesha Kidwai Publisher Comments One of the most hotly debated phenomena in natural language is that of leftward argument scrambling. This book investigates the properties of Hindi-Urdu scrambling to show that it must be analyzed as uniformly a focality-driven XP-adjunction operation...
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The Language Imperative
by Suzette Haden Elgin Publisher Comments Many of us view language as a tool, a means by which to communicate our thoughts and emotions. But is there more to language than just "talk"? Can learning languages actually change the way you think? In The Language Imperative, best-selling author and...
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The Silent Child: Exploring the World of Children Who Do Not Speak
by Laure Danon Boileau Publisher Comments Laurent Danon-Boileau is one of France's most respected child psychoanalysts. In The Silent Child, he takes us into his office to watch him treat six children who cannot or will not speak. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a...
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Clear Thinking for Composition
by Ray Kytle Publisher Comments Combining logic and composition, this clear, concise, successful text emphasizes critical thinking as the foundation for good writing. Readings reflect contemporary issues, while an acronym-based technique new to this edition offers students a simple...
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Linguistics the Cambridge Survey Volume 3
by Frederick Newmeyer Publisher Comments Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to...
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Samoan Alphabet
by Lori Phillips Synopsis Illustrated with children's artwork collected by the Regional Educational Laboratory at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL), the book features 4 or 5 illustrated examples for each letter as well as a word list of English translations....
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Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done
by Barbara Walraff Publisher Comments By the author of the Atlantic Monthly's highly popular column "Word Court," the most engaging grammar guide of our time, with all the authority of Strunk and White and all the fun of Woe Is I. The "Judge Judy of Grammar" was born when the Atlantic...
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