The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Web by Yahoo!
49.99 NZD
Category: Language
Is it Web site, website or web site? What's the best on-screen placement for a top story? How can I better know my site's audience? The rapid growth of the Web has meant having to rely on style guides that are intended for print publishing and do not address writing for the Internet. "The Yahoo! Style G ...Show more
The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs
24.99 NZD
Category: Language
Is reading under threat? No, says Alan Jacobs - but people do need help and encouragement to enjoy it to the full. Jacobs's experience as a lecturer and many-time author suggests that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due ...Show more
Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations by Susan Ratcliffe
44.99 NZD
Category: Language
The perfect answer to the question 'what's been said about this?' This fully revised and updated edition of an Oxford classic is a truly unique reference book which brings together phrases, proverbs, and quotations in a single thematic volume. Apt and memorable sayings are arranged under a wide range of ...Show more
Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling by Charlotte Buxton
23.99 NZD
Category: Language
Good spelling is fundamental to making the right impression with any type of writing; reports, homework, CVs, and letters all require correct spelling in order to get the message across in clear and straightforward English. Adaptable or adaptible? Definite or definate? Delirious or delireous? What is th ...Show more
Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation by John Seely
15.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: very good
Readers of all levels will find this guide essential. Giving examples of real usage, this book provides the basic information about grammar and punctuation that people need on a day-to-day basis. Arranged A-Z, it contains entries for standard grammatical terms as well as dealing with related questions o ...Show more
Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield
28.99 NZD
29.99 (3% off)
Category: Language
How many words are there in the English language and where were they born? Why does spelling 'wobble' and why do meanings change? How do words behave towards each other - and how do we behave towards words? And what does this all mean for dictionary-making in the 21st century? This entertaining book has ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
79.99 NZD
Category: Language | Reading Level: near fine
The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales, and characters from ancient myth and literature, bu ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross (ed.)
34.99 NZD
Category: Language
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often e ...Show more
txtng: the gr8 db8 (aka Texting: The Great Debate) by David Crystal
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
This book takes a long hard look at the text-messaging phenomenon and its effects on literacy, language, and society. Young people who seem to spend much of their time texting sometimes appear unable or unwilling to write much else. Media outrage has ensued. "It is bleak, bald, sad shorthand," writes a ...Show more
How Novels Work by John Mullan
21.99 NZD
Category: Language
Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading groups and in the interest of a non-academic readership in the discussion of how novels work. Drawing on his weekly Guardian column, 'Elements of Fiction', J ...Show more
Damp Squid : The Eng;lish language lad bare by Jeremy Butterfield
36.00 NZD
Category: Language
Using evidence provided by the world's largest language databank, the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield uncovers fascinating facts about the English language. Where does our vocabulary come from? How do word meanings change? How is our language really being used? This entertaining book has the up-to-d ...Show more
Word Origins...and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone by Anatoly Liberman
32.99 NZD
Category: Language
Word Origins is the only guide to the science and process of etymology for the layperson. This funny, charming, and conversational book not only tells the known origins of hundreds of words, but also shows how their origins were determined. Liberman, an internationally acclaimed etymologist, takes the r ...Show more