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    This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams

    Man Martin

    For word nerds, language lovers, and fans of bestselling books like Dreyer's English and Eats, Shoots & Leaves, This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams delivers a fun and accessible collection of famous...
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  • A Book Lover's Year Page-A-Day Calendar 2027
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    A Book Lover's Year Page-A-Day Calendar 2027

    Workman Calendars

    LITERARY WANDERLUST: Explore perfect reading spots, from quaint bookstores and cozy nooks to grand libraries across the globe. FIND YOUR NEXT FAVORITE: Build your to-read list with expert book and...
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  • Italian Vocabulary
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    Italian Vocabulary

    Levi, Jospeh

    1000 essential words for the Italian language with English translation. Cards are organized by the subject areas covered in all Italian language instruction and include words considered essential for...
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  • Beautiful doom
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    Beautiful doom

    Jacqueline Bolton

    Dennis Kelly's award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of...
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  • Academic Writing Is...
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    Academic Writing Is...

    Terri Morley-Warner

    Academic Writing Is ... demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. This is an indispensable guide for any students undertaking university studies...
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  • Rogues, Widows and Orphans
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    Rogues, Widows and Orphans

    Lee, Rebecca

    'Word nerds, assemble! This is the book for us' LUCY MANGAN'Devilishly funny and clever, this divine comedy of literary errors will remind you why words are such glorious, untameable things' LOUISE...
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  • Experimental Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology
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    Experimental Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology

    Lenhart, Lawrence; Cordeiro, Will

    An inspiring guide to the practices of contemporary experimental creative writing, this book explores experimentation within both traditional writing genres and 'post-genre' modes such as hybrid...
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  • Winter Dictionary
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    Winter Dictionary

    Paul Anthony Jones

    As the nights draw in and the cold descends, the winter world emerges – and with it an incredible array of words that superbly capture the season. From frost-dogs (tiny frozen particles of falling...
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  • Writer Who Inhabits Your Body
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    Writer Who Inhabits Your Body

    Renée Gregorio

    A practical, body-oriented program to enliven your creative abilities • Provides a comprehensive, step-by-step program for writers to use their bodies to expand their creative capacity on the page...
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  • 1-Minute Writer
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    1-Minute Writer

    Leigh Medeiros

    One minute of daily writing is better than twenty minutes every two weeks—let this fun and helpful handbook of quick, easy writing prompts show you why short bursts of writing are essential to...
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  • Raupo Concise Maori Dictionary
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    Raupo Concise Maori Dictionary

    Reed, A.W.

    The Raupo Concise Maori Dictionary is an invaluable reference work, providing an essential list of words and their equivalents in Maori and English. First published in 1948, the dictionary has been...
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  • Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 3
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    Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 3

    Netflix

    Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Three, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. Go deeper...
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  • Really Short History of Words
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    Really Short History of Words

    Bryson, Bill

    The brand-new children's book from Bill Bryson - all about the amazing English language. Every day, you do something incredible, and I bet you barely ever think about it: you speak. Ever wondered...
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  • Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
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    Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

    (ed), Brian MacArthur

    From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era This definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt...
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  • Colloquial Burmese
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    Colloquial Burmese

    San San Hnin Tun

    Colloquial Burmese provides a step-by-step course in Burmese as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with...
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  • Colloquial Korean
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    Colloquial Korean

    Danielle Ooyoung Pyun

    Colloquial Korean provides a step-by-step course in Korean as it is written and spoken today. Combining a user-friendly approach with a thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the...
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  • Analysing Power in Language
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    Analysing Power in Language

    Tom Bartlett

    Analysing Power in Language introduces students to a range of analytical techniques for the critical study of texts.Each section of the book provides an in-depth presentation of a different method of...
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  • Frequency Dictionary of Russian
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    Frequency Dictionary of Russian

    Serge Sharoff

    A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword...
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  • Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech
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    Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech

    Vaclav Brezina

    Featuring contributions from an international team of leading and up-and-coming scholars, this innovative volume provides a comprehensive sociolinguistic picture of current spoken British English...
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  • Calm in a Book
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    Calm in a Book

    Supply, My Self-Love

    A pocket-sized self-care book with simple rituals, journal prompts, activities and affirmations from hit Instagram account @MySelfLoveSupply - Over 3 million fans Find calm every day From the...
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  • Language in African American Communities
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    Language in African American Communities

    Sonja Lanehart

    Language in African American Communities is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the language, culture, and sociohistorical contexts of African American communities. It will also benefit...
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  • History of the English Language
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    History of the English Language

    Elly van Gelderen

    A new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series, History of the English Language is a four-volume collection covering the main linguistic issues in the phonology, morphology,...
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  • Writely or Wrongly Writely or Wrongly
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    Writely or Wrongly

    Anderson, Joanne

    An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is...
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  • Scarcely English
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    Scarcely English

    Heffer, Simon

    An A-Z of terrible English by the Telegraph's former master grammarian The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, in recent years, egged on by...
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  • Grammar of Fantasy
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    Grammar of Fantasy

    Gianni Rodari

    "The ultimate synthesis of Rodari's exuberant knowledge, a book of both pedagogy and poetics, poetry for teachers and pedagogy for poets." -Italo CalvinoA groundbreaking pedagogical work that is also...
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  • Art of Opposition
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    Art of Opposition

    Newland, Courttia

    Both as a novelist and as a screenwriter, Courttia Newland has found himself, through circumstance or choice, in a place of opposition to the commercial mainstream. Now, he reflects on what it means...
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  • Modern Mandarin Chinese
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    Modern Mandarin Chinese

    Claudia Ross

    Modern Mandarin Chinese is a two-year undergraduate course for students with no prior background in Chinese study. Designed to build a strong foundation in both the spoken and written language, it...
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  • Language and the Knowledge Economy
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    Language and the Knowledge Economy

    Josep Soler

    This volume offers a holistic understanding of the interconnections of language, specifically English, scholarly publishing, and knowledge production and circulation through a sociolinguistic lens in...
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  • Babel
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    Babel

    Dorren, Gaston

    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...
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  • Just Saying
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    Just Saying

    Mackay, Hugh

    Warm, witty, wise - and occasionally challenging - Just Saying is bestselling social psychologist Hugh Mackay's highly personal reflections on twenty-five quotations from some of the world's greatest...
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  • In Writing
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    In Writing

    Crisell, Hattie

    In these intimate and frank conversations with some of our best-loved writers, Hattie Crisell uncovers the mysteries of the creative process, asking: Where do ideas come from? How do stories find...
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  • Bloom Books Reading Journal
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    Bloom Books Reading Journal

    Books, Bloom

    Fall in love with your reading life all over again! Fall in love with your reading life all over again! Whether you're bingeing spicy BookTok favorites or savoring slow-burn love stories, The Bloom...
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  • Grammar and Meaning
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    Grammar and Meaning

    Howard Jackson

    Grammar and Meaning is an introduction to the study of grammar of contemporary English. It provides an impressive survey of all the main areas of English grammar, from words through to sentences and...
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  • Cultural History of the English Language
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    Cultural History of the English Language

    Gerry Knowles

    This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of linguistic change with much greater precision...
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  • History of Linguistics Volume I
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    History of Linguistics Volume I

    Giulio C. Lepschy

    This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige...
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  • Making Sense of "Bad English"
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    Making Sense of "Bad English"

    Elizabeth Peterson

    Why is it that some ways of using English are considered "good" and others are considered "bad"? Why are certain forms of language termed elegant, eloquent or refined, whereas others are deemed...
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  • Linguistic Theory
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    Linguistic Theory

    Robert-Alain De Beaugrande

    In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation...
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  • Language of Magazines
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    Language of Magazines

    Linda McLoughlin

    The Language of Magazines: *shows how linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions are used by magazines to capture our attention *examines how image and text combine to produce meaning...
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  • Grammar and Meaning
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    Grammar and Meaning

    Howard Jackson

    Grammar and Meaning is an introduction to the study of grammar of contemporary English. It provides an impressive survey of all the main areas of English grammar, from words through to sentences and...
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  • Scripts and Calligraphy
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    Scripts and Calligraphy

    The art of Arabic calligraphy originates in the transcription of the Quranic revelation, an expression of faith in God, as well as the beauty and harmony of Arabic script. Over the course of a...
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  • Writing Memoir (Lit Starts)
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    Writing Memoir (Lit Starts)

    San Francisco Writers' Grotto

    A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the bestselling 642 Things series Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto...
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