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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink

Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland

Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

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Irish Grammar You Really Need to Know by Éamonn Ó Dónaill

Leabhair Gramadai Gaelige

38 books — 11 voters

The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe

The Claw of the Conciliator by Gene Wolfe

Linguistically refreshing!

6 books — 1 voter

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Philosophy of Evil by Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen

The Art of War and Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Sun Tzu

books with ‘philosophy’ in title

251 books — 25 voters

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper

Knowledge

227 books — 173 voters

Writing IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed Adams

The Conquest of Gaul by Gaius Julius Caesar

The Celtic World Suggested Reading

82 books — 3 voters

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Science Fiction using Languages or Linguistics as a Plot Device

70 books — 118 voters

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