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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

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

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

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

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

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds

The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved

How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog

The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities

Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland

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

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

Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy

Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds

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

Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words

Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!

Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words

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

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!

Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action

The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies

Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou

Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

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

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language

Speak Still: Articulating the Silence of Bilingualism

The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why

Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words

Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation

The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

De-a dacii și romanii: o introducere în istoria limbii și etnogenezei românilor

Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases

The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers

Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Luka. Jak wstyd i lęk dziurawią nam język

La lingua che cambia: Rappresentare le identità di genere, creare gli immaginari, aprire lo spazio linguistico

Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask

Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English

Перемагати українською. Про мову ненависті й любові

Così non schwa. Limiti ed eccessi del linguaggio inclusivo

Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists

Le ragioni del dubbio: L'arte di usare le parole

An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)

Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases

Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think

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“ Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded ...more ”
― Clarice Lispector

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“ We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence - and even start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors. ”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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