Reading the OED: One man, one year, 21730 pages by Ammon Shea
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
Who among us does not know a wine-knight (a person who drinks valiantly), or someone who obaginates (to annoy by repeating over and over and over)? Who has not felt mumpish (sullenly angry) or appreciated the apricity (the warmth of sun in winter)? And who can honestly say they have not consulted (acted ...Show more
Art of Conversation - All Ages by Howland Louise
19.99 NZD
Category: Language | Series: TAOC
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 t ...Show more
Wordplay by John Langdon
34.99 NZD
Category: Language
If the name Langdon sounds familiar, it's because Dan Brown named the intrepid protagonist of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons after ambigram - and symbol-designer John Langdon. Widely recognized as a master of the art of the ambigram form, John Langdon does with words what M.C. Escher and Salv ...Show more
Sonnets, Bonnets and Bennetts : A literary quiz book by James Walton
35.00 NZD
Category: Language
With questions ranging from the deliciously unexpected (Who's the only person in literary history both to have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and to have played a girlfriend of Ken Barlow's in "Coronation Street"?) to the reassuringly canonical (Dickens's fourth novel was the first he'd published ...Show more
The Good of the Novel by Liam McIlvanney; Ray Ryan
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
There remains at work - in both Britain and America - a group of literary journalists and academics committed to the evaluative criticism of fiction, to a criticism that approaches novels as novels. The Good of the Novel is a collection of specially commissioned essays - edited by Ray Ryan and LIam McIl ...Show more
Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature by John Mullan
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
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 d ...Show more
Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life by Natalie Goldberg
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing that can take you beyond craft to the true source of creative power: The mind that is "raw, full of energy, alive and hungry." Here is compassionate, practical, and often humorous advice about how to f ...Show more
Adult Learners' Guide to Spelling by Anne Betteridge
29.99 NZD
Category: Language
Chambers Adult Learners' Guide to Spelling 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 examp ...Show more
1000 Languages by Peter K. Austin
78.00 NZD
Category: Language
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 ...Show more
Pocket Guide to APA Style 2010, Update Edition by Robert Perrin
65.00 NZD
Category: Language
The POCKET GUIDE TO APA STYLE, 2009 APA Update, 3rd Edition, is your essential tool for writing research papers across the disciplines! Concise and thorough, the POCKET GUIDE offers straightforward explanations, annotated examples, and margin notes designed to help you write properly documented papers i ...Show more
A search for tradition and a search for a language by Douglas Lilburn
25.00 NZD
Category: Language
I've Got Something to Say by Gail Loane
59.99 NZD
Category: Language
Gail Loane knows that every young child and young adult has something to say, and her skill is in leading her students to know that they have a wealth of experiences and ideas worthy of recording. Writing is the Creativity of each person making itself known through the role of author. We want our young ...Show more