Collins Complete Writing Guide by Graham King
7.28 USD
13.99 (47% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
The Collins Complete Writing Guide is the essential single-volume guide for all who aspire to improve their writing skills Whether you want to write a novel, draft a report for the School Board, create a compelling CV, write a letter of protest to the Council, or choose an emoticon to sign off your e-ma ...Show more
Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth
5.51 USD
13.99 (60% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
Pre order the go-to good English guide from the grammar guru himself, Gyles Brandreth . . . Don't know if it's, like, okay to say 'like'?Are your apostrophe's in the wrong place?Should it be 'past' or 'passed'?Want to make fewer not less grammatical mistakes? Then do not despair, Gyles Brandreth's Hav ...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
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
Report Writing by Reid, Michelle
6.10 USD
11.19 (45% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
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
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
6.13 USD
15.39 (60% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
Steven Pinker, the best-selling author of The Language Instinct, deploys his gift for explaining big ideas in The Sense of Style - an entertaining writing guide for the 21st century. What is the secret of good prose? Does writing well even matter in an age of instant communication? Should we care? In th ...Show more
Through the Language Glass : Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher
6.13 USD
13.99 (56% off)
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
'Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics...he argues in a playful and provocative way, that our mother tongue does indeed affect how we think and, just as important, how we perceive the world' - "Observer". Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is o ...Show more
Eats, Shoots And Leaves 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
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
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
New Oxford Spelling Dictionary by Oxford Languages
20.99 USD
Category: Language Usage & Writing Guides
Reissued to publish alongside New Hart's Rules and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, the New Oxford Spelling Dictionary is the authoritative reference for spelling and word division. Prepared in consultation with professional editors and proofreaders, it is the essential guide for a wid ...Show more