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The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia by David Crystal
34.95 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Reference Books S.
The Penguin Concise Encyclopedia is an abridged edition of the bestselling New Penguin Encyclopedia. With over 21,000 entries and nearly one million words, it is an invaluable and up-to-date source of information on subjects as diverse as current affairs and history, science and philosophy, sport and mu ...Show more
The Penguin Factfinder by David Crystal
45.00 NZD
47.00 (4% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
Our very own 'national treasure' (as declared by John Humphrys) David Crystal brings us yet another quintessential knowledge compendium. The new edition of "The Penguin Factfinder" has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent changes in politics, sport, culture and the arts to the end of 2006. I ...Show more
The Penguin Pocket Spelling Dictionary by David Crystal
12.95 NZD
Category: Reference
Anyone who needs to check a spelling quickly and easily will find this pocket dictionary absolutely indispensable. As well as showing how to spell virtually all the words that are likely to be encountered day to day, it highlights common areas of confusion and traps for the unwary. This book is part of ...Show more
The Shakespeare Miscellany by David Crystal
29.95 NZD
Category: History
This compilation, in the tradition of the Victorian miscellany, gathers together essential facts and fascinating insights into the plays and poems, the man behind them (insofar as this is known), and the context in which he worked. Put together by an actor and a linguist - the pair who brought you Shake ...Show more
The Stories of English by David Crystal
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: History
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 100 Words by David Crystal
28.99 NZD
Category: History
This title is an eye-opening tour of the English language through the ages. Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdood ...Show more
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal
28.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics
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
26.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
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
You Say Potato: A Book About Accents by Ben Crystal
34.99 NZD
Category: Language
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crys ...Show more
txtng: the gr8 db8 (aka Texting: The Great Debate) by David Crystal
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
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