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The Illustrated Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth 9781785787850
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.20A NEW, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED HARDBACK EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, PUBLISHED ON ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY.'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that... -
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition by Jared Diamond
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.87**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? And what... -
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Mark Forsyth 9781785781704
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick... -
Through the Language Glass: Why The World Looks Different In Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92"Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics... he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just... -
Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.95Theclassic Wheelock's Latin remains the most highly regarded andbestselling single-volume, introductory Latin textbook of its kind. Now in itsseventh edition, Wheelock's Latin retains its signature... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 9780006546818
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.54This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth... -
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent.Who were Mary... -
The Unfolding Of Language by Guy Deutscher
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'A persuasive and beautifully written take on how languages are constantly evolving... an enthralling read about human psychology and anthropology as well as linguistics.' ALEX... -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.07The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations... -
The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names by John Wright
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28Latin names - frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel - have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the... -
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Expressions by Chloe O. Davis 9781529110401
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer... -
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler 9780007118717
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.17An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history. The story of the... -
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda 9780691262291
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.44A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to... -
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by C. T. Onions
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $67.60The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever published. It is based on the original edition of the Oxford English Dictionary but much... -
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
Booksplease Price: $34.77A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the... -
Lexham English Septuagint by . Lexham
RRP: $48.23Booksplease Price: $31.88A fresh translation of the Septuagint. The Lexham English Septuagint (LES) is a new translation of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament writings used during New Testament times... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
The Adventure Of English by Melvyn Bragg 9780340829936
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Melvyn Bragg's superb new history of the English language is told as an adventure story, and rightly so. There is much splendid intellectual firepower in this book.' Andrew Roberts, SpectatorEnglish... -
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson 9780380715435
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380715435Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
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The Stories of English by David Crystal 9780141015934 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.23When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are... -
The Stories of English by David Crystal
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.66When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are... -
Runes Martin Findell 9780714180298
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes... -
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin 9781804710715
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director... -
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of... -
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Spoken Here by Mark Abley 9780099460220 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.97Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the world... -
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body Prof Steven Mithen 9780753820513
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language... -
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson 9780500288160
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs - Lost Languages moves on to dissect the most well-known and enigmatic undeciphered... -
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $24.96Swearing is a fascinating thing. Almost everyone does it, or worries about not doing it, from the two year old who has just discovered the power of the potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why... -
How Language Works by David Crystal
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his... -
How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide (Dictionary for Swear Words, Funny Gift, Book about Cursing) by Stephen Wildish 9781452167763
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452167763Author Stephen WildishFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India by Sir Henry Yule
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal 9780141003962 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives... -
The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.38This is the definitive survey of the English language - in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world and finally he gives... -
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A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes 9781782434320 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $2.64A handy guide to the meanings and origins of the many foreign phrases we use every day.English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado,... -
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages by Chloe Rhodes
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.25A handy guide to the meanings and origins of the many foreign phrases we use every day.English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado,... -
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth 9781785781711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.99FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting' Roland White, Sunday Times.Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully... -
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $6.20FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON.'Reading The Horologicon in one sitting is very tempting' Roland White, Sunday Times.Mark Forsyth presents a delightfully... -
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783964390
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.30The ultimate gift for wordsmiths and lovers of language: a word for every day of the year; Open the Cabinet to leap back in time, learn about linguistic trivia, follow a curious thread or wonder at... -
Kicking the Bucket at the Drop of a Hat: The Meaning and Origins of Popular Expressions by Caroline Taggart
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25A fascinating collection of the many unusual and vibrant phrases that adorn our language, looking at their origins and meanings. Don't be down in the dumps if you can't cut the mustard when asked the... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.33What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste,...