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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O
    Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late Capitalist Struggle - by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O'Connor and A.K. Thompson (Editors)

    £18.95   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352420 | ISBN 10: 1849352429

    In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. Keywords for ... more

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  • Cover image of book Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric by John Martineau (Editor)
    Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric - by John Martineau (Editor)

    £14.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907155185 | ISBN 10: 190715518x

    The Trivium consists of three liberal arts pertaining to language. Grammar, logic and rhetoric have been studied for over two thousand years as a way of refining both a speaker and their speech. With extra sections on euphonics, poetic meter and form ... more

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  • Cover image of book Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
    Landmarks - by Robert Macfarlane

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241967874 | ISBN 10: 0241967872

    Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two.   Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns by Chloe Rhodes
    An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective Nouns - by Chloe Rhodes

    £9.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782433088 | ISBN 10: 1782433082

    Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud? Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, often with seemingly bizarre connections to the groups they identify. But have you e ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Book of Language by David Crystal
    A Little Book of Language - by David Crystal

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780300170825 | ISBN 10: 0300170823

    With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings
    The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English - by Henry Hitchings

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719564550 | ISBN 10: 0719564557

    Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and mar ... more

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