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Language: reference & general
Brand: OUP Oxford
How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very Sho..
11.38£
Brand: Wiley
This innovative introduction outlines the structure and distribution of the world's languages, charting their evolution over the past 200,000 years. Balances linguistic analysis with socio-historical and political context, offering a cohesive pictu..
51.99£
Brand: Tuttle Publishing
Reinforce your written Chinese with this practice book for the best-selling Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters.Learning Mandarin Chinese Characters helps students quickly learn the basic Chinese characters that are fundamental to the language. Inten..
14.04£
Brand: HMH Books
The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others??-??with an introduction by John Updike.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United Stat..
23.97£
Brand: NYU Press
The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'-the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of "the Fariyaq," alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the ..
23.12£
This book is linguistic in nature, offering a number of aspects of contemporary languages and their proverbs. Focusing mostly on lexical, semantic and pragmatic aspects, the book also explores language corpora findings. Apart from collecting data on..
28.75£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.Books have the power to enrich the soul, to enliven the senses, to expand our horizons… and others are simply mad. This wonderful celebration of the oddest boo..
12.50£
Brand: Profile
Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European (the..
14.04£
Brand: Polity Press
Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating intro..
16.11£
Brand: Wiley
The fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed, how they function, how they affect society, and h..
21.52£
Brand: Wiley
Linguistics is a comprehensive crosslinguistic introduction to the study of language, and is ideal for students with no background in linguistics. A comprehensive introduction to the study of language, set apart by its inclusion of cross-linguisti..
46.40£
Brand: Polity Press
Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating intro..
52.17£
Brand: Wiley
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Third Edition, presents a comprehensive introduction to thefull range of contemporary approaches to the study of literature and culture, from formalism, structuralism, and historicism to ethnic, gender, and..
30.83£
Brand: Polity Press
'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But,..
16.06£
Brand: Polity Press
'Facts alone are wanted in life,' exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens' Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and - despite two and a half thousand years of arguments - no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But,..
46.40£
Brand: Sasquatch Books
Do you ever wish you could tell a story that leaves others spellbound? Moth storytelling champion Margot Leitman will show you how in this bestselling, practical guide to storytelling.Using a fun, irreverent, and infographic approach, Margot Leitman..
22.80£
Brand: Columbia University Press
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki is one of the most eminent Japanese writers of the twentieth century, renowned for his investigations of family dynamics, eroticism, and cultural identity. Most acclaimed for his postwar novels such as The Makioka Sisters and The..
70.51£
Brand: Tuttle Publishing
Making Out in Japanese is a fun, accessible and thorough Japanese phrase book and guide to the Japanese language as it's spoken in real-life. Sugoku suki! Mata aeru?--(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Japanese, and..
12.83£
Brand: Tuttle Publishing
Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken language. This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by draw..
19.79£
Brand: Pearson Education
Compact and easy to use, this handy guide includes travel and language tips plus a two-way mini-dictionary, so you'll never be stuck for the right word. It is arranged by topic in clear, colour-coded sections, and offers phrases for every eventualit..
9.57£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
Now with audio and video free-to-access online! This lively, accessible and carefully-paced text is easily the bestselling Arabic course on the market. Mastering Arabic 1 is in full colour, with a rich array of cartoons and photos. It has an abundan..
39.79£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
A practice book in developing Arabic skills in reading and writing through engaging and highly illustrated exercises, designed to increase confidence in and understanding of basic Arabic. Written by bestselling authors, this book is suited for all b..
26.04£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
This full colour text comes with free audio and video online through an accompanying website. It is a modern, engaging, intermediate Arabic course offering lively conversations, varied texts and exercises, and fascinating cultural insights. The cour..
39.79£
Brand: Macmillan Inc
A highly illustrated and popular reference and activity book which is divided into two parts: basic grammar and verbs. The book reinforces and expands the structures and vocabulary presented in Mastering Arabic 1 and is the ideal companion to this p..
31.99£