The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W Pennebaker, Ph.D. PhD
$40.00 NZD
Category: Reference
We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day. Hiding in that deluge of language are amazing insights into wh ...Show more
The Shakespeare Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, plus lost plays and less well-kn ...Show more
The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden
$33.00 NZD
Category: Reference
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English language has grown to become the linguistic equivalent of a sup ...Show more
The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler (illus Roderick Mills)
$39.99 NZD
Category: Reference
A dictionary for every lover of good words, neglected words and downright mad words. The secret to being a truly Superior Person is to use really superior words. More impressive than a top hat, much more effective than a fist-fight, here are five hundred words to help you wiggle out of sticky debates, d ...Show more
The Talking Ape by Robbins Burling
$40.00 NZD
Category: Reference
In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he gives us a deeper understanding of the nature of langu ...Show more
Walking: One Step at a Time by Erling Kagge
$24.00 NZD
Category: Travel writing
From the bestselling author of Silence comes an illuminating examination of the joy of walking. From those perilous first steps as a toddler, to great expeditions, from walking to work to trekking to the North Pole, Erling Kagge explains that he who walks goes further and lives better. Walking is a book ...Show more