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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

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The Golden Thread is an enthralling and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word. It is an invention that has been used to share ideas in...
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects

The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern

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The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

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Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future...
Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order

Theoretical Approaches to Disharmonic Word Order

$252.00 AUD$201.60 AUD
This book considers the implications of cross-linguistic word-order patterns for linguistic theory. One of the salient results of Joseph Greenberg's pioneering work in language typology was the notion of a...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and

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'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
Plural Logic

Plural Logic

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Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms, plural predicates, and...
Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European and Ancient Greek

Sievers' Law and the History of Semivowel Syllabicity in Indo-European

$295.00 AUD$130.00 AUD
This book investigates how semivowels were realized in Indo-European and in early Greek. More specifically, it examines the extent to which Indo-European *i and *y were independent phonemes, in what...
Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays

Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays

$85.00 AUD$68.00 AUD
Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp...
The Rhetorical Function of the Book of Ezekiel

The Rhetorical Function of the Book of Ezekiel

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In this study, Thomas Renz argues that the book of Ezekiel functions as a rhetorical unit, that it addresses a specific rhetorical situation, and that it aims at shaping the...
Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary

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'MAGIC' JO BRAND'HAPPIFYING' STEPHEN FRY'SUSIE DENT IS A NATIONAL TREASURE' RICHARD OSMANWhether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING),...
Words And Rules

Words And Rules

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How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Chaucer's English almost incomprehensible? Steven Pinker explains the profound mysteries of language...
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English

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A 'delightfully eccentric' (Daily Mail) day in the life of unusual, beautiful and forgotten English words.The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English...
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

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Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get...
Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes

Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the

$43.95 AUD$20.00 AUD
The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without...
Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and

$24.99 AUD$19.99 AUD
'A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Hart's lightness of touch and passion for both subjects make this book a delight to read. Bookworms...
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy World

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Would our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while? We live in a world that doesn't just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When...
The Other Brother: A Bilingual Book by Wombat Books

The Other Brother: A Bilingual Book by Wombat Books

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Jayden James thought his family of five was perfect - until Mitchell David arrived. Join Jayden in this bilingual story about acceptance and belonging. Jayden James thought his family of...
Language: The Cultural Tool

Language: The Cultural Tool

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Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire -and, like fire, is found in...
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the

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Forget the language instinct--this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity's most astonishing capacity--and one that remains poorly understood. In The...
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in

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How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand...
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages

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English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign...
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times

The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in

$49.99 AUD$20.00 AUD
How rhetoric-the art of persuasion-can help us navigate an age of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and political acrimonyThe discipline of rhetoric was the keystone of Western education for over two thousand...
Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the Page

Write to the Point: How to be Clear, Correct and Persuasive on the

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Writing tends to make people anxious, and with good reason. The first sentence of a job application letter can consign it to the bin. A speech intended to rouse can...
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

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'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone...
Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarme

Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After

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How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium...
Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions and curiosities of the English language

Word Play: A cornucopia of puns, anagrams and other contortions [...]

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'No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.' Only words can do that. Words are magic. Words are fun....
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

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'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture is of concern to anyone...
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie

The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie

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Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition...
The Other Brother: A Bilingual Book by Wombat Books

The Other Brother: A Bilingual Book by Wombat Books

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Jayden James thought his family of five was perfect - until Mitchell David arrived. Join Jayden in this bilingual story about acceptance and belonging. Jayden James thought his family of...
Genitives in Early English: Typology and Evidence

Genitives in Early English: Typology and Evidence

$268.00 AUD$214.40 AUD
This book examines the evidence for the development of adnominal genitives (the knight's sword, the nun's priest's tale, etc.) in English. During the Middle English period the genitive inflection -es...
Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics

Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric [...]

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Reveals the emergence and endurance of vocabularies, habits, and preferences that sustained ancient textual cultures.Though typically considered oral cultures, ancient Greece and Rome also boasted textual cultures, enabled by efforts...
Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1

Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1

$139.95 AUD$111.96 AUD
Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk...
Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,

Daily Telegraph Dictionary of Tommies' Songs and Slang, 1914-18,

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During the First World War the British soldiers were renowned for their chirpy songs and plucky sayings. Indeed nothing would lift the spirits of the often exhausted and demoralized troops...
How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish

How Yiddish Changed America And How America Changed Yiddish

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Is it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are based on...
Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text

Poetics of the Poster: The Rhetoric of Image-Text

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This book sets out to explore the way, with the onset of a new and integral relationship between text and image, the modern poster is able to evolve distinctive persuasive...
Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation

Natural Language Semantics: Formation and Valuation

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An introduction to natural language semantics that offers an overview of the empirical domain and an explanation of the mathematical concepts that underpin the discipline.This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction...
The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don't really exist

The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don't really exist

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A linguistic and creative masterpiece on entertainment's constructed languages to instruct and delight fans and creators alike. This is a book about languages that aren't real: those from countries that...
Kantian Conceptual Geography

Kantian Conceptual Geography

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Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...
The Curzon Gospel: Volume I: An Annotated Edition; Volume II: A Linguistic and Textual Introduction

The Curzon Gospel: Volume I: An Annotated Edition; Volume II: A Linguistic and Textual Introduction

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Author: Cynthia Vakareliyska (, University of Oregon)Format: Multiple copy pack, 197mm x 253mm, 2898g, 1344 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 2008This pioneering work introduces and presents the first full...
Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Mukula's "Fundamentals of the Communicative Function"

Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy: An Introduction to Mukula's "Fundamentals of the Communicative Function"

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Author: Malcolm KeatingFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 510g, 320 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2019This introduction brings to life the main themes in Indian philosophy of language by using...