Upheaval
Jared Diamond
1997 · 2019 edition
500 pages
The most popular linguistics books
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. How sounds, words and sentences are built, how children learn to speak, how languages change and how they shape thought are its questions. Popular introductions sit here beside textbooks for students of the field.
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Cultish
Amanda Montell, 어맨다 몬텔
Published 2021
310 pages
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynne Truss
2003 · 2011 edition
209 pages
Atlas of the Heart
Brené Brown, Brynlee Brooke
Published 2021
301 pages
Camera Lucida
Roland Barthes
1980 · 2020 edition
146 pages
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Thomas Cahill
1995 · 1996 edition
246 pages
On Writing Well An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
William Zinsser
1980 · 1995 edition
300 pages
Wordslut
Amanda Montell
Published 2019
291 pages
The language instinct
Steven Pinker
Published 1994
494 pages
Non-Violent Communication A Language of Compassion
Marshall B. Rosenberg
Published 1998
184 pages
Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1998 · 1968 edition
40 pages
Mythologies The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
Roland Barthes
Published 1972
158 pages
Because Internet Understanding how Language is Changing
Gretchen McCulloch
2019 · 2020 edition
336 pages
Tango
Slawomir Mrozek, Tom Stoppard
1999 · 1968 edition
122 pages
Chomsky On Anarchism
Noam Chomsky
Published 2005
241 pages
The Stuff of Thought Language as a Window Into Human Nature
Steven Pinker, Dean Olsher
Published 2007
499 pages
A History of the World in 100 Objects
F. H. Bradley
1995 · 2011 edition
707 pages
The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker
Published 2014
359 pages
Word Power Made Easy The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary
Norman Lewis
1975 · 2015 edition
560 pages
Proust and the squid
Maryanne Wolf
2007 · 2022 edition
308 pages
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Susan Sontag
1979 · 2001 edition
183 pages
Through the Language Glass Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Guy Deutscher
2010 · 2011 edition
309 pages
The Bed of Procrustes Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2010 · 2016 edition
156 pages
The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking
Dale Carnegie
1973 · 2018 edition
184 pages