Language: history & general works books

3479 books were found.

You Can't Be Serious: An inner-city teacher a-muses about school and life

You Can't Be Serious: An inner-city teacher a-muses...

Author: Larry Berliner
ISBN: 9780983940166
Format: Paperback
$28.91

There's something funny going on here - in a school in the South Bronx, on a family vacation, in the way we like...  Read More >>

Political Discourse as Dialogue: A Latin American Perspective

Political Discourse as Dialogue: A Latin American Perspective...

Author: Adriana Bolívar (Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela)
ISBN: 9781138678781
Format: Hardback
$284.00

We are witnessing the collapse of democracies in many parts of the world and a general tendency to the resurgence...  Read More >>

We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch

We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781851244782
Format: Hardback
$29.99

David Crystal shows how our feelings about pronunciation today have their origins in the way our Victorian predecessors...  Read More >>

Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts: Conceptualisation, research and pedagogic implications

Exploring ELF in Japanese Academic and Business Contexts:...

Author: Kumiko Murata (Waseda University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138577794
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book investigates the theoretical, empirical and pedagogical issues to help us better understand what is happening...  Read More >>

English Studies Beyond the 'Center': Teaching literature and the future of global English

English Studies Beyond the 'Center': Teaching literature...

Author: Myles Chilton (Nihon University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138575967
Format: Paperback
$98.99

The book aims to open a cross-disciplinary conversation that will help literature faculty recalibrate, and provoke...  Read More >>

Where There's a Will There's a Way: Japanese Proverbs and Their English Equivalents

Where There's a Will There's a Way: Japanese Proverbs...

Author: Primrose Arnander ,  Ritsuko Yamada Nishimae
ISBN: 9781909339996
Format: Paperback
$15.40

This latest title in the hugely popular series of proverbs from around the world focuses on the richness of Japanese...  Read More >>

Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology

Origin of Kibosh: Routledge Studies in Etymology

Author: Gerald Cohen ,  Stephen Goranson
ISBN: 9781138628953
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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When in French: Love in a Second Language

When in French: Love in a Second Language

Author: Lauren Collins
ISBN: 9780143110736
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain

Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain...

Author: Susie Dent
ISBN: 9781473623897
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human

The Stories of Slang: Language at its most human

Author: Jonathon Green
ISBN: 9781472139665
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action

Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action...

Author: Graham Hall (University of Northumbria, UK) ,  Guy Cook
ISBN: 9781138722811
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics...  Read More >>

Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action

Exploring English Language Teaching: Language in Action...

Author: Graham Hall (University of Northumbria, UK) ,  Guy Cook
ISBN: 9781138722781
Format: Hardback
$221.00

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics...  Read More >>

Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar

Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar...

Author: David Crystal
ISBN: 9781781256022
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The world's best-known authority on the English language reveals the secrets and subtleties of its grammar.  Read More >>

100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up Or Mangles

100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up Or Mangles

Author: Editors of the American Heritage Di
ISBN: 9781328710321
Format: Paperback
$19.99

100 Words Almost Everyone Mixes Up or Mangles presents words that people can't keep straight, no matter how hard...  Read More >>

Sacred Languages of the World: An Introduction

Sacred Languages of the World: An Introduction

Author: Brian P. Bennett ,  Brian T. Bennett
ISBN: 9781118970775
Format: Paperback
$45.95

A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion written for a broad,...  Read More >>

Sacred Languages of the World: An Introduction

Sacred Languages of the World: An Introduction

Author: Brian P. Bennett ,  Brian T. Bennett
ISBN: 9781118970782
Format: Hardback
$134.95

A fascinating comparative account of sacred languages and their role in and beyond religion written for a broad,...  Read More >>

Business Bullshit

Business Bullshit

Author: André Spicer
ISBN: 9781138911673
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Business Bullshit considers why empty talk is so popular, and outlines the impact it has on organizations and the...  Read More >>

Business Bullshit

Business Bullshit

Author: André Spicer
ISBN: 9781138911666
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Business Bullshit considers why empty talk is so popular, and outlines the impact it has on organizations and the...  Read More >>

The Kellyanne Conway Technique: Perfecting the Ancient Art of Delivering Half-Truths, Fake News, and Obfuscation—With a Smile

The Kellyanne Conway Technique: Perfecting the Ancient...

Author: Jarret Berenstein
ISBN: 9781631582424
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The only thing Americans want to read more than Trump's tax returns.  Read More >>

Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch: Wörterbuch der älteren deutschen Rechtssprache. Band XIII, Heft 7/8 – Spieß - Stadtkanzlei

Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch: Wörterbuch der älteren deutschen...

Author: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
ISBN: 9783476045386
Format: Paperback
$131.97

Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch, das neben juristischen...  Read More >>

May We Borrow Your Language?: How English Steals Words From All Over the World

May We Borrow Your Language?: How English Steals Words...

Author: Mr Philip Gooden
ISBN: 9781786694553
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A richly entertaining exploration of the origins of the words that English has borrowed from other languages over...  Read More >>

Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach

Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach

Author: Kristine Horner ,  Jean Jacques Weber
ISBN: 9781138244481
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language

Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not so dead language...

Author: Darach O'Seaghdha
ISBN: 9781786691866
Format: Hardback
$27.99

A humorous investigation of the Irish language.  Read More >>

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