Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dial...
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You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /For word nerds and grammar geeks, a witty guide to the most commonly mispronounced words, along with their correct pronunciations and pithy foray...
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From the author of Eating the Sun, an artistic collection of more than 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /50th Anniversary Edition - With an introduction by Caity Weaver, acclaimed New York Times journalist This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the b...
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Cuestión de Respeto: Unirnos En Una Nación Profundamente Dividida
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Cuestióoacute;n de Respeto se dirige a los votantes cansados de un entorno políiacute;tico que acaba en un estancamiento inamovible, cimentado en...
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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"With easygoing authority... [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language."--The Wall St...
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Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump — a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expens...
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That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /An entertaining and informative guide to the most common 150 words even smart people use incorrectly, along with pithy forays into their fascinat...
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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words. This collection features scores of unique...
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gre...
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Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A charming, clever, and original collection of more than 100 spine poems–a popular form of found poetry composed by arranging book spines—illustr...
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Historically Black Phrases: From I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends to Who All Gon' Be There?
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A fun and thoughtful dictionary of Black language you didn't know you needed, this is a love letter to the Black community and the ways it drives c...
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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World
HardcoverOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expres...
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