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Fly By Night
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Fly By Night

By Frances Hardinge ,

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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

By Alice Munro ,

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Philosophical Investigations
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Philosophical Investigations

By Ludwig Wittgenstein ,

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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
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The Unfolding of Language

By Guy Deutscher ,

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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die
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How Language Works

By David Crystal ,

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Practical Portuguese: Language for Living in Portugal
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Practical Portuguese

By Sheila Watts ,

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Shakespeare, Our Contemporary
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Shakespeare, Our Contemporary

By Jan Kott ,

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Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
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Proust's Way

By Roger Shattuck ,

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In the Name of Terrorism: Presidents on Political Violence in the Post-World War II Era
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In the Name of Terrorism

By Carol K. Winkler ,

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I Love the Rain
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I Love the Rain

By Margaret Park Bridges , Christine Davenier (illustrator) ,

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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
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Effective C++

By Scott Meyers ,

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Babel-17/ Empire Star
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Babel-17/ Empire Star

By Samuel R. Delany ,

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Dificultades del Español para Hablantes de Inglés
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Dificultades del Español para Hablantes de Inglés

By Manuela Gil , María Luisa Capón ,

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Sleeping with the Dictionary
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Sleeping with the Dictionary

By Harryette Mullen ,

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Style: Language Variation and Identity
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Style

By Nikolas Coupland ,

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Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts
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Lost Languages

By Andrew Robinson ,

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The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
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The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

By Beatrice Colin ,

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How To Speak Dog: Mastering the Art of Dog-Human Communication
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How To Speak Dog

By Stanley Coren ,

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Cannibal Old Me: Spoken Sources in Melville’s Early Works
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Cannibal Old Me

By Mary K. Bercaw Edwards ,

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There Will Come Soft Rains
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There Will Come Soft Rains

By Ray Bradbury ,

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How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation
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How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work

By Robert Kegan , Lisa Laskow Lahey ,

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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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The Stuff of Thought

By Steven Pinker ,

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The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar
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The Atoms Of Language

By Mark C. Baker ,

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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
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On Rhetoric

By Aristotle , George A. Kennedy (translator) ,

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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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The Mother Tongue

By Bill Bryson ,

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Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language
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Doctor Dolittle's Delusion

By Stephen R. Anderson ,

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The Power of Body Language
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The Power of Body Language

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