Babel - Around the World in 20 Languages by Gaston Dorren
7.00 USD
13.99 (49% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
If you were to master the twenty languages discussed in Babel, you could talk with three quarters of the world's population. But what makes these languages stand out amid the world's estimated 6,500 tongues?Gaston Dorren delves deep into the linguistic oddities and extraordinary stories of these diverse ...Show more
Collins Little Books of Grammar Secrets by Caroline Taggart
4.41 USD
9.79 (54% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides | Series: Collins Little Books
Inside this little book one of Britain's top Grammar Gurus reveals all you need to know about Grammar but were afraid to ask. Let's admit it, we all struggle with Grammar. There, they're or their? Who's or whose? Me or I? Fewer or less? Worry no more, Caroline is here to take the grind out of grammar in ...Show more
Common Errors and Problems in English by Robert Allen
16.79 USD
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
"The Penguin Writers' Guides" series provide authoritative, succinct and easy-to-follow guidance on specific aspects of written English. Whether you need to brush up your skills or get to grips with something for the first time, these invaluable guides will help you find the best way to get your message ...Show more
Dialogue by Mckee Robert
35.01 USD
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
DIALOGUE is the follow-up title to Robert McKee's hugely successful STORY. Divided into four sections (The Art of Dialogue, Flaws & Fixes, Creating Dialogue & Dialogue Design) Dialogue teaches how to craft effective speeches for characters. McKee uses scenes from classic films and television pro ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves (PB) by Lynne Truss
5.63 USD
12.59 (55% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Elements of Style, the: Pearson New International Edition by William Strunk; E. White
4.50 USD
18.19 (75% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in order to retain the book's unique tone, wit, and charm. A new Gl ...Show more
English is Not Easy - A Guide to the Language by Luci Gutierrez
9.23 USD
23.80 (61% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
This book includes a quirkily illustrated, brilliantly risque, but thoroughly practical, guide to the peculiarities of one of the trickiest languages on earth, for (strictly adult) students of English as a foreign language and native speakers alike. Do you know when to use whether opposed to if? For exa ...Show more
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield (Editor)
5.63 USD
16.79 (66% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides | Series: Oxford Quick Reference Ser.
Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage is an invaluable reference work that offers the best advice on English usage. Known in previous editions as the 'Pocket Fowler', this third edition is a descendant of the original 1926 edition of A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry Fowler. ...Show more
Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Jeremy Butterfield
35.01 USD
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
Why literally shouldn't be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What's wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrisette ever ironic? Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage is the world-famous guide to English usage, ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
5.48 USD
13.99 (60% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
The go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . .__________ Why, like, does everyone keep saying 'like'? Why do apostrophe's keep turning up in the wrong place? Why do we get confused when using foreign phrases - and vice versa? Is it 'may be' or 'maybe'? Should it be ...Show more
How Language Began - The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention by Daniel L. Everett
7.70 USD
15.39 (49% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
How Language Began revolutionizes our understanding of the one tool that has allowed us to become the "lords of the planet." The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales is a remarkable treasure trove, a work that celebrates the best-loved tales of childhood and presents them through the vision of Maria Tatar, a ...Show more
How Language Works by David Crystal
7.96 USD
18.19 (56% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how par ...Show more