Category - Social Science
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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 Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national lan...
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early s...
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Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self is a penetrating analysis of the linguistic and cultural collision exp...
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The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A renowned cultural critic untangles the twisted history and future of racism through its most volatile word. The N Word reveals how the term "nigg...
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Mitoni Niya Nêhiyaw / Cree Is Who I Truly Am: Nêhiyaw-Iskwêw Mitoni Niya / Me, I Am Truly a Cree Woman
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Strong women dominate these reminiscences: the grandmother taught the girl whose mother refused to let her go to school, and the life-changing even...
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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 survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog...
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Overcentralization in Economic Administration: A Critical Analysis Based on Experience in Hungarian Light Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Overcentralization in Economic Administration (Oxford, 1959) was the first book written by an Eastern European and published in the West that ope...
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill Soloway...
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Cherokee Reference Grammar / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /The Cherokees have the oldest and best-known Native American writing system in the United States. Invented by Sequoyah and made public in 1821, i...
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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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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to ...
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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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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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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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Something's Gotta Change: Redefining Collaborative Linguistic Research
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Indigenous people are pushing back against more than 200 years of colonisation and rejecting being seen by the academy as 'subjects' of research.A ...
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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language: Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from ...
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Global Language Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /More than 40 percent of the world's estimated 7,100+ languages are in danger of disappearing by the end of this century. As with the decline of bio...
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News Across Five Continents: Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This volume presents a thorough analysis of newspaper language from a regional and functional perspective. Based on a collection of 4,000 newspaper...
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Meeting the Needs of Reunited Refugee Families: An Ecological, Multilingual Approach to Language Learning
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This book explores the gap between policy, practice and academic literature within language learning for refugees and argues that a multilingual ap...
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulC...
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times bestseller One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in o...
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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems...
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide."--Jill SolowayA...
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