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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
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Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
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How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Genki I: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
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Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
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501 Spanish Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses in a New Easy-To-Learn Format Alphabetically Arranged
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The Study of Language
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The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
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Syntactic Structures
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
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How to Do Things with Words
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501 French Verbs (Barron's 501 French Verbs) (English and French Edition)
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An Introduction to Language
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Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
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The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed
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Language and Mind
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Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
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Lexicon
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Remembering the Kanji I: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
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Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
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Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
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The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
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Babel
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Naming and Necessity
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The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
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My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right
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Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
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Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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Poetry, Language, Thought
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Language, Truth and Logic
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Garner's Modern American Usage
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The Little Prince
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Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish: A Creative and Proven Approach
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Language and Symbolic Power
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La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Language
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The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
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GENKI: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. II
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The Story of Spanish
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Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
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Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods – The Essential Guide to Jewish Heritage, Survival, and European Folklore
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The American Language
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
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Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
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Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
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