Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Reading: A Very Short Introduction
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who ...
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Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of ...
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bil...
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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “rich hybrid of memoir and history” (The New Yorker) of the literary art form that has transformed ...
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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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Spoken Word: A Cultural History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, ...
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