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Food of North Italy: Authentic Recipes From Piedmont, Lombardy, and Valle D'Aosta

Food of North Italy: Authentic Recipes From Piedmont, Lombardy, ...

Luigi Veronelli

The Math Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age

The Math Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age

In the Age of AI: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Disrupting Industries, Lives, and the Future of Work

In the Age of AI: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Disrupting ...

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every ...

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing

Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing

Peter Silverton

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

Henry Hitchings

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of ...

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American ...

Hunter S. Thompson

The Gonzo Papers (3)

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

James W. Pennebaker

The Book Triumphant

The Book Triumphant

Malcolm Walsby & Graeme Kemp

Library of the Written Word (15)

Alphabetter Juice: Or, the Joy of Text

Alphabetter Juice: Or, the Joy of Text

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit

Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language

Talk Talk Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech

Talk Talk Talk: Decoding the Mysteries of Speech

Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors ...

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

Nicholas Ostler

Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and ...

Robert Lane Greene

Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing

Unless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing

Roger Rosenblatt

Censored 2011: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10

Censored 2011: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009-10

Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips & Project Censored

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

Nicholas Ostler

Mexico

Mexico

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and ...

Joshua C. Kendall

OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word

The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses but No One Reads

The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone ...

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart ...

Hunter S. Thompson

The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered Languages

The Last Speakers: The Quest to Save the World's Most Endangered ...

K. David Harrison

The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration

The Creative Life: True Tales of Inspiration

Dirty Sexy Politics

Dirty Sexy Politics

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in ...

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of ...

Roy Peter Clark

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction ...

Jeff Deck & Benjamin D. Herson

The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts

The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist ...

Gene Weingarten

Clarkson on Cars

Clarkson on Cars

Jeremy Clarkson

You Can Present With Confidence: How to Speak Like a Pro, Dazzle Your Audience, and Get the Results You Want Every Time

You Can Present With Confidence: How to Speak Like a Pro, Dazzle ...

Eavesdropping: An Intimate History

Eavesdropping: An Intimate History

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

How to Start and Make a Conversation: How to Talk to Anyone in 30 Seconds or Less

How to Start and Make a Conversation: How to Talk to Anyone ...

Christopher Gottschalk

Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford

Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford

Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse

Kenneth Silverman

10 Rules of Writing

10 Rules of Writing

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

Talking About Detective Fiction

Talking About Detective Fiction

The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope With E-Science?

The Data Deluge: Can Libraries Cope With E-Science?

Deanna B. Marcum & Gerald George

The Lineup

The Lineup

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Confessions of a Public Speaker

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words

Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words

Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures

Malcolm Gladwell

People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East

People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East

Joris Luyendijk

The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the Extraordinarily Literate

The Highly Selective Dictionary of Golden Adjectives: For the ...

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English

Henry Hitchings

Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational Times

Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Confrontational ...

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers ...

I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms from Around the World

I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms ...

My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper ...

Eleanor Roosevelt & David Emblidge

Language Universals

Language Universals

Morten H. Christiansen & Christopher Collins & Shimon Edelman

One-Letter Words, a Dictionary

One-Letter Words, a Dictionary

Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

Derek Bickerton