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The New Penguin Factfinder (2nd ed.) by David Crystal
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
The Penguin Factfinder is the most comprehensive and authoritative general feactbook available, now fully revised and updated for its second edition. With sections ranging from art and culture to sports and games, it is a goldmine of facts, figures and statistics on every conceivable subject, backed up ...Show more
The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia by David Crystal
$39.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Edited by David Crystal, the UK's most widely respected reference editor, The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia is the only up to date paperback encyclopedia available. With over 21,000 entries and nearly one million words, this is an invaluable source of information on a wide range of subjects, from history ...Show more
The Stories of English by David Crystal
$26.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
When and why did 'thou' disappear from Standard English? Would a Victorian Cockney have said 'observation' or 'hobservation'? Was Jane Austen making a mistake when she wrote 'Jenny and James are walked to Charmonth this afternoon'? This superbly well-informed - and also wonderfully entertaining - histor ...Show more
The Story of English in One Hundred Words by David Crystal
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Reading Level: very good
This title offers an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages from the Britain's leading linguistics expert. In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistic expert, David Crystal, draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences ...Show more
Think on my Words - Exploring...??? by David Crystal
$36.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge o ...Show more
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal
$22.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
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
Words, Words, Words by David Crystal
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Drawing on a lifetime?s experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. As we are guided expertly and passionately through the mysteries and delights of word origins, histories, spellings, regional and social variation ...Show more
Words Words Words by David Crystal
$28.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Language has no life of its own: it only exists in the mouths and ears, hands, eyes and brains of its users. As we are guided expertly and passionately through the mysteries and delights of word origins, histories, spellings, regional and social variations, taboo words, jargon, and wordplay, the contrib ...Show more
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary by David Crystal
$34.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Did you know that the English language has over 150 words for the adjective 'drunk' developed over 1,000 years? Be prepared to learn words you have never heard before, find out fascinating facts behind everyday words, and be surprised at how lively and varied the English language can be. Published to cr ...Show more
txtng: the gr8 db8 (aka Texting: The Great Debate) by David Crystal
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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