A Word from the Wise by Rosemarie Jarski
$39.99 AUD
Category: English Language
A Word From The Wise is a one-stop shop with over 6,000 quotes. It's a vast resource, but every one is a gem, from such knowledgeable souls as Hunter S Thompson, The Talmud, Dorothy Parker and Daffy Duck. With each quote handily placed within every possible category you could think of, and with more quo ...Show more
A Date with Language by David Crystal
$49.99 AUD
Category: English Language
A collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year. In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets, and global institutions, together with the ...Show more
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners Volume 2 by Olly Richards
$24.99 AUD
Category: English Language | Series: Teach Yourself Foreign L Ser.
Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work - and you will too! - Barbara Oakley,PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for NumbersThis second volume of the ...Show more
Australian Slang by Anon
$24.99 AUD
Category: English Language | Reading Level: very good
This dictionary brings together a colourful collection of colloquialisms from Down Under, including humorous rhyming slang, inventive insults and comical curses. Celebrating a distinctive and often irreverent language, Australian Slangis a ripper of a read that will delight visitors from OS, as well as ...Show more
Humble Pie and Cold Turkey - English Expressions and Their Origins by Caroline Taggart
$32.99 AUD
Category: English Language
'Caroline Taggart has carved out a niche for herself in user-friendly, wittily written factual books.' - Yorkshire Post ______________________ In this highly entertaining book, language enthusiast and Sunday Times best-selling author Caroline Taggart browses through thousands of years of history to sh ...Show more
The Dawn of Language: How We Came to Talk by Sverker Johansson
$32.99 AUD
Category: English Language
Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message? Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language ...Show more
Nine Nasty Words - English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever by John McWhorter
$39.99 AUD
Category: English Language
Profanity has always been a deliciously vibrant part of our lexicon, an integral part of being human. In fact, our ability to curse comes from a different part of the brain than other parts of speech--the urgency with which we say "f&*k!" is instead related to the instinct that tells us to flee from ...Show more
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer
$39.99 AUD
Category: English Language
Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This editi ...Show more
Long Live Latin (Viva il Latino): The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini
$32.99 AUD
Category: English Language
Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin seems to have lost its punch in ...Show more
Word to the Wise - Untangling the Mix-Ups, Misuse and Myths of Language by Mark Broatch
$32.99 AUD
Category: English Language
Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they have been using or spelling a word wrong for years, or, in some cases, their entire life. This useful reference ...Show more
Fucking Apostrophes - A Guide to show you where you can stick them by Simon Griffin
$19.99 AUD
Category: English Language | Reading Level: very good
A hilarious, furious and profoundly useful short guide to the most maddening punctuation in English. Apostrophes are an f'ing pain. The rules about how to use them are complicated, and have evolved haphazardly. Originally written as advice by a copywriter for designers -- wont to insert and remove apost ...Show more
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
$35.00 AUD
Category: English Language
Unforbidden Pleasures is the dazzling new book from Adam Phillips, author of Missing Out and Going Sane Adam Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the Unforbidden, from the fall of our 'first parents' Adam and Eve to the work of the great twentie ...Show more