Universal Translator: Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages that Don't Really Exist by Yens Wahlgren
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Category: Reference
If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From the classic constructed languages of Star Trek an ...Show more
Warlpiri Encyclopaedic Dictionary: Warlpiri yimi-kirli manu jaru-kurlu by Laughren, Mary
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Category: Reference
It is spoken in the central west of Australia's Northern Territory, in semi-desert country of spinifex sand plains and dunes and low rocky rises and ridges, with ephemeral lakes and watercourses. Some 300 Warlpiri speakers contributed language examples and explanations that feature in the dictionary ent ...Show more
We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama by Joy-Ann Reid E.J. Dionne Jr.
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Category: Reference
'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek'In his speeches as president, Barack Obama had the power to move people from all over the world as few leaders before him. We Are the Change We Seek is a collectio ...Show more
Western Australia State and Cities Map 619 8th Ed (waterproof) by UBD Gregory's
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Category: Reference | Series: State Map Ser.
The latest edition of the Western Australia State and Cities map has been fully revised and updated.It includes a comprehensive state map with an index to the towns and localities at a scale of 1: 2 900 000 plus more detailed coverage of South West Western Australia at a scale of 1 : 1 870 000 on one s ...Show more
What Shape is Space? by Giles Sparrow
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Category: Reference | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
What Shape Is Space? is a question with far-reaching implications for our understanding of the very nature of reality and our place within it. The concepts involved may be sophisticated, but Giles Sparrow's effortless prose style renders them understandable, allowing readers to come to grips with the ov ...Show more
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book by Pandora Sykes
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Category: Reference
Time and again, writers are asked the same questions about their favourite books: What are they? What’s the book you wish you had written? What’s the book that changed your life? In What Writers Read, Pandora Sykes – herself a voracious, omnivorous reader – collects short essays from bestselling and be ...Show more
Why Is This a Question? - Everything about the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Reference
'As entertaining as it is engrossing' John Banville 'Enlightening, delightful' Arthur der Weduwen, author of The LibraryWhy don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds with the numbers tha ...Show more
Why Is This a Question? The Origins, Oddities and Mysteries of Language by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Reference
A fascinating exploration of the nuts and bolts of human language.Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at odds to the numbers that follow them? Admittedly, that's probably a question y ...Show more
Wild Maps: A Nature Atlas for Curious Minds by Mike Higgins
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Category: Reference
From the publishers of Brilliant Maps, here is a cartographic journey through our planet's weirdest and most wonderful phenomena. Which migrating birds fly the furthest? Which nations have launched which animals into space? Which countries' leaders don't believe in climate change? Where were our planet' ...Show more
Wild Things! Acts of Mischief in Children's Literature by Betsy Bird; Julie Danielson; Peter D. Sieruta
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Category: Reference
Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises -- these essays by leading kids' lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children's books. Told in lively and affectionate prose, this treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, parent, or anyone wondering ...Show more
Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
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Category: Reference
If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language. Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next.What's more, throughout, footnotes are ...Show more
Word Freak - Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis
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Category: Reference
This "marvelously absorbing" book is "a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect" (San Jose Mercury News).A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble player ...Show more