Language: history & general works books

A fascinating exploration of the role of the bookseller through the ages, from antiquity to the present day. An...  Read More >>

Minimal language. Maximum awareness. The cultural code for navigating Paris with confidence.  Read More >>

Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic...  Read More >>

This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Cynic's Word Book pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study...  Read More >>

New Zealand’s leading Māori writer decides at eighty to go back and learn his own language – and write about it....  Read More >>

This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse,...  Read More >>

Based on copious data from the Linguistic Atlas Project, this book tells the story of American English from a linguistic...  Read More >>

Named a Best Book of 2025 by the Guardian, Scientific American, and the Washington Independent Review of Books...  Read More >>

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'Moving, beautiful and important' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Punchy and persuasive' SUNDAY...  Read More >>

This volume, split into two parts, looks at varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Introductory...  Read More >>

This volume, split into two parts, looks at varieties of English in Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Introductory...  Read More >>

A fascinating exploration of the role of the bookseller through the ages, from antiquity to the present day. An...  Read More >>

A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English presents 5,000 of the most common multi-word...  Read More >>

A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English presents 5,000 of the most common multi-word...  Read More >>

This book (1990) offers a historical perspective on literary English, from the mid-14th century to the 20th century....  Read More >>

This book examines American cultural values and their expressions in everyday speech, particularly an American discourse...  Read More >>

A comprehensive workbook of student exercises to accompany the second edition of This Language, A River.  Read More >>

The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative...  Read More >>

حين تبتسم المحابر حكايات من زمن أدباء لكن ظرفاءبين رفوف المكتبات، اعتدنا أن نرى الأدباء في صورهم المهيبة؛ بوقار...  Read More >>

An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited...  Read More >>

The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element will convey...  Read More >>

Father Humor covers every aspect of the most simultaneously loathed and beloved joke form of all time: the pun....  Read More >>

Double the jokes, double the laughs, and double the puns. What's not to love? The Big Book of Puns brings together...  Read More >>

The regular public transmission of news was one of the great inventions of the Renaissance. This Element will convey...  Read More >>