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The Secret Life of Words
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Pages: 448
Authors: Henry Hitchings
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-29 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Words are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions,
The Secret Lives of Words
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: Paul West
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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Word-lovers rejoice! This fascinating book reveals the amazing and bizarre histories of language's building blocks. "A sorcerer of language".--"Publishers Weekl
Word by Word
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Kory Stamper
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-06 - Publisher: Vintage

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“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gain
The Secret Life of Pronouns
Language: en
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The author of Opening Up draws on groundbreaking research in computational linguistics to explain what our language choices reveal about feelings, self-concept
The Secret Life of Water
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Masaru Emoto
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-05 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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From its arrival on earth to the vast areas it traverses before emptying into the sea, water holds all the knowledge and experience it has acquired. As phenomen