A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
by: Sam Leith
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 24,75 >> € 22,50
Rhetoric is nothing to be afraid of. It isn't the exclusive preserve of politicians: it's everywhere, from your argument with the insurance company to your plea to the waitress for a table near the window. It convicts criminals (and then frees them on appeal). It causes governments to rise and fall, ...
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning
by: Ray Jackendoff
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 28,05 >> € 25,50
"Startling and insightful" -- Steven Pinker
'A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning' is Jackendoff's most important book since his groundbreaking 'Foundations of Language'. Written with an informality that belies the originality of its insights, it presents a radical new account of the relation between ...
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
by: Henry Hitchings
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
"This richly detailed and often delightfully combative book is a historical guide to the somewhat splenetic battles that have been fought over [English] down the centuries... a pleasure to read." -- Sunday Times
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct ...
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
by: David Bellos
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 33,00 >> € 29,95
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use translation ...
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
by: Nicholas Ostler
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 16,50 >> € 15,00
In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted? In their time, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and Persian have each been world languages, sweeping the globe for centuries at a time. And yet they have all been displaced, just as Nicholas Ostler predicts English will ...
The Last Word: Tales From the Tip of the Mother Tongue
by: Ben Macintyre
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 13,20
Do you know your geek-speak from your geek-chic? Ever wanted to put Humpty Dumpty together again? Can you distinguish Spanglish from Chinglish? We adapt words from other languages, from slang, from developments in science, literature and art. Learn the advantages of having your own signature word, why ...
The Story of English in 100 Words
by: David Crystal
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 21,45 >> € 19,50
This title offers an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages from Britain's leading linguistics expert. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have ...
Globish
by: Robert McCrum
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 16,95 >> € 12,00
Go anywhere in the world today and you'll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily be the Queen's English that you're hearing, but it is, nevertheless, a form of universally recognised English - it is Globish. In his wonderfully witty and informative new book, Robert McCrum explores the ...
Through the Language Glass
by: Guy Deutscher
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 13,20 >> € 12,00
Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? In "Through the Language Glass", acclaimed author Guy Deutscher will convince you that, contrary to the fashionable academic ...
Recommended by: Jonny ("Totally fascinating. Look out for the chapter on the perception of colour; it may just blow your mind.")
The Unfolding of Language
by: Guy Deutscher
Category: Language and Linguistics
Price: € 16,50 >> € 15,00
'Language is mankind's greatest invention - except of course, that it was never invented.' So begins Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the evolution of language. No one believes that the Roman Senate sat down one day to design the complex system that is Latin grammar, and few believe, these ...