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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,197 ratings — published 2001
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,360 ratings — published 1994
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,062 ratings — published 2005
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,246 ratings — published 2010
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 388 ratings — published 1943
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,009 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,591 ratings — published 1916
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 793 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,995 ratings — published 2015
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11,162 ratings — published 2007
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 452 ratings — published 2010
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,956 ratings — published 2009
The Origin of Language: Tracing the Evolution of the Mother Tongue (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 249 ratings — published 1994
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,074 ratings — published 2004
The Arabic Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 77 ratings — published 1997
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 26,461 ratings — published 2019
The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600 (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
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avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,189 ratings — published 2016
Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 106 ratings — published 2015
Women in the History of Linguistics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2021
Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 451 ratings — published 1994
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,130 ratings — published 2008
Historical Linguistics: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 377 ratings — published 1991
Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics (Mouton Textbook)
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avg rating 3.50 — 24 ratings — published 2009
Introduction to Typology: The Unity and Diversity of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 40 ratings — published 1996
Language, Truth and Logic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4,194 ratings — published 1936
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 279 ratings — published
Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 35 ratings — published
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,108 ratings — published 2003
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,415 ratings — published 2014
The Story of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,391 ratings — published 1986
Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 394 ratings — published 2008
In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology and Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 800 ratings — published 1989
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,520 ratings — published 2011
Language and Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,308 ratings — published 1968
On Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 1,055 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,181 ratings — published 2011
Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 527 ratings — published 2007
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,099 ratings — published 2017
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,926 ratings — published 2016
Language Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,318 ratings — published 1998
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,477 ratings — published 2012
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 541 ratings — published 2008
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,313 ratings — published 2006
Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 886 ratings — published 1957
Relational Typology (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1985
Changing Valency: Case Studies in Transitivity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2000
Einführung in die altägyptische Sprachwissenschaft (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Reconstructing History from Ancient Inscriptions: The Lagash-Umma Border Conflict: 2 (Sources from the Ancient Near East)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1983
A Companion to the Ancient Near East (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)
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avg rating 4.24 — 29 ratings — published 2004
