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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 432 ratings — published 2024
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 615 ratings — published 2007
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 27,907 ratings — published 1927
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,953 ratings — published 2016
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 — 3,257 ratings — published 2001
Arctic Languages: An Awakening (U6615)
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avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 1990
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 230 ratings — published 2010
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 — 2,037 ratings — published 2015
Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 19 ratings — published 2004
Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 231 ratings — published 2004
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
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,397 ratings — published 2010
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,715 ratings — published 2013
The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Language Series)
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avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 1996
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,271 ratings — published 1990
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 396 ratings — published 1943
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 — 3,976 ratings — published 2007
Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 532 ratings — published 2007
An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 98 ratings — published
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 7,424 ratings — published 1969
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,103 ratings — published 2008
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 ratings — published 2007
Where Words Come From: A Dictionary of Word Origins (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 2009
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,453 ratings — published 2003
The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 216 ratings — published 2007
Is There a Cow in Moscow?: More Beastly Mispronunciations and Sound Advice : Another Opinionated Guide for the Well-Spoken (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published 1990
More Word Histories And Mysteries: From Aardvark to Zombie – Entertaining Stories of English Vocabulary and Regional Dialects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 8 ratings — published 2006
Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 155 ratings — published 1954
Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 135 ratings — published 2012
“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”
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