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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
Dianne Hales · back to the book
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Include books by the same authorSpoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
Mark Abley · 321 pages
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
Gaston Dorren · 304 pages
"Spins the reader on a whirlwind tour of sixty European languages and dialects, sharing quirky moments from their histories and exploring their commonalities and differences ... [and taking] us into today's remote mountain villages of Switzerland, where Romansh is still the lingua franca, to formerly Soviet Belarus, a country whose language was Russified by the Bolsheviks, to Sweden, where up unti
Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
Deborah Fallows · 205 pages
Fallows unravels Chinese culture by explaining the intricacies and subtleties of Mandarin, devoting each chapter to a particular linguistic quirk.
In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri · 256 pages
"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"--
The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time
Jeff Deck, Benjamin D. Herson · 288 pages
Landmarks
Robert Macfarlane · 417 pages
"In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and literary terrain of our archipelago, from the Shetlands to Cornwall, and from Cumbria to Suffolk. Landmarks is a book about the power of language - 'strong style, single words' - to shape our sense of place. It is both a field guide to the literature he loves (Nan Shepherd, Roger Deakin and many more), and a 'word-hoard',
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
Katherine Russell Rich · 360 pages
"In this inspirational memoir, Rich documents her experiences in India ? ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating -- using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated by the process, she went on to interview linguistics experts around th
Practical English Usage
Michael Swan · 654 pages
A topic-by-topic guide for teachers and learners of English grammar and vocabulary.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
American Heritage Dictionary · 2,140 pages
The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
Karen Elizabeth Gordon · 98 pages
My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right
Caroline Taggart, J.A. Wines
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
John McWhorter · 257 pages
"A bestselling linguist takes us on a lively tour of how the English language is evolving before our eyes and why we should embrace this transformation and not fight it. Language is always changing -- but we tend not to like it. We understand that new words must be created for new things, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether its the use of literally to mean "f
The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
Jack Lynch · 326 pages
Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print--And How to Avoid Them
Bill Walsh · 256 pages
No writer's or editor's desk is complete without a battered, page-bent copy of the AP Stylebook. However, this not-so-easy-to-use reference of journalistic style is often not up-to-date and leaves reporters and copyeditors unsatisfied. Bill Walsh, copy chief for the Washington Post's business desk, addresses these shortcomings in Lapsing into a Comma. In an opinionated, humorous, and yes, curmudge
Letter Perfect: The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z
David Sacks · 405 pages
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Bill Bryson · 417 pages
Bill Bryson turns away from the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't wo
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Mark Forsyth · 373 pages
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
Ruth S. Noel, J.R.R. Tolkien · 207 pages
Presents a comprehensive pocket guide to the fourteen languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth and contains a dictionary and English/Elvish glossary, rules of grammar and pronunciation, and how to write the Elvish alphabet.
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
Steven Pinker · 368 pages
" A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steve