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Word to the Wise - Untangling the Mix-Ups, Misuse and Myths of Language by Mark Broatch
$29.99 NZD
Category: Language
Even the best wordsmiths can find themselves tripping over words that are commonly misused, mixed up or misspelled. Most of us have suffered the embarrassment of suddenly discovering that they have been using or spelling a word wrong for years, or, in some cases, their entire life. This useful reference ...Show more
Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar by David Crystal
$24.99 NZD
Category: Language
In Making Sense, David Crystal confronts the foe of many: grammar. Once taught relentlessly to all students in the English-speaking world, grammar disappeared from most school curricula, so that terms such as "preposition" and "conjunction" now often confound children and adults alike.Explaining the nut ...Show more
Making Out in Japanese - Japanese Phrasebook by Todd Geers
$14.99 NZD
Category: Language
"Making Out in Japanese" is a fun, accessible and thorough Japanese phrase book and guide to the Japanese language as it's really spoken. "Sugoku suki! Mata aeru?"--(I'm crazy about you! Shall we meet again?) Answer this correctly in Japanese and you may be going on a hot date. Incorrectly, and you coul ...Show more
Beginning Japanese Workbook by KLUEMPER MICHAEL L
$24.99 NZD
Category: Language
Don't let yourself become overwhelmed by the Japanese language Now there is a way to get the most out of your time spent learning Japanese. This companion workbook to Beginning Japanese is the perfect guide for practicing basic conversational Japanese and written Japanese. Beginning Japanese Workbook in ...Show more
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words by Paul Anthony Jones
$35.00 NZD
Category: Language
'Brilliant for anyone interested in the effervescent oddness of English' --Stig Abell on Word Drops This is the perfect language gift book: a surprising or obscure word for every day of the year. Paul Anthony Jones has unearthed a wealth of wonderful and strange words: dip into this beautifully designe ...Show more
May We Borrow Your Language? : How English Steals Words from All over the World by Philip Gooden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Language
The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman French; from the Vikings' Old Scandinavian to Persian, Arawa ...Show more
Writing Monsters: How to Craft Believably Terrifying Creatures to Enhance Your Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction by Philip Athans
$29.99 NZD
Category: Language
Monsters are more than things that go bump in the night...Monsters are lurking in the woods, beneath the waves, and within our favorite books, films, and games--and there are good reasons why they appear so often. Monsters are manifestations of our fears and symbols of our society--not to mention they'r ...Show more
Collins Easy Learning English - Easy Learning English Spelling
$19.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: Collins Easy Learning English
Collins Easy Learning English Spelling is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their spelling and write more accurately and impressively. By describing the important features of English spelling and rules to use, this book makes spelling easy. Using simple explanations and corpus examples, Collins E ...Show more
Collins Easy Learning: Grammar and Punctuation by HarperCollins Publis
$19.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: Collins Easy Learning English | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 2-3, Age 7-8
Collins Easy Learning Grammar and Punctuation is an accessible guide to English grammar and punctuation. With clear, concise explanations on everything from adverbs to word order, and from apostrophes to semicolons, this book is indispensable for understanding correct usage. Fully updated based on exten ...Show more
The Exercise Book: Creative Writing Exercises from Victoria University's Institute of Modern Letters by Edited by Bill Manhire, Ken Duncum, Chris Price and Damien Wilkins
$35.00 NZD
Category: Language
The Exercise Book collects over fifty creative writing exercise used by Bill Manhire and his colleagues, not only at Victoria but throughout New Zealand and around the world. The celebrated writer/teachers who have contributed include Elanor Catton, Curtis Sittenfeld, Emily Perkins, David Vann, Elizabet ...Show more
Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss
$27.99 NZD
Category: Language
Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens. We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good re ...Show more
Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing - Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
$24.99 NZD
Category: Language
A mind-expanding, deeply humane tour of language by the bestselling author of Born on a Blue Day and Thinking in Numbers. Is vocabulary destiny? Why do clocks "talk" to the Nahua people of Mexico? Will A.I. researchers ever produce true human-machine dialogue? In this mesmerizing collection of ...Show more
