Language & Linguistics

“So often people ask me if there’s a book on story I can recommend. This is the one. I can’t recommend it highly enough.”––Alexa Junge, writer/producer, Friends, Sex and the City, The West Wing   A master class of 27 lessons, drawn from 27 diverse...

An indispensable guide to welcoming children—from babies to teens—to a lifelong love of reading, written by Pamela Paul and Maria Russo, editors of The New York Times Book Review.   Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are?...

Meet Nikki Hind, the blind fashion designer with her own fashion label. When she was growing up, Nikki couldn’t see out of her left eye.That didn’t stop her from dressing-up and making her own clothes though. When she put on different outfits, she could...

Hand letter your way to happiness with these 50 joyful projects that highlight uplifting quotes and provide a variety of techniques to learn and practice.Learn intricate designs and styles as you invite joy into your life with Hand Lettering for...

From Mental Floss, the premier destination for curious minds, comes a deep dive into the the world of words! You’ll discover the surprising (and sometimes very dark) origins of common terms, a guide to quirky old-timey words, a timeline of popular slang,...

A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human language.Why don’t eleven and twelve end in –teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds to the numbers that...

At a time when every disagreement turns toxic, world champion debater Bo Seo reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion.When Bo Seo was 8 years old, he and his family migrated from Korea to Australia. At the time, he did not...

From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries—from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers—“this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again”...

The ever popular and thoroughly entertaining, Aussie Slang Dictionary is back to help you decipher and speak the true local language.Full of dazzling definitions from true-blue Aussies, you’ll never be lost for words with this collection of colourful...

Become a poet and write poetry with ease with help from this clear and simple guide in the popular 101 series. Poetry never goes out of style. An ancient writing form found in civilizations across the world, poetry continues to inform the way we write...

FRENCH-ENGLISH ENGLISH-FRENCH Entirely revised and updated, this is the most affordable and complete French-English English-French dictionary of its kind. Now easier to read and access, with more than 50,000 definitions, it is designed expressly for the...

Learn the basic techniques every successful playwright knows! Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books out there, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play construction. Lajos Egri's classic, The Art of Dramatic Writing, does...

The English language is riddled with phrases that are complete nonsense. Ever met "a monkey's uncle," seen a "red-handed" thief, or "put a sock in it" when asked? You knows the real meaning of these common expressions, but do you know where, why, and how...

A handy parent's guide that turns professional language development into child's playEvery new parent waits expectantly for their child's first words. But if this milestone is late to arrive, they quickly become concerned. Luckily, Talking with...

THE FIRST ALL-IN-ONE EDITION OF P.R. SPENCER'S CLASSIC PENMANSHIP PRIMER INCLUDING STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS AND PAGES FOR PRACTICINGEasy to understand yet challenging to perfect, the Spencerian system was the standard for all personal and business...

GET D!RTY Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Japanese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:•Cool slang •Funny insults •Explicit sex...

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic Australianisms like mateship, fair dinkum, and bogan to drop bears, budgie smugglers, and bin chickens.And while you...

Have you ever been unsure where an apostrophe should go? Do you know the difference between a regular and an irregular verb? And why should you care?The Briefest English Grammar and Punctuation Guide Ever! clearly and simply explains how language works,...

An essential book on California's Indigenous languages, updated for the first time in over 25 years.Before outsiders arrived, about one hundred distinct Indigenous languages were spoken in California, and many of them are in use today. Since its original...

Vergil: Aeneid 7is part of a new series of commentaries on theAeneid. Each volume adapts, with extensive revisions and additions, the commentaries of T. E. Page (1884, 1900) and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic. The present volume offers the Latin...

"Ghost of the Hardy Boys is an elegant book, full of charm and pathos and whimsy. The writing is restrained, the characterizations deep and rich, the humor nuanced." -Washington PostAs millions of boys and girls devoured the early adventures of the Hardy...

A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Sherman Alexie, Paula...

SparkCharts: The information you need-concisely, conveniently, and accurately. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these study companions and reference tools cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, from Business and...

SparkCharts: The information you need-concisely, conveniently, and accurately. Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, these study companions and reference tools cover a wide range of college and graduate school subjects, from Business and...

Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed dynamically. In The Postmodern Condition Jean-Francois Lyotard extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status...

The most enjoyable way to learn about an unfamiliar culture is through its stories--especially when they're told in two languages!Thai Stories for Language Learners introduces 28 entertaining Thai stories with bilingual Thai and English versions...

This book's aim is to help herbal travellers including students, professional biologists in the field, herbal retailers and wholesalers, people living away from their own country, and medical herbalists. The author has mainly kept to herbs that...

Japanese characters served up with histories and cultural clues to help you decorate your skin/body/life with just the right word!Bold, visual, profound, symbolic: Japanese kanji characters communicate powerful graphic messages that look great on skin,...

This is an illustrated text to incorporate speaking Latin into the study of Latin. Through rich drawings by the author, students are provided situations common to the classroom and their lives in which to speak to one another, along with clues and...

A Latin reference grammar guide with updated sections on the Indo-European language family and on Latin meter, addition of a brief bibliography, and a reorganized index of sources.

Plautus Amphitryo is an excellent example of Roman comedy. This Latin edition includes commentary in English, a supplement, written in the fifteenth century, in place of the scenes lost from the original, notes are on facing pages and in Latin. Besides...

Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colourful phrases -- from abandoned as a used Kleenex to quiet as an eel swimming in oil -- this reference will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find the perfect simile, be it original or banal,...

From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life.For over two millennia, Jewish...

From bestselling Brazilian crime novelist Patrcia Melo comes a masterful thriller that is by turns poetic, inspiring, humorous and harrowing.To escape an overprotective family and an abusive partner, a young lawyer accepts an assignment in the Amazonian...

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories - passed down from generation to generation - presented in both Chinese and English.Welcome to the land of Chinese folklore, a delightful corner of the Chinese heritage that remains relatively unexplored in...

Learn Korean as it's actually spoken today in Seoul!Korean is one of the fastest-growing second languages in the world, due to the huge popularity of K-pop music, Korean food and K-dramas. This book picks up where the first volume ends, and is...

"Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow is one of the best books on writing I've ever read. It's also the funniest by a country mile." -Richard Russo, author of the North Bath trilogyThe long-awaited craft book from Steve Almond, based on three decades of...

"Shevchuk has not only produced an infinitely helpfulresource for anyone interested in Ukrainian, but given us one of the mostbreathtaking scholarly achievements in Slavonic Studies in many years. It is amonument to the Ukrainian language and a watershed...

Everything you need is in this book, at a fraction of the cost of expensive language kits!This book teaches you the basics of the Hindi language, including practical daily conversations and vocabulary. It enables you to begin communicating effectively...

Essential Vietnamese Grammar is designed for use by English-speakers to help them speak and write Vietnamese more naturally.The twelve chapters in this book cover the essential sentence constructions of Vietnamese--from beginning to intermediate and...

Vergil: Aeneid 10 is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume adapts, with extensive revisions and additions, the commentaries of T. E. Page (1884, 1900) and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic. The present volume offers the Latin...

"Instructive and entertaining."-Wall Street JournalLearn how to argue from the masters. This book is a complete course on the art of argument, taught by the greatest practitioners of it: Churchill, Lincoln, and hundreds of others from the golden age of...

A colour-illustrated introduction to the basic principles of visual language that every content creator and consumer needs to know.The right images capture attention, pique curiosity, and inspire viewers to stick around long enough to read any...

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...

A celebration of the art of handwriting, introducing famous writers, scientists and historical figures through documents written by their own hands.The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection...

Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work , we see him tackling by by Alexander Griboyedov.Miser, Miser!is a bold reworking of Molire's classic comedy of 1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of gold, which he has buried in...

The easy way to learn the Japanese HIRAGANA and KATAKANA alphabets!This is the perfect workbook to use when learning to write Japanese Hiragana and Katakana, the two phonetic alphabets that all learners of Japanese need to know. It features a complete...

The book every beginning learner of Chinese needs to have!This essential workbook is designed for beginners to learn to write Chinese characters the correct way. The eight basic Chinese writing strokes are presented along with an explanation of how they...