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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,526 ratings — published 1994
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 13,114 ratings — published 2014
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,255 ratings — published 2001
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,449 ratings — published 2014
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 — 2,036 ratings — published 2015
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,478 ratings — published 2011
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 — 2,983 ratings — published 2009
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 4,195 ratings — published 2018
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 118,235 ratings — published 2021
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,096 ratings — published 2005
Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,659 ratings — published 1916
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 4,691 ratings — published 2014
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 500 ratings — published 2002
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,333 ratings — published 2006
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,392 ratings — published 2010
Come dire: Galateo della comunicazione (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.40 — 68 ratings — published 2011
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 475,150 ratings — published 2022
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,128 ratings — published 2004
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,241 ratings — published 2017
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 28,142 ratings — published 2019
Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 361 ratings — published 1956
Linguistics: A Complete Introduction (Teach Yourself)
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avg rating 3.85 — 144 ratings — published 2014
History in English Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 342 ratings — published 1926
The Liar's Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.35 — 10,809 ratings — published 2020
In Other Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 15,759 ratings — published 2015
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 1,012 ratings — published 2003
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,553 ratings — published 2011
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,102 ratings — published 2008
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 12,528 ratings — published 2019
Genes, Peoples, and Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 794 ratings — published 1996
The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 455 ratings — published 2010
Experiences in translation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,271 ratings — published 2003
What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 799 ratings — published 2011
Lingua Latina per se Illustrata: Pars I: Familia Romana (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,072 ratings — published 1996
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,069 ratings — published 2005
The World's Major Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 131 ratings — published 1987
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,973 ratings — published 2007
The Decipherment of Linear B (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 530 ratings — published 1958
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,393 ratings — published 2012
The Stories of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,435 ratings — published 2004
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,266 ratings — published 1990
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11,213 ratings — published 2007
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,550 ratings — published 2012
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,481 ratings — published 2012
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,798 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,191 ratings — published 2008
The Language Construction Kit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 506 ratings — published 2010
Introducing Chomsky (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 548 ratings — published 1993
Fry's English Delight: Series 3 (Fry's English Delight, #3)
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avg rating 4.05 — 307 ratings — published 2010
Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English 5 Student's Book with Answers: Examination Papers from the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (CAE Practice Tests)
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avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2003
