The Lost Spells
Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris
Published 2020
240 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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Course In General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
1974 · 1965 edition
240 pages
The Adventure of English
Melvyn Bragg
2003 · 2011 edition
322 pages
Murakami T The T-Shirts I Love
Haruki Murakami
Published 2021
178 pages
Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes
Published 1977
220 pages
We Need To Talk How to Have Conversations That Matter
Celeste Headlee
2017 · 2028 edition
272 pages
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
John Koenig
Published 2021
288 pages
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally
Marcus J. Borg
2001 · 2013 edition
321 pages
The Wayfinders (CBC Massey Lectures)
Wade Davis
Published 2009
272 pages
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Nicolas Tredell
Published 1999
189 pages
The Secret Life of Pronouns
James W. Pennebaker, Robert Fass
Published 2011
368 pages
How the World Works
Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman, David Barsamian
Published 2011
416 pages
In the Land of Invented Languages Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
Arika Okrent
Published 2009
342 pages
The Unfolding of Language An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Guy Deutscher
2005 · 2006 edition
368 pages
Consolations The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte
2014 · 2019 edition
175 pages
Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
David Bellos
Published 2011
390 pages
When in French
Lauren Collins
2016 · 2017 edition
256 pages
Lost in Translation
Ella Frances Sanders
2014 · 2015 edition
112 pages
The Power of Babel
John McWhorter
Published 2002
336 pages
The Timeless Way of Building
Christopher Alexander
Published 1979
552 pages
Nisa The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
Marjorie Shostak
Published 2000
365 pages
Smp Wife of Bath
Geoffrey Chaucer
Published 1995
256 pages
My Broken Language
Quiara Alegría Hudes
Published 2021
336 pages
The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
2016 · 2017 edition
192 pages