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9780670918874

Globish : How the English Language became the World's Language

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NZ$ 40.00 each

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Author: Robert McCrum

Published by: Viking (Penguin)

In Stock: 2

A small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbours, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. As its power spreads, its language inevitably follows. Then, across the Atlantic, a colony of that tiny island grows into the military and cultural colossus of the twentieth century. These centuries of empire-building and war, international trade and industrial ingenuity will bring to the world great works of literature and extraordinary movies, cricket pitches and episodes of Dallas, the printing press and the internet. But then what? As Robert McCrum demonstrates in his hugely enjoyable and provocative new book, what happens next is quite unprecedented. While the global dominance of Anglo-American power appears to be on the wane, the English language has acquired an astonishing new life of its own. With a supra-national momentum, it is now able to zoom ... more

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9780141040394

Troublesome Words (4th edition)

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NZ$ 29.00 each

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Author: Bill Bryson

Published by: Penguin Books Ltd

In Stock: 2

What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure? With "Troublesome Words", journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and entertaining guide to the problems of English usage and spelling that has been an indispensable companion to those who work with the written word for over twenty years. So if you want to discover whether you should care about split infinitives, are cursed with an uncontrollable outbreak of commas or were wondering if that newsreader was right to say 'an historic day', this superb book is the place to find out.

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9780007329069

Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The zero tolerance approach to punctuation

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NZ$ 26.99 each

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Author: Lynne Truss

Published by: Harper Collins

In Stock: 1

'If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I'd nominate her for sainthood.' Frank McCourt The international bestseller, reissued and with a new introduction. A witty, entertaining, impassioned guide to perfect punctuation, for everyone who cares about precise writing. When social histories come to be written of the first decade of the 21st century, people will note a turning point in 2003 when declining standards of punctuation were reversed. Linguists will record Lynne Truss as the saviour of the semi-colon and the avenging angel of the apostrophe. 'This book will stimulate and satisfy. It's worth its weight in gold.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'A witty, elegant and passionate book that should be on every writer's shelf.' Observer 'Lynne Truss deserves to be piled high with honours.' John Humphrys 'It can only be a matter of time before the new government seizes the chance to appoint her as minister for punctuation. The manifesto is ... more

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9781869662721

In a Word : The Essential Tool for Finding the Perfect Word

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NZ$ 34.99 each

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Author: Mark Broatch

Published by: New Holland Publishers (New Zealand) Ltd

In Stock: 1

In our information-overloaded society, how can you ensure your words will be read over the next person's? The secret is In a Word - a book for journalists, critics, writers, bloggers, students and anyone else looking to get their message across more effectively. So much more than a dictionary or thesaurus, this book is designed to guide people to the exact word they need in order to articulate their message in the most inspired and impressive kind of way. Words are grouped under easy-to-navigate category headings. Lists include such things as 'defining terms' (analogy, dystopia, subterfuge...), 'character descriptions' (diva, impresario, rabble-rouser...), 'mythological creatures' (bunyip, griffin, sasquatch...), 'types of hats' (cloche, Stetson, yarmulke...), 'different types of speaking voices' (booming, sententious, tremulous...), famous book characters - and much more besides.
Whatever your topic, you'll find the exact term ... more

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9781741750485

Juicy Writing : Inspiration and Techniques for Young Writers

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NZ$ 23.99 each

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Author: Brigid Lowry

Published by: Allen & Unwin

In Stock: 1

Being a writer is good because you get paid to write stuff up, you can stay home and work in your pajamas and you get to travel because it's research. Being a writer is bad when you're sitting all by yourself staring at a blank page. Brigid Lowry knows the highs and lows of being a writer, but she still thinks it's a joy. In this book she takes you on a journey to discover yourself and what you really want to say AND how to make it juicy and original. So, what do you need to begin? Where can you find ideas? How can you make your writing better? What can you do if you get stuck? Let Brigid inspire you to doodle, daydream and discover your creativity - then write hard and fast into the wild land of your imagination.

First published 2008.

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9780199564132

Oxford A-Z of Better Spelling

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NZ$ 23.99 each

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Author: Oxford

Published by: Oxford University Press

In Stock: 1

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 the difference between assent and ascent, dual and duel, or forbear and forebear? How do you make the plural of halo? Is it halos or haloes? Actually it's both, but not so for potato, the plural of which is potatoes. Knowing the difference between easily confusable words, making plurals, and adding endings are just some of the aspects of spelling that confront us with endless pitfalls. This easy-to-use A-Z guide does what no spellchecker can do: it gives immediate access not only to individual word spellings but also to general rules that will help you develop good spelling. The book covers the topics in simple and helpful terms and also ... more

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9780199564675

Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation (2nd ed.)

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NZ$ 23.99 each

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Author: John Seely (ed.)

Published by: Oxford University Press

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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 of usage. In addition to explaining basic terms such as 'split infinitive', 'participle', and 'adverb', entries also discuss whether to use 'may' or 'might', 'that' or 'which', and 'it's' or 'its'.
The Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation gives the reader quick and easy access to the answers to these, and many other, questions of grammar. It offers clear and coherent explanations, and illustrations across a broad range of topics, and is the first port of call for any reader seeking clear, authoritative help with grammar and punctuation. Both easy to use and comprehensive, The Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation is an ... more

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9780646462141

The Art of Conversation : The perfect ice=breaker - 300 fascinating conversation starters for all ages

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NZ$ 19.99 each

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Author: Louise Howland & Keith Lamb

Published by: Art of Conversation

In Stock: 1

With 300 fascinating and conversation building questions, plus blank cards on which to write your own questions, this game is for everyone. The only knowledge needed to successfully contribute to TAOC is your own life experiences, interests and ideas. When time is short, a proper conversation is often the first commodity to be cut from our to-do lists. Yet it is necessary to understand each other and build our relationships. As well as helping people learn how to talk, TAOC places equal emphasis on learning how to listen.

First published 1995

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9781408806357

The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words

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NZ$ 39.99 each

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Author: Peter Bowler

Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

In Stock: 1

'Words are not only tools; they are also weapons.' Peter Bowler's guides, as his thousands of fans worldwide already know, are witty, charming, and clever volumes that introduce weird and wonderful words. Now the three volumes are published in a collected edition for the first time to provide words to help you wriggle out of sticky debates, deal with obnoxious dinner guests and fill in sick leave application forms with panache. A picturesque panoply of words of which neither you nor anyone else has ever heard, Bowler provides not only an expanded range of words themselves, but also a genuine sense how to employ them to devastating effect. "The Completely Superior Person's Book of Words" is an arsenal of over a thousand sonifacient verbal weapons with which to verbigerate your friends and gorgonise your enemies.
Review: 'Will unquestionably establish you as the most interesting person at any dinner party' Daily Mail

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9781848310063

The Great Books: From the Iliad and the Odyssey to Goethe's Faust

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NZ$ 32.99 each

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Author: Anthony O'Hear

Published by: Icon Books Ltd

In Stock: 1

Anthony O'Hear presents a personal tour of the most impressive, influential and era-defining books mankind has ever produced.

Paradise Lost, The Canterbury Tales, Dom Quixote: great literature can be read by anyone, with a little help. Anthony O'Hear leads the way with this captivating journey through two-and-a-half millennia of books as dark, powerful, erotic, thrilling, politically astute and awe-inspiring as any modern bestseller.
We begin with Homer, whose poems of epic struggle have made him the father of Western literature. After Greek Tragedy, Plato, and Virgil's Aeneid comes Ovid, whose encyclopaedic Metamorphoses is an inexhaustible source for European art and literature. Via St Augustine we reach Dante, the author of The Divine Comedy, a sublime, terrifying tour through Hell, Purgatory and an ecstatic vision of Paradise. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Pascal, ... more

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9781921656644

The Possessed : Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

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NZ$ 30.00 each

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Author: Elif Batuman

Published by: The Text Publishing Company

In Stock: 1

The Possessed draws on Elif Batuman's articles in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine , and n+1 to tell the true story of one woman's intellectual and sentimental education and her many strange encounters with scholars devoted to classic Russian writers. In a series of intertwined essays about her life and other people's lives in the world of Russian literature and scholarship, Batuman has written a funny, smart and self-deprecating book about Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov and the academics who worship them. It is full of stories of ice palaces and giant apes, conference disasters and excursions into Uzbek poetry; but there is also wisdom, and deep appreciation of the great Russian novels. Elif Batuman is a true original

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9780195387070

Word Origins...and How We Know Them : Etymology for Everyone

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NZ$ 32.99 each

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Author: Anatoly Liberman

Published by: Oxford University Press

In Stock: 1

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 reader by the hand and explains the many ways that English words can be made, and the many ways in which etymologists try to unearth the origins of words. Part history, part how-to, and completely entertaining, Word Origins invites readers behind the scenes to watch an etymologist at work.

First published 2005.

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9781869341084

Your Joking : An Easy Guide To Correct Punctuation

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NZ$ 19.99 each

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Author: Mary Mountier

Published by: Grantham House

In Stock: 1

..Including how to know the difference between your and you're. This is by no means a formal grammar book, just some simple rules, explained in simple terms.
Apostrophes, commas, confusing words, plurals, and quotation and exclamation marks - don't make basic English mistakes again.

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ISBN / ISSN:

9780500514115

1000 Languages

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NZ$ 78.00 each

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Author: Peter K. Austin

Published by: Thames & Hudson Ltd

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There are over 6,000 languages used around the world, and linguists estimate that by 2050 half of these will have become extinct. The use of language is what fundamentally distinguishes humans from other animals: only we have developed languages of such richness and flexibility that they can be used to elucidate abstract concepts, to expose our most intimate feelings and emotions, or even to create entire worlds of imagination to entertain, amuse or inspire others. This book offers a linguistic guided world tour, looking in detail at the eleven global languages, before exploring the major languages of each region in turn. Each language entry details numbers of speakers and geographical spread, together with a history of the growth and development of the language.

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9780071493307

A Cure for the Common Word

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NZ$ 44.99 each

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Author: K.D. Sullivan

Published by: McGraw-Hill Contemporary

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This title focuses on the 100 most overused words in English. A thorough index makes this a handy searchable reference. Research shows career, financial, and academic success depends on an above-average vocabulary.

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9780550103550

Adult Learners Guide To Spelling

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NZ$ 29.99 each

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Author: Chambers

Published by: Hodder Arnold

In Stock: 0

Chambers Adult Learners' Guide to Spelling is a completely new book, aimed at adults who lack confidence in their ability to spell. It is not about all those turgid 'spelling rules'. Instead, it presents a practical routine that teaches learners strategies to conquer any word they find difficult and learn it for life. The two-colour text is clearly and spaciously laid out, and plentiful examples, activities and illustrations reinforce the skills being learned.

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9781846142550

A Mess of Iguanas, A Whoop of Gorillas...An amazement of animal facts

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NZ$ 35.00 each

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Author: Alon Shulman (illus Andy Watt)

Published by: Particular Books (Penguin)

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Which animal would you find in a Dazzle, a Crash, a Flamboyance, a Boogle or a Bloat? Why on earth is a group of crows known as a Murder? And were you aware that jellyfish don't have brains, a goat's pupils are rectangular, or that herrings communicate via bubbles from their bottoms? This is the most complete list of animal group names ever, with more ways of describing collections of creatures than you'll find anywhere else. And it contains the most utterly astonishing yet utterly true animal facts, covering 146 creatures from ants to zebras and a whole menagerie inbetween ...Welcome to Alon Shulman's miscellany of animal madness.

First published 2009.

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9780571195145

Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature

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39.99 each

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Author: John Mullan

Published by: Faber and Faber

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Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors' names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity of their first readers? Ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, "Anonymity" looks at the ways in which the disguises of writers such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte were first used to tease readers (and bamboozle critics). It is a gripping and fascinating fast-paced tour of many of the greatest works in English, and will enrich and reward all who love to read.

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9780330455831

A Writer's People: Ways of Seeing and Feeling

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NZ$ 32.99 each

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Author: V. S. Naipaul

Published by: Picador

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The Nobel Prize winner writes candidly about cultural currents, ideas, experiences and the part they play in a life of writing.

Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul’s writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In A Writer’s People he brings unmatched clarity and rich experience to an exploration of the ways we think, see and feel.

The range of this extraordinary book reflects an intellect deeply engaged with the challenges of assimilation faced by the ‘serious traveller’, one for whom there can be no single world view. Naipaul writes about the classical world – what we have retained from it, what we have forgotten – and the more recent past. Figures as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi, Derek Walcott and Gustave Flaubert come under his compassionate scrutiny, as do his own early years in Trinidad, the silences in his family ... more

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9780733993701

Becoming an Effective Writer

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NZ$ 24.99 each

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Author: Derek Wallace

Published by: Prentice Hall New Zealand

In Stock: 0

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